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Newsletter 22.9.23

Theme: Harvest

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Ga i help os gwelwch yn dda?

Attendance overall: 85.9% which is unusually low

Best attending class: Dosbarth Sea Holly- Yr 6 with 96.1%

INSET Days (Staff training)

We have an INSET day on Friday 29^th September, Monday 4^th December, Friday 9^th February and Friday 22^nd March.

School will be closed to pupils on these days.

Clubs

Coding and Welsh club are cancelled for the next 2 Mondays due to after school staff training. Basketball club will continue as normal!

Activity	Day	Staff Member
Scratch and coding KS2	Monday	Mrs Edwards
Clwb Cymraeg FP and KS2	Monday	Mrs Havard
Basketball	Monday	Mr Walker
KS2 Choir	Tuesday	Mr Smith
Girls Football training KS2	Tuesday	Mrs Morris
Board games KS2	Wednesday	Miss Murray
Boys Football training for KS2	Wednesday	Mrs Broome, Joe and Mrs Tench
Bronze Ambassadors ( Sports) Ks2	Thursday	Mrs Lodwig and Mrs Davies
Art and craft Yr 1 and 2	Thursday	Mrs S Rees
Rugby Years 5/6	TBC	Mrs Tench and past pupils

Staff news

Mrs Pugh has named her baby boy, Finley Evan Pugh.  She will pop into school to see the children during the next few weeks but both mum and baby are doing very well.

Harvest

Next week we will be celebrating the Harvest festival. We would like to ask you to donate some tins, packets of pasta or any cupboard items that would be useful for the foodbank. There will be a drop off point in the hall for any families that wish to donate. The school council will be delivering the goods to the local foodbank at St Catherine’s church next Thursday.

Pupil voice elections

On Wednesday the children in Years 2-6  have selected and voted for the children in their class to represent them for each of our 4 pupil voice groups. I am delighted to tell you that the following pupils have been elected and will take an active role in leading learning and representing school during the next academic year.

Healthy Bees Luca Isla M and Isla P Blake and Matilda Macie and Melody Jayden and Nadia JB and Rhys	Enterprising Bees Naomi and Isabella Cristiano and Harry Diane and Taya-Rose Sienna and Isla DC Nylah and Mayer Codi
Beee Citizennns Mason G Emilie Evelyn and Declan Lily and Lexi Bertie and Ioan Mya and Avayah	Learning Bees Desteni Ashton and Amelie Nancy and Jackson Eli Q and Peyton Ffion and Kara Theo and Oliver

St David’s Close carpark

This afternoon we have had several calls from residents of St David’s Close who are disgruntled due to parents parking in the residents only car park. Please can I ask you to be respectful of our neighbours, some of whom are quite elderly and rely on their space to be accessible when they return home. One car has had some damage on their door due to a parent parking too close.

School Uniform

Please can I remind you that only one pair of stud earrings are allowed as part of our school uniform policy. Children should not be wearing hooped earrings as these are a health and safety issue. We kindly ask you to keep these for the weekends!

Please label all school uniform particularly jumpers, cardigans, coats and lunch bags. These items tend to be misplaced more than others and for us to return them to their rightful owner, it’s much easier if they have a name on them. Many thanks.

Parent Governor

The governing body are seeking a member of the school community to represent parents in governing body meetings which take place twice a term. You will also be required to attend short sub-committee groups every term. Please pop in and see me if you have any questions. The governors take an active role in school and are very welcoming. We are particularly interested in any parents who may have a HR or finance background.

NO Tiddly Tots next week due to staff training

A huge thank you to Amy and Anastasia, two of our lovely parents who are now organising Tiddly Tots. It was wonderful to see lots of new faces again this week. Please come along or spread the word. It’s a great opportunity to meet other families in school and helps the children settle into school easily. It’s open on Friday 9-11 and for children 0-3years old.  Please remember that there will be no Tiddly Tots next week due to staff training.

Safeguarding and Child Protection

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Davies

Diary Dates

INSET Dates

1^st September

29^th September

4^th December

9^th February

22^nd March

1 other TBC

Monday 25^th September

EWO will be visiting school to check attendance.  Children with less than 80% attendance are at risk of being fined by the local authority.

3pm Basketball club

Coding club cancelled

Welsh club cancelled

3pm Staff training

Tuesday 26th September

Dosbarth Sea Holly recycling project

Dosbarth Hyacinth to Gorseinon library

Wednesday 27^th September

9am -11am Family learning for Reception children

Swansea University to work with Dosbarth Tulips

1.30pm a small group of Year 5/6 children to visit DT dept in Penyrheol comprehensive school.

Thursday 28^th September

Year 6 swimming

Harvest assembly

Violins

Seren yr wythnos assembly

Friday 29^th September

INSET Day- School closed to children

Future Dates

Monday 2^nd October

School photographs-

Siblings are more than welcome to come along to the school gym from 8.45am if you’d like a group photo

Dosbarth daffodil -Year 2 trip to Kidwelly castle. (The children will have their photographs taken before they go!)

3^rd October

2.30pm Premier of the class films in Dosbarth Sunflowers, Daffodils and Bluebells

4^th October

2.30pm Premier of class films for Dosbarth Aster, Hyacinth, Tulips and Sea Holly.

5^th October

Spectrum project working with Dosbarth Daffodil

Year 5/6 football competition girls team

6^th October

Boys football competition

Thursday 26^th October

PTA event -Halloween/ Spooky disco

Friday 27^th October

Last day of term.

Newsletter 4.9.23

Theme: Getting to know you/ New beginnings

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Pwy wyt ti?

Welcome back! Croeso nol!

A very warm welcome to all the new children and their families who have joined the nursery or other classes in our wonderful school. I do hope your children will be very happy here with us.  And a big welcome back, we missed you, to all the other children. School has been strange without our previous Year 6 but I know that our current Year 6s will step up, take responsibility and become fantastic role models to our younger children. They will be applying for monitoring/ prefect jobs next week and look superb in their Year 6 hoodies. They chose the jade green and I must say what an excellent choice that was!

Staff news

Mrs Pugh will be leaving on Friday 15^th to start her maternity leave because Baby Pugh is due very soon!

Congratulations to Mrs Dixie and her husband who is expecting her fourth child later this term. We will let you know as soon as we appoint someone to take over.

Three of our staff got married during the holidays so congratulations to Mrs Twist (nee Trotman), Mrs Morris, (nee Morgan) and Mrs Cram (nee Sidaway). We wish you all a long and happy marriage filled with plenty of love and laughter.

Consent form

Every year we give an online consent form regarding use of data, consent for photographs, medical information etc. This takes Mrs Seager a lot of time to ensure that everyone completes it and she normally is still chasing consent forms in October and sometimes November. This year we ask you to inform us if anything has changed so if you have a new address, phone number, allergy, medical information or no longer consent to your child being photographed please inform Mrs Seager by email or telephone. Our school email address is  treuchaf.primaryschool@swansea-edunet.gov.uk and our school telephone number is 01792 893682. We hope this will be more efficient however we are relying on you to inform us of any changes. All new children will need to complete the full online form which should have been sent to you this week.

