Takeover Week 2023 - part IV

As our takeover week draws to a close, our young people have been continuing to develop their independence skills and enjoy taking on adult responsibilities. The weekly cafe took place this morning, with orders placed by staff, then prepared, delivered/served and then tidied up by our stars in TG2. They had made ‘school cake’ as this week’s special, along with the toast, bagels and drinks on offer. This week the TG2 boys have also been working with the premises team to…

Takeover Week 2023 - part III

Lots of students have been benefitting from taking part in Takeovers this week - doing adult roles in and around school to learn about independence, responsibility and the world of work. Rayyaan took on Lynx’s role in school as IT technician. He had a busy morning sorting…

Takeover Week 2023 - part II

Our upper school MOVE students enjoyed sensory baking activities set up by LouLou’s Bakery employee Cody Gates. As it is Take-Over week in school, students had ‘jobs’ to carry out whilst pretending they were working in the busy bakery…

Transition Event 2023 - Where do we go from here?

It was so lovely to see so many parents in school today attending the Transition Event, hosted and developed by our fantastic family wellbeing coordinators AnnMarie and Mathilde. We had 28 local service providers hosting information stands. Services included housing, benefits, activity providers, adult social care, health, mental health and…

Takeover Week 2023

Today is the start of our annual Takeover Week, where we join in the Children’s Commissioner’s Takeover Day - except we do it for the whole week! Students across school get to takeover adult roles around school. There has been lots of excitement from…

Outdoor Classroom Day 2023

Today we celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day, which is a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. On two days of action each year, this initiative encourages teachers to take children outdoors to play and learn. At Newfield we are working to develop our outdoor learning provision and our children get regular opportunities to learn and play outside. Learning and playing outside benefits all of our children - it might involve a walk to the park for Physical Education; sorting and counting objects and colour for maths; listening to a story in the Gazebo, Creating shapes and pictures using sticks; tidying and cleaning our outside areas - cleaning windows, litter picking etc; A music lesson using pots and pans; Exploring and playing with water and sand or in a mud kitchens… there are endless possibilities…

World Mental Health Day 2023

Today we celebrated all things that make us happy as part of World Mental Health Day 2023. We take everyone’s wellbeing really seriously here at Newfield, so pupils and staff made sure they spent time today to make themselves and each other happy. Here are some photos of people enjoying…

Independence Skills for Older Students

This week our older students have been busy working on their independence skills. At the harvest assembly, one group provided all of the refreshments for parents and guests. They made tea and coffee, served people and offered around biscuits. At the end they had a nice cuppa themselves before tidying it all up - how great is that?! Another group enjoyed a visit…

Work Related Learning

Here are some pictures of TG2’s jam packed week where they have been doing some work related jobs such as litter picking on the way to Queen’s Park, laminating and tidying the school libraries. These are all jobs staff in school…

CAFT Residential 23 - day 3

The final day of our year 8 residential today… and a bit more chilled out today! All students were just a bit tired and took a bit longer to get up.…

Summer Trips 2023 - part III

More exciting trips have taken place this week, with another jaunt to St Annes where the beach seems to go on for miles, so they were glad of the chips afterwards - and 2 primary classes enjoying a visit to the Sea Life Centre Manchester. Class 4 & 5 had a great time, they particularly enjoyed seeing the sharks, HUGE turtle and stingrays. It was dark, but we felt like we were under water with all of the animals!

CAFT Residential 23 - day 2