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• Year 6 have arrived and settled in...

  Mon 29 Oct 2018 Mrs Mellor

  Dear parents and brothers/sisters

  We have arrived safely, sorted out our bunks and rooms and eaten a tasty dinner. We have just sung a big happy birthday to Dylan and Emily.

  Our evening activity with Molly (our PGL Group Leader) is about to start - 'Around the World'.

  Tomorrow our activities include: Trapeze, Climbing Wall and a Hike ... maybe there will be an ice cream at some point too!

  Look out for more news.

  Love Year 6 xx

  

• Year 6 at PGL Osmington Bay

  Mon 29 Oct 2018
  Keep an eye out here for our latest updates, photos and news from the Year 6 residential visit to PGL Osmington Bay. We will do our best to add daily updates so that parents and families are kept informed. You won't believe what we've been up to...

• Year 6 visit Oasis Discovery Day

  Fri 28 Sep 2018
  On Friday 28th September our Year 6 children went on a Discovery Day to Oasis Lordshill where they joined in Science and English activities to enhance their Year 6 curriculum.

  

• Ofsted report is out - Newlands is a 'GOOD' school in every category.

  Thu 19 Jul 2018

  Ofsted June 2018.

   

  'Strong leadership from the Headteacher and senior leaders has continually improved the quality of education at the school.'

   

   

   

  

• Southampton in Bloom!

  Mon 09 Jul 2018
  Have a look at this year's wonderful Southampton in Bloom Award Winning Garden! Congratulations to our Gardening Club, Mrs Broderick and Mrs Zampedri for this amazing learning garden.

  

• School of Sanctuary Award

  Thu 21 Jun 2018

  Newlands has been recognised as a School of Sanctuary and Mrs Jones and three of our Global Ambassadors, were invited to the Mayor's Parlour along with the 8 other schools across the city to receive an award.

   

  Lucy, Lydia and Josh were received by the Mayor and the Mayoress and accepted the award on behalf of the school during a ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.  Josh tried on the Mayor's robes and all three pupils were invited into the Mayoress' parlour and sat on the sofa where Royal visitors sit when they visit Southampton.

   

  Our Global Ambassadors have also  been fundraising for a refugee school in Jordan through a tombola and cake stall after the KS2 Sports Day and raised £62.

   

  Parents are invited to attend a special assembly on Monday afternoon to learn more about our Global Week and School of Sanctuary Award.

  

• School of Sanctuary Visitor

  Mon 18 Jun 2018
  Today we had a visit from Stash Kozlowski. He is a volunteer at the charity SWVS (Southampton & Winchester Visitor Services) who befriend refugees and asylum seekers in Southampton. Stash led workshops with the children helping them to think about what it might be like to be a refugee.

  

• Women in Engineering

  Fri 08 Jun 2018

  To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, the Year 6 girls from Newlands were invited to attend a day of activities at the local  factory of Leonardo UK. This company design and make cameras and visual surveillance devices for the defence and other applications.

  The girls were able to see one of the thermal imaging camera worth £25000 and had their photos taken with prints to take home.

  After a tour of the facility, they enjoyed two workshops run by the Smallpeice Trust; they designed a parachute to land an egg safely when dropped from an outside staircase. In the afternoon, they designed, built and tested small, air-powered rockets.

  The girls had a great time and left with a very positive vision of what being an engineer might be like. They met a number of female engineers and apprentices who work at Leonardos.

  Our thanks to Leonardo UK who arranged and sponsored they day.

  

• Musical Treat

  Fri 25 May 2018

  Today the children were treated to a musical delight as the popular trio 'Chordelectra' came to perform to the children and staff.

  The group played a range of musical pieces on their electric violin, cello and viola.

  

• Safeguarding Update

  Fri 11 May 2018 Headteacher

  Dear Parents/Carers

  I am writing to inform you that there was an incident within the community this morning which took place just outside of the Windermere Avenue gates after the start of the school day. The incident was unrelated to our school and the police attended to deal with the disturbance.

  As a precaution we made the decision to carry out an external lockdown of the school, which involves locking all gates and doors. Staff were stationed at the inside of the gates and close liaison took place with the police.

  At the time of this happening all of the children who were in school were safe and going about their daily assemblies and learning tasks as usual. As an additional precaution, we delayed the departure of the Year R trip, keeping the children in their classrooms until we were certain that the bus could enter the school site and leave safely.

  After the police confirmed the incident had been dealt with by them, we began the process of communicating the end of the lock down to staff in school and then advising parents of the lock down via our text messaging service, and then our school app and Facebook page.

  Sadly we cannot control events which happen within the community, nor how this is communicated via the general public or in the press. However we can actively put our children’s safety first and then do our best to be efficient in our communication of any unforeseen events with all the relevant parties. If, for any reason, you did not receive the text message, please contact the school office to check we have the correct contact number for you.

  Safeguarding and protection of our children’s well-being is paramount in our school. Please be assured that if your child was in school with us today, they were safe, happy and going about their everyday school business as usual, unaware of the incident on Windermere Avenue.

  I would like to take this opportunity to thank my staff for their swift and decisive action to ensure that safety comes first.

  Thank you for your continued support.

   

  Mrs Mellor (Headteacher)