Twyning School - Newsletter 08.03.2024
This week's news:
What a great week we have had! The children really enjoyed our 'Twyning School Literature Festival', meeting two authors, Ruth Ahmedzai-Kemp and Danielle Seater! It was lovely to see them all enjoying themselves dressed up in their amazing outfits. Photos will be appear on class dojo pages very soon. Thank you for your kind donations towards the cost of our Literature Festival - we collected £80. One of the authors who visited us today is running a competition - you will find details regarding this further down this newsletter.
Please note that we are in the Ofsted Inspection 'window' and we are expecting them to visit us in the coming weeks or months. They will telephone us to inform us the day before their visit and at that point we will send you further information including a parental survey that they will ask to be completed. As a team, we are looking forward to this long-awaited visit so that we can share all of the school's successes and excellent practice - we are extremely confident that it will be a successful inspection.
Platinums
Congratulations this week go to...
Maisie Bartlam
Olivia Bowers
Brooke Thomas
Freddie Neal-Sayer
Bridie Buckland
Jessica Pollard
Dates for your Diary
14th March - NHS Height Weight & eyesight checks for Reception, Year 6 (height & weight only)
15th March - Comic Relief (see below)
19th March - Year 6 Parents SATs Meeting - 6PM
22nd March - INSET DAY - School closed
25th March - 5th April - Easter Holidays
19th April - Bag2School day
6th May - Bank Holiday - School closed
Monday 20th - Wednesday 22nd May - Years 5&6 residential at the Pioneer Centre, Cleobury Mortimer.
27th - 31st May - Half Term Holiday
Wednesday 3rd July - Sports day at 1pm
Wednesday 10th - Thursday 11th July - Years 3&4 residential at Noah's Ark children's venture, Macaroni Wood.
22nd July - INSET DAY - School closed
23rd July - 30th August - Summer Holidays
2nd and 3rd September - INSET DAYS - School closed
comic relief - friday 15th march
Children are invited to come to school wearing sporty kit and trainers with something red if possible. They will have the opportunity to take part in some fun physical challenges during the day. We will also be holding a cake sale after school. Please send cakes in on the day and monetary donations in the morning for Comic relief. If your child goes to an after school club, please could you give them some cake money in addition to the morning donation as I'm sure they would like a cake.
competition time!
The children all met award-winning author Danielle Seater today and she talked to them about her book 'Oceans Away'. Danielle is also running a writing competition, please see the poster above if your child wishes to enter. Good luck!
cross country
'Well done' is an understatement to say how proud we are of Elena who took part in the National cross country championships on Sunday, competing against the best runners in the country. She placed an incredible 55th in a race of 253 runners. A superb performance!
Years 3&4 district football league
On Tuesday, our years 3 and 4 football team took part in their second football tournament (the first part having been played in the Autumn). They won all 4 games on Tuesday with a total of 7 stunning goals from several of our team. They worked incredibly hard as a team and finished the combined tournaments in 2nd place, just behind Carrant Brook. We celebrated their achievement in assembly today showing off their silver medals. Well done to Leo N-S, Leo H, Bertie, Theo, Oliver, Isla, Jack C, Jesse and Joe.
tag rugby
Next week will be the last tag rugby session with Pete this term. On Wednesday 20th March, we will be taking ten of them to an all day tag rugby festival at Newlands Park and we will be late back. The team will be selected next week. After Easter we are hoping to have two more Wednesday sessions with Pete as there will be a second, smaller festival at Tewkesbury after that.
Year 6 Parents - SATs meeting - Tuesday 19th March at 6pm.
We would like to welcome Year 6 parents into school on Tuesday 19th March at 6PM to talk about SATs.
SATs are scheduled to take place in the week beginning the 13th May 2024. We will showing SATs papers from previous years and sharing details of every test that the children will have during the week. As well as this, we will talk about the logistics and routine for the week. We hope you can join us.
change to menu 21st march
Because of the INSET on 22nd March, we will be having 'Fishy Friday' on Thursday 21st March instead. The menu choices will be:
A - Fish fingers & chips
B - Vegan sausage & chips
C - Jacket potato with the usual fillings
SCHOOL Dinners
Menus for next term (8th April onwards) 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
Please remember that all school dinner account balances should be in credit at all times. Many thanks. If your child's account is overdrawn please could you log in and clear the outstanding balance this weekend? Many thanks.
This term's menu is the same as before Christmas and can be found on our website. If you need a printed copy please ask Mrs Bowen for one.
gloucestershire libraries
Below is a link to the digital ‘What's on in the Libraries Guide’
What's On at The Library April - June 2024 by Gloucestershire Libraries :
Safeguarding and E-Safety
It is important to continue to 'make a noise about bullying' and we hope that this link to the BBC's anti-bullying resources will be useful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/curations/anti-bullying-week
We would also like to bring to your attention a helpful guide on finding the ratings of online games and social media applications. This is a universal guide for any entertainment content:
https://www.askaboutgames.com/pegi-age-ratings#:~:text=Essentially%2C%20the%20PEGI%20rating%20on,deemed%20suitable%20for%20adults%20only.
Before and After School Care
If you are using our paid Before & After School Care facility, balances should be cleared by the end of each month at the latest. Many thanks. If you use government vouchers please email Mrs Tingle at bursar@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk to advise when you have made a payment, each time you do this.
How do I register my child?
To register for Before or After School Club, please complete and send in the booking form which can be downloaded from our website or ask Mrs Bowen for a printed copy. These forms should be returned to Mrs Bowen at admin@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk .
Some useful links:
If you believe your family to be eligible for Free School Meals, please click on this link:
Health and sickness information "Is my child too ill for school?"
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/
Register for School Milk:
A collection of links to find and get help in all sorts of situations from Anxiety, Health related, young persons help, depression and much more:
hubofhope.co.uk/concerns?concerns=86&latitude=52.0286023&longitude=-2.1466844
Contact
Please feel free to make contact with me via email head@twyning.gloucs.sch.uk should you need to speak to me. During evenings and weekends, I may not be able to respond to you straight away but I will make contact with you during normal working hours as soon as I can. Many thanks for all of your support.
Kindest regards
Miss L Gladstone
Headteacher
