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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…
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…
Happy Friday Rainbow!

Happy Friday Rainbow!

Published: 01 October 2021

We all arrived at school this morning to find a beautiful rainbow over the school for Autism - that’s got to be a good sign for a great day of learning! Happy Friday Newfield Family
In the Garden, at the Shop… and Relax!

In the Garden, at the Shop… and Relax!

Published: 29 September 2021

As part of our theme ‘In the Garden’, pupils in S2 have been searching for creatures and they found lots of minibeasts in the sensory garden today – they all really enjoyed it. Continuing the theme, in S1 children have been using at to create gardens - here are some of the class shoebox garden dioramas. Classes have been looking after their wellbeing…
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…
Getting Back to Normal!

Getting Back to Normal!

Published: 23 September 2021

We are having a brilliant time both in school and out, getting back ti being able to do some of the things that we haven’t been able to do for a very long time. The hydro pool is proving as popular as ever, with some of our children from the school for Autism also…
Exciting Curriculum

Exciting Curriculum

Published: 22 September 2021

In the school for SEND we are learning all about what goes on outside in the garden this half term, whilst in school for Autism, everyone is exploring space! One of our SEND classes have developed their room into an indoor jungle which looks amazing! S3 are really…
Jeans for Genes Day 2021

Jeans for Genes Day 2021

Published: 17 September 2021

Today we joined the nation by putting on our jeans, denim shirts - anything denim in fact, and paid £1 to raise money for this charity for children with genetic illnesses which is very close to our hearts here at Newfield…
Back to the Pool!

Back to the Pool!

Published: 16 September 2021

The school pool is finally open! Due to having to lockdown because of COVID and then restrictions around the ventilation and heating systems poolside, it has been 18 months since anyone has been able to use our pool…
EHCA Appreciation Day 2021

EHCA Appreciation Day 2021

Published: 16 September 2021

Today we celebrated our fabulous Education, Health and Care Assistant day and showed them the appreciation they deserve for their hard work and dedication to our brilliant children. Classes had decorated and made banners to show they care and…
School Council 2021 - 22

School Council 2021 - 22

Published: 13 September 2021

Today we welcomed back our students to meet for the first School Council meeting of the year. It’s been a while since we met face to face as we always used Teams to meet virtually during the last school year…
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