hi as any 1 any views on newfield school i have just been reading the sheffield star and seen the reports over the school with ofsted my child is due to start in sept and i am now considering moving them before september
are you talking about newfield school more like newfield prison.They have built a big steel fence round it to keep kids in at dinner. Then you ring up and ask to talk to teacher n its theyl ring you back and never do.It awaste of space in my eyes
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newfield school what a joke it holiday camp for gleadless valley kids isnt it come when you want go home when you want put fences up to try to keep the rogues in good school bought down by trash of the valley
I'm sure you'll talk to parents and get a feel for the school but my experience for what its worth is that I've got children at Newfield and they're doing well academically, and what I think is just as important, because most of the kids locally go to Newfield they've got lots of local friends. Sometimes they've found the pace of teaching quite slow but that's improved as they've moved up the school, when they're in sets for most subjects. I agree with the ofstead report that the school needs to improve, and I'm really pleased they've put it under a notice to improve because it will be under pressure to change quite quickly as it will be followed up in a year and the new head already seems to have made an impact.(unlike the previous one)
Anyway good luck with choosing a school, its a stressful time for parents! We've got it next year with 6th forms!
My daughter started there in september i had reservations about her going but she wanted to be with her pals,she has since gone down a level in two subjects so not good realy . My daughter tells me stories about things that happen there for example playing pin ball with the kids as they pass on the corridoors,this is where older kids stand either side and they push the kids from side to side.Iwas disapointed with the offstead report .
just been speaking with a few of the local children around were i live and it does sem the older children are not very nice also the transport to school is ruled by certain gangs who even attack the bus driver i would advise you to look at meadowhead i certainley wouldnt let my child attend this school
are you talking about newfield school more like newfield prison.They have built a big steel fence round it to keep kids in at dinner. Then you ring up and ask to talk to teacher n its theyl ring you back and never do.It awaste of space in my eyes
here we go again your child is one of the main problems this school as of course when he is there so how can you say the things you are about it is your other children doing well up there ? you go on alot ot threds agreeing with things when at the root your son is there you get my mind working overtime just take control of him then phraps we wouldnt have as many threads concerning this area and the schools around it wise up and act the parent please please please we be getting soon it isnt the parents fault
here we go again your child is one of the main problems this school as of course when he is there so how can you say the things you are about it is your other children doing well up there ? you go on alot ot threds agreeing with things when at the root your son is there you get my mind working overtime just take control of him then phraps we wouldnt have as many threads concerning this area and the schools around it wise up and act the parent please please please we be getting soon it isnt the parents fault
get your facts right my son aint at newfield so there and is it me who as started these threads i dont think so you want to grow up
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I've never been to Newfield, but even as far back as the mid-late 1980s I can remember that some of their kids were evil little barstewards, remember the long running feud between the old Gleadless Valley School and Newfield?! There was bloodshed during it iirc, honestly the amount of times we had their Chief Sir (Headmaster) in our Assemblies whinging about skirmishes between our lot and Newfielders was ridiculous!
I personally never got involved though, being a Walkley native in those days I was from outside the area, didn't even know where Newfield School was so how in the hell could I feud with it?!
Now that Valley's gone, I hear they've carried on the feud but transferred it to some other poor sucker of a School
Last edited by Rich; 24-05-2006 at 17:02.
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are you talking about newfield school more like newfield prison.They have built a big steel fence round it to keep kids in at dinner. Then you ring up and ask to talk to teacher n its theyl ring you back and never do.It awaste of space in my eyes
i agree it's a crap school i have to go there in september james d
I think the Ofsted was being kind because there's new management. There are some brilliant teachers and some abyssmal teachers but mainly management and rubbish buildings has built up into demotivated staff, a lot of staff illnesses and no belief in themselves the children or the school. Don't blame Gleadless Valley. Cockburn always said that but I don't live in Gleadless Valley and my children also go to Newfield and the bullying they get and the abuse Mundella school gets from Newfield School hasn't involved pupils from Gleadless Valley. I'm sure there are some children from Gleadless that are badly behaved but it's not about one area. When the new school is built and the Ofsted measures for improvement take place Newfield will be unrecognisable. Incidentally Meadowhead children are far from perfect. One of my children went to Norton College for the day and was pelted by Meadowhead children. In any case all the schools in Sheffield are overcrowded so I don't think you have much choice of school unless you're in the catchement area.
Newfield is my actual catchment school and I had no problem with the possibility of my own kids attending there.... until......
1) My neighbour had so many problems with her daughter in year 7 which resulted in criminal damage to her private property and her daughter eventually having to move schools.
2)Overalll school results showing a decline.
3)My son actually decided and voiced to us that he DID NOT want to go there as he had heard various stories which had unsettled him.
He has now secured a place at Meadowhead and starts in September - I really hope he is happy and settles there. Time will tell!
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I live on Woodland Road near the school and see the kids coming and going. Most of them seem like any normal bunch of adolescents, and only averagely horrible (as kids all are at that age). There are some who are rude, destructive and violent however, but they seem to be a minority, as at most schools. That minority have "happy slapped" adult passers-by, damaged cars, thrown stones at people in their gardens, beat other kids up, dropped trails of litter all the way from the Derbyshire Lane shops and chucked dozens of stolen wheelie bins off the bridge into the woods below (not checking to see if anyone was on the path below either). Sounds bad? You'll get it at most schools. I know people who went to Newfield and whose kids go there, and it doesn't seem that bad.
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