A Special Approach to Making it REAL for parents and carers of children with SEND

The Local Authority are piloting a free open access workshop – A Special Approach to Making it REAL for parents and carers of children with SEND on Thursday 21st November 2024.

This will be held online via Zoom and can be booked via Eventbrite using the link below.

A Special Approach to Making it REAL to support parents and carers Tickets, Thu 21 Nov 2024 at 13:00 | Eventbrite

This workshop is funded by the DfE, and will give an overview of how families with a child with SEND can support the early home learning environment, with a particular focus on early language and literacy.

 

European Day of Languages – Thursday 26th September

On Thursday the 26th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery -Spain

Reception -Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2-Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

Parking at key busy times

We completely understand that the location of our school is not ideal when considering access and parking for parents when dropping off and picking up. We are located in the middle of an ever-growing residential area and are already hard pushed to fit all staff cars on site.

 

We have had recent concerns shared by parents regarding individuals parking by the junction near Brooks Avenue. This is making access in this area difficult and affecting the potential safety of children, parents and other pedestrians.

 

Please can you help us by parking safety and considering others access when driving and walking. It maybe that parking further away, car sharing or allowing children to cycle could go some way into helping with the solution. We will also contact the PCSO team to see if they can support at these times.

 

Thank you for your support in this ongoing tricky issue.

Miss Cook

 

Harvest Donations

As part of our harvest celebration this year, we will be collecting food for local food banks. If you’re able to, please bring in tinned or dried goods, which have at least a month left on their date, on Thursday 10th October. We will be showing the children all the kind donations during our Achievement Assembly on Friday 11th October.

 

Many thanks in advance

Miss Cook

REMINDER – European Day of Languages

On Thursday the 26th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery -Spain

Reception -Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2-Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

 

Extra PE tomorrow!

We are incredibly lucky to have been offered an extra PE session with our specialist Crossbar coaches tomorrow afternoon. Our coaches have been wowed by how well reception have thrown themselves into PE outside on our pitches and are really looking forward to the extra session they have chosen to give to us tomorrow!

Please can your child come to school wearing PE kit tomorrow(Tuesday 17th).

See you all in the morning ☺️

Reception Message

Another week completed and we couldn’t be prouder of how amazing the children have been.

They have all worked so hard this week. We have been busy practising to write our names, counting and recognising numbers, phonics, drawing self-portraits and pictures of our family, had our first crossbar PE lesson, have been wonderful going down to the hall for our lunch, listening intently to lots of stories at storytime and of course playing with friends! Wow – we are sure everyone will be tired and ready for a well-earned rest at the weekend. Next week is sure to be as packed with fun as we start to learn about stories and castles.

As we also begin forest school on Wednesday afternoon, please remember to bring in some old clothing and waterproof trousers for wet weather, plus wellies in a separate kit bag. All kit needs to be named please.  We would appreciate if over the coming days, you could take the opportunity to practise with your child getting changed independently, so they can dress themselves for forest school. Of course we will help with anything tricky, but this will help enormously.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Macmillan Grandparents’ Tea Party – Friday 27th September 2024

We are pleased to share more details about our final fundraising event linked to our hugely successful ‘Climb against Cancer’ last term. We are inviting all of our wonderful grandparents whose children attend the nursery on a Friday afternoon to our Macmillan Grandparents’ Tea Party ☺. All profits from our Grandparents’ Tea Party will be added to the money already raised for Macmillan.  The week after our Tea Party we will be able to reveal the total amount we have raised with the support of our wider school community; we know the children are going to feel so proud to have been a part of such a big event!

The attached leaflet contains key information about this special event.

Newdale Coffee Morning – 27.09.24

Further details

All details for how to purchase tickets will be on Parent Pay from Thursday 12th September 2024. Access to the event will be via the school office. Grandparents can take their grandchild/children home afterwards; however, parents will need to give their permission via Parent Pay to do so. Teachers will have a class list to tick off children going home early and grandparents will then be asked to sign them out as they walk out of the office at the end of the event.

To try and reduce overcrowding, there will be two sittings.

As it states on the leaflet, the Nursery for children who attend on a Friday afternoon only, Reception, Y1 and Y2 grandparents’ slot is 1:15-2:15pm.

Y3-Y6 grandparents is 2:15-3pm. If a grandparent is visiting a Y3-6 child as well as one from Nursery, Reception or Y1/2, please can they attend the second slot. e.g. a grandparent with a Y4 and Y1 grandchild would attend at 2:15pm.

All baked goods will be sold for £1. This will be cash only and please note, we will not be able to give change at this event.

During the afternoon, we are excited to announce that BBC Radio Shropshire may be at Newdale speaking to grandparents’ and children as well potentially creating photograph and/or video footage to share via their and our social media platforms.

We are all really looking forward to celebrating this event with you and hopefully reaching our target amount for Macmillan! We will announce the total sum raised the following week where we will present a cheque to Macmillan. The Shropshire Star will be in attendance so that all of our efforts are recognised across the whole of our town.

Many thanks

Miss Cook