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Friday 13th November, 2020

Christmas at Newdale

This year Mrs Christmas would love to come and visit our wonderful children and spread some Christmas magic to cheer everyone up after what has been a whirlwind year. The exciting thing about this year’s visit is that she will be bringing MR CHRISTMAS along too! Rudolph is sadly unavailable as he needs all the rest he can get before the big day.

Due to the current situation we are still planning carefully how we can offer this wonderful experience to your children, whilst keeping them safe. Watch out for more information closer to the time…………..

Children will be allowed to wear their Christmas jumpers on numerous occasions between now and the end of term – further information to follow.

Friday 13th November, 2020

Year 5&6 Star of the Week

Emma – Great work in our WW2 topic (Miss Clay)

Keon – for working so hard whilst away from school and returning with such a focus (Mrs Thomas)

Noah – for making a concerted effort with presentation in his books (Mrs Arthurs)

Martha- for showcasing creativity and skill in myth writing (Mr Banfield)

Friday 13th November, 2020

Found – mobile phone

A mobile phone has been handed into school that was found just outside the school grounds.  Please contact the office on 01952 387720 if you believe that it belongs to you.

Thursday 12th November, 2020

Parent/Carer Survey Autumn 2020

We would like to thank all of the parents in school and nursery who completed a parent survey this year. We were delighted to receive back over 250 surveys this year! Each survey has been read and we really value your thoughts and opinions. Once feedback has been discussed with all staff, we will share with you our next steps as a school.

The winners of the £50 Asda vouchers are:
Harley (Year 6)
Tiana (Year 1)
Coby (Ladybugs)

Vouchers will be given out by the end of the week.

Many thanks for taking the time to complete a survey, your views are important to us.

Wednesday 11th November, 2020

Update 11.11.20

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

Just a quick note to say ‘thank you’ for the efforts everyone is making to keep our site Covid free. We are delighted in the response we have had to the request for all parents to wear face coverings on our site.

 

As you will undoubtedly of heard, there are relatively high numbers of Covid in Telford and therefore we continue to operate strict hygiene and ‘bubble’ systems in school. Adult to adult transition holds the highest risk and with your help we are managing to keep everyone safe.

 

I continue to carefully analyse the advice we are given as schools and update our risk assessment accordingly.

 

Kind regards,

 

Miss Cook

Tuesday 10th November, 2020

E-safety top tip – Fortnite

How well do you know the online game that your child is playing?

As adults and carers, it is your responsibility to know what your child could be experiencing whilst playing games online.

 

Fortnite is a popular survival action game where up to 100 live players can fight each other to be the last one standing. The game includes heavy violence and you can talk to other players using public, private and voice chat.

The official rating for this game is 12+, which means that your child should not be playing this game until they are in secondary school.

When they are old enough to play this game, there are parental controls that can be set.  For more information click here.

Monday 9th November, 2020

Lost Property

We have a large number of coats without children’s names in our lost property.  On Tuesday morning (10th November) we will place the coats on the picket fence on the playground for parents to check through.  We will space them out to adhere to social distancing but ask that parents also try to maintain a safe distance.

Please note only coats will be taken out tomorrow, however we will look at introducing other items in the future.

If it is wet outside please note that we will not be taking the coats out.

Thank you

Monday 9th November, 2020

National Research Project- Year 1&2

Dear parents / carers,

We are writing to let you know that we have been asked to take part in a national research project to assess the effect of Covid school closures on pupils in Years 1 and 2. If you do not want your child to take part in the research, please fill in the slip on the attached letter and hand into school by Thursday 12th November.

Please find the letter attached which gives more information.

Nfer Parent letter

Kind regards

Mrs Bishton

Monday 9th November, 2020

Children In Need November 2020

Dear Parents/Carers,

This year we are concentrating our efforts on our Remembrance event on 11th November, please reference the post from 3rd November for further details.

We are aware that Children In Need is also on this week.

We do not want to over burden parents with requests for money and also need to be very careful when handling money on site due to the risks of contamination.

As a result of this, we ask you to support Children In Need elsewhere if you can. There are plenty of collection pots around our community and an option to donate online should you wish.

Miss Cook