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Outreach Visits & Visitors

Outreach Visits & Visitors

Published: 22 September 2022

We believe that visits out in the community, as well as having guests come into school to work with us, are really important parts of our curriculum offer to children. Today we were delighted to welcome back Stonyhurst students, who will be joining us each week to support wheelchair dancing…
Baxter’s First Visit of the Academic Year!

Baxter’s First Visit of the Academic Year!

Published: 14 September 2022

Today we were delighted to have our wonderful Pets As Therapy dog Baxter, along with Julie, in school to visit for the first time this year. He was very happy to see the children and spend time with them…
Return to School 2022

Return to School 2022

Published: 08 September 2022

We have been delighted to welcome all of our fabulous children back to Newfield this week. All of them came into school with great big smiles on their faces on Monday and have been meeting new friends, and new staff, in new classes.The children new to the secondary department in SEND, S1, have enjoyed…
Preparing for the New School Year

Preparing for the New School Year

Published: 01 September 2022

Today, after a lovely long summer holiday, staff returned to school to start to prepare to welcome back our children next Monday. It was lovely to see lots of familiar colleagues, as well as meeting new staff joining the Newfield family, including our new head teacher Rachel Kay. After a briefing to the whole staff from Rachel, staff all set off preparing classrooms or taking part in training…
Summer Enterprise

Summer Enterprise

Published: 07 July 2022

S2 have continued to enjoy enterprise sessions this half term and have been thinking about ways to make money in summer. A few weeks ago they held a sampling survey, earlier in the week they made posters and put them up around school to drum up trade, and l today they held their pop up ice cream stall…
Firebird Performance

Firebird Performance

Published: 22 June 2022

We have been extremely lucky to have the Bamboozle Theatre Company come into school today to perform the Firebird. Firebird is an interactive performance which follows a fledgling phoenix as it grows up and encounters the characters in its world. The theatre company created a…
Ice Cream Tasting

Ice Cream Tasting

Published: 26 May 2022

Today, S2 were preparing for their enterprise sessions next half term, by carrying out consumer research - they had made different flavours and offered Ice cream tasting in the atrium at 10am. They had: Lemon curd ice cream, Mint choc chip ice cream, Toffee ice cream. After they had carried out a short survey…
Beaches - Home & Away

Beaches - Home & Away

Published: 23 May 2022

This half term we have been learning all about Great Britain in preparation for our Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations. As part of the theme, S2 have been focusing on different types of areas in our country - towns, cities, mountains, countryside… and have most recently been thinking about beaches…
IQM Assessor Visit 2022

IQM Assessor Visit 2022

Published: 19 May 2022

Today we had our Inclusion Quality Mark Assessment - We are a Flagship school for Inclusion. Matthew Cuss was our assessor - he has visited Newfield before but this was his first visits as an assessor for us. He met pupils, staff and walked all around school…
Family Wellbeing - Coffee Morning

Family Wellbeing - Coffee Morning

Published: 11 May 2022

We held our Parent/Carer Coffee Morning on Wednesday 11th May – WOW! What a fantastic turn out. It was a lovely opportunity for parents to meet each other and share experiences. The tea, coffee and conversation was flowing and there was certainly lots of laughter. Everyone agreed…
A Magical Visitor

A Magical Visitor

Published: 28 March 2022

This half term, the school for SEND have been learning about about performance for their theme, before we join together as a whole school from next term, to all join in the same themes to support and enrich our learning. As you may have already seen, we’ve had…
Red Nose Day 2022

Red Nose Day 2022

Published: 18 March 2022

Today we joined the nation for Comic Relief to celebrate Red Nose Day and raise money for a worthy charity. Everyone came dressed in red, or as a superhero and paid £1! Children took part in trails in and around school to hunt for red noses. There were ‘red nose and spoon’ races…
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