We are looking forward to this exciting Wreath Making event organised by our PTFA. We have 6 spaces left so if you would like to book, please email Mrs Bowen as soon as possible on admin@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk to book your place.

Yesterday, the second race of the series took place at the Vineyards. As there have been fewer year 6 boys this year, all boys raced together yesterday (as the girls). This means that some of the boys may have placed further down than last week. I have explained that this is due to more participants in the race. It is amazing that we have so many runners - almost half our Owls and Hedgehogs children are taking part. Our top 20 performers this week were Isla (5th), Lea (7th), Willow (14th), Ada (15th), Grace (18th), Lachlan (14th) and Toby (15th). Congratulations to all our runners - we are very proud of them. Team Twyning this week were: Joe, Isla, Lea, Evie, Ivy, Bonnie, Ada, Evelyn, Matilda, Lydia, Willow, Lachlan, Charlie N, William B, Toby, Charlie H, Jack N-S, Jack W, Ewan, Bertie, Robert, Xander, Henry A-T, Gabriel, Grace, Lily and Olivia. There is a break next week due to potential Mop Fair preparation in town. We will have a training practice at school instead, finishing at 4.15pm. Race 3 will take place on Thursday 15th October. Letters will be given out next week.  Mrs Leggett.

School dinners are £2.95 each for all children from Year 3 and above, unless you qualify for free school meals (see below for details of this). School dinner accounts should always be in credit. Please make sure you have loaded money onto your children's accounts.

Click here to view current menus: www.twyningschool.co.uk/page/school-lunches/106163 

We will soon be able to provide details regarding our new uniform supplier who will run alongside Gooch as an option for buying school uniform. 

In line with government guidelines, school uniform should have a maximum of three branded pieces, so that parents can buy more generic items elsewhere.  Our 3 branded items are:

• School jumper / School cardigan

• PE jacket / new PE fleece (see below)

• PE t-shirt (new style royal blue t-shirt will be available soon)

Our PTFA have kindly offered to supply a branded school bookbag to each new starter - we are very grateful for this.

We are now offering an alternative, cheaper, branded item to the two-tone PE jacket. Children will be able to wear a navy zip through branded fleece (no hood) which is currently available via our Gooch School Uniform in Cheltenham along with all other items. This new jacket could then also double up as a lighter weight coat if needed. 

Please can we remind all parents that shorts/cycling shorts/leggings/joggers should be navy not black.

See the above flyer for information regarding the new style Grammar School tests which will take place in July 2027 for September 2028 entry into Year 7. This will affect families with children currently in Year 5 and below.  This applies to ALL Gloucestershire Grammar Schools, not just Denmark Road High School.

The contracts manager at the construction site in the village has contacted us with some dates for when they have some large deliveries, which will require both Fleet Lane and the whole of High Street to be free from cars parked on the side of the road. We have been advised that the morning school drop off should not be affected but that people should NOT park on the roadsides during the rest of the day on these dates. 

These large deliveries are currently scheduled for:

• Monday 28th September (this was brought forward to 24th Sept) 

• Thursday 1st October

• Monday 12th October

• Monday 9th November

We will update you with further information as we know it.

I just wanted to remind parents about the most effective ways to make contact with your child's teacher should you need to. You should advise us if your child is off school sick/unwell on the School Spider app. This is also in the communications section of the website where you can download a document that lists all of the emails for the teachers. We kindly ask that you do not use the private messaging system on Dojo but instead use email please. Many thanks for your support as always. Click this link www.twyningschool.co.uk/page/communications/140690  and then click on the blue band "contacts and emails" to download.

Please see below  some useful links to a few excellent wellbeing and mental health resources and an amazing digital therapy app for children:

luminova.app/gloucestershire 

www.onyourmindglos.nhs.uk/ 

www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/mujkq12k/gcc_3002-cyp-mental-health-handout_aw-crop-large.pdf 

hubofhope.co.uk/concerns?concerns=86&latitude=52.0286023&longitude=-2.1466844