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Developing our Gardens

Developing our Gardens

Published: 04 February 2022

We are working as a team with pupils, staff, governors, families and friends of Newfield - to improve our outdoor spaces and enhance the outdoor learning opportunities for all. Last week after school on Thursday evening staff stayed behind to prepare the ground, in readiness for a delivery of mmm to plant, which will eventually grown into a hedgerow and give the site some shelter and nature for wildlife. This week…
EYFS Stay & Play

EYFS Stay & Play

Published: 12 November 2021

This week we have had our first stay and play sessions for our youngest children in the SEND school, where parents, siblings and other family members have been able to join in the class and spending time with their children, learning what they get up to all day here! On Wednesday, Class 3 enjoyed a wonderful stay and play session…
Autism Training - Developing Social Skills through stories

Autism Training - Developing Social Skills through stories

Published: 10 November 2021

Today was the second of our new training courses which focused on how approaches such as social stories can be used to help support pupils…
Autism Training - Creating Structured Environments

Autism Training - Creating Structured Environments

Published: 03 November 2021

Today Newfield school welcomed back visitors to enjoy face to face training. We will be running a series of different Autism training sessions over…
Wonder Dome Planetarium

Wonder Dome Planetarium

Published: 19 October 2021

Today the School for Autism had their end of term WOW event. We had Dennis from the company WonderDome visit with a mobile planetarium. We took a trip through space, sang space songs and walked on the moon. Dennis gave us lots of information about space…
Visiting Artist - Railway Project

Visiting Artist - Railway Project

Published: 15 October 2021

This week our visiting artist, Alastair Nicholson has returned to work with our students on a piece of art for Blackburn Rail Station. For months we had been collecting milk bottle lids which have been melted down in sheets of thin plastic. Our students have then been cutting this plastic and creating…
Parent Coffee Mornings - Family Wellbeing Coordinators

Parent Coffee Mornings - Family Wellbeing Coordinators

Published: 06 October 2021

Today, we held our first coffee mornings for parents and carers. These provided a great opportunity to discuss how parents would like to see services developing in school. It was a great pleasure to finally be able to welcome parents and carers back in school! Lots of ideas and plans were discussed…
RRSA Steering Group 21-22

RRSA Steering Group 21-22

Published: 27 September 2021

Today we held our first RRSA steering group meeting of the year - it was actually our first face to face meeting for a very long time! Lots of pupils and staff have joined the group promoting UNICEF and Children’s Rights, and we also had our ex student Adam join us. We discussed…
COVID Reflections Poem - Installation

COVID Reflections Poem - Installation

Published: 18 June 2021

This week saw the installation of a line from the COVID Reflections Poem that TG1 wrote earlier in the year. Artist Emma came along to school with the stencils to support pupils to chalk on the outline letters, which the artists then spray painted onto the wall at the back of our pool - pupils in SEND can walk directly past this, and pupils in Autism walk on the road below…
Blackburn Rovers visit Newfield

Blackburn Rovers visit Newfield

Published: 08 June 2021

Yesterday we had Blackburn Rovers Football Club in for some of our older pupil’s opening ‘Olympics’ theme event. The pupils took part in some boccia, kurling and ball skills. They all…
More Pottery in the School for Autism

More Pottery in the School for Autism

Published: 29 April 2021

Here are some more pictures, this time of children from the school for Autism at Newfield taking part in pottery workshops with our community potter Alistair. They had a great time watching the wheel spin and some even braved tossing the clay. Everyone had a great time and some of the staff think we should have him back every week!
Pottery at Newfield

Pottery at Newfield

Published: 28 April 2021

Today the community potter spent more time in the school for SEND this morning and for the rest of the week he will be working with children in the school for Autism, helping them develop their creative pottery skills! Many of our children have sensory impairments, and the great thing about working with clay…
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