Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 numbers

11.6.20

Dear Parent/Carer,

We hope you and your families are well and continuing to cope during these stressful times.

In line with government advice, we are trying very hard to plan what happens at Newdale between now and the end of the academic year.

In order for us to move forward with this planning, we need to have firm numbers for the current year groups we have invited back in.

If you have a child or children currently attending in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and / or Year 6 and you plan on continuing to send them in, you need do nothing at all.

If you have children in the above year groups and you plan on removing them for any reason, then please let the office know.

If you have children in these year groups who are currently not attending school, but you would like them to begin attending, we need you to let us know by noon on Monday. Please note that after this deadline we will be unable to accept more children into these year groups.

We will then have firm figures as to who will attend between now and the end of the year. This will allow us to look at the space and staffing we have available as we progress through the rest of the term.

Many thanks for your ongoing support and patience.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

Outdoor Learning Themed Week W/C 8th June

Click here to find out more! Home schooling Outdoor Learning Week

Get outdoors and explore the world at your feet, near your house or right outside your back door! We cannot wait to see all your outdoor adventures and activities! Don’t forget to post them on your class blogs!

Here are some of the attachments you can also download/print to help with the activities this week.

30 Days Wild Bingo

Nature Table

Window Poster colour-in

Schools and groups pack wallchart

Random Acts of Wildness

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Any queries, please email Mrs Trevor on newdale.year3team@taw.org.uk.

Year 6 Leavers T shirts

We have decided to offer leavers T-shirts to our Year 6’s similar to the example below.

 

The design includes children’s names on the back incorporated within the 20 logo.

The cost per T-shirt will be £6.70 and we have set up payment for this on Parentpay.

There is an extensive range of colours available, please refer direct to the website https://www.actifwear.co.uk/tshirts/kids-cotton-t-shirt-colours.aspx to make your choice.

Please ensure you add in the notes your choice of colour and size.  T shirts are available in:

XS    S    M    L    XL

To ensure the supplier has enough time to produce and deliver the T-shirts before the end of term, orders must be received  by Wednesday 10th June.  If you do not want to order a T-shirt but would like your child’s name included in the design, please call the school office on 01952 387720 before 12.00 on Wednesday

Kind regards

Year 6 Team

Value of the Month- June

Thank you for all your support with the value of the month for May, which was Perseverance. Throughout May, children learnt the importance of not giving up even when faced with a problem and trying their best in all situations.

Our value of the month for June is Honesty.

What is Honesty?

  1. Being truthful to others.
  2. Being truthful to yourself.
  3. Doing what’s right regardless of who’s around.
  4. Being someone others can trust.

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

  1. Talk with your children about honesty. Try to answer; ‘What is honesty?’ What is the difference between the truth and a lie? Discuss some examples.
  2. Share the story of the boy who cried wolf. Talk about a time when someone told you something that wasn’t true. How did it make you feel? Do you trust that person to tell you the truth now? Why or why not?
  3. Talk about promises the children have made or promises others have made to them. How serious is a promise? How does it feel when someone breaks a promise?
  4. Who are the most honest people you know? How do you know they are honest? How do you feel about these people?
  5. Talk about a situation where you or they have been worried about telling the truth about something because you thought it would get you into trouble.
  6. Watch a movie, such as The Lion King or Pinocchio, in which honesty and truthfulness are major themes. Encourage your child to talk about ways the main characters demonstrate honesty and dishonesty.

Please let your child’s teacher know if we can celebrate any work from home on the school website.

 

Baker & sons- School uniform shop

From the 1st June our plan is to re open our retail outlet in Wellington, Telford. To ensure that we are able to operate in a safe and controlled environment we will be implementing the following changes this summer.

The main entrance to the store will be now through our rear entrance located off the parade (next to Midnights nightclub) This will allow us to operate a one way system exiting the shop from the front door onto the high street.

The store will be operating an appointment only system from the 1st June. These slots are available to book online through our website, facebook page, bakerandsonschoolwear.booksy.com or the Booksy app can be downloaded onto your smart phone and search for Baker and Son Schoolwear. No entry will be allowed without a prior booking This system will go live on Friday 29th May once we have confirmation, we can re-open.

Our opening hours during June and July will be Monday- Saturday 9am – 4.30pm. During August will be operating extended opening hours. 8am – 7.30pm.

Only two customers will be allowed instore per booking with a total of 10 customers allowed in store at any one time. If you need to shop for more than one child a separate booking will need to be made.

There is plenty of capacity of appointments for everyone to have throughout June, July and August to purchase your childs uniform. We hope everyone will be sensible and respectful when making a appointment and not to make unnecessary appointments. Bookings will be cancelled from the system if we believe that appointment slots are being misused.

Masks, gloves and hand sanitizer will be at the entrance of the shop, The hand sanitizer must be used before entering the store.

Following government advice, clothing will not be allowed to be tried on in store and changing rooms will be closed. Tape measures will be available instore to use, which will be cleaned and sanitized after every use.

If clothing needs to be exchanged once they’ve been tried on at home, there will be an exchange station at the new entrance using a separate queue. A member of staff will assist you, no appointment is required to exchange items.

If you require a refund, we would ask where possible to return these once schools have started back in September.

For anyone who is confident with sizing and only requires a bigger size we would request if possible to purchase these items using our website www.bakerandsonschoolwear.co.uk

We anticipate we may encounter stock issues from manufactures this summer due to the pandemic. We will work tirelessly to ensure minimum impact to our customers. If there is an item out of stock, we will take your order instore and post to you when it comes back in stock.

Finally we’d like to thank you for your continued support and understanding during this extremely difficult period for everyone.

From myself and all the staff , we look forward to welcoming you back into our shop.

 

Year 6 Information

Dear Parents/Carers of children in Year 6,

As you know we are encouraging children to travel to and from school independently where possible. We understand that you may well want your child to carry a phone with them as additional security. Please remind them to turn phones off when they enter our site. We need to make you aware that we will not be collecting phones in and storing them in the office as we used to do previously. This is to reduce risks of infection. We will be asking children to leave phones in their bags and need to make you aware that this would be at your own risk, as we cannot guarantee their security over this time.

Regards

Miss Cook and the Year 6 team.

School update

Dear Parents/Carers,

I understand that you must have so many questions and indeed worries about the news that the Prime Minister announced this week concerning schools. This is a very useful document to read and I hope you find it informative.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers/reopening-schools-and-other-educational-settings-from-1-june

We are currently working very hard on our plan around re opening and hope to share that with you very shortly. If you have children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 or Year 6 then please do fill in the form that was sent out this morning to give us an indication as to whether you plan to send your child/children into school or not following half term.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

Year 6 SATs

So year 6…if we were at school today, you would have just walked in to the classroom and would be about to take your first SATs test: something you had all worked hard towards for the past 9 months.

As you can’t do the real SATs, we thought we’d use the acronyn SATs differently this year. Instead, we are going to ask you to Share A Talent that you have with us via email. You were all given your teacher’s email on Purplemash at the beginning of school closure, so please send your entries to this address. You can send in either a video or a photo. It would be great if everyone could send in an entry!

We can’t wait to see what a talented bunch you all are!

Citizenship Themed Week – W.B 11.05.20

Last week, we enjoyed looking at all of the fantastic work which had been produced based on our Geography themed week.

This week, we’d like children to complete activities which promote being a good citizen.

Here are some ideas: Home Schooling Citizenship Theme Week

Super Movers Ideas:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/pshe-collection/zng8vk7

As always, please post work/photos onto your child’s homework blog.