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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.

 

Friday 31st January, 2020

Achievement Awards

Miss Clay’s class- Gethin for great effort in literacy- creating some fabulous adverbials.

Mrs Thomas’ class- Jody Leigh for having the resilience to persevere even when things can be tricky!

Mr Banfield’s class- Tom for determination to succeed and produce bucket loads more work.

Miss Myler’s class- Poppy for her acts of environmental kindness.

Mr Jackson’s class- Harry for excellent behaviour and contributing positively to class discussion in all lessons.

Miss Macfarlane’s class- Isla for her amazing enthusiasm on our trip yesterday!

Mrs Trevor’s class- Kyron for his love of learning not only at school but home too. He shows enthusiasm around our topic and does extra at home.

Miss Newport’s class- James for a super week at school! Great attitude and working hard. Keep it up.

Miss Hailey’s class- Corben for super effort in all of his work this week.

Miss Cullagh’s class- Jessica-Lily for working incredibly hard on her handwriting and completing some super work in Literacy, independently.

Mrs Plimmer’s class- Bryan for fantastic listening skills and interest in The Great Fire of London.

Smart Cup Winners- Year 4 for behaviour on school trip to Black Country Museum yesterday.

Year 1,2,3 Star reader- James for making a real effort to read at home! (and even remembering to answer your comprehension questions)

Year 4,5,6 Star reader- Elliot for a great improvement in the regularity of his reading.

Friday 31st January, 2020

School Parliament Germ Information

Germs are Everywhere!

Recently, School Parliament delivered an assembly to the school about  how germs spread and the importance of hand washing.
To demonstrate how germs spread between people and objects, School Parliament members produced a short film.

Look out for the blue paint and where it transfers to, as this represents the Germs.

We hope you enjoyed our film.

Keep our school free from germs- wash your hands!

School Parliament

Monday 27th January, 2020

School Sandwiches

As of today children in KS2 (Years 3 to Year 6) who order a school sandwich will be making their own sandwich.

Year 6 have been making their own sandwich for a while and it has proved very successful which is why it was decided to roll out to KS2 (Years 3 to Year 6) children.

We hope the children enjoy preparing and eating their lunch.

Monday 27th January, 2020

Chinese New Year – Menu change on 30th January

To celebrate Chinese New Year the kitchen are changing the school lunch menu on 30th January to a Chinese inspired meal as follows:

Breaded chicken, noodles or rice, sweet and sour or BBQ sauce, stir fry vegetables and peas followed by ice cream.