Newport School Blog

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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…

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.

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.

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.

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 have today posted a Senior Management Team page on our school web site.

The Senior Team at Newport school are here to help – you can see us here.

You will find our school mission statement and aims on this page.

Newport School and Children Centre – working together to get learning going…

We have recently posted the minutes of the Parent/Carer Forum meeting held on the 25th February 2010.

You can see the details of what was discussed and what it was that those participating in the meeting asked questions about.

You can find the text on our Parent and Carer Forum page.

Thank you to everyone who took part.

We have today published a copy of our recent Ofsted report on our Ofsted page on the school website.

Parents, carers and children can see a letter from the Lead Inspector, as well as a downloadable copy of a version of the report.

There is also a link to the pre-inspection information we published last year.

You can also find a copy of  our latest governor report, a letter from our Chair – detailing the improvements that have already started.

We are holding a coffee morning, starting at 9.00am on Tuesday 9th February 2010, where you can drop in and let us know your ideas and suggestions for our Centre.

We are holding the event next to the Toy Library on the school site. Drop by and see what we are up to and how you can contribute to the changes at our our Centre.

You’ll be most welcome.

The Newport Children Centre Team

We have created a new web page on our school site, where you can get a brief overview of our new integrated logo designs for our school.

On the logo design page you can also download the complete design suite in Adobe pdf format to review.

We will be shortly publishing details on how you can vote for your favourite design.

You can find our design page here.

Thank you for reading our Newport School blog posts.

The Newport School team.