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School will be closed today, Monday, 19 January 2015, due to burst pipes and no heating. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please watch out for further updates.

Please note that our school has changed its postal address. We would be very grateful if the following address could be used for any future correspondence:

 

Newburn Manor Primary School

Millfield Lane

Newburn

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE15 8PD

Happy New Year!  We're looking forward to welcoming children back to school on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, at the usual time of 8.55 am.  We hope you've had a good holiday.  See you all soon!

Learning to Learn & the Best of British

Our teacher training day will be spent with colleagues from Lemington Riverside and Waverley Primary Schools. Our teachers will be thinking about 'learning to learn' and begin to emphasise the need to become lifelong learners. Our teachers will be thinking of ways to develop our understanding of how we learn.

As children move through our school we not only want them to be immersed in the ‘new’ formal curriculum but we also want to see them become increasingly aware of their ability to learn; we cannot know what knowledge will be most needed in the future and therefore we should try to encourage pupils to love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

We believe that ‘learning to learn' is a process of discovery about learning that enables learners to learn more effectively and so become learners for life. At its heart is the belief that learning is learnable.

At our school we therefore offer pupils an awareness of the 5Rs of lifelong learning through our curriculum planning and day to day lessons. The 5Rs of learning are:
 

1. Readiness - this shows in your motivation, curiosity, the belief that you can achieve and that you deserve to be successful.
2. Resourcefulness - characterised by learning with and from others, learning creatively in different ways, being flexible, applying what you have learned.
3. Resilience - this shows in keeping going, learning under stress, and managing your feelings about learning and the people you are learning with.
4. Responsibility - this shows in your self-awareness in learning, taking ownership of your learning, and being able to learn alongside others.
5. Reflection - this shows in looking back, improving your learning and performance, and practising.

We aim to develop the 5Rs in all our pupils so that they can and will continue learning effectively throughout their lives.


British Values
 
This term and in the future we are also thinking about what we consider to be British values and how we make children aware of these values within their curriculum work. At Newburn Manor Primary School these values are reinforced regularly - they are:
 

• democracy
• the rule of law
• individual liberty
• mutual respect
• tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

 
At Newburn Manor Primary School we actively promote these values through our curriculum, school ethos and effective role models.

 

Please collect your child from school by 1.30 pm.  Have a very Merry Christmas from all of the staff and pupils at Newburn Manor Primary School and a Happy New Year.

Please join us for carols at church on Friday Morning.  Service starts at 9.45 am.  Coffee afterwards at school.

We're really looking forward to erecting our new henhouse next Tuesday, 25 November 2014 and welcoming our new hens!  Many thanks to our friends from the fantastic Hen Power project who have been supporting us in this new venture.  To find out more about Hen Power please see this external link: http://www.programsforelderly.com/social-henpower-initiative-equal-arts.php

Tickets for this event are £3 each and are available now, before and after school, from the school office, school yard or Mrs McFadyen. Entrance fee includes juice, hotdog, crisps and a mix-up. There will also be a 'spooky room' to visit if children so wish! We request that children from Reception Class are accompanied at the disco by an adult, although older children are welcome to stay unaccompanied.  This event has been organised by Newburn Manor Primary PTFA Group.

Please come to our Harvest Celebration this Wednesday, 15 October 2014.  We will have assemblies at 10.00 am and 2.00 pm. If possible we would like parents of Years 3 - 6 to attend in the morning and Reception - Year 2 parents in the afternoon. Please arrive no later than 5 minutes before the performance as we will be unable to admit anyone once the children are seated. We will be very grateful for donations of fresh or tinned produce, in order that we can make up small food parcels to deliver to local senior citizens nominated by our pupils.

The proposed strike action by local government and school support staff workers, due to take place on Tuesday, 14 October 2014, has been called off by the unions involved.  The school will therefore open as usual on that day.