School Uniform

Please can I remind you that only stud earrings are allowed as part of our school uniform policy. Children should not be wearing hooped earrings as these are a health and safety issue. We kindly ask you to keep these for the weekends!

Please label all school uniform particularly jumpers, cardigans, coats and lunch bags. These items tend to be misplaced more than others and for us to return them to their rightful owner, it’s much easier if they have a name on them. Many thanks.

Food and fun

The food and fun summer enrichment programme was successful again this year. Thank you to those families who supported the programme and the staff for organising the events. Hopefully we will be able to run it again next year and include reception children depending on staffing levels. Feedback so far has been highly positive but if you have any suggestions to improve it please let me know or come along to the next parent focus group on Thursday 21^st September at 9am. All welcome!

Class names

This year the classes will be known as class names rather than year groups and STF. We have decided on flowers as this works well with our bee theme! So from today our classes will be known as;

Nursery/ Reception Daisy

Year 1 Bluebell

STF Sunflower

Year 2 Daffodil

Year 3 Aster

Year 4 Hyacinth

Year 5 Tulip

Year 6 Sea Holly

New website

We will be launching our new school website very soon so watch this space. We hope it’ll be easier to navigate on mobile phones and will be more accessible to all.

After school clubs

I am delighted to tell you that our after school clubs will start in the next fortnight. Please can children collect a consent form from the staff member organising the club. So far we have;

Activity	Day	Staff Member
Scratch and coding KS2	Monday	Mrs Edwards
Clwb Cymraeg FP and KS2	Monday	Mrs Havard
KS2 Choir	Tuesday	Mr Smith
Girls Football training KS2	Tuesday	Mrs Morris
Board games KS2	Wednesday	Miss Murray
Boys Football training for KS2	TBC	TBC
Rugby Years 5/6	TBC	Mrs Tench and past pupils
Bronze Ambassadors ( Sports) Ks2	Thursday	Mrs Lodwig
Netball Years 5/6	TBC	Mrs Twist
3d Printing club KS2	TBC	Mr Jones
Art and craft	TBC	TBC

Walking Bus

The walking bus will return after October half term. Please watch this space!

Tiddly Tots

A huge thank you to Amy and Anastasia, two of our lovely parents who are now organising Tiddly Tots. It was wonderful to see lots of new faces this week. Please come along or spread the word. It’s a great opportunity to meet other families in school and helps the children settle into school easily. It’s open on Friday 9-11 and for children 0-3years old.

Reminder of playground rules decided by the children.

• No climbing up the slide in case someone comes down too quickly
• Wait your turn and no pushing on the steps
• No pushing anyone when using the bridge
• If people push and shove they should have 1 warning and if they don’t improve their behaviour they aren’t allowed to use it for the rest of the playtime
• No jumping off from the top
• Climb where it’s safe to do so
• No little stones to be moved from the wigwam are to the slide
• Adults should be watching to help little children to be safe (Supervised at all times)
• NO using the playground before school (Some older children were worried the little children might not want to get off and come into school!!)
• Always be careful when using it to avoid people hurting themselves

Safeguarding and Child Protection

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Davies

Diary Dates

INSET Dates

1^st September

29^th September

4^th December

9^th February

22^nd March

1 other TBC

Thursday 14^th September

Year 6 swimming

Violins

Film in a fortnight sharing event

Friday 15^th September

Tiddly Tots

Seren yr wythnos assembly

Future Dates

w/c 18^th September

School council elections

18^th September

Year 4 trip to Copper jack

20^th September

STF Community Day

Thursday 21^st September

9am Parent focus group

Year 2 trip to Kidwelly castle

25^th September

9am Education welfare officer to visit school about lateness and attendance

1pm Selected Yr 5/6 pupils to Penyrheol comp for DT project

26^th September

Year 4 to library

Year 6 recycling project

27^th September

Family learning starts at 9am-11.30 in the hall

Thursday 28^th September

Harvest Assembly

Friday 29^th September

INSET Day (School closed for staff training)

Thursday 26^th October

Halloween/ Spooky disco

Friday 27^th October

Last day of term.

Newsletter week ending 7^th July 2023

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Ble est ti? Where did you go?

Best Attending classes are JSTF and Year 2

Whole school attendance is 91%

The Bee Musical

A huge thank you to the staff and children for producing a fabulous Summer show for us to enjoy. The children are a credit to you! Thank you for providing the costumes, they all looked beautiful!

Scooters and bikes

Even after the reminder about no bikes and scooters on the playground before and after school, we are still seeing a small minority of little children forgetting. Please can you help us to re-inforce this message to your own children. Many thanks!

FP new playground equipment

The LEA inspector is coming to look at the playground work on 17^th July so hopefully all being well we can use it from Tuesday 18^th July. The children were very clear about what they wanted the safety rules to be so these will be put into my playground risk assessment.

I’m sure as time goes by the rules will be updated but these are the rules designed by the children so far:

• No climbing up the slide in case someone comes down too quickly
• Wait your turn and no pushing on the steps
• No pushing anyone when using the bridge
• If people push and shove they should have 1 warning and if they don’t improve their behaviour they aren’t allowed to use it for the rest of the playtime
• No jumping off from the top
• Climb where it’s safe to do so
• No little stones to be moved from the wigwam are to the slide
• Adults should be watching to help little children to be safe (Supervised at all times)
• NO using the playground before school (Some older children were worried the little children might not want to get off and come into school!!)
• Always be careful when using it to avoid people hurting themselves

Key Stage 2 Summer Show at 4pm on Wednesday12th July

On Wednesday the children will stay in school with us until 4pm. We will provide them with a drink and a snack before the show starts. They will get dressed into their costume and will be ready for the show to start at 4pm in the school Gym. Tickets are available from the school office- 2 per family in the first instance and then any spare will be sold later on. Please make sure you get your tickets on Monday!

The children have written their own scripts, created dances, produced art work, props and designed sketches as part of their Expressive Arts work this year. The singing sounds fabulous and I am sure you will be very impressed with their work on Wednesday.

Please can I remind you not to post pictures of other children on social media due to some children being subject to a court order that prevents them and their school from being recognised. Many thanks for your continued support with this.

Reception parents meeting

There will be a meeting on Thursday 13^th July at 11am with Miss Trotman to talk about your child’s transition into full time school. The reception children will be taught in the same class as our nursery children next year however we have created 2 nursery groups of children so we will have some children in morning nursery and others in afternoon nursery. This will make the class smaller, quieter and calmer because it’ll have less children at any one time. There will be a high number of experienced teaching assistants to support Miss Trotman . I know you’ll have questions about the logistics so please come along to the meeting on Thursday and Miss Trotman and I will answer any questions you may have.  

