Dear Parents/ carers,
Newsletter Week Beginning 20th September
Thank you for attending the parent meetings this week with your child’s class teacher and following the Covid safe rules. Feedback from many of you has been really positive so a big thank you for coming along but remembering to stay safe whilst in the building.
Thank you again for your patience and understanding if we’ve telephoned you to collect your child this week, especially if they are showing Covid symptoms. We are taking a cautious approach and hopefully this will help to stop the spread in our local community. At the moment cases are very low in our school and I’d like to keep it that way for as long as possible!
If your child has any of the 3 main symptoms, please keep them at home and book a PCR test. You will need to keep your child at home until they have a negative test or the isolation period is over. TTP will advise you on this. If you are unsure, please telephone us in school and we will help to answer any questions you may have.
Dates for your diary
School Photographs- Friday 1st October
INSET day- Friday 22nd October
Half Term – Monday 25th– Friday 29th October
Year 6 Open evening at Pen-yr-heol Comprehensive-Wednesday 10th November 6pm-8pm
End of Autumn Term Friday 17th December
The following dates are provisional due to government guidelines changing if cases of Covid rise. Hopefully we will be in a position to have a concert and a pantomime this year-fingers crossed!
Foundation Phase concert December 7th at 1.30pm
December 8th 9.30am Foundation Phase concert including our nursery pupils
December 14th– Key Stage 2 panto
Parents Evenings
Parents evening will be the week commencing Monday 8th November. After the positive feedback from parents last year, we have decided to do this by telephone call. More details about this will follow over the coming weeks. Hopefully, in Spring term we will be able to invite you into class to look at the children’s books and have a face to face appointment with the class teacher.
As you know, I will always make myself available to discuss any concerns you may have, preferably by phone but I’m always out on one of the yards every morning.
Morrison’s ‘It’s good to grow’
We are collecting the Morrison’s’ It’s good to grow’ vouchers for gardening equipment. If you have any vouchers from your shopping, please put them in the box in the foyer. Many Thanks
School uniform
We have a large selection of unwanted uniform that has very kindly been washed and ironed by one of our lovely teaching assistants. We will put these items on a rail in front of the main foyer from Monday morning. If you would like any of the items on the rail, please help yourself, we would rather it be used by the children than sitting in a box in a cupboard! There will be an honesty box next to the rail if you would like to make a small donation but don’t feel like you have to!
Schoop
Please download the schoop app if you haven’t already, to receive regular updates on your phone of any school information. We will be using this form of communication more over the next few months. It’s particularly useful for Year 5 and 6 parents who don’t have access to class dojo. It also has a tool that you can use to inform us of any absence without having to ring the school office. Many thanks to those of you who have used this feature already, its much quicker!
Events this week
Monday 20th September
Year 2 meeting at 3pm
Tuesday 21st September
Year 6 visit to 1940’s museum
Thursday 23rd September
Violins- Please make sure your child brings their violin to school every Thursday
Year 1 – String along Music workshop
Friday 24th September
Year 4 Swimming- Please can all Year 4 children bring a swimming kit
Tuesday 28th September
JSTF coffee morning
Mrs Pugh will finalise a date for ISTF coffee morning over the next week and let parents know via class dojo.
Have a lovely weekend and stay safe!
Mrs Davies