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Wednesday 1st April, 2026

Garden Volunteer

Newdale Primary School- Garden Volunteer Opportunity – 🌱

We’re looking for a friendly and reliable volunteer to help look after our small school garden between 1-2 hrs a week.

🪴 Tasks include:

  • Planting, weeding & watering
  • General garden upkeep
  • Helping keep the space safe and enjoyable for our pupils

This is a great opportunity to support our school community and work alongside staff and children. 🌼

Enhanced DBS check required

📧 Interested? Get in touch for more details by emailing Newdale.primary@taw.org.uk

Friday 27th March, 2026

Happy Easter!

We hope all parents/carers and children have a lovely, restful Easter break.

Children return to school on Monday 13th April.

Friday 27th March, 2026

Achievement Assembly

This week’s Achievement Assembly took place yesterday.

Newdale Cup winners who will have a special treat after the holidays:

Mrs Everall’s class for brilliant badminton and awesome art!  

House Points 

Well done to all of the children for collecting lots of house points this half term. Please see the results below: 

1st Place- Wrekin with 1744 points. 

2nd Place- Ironbridge with 1739 points. 

3rd Place- Severn with 1558 points. 

4th Place – Wenlock with 1508 points. 

 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Angelo for his exceptional efforts with his writing and editing in his recent Chance to Shine. Louise for her amazing performance in Newdale’s Got Talent and showing great resilience. 

Year 5 achievers: Ieesa for being a polite, helpful and enthusiastic member of the class who will be greatly missed by everyone when he moves to his new school. Cerys for always trying her hardest in lessons, challenging herself and great ability to explain and justify her answers. 

Year 4 achievers: Mrs Everall’s achiever had been chosen for showing great commitment to securing new methods in Maths and for an outstanding score in his Reading assessment this term. Shivangi for creating fantastic sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials in literacy. 

Year 3 achievers: Zorawar for being extra kind today towards not only the children but also staff around school.  

Ava  for doing amazing artwork yesterday and thinking carefully about her choice of design, patterns and colours.  

Year 2 achievers: Katie for showing good listening and being kind to her peers. Miss Squire’s achiever has been chosen for showing resilience during chance to shine and doing some great writing. 

Year 1 achievers: Kobie for always being ‘ready and respectful’ and for working hard in all his lessons. Jadon for improving his reading, he is becoming super speedy.  

Year R achievers: Hukam for being such a hard-working, cheerful member of the class and for always being a kind friend. Amandeep for amazing progress with number bonds to 5. 

Times Tables – 

This week, our ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ trophy went to the class with the highest amount of correct answers. This class is Mr Jackson’s class with an average of 7572 coins collected.  Congratulations Rockstars! 

 

Attendance Winners 23rd – 27th March 2026

Winner of Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3

Miss Watson = 98.33%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mrs Haymour = 100%

 

Wednesday 25th March, 2026

🌱 Great British Spring Clean 2026 – School Parliament Litter Pick 🌱

As part of the Great British Spring Clean 2026 Schools Litter Pick contest, members of our School Parliament spent an hour out in the local community helping to make our environment cleaner and greener.

The children did a marvellous job, working with real enthusiasm and teamwork. By the end of the session, they had collected 12 full bags of litter from around the local area — an impressive achievement in such a short time.

There were some surprising finds along the way, including:

  • A pair of old shoes
  • A discarded shower screen
  • Plenty of cans and bottles
  • And, of course, the usual windblown litter that gathers in hedges and verges

Their hard work has made a visible difference, and they should feel incredibly proud of the positive impact they’ve had on their community.

Wednesday 25th March, 2026

Easter Raffle

Our Easter Raffle has been drawn this morning.

All prizes have been delivered to class so our winners will bring home their eggs today.

Well done to our lucky winners!

Wednesday 25th March, 2026

Curriculum Governor Involvement

The Curriculum Governors met on 24th March. They spent time speaking with KS2 girls about Life Learning and were heartened to hear that pupils feel safe in school and have a strong sense of belonging at Newdale. Governors then heard an update from the ‘Stronger Foundations’ Associate Governor, who reported on policy developments and monitoring carried out this term.

They also worked with the Maths Lead, talking to KS2 pupils about their maths learning, and were pleased to see clear progress over time. Governors are keen to follow how the focus on ‘STEM Sentences’ develops over the summer term.

They were further reassured by feedback from recent external monitoring undertaken by the School Improvement Partner and two Partnership Heads. All external visitors recognised the calm, respectful learning environments across the school and the strong drive to support inclusion.

Tuesday 24th March, 2026

RSHE Year 1-Year 6 Parent Consultation – Wednesday 15th April 2026

Dear Parents and Carers,

We would like to invite you to our upcoming Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) Parent Consultation, which will take place on Wednesday 15th April 2026 at 9:00am in the school hall at Newdale.

As you may be aware, the Government has released updated RSHE curriculum guidance, and we have made a number of changes to our school’s curriculum to ensure we remain fully aligned with these requirements. Because of these updates, we are statutorily obliged to consult with parents, giving you the opportunity to understand the changes, ask questions, and share your views.

How to Confirm Attendance

If you would like to attend the consultation, please confirm your place via Parent Pay.

 Resources and Information

Closer to the consultation date, we will upload these onto Parent Pay for all parents to access:

  • The updated RSHE curriculum resources
  • Lesson objectives and overviews

 After the Consultation

Following the session, we will send out letters summarising key lesson content for parents.

We look forward to welcoming you and working together to support our pupils with a safe, age-appropriate and informative RSHE curriculum.

 

Kind Regards

Miss Cook

 

Tuesday 24th March, 2026

Popcorn Sale!

There will be a popcorn sale after school Wednesday 25th March.

We have very limited supply, once it’s gone it’s gone!

Stall will be on the back playground only.

£1.00 a cone, CASH only please.

Thank you for your support.

Tuesday 24th March, 2026

Finance and Personnel Governors Involvement

Governors who are part of the Finance and Personnel Committee met on 23 March 2026. They spent considerable time analysing the staff wellbeing audit results and identifying any actions required in response to the findings. Governors were very pleased to note that both teaching and support staff feel happy and safe working at Newdale.

The committee reviewed the draft staffing structure for the next academic year and agreed that the inclusion agenda should drive staffing decisions. Governors also approved a budget of £3–£5k to support the development of the newly established SEND provision for the coming year.