Oldcastle Weekly Newsletter
Week 35 - Friday 24th June 2022
Years 1 to 6 Sports Day
Today we held our first sports day for over 2 years and what a great success it was. Thank you to our staff, parents and pupils for making it such a lovely day. Here's a couple of photos from the day. We will share more with you next week. Congratulations to everyone who took part. The green house captains - Lily and Sebbie - are shown below proudly holding the Sports Day trophy.
1st Place - GREEN House 510 points
2nd Place - RED House 505 points
3rd Place - YELLOW 490 points
4th Place - BLUE 475 points
Nursery and Reception Sports Day
We are looking forward to our nursery and reception sports day next Thursday 30th June which will be held in Hersonbridge School.
Children will leave school around 12.40pm to walk to Heronsbridge - we hope that parents will be able to help walk with the children. Please let the class teacher know if you can assist with this.
Once the children arrive in Heronsbridge sports field they will be taken to the children's area and supervised by the class teacher and support staff. Parents will be allocated a parents area in a separate location to enable you to view al the sports events. Children will remain in the children's area for the duration of the event.
The events will start at 1pm and be completed by 2.30pm. Children can wear their house colour t-shirt, shorts and trainers. Please ensure children have a hat, water bottle and suncream applied. The event is weather dependant and we will make a decision on the morning of the event if we cannot proceed with the event due to adverse weather. This will be communicated with parents by email. The PTA will be selling refreshments for parents - we hope you can support them.
Children may leave with parents at the end of the event as long as they are signed out on the teachers register.
Barney
Barney loved showing Swansea University how he is used in Oldcastle Primary School. Barney was filmed today to show how wellbeing dogs can be used in schools. Our wellbeing dog is so settled and part of our team. His job purpose is wellbeing, behaviour and emotional support. We are so lucky to have Barney. We look forward to sharing the video with parents when we receive it.
United Nations Children's Rights
Year 2 have been looking at point 28 of the United Nations Children's Rights - 'Are children treated equally in schools?’ They have created slogans and developed protest banners. They then paraded around the yard and school corridors in protest for equal rights! Da Iawn year 2.
Thank You!
It's National PTA Week this week and we want to say a huge THANK YOU to our active PTA for being so involved in our school community.
PTA Event - Oldcastle Rocks Saturday 9th July
The PTA have been busy planning an exciting event for our school. Oldcastle Rocks will take place on Saturday 9th July from 3pm to 7pm. Everyone is welcome. The PTA have a BBQ, sweet stall, alcohol licence to serve drinks, and live music. We hope you can support their event.
As part of the event the PTA hope to arrange some craft stalls - if you are interested in taking a table to sell craft items please message Angela Minton (Chair of the PTA) on 07584 620033. The PTA will not be charging for the tables but ask crafters to donate a prize for the raffle.
Nursery Parents Appointment
Nursery parents have been emailed this week with details of how to book a parents appointment with your child's class teacher. The email will be sent from our website email address notifications@primarysite.net. If you haven't received an email please get in touch.
Curriculum - Feedback from parents
From September 2022 all schools will have to implement their curriculum and assessment arrangements in line with the New Curriculum for Wales. (Further information on the Curriculum for Wales can be found by clicking this link - Curriculum Link
This year staff, governors and pupils have worked really hard to design a curriculum that underpins the 4 Purposes of the New Curriculum. As a school, we are very excited about the opportunities the curriculum will bring for both our pupils and the community.
As we implement the curriculum we will continue to evaluate and review what we offer our pupils, ensuring the curriculum is authentic, meaningful and essential for all our pupils.
We would be really interested in your evaluation and feedback on the curriculum and also what you feel we could add to ensure that we are creating confident individuals who will be good citizens and ready for work.
If you would like to contribute we would be really grateful if you spare a few minutes to complete the google form below.
School Photos
Year 6 Transition with Brynteg School
Thank you to Brynteg School for visiting this week and inspiring our year 6 pupils in expressive arts. The children loved learning about tie-dying, denim stencilling and sun bleaching as part of the transition arrangements.
RNLI Beach Safety
Year 5 had a visit from the RNLI this week to talk about beach safety. Parents may be interested to learn that the RNLI are holding a Family Fun Day at Rest Bay this Sunday from 10am to 2pm.
Barney decided the best place to keep cool today was on our new wooden flooring next to the 110 year old stone wall of Oldcastle School.
Year 2 were delighted to welcome an ex Oldcastle headteacher to talk to them today about school life when she worked in the school. Mrs Jones retired in 1994 and had some great stories to tell the children. Thank you for visiting Mrs Jones.
School Announcements
Bump Up Day
On Thursday 14th July, children will be finding out who their class teacher will be for the next academic year. Children will have the opportunity to visit their new classroom and get to know their new class teacher. On this day we will email parents with details of your child's new class teacher from September.
School Vacancy
We currently have a vacancy for a Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant. Please click here for more details.
Free School Meals
If you are in receipt of free school meals you will be sent a packed lunch request form for your child for every school trip or event. Please look out for the letter, complete the form and return to us at least 3 weeks before the event.
School Savings Club
School savings club will continue from next week on every Wednesday.
Contact details
If any of your contact details have changed please let us now so that we may update our records. You can either complete a Change of Details online form here, call us or email us via ask@oldcastleprimary.co.uk
Exercise Class
Parents may be interested to learn that an exercise class takes place in Oldcastle Primary main hall every Monday evening from 6pm to 7pm. Everyone is welcome and the cost for the class is £5.
Diary Dates
27th June - Year 1 trip to Cosmeston Lake
30th June - Nursery and Reception Sports Day 1pm
9th July - Oldcastle Rocks
14th July - Bump Up Day
18th July - Year 6 Leavers Assembly 5pm to 7pm
22nd July - Last day of term
Inset Days 2022 / 23
Inset days for the next academic year have now been confirmed and these are as follows:
Monday 5th September 2022
Monday 7th November 2022
Friday 31st March 2023
Friday 26th May 2023
Monday 24th July 2023
Safeguarding
In the event that you have a concern regarding a child please follow this procedure:
During school hours please contact Mrs Ceri Littlewood, safeguarding lead at Oldcastle Primary School.
Out of school hours please contact the out of hours Emergency Duty Team Tel No 01443849944
School Values and Visions
At Oldcastle, we are proud of each other and ourselves. We nurture all of our community so that we grow as confident, responsible and happy people. Oldcastle school is more than just learning.
We try hard for each other
We act responsibly
We treat people how we’d like to be treated
We work as a team
We trust and respect each other
We listen and learn together
We share knowledge and experience
Together we make the difference
Together we shape innovative experiences
More information on our values and visions can be found on our website. Visions and Values