Information for our nursery parents will be shared with you next week and a more in depth meeting with Miss Trotman will take place in September.

Safeguarding and Child Protection

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Davies

Diary Dates

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Foundation phase auditions for the talent show

Tuesday 11^th July

Foundation Phase Trip

Carbon monoxide workshop for children

Key stage 2 auditions for the talent show

Year 2 parents meeting with Mr Jones at 2.30pm

Wednesday 12^th July

Dress rehearsal for foundation phase pupils am

KS2 Summer show at 4pm

Thursday 13^th July

New Reception parents meeting at 11 am

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Tre Uchaf’s Got talent show

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent  to parents

Tuesday 18^th July

Netball team to play Casllwchwr

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly 1.30pm

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils

NON-Uniform day for pupils

24^th July

Food and Fun Summer play scheme starts!

Newsletter week ending 30th June

Theme next week: Moving on

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Longyfarchiadau

Best Attending classes: JSTF 100%

Whole school attendance is 91%.  This is improving week on week! Well done everyone.

After school clubs

Monday-

Chess Mrs Edwards

Maths Mr Smith

Criw Cymraeg Mrs Havard

Clwb Cymraeg Miss Morgan

Netball Miss Trotman

Tuesday

Board Games Miss Murray Cancelled due to staff training

Wednesday  for this week only due to staff training

***NEW RUGBY*** Year 11 past pupils and Mrs Tench

Thursday–

Bronze Ambassadors Mrs Lodwig

Cycling Mr Civil

No 3D printing and coding this week

Thank you

Well done everyone! We raised £624.48 from our Summer Fayre. The school council have been discussing what they’d like to buy with the money so if you or your child have any ideas please let them know before the next school council meeting on Tuesday.

Oystermouth Castle

Our Year 5 pupils represented Tre Uchaf in a cluster project with local schools researching the Battle of Llwchwr. Their exhibition showed real life models of weapons used in the Norman era.  I am very proud of them for representing us so brilliantly. Please look at our Twitter @treuchafprimary for photographs of the day.

Dog Mess

Thank you to the parents who have made some suggestions about keeping our field dog mess free! I will look into the options suggested and keep you posted! This week we have had to pick dog mess up from the path that runs alongside the car park. There is a £1000 fine for not picking up after dogs and that area is monitored by CCTV.

Scooters and bikes

Active travel to school is a huge part of school improvement plan this year so we encourage children to scoot or cycle to school safely. The majority of children know the rules and once they reach the gate they walk their bike or scooter to the bike shelter in the KS2 playground. However, some of our younger pupils are riding them around the FP playground before school, falling off or bumping into people so please can I ask you to remind the children to park their bike or scooter before school.

Penyrheol Summer Show

On Thursday evening, Mr Smith and I had the pleasure of watching our year 6 orchestra and past pupils perform as part of the Penyrheol Summer Show. To watch our children play the trumpet and violin in front of a packed audience made me feel incredibly proud. The determination and perseverance you’ve shown has paid off and you should be very proud of yourselves year 6. I hope this will inspire our younger pupils to learn to play a musical instrument in the future. So many of our past pupils are continuing their expressive arts journey and it is wonderful to see the friendships formed along the way.

FP new playground equipment

You might have noticed that our new playground structure is being installed over the next few weeks so hopefully this will be ready before the Summer holidays. We are delighted about this especially as it’s taken so long! Once it’s been signed off by the LEA as being safe to use, we will need to come up with some safety rules for playing on it particularly before and after school when staff are not there to supervise risky play. I will talk to the children about this and let you know what our safety squad decide!

Football training

Football training with Jacob from Gower College and one of our parent governors will start in September on a Wednesday after school from 3pm-4pm. Thank you to Mrs Broome, our parent governor, for volunteering to support us with this. Mr Jones will continue to organise matches for the team and hopefully we’ll be able to borrow a minibus to transport the children to matches around Swansea. A big thank you to everyone involved in making this happen.

Miss Emmeline Morgan (STF) will be organising a girls’ football team from September. More information will follow!

Foundation Phase Summer Show

In order to keep our children safe there will be just one entry point for Wednesday’s show. Please can I ask all parents and carers to enter school via the main school entrance and bring tickets with you. These are available from the school office for £1.  The main gate will be locked until 1.15pm and once the children are all safely in the school building after lunchtime, we will let everyone else in. The North Road and St David’s close gates will be opened after the show when the children leave.

Please can I remind you not to post pictures of other children on social media due to some children being subject to a court order that prevents them and their school from being recognised. Many thanks for your continued support with this.

Next year 2023-24

The children will be finding out who their new teachers and teaching assistants will be during the transition morning next Tuesday. There will be an opportunity for Nursery parents to meet with Miss Trotman in a planned meeting for those children who will be moving to full time school on Thursday13th July at 11am.

For those children who will be moving from Year 2 to Year 3, there will be a meeting for parents to meet with the class teacher on Tuesday 11^th July at 2.30pm.

Nutella and nuts

Please can I remind you that children shouldn’t bring nuts to school because we have staff and children with a nut allergy.

Family Learning

Don’t forget family learning afternoons on a Wednesday afternoon between 1pm and 3pm. Parents and carers of children in Reception, Year1 and Year 2 can attend free of charge!

The sessions will be moved to a morning session in September so hopefully more people will come along.

Safeguarding and Child Protection

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

Governing body meeting

On Tuesday we will hold our annual school development plan review with staff and governors. The governors meet with the school council before the meeting to get their opinion about what has worked well and what needs improving. If you have any suggestions about improving what we do in school, please speak to one of our governing body before Tuesday.

Rachel Rees- Chair of Governors Sarah Broome, Sarah Robinson and Dave Ricketts- Parent Governors Claire Havard and Julie Phipps -Staff Governors Claire Wilkinson and Dai Walters LEA/ Community Governors

Many thanks for your continued support. Have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Davies

Diary Dates

Future Events

Monday and Tuesday 3^rd and 4^th July

Year 6 Transition days to Comprehensive

Year 4 to work with Bumbles of Honeywood

 Tuesday 4^th July

Whole school transition morning (moving to next class0

FP Dress rehearsal

School council meeting with governors

Governors and staff development review meeting

Wednesday 5^th July

STF Football event

1.30pm Summer show Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 families.

2 Tickets per family

CAAMHS outreach sessions for families

6^th July

6 a side football transition event for Year 6

Health visitor drop in session

Pop in and have a cuppa with Rhian and Brogan. They are here to help you with anything from unwanted behaviours, eating healthily, screen time, toilet training and getting rid of a dummy!

Postponed from last week…3pm Past pupils to meet with Bee Citizens group for Rights respecting discussion with Mr Smith

Friday 7^th July

Nursery Summer Singalong 10.30am

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Wednesday 12^th July

KS2 Summer show at 4pm (Tickets available from the office)

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent  to parents

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly 1.30pm

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils, Miss Smith, Mrs Morgan and Mrs Hall.

