Well done to the children who completed Bikeability this week.

Cycling helps children build confidence, independence, and physical activity into their daily lives. It also plays an important role in road safety, helping pupils develop the skills and awareness they need to ride safely, understand the road environment, and make safer journeys.

Please have a look at the various courses on offer this year, should you wish your child to take part - there are Summer Holiday courses at Skillzone in Gloucester for anyone wishing to improve their skills. Please click here:

www.thinktravel.info/upcoming-events/bikeability-holiday-courses/ 

On Wednesday, ten year 6 children attended the large Move More tag rugby festival at Newlands Park, with 30 teams taking part. Tag rugby at primary level is no longer results based with final winners. However, we did keep count of our individual games and our children played superbly from the start, winning 8 and drawing 1 game in our group of 10 teams. As the only school from the Tewkesbury area, this was outstanding play against large Cheltenham schools. Well done to Zane, Maisie, William, Livvy, Leo N-S, Leo H, Keira N, Theo, Jack and Oliver.

From September 2026 we will have a vacancy for a parent governor. If you are interested in filling this important role, please see Miss Gladstone. Many thanks.

Please remember to top up your child's ParentPay account to cover their school dinners. Your account should be in credit at all times. Many thanks.

Click here to view current menus: www.twyningschool.co.uk/page/school-lunches/106163 

Please read the information from Denmark Road High School. This affects ALL of the Gloucestershire Grammar Schools (G7) for entry to year 7 in September 2028. Further details have also been emailed to our Year 4 families who would be the first group affected by the change in test dates. Further details will be available on each school’s website at the start of the next academic year (September 2026). 

For information, the G7 schools are:

The Crypt School, 

Denmark Road High School, 

Marling School, 

Pate’s Grammar School, 

Ribston Hall High School, 

Sir Thomas Rich’s School, 

Stroud High School, Stroud 

I just wanted to remind parents about the most effective ways to make contact with your child's teacher should you need to. You can also 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. This document also 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.  spaces.schoolspider.co.uk/uploads/605/page/40075479_page_file.pdf 

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