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Fri 24 Nov 2023 Mrs R-M

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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Weekly HT Blog

Fri 17 Nov 2023 Mrs R-M

Dear Parents/Carers,

Rights of the child : November - Article 19

Right to be safe

It's been a busy and productive week in all classes with lots of exciting things happening. Our choir were super at the Rememberance Service last week. They braved the torrential rain to sing their hearts out. Thanks to Mrs D and Mr M for attending. Please click here.

We had some amazing news this week as we received a beautiful card from King Charles III and Queen Camilla, who wrote to Ruby, Sully and Zac to thank them for their wonderful coronation postcards! - see pics below.

CIN 2023

Today, we celebrated our talented children by holding a talent competition in aid of Children in Need. Due to our generous parents/carers we have raised an amazing £126 so far! WOW! Thanks.

The PLTD and Mrs Garcia have worked very hard coordinating this great event and the judges had such a difficult job to choose winners. Well done !

Please see photos below! The atmosphere in the school hall was tremendous as children cheered on their friends and were entertained! Many thanks also to our Friends of Penclawdd who helped serve popcorn to everyone.

Nursery Penguins

Our Nursery class welcomed the Emergency Services to school as they learnt about people who help us. The morning was a huge success as children learnt about the Police, Ambulance and Fire Services. They had the opportunity to try on helmets, ring bells and even learnt to use a fire hose. What a wonderful learning experience for our youngest learners. See some pics below

🎄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 nine encourages parents/carers to discuss the importance of not engaging with strangers online, linking to a parent and carer guide from the Internet Watch Foundation

Click here for tip of the week

Child's Play AND Flying Start at our school

‼️NEW ‼️Flying Start at Penclawdd

Child's play is now a registered setting for Flying Start at our Nursery which means they can provide FREE childcare for 2 year old children for 2.5 hours per day ( 12.5 hours a week ). Please see the poster below.

If your child is turning two years old in the next 90 days you can register for a Flying Start space.

If you have any further questions or need assistance with the portal please contact Child’s Play on 07708 315118

Click here to register and check eligibility.

Calendar events

We have organised many educational class visits for children. All of which are in the school website calendar.

Nursery - Our First Nativity - further details to follow. December 1st