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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 for parents with Romanian and Polish to help translate our maths test questions.

Can you help us during week commencing 14th June 2010. Times can be flexible to suit.

Contact Ms. McIntyre if you can help us with this important job.

Thank you.

(You can translate our web pages and on-line newsletters into over 30 languages by using the translate box at the top of every page. Helping you get more from your information sources at Newport School).