Newsletter week ending 5th November
Dear Parents/carers,
We have had a fabulous week in school this week. The children have been buzzing around the school learning about the four core purposes of the New Curriculum for Wales. We have held a competition to find a character which we can use to represent these purposes. We will announce the winner shortly!
Inset Day
There will be an INSET day for staff training on Tuesday 4th January.
Year 6 Residential
A residential has been booked for our year 6 pupils in March 2022. A letter has been sent home and the deposit should be in today. If you have any questions or need to share any information or concerns please contact the school office.
After school clubs
The staff have sent out consent forms for the children to attend after-school clubs this half term. It is important that if children sign up to a club, they attend every session. Clubs on offer will be;
Clwb Cymraeg Year 1 and 2
Netball Year 5 and 6
Active citizens Year 5 and 6
Makaton Year 3 and 4
Music with Alex Wednesday 3pm-4pm Year 3 and 4
Story club
Board games club year 3 and 4
Sports and healthy living club with Mrs Lodwig KS2
Numeracy and play
Mrs Glass and some of our nursery parents had a fabulous morning this week. They have been working together learning about maths language for little children. Please come along if you have a child in the nursery. The nursery children will be joining their parents for part of the morning which they loved!
Family Learning
We held our first family learning session on Tuesday afternoon. We have altered the time to 1.30pm until 3pm and this week it will be held in Nursery. If you have a little one, please come along with them and join in the sessions. We will be looking at and trying out healthy eating recipes this week
Water Bottles
Thanks to everyone who brought in a water bottle this week- diolch!
Christmas
There will be no Christmas fayre to raise money for the PTA this year however, we will be holding a Christmas raffle. If you know a local company that might like to donate a prize, please let me know. We will also hold the Christmas present wrapping stall so if you have any unwanted gift sets or bits and bobs that could be a nice gift for a parent please bring it into school before 3rd December. All donations are gratefully received! We are hoping to hold some sort of class stall for individual classes, more details will follow.
Christmas concert update
As you can imagine it has been a difficult decision to plan fun activities with minimum risk for Christmas time this year. We are still ‘high risk’ in Swansea even though Covid numbers have been relatively low in school. However, I have spoken to governors who have agreed that we can hold a few mini live concerts with the following condition in place:
Only 1 parent per child to attend the show
Chairs will be socially distanced
Parents to wear a mask to their seat and can only then remove it
Hands are to be sanitised on the way into the building and on the way out
Concert or show will be held in paired classes rather than a phase
- Nursery singalong
- Reception/ ISTF
- Year 1 and 2
- Year 3 and 4
- Year 5 and JSTF
- Year 6
Each pair of classes will perform twice. Once in the morning for one set of parents and once in the afternoon for the other set of parents. JSTF parents will attend at the same time as year 5 parents. There will be one performance for Nursery and one performance for Year 6.
I am sure you will understand that it is vital you follow the rules to keep the children, staff and parents safe. We would love to have everyone packed in the hall celebrating Christmas together but unfortunately, we cannot do this now. We will make the best of this situation and I am sure the children will enjoy performing as much as we will enjoy watching. I’M EXCITED ALREADY!!
Christmas dates for your diary
29th November Nursery trip to Poundfflad farm
30th November FP Trip to Wiggleys
1st December KS2 Trip to Gower College to see Matilda
3rd December Christmas present stall
7th December Year 1 and 2 concert Year 2 parents at 9.30am and Year 1 parents at 1.30pm
8th December Nursery singalong at 9.30am and Reception/STF at 1.30pm
9th December Christmas dinner day for children
10th December Christmas jumper day. Please donate £1 to save the children to wear your Christmas jumper
14th December Year 3 and 4 concert Year 3 parents at 9.30am and Year 4parents at 1.30pm
15th December Year 6 at 9.30am
!5th December Year 5 and JSTF concert at 1.30pm
16th December Nursery Christmas party am and FP party pm
16th December KS2 trip to the Panto
17th December END OF TERM!
Diary dates next week
Monday 8th November
3pm Makaton Club
Tuesday 9th November
9am- 11.20 Numeracy and play workshop with Nursery parents
1.30pm-3pm Family learning sessions in Nursery
Wednesday 10th November
3pm Music club with Alex
Thursday 11th November
1pm Violins
2.30pm Stringalong with Year 1
Friday 12th November
9.30 Year 4 swimming
1.30pm Kickboxing for Year 5 hall
1.30pm Gymnastics for Reception gym
Have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Davies