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• Attendance Bike Raffle

  Wed 13 Jul 2016 Headteacher

  We are delighted to announce that David from Parrot Class was the lucky winner of our Attendance Bike Raffle this year! His lucky ticket was picked from the pot and believe it or not he had 100% attendance for the year as well!

   

   

  

• We are the champions!

  Wed 13 Jul 2016
  Congratulations to team Newlands who "totally smashed it" and won the Federation Sports Day at Fairisle Junior today. Well done for a brilliant performance and for your positive mental attitudes!

  

• Year 6 Production

  Tue 12 Jul 2016

  Today, Year 6 performed their final show to parents. The performance of 'Robin Hood and the Sherwood Hoodies' gave a new take on the classic story and played through an almost constant stream of puns, jokes and one liners. The children performed with confidence and spoke and sang clearly.

  The audience really enjoyed this last chance to see the current Year 6 perform before they move on to secondary schools.

  Well done Miss Flagg, Mr Jeffery, Mrs Healey and Miss Parsons for all the preparation.

  

• Sounds of the Stadium

  Tue 05 Jul 2016

  Videos now available on this website - Look in the Gallery in the 'Children' section

   

  Newlands Primary joined schools from across the city, the Isle of Wight and Hampshire to perform to parents and family at St Mary's Stadium, home of the Saints.

  Almost all of our Key Stage Two Children travelled by coach to the stadium where they performed songs that they had been preparing for many weeks.

  The staff, children had a fantastic, fun and musical time singing along with CJ Edwards, the Southampton Youth Orchestra and the electric string trio Cordelectra.

   

  

• Redbridge AGT Science session

  Fri 01 Jul 2016

  This week another 5 able science pupils were invited to take part in a workshop provided for Year 5 pupils from feeder schools to Redbridge Secondary School.

   

  This week the activity related to turning rock salt into pure salt.

  There were four stages to this process.

  Grinding the rocksalt

  Adding this powder to water and stirring so that the salt became dissolved.

  Filtering this solution.

  Heating the clear solution to evaporate the water leaving pure salt crystals.

   

  The children had great fun, particularly using the bunson burners in the final stage.

   

  Thre children were a credit to our school and demonstrated a sound scientific knowledge and use to technical vocabulary. 

  

• Sailing group graduate

  Wed 29 Jun 2016

  Over the past four weeks 15 children from Yr 5 have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to try out sailing.

  The sessions were run by the Southampton Water Activity Centre (SWAC) based on the River Itchen, next to the Itchen Bridge. They were paid for by Associated British Ports.

  Last Tuesday was the final session and the children were presented with their certificates, together with a T shirt from the sponsors.

  Some of the children who took part in the sailing are shown below. Everyone had a challenging but rewarding time. What an excellent opportunity. Our thanks to SWAC and ABP.

  

• Key Stage 2 Sports Day

  Tue 28 Jun 2016

  At last the weather came right for a very successful KS2 Sports Day on Tuesday.

  Every year the organisation becomes slicker and every year new records are made. The morning was spent on throwing and jumping events, whilst the afternoon was set aside for children's running events and the parent's javelin throwing competition.

   

  The final part of the day was the certificate presentation. Our thanks to Mr Harris for organising the day, he proved to be the master of the microphone as he compered the afternoon's activities.

   

  Have a look below to see some of the photographs of the day.

  

• Queen's 90th birthday celebration

  Mon 27 Jun 2016

  We were delighted to see so many families join us for the afternoon to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. 

   

  The sunshine came out, the children had great fun making their kites and the wind blew so that they could fly them!  There was a very long queue for the ice cream van provided by Crowns Ices and we do hope that you all got one in the end.

   

  Mrs Cook and the catering team excelled themselves making scones and cakes for all to enjoy free of charge.  Mrs Broderick made a fabulous photo board with help from Mr West and many people had great fun having their photo taken as the Queen or a corgi.  There were some very interesting facts and letters to the Queen from Year 5 on display and Mr Harris kept things moving with his microphone skills.

   

  Thank you for your donations towards the refreshments and for the support of Peggy's raffle.  You contributed £150 to school funds.

   

  We hope you enjoyed the afternoon as much as we did.  Here are a few photographs.

   

   

  

• Yr 5 AGT Science Workshop at Oasis Academy

  Sun 26 Jun 2016

  On Friday afternoon 8 of our best scientists in Year 5 were invited to Oasis academy to attend a  Federation Science workshop. The event was also attended by children from Redbridge and Fair Isle Schools.

   

  After a safety briefing the children tested different metallic compounds to see what colours they produced.  

   

  The second part of the afternoon was a demonstration showing how colours in chemistry could be observed in solutions and in burning liquids.

   

  The children left the event inspired and excited about the idea of continuing their science work.

  

• Healthy Eating Week

  Fri 17 Jun 2016
  This week has been Healthy Eating Week!  The children have been working hard on healthy challenges every day this week, including:  trying new things, eating 5 fruit and vegetables, drinking plenty and being active!  In class children have been learning about healthy eating and trying new healthy food.  In the dinner hall we have tried flavoured water and melon boats.  Let's try and keep up our healthy eating challenges in the weeks to come!