Blog Archive

These posts match your criteria

You Searched For: Curriculum

Music Fun

Music Fun

Published: 01 April 2025

Today, Phillip Fleming, a musician, came into school and worked with some of our younger classes this time - he worked with our oldest students just before Christmas. Children had great fun playing along to Phil playing his guitar…
Creative Writing Climate Champions

Creative Writing Climate Champions

Published: 28 March 2025

Some of our KS3 and 4 students have been part of a creative writing group working with Read, Write, Now discussing climate change and the way this makes us feel. Today, we finished our climate change pledge postcards by writing about the impact of deforestation on our world, the wildlife and their habitats and of course how this affects the global environment such as climate change…
Secondary WoW - Branching Out

Secondary WoW - Branching Out

Published: 27 March 2025

The beautiful sunshine saw lots of us venturing out today. as we welcomed Branching Out to school for the Secondary department WOW event. There were lots of activities set up outside from our provider and students had a fantastic time. As you can see from the map, activities were all around the school grounds, ranging from working on a fire pit and…
Exploring Amazing Animals

Exploring Amazing Animals

Published: 26 March 2025

This term, our explorer children have been learning about the wonderful world of amazing animals. We have been exploring animals that live in different habitats including farms, pets, wild animals and arctic animals. As we approach Easter we have started to focus on life cycles and animals that hatch from eggs. Today, for our Wow event we had Emily’s Mini Farm visit our school. This special event gave every explorer child…
KS4 Basket Ball Competition

KS4 Basket Ball Competition

Published: 25 March 2025

KS4 pupils attended Broadfield school in Burnley today to play basketball with KS4 pupils from other schools, including Tor View and The Rose. We were made to feel really welcome and made some new friends, we managed to score some baskets too…
Mad Science

Mad Science

Published: 21 March 2025

Today our Primary classes had the opportunity to meet a Scientist and experience some fun experiments up close. Our first sessions focused on energy and motion and lots of fun was had with snakes in a can, pecking woodpeckers and peddling to make the plasma light come on. The children loved…
British Science Week 2025

British Science Week 2025

Published: 14 March 2025

This week has been British Science week and the theme has been ‘Change and Adapt’. To celebrate this each Key Stage was set a challenge to complete, with a prize for each winner! Our youngest pupils in Explorers were tasked with creating 3D models of animals, linked to their Amazing Animals theme…
Exciting New Explorers Outdoor Provision

Exciting New Explorers Outdoor Provision

Published: 13 March 2025

Today was a fantastic day at Newfield as we opened our brand-new Explorers Outdoor Provision! Our pupils had an amazing time discovering…
Post 16 @ Canalside Activity Centre

Post 16 @ Canalside Activity Centre

Published: 07 March 2025

This half term TG4 will be attending Canalside in Blackburn with support from Sporting NRG where they will take part in a variety of outdoor learning activities…
World Book Day 2025 part II

World Book Day 2025 part II

Published: 06 March 2025

Here are a few more photos from World Book Day…. We’ve had lots going on with older students supporting younger children to look at books, with class 4 enjoyed sharing stories with S8. Some pupils also enjoyed a story and music with music man, teacher Greg in the afternoon…
World Book Day 2025

World Book Day 2025

Published: 06 March 2025

The theme for world book day this year is ‘read your way’ which suits us wonderfully here at Newfield! We have dressed in the clothes we like to wear to read in ranging from pyjamas, to our weekend chill clothes and of course some fabulous dress up outfits…
Art in the Curriculum

Art in the Curriculum

Published: 28 February 2025

We have had a very creative week in school with children exploring and creating some fantastic pieces of artwork which illustrate their learning. In S3 they have been looking at artist Jackson Pollock in their work towards the arts award…
Page 1 of 38

More Posts

Categories
School Trips 103 School Activities 448 Charity Events 95 Building Update 50 Staff & CPD 50 Parents 43 RRSA 66 Visitors 91 Makaton 4
Tags

We hope you enjoyed reading our blog and will visit again soon.

Newfield School
Old Bank Lane
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 2PW

01254 588 600

newfieldbwd on twitter
Safeguarding

Newfield School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority.

Full copies of Policies and Procedures related to all aspects of Safeguarding, and the Complaints Policy, are available on request from Rachel Kay, Head Teacher and Designated Senior Lead for Safeguarding and Child Protection.

Equality Duty

Newfield School complies with the general and specific duties of the Equality Act (2010). In accordance with the duty we publish information that demonstrates that we have due regard to the need to;

  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination
  • Advance equality of opportunity
  • Foster good relations

These specific duties have been considered in relation to all our policies and procedures in school. Our objectives will be reported on and published as part of the Governance public documents available for inspection under the Freedom of Information Regulations and Data Protection duties and in the school newsletter to parents.

Our Equality Objectives are set, reviewed and published annually in our School Development Plan.

Saturday, 05 April. Copyright © 2018-2025 Newfield School, Blackburn, Lancashire. | Web Design by Technology Applied