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Summer Expedition 24

Summer Expedition 24

Published: 25 June 2024

Some of our oldest students, along with staff are away in the Lakes this week and they’re all having tonnes of fun on the residential trip to the Calvert Trust. Yesterday they visited Happy Mount Park en route to Keswick. They had a picnic and…
Blackburn Market Enterprise

Blackburn Market Enterprise

Published: 19 June 2024

Today S3 students and staff took over the running of the Market stall for Newfield on Blackburn Market. They had a busy morning selling lots of items that children in school had made, including plants, coasters and jewellery. They…
RRSA Steering Group Meeting Summer 24

RRSA Steering Group Meeting Summer 24

Published: 07 June 2024

This afternoon we had our RRSA steering group meeting. It was good to come together after a busy week to think about our rights and responsibilities. We were again busy making posters for our ‘Newfield Bake Off’ which we are organising…
Buddies

Buddies

Published: 17 May 2024

Each week, some of our older pupils spend time in class with some of our younger pupils, as part of our Buddies Program - it gives responsibility to the older students, and provides nice positive role models for the younger ones. Endiya was a great help in Class 3 on Tuesday afternoon…
Parent Workshop - Communication

Parent Workshop - Communication

Published: 15 May 2024

This week we had the second parent workshop on supporting communication at home at the turn out blew us away! It was wonderful to see so many families in school. We explored what is meant by communication and how…
Parent Workshop - Reading

Parent Workshop - Reading

Published: 26 April 2024

This week we have run a parent workshop on supporting reading at home. The subject lead shared information on the importance of reading and how we supporting reading across school including our school systematic, synthetic phonics approach via Twinkl phonics. We also spoke about how we support reading for pleasure and…
St George’s Day Activities

St George’s Day Activities

Published: 23 April 2024

Classes around school learnt about St. George’s Day today, celebrating our English patron saint and doing some typically English activities. Class 3 spent part of today exploring English herbs…
Enterprise Reward Trip

Enterprise Reward Trip

Published: 18 April 2024

Today the young people in S8 went into Blackburn to the Bowling Alley followed by lunch at Nando’s. They were lucky enough to be able to do this due to the support of staff in school buying lunches, giving the class a nice profit to use for a treat for their hard work…
Bamboozle Theatre Company - Pulse

Bamboozle Theatre Company - Pulse

Published: 26 March 2024

Today we were joined by the Bamboozle Theatre Company who delivered 4 performances of ‘Pulse’ for some of our pre formal learners. Pulse is an intimate show for just 6 children and is specifically designed for children who might be described as having profound and multiple learning disabilities, delivered alongside 1:1 support staff…
Newfield News - weekly student editions

Newfield News - weekly student editions

Published: 15 March 2024

As many you will know, we have a termly newsletter, where we present a round up of the activities that are reported on here in the blog… well, it seems there is some competition out there… Our older students…
Transition Coffee Morning

Transition Coffee Morning

Published: 13 March 2024

Today parents had the opportunity to share their concerns, worries and experiences with a wide range of professionals and service providers who support adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities or complex medical needs. The aim of the session was to increase parents knowledge of the services that our students can access once they have left Newfield and to try to answer some of their many questions…
Science Week 2024 - Animals

Science Week 2024 - Animals

Published: 12 March 2024

This week we are celebrating Science Week in school and we have some exciting activities happening. We have a Chick Experience - all week, with 3 tiny chicks showing us how quickly they grow and teaching children all the things that they need to take care of them - including gentle hands! Today we had Emily’s Farm Small Animals join us with a tortoise, a huge rabbit, guinea pigs and a hen…
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