Classrooms

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by Mrs Evans

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Over the next few weeks we will be sending lots of activities for you do to with your child at home. Please find attached a copy of the letter that explains how to share your childs work with us on Evidence Me (Parent Share) and via the blog. We hope that you will find the email address useful too and please do ask any questions you may have and we will try to respond as quickly as possible.

Many Thanks The Reception Team

Evidence Me letter

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by Miss Hailey

Year R and Year 1 Information

You may have seen advice that children can communicate with their teacher through the PurpleMash email facilities. We have decided, however that for the youngest children in school it would be more appropriate for parents to email their child’s class teacher directly through our new Year 1 and Year R email addresses. These have been set up so that should you have any questions you can ask us on your child’s behalf, or if you want to share any work this way, that would be great too.

Purplemash can still be used for all the amazing online resources it offers (your child has their login in their reading diaries) and we will be setting 2Do tasks on there too, so do please keep using it.

Here are the new email addresses for communication with Reception and Year 1 staff only:

newdale.year1team@taw.org.uk

newdale.yearrteam@taw.org.uk

Thank you for your ongoing support at home.

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by Mrs Western

Email Communication

If your child has been given access to Purple mash then please follow the instructions below. Details will have been put in your child’s home communication book.

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by Admin

Important Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils

Dear Parents/Carers,

Re: Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils

As you will already know, we have now been instructed to close the school to almost all children after this Friday, until further notice.

As advised by the government, we will do all we can to stay open for the children of key workers (e.g. NHS staff, police, others in frontline services) and children with certain needs.

We are waiting for the government to publish more information on what this means and exactly who this applies to. We will let you know shortly, as to how to let us know, if you believe your child falls into one of these categories.

All other children will need to stay at home, so we ask that you do not send your child into school from Monday onwards unless you have received notification from us.

Please note that this is a national closure – so while it is a challenging situation, we are not alone. We’ll re-open fully as soon as we can and will let you know when this is.

Home Learning –

Your child’s learning is of course important to us, so we’ll continue to help your child to learn.

Teachers have been and continue to be very busy organising ‘Home Learning’ for your children.

Today there will be a suggested timetable sent out for you to use, clearly this is only for you to use if you would like to.

Your child’s teacher will inform you as to how communication will be managed. In the majority of cases this will be digital, but we know there will be exceptions and that will be arranged separately.

If your child usually receives free school meals we will also be in touch with more information about how we will continue to provide this, with support from a scheme that the government has just announced.

This is as much as we know right now and we appreciate your continued patience with as we deal with this ever-changing situation. We understand that this latest news will have an impact on you and your family and it’s far from ideal, but we’ll continue to keep in touch with any updates as the situation develops.

As you can imagine the office staff are under enormous pressure trying to answer as many questions as they can.

We will undoubtedly get a lot more information from the Local Authority today and in the meantime are very busy planning how our partial opening and home learning offer will operate.

We ask that you trust that we are doing our best under very difficult circumstances and that as ever, we have children at the centre of all of our decision making.

And remember: if you or your child feels ill and you want to know what to do next, please use NHS 111 online.

Thank you again for your continued support, and we will be in touch with more information when we can.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

6 years ago
Posted on 18th Mar 2020 by Mrs Evans

Home Learning Support

Please find attached a list of useful websites and apps that you can use at home to support your child’s learning. Many thanks the Reception Team

Website list for parents

6 years ago
Posted on 18th Mar 2020 by Mrs Evans

Measure

This week we have been learning how to measure differently items. We have been using measuring tapes, rulers and blocks to measure the length of certain items. During this Maths lesson we made our own beanstalk and talked about whether it was long or short.

6 years ago
Posted on 17th Mar 2020 by Mrs Western

Coronavirus Update

Dear Parents/Carers,

Whilst we remain open as a school, we are very conscious of doing all we can to reduce the risks to our community. We therefore want to inform you of some of the actions we have taken so far:

All assemblies will be class based until further notice
Where possible, children will not be asked to sit closely with each other on the classroom carpets
Cross country training on Wednesday has now been cancelled, as have all the scheduled races
Children continue to wash their hands thoroughly throughout the day
Parents dropping off at Nursery and breakfast clubs will now need to drop their children off at the door and not come into school
Nursery children will be released via the front door and also the garden gate to try and reduce the gathering of parents
From Wednesday 18^th March all volunteer readers will stop coming into school
Coffee mornings are cancelled until further notice
Parents evenings this week have been cancelled – with summary information being sent out instead, with some phone calls being made for cases where the teacher feels it important to go into much more detail
Teacher training courses have been cancelled to allow staff to stay in school and therefore reduce the risk to them, with staff shortages potentially leaving us with a depleted workforce.
Deploying more staff into the dinner hall to ensure a rapid flow of dinners and the best possible use of the space we have

Please refer to the NHS website for advice about whether or not to send your child in to school or keep them at home. The school is following all the latest Government and DfE advice. As a school we can not advise you what to do, but please be assured that we are keeping abreast of developments and are doing all we can. Please appreciate that this advice is constantly being updated by Government.

The Newdale team, as ever, are going above and beyond to ensure we operate as normally as we can, with as many precautions being inputted as possible to keep everyone safe. I will continue to keep you updated with any information I receive as soon as I am able. Please keep in touch via the school website, as this is the most efficient way of keeping you informed.

We have had some parents ask about children bringing in their own wash bags with soap etc inside. We have school approved soap and ask that children use that for the time being. We cannot monitor the ingredients of hand moisturizers and therefore cannot allow them in school due to some of children having nut allergies.

Thank you for your continued support during this challenging time.

Miss Cook

6 years ago
Posted on 16th Mar 2020 by Mrs Evans

Fantastic Phonics

We were so proud of Georgia today. She has been reading lots at home and has been listening really well to Mrs Stevens in Phonics. She really impressed us with how many sounds she knew. Miss Cook was very proud of her too. Well done Georgia.

6 years ago
Posted on 16th Mar 2020 by Mrs Evans

Reception Resources

Please find attached some resources that will help you support your child at home. They link with some of the targets the children will be getting on their Parents evening letters.

Many thanks the Reception Team

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Number formation

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Numicon addtion sheet to 20

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