Week 22 - Friday 28th February 2020

Welcome to our newsletter for week 22 of the school year and the last week of term. We hope you enjoyed the half term break.

Parents Evening - Reception to Year 6

Parents evening for children in reception to year 6 took place this week. Thank you to all parents that came along and spoke to the class teacher.

School Eisteddfod

Our school eisteddfod will take place on Monday 2nd March. Children will be working in their house colours to develop competition entries for handwriting, singing, poems and artwork after half term. Children may wear their house colours on Monday 2nd March.

Children have worked hard to produce a variety of work for our Eisteddfod. All entries will be judged and the winners announced on Monday.

Nursery have been creating their own welsh flag artwork and learning a house song 'Heno heno hen blant bach'

Reception have also been creating welsh flag artwork and learning a house song 'Aderyn Melyn'

Years 1 and 2 have been creating work based around 'Why I Love Wales' and learning the poem 'Y Bwgan Brain' and house song- Aderyn Melyn

Years 3 and 4 have been creating work based around 'The best things about Wales' and learning the poem 'Es i i’r sw i weld cangarw', their house song- Ar y bryn roedd pren and creative rendition- Dacw ti yn eistedd

Years 5 and 6 have been creating work based around 'welsh evacuees' and learning the poem- Mynd i’r dre, their house song- Ar y bryn roedd pren and creative rendition- Dacw ti yn eistedd

Children, teachers and support staff have been very busy creating lots of exciting entries and we are looking forward to celebrating our Eisteddfod on Monday.

Invitation to parents

We would like to invite parents into school on Friday 6th from 2.30pm to view children's eisteddfod, dgital and STEM work. We hope you can join us.

STEM and Digital Days

This week children have participated in a digital and STEM day. As part of our ongoing Space Quality Mark application this weeks STEM focus was on Planets. Children throughout the school looked at Planets and how the solar system was formed. Each year group has focused on a different planet and undertaken a variety of activities based around that planet.

• Nursery - Earth. Children have been using Oreo Cookies to illustrate the moons phases.
• Reception - Uranus. Children have been looking at comets.
• Year 1 - Mars. Is there water on mars? What happens if there is?
• Year 2 - Venus. Why are planets round?
• Year 3 - Mercury. What is a solar eclipse?
• Year 4 - Nepture. Kuiper Belt - what is it?
• Year 5 - Jupiter. What is a meteor shower?
• Year 6 - Saturn. Why does Saturn have rings but other planets don’t?

During the digital day, children focused on producing digital resources on the the topic 'What my community means to me'. The work that children produce will be entered into our Eisteddfod Digital competition.

Criw Cymraeg

Our Criw Cymraeg have put together an online notice board to inform parents and children - please have a look to see what welsh initiatives we have in place. Criw Cymraeg initiatives

Year 3 Change to P.E. Day

From next week year 3 will change their P.E. day to a WEDNESDAY.

School Swimming

Children in 6E will commence swimming lessons next week. Children will require swimming kit (costume, towel and goggles) and a packed lunch each day. Payment should be made via Parent Pay - the cost is £5.

• 6E - 2nd March to 6th March

Nut allergy information

Don't forget we strive to be a nut free school. Please do not send nut products into school in your child's packed lunch.

Public Health Advice

You will have heard a lot of information about the Covid-19 coronavirus in the news recently. As a school we receive advice from Public Health Wales who are coordinating with Public Health England to ensure organisations work together to prevent any spread of the virus. The school has robust risk management procedures in place and we are confident that we have the necessary plans in place should we require to implement them. If you would like more advice or support please visit the Public Health Wales website. Coronavirus Update

Lost Property

We have an enormous amount of lost property yet again. If your child has lost something in school please come and have a look in our lost property collection to see if you can find it. We have items including water bottles, lunch boxes, coats, school uniform, p.e. kit and umbrellas! We hope we can reunite some items with their owners.

Twitter

Don't forget we regularly use our Twitter account to let parents know what we have been up to in school.

There was no headteachers assembly this afternoon due to Eisteddfod preparation.

Admissions to Nursery

Applications for admission for full time nursery from September 2020, and part time from January or April 2021, are also open via Bridgend County Borough Council. Applications must be received by 27th March 2020. Apply here

Diary Dates

• Monday 2nd March to Friday 6th March - 6E Swimming
• Tuesday 10th March - Reception trip to Cefn Mably
• Monday 6th April to Friday 17th April - Easter holidays
• Monday 20th April - Back to school
• Monday 4th May - Inset Day
• Friday 8th May - Bank Holiday
• Monday 25th May to Friday 29th May - Half term
• Monday 1st June - Inset Day
• Tuesday 2nd June - Inset Day
• Tuesday 9th June to Saturday 13th June - Year 6 residential trip
• Friday 17th July - Term Ends
• Monday 20th July - Inset Day

Inset Days 2020

• Monday 4th May 2020
• Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd June 2020
• Monday 20th July 2020