Year 4

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Jun 2024 by

Parent Survey

At Newdale, we very much value feedback from our parents and carers. We kindly ask for all parents and carers to complete our online annual parent survey by Friday 28th June 2024.

https://forms.gle/L1cx9LuBAhuo7bdX8

If you would like your child to be in with the chance of winning one of our fun summer prizes, please record their name in this survey.

 

Prizes:

Skateboard

Paddling pool

Water-gun

Footballs

Tennis set

 

Thank you in advance.

Miss Cook

 

2 years ago
Posted on 06th Jun 2024 by

Newdale’s Climb Against Cancer

Please see attached a video from MacMillan made especially for Newdale that we have shared with children this week.

Also attached the link for our Just Giving Page, any donation will help us achieve our target. Thank you!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/az4e45uxqs1f7pxjyxbru/Newdale-Primary-School-Video.mp4?rlkey=tixgesw5fa1tfd0vjfgsesl8k&st=7qpaylo5&dl=0

https://www.justgiving.com/page/newdaleschoolclimbagainstcancer

2 years ago
Posted on 05th Jun 2024 by

Newdale’s Climb Against Cancer for MacMillan

Please see link below for letter to parents with everything you need to know about our upcoming charity event Newdale’s Climb Against Cancer for MacMillan. Link for our Just Giving Page can be found within the attached letter and below also. Thank you for any donation you can give, every penny will help!

Macmillan letter – June 24

Link to Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/page/newdaleschoolclimbagainstcancer

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2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Jun 2024 by

Safeguarding, Health & Safety Committee Update

The Safeguarding/Health & Safety Governors met on the 22nd May in school. They really enjoyed talking to a group of older pupils about school dinners/packed lunches and were impressed with their understanding about what a healthy diet looks like.

Governors regularly carry out a ‘spot check’ linked to staff understanding of safeguarding policy and procedure. During this meeting they interviewed a Year 5 Teaching Assistant. Governors were satisfied with the in depth answers the staff member gave to their questions.

Governors had a focus on online safety and carried out a UKCIS online safety audit. Miss Hill is in charge of online safety in our school and is clearly doing a great job! Governors look forward to observing a whole school ‘invacuation drill’ this half term.

2 years ago
Posted on 24th May 2024 by

Healthy Lifestyles Raffle – 2024

Our annual Healthy Lifestyles Raffle is now live on ParentPay. This year’s prize is a signed England shirt from League Of Their Own Team Captain, European Champion & Queen of the Jungle, Jill Scott!

The raffle is now live on ParentPay and tickets are £1 each. There is no limit on ticket purchase however only one transaction can be made so please ensure you purchase all your tickets at the same time.

The raffle will close at midday on Thursday 6th June and will be drawn in assembly on the afternoon of Friday 7th June. All funds raised will go back into school to help subsidise trips, events & experiences for our children.

Healthy Lifestyles Week will take place in school from Monday 3rd – Friday 7th June. All children to wear their PE kit everyday that week.

Good luck everyone!

 

 

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 22nd May 2024 by

Year 4 – Times Tables Update

Year 4 – Half-Term Times Tables Practice

As you will all be aware, all Year 4s complete a Multiplication Times Table Check to ensure that they can recall their times tables facts accurately and at speed. We are so proud of our Year 4 pupils because they have all made excellent progress and the adults at school sometimes struggle to keep up with the speed at which they can recall their times tables!

The Multiplication Times Table Check is shortly after the half-term break (week commencing Monday 10th June). To ensure that our pupils keep up with their speedy recall, we have set an Ultimate Battle of the Bands between the two Year 4 classes. The winning class will receive a prize in the first week back!

In addition to this, please encourage times table games within your household (this may be testing each other on a mixture of times table questions, writing the multiples of a number out on paper and racing to splat the correct answer to a question, writing times tables facts onto the patio with chalks etc.). Please speak to your child’s class teachers if you would like some more inspiration for fun times table practise.

Please also use the following website to practise recall and experience what the real Multiplication check will feel like.

Multiplication Tables Check – Mathsframe

Many thanks for your continued support,

Year 4 Team

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2 years ago
Posted on 21st May 2024 by

RHSE Update

Dear Families,

In our curriculum, we continue to use PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) programmes across our school called 1decision and Respect Yourself, a programme devised by the curriculum committee of Shropshire Council. These programmes include elements of Relationships Education, Health Education and Sex Education.  We shared our policy with parents and carers in the Autumn Term of 2022 and adjusted it according to feedback.

We give notice to families each year that the RSHE lessons will be taught during the Summer Term. We let you know so that if children want to talk to you about what they have been learning, you are ready to set aside some time to listen to their thoughts and feelings and help them to understand.

In every year group, the theme includes two or three lessons to help children understand the human body, including the changes that take place during puberty, and how human reproduction happens. There is a very serious safeguarding aspect to this work and obviously the younger year groups are not looking at these issues directly and explicitly but rather learning correct terminology for body parts and doing the foundation work for later year groups. Upper Key Stage classes look more fully at puberty and human reproduction.

We hope you will agree that this work is vitally important for children, that it needs to be done age-appropriately and that the 1decision and Respect Yourself programme gives us a secure framework in which to do this.

It is your legal right to withdraw your children from Sex Education that is outside of the National Curriculum for Science. Relationships Education and Health Education is statutory for all primary schools.

You may be aware that the government are consulting on changes to the statutory guidance on teaching relationships and sex education, and Health education.  This may affect the delivery of our programme next year and we will keep you informed.  There are no changes to our programme this year.

Please talk to us if you have any questions.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Cook

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2 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2024 by

Finance and Personnel Governors Involvement Update

The Finance and Personnel Governors met today and held discussions around our Early Years offer, with an update from our fantastic new nursery teacher. Governors were reassured that the standard of provision remains high. The enthusiasm demonstrated from the nursery teacher was very evident and it was great to hear how this is shared across the team. Governors were impressed with the early identification of SEND within the Nursery and could see how this supports children as they move into Reception.

Governors had an update on pupil premium expenditure and the impact of the sports premium. They could see that a lot of thought had gone into expenditure and that impact was evident.

Governors were happy to see that the staffing structure remains solid across all year groups as we plan ahead for the next academic year. The governors had an in depth look at the budget for 2024-2025. They acknowledged that school budgets are tighter than normal and were reassured that any savings that had to be made would be minimal.