Year 2

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4 years ago
Posted on 21st Sep 2022 by

Safer, Stronger Communities feedback

21.9.22

Dear Parents & Carers,

Early last term we sent out a survey asking for your ideas on how we could support improving our local community spaces. Thank you to all of those parents who spent the time filling in a response. We really do value your views. The surveys were sent to the Stronger Communities team, and they wanted me to update you on the action that has been taken so far linked to the Overdale area.

  • The new camera is now up and overlooks the MUGA and playground at the field.
  • The new camera that will cover the path and area of the Rock Road play park should be up in the next four weeks.
  • The Carpenter Centre is now open and ready for people of the area to hire it when it is available.
  • A resident drop-in session has been scheduled in for October 11th from 5.30pm – 7pm. This session is for residents to speak with ward councillors and also parish council staff as well as members of the Stronger Communities team about issues in the area and activities they would like to see developed.
  • The Stronger Communities team is working on a project with councillors to improve accessibility and mobility for residents (more information to follow).
  • The first Overdale & Ketley Neighbourhood Crime Reduction meeting has very recently been held. This was a Teams meeting with police, ward members, parish councillors, Anti-social behaviour and Enforcement Teams in attendance. Other meetings have been scheduled for the future and we hope that representatives from school will also attend.

We do hope you can see that your survey responses did indeed initiate actions happening in our local community. We continue to work closely with the Stronger Communities teams and are more than happy to pass on any further suggestions you have in making our local community an even better place to live and let our children play.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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Posted on 15th Sep 2022 by

Expect Respect Week

A key aspect of our curriculum at Newdale is to educate children about how to stay safe. One of the many ways in which we do this is through themed weeks. Next week is Expect Respect Week. During this week, we work sensitively with children, looking at the importance of healthy, non-violent relationships.

Why we have Expect Respect Week

Unfortunately, domestic abuse is a widespread social problem that impacts children and young people’s lives directly in many ways. One in seven (14.2%) children and young people under the age of 18 will have lived with domestic violence at some point in their childhood, with damaging impact on every area of children and young people’s lives.

Learning about what positive relationships are is important from a young age. Such lessons can help to support children’s understanding of what healthy, non-violent relationships look like.

What staff do at Newdale to help keep children safe, with regards to domestic abuse:

  • Have up-to-date knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse
  • Support children to seek help and safety
  • Model and promote healthy, non-violent relationships
  • Report disclosures by following our safeguarding procedures

All professionals working with children and young people have a role to play in supporting children in a safe, open environment. Each session is designed to be active, fun and engaging. Many of the session plans do not raise domestic abuse directly. Please see below for the theme for each year group. Please feel assured that the sessions are very much age-appropriate for your child.

Year Group Theme
Nursery Sharing of books which challenge gender stereotypes/role play jobs.
Reception Looking at and challenging gender stereotypes using toys
Year 1 Friends, secrets and people who help us
Year 2 Gender, careers and assumptions
Year 3 Resolving conflict and where to get help
Year 4 Examining violence, excuses and responsibility
Year 5 Secrets and stories
Year 6 Courtroom game and My identify online

 

We know the value of preventative work and the real importance that early conversations can have on children and young people’s lives. I am pleased that we can engage with prevention work to address gender-based violence from its roots.

If you need more information, or are suffering from the effects of domestic abuse, please contact the school or visit https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/ for further support and guidance.

Yours sincerely,

Miss R Cook

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Posted on 13th Sep 2022 by

13.9.22 Welcome back!

Dear Parents & Carers,

Welcome back to the Autumn term 2022. As predicted, we have had a super start to the term. Children have settled in very well to their new classes and the routines of the day.

Assemblies

We are running daily short assemblies for all children (except the new Reception children) with the highlight being the Friday Achievement assembly where we talk about the fabulous successes of the week and recognise children for their efforts, including in reading, where teachers will nominate their Star Reader every week to go into a prize draw for a brand new book.

BeSMART Code

We are a school where we understand the power of praise and everyone who works here is always on the lookout to make children feel good by telling them they are following the BeSMART code so well. Please do feel free to use the BeSMART code at home too. It really does work!

Remembering our Queen

All classes will have had time today to recognise the sad loss of our Queen, Elizabeth II. This will be continued next week as we celebrate her lifetime and investigate what happens next, now that we have a new King, Charles III.

Uniform

Thank you for the efforts made in getting your children ready as far as uniform is concerned. We want all children in uniform as we believe that it makes everyone feel part of the Newdale team. Please remember, you do not have to purchase the more expensive uniform with the Newdale logo. We are happy if the colour is correct – navy blue. Please also remember that we require hair to be tied up for PE and earrings (studs) to be taped up (children can do this themselves on the day). Nail varnish is for the weekends only please and shaved patterns in hair and ‘tramlines’ are not permitted in our school.

