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FON Christmas Hamper Fundraising Appeal!
Friends of Newcroft are organising another fantastic fundraising event. Last yea...
FON Christmas Jumper Appeal!
Friends of Newcroft have organised a jumper sale. Please see the flyer below for...
Newcroft does Children in Need 2021!
We had the most fantastic spotty, yellow day on Friday 19th November, raising mo...
Newcroft Marks Remembrance Day
On Thursday 11th November, we had a whole school focus day around Remembrance. M...
Anti Bullying Week at Newcroft
We have taken part in Anti-Bullying week, as we continue to raise awareness and ...
Diwali Celebrations at Newcroft!
During this term, the whole school took part in celebrations for our Diwali Focu...
Arts Award Day success!
As part of our first 'Newcroft Arts Day', 17 children were selected to take part...
Our Autumn 1 Newsletter is out!
We have had a great start to the academic year at Newcroft. Wishing our families...
Autumn 2 Clubs LAUNCH!
Our best EVER Autumn 2 Extra Curricular club offer launches after the October ha...
Paralympian and Ex Newcrofter Visits our School!
On 7th October, we were VERY lucky to have a visit from an ex 'Newcrofter' and c...
Reception Stay and Play fun!
On Friday 1st October, we were thrilled to be able to invite all our new Recepti...
Year 5 and 6 Residential trip " Condover 2021 "
Pupils in Year 5 and 6 have FINALLY had the opportunity to go on residential to ...
Reading Pig Winners!
We are pleased to announce that Regular Readers is back again this year and has ...
Oh no she didn't... panto fun!!!
We have had a fantastic time enjoying a live pantomime of the 'Wizard of Oz' in ...
Computing
Resources for EYFS/ KS1 pupils
Coding at home with Tynker
Scratch is a coding and gaming resource we use lots in ICT lessons at Newcroft.
J2 Code is a great resource which allows you to import work from Scratch.
Resources for KS2 Pupils
BBC Bitesize is a superb resource which covers a huge amount of the KS2 Computing curriculum including: algorithms, debugging, and the internet.
Hour of Code includes lots of coding challenges
APPs for all ages
These can be downloaded onto tablets, phones and laptops.
Daisy the Dinosaur (iPad - Free)
Bee-Bot (iPad and Android - Free) This is a popular app in school for our EYFS and KS1 children!
Scratch Jr (iPad, iPhone and Android - Free) The children love using this in school!
Tynker (iPad - Free)
Kodable (iPad - Free)
A.L.E.X (iPad - Free)
Hopscotch (iPad - Free)
