Newfield Comic Strip!

Some of our talent pupils have been practising their writing skills to create a comic strip about super heroes. We are very impressed with what they have put together - the boys all worked really hard writing their own superhero stories.

Enterprise Activities

Our oldest pupils in the school for Autism have been practising their enterprise skills this term, making and selling items for both mother’s Day and Easter. They made some lovely cards, with a tea bag for pupils and staff to send to their mums! A13 followed instructions to make a Mother’s Day card, using visual instructions - We’re hoping all the Mums enjoyed their cup of tea! For Easter they made hampers…

COVID Reflections Poem

TG1 have written a poem, reflecting on the pandemic and lockdown. They have written it and are performing it to make a video about how it has made them feel. We think it’s brilliant and look forward to hearing and seeing it performed!

World Book Day 2021 part II

Well what a fantastic World Book Day we have had - in school and virtually!

Lots of staff and children dressed up as their favourite characters.

Everyone took part in the Big Read - enjoying what the ladybird heard and lots of related activities. Children in school and at home were able to make their own ladybird puppets, join in the story, join an online session with Danielle and Shannon about the story what the ladybird heard on holiday and…

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…