Weekly HT Blog
Dear Parents/Carers,
Rights of the child : November - Article 19
Right to be safe
Christmas has now officially arrived in Penclawdd. The main hall tree is up and it looks beautiful, we can`t wait for you to see it. We`d like to say a special thanks to a local florist - `Handtied by Hollie` for making our gorgeous Christmas swags - we love them! See picture below.
Attendance - EVERY school day counts
Unfortunately our whole school attendance is still below 94%. All schools’ attendance is now being closely monitored by the LA . Our EWO - Lyndsay Jenkins( Education Welfare Officer) who visits our cluster schools every 3 weeks looks at lateness , persistent absences and holiday requests.
Please make every effort to not take holidays during term time to ensure your child does not miss important learning time .
Following a discussion with Governors ,this week we have sent home information letters to notify parents if their child`s attendance is below 90%.
Please take a look at the table below which illustrates how much learning is lost when a child is absent.
| Annual Attendance | Amount of learning time lost |
|---|---|
| 100% | O days missed |
| 95% |
9 days of absence 1 week and 4 days of learning missed |
| 90% |
19 days of absence 3 weeks and 4 days of learning missed |
| 85% |
28 days of absence 5 weeks and 3 days of learning missed |
| 80% |
38 days of absence 7 weeks and 3 days of learning missed |
| 75% |
46 days of absence 9 weeks and 1 days of learning missed |
Penclawdd Reading Spine
Many thanks for your kind donations towards our reading spine. If you would still like to purchase a book for your child's class, please click the link here. Many thanks in advance.
🎄PPS choir goes on a Christmas tour 🎄
Please support our amazing choir who will be performing at these venues on the following dates:
🎅🏼December 1st - 11.30am -Swansea Christmas Market in the Caroler’s Cabin
🎅🏼December 3rd -3.30pm - GG’s Christmas Fayre
Swansea Council Keeping Safe Online – Tip of the week
Tip 10 encourages parents/carers to to adjust privacy settings to protect their children, linking to parent and carer guides on Hwb.
Click here for tip of the week
Football
Well done to the 5/6 boys football team who represented us at the recent tournament.
Calendar events
We have organised many educational class visits for children. All of which are in the school website calendar.
Nursery - Our First Nativity - Tickets now on for sale from Nursery. December 1st
Choir - 11.30am - Swansea Christmas Market in the Caroler’s Cabin December 1st
Choir-3.30pm - GG’s Christmas Fayre -🎅🏼December 3rd
Non school uniform day - bring in an item in for the tombola - 1st December
Y3 - Y6 - Aladdin - Millennium Centre Cardiff -7th December 2023
Christmas Jumper & Christmas Dinner - Friday 8th December 2023
Rec - Y2 - Dan Yr Ogof Caves - to visit Santa - 12th December 2023
Nursery -visit to Gower Christmas Trees December 15th 2023
N- Y6 - Elf School (our annual tradition) - only Elves allowed in school !! - 20th December 2023
R- Y6 - 🎄Penclawdd Primary “A Merry Musical Christmas” Concert 🎄.
Performance 1 : Monday December 18th at 1.30pm - School Hall
Performance 2 : Tuesday December 19th at 5.00pm - School Hall
Tickets on sale from Monday 27th November - please see Seesaw for details.
Any surplus tickets will be sorted on Monday 11th December ( parents can request 1 additional ticket on a first come, first serve basis)
Design a Christmas Card for our school
The winner of our annual 'Design a Christmas Card' for 2023 is to be announced next week. This winning design will now be printed as our school Christmas Card and the winner will receive a GG`s voucher!
Friends of Penclawdd ( FoP)
If you are able to help with the Christmas Fayre on 6th December 2023, please let Mrs Beynon know.
On Friday 1st December, we have a non school uniform day - please bring an item in for the tombola stall. Many thanks for your support.
Fundraising for our school
Please help support us to raise funds for our wonderful pupils by purchasing a school lottery ticket. Please sign up here.
The next draw is : 25/11/23 and the jackpot is £25,000 if you match all 6 numbers !
Community News
Rhyme Time
This wonderful session is so lovely and proving to be very popular. If you know anyone who`d like to attend, please tell them to have a look at the poster and to come and join us.
Trip to Bath
We are off to Bath for the first weekend of the Christmas markets. We can`t wait. Thanks for supporting this community trip.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs R-M
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Friday 22nd December 2023
Monday 8th January 2024
