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5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 05.01.2021

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are delighted that our efforts to open today paid off with key worker children back in school loving learning. Staff also worked tremendously hard in making sure the online learning offer is as good as it can possibly be.

It is really important that both staff and parents do all they can to keep children engaged and learning. Staff are aware of the fact that many parents will be ‘home working’ and hence not have as much time as they would like or need to support children. Teachers are trying to make the learning as clear as they can to children in the hope they can manage to get on without the need for too much adult help whilst ensuring a quality provision.

We are keeping our Breakfast and After School Club open to support critical workers but have decided to postpone some clubs until a later date e.g. Crossbar clubs.

We have been inundated with requests for school places and this is becoming a real challenge to us due to teacher capacity and space. Ultimately, schools have closed to limit the potential to spread the virus. We are already close to our maximum capacity to operate safely. We do ask that you only request places if you are a Critical Key worker and that you have no other option in keeping your children at home. We are going to look at whether there are ways we can increase any capacity but in the end we will need to cap numbers and move forward in a safe way for everyone. We really hope you can support us in this.

The new booking form will be coming out soon please keep an eye out for it.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

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5 years ago
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Year 1 Phonics – Wednesday 6th January

Hi Year 1,

Please see the attached phonics activity for children in Red, Orange and Yellow group. Please remember, if you are not sure which group your child is in, just email the Year 1 email address.

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Please also see attached the spelling list for children in Red, Orange and Yellow group. We will be asking you to have a little spelling quiz on Monday, just like you would normally do in school.

Year 1 Spellings Spring 1 week 1 au ey

 

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5 years ago
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Year 1 PE and Forest School Days (for pupils who are in school)

Hello,

If your child is still attending school, they will have PE on Wednesday and Thursday and should come to school wearing their PE kits on these days.

On Tuesday, we will have Forest School and so children should bring the appropriate kit in a bag.

Many thanks,

Year 1 team

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Year 1 Spellings

Hello Year 1,

From tomorrow, we will be sharing two sets of spellings and phonics lesson.

If your child is in Red, Orange or Yellow group, please follow the spellings and phonics activities that I (Miss McCullagh) post.

If your child is in Blue or Green group, please follow the spellings and phonics activities that Mrs Lee, Mrs Goodwin or Mrs Chandler post.

Thank you,

Year 1 team

5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 5.01.21

Good morning,

 

Many staff working in our school have children of their own and therefore can completely sympathise with you this morning. We know that the last minute decision by the Government will undoubtedly cause mass disruption on so many levels. Many schools have closed their doors today in order to plan for the forthcoming weeks. We worked very late into the night in order to be able to at least allow some of our critical, key workers access to school places for their children, so that they can go to work to support us all. As you know, it is so important that everyone supports each other over this difficult time.

 

We understand that some people may have missed the communication that we sent more or less immediately after the announcement last night and we will look at what further we can offer later on today after we have processed the applications we have already received.

 

Please help us by not turning up for school if you are in anyway unsure as to if your child qualifies for a place. We are only able to accept certain children as per the guidance and only children that we have received a form from at this point. A ‘lock down’ is a ‘lock down’, and we need to only have children in school whose parents really do qualify as key workers please. Please also only take up the place if you really need it e.g. shift work patterns may mean you can in fact safely keep you child at home. Please do not be offended if we ask for proof of key worker status and even ask for shift patterns so that we can plan accordingly.

 

School staff will be contacting parents of children who we believe qualify for places who have not yet been in touch. Please wait for communication from school and access the online learning offer for your child today.

 

If you are struggling with accessing the online offer, please contact either the office or your child’s teacher through their email contact.

 

Again, thank you for all of your support.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by

Year 1 Phonics and Literacy – Tuesday 5th January

Hi Year 1!

We are really looking forward to seeing you all at 11am on our first Google Meet tomorrow morning.

Here is the Phonics and Literacy activity for you to have a go at tomorrow.

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For Literacy this week, we are going to be focussing on a story called ‘The Way Back Home’, by Oliver Jeffers. For today’s activity, please listen to the beginning of the story using this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbyUrb0X5iU

Please only watch up until the boy lands on the moon at 1:19minutes. At this point, we would like the children to predict what they think will happen next. Think carefully about:

  • What will the little boy do on the moon?
  • Will he meet anybody?
  • Will he go back at home? How will he get there?

Once you have discussed your prediction, you can draw 3 pictures to show what you think will happen next in the story.  You can also write a sentence to go with each of your pictures.  There is a template attached if you wish to print it, or you can work on a plain piece of paper.

Prediction Activity

Please don’t listen to the end of the story yet as we will do this in tomorrow’s lesson.

I can’t wait to hear some of your predictions in tomorrow’s lesson and would love to see some of your super work on the blog too!

 

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Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by

Maths task 5.01.21

Hello Year 1,

Myself and Miss McCullagh are in school today planning fun activities for the rest of the week for you.

So to keep you busy I have set you a little Mathematics task.

Before Christmas we were learning about subtraction and we had started to subtract mentally.

Today could you have a go at the following ICT games and solve the subtraction sentences mentally by counting backwards.

In class we have been doing this by putting the largest number in our head, getting the correct number of fingers up that we are taking away and counting back on them.

Enjoy and remember if you have any questions or need some support please don’t hesitate to email the year 1 email address and a member of the year 1 team will respond as soon as we can.

newdale.year1team@taw.org.uk

Have a lovely day.

Miss Broadhurst.

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 18th Dec 2020 by

Star of the Week- KS1

Aria-Rose from Miss McCullagh’s class- for always having a positive attitude at school and for being a kind and considerate friend.

Marco from Mrs Plimmer’s class- for going up a band in his reading book!

Demi from Miss Newport’s class- for always following the SMART code and for being a good friend.

Grace from Miss Broadhurst’s class- for always following the SMART code and being kind to other children

Lilly from Miss Jones’- for being an absolute star in all areas of her learning and beyond! You are a credit to your family 😊

 

5 years ago
Posted on 18th Dec 2020 by

Last letter of 2020

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

We would firstly like to thank you for all of the support we have had over this tricky period. It has not been easy and despite our best efforts, we have had to deal with a very small number of cases in school this term. Our number of cases is relatively few in comparison to many other schools and we know that our partnership working with you, the Health Protection Hub, the Local Authority along with our strict procedures have helped to keep this figure so low.

 

Should your child(ren) develop symptoms or have a positive test on either Friday 18th, Saturday 19th or Sunday 20th December then you MUST let us know. Could you please do this by using the following email address newdale.primary@taw.org.uk, this will be monitored over that period by two members of staff who remain on call or alternatively calling the school office on 01952 387720.  The school number will be diverted until 6.00pm on 24th December.  Please only call this number to report symptoms or a positive test and not for general enquiries.

 

If your child(ren) develops symptoms or tests positive outside of this time period (Monday 21st December onwards) then please use the NHS Track and Trace system and you do not need to let us know, unless they are continuing to self-isolate once we return on 5th  January. This is because it will have been longer than 48 hours since they were in school and will therefore, not affect any other staff or students. Please note as of Monday 14th December, the isolation period is only 10 days.

 

Thank you for your continued support with this and I sincerely hope it will not be needed for any family over the festive period. I hope you all have a well-earned rest and have the opportunity to spend it with loved ones.

 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the staff at Newdale primary School and Nursery. We look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 5th January 2021.

 

Miss Cook