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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…
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…
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…
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…
British Science Week 2025

British Science Week 2025

Published: 14 March 2025

This week has been British Science week and the theme has been ‘Change and Adapt’. To celebrate this each Key Stage was set a challenge to complete, with a prize for each winner! Our youngest pupils in Explorers were tasked with creating 3D models of animals, linked to their Amazing Animals theme…
World Book Day 2025 part II

World Book Day 2025 part II

Published: 06 March 2025

Here are a few more photos from World Book Day…. We’ve had lots going on with older students supporting younger children to look at books, with class 4 enjoyed sharing stories with S8. Some pupils also enjoyed a story and music with music man, teacher Greg in the afternoon…
World Book Day 2025

World Book Day 2025

Published: 06 March 2025

The theme for world book day this year is ‘read your way’ which suits us wonderfully here at Newfield! We have dressed in the clothes we like to wear to read in ranging from pyjamas, to our weekend chill clothes and of course some fabulous dress up outfits…
Celebrating Love - Valentine's 2025

Celebrating Love - Valentine's 2025

Published: 14 February 2025

We have had a fun filled half term with lots of learning going on and this week we have been thinking about the half term holidays and the run up to Valentine’s day! Older students have held a Valentine’s enterprise, where there were a number of stalls selling
A Brilliant Children's Mental Health Week 25

A Brilliant Children's Mental Health Week 25

Published: 07 February 2025

We have all had a great time this week, with an extra special focus on our mental health and wellbeing as part of Children’s Mental Health Week. Every day at Newfield is a happy one and we make sure that wellbeing of children, families and staff is front and centre of all that we do. Here are some of the things we have enjoyed doing this week…
Lunar New Year 2025

Lunar New Year 2025

Published: 31 January 2025

S8 have explored Chinese new year today and made some snakes for racing like in the zodiac story of the animal race across the river. 2025 is the year of the snake. They folded paper and decorated the paper snakes in different colours and styles. They then set out ‘rivers’ using…
Ofsted Report

Ofsted Report

Published: 16 January 2025

We are delighted to be able to announce that following our visit and inspection from Ofsted on the 3rd and 4th December 2024, we have received the report and have been graded as ‘Good’ in all areas. The report is very positive and highlights many areas of strength…
Christmas Chippy Staff Lunch

Christmas Chippy Staff Lunch

Published: 19 December 2024

Today we celebrated Christmas with colleagues as part of our staff wellbeing programme. All staff enjoyed the traditional chippy lunch - chips, peas, curry sauce, gravy, ketchup, lashings of salt and vinegar and all the bread and butter anyone could eat! We had decorated the hall and provided…
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