Latest News
Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.
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URGENT School Closure and changes to the start of term
Sun 03 Jan 20213rd January 2021 SCHOOL CLOSURE & CHANGES TO THE START OF TERM FROM MONDAY 4th JANUARY 2021
Dear Parents and Carers
I am writing to inform you that in light of an evolving situation regarding scientific and union advice, unknown staffing levels and LA guidance, we have made the difficult decision to implement the following changes to our start of term. I realise that this is extremely short notice and may cause inconvenience for some of you. For this I am truly sorry but I hope you can understand the difficulties we are facing.
Newlands Primary will be CLOSED to ALL pupils on Monday 4th January. This is so we can carry out the relevant safety training, respond to unforeseen staff changes or absences as well as plan and prepare blended learning across all classes. This will be in place of the INSET planned for Friday 12th February which will now be a normal school day.
We will then open only to vulnerable children and those with parents who are Critical Workers on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th January.
Parents/Carers whose children are considered vulnerable will be contacted by phone tomorrow.
Parents who are Critical Workers can email info@newlandsprimary.co.uk to request a place, stating your critical worker status and we will get back to you as soon as we can tomorrow with further information and timings for these days.
All children not in school will be expected to carry out learning via the school website Home Learning section which will start on Tuesday 5th Jan. It is vital that we all commit to safeguarding our children’s learning as much as possible. Further guidance on expectations around remote learning will be provided tomorrow.
Once again, I apologise for challenges this may present and I thank you in advance for your understanding.
Finally, I would like to share my sincere gratitude for your ongoing support and understanding throughout this lengthy and unpredictable period of disruption and uncertainty. As always, please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any further help. We will contact you all again as soon as we have a clearer picture on wider school opening later in the week. Many thanks and please take care
Karen Mellor - Headteacher
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BSL Christmas Songs
Thu 17 Dec 2020Mrs Ahrns and the HI Team have been working with all our pupils to use British Sign Language performances of some wonderful Christmas songs.
Follow these links to watch;
KS2 perform 'Merry Christmas'
https://newlands-primary.primarysite.media/media/merry-christmas-shakin-stevens
Year R perform 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'
https://newlands-primary.primarysite.media/media/we-wish-you-a-merry-christmas
Year 1 perform 'Jingle Bells'
https://newlands-primary.primarysite.media/media/jingle-bells
Year 2 perform 'Rudolph'
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INSET DAY 18th December
Thu 10 Dec 20209th December 2020
IMPORTANT COVID-19 Update at Newlands:
INSET DAY Friday 18th December 2020
Dear Parents & Carers
Thank you all for the amazing support you are continuing to give the Newlands community in these ongoing unprecedented times. It means so much that parents are thanking staff and feeding back on the measures we have put into place and recognising the continued hard work and dedication of our team.
Yesterday, the Department for Education gave permission for schools to move an INSET day to Friday 18th December and at Newlands, we have decided to take this opportunity. We are moving our INSET day that was planned for 22nd July 2021 and having it on Friday 18th December 2020 instead.
This means that the school will close a day earlier for all children and our last day will be Thursday 17th December next week.
I appreciate the short notice of this decision but hope that families will understand that we have only just received information from the government and could not plan any further ahead. (As a result, the last Breakfast club of the term will be Wednesday 16th December, to allow for deep cleaning).
Reporting COVID during the Christmas Holidays
The Government wrote to all headteachers to tell them that they would need to be ‘on call’ for the first 6 days of their Christmas holiday, in order to report any cases of COVID to the Department for Education and Public Health England.
Mrs Halsey, and myself will be on call throughout the first 6 days of our Christmas holidays in order to notify all members of our school community of a relevant, positive case.
If, during the first 6 days of the school holidays up to 23/12/20, your child has a temperature, new and persistent cough or loses their sense of taste or smell and has a positive COVID test result, please email the school office email: info@newlandsprimary.co.uk. Please do not phone, as school will be closed!
We will be monitoring the email account and I will be responsible for linking in to the DFE/PHE direct line. We will then be required to contact all families that your child may have had contact with via MMe and email in order to notify you of the potential COVID contact and the requirement to isolate.
We very much hope that we will not need to contact anyone but we have a duty to protect our community, should a positive case be confirmed.
Many thanks for your continued support.
Mrs Mellor
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Clever Never Goes - Safeguarding Advice
Thu 03 Dec 2020Hampshire police have put together this new leaflet to support parents with teaching their children how to stay safe on the walk to and from school.
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Anti-Bullying Week
Fri 20 Nov 2020Anti-Bullying Week
This week in school, the children have been ‘United Against Bullying’. We have used the week to explore what bullying is and what to do if we are worried about it. Children have explored through assemblies, films, discussion and a variety of other activities. They have come up with their own ideas about the definition of bullying and have worked to understand the ‘intentionally hurtful and repeatedly happening’ nature of bullying. Children continue to learn about an appreciation of ‘the same but different’ and to value individual uniqueness and celebrate difference.
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Year 4 Remote Learning
Tue 10 Nov 2020There are lots of learning activities on the following page for anyone who has had to self-isolate this week. Click on the link or go to the Home Learning Section and Year Group page.
https://www.newlandsprimary.co.uk/remote-learning-4/
Click on the daily stars for teacher inputs!
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New Lunch Menu
Wed 28 Oct 2020From the start of November we will have a number of chaanges to our school lunches as we move to our Winter Menu. Have a look here to see what your child can choose each day.
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Rainbow day raises over £300!
Fri 23 Oct 2020What a fabulous day we have had in our Rainbow colours! It has been really uplifting for us all to work together to fund raise for our new Rainbow Learning Garden. You have helped to raise over £300!
Thank you everyone.
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SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL OPENING OF A RESOURCE BASE FOR CHILDREN WITH A HEARING IMPARIMENT AT NEWLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL 2022
Fri 16 Oct 2020Please follow this link to find out more about the Consultation on Changes to Resource Bases for Hearing Impairment at Southampton Mainstream Schools:
https://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-democracy/have-your-say/hearing-impairment.aspx
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Win a signed Team GB Kit (and other prizes)
Thu 15 Oct 2020Last year, one of our talented pupils entered and won a book token for her fantastic writing.
Will you be the next winner?
Follow the link below to find out more. (This is an external link not associated with Newlands School).
Take the Haiku Challenge and become a winner
You will find lots of resources to help you write a Haiku (a type of poem) and full details.
The deadline is in early January but get your entry in early and let us know if you are a winner! Your teacher would be interested to see your Haiku in any case.
