Friday 17th October 2025 was Break Out morning across the school.  100% of pupils engaged in non-curricular activities designed to educate our pupils about the importance of justice in action.  This can look like:

-Volunteering at the local cat shelter or animal rescue centre

-Doing a Newick Litter Pick

-Finding out  more about our local history, and paying tribute through Remembrance activities

-Working at local charities such as Headway, or businesses such as Nightingales residential home

Otters - Had a chat from Graham from the St Francis Hedgehog Rescue charity, and met a real hedgehog! They then had a workshop with Alan from Cats Protection League, a national charity with a centre very nearby, where cats are re-homed.

Year 1 - Were also lucky enough to meet the cheeky hedgehog (who did a poo!) from St Francis Animal Rescue, and then worked with Carrie, Daniel and Karen from Sussex Green Living learning about composting and being more eco-friendly.

Year 2 - Spent the morning baking a plethora of treats ready to host an Afternoon Tea! The tea was for our volunteers, governors , donors and trustees of local grants who have helped enable us to run such amazing enrichment opportunities here at Newick. The Puffins even baked their own bread!

Year 3 - Got stuck in with the Sussex Green Living workshop, composting, digging and planting. They then met Alan from Cats Protection League to find out about this local cat shelter.

Year 4 - Half of Y4 went down to Nightingales and spent some time reading, playing and chatting to the elderly residents down there. The rest went to St Mary's with Reverend Paul. They found out about the church, the boys and men who died in WW1 and made a poppy wreath for Remembrance Sunday. They also went up the bell tower with two of the bell ringers and then got to ring the church bells!

Year 5 - Joined in with the Sussex Green Living workshop, finding out about the journey of the banana! They then had a talk from Trevor from WRAS, the East Sussex Ambulance Service for wildlife.

Break Out Donate A Morning 2025

 Also, watch this incredible performance of 'People Get Ready' from our fabulous choir. they performed at the Afternoon Tea prepared for our volunteers and helpers on Break Oyut day.  This was our way of saying a big thank you to those who give up time, money, ideas, support and care to help our school stay so wonderful.  The Year 2s made this delicious spread. 

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Break Out Morning - June 2023

 Brought back by the School Council this year, this Break Out day was in true Newick style.  Everyone got the chance to choose from a wide variety of activities with the theme 'CHALLENGE YOURSELF.'

We had:

• Science challenges
• PE on the field and at the park challenges
• Acrogym challenge
• Write your own song masterclass
• Be a caretaker for the morning
• Build a Bug Hotel challenge
• Arts and crafts - treasure island challenge
• Graffiti name art
• TASKMASTER challenges
• Forest School challenges

Everyone had so much fun, and got to mix with a variety of other children across the school.  It was a great display of creativity, teamwork, resilience and enthusiasm.  What a super morning!

Break Out June 2023

A selection of highlights from Break Out morning

 

 

STEM Break Out

 On Friday 31st March we had a rally great STEM themed Break Out day. In the morning they had visitors in representing various fields of STEM.  These included a radiologist, a bridge engineer, an expert on renewable energy and a doctor. 

In the afternoon the children got to showcase what they had been working on all week with a very exciting STEM Roadshow in the hall to parents and carers.  This also included out highly anticipated Bridge Building design competition (well done to Cameron in Year 5 who won best Bridge award!).  The Year 2's showcased some snazzy Science experiments, and the Year 4s took everyone's fingerprints as part of our 'Who Ate The Doughnut?' detective mystery.  Well done to everyone!

We had a brilliant morning with experts from various local groups and charities being welcomed into the school.

The idea of this morning was for the children and adults in our school to donate time to our local community.

Thank you to everyone involved, to families who donated items, volunteers who helped, staff who were so enthusiastic, but most importantly, to our amazing children who worked incredibly hard during Donate a Morning for the greater good.

We have spoken to the children about being 'agents of change for the community' and they certainly lived up to it, making us all very proud.

I hope you and your child felt that the time spent on building their personal development was worthwhile for them as citizens. We certainly did.

Please see below for some of the highlights of that day: