Newton Primary School

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Your child will shortly be entering our school at the start of an exciting adventure on what will hopefully be a lifelong learning experience. We trust that they will enjoy their time at Newton and do their best to achieve and learn well. We hope that this will be the beginning of a long and lasting relationship between ourselves, your children, and you the parents.
Every child in our school is a special and important person with particular needs and interests. We strive to achieve the highest possible standards for all our pupils and to provide them with a caring, safe and stimulating environment. Most of all we want our pupils to enjoy the whole learning process. We seek to achieve this through strong partnership working with the home, school, and community. We see the support of parents as an essential element in the success of your child’s education and we will endeavor to build a lasting relationship between the school and yourselves.
Pupils from Nursery to Year 2 follow the Foundation Phase curriculum. It combines what we used to call Early Years Education (for 3 to 5-year-olds) and Key Stage 1 (5 to 7-year-olds) of the National Curriculum.
The Foundation Phase is based on the principle that early years' provision should offer a sound foundation for future learning through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. It places great emphasis on children learning by doing. Young children are given opportunities to gain first-hand experiences through play and active involvement rather than by completing exercises in books. They are given time to develop their speaking and listening skills and to become confident in their reading and writing abilities.
Mathematics is practical so that children can see how problems are solved and how important mathematics is in their everyday lives. There is an emphasis on children underst\nding how things work and on finding different ways to solve problems.

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