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The children in year 1 have been learning about the 'ai' sound in phonics.
They joined forces with Olly the Phonics Octopus to create as many words with the ai sound as they could think of.
Great work year 1!
What a wonderful Harvest Festival we celebrated this week!
The Church Service was beautiful, with year 6 pupils eloquently reading bible passages and narrating the service themed around a verse from Galatians ‘What a person plants, they will harvest.’
Throughout the service the pupils challenged us to think about what we are planting in our lives and subsequently what we will be harvesting.
Stay and Play will be starting back on Wednesday 9th October!
These are free sessions for parents and pre-schoolers, every Wednesday from 9th October between 9:15am and 10:30am.
Autumn Programme includes:
9th October - Leaf Rubbing
16th October - Autumn Collage
23rd October - Pumpkin Plates
6th November - Firework Models
13th November - Play Dough
20th November - Wooden Spoon Puppets
27th November - Animal Masks
4th December - Storyteller Visit
10th December - Christmas Biscuits
18th December - Father Christmas
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
We take our duty to ensure arrangements are in place for safeguarding and promoting the well being of children very seriously and we adhere to the Department For Education, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ guidance.
Please visit our leaflet section of the website, which will will give you information on Safeguarding Children and the Prevent Strategy introduced by the government, designed to stop extremism. Please take the time to read these.
What a fantastic day of learning Year 3 had yesterday at Stonehenge.
Their current project "Into the Tardis" allows the children to go back in time to the Stone Age and explore the era, so this trip to Stonehenge linked directly to the curriculum and gave the children exciting opportunities to discover this period, understand what the landscape was like and explore what it was like to live in this period of time.
We currently have two vacancies for parent governors, which we need to fill as soon as possible.
Newtown C of E Primary School has a partnership with parents that undoubtedly brings great benefits to the children. One of the most significant ways you can help is to volunteer to be a parent governor.
The governing body's main tasks are:
The governing body is aware of the views of parents and the local community. We feel sure that there are parents prepared to take on this important role and give their time and commitment to helping us to continue to improve the school's performance.
Training and support will be available to help you develop into the role. This will include in-house mentoring and support as well as access to external governor training.
If you feel you can help in this capacity please contact the office for an application form which will need to be completed and returned to the school by 12.00 noon on Friday 27th September 2019.
The guidelines giving full details about how vacancies are filled can be found on the school’s website. You should also look at the information for prospective governors on the Hampshire County Council website. You will find videos, e-learning and written information on the site and all of these will provide you with further details about the role.
Please note that for the protection of children all governor appointments are subject to an identity check, an enhanced DBS check and a 128 barring direction check for prohibition from management in schools.
If there are more applications than vacancies, we will hold an election.