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Panda Paramedic

Panda Paramedic

Published: 10 January 2025

Dawn the Paramedic joined us in school today, she is the author of the Panda Paramedic books, which teach children and young people what to do in a medical emergency. This morning Dawn ran some first aid sessions, she was very impressed…
Snowy School

Snowy School

Published: 09 January 2025

This week has been snowy and icy all over Blackburn, but our amazing premises team spent all day Monday shovelling snow and gritting - and have managed to keep the site clear enough for us to be open all week. Pupils who have been able to make it into school (lots of side roads are still too icy to drive on) have been able to wrap up warm and enjoy activities in the snowy grounds. Children in E4…
BwD SEND Pupil Voice Forum

BwD SEND Pupil Voice Forum

Published: 02 January 2025

During the autumn term, Councillor Julie Gunn, Executive Member for Children, Young People & Education from Blackburn with Darwen borough council, came to school along with Harriet Orgill, Designated Social Care Officer for SEND and a film crew, to meet some of our young people and get their contribution for a short film they were making about…
English National Opera Project

English National Opera Project

Published: 02 January 2025

Last term, Class 10 have been busy taking part in a project called > Finish This which was offered to us by English National Opera. A composer called Omar composed a piece of music to represent the colours Red, Blue and Yellow. The task for class 10 and their teacher Gemma (who before joining Newfield was a high school music teacher) was to finish the composition by choosing their own colour and creating the music to represent it. This was a 7 week project…
Music in our Curriculum

Music in our Curriculum

Published: 02 January 2025

Music is a great motivator for many of us, and at Newfield we love to promote an interest and any special talents in music. Back in December, Phill Taylor- Fleming, a professional solo acoustic guitarist and experienced and qualified music tutor, came to Newfield with a variety of instruments and worked with an Explorer class and some of our KS5 classes…
Christmas Chippy Staff Lunch

Christmas Chippy Staff Lunch

Published: 19 December 2024

Today we celebrated Christmas with colleagues as part of our staff wellbeing programme. All staff enjoyed the traditional chippy lunch - chips, peas, curry sauce, gravy, ketchup, lashings of salt and vinegar and all the bread and butter anyone could eat! We had decorated the hall and provided…
Father Christmas Visit 24

Father Christmas Visit 24

Published: 18 December 2024

Today we were delighted to welcome Father Christmas to school for the whole day… he had used his magic to bring down an igloo, some penguins and polar bears and a cheeky elf to help him, while he met all of the children and handed out the gifts that were provided by the kind people of Blackburn, via Dunelm’s Delivering Joy initiative. The children were thrilled to meet him and were all very happy to receive some lovely presents - we are pleased…
Post 16 Christmas Extravaganza

Post 16 Christmas Extravaganza

Published: 17 December 2024

The tutor groups enjoyed a Christmas Extravaganza today. The hall was decorated with students art work and there were photo frames and Christmas accessories for a selfie station. In the morning there was a showing of the ‘Boss Baby’ film, chosen by students…
Explorers Nativity 2024

Explorers Nativity 2024

Published: 17 December 2024

This morning our youngest pupils performed in there now annual production of ‘A Wiggly Nativity’ for an audience of very proud family members - mums, dad, aunties, grand parents and friends. Assistant head Katrina, who is our Explorers lead directed the performance which was amazing! Many of the children took part last year, so were familiar…
Charity at Christmas

Charity at Christmas

Published: 16 December 2024

Newfield does a lot of fundraising and supports many charities, however, this Christmas we have been delighted and overwhelmed to receive some amazing gifts for our children from the kind people of Blackburn, via the Dunelm ‘Delivering Joy’ initiative. Back in October…
More Christmas Fun

More Christmas Fun

Published: 13 December 2024

There have been lots more fun and educational themed activities the week as we head towards Christmas. Class S6 have worked very hard all week making a Christmas Ginger Bread House (it’s actually cinnamon). They have made it completely from scratch, following…
Student Christmas Lunch 2024

Student Christmas Lunch 2024

Published: 13 December 2024

Today all of our children enjoyed a special Christmas lunch - we had decorate the halls and pupils had made placemats and table centrepieces to make the occasion more special - we even had crackers! Pupils enjoyed a traditional turkey roast lunch and then…
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