Week 37 - Friday 5th July 2019

Welcome to our weekly newsletter.

New class arrangements September 2019

Detailed below are the class arrangements for September 2019, your child will have taken part in a transition day on Thursday and met with their new teacher and found out the location of their new classroom. The current class in brackets relates to your child's current class.

Nursery

• Miss Hughes

Reception

• Miss Williams
• Miss Walters

Year 1

• Mrs Morcom-Lewis (current class RSW)
• Miss Vaughan (current class RBW)

Year 2

• Mrs Roberts (current class 1M)
• Miss Lewis / Mrs Guy (current class 1ML)

Year 3

• Miss Davies (current class 2R)
• Mrs Brotherton / Mrs Burr (current class 2E)

Year 4

• Mr McNally (current class 3L)
• Miss Craven (current class 3ND)

Year 5

• Miss James (current class 4J)
• Miss Jones (current class 4C)

Year 6

• Mrs Coleman (current class 5C)
• Mrs Evans (current class 5J)

We will arrange a meet the teacher event in September when the children settled into their new classrooms.

Sports Day

Sports day for children in years 1 to 6 took place today in the Athletic track in Newbridge Fields and was a great success. We were extremely lucky to have an Olympic cyclist, Dani Rowe, support our event. Children loved seeing her gold Olympic medal and it was really lovely to hear the children congratulating Dani on her achievement - hopefully she has inspired some children.

The school are very grateful to the PTA for supporting the event with their refreshments stall - we hope you enjoyed the sweet treats they had on offer. We would also like to thank the Spar on Ewenny Road who donated water and fruit for the children today. Asda also provided our children with bottles of water too.

It has been wonderful to see children joining in and getting behind their house colour. The tug of war is always a hard fought contest and the whole school warm up led by Mrs Evans, Mrs Brotherton and Dani Rowe certainly got everyone moving!

Well done to everyone for taking part.

1st place GREEN House with 1235 points

2nd place RED House with 1230 points

3rd place BLUE house with 950 points

Bridgend Show

Further information about our whole school trip to Bridgend Show on Friday 12th July was emailed home to parents this week.

All children will need to wear P.E. and wear weather appropriate clothing. Children will need to bring a bottle of water, a morning snack and a packed lunch. If your child has free school meals and you wish a packed lunch to be provided please let the office know at least 3 days before the trip. Please speak to your class teacher is you are able to help on the day, all parent helper places are allocated randomly. Nursery children will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Our year 6 children will have a range of products available to purchase as part of their Enterprise Project. We look forward to providing you with more information soon.

As a school we are keen to support the show and have been looking to develop as many different entries to the show as possible. Please have a look at the Schedule and see if you can help your child with any of the entries. The schedule can be viewed here.

P.E. Kit

Our P.E. kit survey is still available to complete. Thank you for your help - we will let you know the outcome of the review via our weekly newsletter. The form can be completed here. Please also ask your child for their opinions and complete as a child. The results will be reviewed after 12th July.

School Savings Club

School savings club will run next week (10th July) and will then finish for the school year. Savings Club will commence again in September. Thank you for supporting the school savings club over the last year.

PTA Disco

Due to illness and unforeseen circumstances the PTA will not be able to run the school discos planned for next week. They hope to run these in the autumn term.

The PTA will also be holding a meeting in the autumn term and hope to enlist some additional members to join the committee.

Oldcastle Holiday Club

Places are filling up fast in our children's summer holiday club - if you wish to make a booking we would suggest making the booking as soon as possible. The holiday club will operate from Monday 22nd July to Friday 23rd August from 9am to 3.30pm. at a cost of £18 per day. We are pleased to offer add ons to the core time with a breakfast club from 8am to 9am at an additional cost of £4, and a late club pick up option upto 5.30pm for an additional cost of £7.50. Children from the age of 5 years to 12 years will be able to attend the club.

Children will be able to participate in a range of exciting sports, and arts and crafts activity sessions throughout the day provided by our qualified staff. The Club will operate in the main hall of the school and utilise other areas as required. Children will be provided with toast and fruit in the breakfast club and late club options. Children will need to bring a packed lunch and water to drink throughout the day. Please complete a booking form for each child.

Once your booking form has been received we will issue a Parent Pay invoice to you. Bookings and payment must be received by Friday 12th July. Discounts are available for sibling and weekly bookings.

Please contact the admin team on 01656 815790 or by email holidayclub@oldcastleprimary.co.uk if you have any questions.

To book a place please complete a copy of the Booking Form by clicking this link https://forms.gle/xyZoz9NNNj9gjBgK9 or by clicking on the link on our website https://bit.ly/2DKQFHa

Twitter

Oldcastle Primary School are on Twitter - the page is regularly updated with news and activities that take place in school. @oldcastleschool

Nut free school

Reminder - as a school we strive to be 'nut free'. Please can we ask that food containing nuts is not included in children's lunch boxes. We have a number of children with an intolerance to nuts as well as a few children who have a severe allergy who may experience an anaphylactic shock as a result of coming into contact with nut products. Please can we ask that you consider the products being put into lunch boxes and check whether these items contain any form of nuts. For example Nutella or peanut butter etc.

General Notices

After School and Late Clubs - Please can we remind parents that cancellations for after school and late clubs will be charged if cancellation is not received by 10am on the day of the cancellation.

Collection of children - if you make arrangements for another parents to collect your child please ensure that your child's teacher or the admin team are informed.

Use of car park - access to the car park is not allowed during the hours of 8.30am to 3.30pm

Dogs - please note that dogs are not allowed on any part of the school site.

Headteacher Award

Due to sports day an assembly was not held today.

Diary Dates

• Tuesday 9th July - Year 6 Robin Hood Production at 1.30pm and 6pm
• Friday 12th July - Sports Day Nursery and Reception at Bridgend Show
• Friday 12th July - whole school trip to Bridgend Show incorporating nursery and reception sports day
• Tuesday 16th July - Reception trip to Seaquest, Porthcawl
• Thursday 18th July - Year 6 Leavers Assembly at 1pm
• Friday 19th July - School Term Ends
• Inset Day - Monday 22nd July 2019

Inset Days 2019/20

• Monday 4th November 2019
• Tuesday 5th November 2019
• Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd June 2020
• Monday 20th July 2020

Bridgend Council term dates can viewed here.