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Duke of Edinburgh - Autism Expedition Day 2

Duke of Edinburgh - Autism Expedition Day 2

Published: 09 June 2022

Everyone who took part in the first day of the expedition arrived at school very excited and raring to go on our second day of walking! On day two of the bronze Duke of Edinburgh expedition, our autism pupils continued their journey from Stubbins, Ramsbottom up to Helmshore. Pupils found different landmarks along the way that they will use in their D of E scrapbooks. We made great progress…
Duke of Edinburgh - Autism Expedition Day 1 & Bushcraft Activities

Duke of Edinburgh - Autism Expedition Day 1 & Bushcraft Activities

Published: 08 June 2022

Pupils from A13 and A14 have completed day one of their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh expedition. They started off by contributing to a community Art butterfly project then followed a picture map of Burrs country park. Pupils continued…
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…
Planting, Parks and Preparing for the Jubilee!

Planting, Parks and Preparing for the Jubilee!

Published: 10 May 2022

A few weeks ago, governor Fiona and former staff member and friend of Newfield June kindly came in one evening and prepared the marked out ‘N’ that we’ve created for the wildflowers to grow in our grounds, so that the pupils can start planting / throwing the seed bombs on to get going! This week, TG1 enjoyed a sunny day…
Happy & Peaceful Easter - Support for Ukraine

Happy & Peaceful Easter - Support for Ukraine

Published: 01 April 2022

We come to the end of another term, and today, we have been thinking about the crisis in Ukraine. Children have made flags to put in windows and around school to show our support. We are also dressing in the Ukraine flag colours of blue and yellow…
Meet the Head - School Council

Meet the Head - School Council

Published: 17 January 2022

Today some of the school council members met up with Dave our new interim head teacher and asked him questions about himself. The questions ranged from…
Artist Alistair and the Railway Project

Artist Alistair and the Railway Project

Published: 23 November 2021

Our visiting artist, Alastair returned to school today to help the students create designs for some posters. These posters will be going up in the rail station to inform otheare…
Takeover Week 2021 - part 3

Takeover Week 2021 - part 3

Published: 18 November 2021

We have had a great time this week with pupils taking over adult roles. Everyone involved has worked hard, had fun and enjoyed experiencing the world of work. Angel helped Shakila deliver cleaning resources to all the classes in school. Shakila said Angel was very helpful. Angel said she enjoyed it but it was hard work! Hannah went to C3…
Takeover Week 21 - part 2

Takeover Week 21 - part 2

Published: 18 November 2021

Our takeover week has continued, with lots of children involved with activities taking on adult roles and responsibilities. On Wednesday, Hisham and Suha greeted visitors and served them biscuits and refreshment during the parent coffee morning, taking over from the Family Wellbeing Coordinators. Ann Marie and Mathilde enjoyed having extra help during the lively session…
Takeover Week 2021

Takeover Week 2021

Published: 16 November 2021

The week we are joining in with the Children’s Commissioners Take Over Week yet again, where our children join in and takeover adult roles all over school. Sameena has been taken over by Terence who has been working in the office - He did an absolute fantastic job here at reception, he answered a few calls and transferred them to through to the relevant staff members, he was so polite over…
World Mental Health Day 2021

World Mental Health Day 2021

Published: 14 October 2021

Today we celebrated World Mental Health Day and staff started the day sharing breakfast with our friends and work colleagues. We were finally able to come together for a real breakfast after many virtual wellbeing breakfasts and we enjoyed toast, crumpet and muffins. It’s not often we get to chat with our friends and colleagues but today we came to school early and took time to meet and catch up. For children we held a number of favourite activities…
Lego Therapy

Lego Therapy

Published: 07 October 2021

Back in July HML Recycling sent us a donation to get our Lego Therapy sessions up and running here at Newfield. The generous donation has allowed us to buy lots of Lego and Duplo bricks and some interesting kits, including a very popular one featuring the Disney characters…
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