Monday 24^th July

INSET DAY for Staff Training.

25^th July

Food and Fun Summer play scheme starts! Please collect a consent form and more information from Miss Sidaway. These sessions are FREE for children in current Years 1,2,3,4 and 5!!!

Belong- Believe- Be the best you can be!

Newsletter week ending 16^th June 2023

Theme next week: Health and well-being fortnight

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Wyt ti’n iawn?

Best Attending classes: Year 5 again….Well done Year 5!

Whole school attendance is back up to 93%

Good attendance

Attendance throughout the school is above 93% this week which is definitely on our way to the recommended 95%. Thank you to everyone who attends regularly and is on time. The chart above shows how important punctuality is so please can we all make every effort to get to school by 8.50am at the latest! We can do it!

What another busy week especially for our Year 6 children who have performed on stage at the Grand theatre and also taken part in the Enterprise challenge at Castle Gardens- Ardderchog pawb!!

This fortnight we have been raising the awareness of how important health and well-being is to everyone in our school community. This is why sports day is so early this year. The staff have also planned visits from Paralympian David Smith and Welsh footballer Lily Woodham who will be joining us for an inspirational assembly on Monday. Thank you to those of you who helped to raise sponsor money for the circuits session on Monday, it’s much appreciated!

The children have experienced basketball, ballet, kickboxing and boccia this week and more activities are planned this following week so please can all children wear trainers to school every day until Friday.

The weather has been very kind to us again this week but we are still very mindful of spending too much time in the sun. Please can you ensure your child brings a sun hat to school, sunglasses if they have them, a refillable drinks bottle for regular water top ups and they’ll need to wear sun cream  every day. Please apply before they come to school. Please ensure children are dressed appropriately for the sun and cover shoulders with a t-shirt. Shorts or summer dresses are also recommended for this weather.

Our Sports day on Tuesday went really well. Some parents have suggested the PTA run a drinks/ ice lolly stall which is a great idea. If you have any other great suggestions to improve our events, please let me know. I can be found on either playground each morning  from 8.35am or give me a call on 01792 893682.

Family Learning

Don’t forget family learning afternoons on a Wednesday afternoon between 1pm and 3pm. This week we didn’t have anyone in the sessions which is a shame as this is fully funded. We are thinking of changing it to a morning session from September. The sessions are open to families of children in Reception, Year1 and Year 2.

Safeguarding and Child Protection

 The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors

Next year’s Year 6 class of 24 hoodies

The jade green leavers hoodies are now available online. Please use the following link…

https://sewandsew.online/School-Wear/Tre-Uchaf-Primary-School-Uniform?product_id=397

New ALNCO

Last week the school  governors appointed a new ALNCO, Sian Galsworthy, who will take over from Miss Smith in September. She is very knowledgeable and friendly and will be in school over the next few weeks getting to know our children, their families and the ALN systems we have in place. I am sure you will give her a very warm Tre Uchaf welcome!

After school clubs

Please complete a consent form to attend the clubs on offer.

Monday-

Chess

Maths

Criw Cymraeg

** NEW Tea and Talk with Mrs Davies**

Tuesday-

Board Games

Thursday–

Bronze Ambassadors

Cycling

Clwb Cymraeg

3D printing and coding

Cost of living crisis

Poverty proofing the curriculum has been an area which our Bee Citizzzens discussed in the last Rights conference last term. As always we like you to be part of any plans we make so there will be a parent focus group over the next few weeks to discuss ways we can help keep costs down. Please come along and contribute or come and listen to other people’s suggestions.

Greg Rees Tournament

Our netball, football and rugby teams will be representing Tre Uchaf in our annual Greg Rees Tournament on Wednesday. Please come along and support your children on the school field on Wednesday from 10am- 2pm if you can.

Summer shows

There will be one Foundation Phase Summer show on Wednesday 5^th July at 1.30pm and one KS2 show at 4pm on Wednesday 12^th July. The KS2 show will be at 4pm so we will keep the children in school that day and give them a hotdog and a drink as a teatime snack before the show starts. More details will follow over the next few weeks. Tickets will be on sale in the office from Monday 26^th June for £1 each and will be limited to 2 tickets per family in the first instance.

The nursery singalong on Friday 7^th July will be in the school hall. More information will follow in the next few weeks!

Holiday request forms

As you know we can’t authorise holidays during term time however in order to ensure our learners are safe we do require you to fill in a holiday request form which will tell us where the children are and how long they’ll be away for. This is to make sure you don’t have phone calls from our attendance officer, Mrs Seager. These are available from the school office from Monday. Please complete it prior to any holidays.

Many thanks.

Mrs Davies

Diary Dates

Monday 19^th June

Welsh Athlete to visit school for the day. Please return your sponsor forms by ASAP

Netball match against Cadle Primary School

Tuesday 20^th June

STF class to Pen y Bryn Summer fayre

Wednesday 21^st June

Greg Rees Tournament

Thursday 22^nd June

PTA Summer fayre at 3pm in the FP playground- weather permitting! Please contact Mrs Havard or Mrs Pompa if you can help out on Wednesday.

Friday 23^rd June

Year 6 Transition to comprehensive workshop with CAMHS outreach team

26^th June

Reception Hearing test

27^th June

STF sports day and picnic

28^th June

Transition orchestra to Penyrheol (Trumpets/ violins/ cellists)

29^th June

Cynefin project Year 5 to Oystermouth castle for this special cluster event

Year 4 to Pinopolis

Bee Citizzzens to meet with past pupils to discuss rights of the child

30^th June

JSTF Swimming starts

Monday and Tuesday 3^rd and 4^th July

Year 6 Transition days to Comprehensive

4^th July

Class swap and children find out their new teachers and support staff teams.

Wednesday 5^th July

STF Football event

1.30pm Summer singalong FP

6^th July

Health visitor drop in session 8.30-11am

9am 6 a side football transition event for Year 6

Friday 7^th July

Nursery Summer Singalong 10.30am

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Tuesday 11^th July

FP trip to Aberavon beach

JSTF to Pen y Bryn Summer show

Thursday 13^th July

Cluster Enterprise Final Year 6

Nursery parents to meet with Reception staff

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent to parents

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly. (Time to be confirmed)

Thursday 20^th July

KS2 trip to Pembrey

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils

Monday 24^th July

INSET DAY for Staff Training.

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Belong- Believe- Be the best you can be!

Newsletter week ending 26^th May

Theme next week: Being a good citizen

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Beth sy’n bod? What’s the matter?

Best Attending classes: Year 5 for the third week in a row with 93%

Whole school attendance is down to 85.9%

Newyddion  a Criw Cymraeg,

This half term classes are sending out their Welsh mascots for children to take home and write about. Uncle Bryn, Ffion Myfanwy and ffrindiau are off on their travels. If you child has been chosen to take them home, please take good care of them!