Contacting school

Communication between school and home is so important. Please make sure you are signed up for email communications. There are several ways for you to pass information on to staff:

  • Staff are on duty each morning and afternoon
  • The Home School Communication books are the best way to send daily messages to your child’s teachers as they are looked at every day

Email contacts are as follows:

Diary Dates

We will be soon sending out dates for your diary. We love to have lots of exciting events going on during the term and where possible we like parents and the wider community to be involved. Keep an eye out for this information.

We look forward to working closely with you this year. Together we can make a huge difference to the well-being, progress, and attainment of your children.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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Posted on 13th Sep 2022 by

School lunch menu changes

A couple of changes to the school lunch menu due to the Bank Holiday on Monday 19th September.

Thursday 15th September- the kitchen will be serving curry and rice instead of meatballs, vegetarian option will be vegetarian chilli

Tuesday 20th September- the kitchen will be serving meatballs instead of curry and rice, vegetarian option will be vegetarian Bolognese

 

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Clubs this half term

Please find below the clubs that will be running this half term for year 1-6. If your child is interested in taking part, please find more information on Parentpay.

Monday- KS2 Football and Dance club with Mrs Trevor

Tuesday- KS1 Football, Gymnastics and Young Voices for year 5&6

Wednesday- Basketball

Thursday- Girls Football and Top Hat Performing Arts club

Friday- Dodgeball

 

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Free entry!

FREE entry to Coalbrookdale museum of Iron, Enginuity and Darby Houses on September 17th and 18th September. This is a great opportunity for the children to learn about local history such as the Darby family and Thomas Parker, an electric car inventor from Coalbrookdale!

https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/events/family-events/heritage-open-days-coalbrookdale/

 

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Additional bank holiday

13.9.22

Dear Parents & Carers,

Guidance has now been provided to schools from the Department for Education:

Following the announcement from Buckingham Palace of the death of our sovereign, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a period of National Mourning has started and will continue until the end of the State Funeral. This is a period of time for reflection in response to the death of our Queen.

The official date of the State Funeral is 19 September 2022. This day will be a bank holiday and schools that are normally closed on a bank holiday, should close on this day as a mark of respect.

As a result of this guidance, we will be closing on Monday 19th September.

Normal attendance is expected throughout the National Mourning period, other than the bank holiday.

If you have any queries, please do email the school account newdale.primary@taw.org.uk or call the office on 01952 387720.

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

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Posted on 22nd Jul 2022 by

Uniform for next year

Dear Parents / Carers,

Uniform is incredibly important to us at Newdale: it underpins our ethos, values, and emphasis about how children should approach life at school.  We understand there are differing opinions on the need for school uniform, but through my personal experience in many different educational settings, uniform does set a positive tone for expectations around conduct, behaviour, and attitudes; this in turn has an impact on the smooth running of lessons and the atmosphere within the school.  We will continue to place a high emphasis on children wearing it correctly and well and your continued support in this respect is very much appreciated.

We request children wear a navy jumper or cardigan and grey or black skirts / pinafores or trousers along with a light blue collared shirt. If you would like to order uniform with our school logo on, please do so via Baker and Sons Schoolwear in New Street, Wellington 01952 641897.  Please note that this is not compulsory: uniform without a logo is acceptable if it matches our chosen colours. In warmer months, blue gingham dresses / black or grey smart shorts can be worn.

All children need to wear sensible black shoes (no heels or trainers please). In the colder weather, girls are permitted to wear black, navy or grey tights.

We have decided that we will continue to allow children to come to school in their School PE kit on PE days.

Our reasoning behind this is that some children take a long time to get changed which can impact the length of a PE session; in addition, there is a lack of private space for children to get changed, and we do not want to resort to the unhygienic option of children changing in the toilets.

It is important to us that children do come in proper school PE kit: we do not want children coming in with other sport clothes please. All uniform should be clearly named. Any lost unnamed uniform will be taken to lost property. Lost property still unclaimed after a realistic period will be sold or donated.

The school PE kit is as follows:

White t-shirt

Black shorts

Black pumps / trainers

And for winter or when it is colder:

White t-shirt

Blue / black sweatshirt

Black shorts

Black jogging bottoms

Black pumps/ trainers

If children forget to wear kit or have incorrect kit on PE days, we will ask them to get changed into one of our clean spare kits. The expectation will be that they bring this spare kit home to be washed before returning the clean kit to school as soon as possible.

Please note we only allow plain stud earrings and ask that all other jewellery is left at home. Earrings will be taped up just before PE, to always ensure safety.

Nail varnish is not permitted in school and the school does not permit children to have extreme haircuts that could serve as a distraction to other children and are not in keeping with the ethos of the school. This includes patterns shaved into the hair, excessive use of hair products and false hair. The definition of an extreme hairstyle is at the discretion of the Headteacher.

School kit

We do not have cloakrooms outside of the classrooms and therefore the space available for children to store coats and bags is limited. Please refrain from buying them huge school bags. School supplies everything they need in lessons, so there is no need for pencil cases, notebooks or other stationery and they certainly will not have time for toys please.

Thank you for your support in this area. We are a ‘BeSMART’ school, and we want all children to feel part of our team whilst wearing our ‘BeSMART’ uniforms.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher