Classrooms

5 years ago
Posted on 27th May 2021 by Mrs Western

Playing Together sessions

5 years ago
Posted on 25th May 2021 by Mrs Western

Life in Modern Britain Survey Feedback

After analysing the parent surveys about how Newdale prepares children for life in modern Britain, one of the main trends was that parents wanted more information on how and when these topics are taught in school. Please find below an information guide to support parents with their understanding of how and when these topics are taught during your child’s time at Newdale as well as discussions you can have at home with your child.

How we prepare children for life in modern Britain

After you have read the guide, we would appreciate it if you could complete a short survey on how useful you have found this information- it should only take a couple of minutes.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2s8TOK9SpUy44yMVeXcKugepXUAD1EBDoCLGkZq2Id5URTE3Rk1KS0NNNkc4VDkzSk9UR1dNSlA1QS4u

For further information and year group specific objectives, please visit our school website.

Many thanks

Mrs Fenn

5 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2021 by Mrs Western

Mrs Evans/ Mrs Sturrock’s Class- Star of the Week

Cerys- For lovely sharing with her friends and following the SMART code.

5 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2021 by Miss Hailey

Reception star of the week 💫

This week’s well deserved winner is Phoebe!
She always impresses us with her amazing knowledge of everything. She just loves to learn. You have worked so hard every single day this year ☺️

5 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2021 by Mrs Western

NumBots

Newdale have invested in a new Number Facts initiative called NumBots for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. NumBots adopts the best teaching practises to take children from counting on their fingers, to adding and subtracting two digit numbers. NumBots equips each pupil with the set of core maths skills they require by building their knowledge from the ground up – starting at the very beginning with subitising(recognising the amount without having to count it out) . NumBots’ gets progressively harder to ensure that children are exposed to new learning as well as recapping previous objectives. The Story Mode is designed to develop pupils’ understanding of the relationship between different numbers and concepts.

The programme compliments what your child is learning in school and focusses on securing any gaps in their knowledge, before moving them onto the next challenge. This self-paced journey improves children’s confidence and means they are fully prepared to tackle each new topic. NumBots recommends playing for at least 3 minutes a day, 4 or 5 days a week. NumBots is available to play via our website or mobile app, so your child will be able to learn maths at home or on-the-go, whenever suits your family.

If you would like anymore information on how to use NumBots please watch this short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCou2P3aQ4

Your child’s username and password will be stuck in their reading diary. If your child is in Year 2, your child is able to use their Times Table Rockstar’s log in to access NumBots.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Clay and Mrs Evans

Maths Co-ordinators

5 years ago
Posted on 19th May 2021 by Mrs Western

Careers Week

Dear Parents and Carers,

At Newdale, dreams and aspirations are harnessed and nurtured. This is the vision for all of our pupils. We teach all children to become self-confident and to take control of their own lives and create their own futures.

To support our pupils to have dreams and aspirations, we plan a careers programme to help inspire them to work towards the jobs of their dreams.

Our school is a place where everyone gets excited about their next steps and futures. We would like to invite you to share your occupations with our children.

Our careers programme has successfully run in school previously and we are looking for willing volunteers to lead activities with pupils or participate in talks, either in person or via teams.

Careers week will take place week commencing 5^th July.

We are looking for people who want to share their experience of their own job – The more varied the occupations the greater the learning experience we can provide.

If you are interested, please email the office and we will get back in contact with you.

Many thanks

Miss Broadhurst

5 years ago
Posted on 18th May 2021 by Mrs Western

Job Opportunity at Newdale

Dear Parents/Carers,

A job opportunity has come up working at our school. We are looking for a lunchtime supervisor to work specifically with our nursery children. The successful candidate would need to be available each day from 1130 – 1230.

If would like more details then please do contact our office on 01952 387720.

Regards

Miss Cook

Headteacher

5 years ago
Posted on 18th May 2021 by Mrs Evans

Reception Science

Today we took part in a Science investigation. We had to work out and predict whether an egg would float in fresh water or salt water. We had lots of fun exploring and found out that the salt makes the water denser, therefore causing the egg to float.

5 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2021 by Miss Hailey

Reception Nature Walk 🌷

Today we went on our very first Nature walk and absolutely loved it!
We were so lucky with the weather. It stayed nice and dry for us to have a good walk and explore along the way. We looked for different kinds of tree and looked at how dandelion seeds can be blown and dispersed to create new plants.

5 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2021 by Mrs Evans

Reception Nature Walk

We all had a long lovely time on our nature walk. We enjoyed looking at our local area and were able to spot some holly, dandelions, buttercups, larch tree, gorse and a silver birch tree. We also had lots of fun finding dandelion clocks and seeing the seeds disperse.