School Reports July 2024

End of year reports will be sent home with your child on Friday 12th July.   If an additional copy is required by a parent who does not live at the child’s home address, you must contact the school office on 387720 or email newdale.primary@taw.org.uk to make a request by no later than Wednesday 10th July.

Please ensure that you keep your copy of the report safe, especially if your child is in Year 5.  Some secondary schools (such as Thomas Telford) require a copy to be sent with the application for Year 7 places and we will be unable to make further copies for you once they have been archived.

Art Day in Reception

Next Friday is Art Day! Children can come dressed down in clothes you do not mind getting a little mucky, or they could come ‘dressed to express’ and have an art themed outfit.

In Reception, we are going to be collaborating to create a large joint piece of work and in line with the rest of the school the theme is about reusing materials.

To support with this we would appreciate if, over the next week, you could send in any of the following materials you may have finished with:

Cake cases
Foil wrappers e./g chocolate or cereal bars
Cereal boxes or similar
Plastic bags

Please can we only have these items if they are still relatively clean so they can be used to create a large collage.
If you bring them to class, we can take them off your hands and store them ready for Friday.

 

In addition to this, KS2 are still looking to have enough tetra packs to complete an activity on Art Day too, so if you have any then please do send them in. Tetra packs are cartons (see image) that you may use at home. It will say whether they are tetrapacks on the side of the carton. We are happy to take these and pass them on too.

Many thanks
The Reception Team :)

Art Day

This year’s Art Day will be held on Friday 12th July. Children are once again being invited to “dress to express” in their most creative costumes but please bear in mind that there may be some messy activities! We will be working in house groups to create some fantastic pieces of art using recycled objects and your child’s teacher will let you know if they need donations of particular materials for their activities. In addition to this, we need lots (and lots!) of Tetrapak or Pure-Pak cartons for a very exciting printing project with Ironbridge Fine Arts. These cartons often contain fruit juice, oat or almond milk, coconut water, toddler formula etc. We would be very grateful for any clean, dry cartons that you can send into school. Thank you for your support.

Reception French Day Information

On Friday 5th July there will be a whole school French day for pupils from Nursery to Year 6.

 

Pupils can come into school dressed in red, white and blue or even create a costume inspired by a famous French landmark. Please participate as low-key as you would like (e.g reuse your white tops from our recent Macmillan event, or through hair ribbons etc.)

Throughout the day there will be various activities for the children to participate in, including our very own Reception ‘tour de France’ and learning the cancan dance! 😊 We will of course learn a little basic French in class too.

 

There will also be the option to have a French themed dinner which consists of quiche, ratatouille, and chocolate mousse, alongside the normal fish and chips which will be served.

If you would like to make a voluntary contribution of £2.00 to support the resources on the day, please log into parent pay.

 

Thank you for your continued support.

Lunch for Reception children on Wednesday 3rd July

On Wednesday 3rd July, Year 1-6 will be completing their Wrekin walk for MacMillan.

Due to a number of our catering staff attending the event, a hot meal option will not be available on this day.

Reception children will be required for this day only to either bring sandwiches from home or order either a ham or cheese sandwich from school.

In order for the kitchen to prepare for this, parents need to log on to ParentPay to confirm what your child will be having for lunch that day, either school or home sandwiches.

Please can we ask for you to complete this on ParentPay by Friday 28th June. The item on ParentPay is titled ‘Reception lunch order 3rd July’

 

Thank you

Summer Water Safety

Please see link for information for parents regarding summer water safety from The Royal Life Saving Society and the Canal & River Trust

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/safety-on-our-waterways/water-safety-tips-for-parents

 

 

Message to parents regarding the activity out of hours

We are writing to inform you of some recent activity that has happened, out of hours on our site.

We believe at this stage that it is probably young people trying to find something to do. Even so, it is important that our site remains private during the evenings and weekends whenever the school and nursery are closed.

We are kindly asking parents/ carers who live locally to the school to support us by keeping an eye out and reporting any usual or suspicious activity around the nursery premises especially when school is closed.

School have already reported our concerns to the local police and the business watch security teams.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

 

 

Staffing changes

Dear Parents/Carers,

Schools seem to go through cycles when it comes to staff staying or moving on to new positions. It appears that it is our turn to have more staff alterations than is usual.

As you already know Mrs Thomas is leaving to undertake a promoted post from September.

It is with sadness that I must inform you that both Mrs Arthurs (Year 6) and Miss Jones (Year 6) will also be leaving us at the end of the year.

Mrs Arthurs and Miss Jones have contributed so much to our school and of course will be sadly missed by everyone.

I know you will join me in wishing them the very best of luck.

We have already put plans in place to ensure continued stability when they leave.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Careers Day photos

After a fantastic careers day on the 14th June we are sending career day photos to the kind volunteers who came in. This would only be for children whom we have photo permission for. If you would rather not have your child in any of the photos sent, please let the office know by Friday 28th June.