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…

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.

There will be a free Jazz Picnic at Lloyd Park on Saturday 8th August.

You can enjoy the music and the sunshine with your family on the field, while listening to music. A great outdoor event.

Lloyd and Aveling Park has a page on Flickr, where you can see how young and old family members use the spaces in the park.

Lloyd and Aveling Park is getting a massive £3.5million from the Heritage and BIG Lottery funds and an additional £1million from the Council will be spent on restoring the park, with new facilities and more staff.

See you there? For more information call 020 8496 3000.

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.

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.

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.

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…