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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.