At Newlands we aim to develop responsible, caring, proactive citizens who take pride in their local community and beyond. Our pupils learn about how they can make a difference through working with a variety of people e.g. families, the elderly, the young and those in need. Links are made with the local church and a variety of other places of worship, local care homes, our feeder schools, places of interest, local charities and volunteering organisations. We recognise our heritage learning about Clipstone Colliery and the local area and also take pride in our local environment by litter picking, recycling and supporting rangers at Vicar Water. 

VOLUNTEERING

Year 3 Parents and grandparents events 

Year 4 Singing at the local care home - Christmas, Easter, WW2

Year 5 Crafts at the local care home

Year 6 Buddy readers at John T Rice and with Years 3 and 4

CHARITY WORK

Year 3  Children's charities - Children In Need, Barnados

Year 4 Mental Health - Time to Talk, Hello Yellow, Young Minds

Year 5  Sherwood Forest Foodbank 

Year 6  Global charities - Oxfam, UNICEF 

PRESSURE GROUPS

Year 3 Litter picking and working with Rangers at Vicar Water, helping the planet

Year 4 Notts County Council and VEOLIA - recycling, helping the planet

Year 5 The Trussell Trust - ending poverty

Year 6 Christian Aid, Water Aid - tackling world poverty

FAMILY EVENTS

We love our family events at Newlands and regularly invite parents in to join us. Feedback is always positive and children love having their family memebers supporting them in school.

Here are some of our family events : 

Joining in with our lessons - Close Reading, Maths

Themed lunches and picnics

Grandparents' Mornings

Themed weeks - Diversity week, Science week

Sports Day and Sporting events

Assemblies and Concerts 

PTA events - Summer/ Christmas Fayres, Arts and Craft mornings.

Online safety and Anti-Bullying assemblies 

Topic days (wow events) - Parents are invited in for - afternoon teas, dances etc. 

Celebration of Learning - Parents look through work books and children get to speak about their learning. 

Year 3 Parent/Carer Lunch

All parents and carers were invited in to have lunch with their child. It went down really well. Some parents and carers had a school dinner and some brought their own lunch in with them. 

Year 3 went to John T Rice - 11th July 2024

The Year 3 children went to John T Rice to share their writing journals and performed their revolting rhymes. The Year 2 children enjoyed listening to them and the Year 3 children felt very proud!

Summer Fayre - 1st July 2024

A great turn out! Lots of interesting stalls and fun activities. Thank you all for coming and taking part. 

Whole school picnic - 24th June 2024

A great turn out on a beautiful sunny day!

 Year 4 visit to the Nursing Home - 17th June 2024

Some of the Year 4 children went off to the nursing home to sing WW2 songs.

Easter 2024

We joined Mr Darlington and Reverend Claire for an Easter service at All Saints Church.

March 2024  The Year 4 children had a lovely time when they visited a local care home to sing Easter songs. The residents really enjoyed it!

March 2024  We invited parents and carers to come into school to hear the Easter story and listen to Easter songs. It was a great turn out!

Year 6's Easter Grandparents Workshop March 2024

Many grandparents joined the Year 6 children to make pom-pom Easter themed animals. Everyone had a wonderful time.

March 2024

It was wonderful to be joined by so many of our Year 4 parents and grandparents for our Easter crafts. We all had a lovely time making and decorating Easter baskets, we even had a chocolate egg at the end! The grandparents and parents enjoyed a hot drink and a bacon roll.

Maths Workshop

Each class invited parents to come in to watch a maths lesson. They were able to watch the teaching and then look at the activities their child was given and the resources there used to support their learning.

February 2024 Y3 invited their loved ones to a Valentine's dinner. 

Anti - bullying Assembly November 2023

This year's theme was 'Make a noise about bullying.' We learned all about the effects of bullying and how to deal with them.

We ended the week by sharing the information with our parents/carers.

December 2023  Singing carols around the tree. 

December 2023 Christmas at All Saints Church.

Royal British Legion December 2023 

Former members of the armed forces visited school to thank us for our fundraising efforts each Remembrance day. We have raised the highest amount of money in the area.     

December 2023  Year 5 joined the residents of Red Oaks Care Home for an afternoon of Christmas crafts.

December 2023  The choir helped the residents at  Clipstone Hall Lodge get festive by singing Christmas carols to them.

December 2023  Newlands choir went to Kingsmill Hospital to sing Christmas carols to the patients, visitors and workers.

December 2023  Newlands Junior School had a surprise visitor this morning. They were very exited to see Santa appearing on the school field in his sleigh! All the children were given a gift to take home and put under their tree.

October 2023 Harvest Festival

Reverend Claire Melless and Alan Darlington came in to Newlands Junior School to lead an assembly about the Harvest Festival. The food brought in by all the children was donated to the local food bank.

Harvest Festival at All Saints Church October 22

We collected 29 full shopping bags of food, which have been sent to the food bank in Mansfield Woodhouse, that serves our area and others.

Thomas said, "It made me happy to see the donations because people might not be able to buy food for themselves". Tori added, " I liked all the songs we sang".