Internet safety
Key Stage 2 pupils have had two Internet Safety assemblies this week. Please support us in protecting your children by having a discussion about keeping safe online. There are resources on our Moodle page and HWB.
Key Points:
-Use clip art as profile pictures
-Always set up privacy settings and only accept people you know and are kind to you.
- Never judge yourself based on the amount of followers or 'likes' you have.
- Always use kind words.
-Don't be mean behind the screen!
I'm setting up an internet 'Worry Box' if any child needs advice or support.
- If phones are brought into school, they must go to the office and collected at the end of the day.
Thank you for your support!
Mrs Pugh
Key Points:
-Use clip art as profile pictures
-Always set up privacy settings and only accept people you know and are kind to you.
- Never judge yourself based on the amount of followers or 'likes' you have.
- Always use kind words.
-Don't be mean behind the screen!
I'm setting up an internet 'Worry Box' if any child needs advice or support.
- If phones are brought into school, they must go to the office and collected at the end of the day.
Thank you for your support!
Mrs Pugh
LETTER TO PARENTS
21st June 2016
ATTENDANCE
Dear Parent / Carer
PIRATES OF THE CURRY
BEAN
The children in Key Stage 2 are working extremely hard at
school in preparation of our performance of “Pirates of the Curry Bean”.
As last year, our
school hall is too small to include all the children in a production of this
size and to invite families to watch. We are, therefore, grateful to
Hawthorn High School who are allowing us to use their theatre at the school
where the children will have the opportunity to perform on a ‘real’ stage with
stage lighting and provide ample provision for parents’/family parking.
As the children
will need a chance to practice at the high school to become familiar with the
stage direction, we have arranged for the juniors to go to the High School for
the day on Monday 18th July. The buses will leave school
just after 9.00am and return in time for the end of the school day. The
children will need a packed lunch, drinks and snacks for the day as they will
not be able to access the canteen facilities at the school. They will
also need to wear school uniform.
The children are
really looking forward to the opportunities this presents and we all look
forward to seeing you at the performances on the 18th and 19th
July to share in the excitement. Tickets
will be available at £2 each. Letters
will be sent when they are available.
The school would like to
record the performances as a record of the hard work the children have put in,
and as a celebration of the performance, which I am sure will be
fantastic. You will be aware that our
school policy was updated prior to the Christmas Concerts and as a result, the
following will apply:
·
The school will record the
event and make this available to families
·
families will be allowed to
take photos/videos during the concerts - these images are for your personal use
only
·
any families recording the
performances to remain considerate to others not to block their view etc. and
find an unobtrusive space in the hall.
·
NO IMAGES TO BE SHARED ONLINE
unless of your own child, alone – not including other children whose families
may not wish their images shared.
·
The school may share a small
number of images on their website/blog/twitter account – but at all times
pupils will not be named and only those images of pupils who have parental
permission will be used.
·
If any concerns are raised
with the school, the Head Teacher will assess them and make the final
decision on whether families will be allowed to record the event
·
Any family who has a concern
with regard to their child being included in images/video of the performance,
we ask that you contact the school by Friday July 8th at the
latest
YEAR 5 PERFROMANCE
Year 5 have also been
invited to take part in a ‘cluster’ performance of a ‘Disney Showcase’.
This will be on 12th July, again at Hawthorn High. The children
will be transported to Hawthorn High for 2pm and will need to stay at the
school in readiness for the show at 5pm. I believe more information will be
made available from Hawthorn in the next few days.
ACCESS
TO THE SCHOOL GROUNDS
Over the last few weeks, we
have unfortunately had children accessing the school yard and field out of
school hours. The pupils have been reminded
that they are not allowed on school premises after school hours. Your support in also sharing this with your
children would be much appreciated. We
have also had a few incidents of older children causing damage to school
property. In all incidences of this, the
police have been informed. Again, if you
see any children on school property who should not be there, I would be
grateful if you could let me know.
YEAR
6 TRANSITION TO PONTYPRIDD HIGH SCHOOL
It has come to my
attention that parents have been informed of a transition event at Pontypridd
High School on 7th July. It
appears that this has been added on to the events the school is running,
although they didn’t let us know at school.
However, this clashes with our Leavers Assembly. I have been in touch with staff at the High
School and we now plan to collect the children from Pontypridd High at 12.00
(with lunch back at Coedpenmaen), instead of them returning to school at
2pm. We will then be able to ensure the
children benefit from the transition event and ensure our Leavers Assembly can
go ahead as planned.
STAFF
CAR PARK
Please take care with
small children when walking through our staff car park.
