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Year 6 Message

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

Timetable for Parents

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our teams are continuing to work tirelessly to ensure we are as prepared as we can before school closure.

If you feel your child would respond well to a regular routine whilst they are away from school,  please see below of an example of how you could structure their day.

This is just a suggested timetable for you to use, clearly this is only for you to use if you would like to.

 

Time Activity Ideas
9-10:30am Literacy/Reading/

Spelling/Phonics

 See class pages for ideas.

 
10:30am Break Play Time

Exercise e.g. kids Zumba/www.supermovers.co.uk

Have some fruit/vegetables.
11am-12pm Maths See class pages for ideas.
12-1pm Lunch Help to make lunch

Eat/tidy up

Exercise, play outside/ dance/ride your bike
1-2pm Topic-based learning See class pages for ideas.
2-2.15pm Mindfulness break Quiet reading/drawing/colouring in/watch a mindfulness video on Youtube/listen to music.
2.15 – 3pm Science See class pages for ideas.

Please regularly check your child’s page on the school website for information for regular updates on home learning tasks.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

More information for key workers

Dear Parents / Carers,

 

We are still awaiting the list of who qualifies as a key worker. Thank you to all of those families who have returned their forms already.

We are now required to ask you what your partners job is, as we are being led to believe that in order to qualify for a school place, BOTH parents need to be in Key Worker professions. Please note that we may require evidence of the role you play and how that fits the description of a Key Worker.

 

Please could you return this information to school as soon as possible, if you have not already done so, to help us to continue to plan.

 

Thank you for your support

6 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

Important Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils

Dear Parents/Carers,

Re: Coronavirus update – school closure to most pupils

As you will already know,  we have now been instructed to close the school to almost all children after this Friday, until further notice.

As advised by the government, we will do all we can to stay open for the children of key workers (e.g. NHS staff, police, others in frontline services) and children with certain needs.

We are waiting for the government to publish more information on what this means and exactly who this applies to. We will let you know shortly, as to how to let us know, if you believe your child falls into one of these categories.

All other children will need to stay at home, so we ask that you do not send your child into school from Monday onwards unless you have received notification from us.

Please note that this is a national closure – so while it is a challenging situation, we are not alone. We’ll re-open fully as soon as we can and will let you know when this is.

Home Learning –

Your child’s learning is of course important to us, so we’ll continue to help your child to learn.

Teachers have been and continue to be very busy organising ‘Home Learning’ for your children.

Today there will be a suggested timetable sent out for you to use, clearly this is only for you to use if you would like to.

Your child’s teacher will inform you as to how communication will be managed. In the majority of cases this will be digital, but we know there will be exceptions and that will be arranged separately.

If your child usually receives free school meals we will also be in touch with more information about how we will continue to provide this, with support from a scheme that the government has just announced.

This is as much as we know right now and we appreciate your continued patience with as we deal with this ever-changing situation. We understand that this latest news will have an impact on you and your family and it’s far from ideal, but we’ll continue to keep in touch with any updates as the situation develops.

As you can imagine the office staff are under enormous pressure trying to answer as many questions as they can.

We will undoubtedly get a lot more information from the Local Authority today and in the meantime are very busy planning how our partial opening and home learning offer will operate.

We ask that you trust that we are doing our best under very difficult circumstances and that as ever, we have children at the centre of all of our decision making.

And remember: if you or your child feels ill and you want to know what to do next, please use NHS 111 online.

Thank you again for your continued support, and we will be in touch with more information when we can.

Miss Cook

Headteacher

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6 years ago
Posted on 17th Mar 2020 by

Home Learning- Year 6

Dear Parents

We are aware that over the coming days and weeks, many children may be in a position where they will need to self isolate. As a school, we want to make sure that children are not missing out on valuable learning. We have therefore put together some work that children can complete at home, whilst away from school. Children have access to their passwords for various online resources in their home/ school books and should not have any problems with accessing these sites.

Home Learning Year 6

Many thanks for your support during this difficult time.

