I would like to invite you to attend our Parents’ Evening which will take place as follows:

Reception: Tuesday 6th October 2020 – Friday 9th October 2020
Years 1, 2 & 3: Monday 12th October 2020 – Friday 16th October 2020
Years 4, 5 & 6: Monday 19th October 2020 – Thursday 22nd October 2020

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic all meetings will take place via phone call. When booking your slot please leave the name of the person to be contacted and phone number as a message for the teacher. Each allocated slot is 10 minutes long and teachers will need to adhere to the timings. The incoming call to your phone may show as a withheld number or one of the school numbers.

The school will again use the online appointment booking system. This allows you to choose your own appointment times with teachers and you will receive an email confirming your appointments. Appointments can be made from Friday 25th September 2020.

Please visit https://newdale.parentseveningsystem.co.uk to book your appointments. A short guide on how to add appointments is attached with this letter. Login with the following information:
Student’s First Name:
Student’s surname:
Date of Birth:

If you do not have access to the internet please contact the school office who will be happy to add appointments on your behalf.

Please click on the links below to view the full letter and parent guide.

Parents Evening invite letter Autumn 2020

Parent Guide – Autumn 2020 Parents’ Evening

Dear Parents and Carers, 

Due to the current Covid 19 restrictions we are sadly unable to host our termly SEND parent and carer ‘drop in’ sessions. Usually Parents and Carers are invited to come to The Den to speak to Miss Plimmer (our SENDCO) and Mrs Powell (Inclusion Manager) about their child’s needs and progress.

This term we are proposing that following your Parents Evening telephone call with class teachers in the coming weeks, you can request a telephone call from Miss Plimmer and Mrs Powell to talk specifically about SEND needs.

To request a phone call between 3pm-4pm or 4:30pm-5:30pm on Thursday 22nd October, please send an email requesting a time slot to Miss Plimmer’s SEND email address: newdalesendco@taw.org.uk or ring the office and ask them to pass on the message 01952 387720.

Kind regards,

Miss Plimmer 

Following on from Miss Cook’s announcement regarding PE kits, please can you ensure that children are wearing the correct PE kit in school. This should be a white tshirt and dark tracksuit bottoms/shorts. Please note that football shirts and skorts are not allowed. Thank you for your continuous support.

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you know, we constantly review our policy/procedure and change our practice accordingly.

We are struggling to find ‘bubble’ space for all of the different year groups to get changed for sports after school clubs, especially as we need to provide separate space for boys and girls in the older year groups.

As a result of this, we are going to ask that from tomorrow that children in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 that have a sports club after school, come to school in their school PE kit. We can manage Year 1 and 2 children changing and therefore there is no need to alter anything for them.

The only item that will be permitted is a change of foot wear for eg. Football boots.

We understand that children like to wear ‘football strip’ type clothes for many of the clubs, but ask that they stick to the normal school PE kit please.

This new rule will not affect the gymnastics club and we ask that those children bring in their change of clothes as they normally do.

We are working so hard at trying to keep our ‘bubbles of children’ separate and we think this new rule will allow an increase in safety, but also more time for the children to enjoy the activity in the club.

As ever, thank you for your support and patience as we continue to do all we can to keep Covid 19 away from our school community.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Newdale Primary School and Nursery

Dear Parents/Carers,

I understand from viewing social media that some parents are asking for clarification linked to the change in procedure with PE kit.

We really do understand that it is not ideal and we promise to revert back to normal as soon as it is safe to do so.

We place a high priority on PE in our curriculum and really do want our children outside in the fresh air as much as possible.

Some parents were worried their children would be cold. We are happy for children to wear outdoor PE kit each PE day if that helps. Clearly we will not be allowing your children to get soaking wet during PE and expecting them to sit in wet clothes for the rest of the day. Our PE coaches are fully aware of this.

We are not allowing PE kits to be borrowed from school, due to ongoing threats of the virus, so please support us in making sure your child/children are correctly dressed on the PE days.

If you have any further concerns please do call the office on 01952 387720 and the team will be happy to help.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

Headteacher