Bookings will go live on School Spider on 3rd November at 11am to book your parents evening appointments. If you are unable to login to the Spider app please see Mrs Bowen on Monday morning when we come back to school and she can reset your profile.

The Gloucestershire County Council online application portal opens on 2 November. 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 

Mrs Leggett sent out club lists on DOJO this week. Thank you to those who have already put their children's names down. Dont forget to email Mrs Bowen if you've not already dopne so, to register your child for any of next term's clubs.

If you have been given a place in Nature Club please remember to return your consent forms to Mrs Bowen.

Nicola Marples teaches a small choir in school, currently on Tuesdays after school. This club will be moving to a Thursday for the next term, with effect from 3rd November. The children learn and practice in school weekly, and also sing in the family church services once a month. Last week, we were treated to their singing in our Open The Book Assembly and were very impressed with the quality! If your child would like to join the choir, please email admin@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk

Our Christmas Fair is on 12th December. To help make the event a success, we will need a few donations! We will be holding our usual Chocolate tombola, Bottle tombola and the ever-popular "Secret Wrapping Room". We will be holding two non-uniform days where children are invited to wear clothes of their own choice to school (sensible - no "heely" shoes or high heels please) in exchange for bringing an item for the tombola, and an item for the secret wrapping room.

Dates are published above. If your child has PE on a Friday, please can they wear something that still would be suitable to do PE in! 

For those of you new to the school, the secret wrapping room is a child-only shopping space, run by school staff. All of the donated items will be laid out in price order on the tables in the room, like a little shop. Children enter on their own, and "shop" for a gift for you! The staff will help them to wrap their chosen gift and label it, bringing it home for you to open on Christmas Day. 

The event is now fully booked!

If you have booked to make a wreath but you have not yet paid, please can this be actioned asap. 

Payment can either be made by 'sumup' with your bank card or phone - please see Mrs Bowen on the playground to pay, or you can 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 admin@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk to let us know you have made payment this wa). Many thanks.

Next term's menus are now available to view on the school website. Paper copies are available from the office - please ask Mrs Bowen.

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 

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.

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