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 15th 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 21st 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
1st September
29th September
4th December
9th February
22nd March
1 other TBC
Thursday 14th September
Year 6 swimming
Violins
Film in a fortnight sharing event
Friday 15th September
Tiddly Tots
Seren yr wythnos assembly
Future Dates
w/c 18th September
School council elections
18th September
Year 4 trip to Copper jack
20th September
STF Community Day
Thursday 21st September
9am Parent focus group
Year 2 trip to Kidwelly castle
25th September
9am Education welfare officer to visit school about lateness and attendance
1pm Selected Yr 5/6 pupils to Penyrheol comp for DT project
26th September
Year 4 to library
Year 6 recycling project
27th September
Family learning starts at 9am-11.30 in the hall
Thursday 28th September
Harvest Assembly
Friday 29th September
INSET Day (School closed for staff training)
Thursday 26th October
Halloween/ Spooky disco
Friday 27th October
Last day of term.