Our music teacher Aidan Pope has a couple of vacancies for private music lessons if anyone is interested. Aidan teaches piano, guitar and drums.

He has a couple of sessions immediately after-school on Wednesday's/Friday's and one lunch time slot on a Friday. If you are interested please email aidanpopemusician@gmail.com to find out prices and book a space.

There will be more spaces available come September when our year 6 pupils will have left us. Thank you. 

This message is only in relation to the paid after school care facility: Please could parents wait by the main front entrance door after ringing the bell, and not walk up the outside steps. A member of staff will come down to the library to let you in to collect your children from after school club. Many thanks for your cooperation.

Please can we remind you to thoroughly sun cream your children before school and send hats, especially on PE days, as we move into summer. Thank you.

Please can everyone make sure all junior school dinners accounts are in credit at all times.  Many thanks. 

The cost of a school dinner is now £2.85. 

Don't forget, if you qualify and have registered for Pupil Premium/Free School Meals, your child will receive free school meals throughout their time here at Twyning School. See this link to check if you qualify www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/education-and-learning/school-transport-and-free-school-meals/apply-for-free-school-meals/ 

The summer menu is out and is 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 

This morning, ten children from year 4 attended the Tewkesbury and Cheltenham primary schools' Quad kids athletics event, involving ten schools. All of them took part in a 50m sprint, 400m run, howler throw and standing long jump. There was also a fun relay to finish. Our children tried their best and were so supportive of each other, they were selected as the best school for 'Teamwork', receiving wristbands for this value of sportsmanship. Jesse also received a medal for the 3rd place individual boy (out of 50 boys present) - a huge achievement! Very well done to Jesse, Joe, Ethan, Hugh, Francis, Isla, Lea, Sophie, Holly and Keira R. 

There will be a parents meeting on Thursday 22nd May at 6pm regarding the residential to Macaroni Wood. We realise that year 4 parents may not wish (or need) to attend again, and letters/information will be given directly to your children on Friday 23rd May if not in attendance.

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.

The Government's Simpler Recycling scheme came into effect today for schools, and encourages us to separate and recycle waste into glass (washed), metal (washed), plastic (washed), paper and food waste - with food waste bins mandatory. We have made the decision to send all packed lunch box rubbish home. This already happens in many other schools and seems the easiest way to deal with mixed unwashed rubbish from lunch boxes.  Children have been told to keep all of their rubbish and put it in their lunch boxes after they have eaten. We hope you will support us with this. Classrooms now have food waste bins and always have had paper and cardboard bins which we continue to use.

Unless your child is really unwell (see link 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