Mrs Thomas and Miss Clay

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6 years ago
Posted on 17th Mar 2020 by

Coronavirus Update

Dear Parents/Carers,

Whilst we remain open as a school, we are very conscious of doing all we can to reduce the risks to our community. We therefore want to inform you of some of the actions we have taken so far:

  • All assemblies will be class based until further notice
  • Where possible, children will not be asked to sit closely with each other on the classroom carpets
  • Cross country training on Wednesday has now been cancelled, as have all the scheduled races
  • Children continue to wash their hands thoroughly throughout the day
  • Parents dropping off at Nursery and breakfast clubs will now need to drop their children off at the door and not come into school
  • Nursery children will be released via the front door and also the garden gate to try and reduce the gathering of parents
  • From Wednesday 18th March all volunteer readers will stop coming into school
  • Coffee mornings are cancelled until further notice
  • Parents evenings this week have been cancelled – with summary information being sent out instead, with some phone calls being made for cases where the teacher feels it important to go into much more detail
  • Teacher training courses have been cancelled to allow staff to stay in school and therefore reduce the risk to them, with staff shortages potentially leaving us with a depleted workforce.
  • Deploying more staff into the dinner hall to ensure a rapid flow of dinners and the best possible use of the space we have

Please refer to the NHS website for advice about whether or not to send your child in to school or keep them at home. The school is following all the latest Government and DfE advice. As a school we can not advise you what to do, but please be assured that we are keeping abreast of developments and are doing all we can. Please appreciate that this advice is constantly being updated by Government.

The Newdale team, as ever, are going above and beyond to ensure we operate as normally as we can, with as many precautions being inputted as possible to keep everyone safe. I will continue to keep you updated with any information I receive as soon as I am able. Please keep in touch via the school website, as this is the most efficient way of keeping you informed.

We have had some parents ask about children bringing in their own wash bags with soap etc inside. We have school approved soap and ask that children use that for the time being. We cannot monitor the ingredients of hand moisturizers and therefore cannot allow them in school due to some of children having nut allergies.

Thank you for your continued support during this challenging time.

Miss Cook

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6 years ago
Posted on 05th Mar 2020 by

This year, we have written a story as a whole school!

Every teacher brought an interesting or unusual object to school. One class began the story using that object. The story was then passed to the next class who continued it, incorporating their chosen object. At the end of the day, the completed story was shared with the whole school in our World Book Day assembly.
I hope you enjoy our story – I wonder if you can spot the objects that inspired each part!
Happy reading everyone,
Mrs. Thomas

And so the story begins…

Y6 Mrs. Thomas’ class
As Mina turned the sand timer over, everything around her flipped upside down. The ceiling became the floor; the floor became the ceiling.

Y6 Miss Clay’s class
Unexpectedly, Sassy Sandra came bursting through the door. Mina became alarmed: Sassy Sandra was racing to make a large batch of her signature dish, chicken chow mein. With gravity taking hold, this proved to be a challenge.

Y5 Mr. Banfield’s class
When the room flipped, Mina’s drawers had shuffled open revealing a majestic, fabulous mask. The mask, which came to life suddenly, was drawn to Mina’s face. Sandra noticed her friend beginning to transform.

Y5 Miss Myler’s class
Mina started to turn into a different being and began to look like an exact replica of Sandra. Sandra knew she had to escape but Mina could obviously share her thoughts too. As Sandra turned around, she saw a glossy, gold hot air balloon had appeared. They both leaped for it…

Y4 Miss Macfarlane’s class
Once inside the basket of the hot air balloon, Sandra and Mina realised that they were not alone. Sitting in the corner of the basket was an unusual, old man. In his hand, he held a dreamcatcher. Whilst chanting peculiar words, the man spun the dreamcatcher causing Sandra and Mina to fall into a deep sleep.

Y4 Mr. Jackson’s class
In the dream, the girls met Bob the plastic Tortoise. Bob’s leg was broken, and he described a long journey he had been on. Bob said he was from another dimension. A place where the world was always upside down, nobody could use their frying pans and magic masks transformed people. Bob said the girls needed to complete a quest to save the world from being like this forever.

Y3 Mrs. Pablos’ class
Waking from the dream, the girls noticed a jar of beans glimmering on a crooked shelf. Cautiously, Sandra (or was it Mina?) picked up the jar and suddenly a secret message appeared… Plant me! Eagerly, they planted the beans but instead of sprouting shoots, the roots created mysterious tunnels… which one would they choose?

