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Friday 14th February, 2020

World Book Day

Dear Parents and Carers,

This year’s World Book Day will take place on Thursday 5th March.

As usual, we are all looking forward to seeing your child dressed up in costume as one of their favourite book characters. Teachers cannot wait to get involved too!

The World Book Day website has lots of ideas on how to do this with as much or as little effort as you would like. There are some excellent ideas to get you started: https://www.worldbookday.com/dressing-up-ideas-2019/ and https://www.worldbookday.com/ideas/dressing-up-gallery/

However, children are equally welcome to come to school in their pyjamas all ready for a bedtime story if they prefer – just remember to bring their favourite book too!

As always, your child will receive a £1 book token to spend on a FREE book, or to save £1 on another full price book of their choice.

Full details are available at www.worldbookday.com where you can see the fabulous books that are on offer this year.

Many thanks to those of you who have already sent in photographs of your children reading in all sorts of strange and wonderful places!

Happy reading,

Mrs Thomas

Literacy Coordinator

Thursday 13th February, 2020

Important Information

Dear Parents/Carers,

As we approach the Half-term holiday you may be travelling abroad or possibly welcoming family and friends from outside of the UK. This advice is taken from the Government website in relation to the current Coronavirus outbreak and specifically covers travellers from other parts of China and other specified areas. Please use the link or full details.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2MrppJ_O5wIVS7TtCh0zOAJyEAAYASAAEgL39fD_BwE

Travellers from other parts of China and other specified areas

This advice applies to travellers who have returned to the UK from the following areas:

  • China
  • Thailand
  • Japan
  • Republic of Korea
  • Hong Kong
  • Taiwan
  • Singapore
  • Malaysia
  • Macau

If you have returned to the UK from any of these areas in the last 14 days and develop symptoms of cough or fever or shortness of breath, you should immediately:

  • stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with the flu
  • call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the country

Please follow this advice even if your symptoms are minor.

Miss Cook

Monday 10th February, 2020

Sports after school clubs

All sports clubs are now live on Parentpay for after half term. The clubs are as follows;

Monday- KS1 Football

Tuesday- KS2 Football, Gymnastics

Wednesday- Streetdance, Cross country and Year 2-6 Multi sports

Thursday- Year 2-6 Girls Football

Friday- Year 2-6 Dodgeball

  • Please note that cross country training is only running for 4 weeks.
Friday 7th February, 2020

Achievement Awards

Miss Clay’s class- Raimonds for always working hard and for making super progress in reading, writing and maths.

Mrs Thomas’ class- Leah for enthusiasm towards her learning in year 6- a great attitude, keep it up.

Mr Banfield’s class- Erin deserves the achievement award for demonstrating a great attitude to independent work.

Miss Myler’s class- Harvey for brilliant explanations.

Mr Jackson’s class- Charna-Mai for excellent following of the SMART code and a continued enthusiastic attitude to her learning.

Miss Macfarlane’s class- Noah for having a positive attitude towards our dance lesson this week.

Mrs McLaughlin/ Mrs Pablos’s class- Lily for a massive effort with home reading this week.

Mrs Trevor’s class- Harry for determined to improve his handwriting and presentation and quantity of work in all lessons. His love and enthusiasm for reading at home is shining through, super proud.

Miss Newport’s class- Emeli-may for fantastic effort and enthusiasm in all subjects.

Miss Jones’ class- Kieran for increased speed and a fantastic approach to all areas of his learning.

Miss Hailey’s class- Lilly for working hard all week, especially problem solving in maths.

Miss McCullagh’s class- for being so brave and for showing great determinations.

Mrs Plimmer’s class- Tobias for an excellent chance to shine, using adjectives and paragraphs.

Year 1,2,3 Star Reader– Poppy for lots of home reading, well done!

Year 4,5,6 Star Reader– Olly for reading and making a comment in his diary every night.

 

Wednesday 5th February, 2020

Safer Internet Day

Each year at Newdale, we take part in Safer Internet Day (SID). This year it will take place on Tuesday 11th February. Your child will engage in a series of activities throughout the day with the aim of learning key ways to keep themselves and others safe online.

Please click on the link below to view the full letter.

Safer Internet Day 2020

Monday 3rd February, 2020

Value of the Month- February

Thank you for all your support with the value of the month for January, which was Independence.  We had lots of positive feedback from you about how independent your child/children were at home and it was great to see so many of them carrying their own things into school! The teachers also noticed a big difference in the classroom, as many of the children showed their independent learning side!

Our value of the month for February is Caring 

What is caring?

Feeling concern or interest about someone or something.

Our focus on Caring has three strands:

  • Caring for ourselves, our belongings and our pets.
  • Caring for the environment (indoors and outdoors) by the things we do and how we think.
  • Caring about people (in our families, our friends, others who are different or less fortunate) by our actions.

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

  1. Explore what care is and what your child thinks it is.
  2. Talk about what makes a caring person.
  3. Discuss how we care for members of our family.
  4. Ask your child what they can do to show they care about school.
  5. Make a family list- “We show we care for…….by ………..”
  6. Make another list- “I find it difficult to care for………….. when…….”and then take time to discuss each item.
  7. Draw pictures showing people caring for others and the environment in different ways.
  8. Talk about the sort of world we would have if nobody cared.
  9. Identify all the different people who care for us and talk about how they show their feelings.
  10. Discuss feelings– How do you feel when you are caring for someone or something? How do you feel when you decide you don’t really care?
  11. Discuss the importance of personal hygiene e.g. brushing teeth twice a day, bathing etc.

Please let your child’s teacher know if we can celebrate any work from home, in school.

Feedback on the values and what you do at home is really valuable to us and we really appreciate all your support.

If you can support us in any way, please get in touch via the school office.