Dear Parent / Carer
Thanks you so much for your kind donations for our recent events. The Macmillan Coffee Morning was extremely well attended and with your donations, we were able to donate £652.44 to the charity at a special assembly.
The display of Harvest gifts was also fantastic. Year 6 delivered the gifts to our friends in the community and we have received many cards to thank the school, and you for your generosity.
The PTA has the Annual Halloween disco on Thursday 23rd October. Please support the PTA. They continue to work hard and raise funds for the school. They have recently purchased a special cabinet to securely store our collection of iPads, as well as a MacBook. This will develop the school’s ability to use the iPads effectively to enhance the learning opportunities for the children.
Work is scheduled to take place on the boundary wall along the infants and nursery yard. The work will be set up on Friday 24th October, and we hope that the wall will be demolished and cleared during half term. The wall will be re-built following this work, as well as taking care of the properties of our neighbours. A secure working site has been arranged to ensure the safety of the children during the works.
All the children have been on trips this term already. Nursery and Reception visited the Museum in Cardiff, to see the fossils and dinosaur bones, whilst Year 1 and 2 visited Barry Island Lifeboat Station to find out about their work for their theme ‘Land Ahoy!’. The juniors have been to Fleet Air Museum and Caerleon Museum – each visit to enhance the work in the classroom – the children always learn so much from these valuable visits.
Each class from Year 1 to Year 6 have also visited Pontypridd Museum where they took part in a range of fun ‘hands-on’ science activities.
We have been fortunate to identify a pantomime for the children which is available before Christmas as originally planned. This performance of ‘Puss in Boots’ is also a less expensive opportunity for the children to begin to build up to the excitement of Christmas. I will provide details over the next few days. Please see below for new dates for the diary. We are also working with Trallwn Infants to develop effective Transition plans to ease the move from Trallwn to Coedpenmaen for both pupils and parents.
20th and 21st October Parents’ Evenings – appointments have been distributed –
please see the class teacher if you need to change your appointment
24th October Last day of half term
3rd November INSET Day – school closed to pupils
12th November PC Rob Thomas Year 3 ‘Friend or Foe’
14th November BBC Children in Need – details to follow from the school council
18th November Story telling Workshops – visiting author
21st November PTA Cake Day
24th November Year 5 and 6 to see ‘Grease’ at Hawthorn High School
I aim to confirm the dates of our Christmas activities by the end of the week. Where possible, I will try to avoid clashes with Trallwn Infants with regard to Christmas performances.
Mrs Thorne has set the children a photo challenge:
Can the children bring in a photograph of them reading in an unusual place?
They may be: up a mountain, in a swimming pool, in your club, on a horse, upside down, etc.
The best photograph will win a prize and all photos will be displayed in our brand new library area. Good luck!
Yours
Mrs J Loveridge - Headteacher