Y3 Mrs. Trevor’s class
Nervously, Mina slowly strolled into the dark tunnel because she heard the hum of a melody she once heard. When she arrived at the end of the mysterious, glittery tunnel, she could not believe her eyes. In front of her was a golden microphone floating in mid-air. In the blink of an eye she was clutching the golden microphone…

Miss Plimmer’s class
Mina started singing, but Sandra noticed toxic gas coming from another of the tunnels. Luckily, in a world where things are upside down, toxic gas is not poisonous: in fact, it smells delicious! The girls followed the scent whilst clutching the microphone and found a yellow hard box with a mysterious logo on the front…

Y2 Miss Newport’s class
The mysterious, golden, shiny box turned out to be Pirate Jack’s lost treasure chest! Mina knelt down and softly rubbed the outside of the chest. As she did this, a magical, handsome genie appeared in a puff of smoke. Mina jumped back in amazement! The genie began to sing…

Y2 Miss Jones’ class
As the genie sang beautifully, the ground appeared to move. What was that? Unexpectedly, a golden, grumpy figure appeared from a dark tunnel opening.
“Turn it off, you ghastly thing!”
There was an unusual silence.
“You’ve woken me up from many years of sleep. You must never awaken a Pharaoh.”
Without a thought, the Pharaoh cursed helpless Mina: “You will never sing again. Every time you try and sing with that horrible microphone you will cough up a frog”.
Mina looked concerned…

Y1 Miss Hailey’s class
…She loved singing! Looking down, she spotted a mysterious train ticket on the floor. She picked it up. She started to hear a train chuffing and rumbling from far away. It sounded like it was coming very fast….

Y1 Miss McCullagh
Mina could see a big, puff of dark smoke blowing out of a shiny, golden train. Had it come to rescue her from the horrible Pharaoh? Mina began to think that this could be her chance to escape! Suddenly, a tall train conductor stepped off the train.
“Where would like to go Miss,” he asked.
Mina panicked. Where should we go? Where would be safe? Mina thought about her bedroom at home and the jar of sand she kept on her bedside table that she had collected from her favourite place in the world – the seaside!
Mina answered, “The seaside please…”

Reception Miss Taylor’s class
They got off the train at the seaside and walked towards the dark, black, gloomy caves where they heard big deep breaths. Then they saw fire when a red, gold, shiny, scary (and bit friendly!) dragon came out and said, “RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!”

Reception Miss Broadhurst
Mina and Sandra began to run very fast but then they heard crying. The dragon was crying because he wanted to be friends and play with them. They cuddled the dragon and wiped his tears away.
The Dragon was very happy so he shared some shiny magic gems he had with his new friends. The gems had magic powers: they grew beanstalks. The beanstalk would take Mina and Sandra wherever they wanted to go. They really wanted to go home to their mummies and daddies. The girls planted the magic gems and climbed the big, green beanstalk all the way back home which took them twelve minutes.

They lived happily ever after.

The end.

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 05th Mar 2020 by

Shropshire Schools Sport Festival- Hockey and Gymnastics

The hockey team did a fantastic job of representing Telford and Wrekin and the Shropshire School Games. They won all 5 of their games comfortably and went on to the final. The end score of the final was 1-1 forcing the game to go to penalty shuffles. We tried our best but were pipped to the post by Prestfelde School.

The gymnastics team did a fantastic job of representing Telford and Wrekin and the Shropshire School Games. The team had to perform a body management routine, a floor routine then on the vault. Newdale came 3rd overall.

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2020 by

Value of the Month- March

Thank you for all your support with the value of the month for February, which was Caring. At Newdale it is wonderful to watch the children display their caring sides whilst in class and out on the playground.

Our value of the month for March is Belief

What are beliefs?
Trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something)

Our focus on Beliefs has three strands:

· Believing in our own abilities and encouraging the abilities of others.
· Being able to understand that not everyone shares the same belief.
· Being able discuss reasons why we believe in the things we do

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

Discuss what the word means:
– Accepting that something is true/exists
– Having trust, faith or confidence in someone/something
– Self-belief – trust in your own abilities

Discuss with your child who they trust the most and why. Explain that this means they have belief in their abilities to care and look out for them.
Explore different religions; explain that people have different beliefs and that we should respect them even if their beliefs are different to their own.
Self-belief- discuss with your child how they feel about their learning and other skills and attributes. Talk about what they could do when faced with a challenge. It’s important that children learn the importance of perseverance even when faced with difficulties.
One of our British Values is Democracy. You could talk to your child about the purpose of Parliament. Discuss the importance of voting, and the fact that individuals vote for parties they believe will do an effective job in government.

Please let your child’s teacher know if we can celebrate any work from home, in school.
Feedback on the values and what you do at home is really valuable to us and we really appreciate all your support.
If you can support us in any way, please get in touch via the school office.