Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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PTA Re-Launch
Wed 13 Mar 2019Please come along to the relaunch of our PTA and meet your class parent reps on Thursday 14th March, 5pm-6pm.
All attendees will receive free childcare in After School Club for the duration of the meeting, free buffet and refreshments, and entry into the free raffle to win bottles of bubbly!
There will be no pressure to make further commitments.
This meeting is to inform our school community about our plans. We look forward to seeing you there!
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World Book Day Celebrations
Thu 07 Mar 2019Wow! What a fabulous day we have had celebrating World Book Day!
Here are some of the highlights of the day, which included a visit from the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Company for Years 5 and 6, as part of our National Lottery winning grant for the Newtown Bookshop; and Year R visiting the Gosport Discovery Centre!
Have a look at our pictures capturing the magic of our day...
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40 Acts of Kindness Challenge
Tue 05 Mar 2019Mrs Howlett launched our 40 Acts of Kindness Challenge for Lent in the Ethos Collective Worship yesterday.
Lent is the 40 days leading up to Easter when we remember Jesus' time in the desert, the challenges he faced when he was there and the courage he displayed.
Instead of giving something up for Lent, we have challenged the children to take up the "40acts challenge" and carry out simple acts of giving and kindness throughout Lent this Year.
Here is the 40 Acts Challenge card for you to use! Good luck Newtown C of E Primary School!
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World Book Day
Mon 25 Feb 2019World Book Day Thursday 7th March 2019
As part of our drive to maintain, promote and engage pupil interest in reading, we will be taking part in WORLD BOOK DAY on Thursday 7th March 2019.
On this special day, your child can come to school dressed as a favourite character from any book. If they could also bring along an extract from the book, or the book itself, they will be able to share this in their classes. It would be good to discuss with your child different characters from their favourite books. Again, the dressing up possibilities are endless: Postman Pat, Oliver Twist, Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Goldilocks, Jack and the Beanstalk , Cinderella, Gruffalo, Elmer the Elephant, Paddington Bear, Harry Potter etc.
During the morning of the 7th March, classes will be taking part in special book related activities investigating an amazing classic or heritage book and will complete tasks around that text. During a special school Collective Worship in the afternoon, each class will have an opportunity to talk about their book and tasks and share their brilliant costumes. There will be a prize of a Newtown book token given to the most creatively dressed in each year group, which can be exchanged for a book in our school bookshop - open Fridays after school. We have also created a special lunch menu for the day, which is attached.
World book day £1 vouchers will be given to each child on the day and can be exchanged for any of the twelve exclusive, new and completely free World Book Day books at participating high-street bookshops.
Reading different books every evening, in preparation would be great! So get thinking and reading! We look forward to seeing your child dressed up for the special day.
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Half Term Challenge
Mon 04 Feb 2019Where is the most extreme place you have ever read a book? Up a tree? In the bath? Standing on your head? Whatever it is, we want your photos!
We would like all pupils to take part in a competition for the most extreme places that you have read a book, and the winners will receive a book token for our Friday Book Shop!
A display will be made from the photos, so please either bring in a printed photo or email your photo with your name and class to adminoffice@newtown.hants.sch.uk
Please send in all photos by Friday 1st March.We encourage you to keep safe, but we are really looking forward to seeing who in the school has such a passion for reading that they have to do it anywhere and everywhere!
Good luck and have fun!
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Archaeologists and Historians
Thu 31 Jan 2019Year 5 became archaeologists and historians this week!
They were able to look at Greek artefacts to decipher what the artefact could be and what it might be used for.
The children learnt about lives from the past, from the buildings that survived from that era and from the artefacts. The children were amazed at how much still exists from thousands of years ago!
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Safer Internet Day 2019
Tue 15 Jan 2019Newtown C of E Primary School will be celebrating Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 5th February 2019.
The children will be learning about e-safety throughout the day and we invite all parents to attend the E-Safety Breakfast Workshop for parents at 9.15am to listen to some very important messages and learn tips and tricks to keep your children safe online!
Breakfast and refreshments will be provided.
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Primary Behaviour Service workshop for parents
Tue 15 Jan 2019On Friday 1st February, the Primary Behaviour Service team will be offering one-to-one workshop sessions to all our families, taking place at school. If you would like to book a workshop session, please can contact the school office on 02392 584048.
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The Great Fire of London
Thu 10 Jan 2019Yesterday, Year 1 recreated the Great Fire of London with the help of Mr Newman.
Children made their houses as part of their recent home learning and watched today as the fire destroyed the city from the infamous Pudding Lane bakery.
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Hogwarts Admissions 2019
Tue 08 Jan 2019Yesterday, year 6 received letters from Hogwarts.
They were given tasks to complete before they would be considered for Hogwarts admittance in September.
All the children were then sorted into Hogwarts houses by the sorting hat.
