Welcome to our Blog

Here you can read about all of our news and find out about some of the exciting activities that the Newfield family has been enjoying! Please make sure you check back regularly for our latest posts…
Easter Celebrations

Easter Celebrations

Published: 04 April 2025

We have had a lovely last couple of days of term, in the spring sunshine, thinking about Easter and doing lots of bunny, chick and egg related activities. We had Easter Assemblies on Thursday, with parents and friends invited to join in some singing, dancing and poems all about Easter. Our youngest pupils performed…
World Autism Awareness Day 2025

World Autism Awareness Day 2025

Published: 02 April 2025

Today we joined in a special day close to our hearts - World Autism Acceptance Day. Everyone was asked to wear blue and ‘light it up blue’ to mark the day. Parents were invited to join us for an Autism Awareness coffee morning which included some Autism training; quizzes and refreshments with…
Music Fun

Music Fun

Published: 01 April 2025

Today, Phillip Fleming, a musician, came into school and worked with some of our younger classes this time - he worked with our oldest students just before Christmas. Children had great fun playing along to Phil playing his guitar…
Eid Ul Fitr 2025

Eid Ul Fitr 2025

Published: 01 April 2025

Yesterday we wished all members of the Newfield Family Eid Mubarak! Lots of our families had a wonderful time at home celebrating, and today we brought the Eid celebrations into school. We had stations set up in our halls - Henna hand painting, a selfie photo booth, a rice and…
Wellbeing Breakfast - Active April

Wellbeing Breakfast - Active April

Published: 01 April 2025

This morning our staff enjoyed an opportunity to catch up for breakfast in the spring sunshine, as we do each half term, as part of our school commitment to supporting staff wellbeing. They enjoyed juices, hot drinks, toast, crumpets and bagels all prepared and served with a smile…
Mother's Day Enterprise

Mother's Day Enterprise

Published: 30 March 2025

Our older students are always looking for an opportunity to make money - so they’ve been hard at work making all sorts of items to sell as part of their Mother’s Day Enterprise activity! This week they held 2 stall to entice children and staff to buy - after all, we’ve all got a mum, a grandma, an auntie or a special lady in our lives…
Creative Writing Climate Champions

Creative Writing Climate Champions

Published: 28 March 2025

Some of our KS3 and 4 students have been part of a creative writing group working with Read, Write, Now discussing climate change and the way this makes us feel. Today, we finished our climate change pledge postcards by writing about the impact of deforestation on our world, the wildlife and their habitats and of course how this affects the global environment such as climate change…
Secondary WoW - Branching Out

Secondary WoW - Branching Out

Published: 27 March 2025

The beautiful sunshine saw lots of us venturing out today. as we welcomed Branching Out to school for the Secondary department WOW event. There were lots of activities set up outside from our provider and students had a fantastic time. As you can see from the map, activities were all around the school grounds, ranging from working on a fire pit and…
Exploring Amazing Animals

Exploring Amazing Animals

Published: 26 March 2025

This term, our explorer children have been learning about the wonderful world of amazing animals. We have been exploring animals that live in different habitats including farms, pets, wild animals and arctic animals. As we approach Easter we have started to focus on life cycles and animals that hatch from eggs. Today, for our Wow event we had Emily’s Mini Farm visit our school. This special event gave every explorer child…
KS4 Basket Ball Competition

KS4 Basket Ball Competition

Published: 25 March 2025

KS4 pupils attended Broadfield school in Burnley today to play basketball with KS4 pupils from other schools, including Tor View and The Rose. We were made to feel really welcome and made some new friends, we managed to score some baskets too…
Mad Science

Mad Science

Published: 21 March 2025

Today our Primary classes had the opportunity to meet a Scientist and experience some fun experiments up close. Our first sessions focused on energy and motion and lots of fun was had with snakes in a can, pecking woodpeckers and peddling to make the plasma light come on. The children loved…
Comic Relief 2025

Comic Relief 2025

Published: 21 March 2025

Today we joined the nation to celebrate Red Nose Day and to raise money for Comic Relief. We asked people to dress in something funny or RED and to donate £1; we had cake sales with a whole range of delicious treats; and children had fun accessing red themed activities in our studios in class groups…
Page 1 of 143

More Posts

Categories
School Trips 103 School Activities 448 Charity Events 95 Building Update 50 Staff & CPD 50 Parents 43 RRSA 66 Visitors 91 Makaton 4
Tags

…you can follow us on Twitter for news alerts

Newfield School
Old Bank Lane
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 2PW

01254 588 600

newfieldbwd on twitter
Safeguarding

Newfield School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority.

Full copies of Policies and Procedures related to all aspects of Safeguarding, and the Complaints Policy, are available on request from Rachel Kay, Head Teacher and Designated Senior Lead for Safeguarding and Child Protection.

Equality Duty

Newfield School complies with the general and specific duties of the Equality Act (2010). In accordance with the duty we publish information that demonstrates that we have due regard to the need to;

  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination
  • Advance equality of opportunity
  • Foster good relations

These specific duties have been considered in relation to all our policies and procedures in school. Our objectives will be reported on and published as part of the Governance public documents available for inspection under the Freedom of Information Regulations and Data Protection duties and in the school newsletter to parents.

Our Equality Objectives are set, reviewed and published annually in our School Development Plan.

Wednesday, 16 April. Copyright © 2018-2025 Newfield School, Blackburn, Lancashire. | Web Design by Technology Applied