Auditions are being held during lunchtimes next week and the week after. Yesterday, the children were given slips with their audition day and time. Please note:  If your child needs a song / background music, please can you provide the music on a memory stick in good time so that we can make sure it works beforehand. Children won't need costumes for their audition unless they progress to the final on 10th April.  Good luck! 

Wednesday 19th March 2025, 6pm - 7:30pm in the school hall

We are looking forward to this informative event.  PC Williams from Cyber Intelligence, Gloucestershire Police will be presenting an information evening for parents about safe internet use for children which I would like to urge a parent from every family to attend please. The presentation was recently shared with headteachers in Gloucestershire at a conference and it was extremely useful although at times quite hard-hitting! The Cyber Intelligence team will be able to share statistics, information and advice about how you can make your child's internet use as safe as possible. I have decided to hold a creche service in one of the classrooms so that we can support anyone who may not be able to get childcare. I have sent out a survey regarding your childcare requirements for this event - please respond if you have not already done so, so that I can arrange staffing. Many thanks. Miss Gladstone.

On Sunday morning, four of our children took part in the county cross country championships at Ashley Manor preparatory school in Cheltenham. Each race potentially had 80 runners (10 from each district). Our children placed as follows in their respective races: Isla - 42nd, Leo H - 23rd, Leo N-S - 60th and Tom - 50th. To put their achievements into context: Isla was 2nd in the Tewkesbury district places (phenomenal, as running a year young), Leo H came 2nd, Leo N-S 6th and Tom 4th. They were an absolute credit to our school. Very well done!

On Tuesday, our netball team went to the Tewkesbury district netball tournament.  The competition was split into two groups to begin with. We were in a group with Tirlebrook, Gretton and Tewkesbury CofE. We started brilliantly, beating Tirlebrook 5-0 and then Gretton 4-0. We lost our last group match against Tewkesbury CofE putting us into second place in our group. This put us into the semi-finals where we were up against John Moore, who were a very good and very tall team, and sadly we lost that game. This put us into the 3rd place play off against Carrant brook. It was a well fought game which we just lost.  We finished 4th out of 8 teams, and the team should feel very proud of how they played. Well done to Tom, Leighton, Josh, Masie, EJ, Livvy and Keira.  

Wednesday 26th March

Tickets are now on sale for the dance festival. Please see the following link. I suggest you purchase tickets promptly as they sell out quickly. This is for the parents of the children in years 1-3 who took part in dance club before Christmas, and those in years 4-6 who have replied to the recent letter and will take part in dance club after half term.

https://cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk/event/feet-first-dance-festival-part-one/

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