The disco is next week! Please pay and hand in your slips ASAP if you haven't already. If you wish to volunteer to help out on the night, there is a section on the form to indicate this. We appreciate ALL help, whether its setting up, clearing up, supplying/making cakes, face painting, selling cakes, serving drinks or sweets, being on hall duty making sure the children are all having a lovely time...  

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We are holding an Open Evening for all new 2027 Reception families on Tuesday 20th October in the school hall at 6:30pm. Please come along and find out about joining our school.  

The Gloucestershire County Council online application portal opens early next month. If you live in Worcestershire, you must apply through Worcestershire County Council website - their portal is already open.

Please note that you must apply even if your child already attends Twyning Playgroup or has an older sibling at our school.

Key Dates to Remember:

• Early November 2026: Online application portal opens.

• 15 January 2027 (Midnight): Closing date for all applications. Late applications will not be considered in the first round of allocations.

• 16 April 2027: National Offer Day. You will receive your school allocation via email or the online portal.

• 23 April 2027: Deadline to accept or decline your offered school place.

• Apply Online: Visit www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/schooladmissions when the portal opens in November. You can list up to five school preferences.

If you have any questions about the process or need assistance with your online application, please feel free to telephone, pop into the school office or email Mrs Bowen on admin@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk 

The final race of the Autumn took place yesterday at the Vineyards. Yet again, we had a fantastic turnout from Twyning, with twenty-seven children taking part. Our top 20 runners this week were Isla (4th), Ada (15th), Willow (18th), Grace (20th), Lachlan (10th) and Toby (16th). I wish to say how proud we are of all of them and their amazing resilience. Well done Isla, Joe, Ivy, Evie, Bonnie, Lachlan, William B, Ada, Willow, Evelyn, Matilda, Grace, Lily, Lydia, Olivia B, Bethan, Toby, Jack N-S, Jack W, Ewan, Charlie H, Bertie, Gabriel, Xander, Sasha, Henry A-T and Robert. Next Thursday there will be a training session at school to finish the term. Cross country will resume in term 3 in preparation for the Spring races.

If you have booked but not yet paid, please can this be actioned by the end of next week. Spaces are limited 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.

If you wish to pay for your booking online please send £35 per ticket to PTFA account 67374821 Sort code 089299 and quote the reference "wreath" and your name. Please email to let us know you have made payment this way. Many thanks.

Watch out for a notification from Mrs Leggett on Class DOJO on Monday when next term's clubs will be published. 

FirstPort are the appointed residential property management company responsible for looking after the communal areas, shared grounds, and estate infrastructure for some of the new housing developments in Twyning . They have asked that we share this information regarding water safety in connection with the Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) including attenuation and balancing ponds on and around the housing estates. Please share this important information with your children and families. Many thanks.

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 

Next term's menus will be shared on the newsletter next week and uploaded to the website. New menus will start from 2nd November.

We are delighted to let you know that we now have a new uniform supplier (SCHOOL TRENDS). Our existing supplier (GOOCH) will be continuing as well for the next few months.

The uniform section of our website has been updated accordingly. Please follow this link to School Trends:

https://www.schooltrends.co.uk/collections/twyning-school

Please note the slight changes to the PE uniform from our new supplier.

Please let us know if there are any initial teething problems but we are now hoping that ordering should be a smooth process! 

In accordance 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

• New style PE fleece 

• PE t-shirt

Our PTFA have kindly offered to supply a branded school bookbag to each new starter - we are very grateful for this. The white polo shorts do not need to be logo polo shirts, however the option is available on the School Trends website should you wish to buy them, but they are not compulsory.

For PE,  shorts/cycling shorts/leggings should be navy not black.

Thank you all so much for your support so far with parking on these dates. It is much appreciated by the site management. There is now only one more date, as far as we are aware! These large deliveries,  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 this COULD affect school drop off and pick up times and that people should NOT park on the roadsides from 7am - 5pm. 

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