Friday 26th February 2021
Dear Parents and Carers,
This has been a really exciting week as we have welcomed our younger children back to their classes. All of them, including our very youngest nursery starters, have come to school with a cheerful and positive attitude and are settling really well into school routines.
Thank you for reading all the guidance I have sent out and for bringing your children in at the right time, to the right entrances and on the right days! This has helped things to run smoothly and safely.
Your children are so full of news but sadly some of this has been about playdates, sleepovers and haircuts in other households! This mixing of households is not permitted in Tier 4and could spoil the efforts of the majority of our community to stay safe. If this continues we feel it would be reasonable to ask the families involved not to attend school.
Next week promises to be even more exciting with all our infant children in, with St David’s Day on Monday and World Book Day on Thursday! I know that the children are busy creating Welsh themed competition items ready for next week.
On Monday our infant children can come to school in their St David’s Day costumes, something else Welsh themed or simply something in one of the Welsh flag colours (white, green or red). Our junior children can also wear something with a Welsh theme for their special St David’s Day Teams meeting. Please don’t worry about this at all. School uniform will do perfectly well as it’s red!!
The Teams meeting times are as follows;
10.30am-Yr 6 11.15am- Yr 4 1pm- Yr 3 1.30pm –JSTF
2.30pm- Yr 5
On Thursday and probably throughout the week classes will be doing lots of Reading and Book themed learning. Your children do not need to dress up on World Book Day but they are welcome to do so if you want to get an outfit together! Please don’t go out and buy expensive costumes for this. A cheap and easy book themed option would be to wear pyjamas (bedtime story outfit!)
School dinners start again on Monday. If you normally pay for your child’s dinners please ensure your sQuid account is topped up. Your child will need to continue to bring a fruit snack and a drink.
Please ensure you have the ‘Schoop’ App so that you can easily receive text messages from us. Register using ID 8821 and add yourself to your children’s classes.
Your child’s teacher should have let you know which day your Foundation Phase (infant) child needs to wear their PE kit.
Finally, we have a number of ‘gaps’ in our reading book stock as some of our children have returned without their reading books. Would you kindly take a look around at home and send in any you find. Would you also please try to find your child’s Reading Record. Many thanks!
Please remember that you can contact me by email at HewittC23@hwbcymru.net if you have concerns or questions about the return to school or about remote learning.
Take care, stay safe and look after yourselves!
C M Hewitt