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Published: 11 November 2021
Today pupils at Newfield school honoured Remembrance day, decorating doors, classes and corridors alongside our tree with poppies. Post-16 pupils and the school nursing team attended a special assembly…
Published: 15 October 2021
This week our visiting artist, Alastair Nicholson has returned to work with our students on a piece of art for Blackburn Rail Station. For months we had been collecting milk bottle lids which have been melted down in sheets of thin plastic. Our students have then been cutting this plastic and creating…
Published: 17 September 2021
Today we joined the nation by putting on our jeans, denim shirts - anything denim in fact, and paid £1 to raise money for this charity for children with genetic illnesses which is very close to our hearts here at Newfield…
Published: 15 September 2021
S2 have been reading the bee man and have been doing lots of activities around bees, beehives, honeycomb and honey. We had a team challenge in class to build as many hexagon cells to make a…
Published: 10 September 2021
It has been a very busy first week back in school with lots of things going on and learning in full swing. The website blog has some serious competition now that pupils in S1 have begun to create a weekly, in house newsletter, with articles…
Published: 25 June 2021
Over in the school for Autism children and staff had also been working hard to create masterpieces to display for the outdoor art exhibition. As part of this term’s theme, students had been creating Olympic Collages - Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees - inspired by artist Hokusai…
Published: 24 June 2021
Today we held our annual Arts Exhibition - and this year, the major difference was that in order to be COVID safe, we took our creations outside for our very first open air exhibition! The children have been working all year towards their Arts Award on a huge range of creative arts and today a selection were displayed around the school grounds…
Published: 18 June 2021
This week saw the installation of a line from the COVID Reflections Poem that TG1 wrote earlier in the year. Artist Emma came along to school with the stencils to support pupils to chalk on the outline letters, which the artists then spray painted onto the wall at the back of our pool - pupils in SEND can walk directly past this, and pupils in Autism walk on the road below…
Published: 07 May 2021
We have had a really busy, fun week taking part in lots of activities across both the school for SEND and the school for Autism. In class 3 children haver been developing their social and independence skills in their weekly breakfast club - it looks great! Some of key stage 2 pupils have been enjoying swimming sessions at Darwen Leisure Centre now that…
Published: 29 April 2021
Here are some more pictures, this time of children from the school for Autism at Newfield taking part in pottery workshops with our community potter Alistair. They had a great time watching the wheel spin and some even braved tossing the clay. Everyone had a great time and some of the staff think we should have him back every week!
Published: 28 April 2021
Today the community potter spent more time in the school for SEND this morning and for the rest of the week he will be working with children in the school for Autism, helping them develop their creative pottery skills! Many of our children have sensory impairments, and the great thing about working with clay…
Published: 22 April 2021
This week in our School for Autism we have been celebrating Earth Day by combining our creative skills to create one huge poster that increases awareness of the event. The event itself began in America in 1969 as a reaction to a disastrous oil spill. Since then, every year people all over the world come together to increase awareness of how we can all become more environmentally friendly in our everyday lives…
