Tre Uchaf Primary School
Newsletter for Parents Week Beginning 7th December
Dear Parents,
Thank you all for continuing to follow our safety rules on school arrival and departure. May I remind you that the North Road entrance leading to the junior yard is now open and I would urge you to use this entry point to the premises if this is convenient for you as it is currently used by very few families. Please ignore the ‘One Way’ signs which have been mistakenly put up along this path. This is a two way route which should have ‘Keep Left’ signs! I will get this put right asap.
Christmas
Just a couple of festive reminders;
- We will be breaking up for the Christmas holiday on Friday 18th December at 3pm.
- If children would like to bring Christmas cards in, we ask that they just bring ONE for the whole class. These will be displayed in the classroom.
- Thank you for sending in a huge number of donations for our Christmas wrapping stall! The wrapping is underway as I write!
- You will have received a letter letting you know about your child’s contribution to the Tre Uchaf Christmas Movie. Please send your child to school in their costume on their filming day next week so that we can avoid too much close contact while helping them to change. It is very important that you sign the consent form to allow your child to take part as we are not allowed to film your child without this. We will be editing the film next week and will let you know soon how you can buy the DVD or view the film another way.
- We now have two outdoor Christmas trees. Thank you for your donations of decorations!
- Christmas Jumper and Christmas Dinner Day will be on Friday 11th December. The dinner will be a turkey roll and party food delivered in a special Christmas Party Bag. The cost of the dinner is £2.40 per child and there will be no charge for children entitled to free school meals. If you want your child to have a Christmas party bag it is essential that your sQuid account is in credit.
- You will have received a text letting you know that in order to reduce the risk of anyone in our school community having to isolate over Christmas we will now be finishing on Friday 18th December.
- Parties will now be on;
- Monday 14th December Juniors
- Tuesday 15th December Infants
Please send in a small plate or box of food for your child, ensuring that everything is fully sealed or ready wrapped. There will be no sharing of food. The child can wear party clothes on that day.
sQuid Accounts
We will be audited very soon and our sQuid accounts will be looked at to check that everyone is in credit. Please ensure your account is always in credit.
Christmas present stall
Thank you all so much for the donations for the Christmas present stall today. I’m sure you will all be delighted with the gifts your children have chosen for you! We have raised a whopping £356! The children are already planning to use it to develop our Solar shack in the Key stage 2 yard and also to purchase playground boxes for each class. Thank you to all children, parents and staff for your help in organising this lovely Christmas event for the children.
Accessing Home Learning
The Local Authority have asked us to send you a questionnaire regarding your child’s access to digital learning. The link to the questionnaire is here. We will also send it to you by text. Please complete this important survey as we may be able to help you out if you need it should your child’s class have to close due to the pandemic.
https://forms.gle/ZVZvpALvVnbsVfWUA
Piano Lessons
We are able to offer piano lessons here in school and some child are accessing this already. This is a private arrangement between you and the piano teacher and unlike violin lessons, which are paid for by school, there is a charge for this. If you like would to know more please let us know and we will send the information home with your child.
Children will now return to school on Monday 4th January as they will have had the full two weeks off with the slightly earlier finish. Apologies for any confusion due to date changes!!
Best wishes,
Mrs Hewitt