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

• Jubilee Celebrations

  Fri 27 May 2022

  Newport School enjoyed their Platinum Jubilee celebrations with a themed day and a street party; all of the children and staff arrived in school dressed in red, white and blue for a day of fun and the sun shone along with smiling faces.

  All classes had a day of learning about the Queen and each class took on a different part of her life to learn about; they then all completed artwork which contributed to a whole school display in the hall. We all made Jubilee hats to wear at lunchtime too.

  At lunchtime, we all went outside for a giant street party where 'takeaway boxes full of fish and chips' were enjoyed and we finished off with ice lollies and choc ices!

  The staff entered a bake off competition where they had to make marble cakes, which were then judged by a team of parents; cakes were scored for marbling, taste and presentation and the whole school loved being part of the audience as cakes were tasted and judged. The overall winner was Mrs Rafferty with her chocolate orange creation - and what a worthy winner it was!

  What a brilliant day of celebrations - take a look at the photos!

  

• Young Voices Concert at The 02

  Wed 04 May 2022

  Newport School had a fabulous time last week at the Young Voices concert in London and showed their amazing singing and dancing skills along with an arena of other schools. 

  The children have worked so hard to learn many songs, in parts and harmonies and added sign language and dance moves to the songs too. They joined 8000 children in the arena and spent the morning practising, before performing in the evening to a packed arena. 

  The concert was wonderful, the children sang their hearts out and there were definitely many tears of joy from parents at hearing the wonderous and powerful singing from all of the children. 

  Well done Newport.

• FONS Easter Fayre

  Fri 25 Mar 2022

  The Sun shone, as did the excitement with the children on Friday, as families and friends gathered for the FONS Easter fayre; the well organised event saw children hunting around the school grounds for the hidden eggs in order to collect their chocolatey prize. It was lovely to see the children enjoying, not only being at the event, but older children running the stalls and games too. Snacks, books and toys were bought and the human fruit machine went down a storm; it was also great to see the jewellery club selling their beautiful hand-made wares. Thank you to all of the FONS for organising this event and to families for supporting the school. 

  

• World Book Day

  Thu 03 Mar 2022

  Yesterday saw Newport celebrate another World Book Day and what a joy it was!

  Children were asked to dress as their favourite book character or a word...both of these choices of costume caused much guessing from the clues but everyone looked superb. 

  The day started with a whole school assembly where children could show off their costumes in classes and we also got to see everyone's other challenge...a book in a box.

  Well done to everyone who made a 'book in a box' - they were amazing and so creative! It really was a joy to see so many different books and authors being displayed with arts and crafts and in such an imaginative way. Have a look at the slideshow to see some of the different creations.

  

• Christmas Singing with YR, 1 and 2

  Wed 15 Dec 2021

  This afternoon, our youngest members of the school gave parents a concert in the playground at pick up time; Dragonfly, Hedgehog and Badger classes sang their Christmas play songs to mums, dads, nans and grandads and they sang their hearts out. They joined in with the actions with gusto and the biggest smiles...I think the whole of Newport may have heard them!

  Thank you to everyone who came and listened.

   

  

• Parent book look

  Mon 15 Nov 2021

  Newport School was so thrilled to open their doors once again to our wonderful families - it was a joy to have parents back in school and the children were so pleased to show off their hard work from this term. Each classroom welcomed parents for a 'book look' of their child's learning after school and there was a buzz of excitement as children shared their learning and proudly showed off their books.

  Thank you parents for coming.

  

• Goodbye to Year 6

  Wed 22 Jul 2020

  Today was the day when we said goodbye to our lovely Year 6 class at Newport; although we were still in 'social distancing lockdown', we still managed to give them a day to remember!

  We began with an outdoors assembly where the staff performed a song to them and we then moved onto: prize giving awards, presentation of hoodies and yearbooks and signing of T-shirts. Staff and the class (in bubbles) played a game of football rounders...needless to say, Year 6 won!

  Lunch time was held picnic style in the marquees outside and then the ever important 'water fight' and disco was held on the field...a wonderful day to remember; it was lovely to see the smiles on their faces that they could celebrate their last day at Primary school with a difference!

  

• Ronnie made the papers!

  Thu 25 Jun 2020

  Congratulations and well done to our fabulous Ronnie who has smashed his total for his charity project. Last week, he had an idea to raise money for the local food bank by cycling and this week, after much riding of his bike,  he has raised more than £1000! 

  Today he made the papers...keep pedalling Ronnie! 

  

• Getting 'VE' day ready

  Thu 07 May 2020 Miss k Chandler

  The children in school have enjoyed a pre VE day today in school; they have spent the day baking and icing biscuits, making banana and chocolate pancakes and baking chocolate brownies...it certainly smells delicious from the office! This week, they have also made bunting and have learnt about VE day - using their home learning packs.

  Today, we had a picnic lunch outside - self isolating on picnic rugs - in the glorious sunshine.

  Happy VE day tomorrow to the Newport community.

  

• World Book Day...and potato characters!

  Thu 05 Mar 2020 Miss K Chandler

  The school was a buzz of excitement and activity today as the children came in dressed as their favourite book characters and brought with them their decorated potato characters.

  Every creature from rabbits and unicorns to cats and tigers came in, along with Harry Potters, dinosaurs, Spidermen and even a soldier from War Horse; the outfits were, once again, amazing and the children really entered into the spirit of things.

  In classes, we all used the same book 'The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse' By Charlie Mackesy - a beautiful book with simple messages about friendship and kindness. We all themed work around this with classes: drawing and collaging the animals, sketching images, creating their own messages/phrases and thinking about particular pages and responding to them in different ways. The book has provoked lots of thinking this week in school. 

  We were lucky enough to also have another author visit from Bob Barnes, a local author, and his books about Arrek the Dragon. He led three workshops to the KS2 children and told them tales of dragons and all about the writing process - all while dressed in a dragon coat!

  The teachers joined in with the dressing up but were all themed as Mr Men and Little Miss - the children had great fun in assembly trying to name us all!

  Our other project - the potato characters- were an amazing addition to the day and are proudly displayed in the entrance hall along with books. The children (and their parents) are so creative...they look amazing - take a look!