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Friday 26th June, 2026

Achievement Assembly

Friday 26th June 2026 

This week, we have been so proud of the children’s resilience and adapting to change – especially in the sweltering temperatures! Not only have there been lots of water fights and time in the shade, on Tuesday, Year 3 and 4 children represented Newdale amazingly during the Telford Maths Championships. They showed great teamwork throughout and loved every single second of solving such tricky problems! Well done everyone. On Wednesday, classes across the school spent the whole day creating brilliant landscapes and portraits using a wide variety of skills including painting, sketching, collage and sculpture. A huge thanks to Ironbridge Fine Arts (Archie and Oscar’s parents) who worked with years 1-4 to print self-portraits using drinks cartons and to Mrs Everall for organising another brilliant Art Day!

Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.

 

Achievers of the week: 

Year 6 achievers: Everyone in Y6 for their resilience during this week in school.  

Year 5 achievers:  Bella for always trying her best in everything she does and for producing some fantastic artwork on art day. Le’Shane for always being a hardworking, caring and thoughtful member of the class 

Year 4 achievers: Mr Stubb’s achiever for producing some fantastic artwork this week in our art lessons and for art day! Pixie-Belle for working incredibly hard on her Lowry-inspired landscape.  

Year 3 achievers: Avash for showing great Newdale behaviours and resilience at the Maths competition as well as fully embracing Art Day. Elizabeth for always having a positive attitude and for producing some beautiful art on Art Day.  

Year 2 achievers: River and Miss Squire’s achiever for always following our Newdale school rules and being a role models their classes. 

Year 1 achievers: Everly for always being a superstar, kind friend and amazing role model. Nikolas for making excellent progress in writing this year and completing a fantastic ‘Chance to Shine’ write this week. 

Year R achievers: Miss Hailey’s achiever – what an amazing week as always. We loved your artwork this week. You are always a superstar! 😊 Isabella for working so hard to memorise her number bonds to 10. 

 

Newdale Cup

This week, Mr Jackson’s class have won the Newdale Cup after really impressing Miss White and Miss Harrison. They have worked really hard and have been kind and caring towards each other throughout the heat wave this week. 

 

House Points 

As we reach the end of week 4, Wrekin lead the way with an impressive 1166 points. They are closely followed by Wenlock with 1050, Ironbridge with 1019 and Severn with 934. With 3 weeks to go, it could be any house! 

 

Attendance Winners  22nd – 26th June 2026

Winner of Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3

Mrs Evans & Mrs Sturrock = 96.21%

Winner of Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Mr Jackson = 96%

Friday 26th June, 2026

Reminder – What’s App Issues

Dear Parents and Carers,

We would like to draw your attention to some ongoing concerns regarding children’s use of digital devices outside of school. Recently, we have become aware of large WhatsApp groups involving our pupils. This has unfortunately led to issues such as inappropriate language being used and a high number of disagreements.

As you may know, WhatsApp has a minimum age requirement of 13. Children in primary school are often not yet ready to use such apps responsibly, which is why these restrictions are in place. Despite our Year 6 teams speaking with pupils about online safety and the age limits for apps like WhatsApp, the problem continues.

We kindly ask that you regularly review your child’s online activity and talk with them about how they are using digital platforms. Your support in reinforcing these messages at home is invaluable.

When issues arise outside of school, they can take up significant time during the school day, time that should be focused on learning. By working together, we can help ensure that children remain safe online and fully engaged whilst in school.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Cook

Wednesday 24th June, 2026

Year 1 Water fight Thurs pm

Good afternoon,

As a ‘cool’ treat tomorrow afternoon during our PE session we would like to have a water fight. So they may come home a little damp – if your child is in ASC they can bring a change of clothes.

Your child can bring something to use for the water fight and we will be providing some bits too!

They have coped well with the heat and we’d like to have bit of fun.

Thank you

Year 1 team

Wednesday 24th June, 2026

After School Clubs this week

At present, we will be making adjustments to suit the warm weather this week to ensure after school clubs can go ahead as planned.

Badminton – will take place indoors

KS2 Girl’s Football – will be foot golf under the oak tree and classroom activities

KS2 Football (Thursday) – will take place indoors

Dodgeball (Friday) – indoors as normal

KS2 Football (Friday) adapted to foot golf and football team building games under the oak tree