WOW! A huge THANK YOU to our PTFA for buying our children 20 brand new laptops! They have been delivered today and will be set up very soon by the Gloucestershire County Council ICT experts ready for class use after half term.

Well done and thank you to everybody who has supported PTFA events and fundraisers in any way - your contributions have helped make this happen. We and the children are VERY grateful! 

As you may already be aware, it is British Science week during the week beginning Monday 10th March. During this week we will be completing lots of different science activities in our classes. We are keen to involve you as parents so if you work in a scientific environment and are willing to come into school to talk to the children or even run a small workshop please contact Mrs Abell on habell@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk Many thanks! 

Clubs after half term will be as follows:

Mondays: Dance (years 4-6), Mrs Abell (festival preparation) .

Tuesdays: Multi-sports (years 1-3), Miss Thomas (16 maximum).

Wednesdays: Tag rugby (years 4-6), Pete Healey.

Fridays: Netball (years 4-6), Mrs Leggett.

Dance club has already been filled by those returning Feet First dance festival reply slips. 

There will be no multi sports club on Tuesday 4th March. 

Please email Mrs Bowen with requests for multi-sports, tag rugby and netball. Clubs will start after half term but multi-sports will not take place on Tuesday 4th March due to parents evenings.

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/

Yesterday, the first race of the Spring took place at the Vineyards. This started the second part of the cross country season, with a final race next week followed by a fun run and presentations after half term. As always, our children ran with determination and resilience. Our top girl and boy were Isla in 8th place in the girls' race and Leo H in 5th in the boys' race. Congratulations to all of our runners: Leo H, Leo N-S, Tom, Leighton, Alex, Jesse, Joe, Ethan, Scarlett, Florence, Beau, Lea and Isla.

On Tuesday, ten of our pupils took part in the Move More Tewkesbury and Cheltenham non-stop cricket festival. This was run by coaches from the Gloucestershire cricket federation and nicely followed our cricket day in school. We played four games against other Cheltenham schools, with the emphasis on fun and improvement rather than winning. Our children had a great time and all improved their batting skills particularly. Well done to Elliott, Edward, Lewis, Kellan, Ethan, Naomi, Tia, Eva-Jayne, Lacey-May and Beau.

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 

We still have a vacancy for a mid-day supervisor to work during lunchtimes - if you would like to join our team or know anyone who might be interested, please let Miss Gladstone know or email Mrs Tingle at bursar@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk .

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