Mrs Fleming took to the airwaves this week for prospective parents, whose chances of visiting the school have been stymied by the coronavirus lockdown, and here is the result: a virtual tour of the school!
She also filmed two sets of two dedicated messages: two to all parents and carers, and two to all children. If you missed those, then check out Newton News for the links.
School may be officially 'closed' but we will still be open for keyworkers' children after the Easter holidays. Before the end of term, these children had a lovely time, whether it was running around outside in the warm spring sunshine, working on art projects or scientific force experiments, being led by the Year 8s in drama improv or catching up with their Study Packs. We owe so much to the staff who volunteered to travel in to school and enable these children to attend, thereby enabling frontline workers to continue going to work themselves. Along with the NHS, our staff are our heroes!
Newton children safely on lockdown at home were just as busy. Everyone worked hard on their Study Packs, but it was the range of activities above and beyond the curriculum that, as ever, astonished! Whether it was cooking courgettes, or making a weather report or having an online art lesson with your Grandma, or working out, as so many of you have done, with Joe Wicks, you were clearly all keeping busy and being model pupils for your parents...!
(for anyone who missed out on getting their photo into these collages, please check our Flickr site for the full set!)
As you know, Phase 2 of our pandemic response plan is being formed as we speak, by teachers busily learning for themselves and preparing rigorous Google Classroom programmes of online learning. Rest assured you will hear details of this during the Easter Holidays.
In the meantime, let us all wave remotely at each other and salute the industry, initiative and cheerfulness of the Newton community!
And finally, some snippets from the wonderful world of Newton Prep: a film showing this Year 6 boy's sheer industriousness, a film of a whacky new style of weather reporting from a Year 4 pupil, a science experiment from one family, and a cartoon drawn by one mother and her son for practising French Vocabulary!
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The D****** Family writes, "We received an online order of frozen meat today which came packed with dry ice, prompting a spontaneous science lesson in dressing gowns rather than lab coats. We talked about how dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide and it’s “dry” because it sublimates, i.e. as it warms, it changes from a solid directly to a gas. The smokey looking clouds are formed just like clouds in the sky as moisture in the air condenses on cooled particles. When we poured water on the dry ice, it bubbled as if it was boiling, but it was still cold. This was the carbon dioxide sublimating into gas bubbles and rising through the water."
