Dear Parents and Carers,

Matthew Bunt the Eco Schools Officer for Swansea set Y1/2 a challenge a few weeks ago and they have loved it ! Click here to see what they have discovered! 

📣Weekly headlines📣

Shwmae Day - Friday October 14th 

We are celebrating this event on Friday. Please see the poster below.

Parent/carer questionnaire

Each class has sent the link via Seesaw. Your views are very important and we`d appreciate your spending 5 minutes to complete. Thanks in advance.

Roy`s annual `guess the weight` of the pumpkin - prize a beautiful white pumpkin - see pics

Yes , it`s back !! Look what Roy and the Wombles discovered today! Our very own PPS Pumpkin patch has yielded some marrows and some wonderful pumpkins! 

To win this beautiful white pumpkin, please submit your guess and £1 in a clearly marked envelope! All monies raised will be be used for plants for our garden.  The winner to be announced in our OctoberFest disco,

Parents` evening appointments - 24th and 25th October 2022

Acting on the views of parents, this term we are offering either a face to face appointment or a telephone appointment - to meet the needs of all our families. Staff will be arranging this via Seesaw over the next few days. 

Y1-Y6 Fruit tuck shop 

Our fruit tuck shop has now been extended to Year 1/2. For 30p a day children can independently come and purchase fresh fruit at morning break. The Y6 children are responsible for the tuck shop and are doing a great job!

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

October 10th - World Mental Health 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 

October 25th  - Colorfoto school portraits for all children ,including younger siblings (not yet in school)

October 26th -3.10pm-4.10pm `OctoberFest` Halloween disco

October 27th - Reception - Y6 to visit Tabernacle 10.15am (parents invited)

December 3rd - Community London Trip (tbc) - contact Mrs Beynon

Every Tuesday -  Penclawdd Pennies - community bank run by Year 6

📣Fundraising 📣

Our School Lottery - please support us, if you can. The next drawer is October 15th. Click here for our lotto details.

As a token of appreciation for all our amazing supporters, this  Halloween the School Lottery is giving our supporters the chance to win a fantastic prize – a family ticket for the Warner Brothers Studio Tour, AND a theatre voucher for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It’d make the perfect trip for fans of the wizarding world! And of course, that’s on top of your chance to win the £25,000 jackpot! See poster below. This special draw takes place on 29th October. There's no need for existing supporters to buy a separate ticket for this draw, as you'll be entered automatically. Of course you're welcome to buy extra tickets to increase your chance of winning, and give your school a valuable fundraising boost! Good luck in the lottery and thank you for supporting our  school.

🗞Community 🗞 

Our Park

Good news we have been waiting for quite a while and on the weekend the council renewed the rope traverse wall. This has cost £1000!

We are now waiting for a date ,for the next rope wall to be renewed.

I am sure you appreciate for Health and Safety reasons this has to be out of action until then. However, we are SO lucky with our wonderful grounds.

Christmas shoe box appeal 2022

Our friends of Tabernacle will be coming in to speak to the children about this wonderful appeal in an assembly next week. Please can boxes be returned no later than Friday 28th October 2022 when members from Tabernacle Church will collect them from the school. Thanks for your support. 

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. We have our first collection this week. Thanks for your support.

📣INSET days 2022-2023📣

Friday 23rd December 2022

Monday 9th January 2023

Have a great week, 

Mrs R-M x