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Updates

Friday 15th January, 2021

School Dinner menu W/B 18th January 2021

Below is the hot dinner menu available for those children attending school next week

 

Monday-  Hot dogs.  Potato wedge’s.  Baked bean’s. Pea’s.   Ice-cream.

Tuesday-  Meatballs. Pasta twists. Tomato sauce. Seasonal Veg.  Biscuit/cake.

Wednesday-  Sliced pork.  Herby potato’s. Seasonal veg.  Fruit jelly.

Thursday-  Breaded chicken. Rice. Curry sauce. Seasonal veg.  Biscuit/cake.

Friday-  Fish. Chip’s. Baked beans. Sweetcorn/pea’s.  Mousse.

Thursday 14th January, 2021

E-safety top tip – live lessons

The children are adapting so well to the new ways of learning.  We are receiving many positive comments from children, parents and staff about the live lessons which are taking place every day.  Thank you for your support at home to help make these lessons a success!

As you know, online safety and the safety of our children is very important to all staff at Newdale.  Therefore we want to share with you our latest code of conduct for children to adhere to during live lessons.  Please can you ensure your child knows and follows these rules:

  • Cameras.  We would like the children to have their cameras turned on for the beginning of each session.  It is important for the children to be able to see their peers and it is the perfect opportunity for them to say hello to their friends.
  • Recording.  Each live lesson is recorded so it can be seen at a later time or be referred back to.  If you do not wish for your child to be on the recording then you will need to ensure they have turned their camera off at the appropriate time.  Each teacher will announce when the recording is about to begin.
  • Clothing. Pupils need to be in appropriate clothing during the live lessons.
  • Location.  Parents need to take responsibility as to the location of where the live lessons take place.  We recommend that if your child is attending any live lesson from their bedroom, then they should keep their bedroom door open.

Please remember that Newdale staff are very experienced in supporting E Safety and only happy to help should you need advice and support.

Thursday 14th January, 2021

Crossbar Refunds

Thank you for your patience in receiving your refunds for the Crossbar after school clubs. We are currently waiting for ParentPay to transfer money, as soon as this has been completed we will send a text informing you that your refund has been processed.

 

Wednesday 13th January, 2021

Remote Education Information to Parents

The information link below is intended to provide clarity and transparency to pupils and parents or carers about what to expect from remote education where national or local restrictions require entire cohorts (or bubbles) to remain at home. You can also view the document on the website in the section called ‘Parent guides’.

Remote Education Information to Parents

Wednesday 13th January, 2021

New critical worker/vulnerable child form – Monday 18th – Friday 22nd January

Please complete the form below if your child is eligible for a school place during the current school closure. All applications will be reviewed and considered once the form has closed at 9.00am on Thursday 14th January.

Please note that the filling in of this form does not guarantee you a place.

A member of school staff will contact you Friday afternoon to inform you if we can safely offer your child/ren a place.  If we are unable to, we will support you in directing you to the remote learning offer we have in place.

All school staff would like to thank you for your unwavering support in these testing times.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2s8TOK9SpUy44yMVeXcKujfWR1zrUJ1JhQgacqv0-RBUNjI2N1pETVlRNE9WUFNDRDdPWUFKUEozRi4u

Wednesday 13th January, 2021

Free School Meals

There has been a lot of publicity around the offering of free school meals in the press.  On 8th January we informed you that we would be working with Edenred Uk and was waiting for further guidance from the Department of Education.  Because we understand this is taking some time for the guidance to be released, we have ordered our own vouchers in the hope that they will be processed swiftly.  As our post stated on 8th January if you are desperate for food we can in the short term offer packed lunches, please do not hesitate to contact our school office or pastoral team for more support.  I can assure you our team are working very hard to ensure that vouchers are received as quickly as we possibly can.  Many thanks for your patience and understanding in this difficult time.

Tuesday 12th January, 2021

Overviews of Maths content

Dear parents and carers,

Over the next few days, you will see your class teachers sharing overviews of maths content with you on a single sheet of paper.

These are called knowledge organisers and contain the essential parts of learning that your child will be covering in that unit of work. We need our children to know more by remembering more and these will help them to understand what are the essential parts that they need to know at the end of that unit of work.

The work that is set for your children will relate directly to the content on these. You can support your child by going through these with them and identifying if there are any aspects on there which your child needs extra work on. Your child’s teacher will be able to help you with this.

As always, if any help or support is needed, please get in touch.

Kind regards
Mrs Bishton

Tuesday 12th January, 2021

Update 12.01.2021

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are receiving some very positive comments about our online learning offer. This is great as teachers really are trying very hard to ensure the offer will ensure as much progress as possible. Mrs Bishton will soon be sending out a brief survey to allow us to collect responses to share with outside agencies.

It is important to note that the children in school receive exactly the same offer as those at home. There is no benefit educationally, in sending your children into school and in fact only an increased level of risk as far as the virus is concerned.

The message continues to be: keep your children at home if you can. It is only ‘critical’ workers who literally have no other choice that we are considering applications for.

We have been informed that we are to be allocated some additional laptops to support our home learning offer. If you really are struggling to access online learning and are currently relying on paper packs, then contact the school and we will see what we can do to help.

As you know the data is showing alarming increases in virus transmissions across Telford. We continue to do all we can in school to keep everyone safe, including regular testing of all of our staff. We ask that you continue to join us in this battle and importantly do not send your children into school unless you have to or if they are displaying any signs of illness.

At the moment we are lucky to have healthy staff to ensure high quality education throughout. If we have cases, this limits this offer and affects us all.

The new survey to fill out for a child school place for next week is due to be sent out tomorrow (Wednesday 13th January), with a deadline of 9am on Thursday 14th January. Please remember, that if you do require a place, we require the form so that we have enough time to verify status and shift patterns.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Cook
Headteacher

 

Monday 11th January, 2021

PE days in school for all year groups

RECEPTION PE- Tuesday and Thursday mornings

YEAR 1 PE- Tuesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon

YEAR 2 PE- Tuesday morning and Friday morning

YEAR 3 PE- Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon

YEAR 4  PE- Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon

YEAR 5 PE- Tuesday afternoon and Friday morning

YEAR 6 PE- Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon

On the day’s that your child does PE, they should come to school in their PE kit.

Friday 8th January, 2021

Reception Star of the Week

Miss Hailey picked all of the reception learners for their first week of home learning as both children and their parents have really rose to the challenge and given everything we have set a good go. The turn out for the live lessons has been wonderful and it has been so lovely to still learn together every day. The work we have been receiving in has been really uplifting for us back at school.

Star of the week this week in school for reception is Boden from Miss Haileys class for working hard in all lessons and impressing Mrs Sturrock with his ‘subitising’ skills in maths.