Dear Parents and Carers,

 

Well what a great week!  Dinosaurs landed in our hall and Y1/2 loved it! Y3/4 had a great day at the Wetlands. Y6 had a screen printing session with the local artist Sarah Hopkins and made fab Inuit screen prints - these stunning bags would make lovely Christmas presents (order via Squid). We also started our after school drumming club club, which is GREAT fun. 

 

📣Weekly headlines📣

 

Gowerton Transition Event - A roadshow for Y6

Gowerton School has a series of events during the year that support our pupils in the transition from Primary to Secondary.  Y6 are having a presentation on the afternoon of Thursday 22nd September. Then, at 3pm Year 6 parents are invited to attend a short presentation about transition and Gowerton School. Past pupils of Penclawdd will visit Y6 and the parents on this day.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Y6 Open Evening Gowerton

Please make sure you have booked your tour visit at Gowerton as places are booking up very quickly.  Visit www.Gowerton.com/bookatour or call 01792 873461 as soon as possible.  

 

Halloween disco (R-Y6)

Wednesday October 26th (After School)

More info from Mrs Garcia to follow.

 

Friends of Penclawdd (FoP) if you can help with this event, in any way, please get in touch with Mrs Garcia,  so we can start planning. 

We need:

• FoP to decorate the hall and gym in the afternoon
•  FoP to help run the disco in the hall and gym
• Donations of cakes to sell
• FoP to run a refreshment station in the hall and in the gym

 

Attendance : Nursery - Year 6

If your child is unwell and can't attend school please can you ring/email the school office or use the link on the school website to report non attendance.  Please can parents/carers of Nursery children follow this procedure too.  The link from our school website is here.

 

Punctuality 

As per our morning arrangements our children may come into school from 8.40am - 8.50am via the Rugby Club entrance gate. In line with our safeguarding procedures, please note that this gate is closed promptly at 8.50am and children who arrive after 8.50am (e.g late/medical)  must come into school via the side entrance and be accompanied by their parent/carer.

 

IMPORTANT DIARY DATES - Please remember to check out our website calendar for key dates this term...

 

September 21st - Y4/5 Bristol Aquarium

September 23rd  - Year 6 Ice Skating, Cardiff

September 26th - Recycling week - home and school

September 30th - World`s biggest coffee morning - parents invited ( 9-11am) more info to follow on seesaw

October 3rd - Black History month

October 10th - World Mental Heath day 

October 13th - Design to Smile Fluoride Coating 

October 14th - Shwmae Day (more info from our Criw to follow via Seesaw)

October 24th/25th - Parents` evening ( more info to follow on seesaw)

October 26th - After School (3.10pm-4.10pm)  Halloween disco 

 

Recycled School Uniform shop at school

We are looking for good quality items of school uniform/coats/ shoes .  If you'd like to donate any items we would be very grateful. Once we have a few items we will let you know via Seesaw the details of how you can access our free uniform shop.

 

Penclawdd Pennies - community bank

Our Penclawdd Pennies bankers are open for business, and savers can invest every Tuesday morning. If you'd like to join or if any family members would like to join please get in touch.   Payment can be sent in with your child.

 

 

📣Fundraising 📣

Our School Lottery - please support us, if you can. 

We have reached £624.00 of £1,040.00 target

 

We have sold 30 tickets of our 50 ticket goal

The next drawer is September 24th. Click here for our lotto details.

 

Community London Trip

We have organised a day trip to London on Saturday 3rd December 2022. Leaving school at 6am and returning by 10pm. The cost is £29 per seat on our coach. Please see Mrs. Beynon for details on how to book your place! We hope to raise much needed funds for our school.

 

 

🗞Community 🗞 

 

Parking concerns around our school 

Please see the attached letter from our Community Police team.

 

Reduce, reuse , recycle - Our Eco Wombles

Dragon recycling : Recycle unwanted clothes and raise funds for our school!

Dragon Bags is a free fundraising scheme that helps schools across Wales raise funds through textile recycling. Please send in any clean, unwanted clothes in a carrier bag. Thanks to those who have supported us so far,

 

📣INSET days 2022-2023📣

 

Friday 23rd December 2022

Monday 9th January 2023

 

Have a great week, 

Mrs R-M x