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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Harvest Festival performance

  Fri 20 Oct 2023

  Friday morning was filled with joy as the whole school joined in with the harvest festival celebrations; dragonfly class came into their first ever assembly and performed their 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow' song with sweet and tuneful voices and they sat beautifully and watched the rest of the school perform. Year 1 gave a great rendition of 'Big Red Combine harvester', followed by Badger class with their 'George Ezra style harvest song'. Otter class sang an acapella version of 'For the Harvest', followed by 'Conkers' performed confidently by Fox class; Robin class sang the harvest samba - with dancing vegetables, which bought many smiles to the room and the final performance was Falcon class, who performed a dramatic reading of the poem 'Autumn poem' with brilliant actions and intonation. It was quite a fantastic morning.

  

• Chloe Inkpen, the author and illustrator, visits Newport

  Mon 05 Jun 2023

  We were so lucky to have Chloe Inkpen, author and illustrator, join us for the day on Monday. She worked with all classes and ran workshops, storytelling sessions, draw along creative tasks and talked to the children about how she became a writer and about her love of books. She talked to us about her dad, Mick Inkpen - the well known author of Kipper books, and told us how she loved to sit in his writing workshop and watch him write. We heard how she came up with her characters and KS1 and YR particularly loved her storytelling with voices, especially the witch. We all loved joining in with her characters as well as helping her to create new characters in drawing.

  Ks2 classes enjoyed having a go at drawing her characters and they listened and watched very carefully to get all the details.

  

• Team Newport runs the Cambridge half marathon

  Sat 11 Mar 2023

  Team Newport runs the half marathon and we made the press! Click on the link to read more:

  https://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/23377437.newport-primary-school-staff-pupil-raise-thousands/

  Thank you everyone for your donations to 'raise a penny to spend a penny' we loved every single minute! 

• World Book Day 2023

  Fri 03 Mar 2023

  Newport school had a fabulous day on Thursday celebrating ‘World Book Day’ and the theme this year was ‘bedtime reading in pyjamas’. The whole school dressed in their PJ’s and bought in their favourite books to share.

  The day started with a whole school assembly, where we shared their books bought in and discussed favourite genres; we then watched Tom Fletcher read his story ‘There’s a monster in this book’ and joined in with him. They then watched Tom talking all about how he gets ideas and got some inspiration for how to create their own books.

  The children enjoyed being introduced to Mrs Pine’s special books, wrapped up in brown paper and string; these have been set up to inspire children to selecting a book based on its blurb, and Leo in Y6 told the school these books were good for thinking ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’. Many children flocked to Mrs Pine’s room to have a read of those books.

  The children were left with a challenge to work as a whole school, to find an author for every letter of the alphabet…and they completed it! Well done team Newport.

  In classes, the children took part in many book activities during the day and had lots of fun; potato characters were created, stories about Supertato were written, bookmarks made and Y6 enjoyed recreating their own versions of ‘Tom Fletcher’s stories’. A whole school travelling story also visited every class throughout the day; starting in YR who wrote the opening,Y1 who set the scene, Y2 who set the characters, Y3 who wrote the build up, Y4 who wrote a problem, Y5 who wrote the resolution and finally, Y6, who wrote the ending. The story was read out in assembly on Friday and children loved to see how their ‘class part’ fitted in with the rest of the story.

  The children left with book tokens in hand and were looking forward to spending them in store over the weekend.

• Megson concert

  Tue 28 Feb 2023

  The folk group 'Megson' came and visited the school on Tuesday to give a live performance to the children; it was so lovely to see and hear 'live' music in the hall. The children loved learning about all the different instruments they played and learned all about how the band formed, where they have played and what the different pedals and instruments did.

  We then were treated to a concert of songs for the next hour. Everyone joined in - children and staff - and some even remembered their favourite tunes from the last time they visited - 3 years ago!

  The children sang, joined in with actions and loved hearing the different instruments; from the banjo to the kazoo, they had great fun!

  

• Christmas at Newport

  Fri 16 Dec 2022

  We all enjoyed a fun, festive season at school and took part in so many Christmas activities; we went to the church, as a school, to perform our Christmas Carol service; KS2 classes also sang carols outside school each day in the last week. On the last day, we invited parent helpers to a festive assembly, wearing our Christmas jumpers and sang 'The Twelve days of Christmas' and then we all enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch, followed by class parties. 

  

• Magical Christmas Journey - Christmas play from YR, 1 & 2

  Wed 14 Dec 2022

  Dragonfly, Hedgehog and Badger class had great fun performing their play 'Magical Christmas Journey' to both the school and parents this week; they sang their hearts out and performed with glee! They told the story of 6 children who thought they knew what Christmas was all about...until they met a talking tree and a magical talking star who showed them the 'real' story of Christmas. They met angels, shepherds, 'abaaaannnndooooned' sheep and wise men...and Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. They had great fun performing 12 songs and getting in their costumes and working together to make the show great.

  

• Snow in Newport!

  Mon 12 Dec 2022

  We all woke up to a blanket of fresh snow this morning - just look at how pretty everything looked. Before school, Fergie explored the field and grounds and did a site check with Mrs Mortimer; then the children arrived. 

  We all had a great morning playing in the snow with the whole school - have a look at the pictures!

  

• Remembrance Sunday

  Sun 13 Nov 2022

  The Youngest and oldest students of Newport School, along with Mrs Pine, went to the church on Sunday to take part in our Remembrance event and to lay the poppy wreaths made by Year 1 students. 

  It was lovely to see so many representatives of school and we marched with the Brownies, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts to the memorial and took part in the 2 minute silence along with lots of Newport residents.

  

• Sports Day

  Fri 10 Jun 2022

  It was a delight to have a proper sports day back on the school calendar; the children loved their day and it was a joy to have parents into school to watch the events.

  A day full of sunshine saw KS2 complete their events in the morning, followed by KS1 doing theirs in the afternoon. The children all competed for their house teams and showed great skills in different events consisting of: basketball throwing, bean bag targets, obstacle races, long jump, zig zag running, hockey dribbling and speed bounce. With carousel events completed, each class then ran their sprint races to cheers of onlookers as they hurtled down the track! One Y1 child commented that 'This is the best day ever!' and I totally agree with that thought. It was lovely to see the children working together in mixed teams showing real 'Teamwork Tamwar' skills and to see the other Super Squad skills of focusing and persevering also being very useful in competing in events.

  Well done Team Newport.