Good morning everyone,
Following on from my post yesterday, I thought I would share a fantastic resource produced by Place2be. This year is the 10th year of Children’s mental health week by Place2be. Below you will find some top tips for families as well as some great conversation starters.
Take care,
Mrs Ollerenshaw
This week is the official Place2Be Children’s Mental Health Week!
Children’s mental health week is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children! At NJS, we will be supporting children’s mental health week and completing a variety of tasks throughout the school week. This year the theme is…
Keep an eye out for what we get up to this week! I will also be sharing a variety of resources each day to support with any conversations you may have at home.
Take care,
Mrs Ollerenshaw
Some children in year 4 have asked about potential music lessons. Below, you will find the link to the Telford and Wrekin website where all the details are. You are able to apply for lessons online.
https://www.telfordandwrekinmusic.co.uk/parents/
We currently have children taking Violin, Guitar and Brass lessons at NJS. Alongside this, we also have Rocksteady.
If you have any questions, please contact myself or the office.
Many thanks,
Mrs Ollerenshaw
Good morning year 4!
In this message, we are asking for your help… as you know NJS will be completing a ‘Wax Work Museum’ on Thursday 8th February. More details for this will follow soon!
For this, children are asked to come dressed as someone who is inspirational to them! We will be completing some work in our English which will build up to a biography. The biography will be available to see during the wax work museum, which will be displayed next to your child as as display/poster/oversized presentation (see below).
We are asking if you could have some conversations at home regarding who your child would possibly choose. This will help the children feel more prepared when we ask them to choose a person. We are looking forward to helping the children create a biography for the event in the 8th of February!
We hope you enjoy having a conversation about who they may possibly choose and we look forward to sharing our inspirational people with you in February!
Many thanks,
The Year 4 Team!
If you need any inspiration…
1. Have a look on google – lots of information about many inspirational people can be found.
2. The Little People, Big Dreams books are amazing! We will have a range available for the children to look at during English lessons.
This morning, we went into the hall to use the musical instruments to create a soundscape. We’ve looked at many elements to music including the orchestra and instruments we may see in one. The challenge we had was to create a soundscape inspired by a piece of art.
What an amazing job all of the groups did! The team work and listening was exceptional and I was very proud of them all for being so creative.
Well done 4OP!
We thought we would share our amazing final pieces of art from today! 
We are all artists! What a great afternoon we had creating a journey using symbols to represent different objects.
Good morning everyone,
This week year 4 have a fantastic opportunity to have a lesson within the music department at Burton Borough School. On Wednesday afternoon (06.12.23), we will be taking half of the year group at a time for a 45 minute lesson with the BBS music teachers.
As per the home school packs (signed at the start of the year), permission for local visits (like BBS) has already been agreed. Anyone who doesn’t have permission will remain in school.
We will be heading to BBS in the afternoon only and we will be back just before the end of the school day.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Many thanks,
Mrs Ollerenshaw, Mr Moody and Mrs Naylor
Good morning,
Just a quick reminder that on Wednesday 29th November at 10am, we will be putting on a little violin concert for all parents/carers of children in 4OP. We really hope that you are able to attend to see just how well the children have done. Olivia (the music teacher) will be able to share much more with you about the 10 weeks.
See you Wednesday!
Mrs Ollerenshaw
Anti-Bullying Week 2023 is coordinated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. This year it has the theme ‘Make A Noise About Bullying’ and will take place from Monday 13th to Friday 17th November.
At NJS, the children are all completing different tasks in class around the theme of bullying. We want to be a ‘bully buster’ at NJS! What is Bully Buster? Well, a bully buster at NJS is someone who takes action when bullying is happening; someone who helps those around them and someone who speaks up! All children have designed a ‘bully buster’ badge and had in depth discussions on what they included and why.
Alongside the tasks in class, the whole school attended an assembly where Wellbeing Mentors from BBS came along. The children from Burton Borough were fantastic and shared some key messages with the children. What bullying is? What to do if they are being bullied? And many more.
Here is the presentation that BBS delivered:
Final Anti-Bullying Week 2023 – Primary Assembly
Here you will find some pictures from our assembly with BBS:
Bullying is NOT welcome at NJS! Check us out making some noise in our assembly!
Here are some fantastic links you may find useful:
Newport C.E. Junior School
Avenue Road,
Newport,
Shropshire
TF10 7EA
Tel: 01952 386600
Head Teacher: Mrs Nicola Moody
School Business Manager: Lesley Green
