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Annual Health Check - LD Nurse Visit

Annual Health Check - LD Nurse Visit

Published: 22 February 2024

Today we had some learning disability nurses - Meghan, Mel and Deb - come into school and show the students what would happen if they went for an annual health check. All young people with a learning disability are entitled…
Cook Stars @ Newfield

Cook Stars @ Newfield

Published: 19 February 2024

Today marked the launch of our Cook Stars lunchtime cooking club, funding via the BwD Food Grant, to help young people look at how to be healthy and feed themselves good food. Carrie Ann visited our school to conduct a session where students had the opportunity to craft their own Tomato and Basil Tart! Carrie Ann supplied all the necessary ingredients…
New Year, New Learning!

New Year, New Learning!

Published: 11 January 2024

Some of our secondary pupils in S5 have been very busy this first week back, continuing the work on the co-production charter. This work has been taking place to look at what children and young people with SEND want from BwD and what BwD promises to deliver and develop with them. S5 have made this rainbow full of symbols for each part of the charter to help to make it accessible to more children and young people. We are also delighted…
Staff Training 2024

Staff Training 2024

Published: 08 January 2024

Today we welcomed staff back after the holidays for a day of continuous professional development - CPD - which is the fancy way of saying training! We were all very happy to see our friends and colleagues and catch up and then take part in some of the many and varied sessions that you can see in the photos…
Go Kids Go!

Go Kids Go!

Published: 08 December 2023

This morning we were delighted to host a wheelchair skills session with ‘Go Kids Go’ which was really exciting, fun and useful. Go Kids Go (Association of Wheelchair Children) provides a free service for families of wheelchair-using children and offers advice and advocacy ranging from helping parents acquire appropriate equipment for their child, to training the child to become more independently mobile. Some of our students…
Primary Christmas Extravaganza 2023

Primary Christmas Extravaganza 2023

Published: 07 December 2023

This morning it was the turn of our large primary age phase to entertain parents and families in their Christmas production. Each class in Primary performed a Christmas song complete with actions or dancing, costumes and props to illustrate the tale. We had dancing snowmen, students driving cars, wheelchair dancing…
Explorers Nativity 2023

Explorers Nativity 2023

Published: 05 December 2023

This morning our youngest pupils performed in ‘A Wiggly Nativity’ for an audience of very proud family members - mums, dad, aunties, grand parents, siblings - along with our equally proud senior leadership team and chair of governors Sara Barr-Frost. Our host for the morning was Katrina, who is our Explorers lead and who had directed…
Christmas Fair 2023

Christmas Fair 2023

Published: 01 December 2023

Well it may only be the 1st of December, but we held our annual Christmas Fair this morning, the snowflakes are on the website and there is a chill in the air… so the festive season has well and truly begun! We were delighted to welcome so many families, friends and former Newfield students and staff to join in the festivities. We also had the BwD Deputy Mayor, Sylvia Liddle who joined us for the morning. The school has once again been transformed by our beautiful tree and there were lots of stalls, games and refreshments to keep everyone busy and to raise funds for school…
Transition Event 2023 - Where do we go from here?

Transition Event 2023 - Where do we go from here?

Published: 21 November 2023

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…
Dads & Lads 23

Dads & Lads 23

Published: 17 October 2023

Today we welcomed guests to our first ‘Dads and Lads’ event of this academic year. The group is a place where fathers (and father figures) gather to share, support and connect in a safe and open environment. Facilitated by new Assistant Head Chris, and teacher Greg, the event…
Nature of Care Parent Carer Workshop - part I

Nature of Care Parent Carer Workshop - part I

Published: 12 October 2023

Today, Guest speaker Dr Jenny Gibson and her colleague Hannah, in association with our Family Wellbeing Coordinators, delivered a fascinating workshop named ‘The Nature of Care’. This was a very well attended event (part two next week), which gave parents a chance to…
Parent Carer Workshop - skin moisture damage

Parent Carer Workshop - skin moisture damage

Published: 03 October 2023

Today we had a fantastic coffee morning hosted by MediCare Plus where Stephanie Reason (senior manager) and Stephanie Clarke (clinical nurse advisor) came to discuss skin moisture damage. They shared a variety of MediDerma products and offered advice on how to prevent breakdown of skin due to exposure to moisture. Parents that came had the opportunity to try…
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Our Equality Objectives are set, reviewed and published annually in our School Development Plan.

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