Diolch,

Criw Cymraeg

Our Reception class visited Brynteg Farm and had a magical day yesterday. The children haven’t stopped talking about it today and were so excited to tell me about the chicken on Mrs Hartup’s head. I wish I was there to see that!

Our wellbeing target on our school improvement plan is developing well and the Active Travel and Rights Respecting school aspect has almost been achieved! We were delighted to share our active travel progress with staff from other schools who have just started the Active Travel scheme. Diolch to Mr Civil for hosting this event.

Year 2 entertained their families on Monday afternoon with their performances for the ‘Beat Band and Boogie show’. I can’t wait for TreUchaf’s Got Talent this year so you can show the school your talents. Ardderchog pawb!

Our Year 6 pupils went to a the Penyrheol Transition council event on Thursday and represented our school brilliantly. Pupil voice plays a huge part in our school and ensuring we listen to learners to make improvements has been fundamental to our success. Our pupils always speak positively about Tre Uchaf and are always respectful. I am a very proud headteacher!

Police / School beat workshops

This week our school’s liaison officer PC Laura Anthony visited school to lead workshops for our Years 3,4,5 and 6 children. Topics explored included grooming, friend or foe, anti-social behaviour and internet safety.

Family Learning

Don’t forget family learning afternoons on a Wednesday afternoon between 1pm and 3pm. This week they had a Teddy bears outing which looked like great fun! Parents and carers of children in reception, Year1 and Year 2 can attend free of charge!

Safeguarding and Child Protection

 The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors

After school clubs

Monday-

Chess

Maths

Criw Cymraeg

Tuesday-

Board Games

Thursday–

Bronze Ambassadors

Cycling

Clwb Cymraeg

3D printing and coding

School Uniform

Hopefully this sunny weather is here to stay so with that in mind I thought it would be best to clear up any confusion around Summer uniform.

Acceptable	Garments not acceptable
Black or grey shorts White or red polo shirt or plain t-shirt Red and white gingham summer dress Sandals with socks covering toes Trainers Sunhats Sunglasses	Flip flops Crocs Sandals without socks Denim hotpants Very short cycling shorts which expose body parts that others don’t want to see Crop top t-shirts Vest tops or strappy tops that expose shoulders Hoop earrings Multi-coloured t-shirts with large branding or slogans

St David’s Close Car park

The residents of St David’s close have asked me to remind you that the small carpark at the back of the school is for residents only. Some families are parking there and have damaged cars by letting their children swing the car door open banging into the car parked next to them. This has resulted in 2 cars being scratched and damaged this week. Please ensure children are safe and open doors carefully while respecting other people’s property. Many thanks for your understanding in this matter.

Next year’s Year 6 class of 24 hoodies

The jade green leavers hoodies will be available online from 1^st June via Sew and Sew. The children chose a beautiful shade of green, da iawn pawb! There is an option to pay in instalments if that’s easier but please remember they are not to be worn until the children are in Year 6 in September.

I hope you all have a lovely week off and we’ll see you bright and early on Tuesday 6^th June.

Mrs Davies

Diary Dates

Monday 5^th June

INSET DAY- School closed to pupils

Tuesday 6^th June

Trumpet lessons for Year 6

KS2 Singing ( Summer show)

Wednesday 7^th June

School council meeting

Rights Respecting School afternoon with buddy classes

Year 6 and Year 2

Year 5 and Year 1

Year 4 and Reception

Year 3 and ISTF

JSTF pupils will work alongside their year groups.

RRS sharing assembly 2.30pm

Thursday 8^th June

Crucial Crew

Criw Iiath Assembly

Violins

3D Printing club

Friday 9^th June

Year 3Swimming

Welsh whisperer transition event

Tiddly Tots parent and toddler group

Pupil of the month Assembly

Interest Groups

Interviews for ALNco role

Future Events

Monday 12^th June

School nurse to talk about nutrition, sleep, fluid intake and sugar content to Ks2 children

Primary Partners rehearsals

Tuesday13th June

10.30 FP sports day

1.30 KS2 Sports day

STF to visit Brangwyn Hall at 10am

Wednesday 14th June  

 Grand Theatre Performance Year 6

Thursday 15^th June

Year 5 taster day to Penyrheol. Please see the letter from Mr Benney regarding  the day.

Friday 16^th June

Nursery Sports day

Monday 19^th June

Welsh Athlete to visit school for the day

Wednesday 21^st June

Greg Rees Tournament

Thursday 22^nd June

PTA Summer fayre

Friday 23^rd June

Year 6 Transition to comprehensive workshop with CAMHS outreach team

27^th June

STF sports day and picnic

30^th June

JSTF Swimming starts

Monday and Tuesday 3^rd and 4^th July

Year 6 Transition days to Comprehensive

Wednesday 5^th July

STF Football event

1.30pm Summer singalong FP

6^th July

9am 6 a side football transition event for Year 6

Friday 7^th July

Nursery Summer Singalong 10.30am

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Tuesday 11^th July

FP trip to Aberavon beach

Thursday 13^th July

Cluster Enterprise Final Year 6

Nursery parents to meet with Reception staff

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent to parents

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly. (Time to be confirmed)

Thursday 20^th July

KS2 trip to Pembrey

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils

Monday 24^th July

INSET DAY for Staff Training.

25^th July

Food and Fun Summer play scheme starts! More information will follow after half term. Thank you to Miss Sidaway for organising.

Belong- Believe- Be the best you can be!

Newsletter week ending 19^th May 2023

Theme next week: Creativity

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Sut wyt ti?

Best Attending classes: Year 5 93%

Whole school attendance is down to 89%

Newyddion  a Criw Cymraeg,

On May 18^th the Criw delivered an assembly all about ‘Negys Ewyllys Da’ which is an annual celebration by the Urdd with their Peace and Goodwill Message. This year the theme is Anti-racism. You can see the anti racism tiles on show near our garden at the front of the school. Diolch yn fawr pawb!

We are always looking for new members to join our Criw so if you are free on Mondays after school, please ask Mrs Havard for a consent form. 

Diolch,

Criw Cymraeg

Loughor Town Band

The band visited our school on Friday morning to play for our Year 2 children as part of their topic ‘Beat, bBand and Boogie’. The members of the band were so impressed with our children and the quality of questions they asked that they’ve emailed me to tell me. Well done Year 2, you should be very proud of yourselves.  A big thanks you to Mrs Havard and Mrs Clark for organising this lovely event!

Packed Lunches

We have noticed a decline in the amount of healthy foods in lunchboxes over the last few months and today a child had a blue chuppa chupp lollipop in their box as part of their lunch. Please can I remind you that sweets, fizzy drinks, energy drinks and high amounts of chocolate biscuits and cakes are not allowed.

One small chocolate biscuit along with sandwiches or a wrap, pasta or a salad with some fruit is absolutely fine however this week a child had a chocolate mini roll, penguin bar, 4 custard creams, grab bag of crisps and a bag of minstrels. This is a vast amount of sugar for one lunchbox and I am sure you will all agree that we want our children to physically fit and healthy.

