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Newsletter 11
Fri 27 May 2022 -
Newsletter 10
Fri 13 May 2022 -
Newsletter 9
Fri 08 Apr 2022 -
Easter Holiday Activity Programme
Thu 24 Mar 2022HAF is back this Easter with a full range of exciting holiday activities for Southampton children.
Attached is a poster of the projects to all those eligible. For clarification, this is open to all pupils who are eligible for benefits-related free school meals (not universal free school meals) and can be signed up via the link on the poster. There are over 50 venues around the city with some fantastic activities such as skiing, watersports, computer coding, ninja warrior events, arts and so much more.
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Newsletter 8
Fri 11 Mar 2022 -
World Book Day
Thu 10 Mar 2022Curriculum News: World Book Day
Newlands World Book Day was a rousing success as always this year! A huge thank you to everyone who took part and really helped raise the profile of reading across the school. The children looked fantastic, and there was a real buzz around school as we all had a brilliant day of Reading related fun. We had local author Anne Wan visit us in person and complete workshops with every year group which I know the children and staff all thoroughly enjoyed. She also gave signed copies of her books for the best dressed winners in each class. The staff looked great too!
Thank you for all of your support to make this day a success!
Miss Keens & the Reading Team
Check out our Class Pages for more exciting news on what the children have been learning.
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Welcome Boxes for Refugees
Mon 07 Mar 2022Some of our Y5 pupils attended a workshop at the John Hansard gallery in Southampton to create Welcome Boxes for refugees arriving in the city. Different schools had collected different items and we contributed the jars of jam and honey that had been donated by the Newlands community. The children selected one of each of the essential different items (coffee, tea, biscuits, toothpaste etc..) to create their Welcome packs. Whilst we were there over 40 Welcome Packs were made by the 8 different schools attending and a further 8 schools would be attending a later session.
Thank you all for the kind donations of honey and jam!
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Update Guidance for Parents - Spring 2 'Living with COVID'
Mon 28 Feb 2022Return to School - COVID Update
We are looking forward to seeing the children back in school tomorrow after the half term break.
On Monday 21 February, the Prime Minister set out the next phase of the government’s COVID-19 response ‘Living with COVID-19’. COVID-19 continues to be a virus that we learn to live with and the imperative to reduce the disruption to children and young people’s education remains.
We now have updated advice and guidance for schools on the new ‘Living with COVID’ strategy. I felt it important to write to you all with the updated information and to share new parental guidance that has been produced what-parents-and-carers-need-to-know guidance.
In school, we continue to follow the control measures set out in the guidance:
- Regularly review and update risk assessments
- Ensure good hygiene for everyone. You should continue to ensure that pupils clean their hands regularly. This can be done with soap and water or hand sanitiser. Follow catch it, bin it, kill it approach for respiratory hygiene.
- Maintain appropriate cleaning regimes.
- Keep occupied spaces well ventilated.
- Follow public health advice on testing, self-isolation and managing confirmed cases of COVID-19.
If your child tests positive, or develops any of the main symptoms of COVID-19:
- a new continuous cough
- a high temperature
- a loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell (anosmia)
you should order a PCR test. You are advised to keep your child at home and avoid contact with other people while you are waiting for the test result. (We expect further guidance on what happens after 1st April when testing is no longer widely available.)
If your child develops symptoms whilst in school, we will contact you to collect them and advise that you book a test.
Please note: If you insist on your child attending nursery, school, or college when they have symptoms, the educational establishment can take the decision to refuse your child if, in their reasonable judgement, it is necessary to protect other pupils and staff from possible infection with COVID-19. Their decision would need to be carefully considered in light of all the circumstances and current public health advice.
For education and childcare sectors, the main changes announced include:
- Changes to self-isolation and daily testing of close contacts - Contacts are no longer required to self-isolate or advised to take daily tests, and contact tracing has ended.
- Changes to testing in education and childcare settings - staff, students and pupils in all mainstream education settings are no longer advised to undertake twice-weekly asymptomatic testing.
Our staff will continue to be vigilant around their own health, and will inform us if a member of their household tests positive, so we can put protective factors into place around their attendance at work and reducing the risk.
Our Director of Public Health, Dr Debbie Chase, reminds us that we can be cautiously optimistic - but that we can be more certain of that optimism if we do not suddenly give up all protective and hygiene measures.
Please remain vigilant around your child’s health and contact us if you have any questions that are not answered in the guidance links above.
Thank you once again for your support in this matter as we move into a new half term.
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Newsletter 7 - February 2022
Thu 10 Feb 2022 -
Safer Internet Day
Tue 08 Feb 20228th February is Safer Internet Day and all children in all classes at Newlands will be involved in activities related to this International day.
This Year the theme is; 'All Fun and Games - exploring respect and relationships online'.
If you would like more information follow this link to our parent's page on Internet Safety.
Here you will find lots of resources to help with how to apply parental controls to devices; help and support to keep your family safe together with all the Safer Internet Day home activities.
