Special Announcement
January 2024
Dear Parents and Carers - Update 19/01/24
School is open today.
This is solely due to the formidable work of our site team, who have spent many hours over the past few days in a Herculean effort to clear the compacted ice and snow. To achieve this, they have had to repeatedly distribute large amounts of grit across the entire site.
The temperature improved slightly overnight, and this allowed our premises manager to determine the school was safe to reopen.
There will be restrictions for your children as some areas on site are still unsafe to use. Staff will be informed as to how to proceed around these restrictions. Please also be aware transport may still not be able to attend your property and this is beyond school’s control.
Thank you for all your support and understanding at this time, and the recognition that we only want to keep your children safe. Newfield does have some peculiar factors that make it vulnerable to adverse weather, and we will continue to look at ways in which we can mitigate against this in the future.
Finally, huge personal thanks to Bill and his team of Galina, Karl and Nathan.
Further information
Parents with specific concerns or issues can contact family wellbeing coordinators to discuss.
Home Learning content can be found on our website
If you would like to do some activities at home, here are a few ideas and links to resources - don’t forget there is lots of content on our YouTube channel - songs, stories and activity ideas and lots more!
The following are DIY sensory stories from the company ‘bag books’ - they tell you which resources you need to gather to tell a sensory story.
A Snowy Day - multi sensory story - Callum and Leanna wake up to find it has snowed, and set about playing in the snow. Having made a snowman and snow angels, they realise the snow has made their trousers wet, so they go back in for a hot chocolate.
The Secret Ingredient - multi sensory story - Sabrina decides to make a chocolate birthday cake for Anika but she needs to pay more attention to the ingredients.