If you would like advice on healthy lunchboxes or help in supporting children who are fussy eaters, please come along to see our school health visitor on Thursday morning. She will also offer advice on screen time, behaviour boundaries and saying no to children, bedtime routines, toileting and sleep. Both Rhian and Brogan are very supportive and approachable and you’ll be made to feel very welcome!

Family Learning

Don’t forget family learning afternoons on a Wednesday afternoon between 1pm and 3pm. Parents and carers of children in reception, Year1 and Year 2 can attend free of charge!

SAFE PARKING

Thank you to those parents and carers who are respecting our car park rules and keeping our children safe. Please report any cars or vans that are parked illegally on the pavements or double yellow lines.

The Pengry Road carpark is available if the car park is full. It’s a short walk away at the bottom of heol cae Ty Newydd. Diolch yn fawr iawn!

The school website

Please check out our school website for weekly newsletters and pictures on twitter. Our twitter handle is @treuchafprimary but to see the pictures, you don’t need to have twitter just look at the bottom of our website.

The school website will be upgraded to a more modern format so if you have any suggestions of what you need me to include, please let me know.

This week in assembly the children have been shown a link on the school website so they can tell me important news. This will then be sent through to my phone as a notification and I can catch up with them the next day at school. This is a safe place for them to tell me about something exciting going on in their lives or if something is worrying them and they want to talk. It’s accessible through the Pupils tab and the top of the box as a link

Things I want my headteacher to know…

Safeguarding and Child Protection

 The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

SQUID

Please can you make sure SQUID payments are topped up every week. It’ll avoid Mrs Seager calling you to nag you to top up! Many thanks.

World Bee Day

Buzz our school mascot designed by Mayer in Year 6 is a big part of our school life. Buzz’s missions are evident around the learning provision and you’ll also see the symbol in the children’s books when they bring them home. The ‘Beee Citizzzzens’ made a bee hunt today for the children to find out facts about bees and their use. A huge thank you to Mr Smith and our pupil voice group for organising this for the children.

Breakfast club

Our KS2 children have had the option of using our Art room over in the gym building for quieter activities in the morning. If your KS2 child would prefer the quietness of the art room, please see Mrs Tench in the morning. Breakfast times are 8am-8.40am. A £1 charge is payable from 8am-8.20am. If you come along after 8.20am breakfast club is free!

After school clubs

Monday-

Chess

Maths

Criw Cymraeg/

Clwb Cymraeg

Tuesday-

Board Games

Thursday–

Bronze Ambassadors

Cycling

3D printing and coding

Diary Dates

Monday 22nd May

2pm Year 2 Express event in class. Parents and carers of year 2 pupils welcome!

Candidates for the ALNCO role will be visiting school for a look around.

Tuesday 23^rd May

Reception to visit the library

Active travel ambassadors to The Senedd

Year 6 Trumpet classes

Wednesday 24th May

PC Laura Anthony to run workshops with Years 3,4 5 and 6 all day. Anti-social behaviour, grooming and friend or foe will be explored in an age appropriate way.

Thursday 25th May

 Health Visitor drop in session. Come along and chat to Rhian and Brogan about screen time, baby massage, toilet training, behaviour and sleep routines.

Reception to visit Brynteg farm

Violins

3D Printing club

Friday 19^h May

Year 6 Swimming

Tiddly Tots parent and toddler group

Seren yr wythnos

Interest Groups

Future Events

Monday 5^th June INSET Day

School closed to pupils

Thursday 8^th June

Crucial Crew

Friday 9^th June

Welsh Whisperer event in Penyrheol Comprehensive

Monday 12^th June

School nurse to talk about nutrition, sleep, fluid intake and sugar content to Ks2 children

Primary Partners week in The Grand Theatre rehearsals

Tuesday13th June

FP/ KS2 Sports day

STF to visit Brangwyn Hall

Wednesday 14th June  

 Grand Theatre Performance Year 6

Thursday 15^th June

Year 5 taster day to Penyrheol. Please see the letter from Mr Benney regarding  the day.

Friday 16^th June

Nursery Sports day

Monday 19^th June

Welsh Athlete to visit school for the day

Wednesday 21^st June

Greg Rees Tournament

Thursday 22^nd June

PTA Summer fayre

Friday 23^rd June

Year 6 Transition to comprehensive workshop with CAMHS outreach team

27^th June

STF sports day and picnic

30^th June

JSTF Swimming

Monday and Tuesday 3^rd and 4^th July

Year 6 Transition days to Comprehensive

Wednesday 5^th July

STF Football event

1.30pm Summer singalong FP

6^th July

6 a side football transition event for Year 6

Friday 7^th July

Nursery Summer Singalong 10.30am

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Thursday 13^th July

Cluster Enterprise Final Year 6

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent  to parents

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly. (Time to be confirmed)

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils

Monday 24^th July

INSET DAY for Staff Training.

25^th July

Food and Fun Summer play scheme starts!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs Davies

12.5.23

Newsletter week ending 12^th May 2023

Theme next week: Making a contribution

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Sut wyt ti? How are you?

Best Attending classes: Year 5 and JSTF with 100%

Whole school attendance is 93%

Newyddion  a Criw Cymraeg,

This week the younger Criw Cymraeg members have been playing some Welsh playground games and practising their Welsh words. On May 18^th the Criw will be delivering an assembly all about ‘Negys Ewyllys Da’ which is an annual celebration by the Urdd with their Peace and Goodwill Message. This year the theme is Anti-racism. 

We are always looking for new members to join our Criw so if you are free on Mondays after school, please ask Mrs Havard for a consent form. 

Diolch,

Criw CymraegCongratulations!

Llongyfarchiadau to Mrs Pugh, our ISTF class teacher, who is expecting her first baby in September.  It’s always lovely to hear baby news in school and we wish Mrs Pugh and her husband our very best wishes from everyone at Tre Uchaf!

Family Learning

Don’t forget family learning afternoons on a Wednesday afternoon between 1pm and 3pm. Parents and carers of children in reception, Year1 and Year 2 can attend free of charge!

Residential for next year’s Year 6

We have booked a 2 night stay at Morfa Bay on March 20th for next year’s Year 6. We have set up a payment plan over the next 11 months to spread payments out and there will be a slight reduction for children who access free school meals and the school uniform grant. Please could you send in £20 to secure your child’s place before 31^st May.

SAFE PARKING

Please park safely around the entrance to our school. Parking on a pavement so wheelchairs can’t get past is an issue for all of us because we have children and parents who use a wheelchair to access school safely. Please be considerate to our neighbours and respect the car park rules. A white car parked illegally, on yellow lines opposite the car park entrance earlier today and this was a risk to our children. Please contact 101 and report drivers and cars who are a nuisance. We don’t want any road traffic accidents or any children to be injured through careless parking!

Please use the Pengry Road carpark if possible! Thank you to those who do park safely and help look after our children. Diolch yn fawr iawn!

