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LASP 2022 February Half Term Information
Pupils at Newminster Middle School are invited to come into school on Friday 18th March 2022 wearing non uniform with a ‘Splash of Red’ to support the charity Comic Relief. Each student in school will also be working with local artist, Bethan Laker, across the course of the day, as part of a ‘Comedy Big Draw’ event.
Red noses will be on sale during registration periods (year 8 pupils will come around) from the first Monday back after half term. They are priced at ÂŁ1.50 each and pupils will need to bring cash into school if they want to purchase them.
Lego have teamed up with Comic Relief this year and are running a competition to create a lego habitat for each of the nose characters (more info in slides attached). Pupils need to send their habitat designs or photos of their ‘lego makes’ to Ms Jones (charlotte.jones@the3rivers.
On Thursday 15th February 2022, pupils at Newminster Middle School raised money for the charity SignHealth. They raised nearly ÂŁ500 by holding a non uniform day and learning to sing and sign,using makaton, two songs, ‘Gospel Medley’ (which actually had 3 spirituals within it – ‘Oh When the Saints’, ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ and ‘Swing Low’) and ‘Believe’.
We learnt that being deaf does not stop you achieving your dreams and goals. We were shown video clips of Rose Ayling-Ellis winning Strictly Come Dancing 2021. We learnt about how she was not able to hear the music so she had to feel the vibrations, watch her partner carefully and count the pulse of the music in her head when she danced.
I have loved learning Makaton signs and hope to continue this throughout my time at Newminster Middle School. I am already looking forward to next year’s Sign2Sing event.
Article written by Isla in year 6
Encouraging people to cycle through fixing bikes, teaching skills and leading bike rides.
There are 2 types of Free School Meals:
⢠Universal Free School Meals â every child from the beginning of Reception until the
end of Year 2 is eligible to a hot meal through a government funded scheme
regardless of individual financial circumstances. You do not need to apply for this
your childs school will make the appropriate arrangements for this.
⢠Income Related Free School Meals â It is still essential that if you are entitled to
income related free school meals you apply, as greater benefits will be
received for your child, your childâs school and yourself.
OFSTED NOTIFICATION:
We have just received notification that we will be inspected by Ofsted on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th January. Further details regarding the inspection, including how you can share your views, have been emailed out to you. Thank you in advance for your support with our inspection process.Â
The pupils at Newminster Middle School have been learning to sign and sing songs using makaton and BSL ready to join the yearly Sign2Sing event on Tuesday 15th February 2022. This will be done in year groups and will take place in the Newminster School hall or outside during the school day.
We think this is a terrific initiative which has taught the children a new and valuable skill as well as raising awareness of Deaf issues.
SignHealth, which is a national charity dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of deaf people, are behind the event. SignHealth is simply asking for a ÂŁ1 donation in return for wearing non uniform on Tuesday 15th February 2022 and taking part. All money raised will go towards helping SignHealth transform the lives of thousands of people living in the UK.
For more information about sign2sing please visit www.sign2sing.org.uk
These are the links to the songs we are performing for the event.
Gospel Medley – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Believe – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Thank you for supporting this exciting challenge and helping to âinspire a generation to signâ.
Christmas lunch is being served in school on 16th December. See the menu below.
Following the government’s announcement last week that all students of Secondary school age (Years 7 and 8 in Newminster) should be tested on-site before returning to school after the Christmas holidays, please see below arrangements for testing at our school. Testing will help reduce transmission after a period of social mixing over the school holidays.Â
Please click here to read the letter sent to parents
This year we attempted to do a particularly complex challenge to raise money for Children in Need. We made a Pudsey and Blush face on a huge scale from coloured items pupils brought into school. This was in the style of the TV show âArt Attackâ.
We asked each pupil (560 in school)to bring into school a certain coloured everyday item from home such as clothing, teddy, pillow case, bowl, ball, etc (around 20cm square in size) today. So the pupils could creare bear faces and take a picture of the Art from the air using a drone.
