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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.

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.

Children’s Art Day events for 2010 run across the week 12th to 18th July 2010.

On the engage in the visual arts web pages you can find out what is going in in your favourite part of the city.

From a family day on Saturday at the Whitechapel Gallery from 12 – 4pm, to a taster session in Chinese art at the Chinese Comunity Centre in Gerrard Street – there is a range of free activities available.

Children’s Art Day is the UK-wide programme encouraging children, young people, families and teachers to engage with the visual arts. Events will take place across the UK between 12-18 July 2010.

Read more about the arts activities this week here.

With the summer holiday fast approaching you can find lots of activities for the break in the Waltham Forest Summer Daze 2010 publication.

Packed with ideas for activities, the different centres offering sport and a borough wide view of things to do for children and young people across all ages.

We’ve put a link on the latest issue of SpeakEasy, which is always available online too.

Check out you Summer Daze activities on this Waltham Forest web page here.

Free software to download is available here – to help you view and print pdf files.

Following the recent Newport School World Cup competition, the BBC have produced a World Cup school photo page.

Schools from around the world have contributed images to the BBC News website – showing how they have responded to the World Cup.

Have a look at the faces of the school teams from Chile to Uganda.

Do they remind you of your World Cup experience at Newport School?

Read more here…

It is estimated that some 70,000 volunteers will be needed to help get the 2012 events under way.

Volunteering England have just set up some new web pages to help you find out about volunteering as part of the 2012 Olympic events.

Whether you can spare some time to volunteer at a Children Centre, school or even as part of the international team at the 2012 Games – the Volunteering England I Want to Volunteer pages are a great place to start.

Read more here…

The Wadham Players are staging a performance of The Story of Cinderella on Saturday 10th July 2010.

An adaption of the classic fairytale by Charles Way – the event takes place for family members of all ages, starting at 3.00pm.

The event will be staged at the Waterworks Nature Reserve and Golf Centre in Lammas Road, off the Lea Bridge Road.

For ticket prices and more information visit the event pages of the Lea Valley Park website here.

You can read about the origins of Cinderella on these Wikipedia pages.

There is more event and activity information always on the Waltham Forest Council web site – see more here.

From the 28th June to the 4th July 2010 is Deaf Awareness Week.

Nearly 15% of our population have some form of deafness.

The theme for this year is ‘Look at Me’, which seeks to help hearing people understand the different forms of communication needed for different forms of deafness.

Whether deaf, deafened, deafblind or hard of hearing, will determine whether children use sign language or lip reading throughout their lives.

The Deaf Awareness Week web site has lists of organisations who use good practice for deaf people. There is a diary of events for the week, as well as leaflets that can downloaded from this page.

Visit the Deaf Awareness Week web site to get more information.

We are looking to recruit a new class teacher at Newport for September 2010.

If you would like to join our team and help Newport School deliver then you can see more details on our vacancies page on  our main school website.

If you know a great teacher who would be perfect to join the Newport team, then forward this blog entry to them – we’ll be happy to receive their application.

Look forward to hearing from you!