Walking Bus

Apologies to anyone who has been waiting at 8.20 for the walking bus. The walking bus is staffed from 8.30am. We did start it earlier when we did it every day during the Big walk and Wheel to boost our numbers and encourage the children however on a normal Friday the drop off time is 8.30. Please accept my apologies for the confusion. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Civil, Miss Trotman, Miss Kierl and the other staff who help out, for giving up their time to organise it every week; it’s much appreciated!

Safeguarding and Child Protection

 The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

Breakfast club

Our KS2 children will now have the option of using our Art room over in the gym building for quieter activities in the morning. These will include board games, cards, puzzles, colouring, drawing and my favourite, Top Trumps! Thank you to Mrs Tench for organising this. If your KS2 child would prefer the quietness of the art room, please see Mrs Tench in the morning. Breakfast times are 8am-8.40am. A £1 charge is payable from 8am-8.20am. If you come along after 8.20am breakfast club is free!

Energy drinks message from Year 4

Year 4 have been discussing energy drinks as part of their Potions topic. Mr Smith and the children have been researching them and wanted to share this information with you.

Energy drinks have large amounts of caffeine and drinking these can have the same effect on child-sized bodies as the ‘fight, flight, freeze’ response that they learned about during Children’s Mental Health Week. A lot of the physical symptoms that we have when we are worried (palpitations, stiff limbs, tunnel vision, headache) are due to our bodies preparing to be fast or strong. Even in adults, powerful energy drinks can cause these symptoms. 

They’ve been researching ingredients for healthy potions (i.e. Smoothies) and looking at how much sugar we should be consuming each day. Year 4 made a smoothie in class today from unsweetened coconut milk, avocado, banana, strawberries and blueberries. Two children did not want to taste it but those who did taste it gave it a score out of ten, and the average score was 9.04. Lots of children said they would make this again, even though it had no added sugar.  

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Our teaching students, Nia Loren and Lowri Clark, will be speaking at the ‘Aiming for Excellence’ conference at the University next week. Both Nia and Lowri have been outstanding students who will be sharing their experiences of their time in our school with other educational practitioners. We are delighted that they have been recognised as excellent students and wish them the very best of luck!

Diary Dates

Monday 15^th May

Years 3 and 5 to visit St Catherine’s Church

Tuesday 16^th May

Reception to visit the library

Active travel ambassadors to The Senedd

Year 6 Trumpet classes

Wednesday 17th May

STF Football festival 9.45-12

Year 5 to Big Pit

Thursday 18th May

Year 3 and JSTF to Techniquest

Violins

3D Printing club

Friday 19^h May

Year 6 Swimming

Tiddly Tots parent and toddler group

Seren yr wythnos

Interest Groups

Future Events

24^th May

PC Laura Anthony to run workshops with Years 3,4 5 and 6 all day

25^th May

Health Visitor drop in session. Come along and chat to Rhian and Brogan about screen time, baby massage, toilet training, behaviour and sleep routines.

Reception to visit Brynteg farm

Monday 5^th June INSET Day

School closed to pupils

Friday 9^th June

Welsh Whisperer event in Penyrheol Comprehensive

Monday 12^th June

Year 5 Transition taster mornings this week (Dates to be confirmed)

Primary Partners week in The Grand Theatre (Exact date is yet to be confirmed)

Tuesday13th June

FP/ KS2 Sports day

Wednesday 14th June  

 Grand Theatre Performance Year 6

Thursday 15^th June

Year 5 taster day to Penyrheol. Please see the letter from Mr Benney regarding  the day.

Friday 16^th June

Nursery Sports day

Monday 19^th June

Welsh Athlete to visit school for the day

Thursday 22^nd June

PTA Summer fayre

Friday 23^rd June

Year 6 Transition to comprehensive workshop with CAMHS outreach team

Monday and Tuesday 3^rd and 4^th July

Year 6 Transition days to Comprehensive

Wednesday 5^th July

STF Football event

1.30pm Summer singalong FP

Friday 7^th July

Nursery Summer Singalong 10.30am

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Thursday 13^th July

Cluster Enterprise Final Year 6

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent  to parents

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly. (Time to be confirmed)

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils

Monday 24^th July

INSET DAY for Staff Training.

25^th July

Food and Fun Summer play scheme starts!

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Warm regards,

Mrs Davies

Belong- Believe- Be the best you can be!

Newsletter week ending 5^th May 2023

Theme next week: Ready to learn

Welsh phrase of the fortnight: Llongyfarchiadau! Congratulations!

Best Attending class: Reception with 97.1%

Whole school attendance is 90.7%

Newyddion  a Criw Cymraeg,

The Criw Cymraeg helped to organise an excellent Celf a Coronation event this week inviting parents/carers and our local community. A huge thank you to Mrs Havard and the Criw for helping the staff and children prepare art work and crafts to sell. Da iawn pawb!

INSET DAYS

We have 2 INSET Days planned for Monday 5^th June and Monday 24^th July. Please put these dates in your diary!

Safety

This week we had our fire drill and I am pleased to say that all children and staff responded well and got out of the building quickly and safely. Da iawn pawb!

Rugby News

Well done to our Year 6 team who represented school on Wednesday at the beach rugby festival. All children and parents had a fantastic day. Diolch to Mr Civil and those children who stepped out of their comfort zone to participate in a sport they hadn’t tried before. Llongyfarchiadau!

Gorseinon RFC are looking for Year 6 players who might want to join their Under 12’s team next year. Flyers have been given to Year 6. If you’d like any further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Phil Davies on 07751018887

Family Learning

Don’t forget family learning afternoons on a Wednesday afternoon between 1pm and 3pm. Parents and carers of children in reception, Year1 and Year 2 can attend free of charge!

Thank you!

Diolch yn fawr to the PTA for organising a fabulous disco to celebrate the King Charles Coronation. We are always looking for help so if you could spare an hour or so when we hold an event please let Mrs Pompa know. All help will be gratefully received. Thank you to the mums who helped sell the snacks.

Residential for next year’s Year 6

We have provisionally booked a 2 night stay at Morfa Bay next March for next year’s Year 6. We priced lots of other places but it seems like this is very good valuie for money compared to other places in Wales. We will set up a payment plan over the next 11 months to spread payments out. There will be a slight reduction for children who access free school meals and the school uniform grant. Please could you send in £20 to secure your child’s place before 31^st May.

Safeguarding and Child Protection

 The Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer for our school is Mrs Louise Davies, the Headteacher. In her absence the Deputy Headteacher and Deputy Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Stephanie Edwards. The Governor with responsibility for Child Protection and Safeguarding is Mrs Rachel Rees, the Chair of Governors.

Parent Focus Group

Please come along to the next parent focus group if you would like to see how we have added in your suggestions to contribute to our Tre Uchaf Curriculum. This will be 2pm on Thursday in the Thrive Room. I look forward to seeing you!

