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

PLEASE NOTE: there is a temporary issue with infant dinner charges (universal free school meals) on parentpay - please ignore any balance accruing there - it is an issue that ParentPay are dealing with and will be rectified soon.

Menus for next 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 

On Tuesday, six children attended the Tewkesbury and Cheltenham New Age Kurling event. This is a hard floor version of curling, involving 'stones' on ball bearings which are pushed towards the target. They had a fabulous time playing five matches and were proud of the participation medals they received. Well done to Lewis, Kellan, Zane, Ethan, Beatrice and Olivia J.

All Stars Cricket is for children aged 5-8 years and booking has recently opened for Tewkesbury Cricket Club, with the sessions starting 6 June. The link for parents to book their children in Clubspark / All Stars / Coaching / Course

There is also a juniors option too, for under 9s, under 11s and they would also really like to start a girls' team. The leaflet below has all the details about this. Training starts on 2 May 2025.

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.

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