Children's Mental Health Week 2021 - Message to Families

Hi all and Happy Children’s Mental Health Week! We are holding lots of special events this week to focus on our wellbeing and mental health - parents have been sent the week’s activity timetable with stories, videos, YouTube sessions, bring your pet to school (virtually!), dances…

Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Next week - 1st - 7th February we celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week 2021. The theme this year is - Express Yourself! As everyone knows, wellbeing is very important to us at Newfield - we are all missing being together in school, but we are doing our best to support the mental health and wellbeing of our children, our families, and staff and the whole Newfield Family. We will be putting on some special virtual events…

Learning at Home - Work Packs

Teachers have been busy gathering resources and making work packs to send to our children learning at home. In the school for Autism, teachers Katrina and Emma have made packs for our youngest children. In these packs there…

Make Your Mark 2020

Today we have been looking at the ‘Make your mark’ campaign where young people throughout Blackburn with Darwen are encouraged to have their say on a range of local and international issues.

Usually Lauren North from Young People’s Services comes in and…

RRSA - First Meeting 2020-21

This afternoon we held our first Steering Group meeting for 2020-21 for the Rights Respecting School Award. We were very pleased to have a number fo staff and children in school, some staff and children on MS Team, members of staff, the nursing team and former pupil Adam, all also joining virtually on MS Teams - so it was a new way of meeting, but… ‘where there’s a will, there’s a way’ - as they say…

First Days at School

We have welcomed some very tiny people into Newfield this week, as our early years children begin to join us for transition days into school. Our EYFS group went on their 1st visit to the 4D sensory studio. Everyone had a lovely time…

European Day of Language 2020 part 2

Here are some more images from our celebration of languages - it was lovely that so many classes were able to do special things, even though we could not come together as usual due to the restrictions to keep everyone safe from Coronavirus. In A3 they looked at Wales and…

European Day of Language 2020

Hello - Bonjour - Guten Tag - Buenas Dias - Asalaam alaikum - Ni hǎo - Buonjiorno - Zdravstvuyte - Konnichiwa - Yassas - Namaste -Dzien dobry - Shalom. Today we joined in celebrating European Day of Language which falls on 26th September every year! The Newfield family is made up from people who speak many languages and we were delighted to enriches the experiences of our fantastic children…

Exciting Curriculum Adventures

As we all settle back into school, children and staff are embarking on some new, exciting curriculum themes to promote and enhance learning and development. In the school for Autism, A4 with teacher Amy at the helm are working on their theme - shipwrecked - and have been doing some fantastic activities including…

School Council - September 2020

Today we had our first school council meeting of this academic year. It was great to be back with our friends even if some of the student council members from the school for autism joined us virtually on MS Teams. We introduced ourselves and said something about ourselves. And we welcomed all our new students. Jenny Riley, deputy head, came onto the meeting via MS Teams to say Hi and to ask how we all were. Some of the things we talked about were…

COVID-19 - Pupil Catch Up Part 7

As we enter July and near the end of the summer term, children at home and in school have been busy - here are a couple of activities to share - don’t forget to send in photos of artwork for the Children’s Art Week competition, as well of course as photos of what you are getting up to - we love…

Mental Health Awareness Week 2020

We are thinking about kindness this week, for MHAW 2020. It’s a frightening time at the moment, with COVID, lockdown and no school - so even more important to do things to be kind to ourselves and each other. This lovely online story - Everybody Worries - has been written by Jon Burgerman and…