The final will be held in the school hall on the evening of Wednesday 9th April at 6.30pm.  We hope you will all come along and watch the show - tickets are now available for £1 each, and there will also be refreshments on sale on the night. Please send your ticket orders in to Mrs Bowen with your child's name and number of tickets required on the envelope, or buy before or after school any day.

Our PTFA and School Council Easter fundraiser is Twyning-tastic Golden Ticket Chocolate Bars!  Chocolate bars are now on sale every morning and afternoon until sold out. If you find a lucky golden ticket inside your bar, take it to Mrs Bowen to choose your prize. Prizes will be given out on the last day of term in assembly.

A huge well done to Fletcher who competed in the county final of Look Who's Talking 2025 competition! Fletcher was chosen to represent Twyning in the Tewkesbury area competition, he won that and went on to the final which was held in the Guildhall in Gloucester this morning! The competition was stiff but Fletcher did us all proud with his fantastic talk. Although he didn't win, to get to the final is an amazing achievement! Well done Fletcher!

The Government's Simpler Recycling scheme came into effect today for schools, and encourages us to separate and recycle waste into glass (washed), metal (washed), plastic (washed), paper and food waste - with food waste bins mandatory. We have made the decision to send all packed lunch box rubbish home. This already happens in many other schools and seems the easiest way to deal with mixed unwashed rubbish from lunch boxes.  Children have been told to keep all of their rubbish and put it in their lunch boxes after they have eaten. We hope you will support us with this. Classrooms now have food waste bins and always have had paper and cardboard bins which we continue to use.

On Tuesday, 11 children represented Twyning in the district tag festival at Tewkesbury rugby club. They played superbly as a team, working hard to score tries and defend by tagging the opposition. As with all primary rugby events, there are no team medal winners and the focus is on enjoyment and improvement. However,  there was a medal awarded to a child from each school for showing the School Games values of determination, passion, respect, honesty, teamwork and self belief. This medal went to Josh in our Twyning team. Well done to all our players: Josh, Tom, Leighton, Leo N-S, Henry R, Zane, Jack, Ethan, Eva-Jayne, Holly P and Isla. We would also like to thank Pete Healey for coaching our team this term and supporting us at this event.

On  Monday we took 12 children to an indoor athletics competition at Cheltenham College sports centre. They all took part in several track and field events each, performing brilliantly. We were the only Tewkesbury school to attend this event, and were delighted to come home with silver medals in the small schools' competition. Well done to Tom, Josh, Leighton, Lewis, Leo N-S, Leo H, Eliza, Arianne, Nika, Scarlett, Maisie and Livvy.

Please can everyone make sure all school dinners accounts are in credit at all times.  Many thanks.

Menus for this term are now available from the school website - click to download or ask at the office for a printed copy. www.twyningschool.co.uk/page/school-lunches/106163 

Please can I remind you all that our policy is for children to drink water only as part of our healthy schools status. 

Can we also remind you that we encourage the following foods as suitable snack choices at break time:

Fruit, vegetables, cheese, cereal bar, fruit bar.

We do remind children not to eat crisps and chocolate at break times where possible.  

Thank you so much.

There are a lot of coughs and cold about at this time of year, as is often the case, but unless your child is really unwell (see below) we encourage you to still send them in to school. We are able to administer Calpol and antibiotics in school - forms are available from Mrs Bowen in the Office so please call in with any medication and complete one if necessary. 

Please click the link below to see NHS guidelines regarding illnesses.

www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/ 

Please remember to report sickness/illness daily to us via School Spider or email to Mrs Bowen on admin@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk. It is important that illness is reported to school first thing in the morning, otherwise your child's absence could be recorded as an 'unauthorised absence'. If your child is frequently absent due to illness we may ask for a doctors note as per our attendance policy.

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