Newport School Blog

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We are pleased that from the 30th June 2012 parents and carers will be able to buy your school uniform online, courtesy of the retailer Marks and Spencer.

You will be able to find the full range of our school’s uniform including embroidered products, and plain trousers, skirts, shirts, and more in our school’s approved colours.

More information can be found on our uniform page on the main school site. There is a detailed information leaflet that you can view, print or download on the page too.

You can explore the Marks and Spencer school uniform shop online here.

Every purchase you make contributes a small amount to our funds too. We hope you enjoy using our new online facility.

Don’t forget that the local elections will take place in England on 3rd May 2012.

Our School and Nursery will be closed except for use as a polling station on that day.

You can find out more information about the Local Elections in England on the pages of The Electoral Commission. You can read more here…

The Commission also have web pages that can tell you more about the elections for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. You can see more here…

If you would like more information on voting in general, why not visit the About My Vote website – full of useful information about how to register to vote, moving house, students and their vote and more. See About My Vote here…

Did you know that Waltham Forest has a fantastic School Meals Service?

Working in partnership with Borough schools and guided by the School Meals Strategy, the service strives to create healthy and nutritious meals for our children.

You can visit the School Food Trust web pages to see how the government’s rigorous nutritional standards are put into effect in Waltham Forest.

The LBWF School Meals page also has some great recipes, how to apply for free school meals and menu items for each school term.

If you are thinking about your child’s nutritional welfare whilst at school this is a fantastic resource – check out the School Meals pages here.

The Newport team.

We are pleased to have just published our latest Ofsted Inspection Report for Newport School.

You can view or download a .pdf version of this document on our ‘Ofsted ‘ page – see more here.

We have also posted today a vacancy for a Newly Qualified teacher to start with our school in September 2011.

You can find an application form, job description and supporting information papers regarding this post on this page of our main web site.

The Newport team…

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.

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.

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.