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The Borough now has a great web site, in partnership with disabledGo, to access information on buildings and venues in our area, which tells you all about their access potential and services.

The pages give you information on over 1,000 venues in the borough, giving people with particular access needs much greater opportunity to participate in local events.

You can search the pages by classification and see detailed access data for each entry. A great resource for families needing information on access and disability issues.

Read more details and search the index here…

Transport for London have just issued a bulletin to let service users know that members of the RMT and TSSA will be taking industrial action from the evening of Monday 6th September 2010.

It is not expected that normal service will be resumed until Wednesday evening.

You can always find the latest travel information of the TfL website here.

The Newport Green team are going to be a great, energetic force to help Newport School to become a greener place in the coming terms.

You can join the Newport Green Team and work with others to develop this exciting new team-working project.

Why not get an application form from the office and return it to Mr. Biddulph or the Prefects? Read more here…

You’ll be helping others as part of the Newport Pupil Leadership Team.

We have a new initiative for the new term. Why not join the FAB team.

If you care about people being bullied why not jon the Newport Fab team. You’ll be working with others to help spread the word about stopping bullies. Helping others learn something about themselves, whilst you learn something about yourself too!

Join the team and help support others – make Newport a FAB school.

You can see the FAB web page on the school site for more information here. Sign up and we’ll see you there.

Summer tree news – Waltham Forest is carrying out a consultation on the development of it’s current Tree Strategy.

You can fill in an on-line survey (it only takes a couple of minutes) and you will get your chance to comment on the landscape in our Borough.

You can visit the Waltham Forest Tree Strategy 2010-20 web page here. On this page you view and download the documents about the strategy, before expressing a view.

The on-line survey is available here.

Keeping the Borough green in Waltham Forest.

There will be a free Jazz Picnic at Lloyd Park on Saturday 8th August.

You can enjoy the music and the sunshine with your family on the field, while listening to music. A great outdoor event.

Lloyd and Aveling Park has a page on Flickr, where you can see how young and old family members use the spaces in the park.

Lloyd and Aveling Park is getting a massive £3.5million from the Heritage and BIG Lottery funds and an additional £1million from the Council will be spent on restoring the park, with new facilities and more staff.

See you there? For more information call 020 8496 3000.

We have just published Newport School key dates for the Autumn term and onwards into 2011.

You can see the details on the key dates  page here.

Helping to keep children, parents and carers informed about our school.

If you have a message for school, or just want to comment on our work or support, then you can send the school team a one click message on our contact us page. We are always happy to get your feedback.

The Vestry House Museum in Waltham Forest have a Shades of Green exhibition – running from the 7th to the 29th August.

This display is going to be a ‘…feast of forests, with a great display of the idyllic gardens and summer in Waltham Forest’.

From the 3rd to the 12th September the museum has the return of the ever popular E17 Art Trail. The theme for the displays and activities this year is ‘Welcome to Walthamstow’.

The E17 Art Trail have a great web site where you can see images from last years events and venues, as well as details of how the displays and participants are organised.

Get ‘arty’ this summer with all the family and the Vestry House Museum.

Newport School is looking for a new member of staff for September 2010.

You can find details of this school vacancy on our school jobs page on the Newport School web site.

There is an information pack about the post, as well as an application form that you can download and complete.

Do browse our website, look at our galleries and see the links to our Children Centre. They will give you an insight into the work of the school and its team, while you are preparing your application.

We look forward to receiving it at Newport School.

This summer many families and children may be traveling abroad to visit family and friends.

The NHS have produced a new website packed with information about traveling healthily, telephone advice lines and up to date health information on destination countries.

NaTHNaC is the National travel Health Network and Centre, its pages designed to keep parents, carers and children informed on travel health issues.

Planning a trip with the children? Bookmark the NaTHNaC pages, or follow their health bulletins on Twitter.