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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.

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.

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…

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.

Leytonstone School are running a range of activities for years 5 and 6 between 6th – 9th April.

From 10.00am to 1.00pm, then from 1.00pm to 3.00pm.

Activities include such things as basketball, table tennis and breakdancing.

All sessions are free and on a first come, first served basis. You can collect your registration form from the Leytonstone School office.

Keep busy and fit over the holiday.

The Parents, teachers and Friends Association at Newport School have donated £1,000 to the school so that we can buy some playground equipment,

A big thank you to everyone at the PTFA and everyone else who so kindly supports their fund-raising activities.

Thank you all!