Dear Parents/Carers,

We cannot believe it is the end of another half term already!

It is such a relief that our Covid figures have plummeted. The teams at Newdale have worked incredibly hard in making sure that classes remain operational.

We know how difficult it is for children and parents when we have to resort to online learning.

We are feeling really positive about next half term and hope we can begin to reintroduce many of the activities that we had to postpone due to the risks of infection.

I will be reviewing our risk assessments linked to Covid over half term and of course keeping an eye out on local and national advice.

Thank you for your ongoing support and we all wish you a great half term.

MIss Cook
Headteacher

Share your views through Parent View 

Parents and carers can give their views of our school at any time of the school year and at the time of a school inspection using an online questionnaire called Parent View.

Please register with an email address and a password at http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk

Once your login has been activated, it only takes a few minutes to complete answers to short questions about different aspects of your child’s school, from the quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour.

Your views are important in helping inspectors make a decision about our school, and to help us know what is going well and what could be improved. You will also be able to see what other parents have said about your child’s school. It is all anonymous.
If you do not have internet access or would like help to use Parent View, please ask at the school office or the pastoral team.

We really do appreciate you spending a few minutes completing this survey. It will hopefully help us all work together in making sure Newdale is again recognised for the fantastic work that goes on for your children.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

14.2.22

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you know, we regularly want to know your views about our school and we use these views to help us shape the way in which we provide a first-class education to your children. Every comment on the surveys that we send out to you is read and discussed thoroughly by the team.  Recently our School Improvement Adviser congratulated us on how well we consult with children and parents.

OFSTED also want to know what you think about our school. They do this by asking you to complete Parent View online. This questionnaire captures your views prior to an inspection, but it can also be used by us to see what you think about our school at any point during the year. As you hopefully know, we were last judged by Ofsted in June 2017 as ‘outstanding’. We continue to be very proud of this judgement and ever since the inspection, we have all been working very hard to live up to our title. We hope you recognise that we have prioritised the education of your children over the last 2 years whilst battling with extreme Covid challenges along the way. We do not know when Ofsted will come knocking on our door again, but what can assure you is that we welcome them anytime, as Newdale does not go up a gear in fear of an inspection, we are in top gear all of the time!

Share your views through Parent View 

Parents and carers can give their views of our school at any time of the school year and at the time of a school inspection using an online questionnaire called Parent View.

Please register with an email address and a password at http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk

Once your login has been activated, it only takes a few minutes to complete answers to short questions about different aspects of your child’s school, from the quality of teaching, to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour.

Your views are important in helping inspectors make a decision about our school, and to help us know what is going well and what could be improved. You will also be able to see what other parents have said about your child’s school. It is all anonymous.
If you do not have internet access or would like help to use Parent View, please ask at the school office or the pastoral team.

We really do appreciate you spending a few minutes completing this survey. It will hopefully help us all work together in making sure Newdale is again recognised for the fantastic work that goes on for your children.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

Dear Parent/Carer,

We would be most grateful if you could spend just a few minutes filling in this Safer and Stronger Communities questionnaire form. The closing date is Monday 28th February.

As a school, we are always keen to develop not only what goes on in school, but also what goes on in our local community.

https://forms.office.com/r/SmvLVQ5ryF

The results of this survey will be shared with the Safer Stronger Communities team and they will work with us in making some positive changes for everyone.

There is a Safer & Stronger launch event to be held for the Ketley and Overdale ‘Neighbourhood Action Plan’ (NAP). The Ketley launch will be on Saturday March 5th at the Ketley community centre and the Overdale launch has a potential save the date of Saturday 30th April, location is to be confirmed. More information will follow.

Dear Parent/Carer,

We would be most grateful if you could spend just a few minutes filling in this Safer and Stronger Communities questionnaire form. The closing date is Monday 28th February.

As a school, we are always keen to develop not only what goes on in school, but also what goes on in our local community.

https://forms.office.com/r/SmvLVQ5ryF

The results of this survey will be shared with the Safer Stronger Communities team and they will work with us in making some positive changes for everyone.

There is a Safer & Stronger launch event to be held for the Ketley and Overdale ‘Neighbourhood Action Plan’ (NAP). The Ketley launch will be on Saturday March 5th at the Ketley community centre and the Overdale launch has a potential save the date of Saturday 30th April, location is to be confirmed. More information will follow.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Just a quick message to warn everyone that we are suffering very significant staff shortages due to teachers and cover teachers testing positive.

We have managed to cover today by rejigging people, but I just want to make everyone aware that we are potentially looking at having to close a year group and moving them to online learning should we have to.

It is so hard to give much notice for this, as very often we don’t know that staff are not going to be in until the morning they test positive.

I absolutely know how inconvenient this would be for working parents and also know that children get so much more from face-to-face teaching, so we will continue to try our best to keep fully operational.

I just wanted to give parents the heads up so they can start thinking about possible childcare issues should we have to move some children to online learning.

We will of course keep you posted and in the meantime, help us by not risking sending your child to school if they are displaying symptoms and by testing regularly.

Thank you for your ongoing support during this ongoing challenging time.

Miss Cook

Headteacher