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Wednesday 3rd September, 2025

European Day of Languages – 26th September

On Friday the 26th September, Newdale will be celebrating European Day of Languages.

It is a day to promote awareness of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.

Each year group will be celebrating a different country (please see below).

Nursery -Germany

Reception -Italy

Year 1- Sweden

Year 2-Poland

Year 3- Denmark

Year 4- Switzerland

Year 5- Greece

Year 6- Germany

The children are invited to come into school wearing the colours of the flag that they are celebrating.

Wednesday 3rd September, 2025

Book donations for our reception classes

At Newdale we aim to foster a love of reading and books from the earliest age. To develop this, Reception are looking for donations of books in good condition for their reading areas. Please help us if you can to develop the next generation of learners.

 

Thank you

Reception Team

Tuesday 2nd September, 2025

Welcome back!

Dear Parents/Carers,

A huge welcome back everyone 😊. We are all very excited to start the new school year with you all. The children have settled in brilliantly. Please do ask them all about their first day.

We wanted to remind you of some of the ways that you can keep in touch with us, and we can keep in touch with you! We very much value your support to ensure your child enjoys every moment at Newdale. Communication between school and home is so important. Please ensure we have your correct contact details recorded.  We regularly send out key information via text message.  If you need to update your details, please email newdale.primary@taw.org.uk

 

  • Staff are always available for you to informally chat with at the beginning and end of the day outside school. We have at least 5 staff out on duty around the site.
  • We also have our home-school communication books as well as year-group emails.
  • Our pastoral team are on hand to support families as well as children in school.
  • Our SENDCo Mr McFarland is always keen to ensure children with SEND have the best support – please contact him should you need anything at all on newdalesendco@taw.org.uk.
  • Before and After School Club staff are available should you need to speak with them.
  • We hope you find our newsletters and other digital communications useful and informative, especially our Top Tips for e-safety.
  • Please remember that all the information you need about what your child is learning is on our website – but do ask if you need any further information at all.
  • We have recently updated our school attendance policy based on the new statutory requirements. Our attendance email is: attendance@newdaleschool.org.uk. Please visit our website for more information.

 

Year Group emails are as follows:

Reception                                            newdale.yearrteam@taw.org.uk

Year 1                                                   newdale.year1team@taw.org.uk

Year 2                                                   newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk

Year 3                                                   newdale.year3team@taw.org.uk

Year 4                                                   newdale.year4team@taw.org.uk

Year 5                                                   newdale.year5team@taw.org.uk

Year 6                                                   newdale.year6team@taw.org.uk

 

Just a few other reminders:

  • We do not permit parents to use their mobile phones on site at any time for safeguarding reasons.
  • Year 5 and 6 children are permitted to bring in mobile phones to use in an emergency if they travel independently to and from school. These phones MUST be handed in to the teaching assistant as soon as they arrive at school. They will be locked in the office and then returned at home time. We do not take any responsibility for any mobile phones that are not handed in. All children in all other year groups should not have a phone on site unless discussed and agreed with the teaching team.
  • Year 3 children who are not registered as Free School Meals now have to pay for their dinners. If you need more details or believe you may qualify for Free School Meals, please call the office on 01952 387720.
  • Nail varnish and what we deem as ‘extreme’ hair styles are not permitted whilst the children attend school.
  • Small stud earrings are permitted, but should be removed on PE days. If this is not possible, they will be taped for PE in line with health and safety regulations. Please ensure all other types of earrings are left for weekend and holiday use.
  • PE kits – We are continuing to allow children to come to school in PE kits on their PE days. Please see the website or email your year group teachers for information around this and anything else to do with the lessons your children have.
  • Attendance – if your child is not well and will not be attending school, please email attendance@newdaleschool.org.uk or call the office on 01952387720. If you have appointments for your child, please can you contact the office with more information.

 

Please remember that classroom doors open at 8:35am and registers are taken at 8:40am.

 

Thank you for your continued support.

 

Miss Cook

 

 

 

Monday 1st September, 2025

Book donations for our reception classes

At Newdale we aim to foster a love of reading and books from the earliest age. To develop this, Reception are looking for donations of books in good condition for their reading areas. Please, if you can, help us to develop the next generation of learners.

