We are looking forward to this exciting Wreath Making event organised by our PTFA. 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.

Congratulations to our amazing twenty-five children who took part in the first cross country race at the Vineyards yesterday. Notable performances were Isla (6th), Lea (12th) Lachlan (7th), Charlie N (12th) and Joe (12th) in their respective races. It was a particularly fantastic turnout by our year 4 children who did so well, running alongside older children. Well done Team Twyning: Joe, Isla, Lea, Evie, Ivy, Matilda, Ada, Evelyn, Lydia, Lachlan, Charlie N, William B, Toby, Ewan, Robert, Jack N-S, Jack W, Charlie H, Bertie, Gabriel, Xander, Grace, Bethan, Lily and Olivia B. We now look forward to race 2 next Thursday.

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 

We are very proud to share that we have been awarded the GOLD REaction Award. We are the second school in the county to have been awarded this! Thank you to all parents and families who came to our A.C.E. assembly where we shared what we had been doing with you all. Your wonderful feedback was very much appreciated. Our certificate is now on display in the entrance hall.

See the above flyer for information regarding the new style Grammar School tests which will take place in July 2027 for September 2028 entry into Year 7. This will affect families with children currently in Year 5 and below.  This applies to ALL Gloucestershire Grammar Schools, not just Denmark Road High School.

The contracts manager at the construction site in the village has contacted us with some dates for when they have some large deliveries, which 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 the morning school drop off should not be affected but that people should NOT park on the roadsides during the rest of the day on these dates. 

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.

Further to my recent dojo message, I would like to let you know that we are in the process of adding a new uniform supplier to give our families more options for buying school uniform. As soon as we are able, we will publish website and contact details for the new supplier.

In line 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

• PE jacket / new PE fleece (see below)

• PE t-shirt

Our PTFA have kindly offered to supply a branded school bookbag to each new starter - we are very grateful for this.

Regarding the P.E. jacket, and following feedback, we are please to be able to offer an alternative, cheaper, branded item. Children will be able to wear a navy zip through branded fleece (no hood) as an alternative to the two-tone PE jacket. This is currently available via our current supplier, Gooch School Uniform in Cheltenham along with all other items. This new jacket could then also double up as a lighter weight coat if needed. 

Please can we remind all parents that shorts/cycling shorts/leggings should be navy not black.

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