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Nativity 2021 - School for Autism

Nativity 2021 - School for Autism

Published: 07 December 2021

Today our School for Autism primary pupils performed ‘The Christmas Story’ and we were finally able to welcome parents back to watch. All the children worked very hard to practice dances, using instruments, making props and costumes. It was lovely to have an audience…
Christmas Fair 2022

Christmas Fair 2022

Published: 03 December 2021

After a gap last year we are delighted today to have been able to hold our event of the year - the annual Christmas Fair! We have done our best to make it covid secure, by asking everyone to lateral flow, wear a mask and come in stages… but it hasn’t stopped any of the fun and sparkle. Lots of families…
Harvest 2021

Harvest 2021

Published: 08 October 2021

This week, pupils at Newfield school have been celebrating Harvest. Pupils have been learning about our small contributions to the wider world that when combined make a big difference. In our various assemblies, led by teacher Greg Sharples, we celebrated…
European Day of Language 2021

European Day of Language 2021

Published: 24 September 2021

Today we celebrated world cultures along with people throughout Europe. This year is the 20th anniversary of European Day of Language, so to be extra special we are held a competition - Bake/ Cook a traditional food representative of your country. Classes were asked to decide what language and culture to embrace for the day…
EHCA Appreciation Day 2021

EHCA Appreciation Day 2021

Published: 16 September 2021

Today we celebrated our fabulous Education, Health and Care Assistant day and showed them the appreciation they deserve for their hard work and dedication to our brilliant children. Classes had decorated and made banners to show they care and…
New Beginnings

New Beginnings

Published: 09 September 2021

At the start of every new school year we are very happy to meet a number of new children. Many of them are very young and we are delighted to say that our new, tiny children in both the school for SEND and the school for Autism are settling in very well and seem happy and confident already!
Staff Wellbeing Summer 21

Staff Wellbeing Summer 21

Published: 19 July 2021

As we head into the holidays we wanted to say a big thank you to our fabulous staff who have worked tirelessly throughout this year. Thank you to all staff for your dedication, commitment and hard work - it is appreciated by the children, the families, your colleagues and your leadership team - the whole Newfield Family…
Goodbye and Good Luck Class of 2021

Goodbye and Good Luck Class of 2021

Published: 16 July 2021

Today our oldest children, one of our youngest and some staff, have had their leavers assembly and spent their last day in school before they leave us. It is a happy occasion, where we share gifts, certificates, trophies, hoodies and lots of memories… but we are always sad to say goodbye to our friends as they move on. As well as our 13 young people, we also said goodbye to 3 staff from the SEND school…
Art Exhibition - Autism

Art Exhibition - Autism

Published: 25 June 2021

Over in the school for Autism children and staff had also been working hard to create masterpieces to display for the outdoor art exhibition. As part of this term’s theme, students had been creating Olympic Collages - Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees - inspired by artist Hokusai…
Art Exhibition 2021

Art Exhibition 2021

Published: 24 June 2021

Today we held our annual Arts Exhibition - and this year, the major difference was that in order to be COVID safe, we took our creations outside for our very first open air exhibition! The children have been working all year towards their Arts Award on a huge range of creative arts and today a selection were displayed around the school grounds…
IQM Flagship School Re-Accreditation 2021

IQM Flagship School Re-Accreditation 2021

Published: 21 June 2021

On 25th May our assessor Steve Gill attended school for our annual assessment visit and unbelievably it was yet again virtual rather than face to face because of the COVID pandemic. Happily, he was just as impressed with what we have managed to accomplish and was very happy to re-accredit as a flagship school…
COVID Reflections Poem - Installation

COVID Reflections Poem - Installation

Published: 18 June 2021

This week saw the installation of a line from the COVID Reflections Poem that TG1 wrote earlier in the year. Artist Emma came along to school with the stencils to support pupils to chalk on the outline letters, which the artists then spray painted onto the wall at the back of our pool - pupils in SEND can walk directly past this, and pupils in Autism walk on the road below…
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