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Happy Friday

Happy Friday

Published: 05 February 2021

We’ve had a great week celebrating Children’s Mental Health week and we know that many of you have enjoyed the live sessions and videos on youTube about wellbeing - it’s been great to see so many of you! Today we ended the week with a ‘bring your pet’ session…
Virtual Christmas Concert

Virtual Christmas Concert

Published: 17 December 2020

This afternoon we held our annual Christmas Concert and for the first time this was held virtually! Children and staff had prepared short videos of songs, instrument and festive messages and Assistant Head Lois has put them altogether to make a concert…
Christmas Jumpers and Lunch!

Christmas Jumpers and Lunch!

Published: 11 December 2020

Today we celebrated Christmas Jumper day - by wearing all manner of Christmas jumpers - we had elves, cute jumpers, garish jumpers, bells, holly, lights, fancy headpieces - all kinds of festive attire all over school! Some people even had light up necklaces! The children had a delicious traditional Christmas lunch…
Christmas Classrooms at Newfield

Christmas Classrooms at Newfield

Published: 08 December 2020

Well, Christmas has come to Newfield! Here is a selection of our classrooms, studios and halls as we celebrate Christmas 2020 - what a magical, sensory wonderland!
Happy Retirement Meryl!

Happy Retirement Meryl!

Published: 07 December 2020

Today we had our very last visit from our fantastic physio assistant Meryl, who has been supporting children and staff to develop their physical skills for many, many years! Meryl works with the physios to assess and monitor children, as well as working directly with children…
MOVE Accreditation

MOVE Accreditation

Published: 30 November 2020

We are delighted to announce that Newfield has been successful in achieving GOLD status of the MOVE programme for outstanding MOVE provision. Today we had a virtual online accreditation visit from Charlotte Peck where she met with Louise and Aimie, our MOVE leaders, as well as other staff, parents, governors and senior leaders in school to discuss how we implement the MOVE programme to support children to develop their physical skills. Charlotte was very impressed with the work that goes on…
Free Christmas Concert

Free Christmas Concert

Published: 27 November 2020

Bamboozle Theatre Company are offering a free online Christmas concert on Tuesday 15th of December. Bamboozle is an experienced team who are passionate about delivering magical, memorable, multi sensory experiences…
MOVER of the Week

MOVER of the Week

Published: 18 November 2020

Daiyaan is our MOVER of the week for becoming more confident in moving around the winter activities in his MOVE session. He has become more independent..
Children in Need 2020

Children in Need 2020

Published: 13 November 2020

Friday 13th November is supposed to be unlucky… but today it is also the day we celebrate the annual Children in Need fundraising event! The way we celebrated was slightly different this year… but somethings never change. As usual pupils and staff were wearing anything spotty or Pudsey related for a donation of £1. We also had an art competition - again any entries that are spotty…
MOVER of the Week

MOVER of the Week

Published: 09 November 2020

Our award this week goes to Dylan for improving skills in his gait trainer. He is now walking in a much more controlled way, slowing down, stopping and starting and NOT crashing…
Bonfire Activities 2020 - part IV

Bonfire Activities 2020 - part IV

Published: 06 November 2020

In our final instalment for this year’s bonfire night celebrations, we can see more lovely, interesting activities supporting the children’s independence skills whilst taking part in fun, creative learning. Over in Autism all of the students and staff worked really hard and made the 3 day bonfire WOW event such a success! It was wonderful…
Blackburn Festival of Light 2020

Blackburn Festival of Light 2020

Published: 06 November 2020

This year the annual Blackburn Festival of Light will be virtual and Newfield School have been involved by making sparkly, light hats. Videos of our creations will be projected on the Town Hall for all to see but you have a sneak preview here…
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