Diary Dates

Monday 8^th May

Bank Holiday

Tuesday 9^th May

Reception to visit the library

Active travel ambassadors to The Senedd

Year 6 Trumpet classes

Wednesday 1oth May

Year 1 Superhero hunt in the local area

Child protection training for staff

Thursday 11^th May

CLASS  PHOTOGRAPHS

Brynmill school staff  to see POPAT in action

2pm Parent focus group

Violins

Stringalong

Friday 12^th May

Year 6 Swimming

Tiddly Tots parent and toddler group

Seren yr wythnos

Interest Groups

Future Events

Wednesday 17^th May

STF Football Tournament

Year 5 visit to Big Pit

Thursday 18^th May

Year 3 visit to Techniquest

24^th May

PC Laura Anthony to run workshops with Years 3,4 5 and 6 all day

Monday 5^th June INSET Day

School closed to pupils

Friday 9^th June

Welsh Whisperer event in Penyrheol Comprehensive

Monday 12^th June

Year 5 Transition taster mornings this week (Dates to be confirmed)

Primary Partners week in The Grand Theatre (Exact date is yet to be confirmed)

Tuesday13th June

FP/ KS2 Sports day

Wednesday 14th June  

 Grand Theatre Performance Year 6

Thursday 15^th June

Year 5 taster day to Penyrheol

Friday 16^th June

Nursery Sports day

Monday 19^th June

Welsh Athlete to visit school for the day

Thursday 22^nd June

PTA Summer fayre

Monday and Tuesday 3^rd and 4^th July

Year 6 Transition days to Comprehensive

Wednesday 5^th July

STF Football event

1.30pm Summer singalong FP

Friday 7^th July

Nursery Summer Singalong 10.30am

Monday 10^th July

Work experience pupils from Year 10 to visit school

Thursday 13^th July

Cluster Enterprise Final Year 6

Friday 14^th July

Nursery Summer trip

Monday 17^th July

Annual Reports sent  to parents

Wednesday 19^th July

Year 6 Leaving Assembly. (Time to be confirmed)

Thursday 20^th July

Provisional date for Year 6 Leaving event

Friday 21^st July

Last day in school for pupils

Monday 24^th July

INSET DAY for Staff Training.

25^th July

Food and Fun Summer play scheme starts!

I hope you all have a fantastic Bank Holiday weekend.

Mrs Davies

Week ending 28^th April 2023

Next week’s themes: The King’s Coronation /Ambition

Best attending class: Year 1 with a whopping 98.6%. Well done Year 1!

Whole school attendance: 93% Huge improvement in attendance this week despite the sickness bug that is going around. Da iawn!

Celf a Coronation

Please join us in the school hall on Wednesday 3^rd May at 2pm for a Celf and Coronation Fayre. The   children will be displaying their art work and selling their ‘Coronation crafts’. Please come along and support them if you can. The children have been using their enterprising skills by researching, marketing and pricing their products ready to sell. Ardderchog pawb!

Coronation Disco

A huge thank you to the PTA for organising the Coronation Disco on Thursday. There will be a foundation phase disco at 4pm until 5pm but parents of nursery pupils are asked to stay with them. Those children who become overwhelmed by the noise of a disco are invited to attend the quiet disco at 4pm in the JSTF. Please use the JSTF door to access this.

The Key Stage 2 disco for Years 3,4,5 and 6 will be at 5pm-6pm. Tickets cost £2 and are available from Mrs Pompa or Mrs Seager in the school office. The PTA are looking for some Foundation Phase parents to help sell hotdogs, sweets and drinks at the disco. If you think you can help out, please let me or your child’s class teacher know. All help gratefully received!

RVE

As part of our Religion, Values and Ethics Curriculum, our children will be visiting places of worship such as the local Church, Swansea Mosque and a Sikh temple to name a few.  I am sure that you will agree that the children need opportunities to:

 · develop a sense of their uniqueness and value;

· reflect upon their own beliefs, values and actions and express and justify their own feelings and opinions;

· show empathy and consideration for others;

· develop compassion and help others;

· develop a voice and listen with respect to the voices of others;

· form good relationships;

· talk about themselves in relation to others;

· gain awareness of and respect for the beliefs, teachings and practices of others, as well as an ability to articulate their own;

 · explore how religious and non-religious worldviews impact on the lives of individuals, the local community and wider society.

Visiting these special places of worship with their teachers and friends will give them confidence to ask questions and explore their surroundings in a respectful and inquisitive way. If you would like more information about our  school curriculum please contact me on 01792 893682 or come along to our next parent focus group on Thursday May 11^th at 2pm.

Volunteers

We are looking for volunteers who might have a spare hour or so every week to hear readers, help in classes with art or gardening or even share a particular skill with the children. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact me on 01792 893682 for a chat!

TRAFFIC

I would like to remind you to drive at 5MPH in the school car park and the surrounding areas. A black car was seen driving dangerously in the car park this week and a nursery child had to be pulled back. This is being investigated so if you know the driver or have any information about this incident please contact me ASAP. Please be vigilant and walk safely with your children, holding their hands if they don’t have any road sense yet, and using the pavement rather than walking through the carpark.

 Remind your children to follow the ‘Kerb craft’ rules.

Water/ beach safety

The children took part in an excellent assembly on Tuesday. Joe and Sam from the RNLI came to school to teach the children about what to do in a water emergency and how to stay safe at the beach. They had a sound understanding to start with but by the end of the session it was clear that they had learnt much more. Thank you to the children who volunteered to take part in the activities and those who answered the tricky questions. I’m sure if the children visit the beach this weekend they will tell you all about it! Da iawn pawb.

I hope you all have a relaxing Bank Holiday weekend; fingers crossed for sunny weather.

See you on Tuesday!

Mrs Davies

Events this fortnight

Monday 1^st May

Bank Holiday

Tuesday 2^nd May

Years 2,4 and 6 to visit the Mosque

EWO will be checking on attendance

School Council Meeting

Wednesday 3^rd May

Year 6 Tag Rugby Team to Swansea Festival

Criw Iaith Assembly

2pm Celf a Coronation Fayre

NO ARTS AND CRAFTS CLUB This will return in September!

Thursday 4^th May

Violins

Stringalong

4pm Foundation Phase disco (Please use the main foyer door to enter)

4pm Quiet disco (Please use the JSTF door to enter)

5pm Key Stage 2 disco (Please use the main foyer door to enter)

Friday 5^th May

Tiddly Tots

Swimming

Pupil of the month Assembly

Interest Groups

Monday 8^th May

Bank Holiday

Tuesday 9^th May

Active Travel Ambassadors to visit the Senedd

Wednesday 9^th May

Child protection Training for staff and governors

Thursday 11^th May

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS

Reception to visit the library

Staff will be sharing good practice with Brynmill School

Parent Focus Group at 2pm

Violins

Friday 12^th May

Tiddly Tots

Swimming

Monday 15^th May

Years 3 and 5 to visit St Catherine’s Church