Thank you

 

Monday 1st September, 2025

Year 2- Welcome Back

The classrooms and teachers are ready, and we are so looking forward to seeing you back in the classroom soon! We hope you are feeling excited, looking smart and ready to get started.

Here’s some information about Year 2:

PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Outdoor learning is on Fridays– remember we go whatever the weather so be prepared! Please bring clothes in a spare bag to change into in the afternoon.

If you have any questions or queries, please email the Year 2 email address as seen below:

newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk 

We look forward to welcoming your children back tomorrow.

Year 2 team :) 

Monday 21st July, 2025

Finance and Personnel Governors Involvement

Finance and Personnel Governors met on Wednesday 16th July. They concluded their focus on PE by looking at the planning format and then talking to a group of Year 4 – 6 children about the offer. They were happy to hear the children talk so positively about the PE offer at Newdale.

Governors spent time looking at the finances for the school and nursery. They recognised the difficult balance between securing enough staff to support higher than usual numbers of special educational needs, against the income the school receives. They understand that systems across the setting will undoubtedly have to change in order to accommodate this need.

Friday 18th July, 2025

🌟🌟Achievement Assembly 🌟🌟

Friday 18th July 2025

This week, Year 5 had a wonderful day at Carding Mill Valley. They went river dipping, completed a guided walk around the hills and even investigated some of their collections in the laboratory. Year 6 had a wonderful final week of celebrations; including a water fight and a spectacular final day festival! Severn house enjoyed their house celebration on Thursday; playing parachute games, building dens, showing off incredible dance moves at their disco and much more! Well done to all of Severn house! We are so proud of all our pupils; they have had another wonderful year at Newdale and made school enjoyable for everyone that works here. We wish all of our families a fun and enjoyable summer holidays and look forward to welcoming you all back in September!

Achievers of the week:

Year 6 achievers: Harry for making us all so proud this year with your hard work, positive attitude to work and making us all smile! Kayson for being a great friend to everyone and for always thinking of others.

Year 5 achievers:  Skylar for being kind, caring and considerate to those around her. Georgie for being a kind, considerate member of the class who has shown consistent fantastic behaviour for the whole year.

Year 4 achievers: Rosie-Anne for outstanding application all year and finishing off with a spectacular Chance to Shine about owning a dog. Niall for bringing a smile to Mrs Everall and Mrs Austin’s faces every day and for his brilliant achievements in Reading, Maths and Science.

Year 3 achievers: William for being an amazing member of the class. He always follows the BeSMART code and is super helpful! Nyla for being a fabulous Newdaler and ending her time here on such a high with a brilliant Chance to Shine write! Good Luck at your new school Nyla!

Year 2 achievers: Isabel for always being an incredibly kind, helpful, caring, smiley, wonderful and hardworking pupil. Thank you for making us smile everyday. You are the true definition of a Newdaler!  Zion for always being kind, caring, helpful, hardworking and polite. A real credit to Newdale.

Year 1 achievers: Theodore has shown amazing maturity and made great choices especially this week. He’s made exceptional progress this year and Miss Hill will be lucky to have him on Year 2.

Mrs Sturrrock and Mrs Evans’ whole class have been chosen this week. Every single child has had a fantastic final week in Year One. Mrs Sturrock, Mrs Evans and Mrs Wilmot are all so proud of how hard everyone has worked and how much each child has grown throughout the year. We’ve truly loved working with everyone in this class this year and we are going to miss each and every one of you.

Parent Survey Raffle

In assembly today, we also drew the raffle for all the families that had completed the parent survey. We had 4 lucky winners who will be bringing home prizes to enjoy over the summer holiday.

 

Tuesday 15th July, 2025

Staff leaving

We are having quite a lot of changes with staffing this year, but rest assured, we have worked very hard to ensure we have experienced staff who will fit in brilliantly into the Newdale team.

Sadly, Mrs Wilmot, Teaching Assistant in Year 1, will now be leaving at the end of the week. I know you will all join me in wishing Mrs Wilmot best wishes in her new role. She has worked tirelessly in Year 1 and been a fantastic phonics group lead too.

I am hoping that at some point in the future that Mrs Wilmot will return!