Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Newtown Celebrates the Royal Wedding!

  Fri 18 May 2018

   

  Royal wedding fever has caught on in many places, including Newtown C of E Primary School!

   

  Students and staff arrived this morning dressed as Prince and Princesses, Kings and Queens, with other dressed very patriotically in red, white and blue to celebrate the wedding of HRH Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

   

  Donations to HRH Prince Harry and Meghan’s nominated wedding day charities totalled £219.45. Well done everyone!
  
  At lunch-time the whole school will take part in a street-party themed lunch on the playground with royal crown cookies for dessert! Pupils have made bunting, table mats and flags for the day as part of their art projects.

   

  Everyone at Newtown C of E Primary School is very excited and hope that it will be a very memorable day for everyone.

  

• Newtown is officially an outstandingly happy school!

  Thu 17 May 2018

   

  Throughout this academic year we have embarked on a project to improve positive attitudes within the school for our children, staff and parents. The project has enabled us to build on the good work already going on here at Newtown and to gain the status of being an ‘Outstandingly happy school’.  This has involved further embedding the language of our ethos values and learning behaviours so they become an integral part of all that we do.  

   

  We have also looked at having a positive mind set, where anything is possible and our children can achieve anything if they put their minds to.  This has been built around the analogy of being a ‘2%er’.  This involves being in the top 2% of people who are consistently upbeat and positive.  This can at times be hard work and take practice however, a ‘2%er’ is someone who is solution focussed, energetic and have a can do attitude, raising the level of optimism and energy in those around them. The analogy of a mood hover has also been introduced which involves someone who is stuck in a cycle of negativity, who like to moan, and suck out the energy of others around them. 

  
  Throughout the happiness project we have also developed our community links with the church, introduced our family worship, Head and Deputy lunch, developed links between the children across the school and improved the presentation of the school by introducing the ‘Golden Broom’.  A huge part of the project is to develop the well-being curriculum for all our children and staff which we intend to create a ripple of positivity throughout the community.

  
  The project will continue to evolve.  We are looking to further develop links with the Church by introducing
  pen-pals with year 5 and elderly members of the congregation, introduce a buddy system for new children and further develop pupil voice through their various roles and responsibilities.

  
  On Wednesday 16th May, Andy Cope the author of the book ‘Art of Being Brilliant’ returned to Newtown where the children presented our project and how far the school had come.  We are delighted that we were accredited with being an ‘Outstandingly Happy school’.  We are the first school in Hampshire to work with Andy Cope and are very happy to achieve this award.

  

• Young Pea Chef of the Year competition 2018

  Thu 17 May 2018

  We have received an email from The Young Pea Chef of the Year competition organisers, thanking us for our entries from Riley Fuller and Tom Turner, Year 1 Robins, Tyler-Jai Thomas, Year 2 Sparrows and Brodie Turner, Year 5 Badgers. They very much enjoyed reading them and said the presentation of Riley’s Vanilla and Lime Cake recipe was lovely!

  
   From the email we received - 

  "We would like to thank you for submitting your recipes, which were full of creativity, enthusiasm and delicious British peas! We have received hundreds of pea-inspired recipes from budding young chefs across the country and the creativity and quality of this year’s entries has been outstanding."

   

  All the recipes went through an intensive judging process, which included judges TV chef Rachel Green and experts from The British Growers Association, Fen Peas, The Ocado Foundation, Birds Eye and Greenyard Frozen. Unfortunately, none of our pupils were shortlisted this year however, we will be celebrating our entrants in this week's celebration assembly and presenting them each with a Newtown bookshop voucher.

   

  Well done!