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Newlands celebrate BOOK WEEK

Mon 09 Mar 2020 Mrs Bloomfield

Last week was BOOK WEEK and we had an amazing array of inspirational activities to celebrate reading and books across the school. The week started with a visiting story teller, Pat Ryan, who entertained us all with his workshops.

In classes, we studied a book for the week and transformed our classroom doors with some of our favourite reads.

On Wednesday, we had a Book Swap event and staff were amazed at the range of high quality books that were brought in to swap with others - thank you everyone who supported this.

Thursday was the BIG BOOKY READ. Adults picked stories and books to share with children all around the school.

Friday, we celebrated World Book Day with incredible costumes and sharing stories with other classes across the school.

Well done to everyone for your efforts, your competition entries and your extreme read photos!

SCIENCE WEEK IS COMING!

Fri 06 Mar 2020

BREAKFAST CLUB ENJOYS PANCAKE DAY!

Tue 25 Feb 2020

Breakfast Club celebrated Shrove Tuesday this morning with pancakes, fruit and a splash of maple syrup or honey. The children gave breakfast the big thumbs up!

WORLD BOOK WEEK coming soon!

Tue 25 Feb 2020 Mrs Bloomfield

Dear Parents/Carers,

NEWLANDS BOOK WEEK: Monday 2^nd March – Friday 6^th March

It is that exciting time of year again when Newlands gets to go reading crazy and celebrate ‘Newlands’ Book Week’. There will be a variety of events taking place across the school to unite the children in a love for reading.

We have a real treat in store for our children this year, as Patrick Ryan who is a famous children’s storyteller, will be visiting us on Monday 2^nd March to share a range of stories with the children across the school.

There will be a ‘Book Swap’ on Wednesday 4^th March. If your child has some old books (in good condition) at home that they do not need any more, they can exchange them for up to that number of books at our Book Swap. They will be given a voucher for the number of books they can have, depending on how many they have brought in.

Please could they bring their books for swapping into school by Tuesday 3^rd March.

The ‘Share a Story’ will take place on Wednesday 4^th March – classes will pair up so children across the school can share books together. If your child has a favourite book they would like to bring in to share this day, they are welcome to do so. (Please make sure it has your child’s name on it).

Dressing up day – On Friday 6th March we would like your child to dress up as their favourite book character. We are hoping to see lots of imaginative ideas and will be giving prizes to the best costume in each year group. We have chosen Friday because this is the day for our whole school assembly (so we get to see everyone’s costumes J) and we wanted to end the week by dressing up and celebrating.

ALSO…..

£1 Book Tokens: Your child will receive a free World Book Day token. When you get your token, all you need to do is take it to your local bookseller and swap it for one of the FIFTEEN exclusive, new and completely FREE World Book Day books.

Extreme Reading Competition: This competition is all about reading in extreme or at least very unusual places! All you have to do is take a photo on your smartphone of your child reading and email them in to the school at info@newlandsprimary.co.uk for our display during Newlands’ World Book Week. The winners will be announced in assembly at the end of the week. Happy snapping!

Overall, it will be an exciting and rewarding week filled with stories, competitions, dressing up and much more wonderful experiences for the children to ignite their love for books.

Mrs K. Bloomfield and Miss Keens

Reading Team

Newlands becomes a real Legacy School

Mon 03 Feb 2020 Mr Harris

We have some very exciting news to share with you. Newlands Primary School is proud to announce that we are now a real legacy school and one of the first in Hampshire.

real legacy allows us to bring the school, home and the community together to enable cultural change. Our journey commenced with real gym and real PE teacher training to support our PE provision to develop the whole child and will extend across the school to include supporting families and the wider school community.

The school will be supported with teacher training, school-based support, fun real play activities for families, enrichment and competitive opportunities and supporting resources from Create Development all through a holistic approach to develop children's physical, personal, social and emotional skills.

Not only are we on a mission to get our children more active by developing the fundamental physical skills that are so often overlooked, our PE lessons are centred around the child to enable them to be successful in the classroom and in later life.

We look forward to keeping you up to date with our journey to create a new ambition for EVERY child.

Consultation - Changes to Resources Base for Hearing Impairment

Tue 28 Jan 2020

Please see the attached link regarding an exciting consultation which involves Newlands Primary. The Local Authority are carrying out a consultation regarding opening a new Resources Base for Hearing Impairment at our school in September 2021.

Consultation Document

Welcome Boxes for Refugees

Thu 16 Jan 2020

Pupils from Newlands Primary School have joined with children from schools across Southampton to assemble welcome boxes for refugees.

Southampton City Council is a City of Sanctuary and works with schools and other organisations to support refugees who settle in our city. Families and individuals who have been forced to leave their homes often have nothing at all and these boxes are designed to provide a few essentials to help them through their first few days.

Three of our Global Ambassadors attended today's workshop at John Hansard Gallery. At this event the boxes had items like sugar, milk loo rolls and basic toiletries packed in the boxes that had been decorated by the children.

Newlands is proud to be part of this important work of world citizenship.

Believe in Bees (and other wonderful natural things!)

Wed 18 Dec 2019

Mrs Zampedri and her busy helpers have done a fantastic job of designing a Christmas tree with a difference this year. The tree is entitled 'Believe in Bees' and the children have created it to remind us of the importance of bee conservation.

It is beautiful, as well as informative.

Have a look at our photos...you might be able to spot bug hotel designs too!