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Children's Mental Health Week 2021 - Message to Families

Children's Mental Health Week 2021 - Message to Families

Published: 01 February 2021

Hi all and Happy Children’s Mental Health Week! We are holding lots of special events this week to focus on our wellbeing and mental health - parents have been sent the week’s activity timetable with stories, videos, YouTube sessions, bring your pet to school (virtually!), dances…
Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Published: 29 January 2021

Next week - 1st - 7th February we celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week 2021. The theme this year is - Express Yourself! As everyone knows, wellbeing is very important to us at Newfield - we are all missing being together in school, but we are doing our best to support the mental health and wellbeing of our children, our families, and staff and the whole Newfield Family. We will be putting on some special virtual events…
Love for Kenya

Love for Kenya

Published: 28 January 2021

Many of you may know that at Newfield, as part of our Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) steering group with UNICEF, we support Love for Kenya. A few years we started supporting the orphanage school in Kenya. We got involved with this due to Julia Dyer…
Learning at Home

Learning at Home

Published: 28 January 2021

While lots of our pupils are at home, they are enjoying taking part in live learning sessions with teachers and HLTAs. Some parents have shared photos with us to show us what they have been up to! Other children are watching the sessions on our YouTube channel and joining in with…
Attention Autism - Happy, Healthy Me!

Attention Autism - Happy, Healthy Me!

Published: 22 January 2021

Along with the live learning sessions we are offering, Teacher Katrina has made this video for her group, but lots of our children would enjoy and benefit from taking part. It’s an Attention Autism session, at stage one and stage two, with a topic focus…
Online Learning at Home - Early Years

Online Learning at Home - Early Years

Published: 22 January 2021

HLTA Dawn reports that it has been a really positive week of online sessions and supported learning. Class 1 and 2 sessions this week on Microsoft Teams have been all about Jack and the Beanstalk. On Tuesday we read the story with lots of messy play, sounds and physical activities involved. On Friday we had a ‘show and tell’ session: We had a ‘what’s in the box’ activity - items inside…
Learning in School

Learning in School

Published: 22 January 2021

Here is a selection of images of some of the learning taking place in school. Anna’s group - had outdoor learning, where they created some mud faces, following on from the topic about ‘our bodies’. Denise’s group - have been looking at the artist Giuseppe Arcimbaldo. They made…
Snowy New Year

Snowy New Year

Published: 08 January 2021

Happy New Year to all our Newfield Family! And this week has been wintery all week with cold temperatures ice and snow, but today, the snow has been so heavy that the school site is simply not safe for anyone. The site team have been clearing it all week with small snow flurries to keep it safe…
Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Published: 18 December 2020

We had a lovely last day in school and now everyone is ready for a well earned rest as we break for two weeks holiday. Although we were very excited to finish, it was tinged with sadness as we said goodbye to our fantastic swimming teacher Janis Bennett, who retires…
Virtual Christmas Concert

Virtual Christmas Concert

Published: 17 December 2020

This afternoon we held our annual Christmas Concert and for the first time this was held virtually! Children and staff had prepared short videos of songs, instrument and festive messages and Assistant Head Lois has put them altogether to make a concert…
Baxter's Christmas Visits

Baxter's Christmas Visits

Published: 16 December 2020

This week our furry friend, Baxter the PAT dog and his handler Julie, have been joining us to celebrate Christmas - virtually! Baxter was dressed in his Christmas outfit - very cute! On Tuesday afternoon A1…
Sharing at Christmas

Sharing at Christmas

Published: 14 December 2020

We all know that the Newfield Family likes to support others and at this special time of year, we wanted to remind our children and staff that Christmas is a time to share our good fortune with others. Today, HLTAs Linsey and Sharon took down some food to Blackburn Foodbank to help families…
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