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Year 4 Message

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Oct 2024 by

Keeping Children Safe

Newdale’s Safeguarding priority is to ensure that our school community is a place where everyone feels they belong and that they feel safe.

We all have a responsibility to keep our children safe: in school and at home. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play. It is important that we all know what to look out for, know why children can be vulnerable and how they can be manipulated into harmful situations and exploited.

We know that reading information about safeguarding can sometimes be an uncomfortable read, but it is vital that we all know of the ways we can keep our children safe and how to act should there be any concerns. This short guide shares some information about contextualised safeguarding (within our community), signs to look out for and pathways for support and reporting.

Contextual safeguarding recognises that the different relationships that young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can unfortunately feature violence and abuse. It is our responsibility to ensure that we are protecting children within our community from harm.

Within this guide, we have included useful links for parents and carers to help offer extra information as well as routes for support if needed.

Many thanks

Miss Cook

Keeping children and their families in our community safe 2024-25

 

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 07th Oct 2024 by

Young Voices – January 2025

We are really excited to announce that Years 4 and 5 will once again have the opportunity of taking part in the very special ‘Young Voices’ concert which will take place on Wednesday 15th January 2025 at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham (this will be a late night!).

This is a fantastic opportunity for your child to experience singing as an ensemble alongside professional musicians and conductors. We always get fabulous feedback from children and parents who experience Young Voices. If you are keen for your child to be involved, it is very important, that your child is prepared to put in a lot of hard work and commitment both during the after school clubs and during the event.

After school club will start on Monday 14th October and run until Monday 13th January until 4.15pm, excluding the week of parents evening 2nd December.  Children are to be collected from the back of the hall.

The cost of the club is £2 per week. The cost of the concert including the coach costs is £24. In order to secure your child’s place in the club and at the concert, we are asking for the after school club costs and a £10 non-refundable deposit towards the concert costs. A further £10 will be required in December. As always, school will subsidise the remaining £4 per child in attempt to support parents with costs so that as many children as possible can experience Young Voices.

Further information regarding tickets for parents/carers will be available in the coming weeks and the option to sign up will be on 7th October 2024. We are limited to 30 places only.

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Oct 2024 by

Halloween Event

Dear Parents/Carers,

We will be holding a Halloween School Event on Friday 25th October after lunch. Children must come into school in their school uniform. They will then be able to change into their Halloween outfits or simply dress down after lunch (please label all items). Staff will be running a disco in the hall and carrying out Halloween fun events in the classroom. Children will go home in their outfits.

We appreciate that not all parents want their children to take part in Halloween events. If that is the case, please do let your child’s teacher know through the home school communication book. We will prepare something non-Halloween themed for them to enjoy.

Due to the Y6 trip and Y5 swimming on this day, they will have their Halloween event the day before on Thursday 24th October.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

2 years ago
Posted on 07th Oct 2024 by

Harvest

As part of our harvest celebration this year, we will be collecting food for local food banks. If you’re able to, please bring in tinned or dried goods, which have at least a month left on their date, on Thursday 10th October. We will be showing the children all the kind donations during our Achievement Assembly on Friday 11th October.

 

2 years ago
Posted on 04th Oct 2024 by

Nursery Volunteer position

Have you ever considered volunteering in a nursery or wanted to experience what it is like in a nursery environment? Well now is your opportunity to do so. Newdale Nursery are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would like to volunteer alongside our amazing team. Can you help? If yes, please complete an application form and return it to our school office or alternatively email it to newdale.primary@taw.org.uk by Wednesday 9th October 2024.

Volunteering Application Form

We look forward to receiving your application.

Miss Cook

 

The school is committed to safeguarding children and young people.  All successful candidates are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This role will be engaging in regulated activity with children. Our child protection and safeguarding policy can be found on our school website or requested via our office. https://www.newdaleschool.org.uk/home/key-info/policies/

We are committed to equality and diversity.

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2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Oct 2024 by

House Points

At Newdale, one of the ways our pupils are rewarded for their efforts, in work and behaviour, is house points. Each pupil belongs to 1 of 4 houses; Wenlock, Wrekin, Severn and Ironbridge. This year, the house team with the highest number of house points at the end of each half-term, will earn a special house celebration (full of lots of fun games and activities). Each week, we share the running totals in assembly but as we are now half way through the half-term, we thought we would share them with our wider community too. 3 more weeks to go and there’s only 10 house points between first and fourth… it is still all to play for!

Will you earn a house point for your team next week?

2 years ago
Posted on 01st Oct 2024 by

Macmillan Charity

Dear Parents/Carers,

We will soon be announcing the final figure raised for Macmillan following the Wrekin ‘Climb Against Cancer’ event and more recently the Grandparents’ tea party.

Our ‘Go fund me’ page will stay open until Thursday evening should anyone like to contribute that has not had a chance to do so. Newdale Primary School and Nursery is fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support (justgiving.com)

We will be presenting the money to Macmillan during a special assembly on Friday and will then send out information to all parents.

Thank you so much for supporting our events. We know that the money raised will go towards supporting so many people that are affected by cancer in our town.

 

Kind regards,

Miss Cook

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2024 by

Finance & Personnel Committee Governors Involvement

Finance and Personnel Governors met last week. They looked carefully at the costs associated with the high levels of special educational needs within the school and were pleased with the provision on offer. They studied in detail the Summer term parent survey and were again pleased in reading so many positive responses. They focused on development points and were reassured that telephone calls had been made and actions taken where appropriate. Next time the Governors will continue looking at SEND provision across the school.