Newport School Blog

Posts Tagged ‘children’

We have a new initiative for the new term. Why not join the FAB team.

If you care about people being bullied why not jon the Newport Fab team. You’ll be working with others to help spread the word about stopping bullies. Helping others learn something about themselves, whilst you learn something about yourself too!

Join the team and help support others – make Newport a FAB school.

You can see the FAB web page on the school site for more information here. Sign up and we’ll see you there.

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.

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.

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…

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.