Reception

2 months ago
Posted on 19th Sep 2025 by

Reminder – Toys from home

Dear Parents/ Carers,

We wanted to kindly remind everyone that children should not be bringing toys from home into school.

While we understand that toys can be comforting and fun, they often cause unnecessary distractions during learning time and can sometimes lead to disagreements or upset if they are lost or damaged. We have plenty of engaging resources and activities available at school to support play and development.

We appreciate your support and cooperation.

The Newdale Team

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2 months ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2025 by

Reception Message – Home School Books and Book Bags

Please can we ask for the blue Home/School communication books to be sent into school everyday.
A reminder that you can record your reading of the ‘share a story’ books we change and send home in there along with any other stories you may have enjoyed at home.
These books were sent in a clear, plastic book bag to help protect the books sent home. Please can we ask that these are also used and sent in daily.
We provided one each child and so have a limited number left to replace any that get lost.

Please can we also ask that you only send one bag in with your child, preferably a school book bag as we are limited on storage space in the classroom.

Thank you for your support at home. We have loved seeing all the reading you have done so far :)
The Reception team.

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2 months ago
Posted on 16th Sep 2025 by

Reception Message – lost property

Good evening,
As you can see, now Autumn is in full swing, we are experiencing both warm and wet weather. Because of this, the children are taking coats, jumpers and cardigans on and off more frequently whilst playing outside at break and lunchtimes. Please can you help us by ensuring that their uniform and coats are labelled with their full name so that we can easily and quickly partner up clothes again with the right person.
It can be quite a challenge to man the doors at home time and search for lost belongings at the same time, and we need to ensure that each child returns to the correct person collecting them.
We would like to reassure you that we always encourage the children to hang their jumpers on their peg when they take them off, and also to bring them in from the playground. Unfortunately despite reminders, the children can get easily distracted when they are busy playing or having fun so getting mixed up with other uniform is inevitable. We would appreciate if you would remind your child to do their best at bringing in their belongings too as they are learning the ropes.
Many thanks,

The Reception Team.

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2 months ago
Posted on 09th Sep 2025 by

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2 months ago
Posted on 01st Sep 2025 by

Welcome to Reception at Newdale!

Welcome to Newdale Primary School 2025.

We are all really looking forward to welcoming everyone into Reception for their first day of school, either for their morning or afternoon session on Tuesday. We know you will be so smart in your uniform and will have such a great time catching up with or making new friends.

Please find attached an information sheet. It shows you the staff working in our Reception team, along with a map for entry and exit details for your new classroom. We hope you find this helpful.

New 2025-2026 Transition KH

New 2025-2026 Transition GB updated

 

Please note, Forest School will not start week 1, so no kits needed this week. Further information to follow.

It might also be comforting to watch the virtual tours on the Reception page with your child prior to their first day, to remind them of what their lovely new classrooms will look like.

See you very soon,

The Reception Team

 

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4 months ago
Posted on 21st Jul 2025 by

Finance and Personnel Governors Involvement

Finance and Personnel Governors met on Wednesday 16th July. They concluded their focus on PE by looking at the planning format and then talking to a group of Year 4 – 6 children about the offer. They were happy to hear the children talk so positively about the PE offer at Newdale.

Governors spent time looking at the finances for the school and nursery. They recognised the difficult balance between securing enough staff to support higher than usual numbers of special educational needs, against the income the school receives. They understand that systems across the setting will undoubtedly have to change in order to accommodate this need.

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4 months ago
Posted on 18th Jul 2025 by

Reception’s End of Year Video 2025

The Reception children have been working on a ‘secret project’ over the last few days to put together a special video to celebrate the completion of their first year of school! We are so proud of the children and hope they will look back at this video in years to come.
Have a lovely summer everyone!

Love from The Reception Team xx

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4 months ago
Posted on 02nd Jul 2025 by

School Uniform

As the weather is getting warmer, please can you ensure that your child has a water bottle, a sun hat and wears sun cream to school. If your child needs to reapply sunscreen during the day, we ask that it’s kept in their bag with their name on, and then applied by the themselves when appropriate.

Just a quick reminder about our uniform policy…

At Newdale our school colours are navy blue, black and grey.

We request children wear a navy jumper or cardigan and grey or black skirts / pinafores or trousers along with a light blue collared shirt. If you would like to order uniform with our school logo on, please do so via Baker and Sons Schoolwear in New Street, Wellington 01952 641897.  This is not compulsory: uniform without a logo is acceptable as long as it matches our chosen colours. In warmer months, blue gingham dresses / black or grey smart shorts can be worn.  Please ensure that these are of an appropriate length and aren’t too high above the knee.

All children need to wear sensible shoes (no heels or trainers please). In the colder weather, girls are permitted to wear black, navy or grey tights.

PE Kit

We have decided that we will continue with allowing children to come to school in their School PE kit on PE days. The reasons for this is linked to the time it takes for some children to get changed often eats significantly into the actual time carrying out PE lessons. It is also much simpler to do this, when looking at the lack of private space for children to get changed, and the unhygienic option of them getting changed in the toilets.

The school PE kit is as follows –

A plain or school logo navy PE top

Plain navy shorts or tracksuit bottoms

A plain or school logo navy sweatshirt/hoodie

Black pumps or trainers

We do ask that no sports logo kit is used as school PE kit please – they must be either plain or with the Newdale logo. It is important that everyone abides by our uniform rules as we know how important is it that children feel part of our Newdale team.

Thank you for your continued support.

We hope you continue to enjoy this glorious weather.

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4 months ago
Posted on 01st Jul 2025 by

Photo Consent for Careers Day

As you all know, we had a fantastic careers day this week. We are very grateful to the people that came in to share what they do with our children.

Some of our visitors have asked if they can be sent some of the photoshots we took to put on their social media eg the police would like some to form part of their safer neighbourhood work.

We know who does not give photo consent in our school, but just wanted to check everyone else is happy for this to happen.

If you are not, please contact the office by Friday lunchtime.

Kind regards,