ATTENDANCE
It is as
important over the next few weeks as always for the children to be in school
every day. Please remember that if you are planning on going on holiday
that there are ‘Absence Request’ forms to be completed. Details of our
Attendance Policy have been shared previously, with the full policy available
on our Moodle. (https://rctmoodle.org/cpm/)
As always, we need your help with our attendance
target! Our school attendance is now only 94.5%. As you are
aware, this is below our target of 95.3% - we cannot meet this target
without your continued support.
New classes from
September 2016
Following a review of
pupil numbers, it will again be necessary to have a number of ‘mixed classes’
from September. This is normal practice in primary schools. Class
lists are currently being finalised, and parents will be informed of their
child’s next class within the next 2 weeks. Classes and their teachers are
planned to be as below. Please note that
changes may occur throughout the coming weeks.
|
Class
|
Teacher
|
Year groups
|
|
Oak Class
|
Mrs Deverill
|
Year 6
|
|
Willow Class
|
Mrs Pugh
|
Year 5/6
|
|
Beech Class
|
Ms Green/Miss Jones
|
Year 4/5
|
|
Sycamore Class
|
Mr Munday
|
Year 4
|
|
Hazel class
|
Miss Grba
|
Year 3
|
|
Ash Class
|
Mr Carter
|
Year 3/2
|
|
Cherry Class
|
Mrs Cannon
|
Year 2/1
|
|
Maple Class
|
Miss Bailey
|
Reception/Yr1
|
|
Acorns
|
Mrs Davies/Mrs Probert
|
Part time Nurs
|
|
Holly Class
|
Mrs Maher/Mrs Vukashin
|
Year 3/4/5/6
|
I am aware that mixed
classes can cause concern for some parents. However, all pupils are
taught to their stage of development, regardless of their age, whilst teachers
continue to challenge them throughout their time with us at Coedpenmaen.
We teach a skills based curriculum as demanded by Welsh Government and recently
approved by Estyn, so whilst similar age children may cover different ‘topics’,
they will be taught the same skills across the academic year.
Especially important to note
is the Year 3/2 class split. Year 3 children in this class will access
the same break times/assembly/lunchtimes as other Year 3 children. They
will also be included in Junior school activities (e.g. Junior Christmas
celebrations, Summer performances etc.) As they will be completing work
in a different ’topic’, they may occasionally access a different ‘class’ trip
related to the topic being studied. This
is also the case for our Reception/Year 1 class.
Year 2 parents are reminded of
the meeting on Thursday 23rd at 5pm, where Trallwn parents will also
attend. This will allow parents to meet
the class teachers and discuss any concerns they may have prior to the move to
the change from Foundation Phase to Key Stage 2.
We
hope to have our sports’ day for the children before the end of term. However, we have a very busy diary with
children regularly out of school on a range of different visits and activities. And of course, we need to rely on the
typically welsh weather! We will let
you know when this could be as soon as possible.
Yours
Mrs
J Loveridge
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14th June 2016
Dear Parent / Carer
Dear Parent / Carer
SPORTS’ DAY
Unfortunately, we have had to cancel this week’s sports day
due to the typically Welsh weather. We
apologise for any inconvenience this caused and aim to run Sports Day in the
next few weeks, depending again on the weather and other commitments already in
the school diary. We will let you know
about this as soon as possible. We’ll all
be keeping our fingers crossed!
As an alternative, we plan to allow the children to watch
the Wales v England football match as part of the European championships being played
on Thursday 16th June. Kick-off
is at 2 o’clock. Any children who do not
wish to watch the game will be able to choose from other activities. No child will be made to watch the game if they
are not interested.
As the game will not finish until after the end of the
school day, any children who are watching will be welcome to finish supporting
their team up to the final whistle. Parents can join us in the hall, if they wish,
from 3.20pm to watch the end of the match.
School will finish for all other pupils at the usual time.
Yours
Mrs J Loveridge
NEWSLETTER
6th June 2016
Dear Parent/Carer
Welcome back
to school after what has been a beautifully sunny half term break!
10th June QUEEN’S
90TH BIRTHDAY – school ‘street party’
13th June Years 5 and 6 to Oakwood Park
14th June Sports Day – KS2 (am) – FP (pm)
15th June Governing
Body ‘Open Day’ – Governors visiting to see work of the school
15th June all Year 6 – It’s Your Choice
16th June Pandemonium Theatre
Performance
17th June All Year 6 – School Nurse –
‘Growing Up’
20th – 24th June Year 6 – Pontypridd High School Transition
22nd June Beech class
Parents’ Meetings
23rd June School
used as Polling Station – European Referendum – school will remain open.
23rd June 5.00pm
– meeting with Coedpenmaen and Trallwn Year 2 parents re: transition
23rd June Beech
class Parents’ Meetings
24th June Year
5 and Year 6 GIRLS - School Nurse
24th June 5.00pm - PTA – BBQ – Great
British BBQ !
1st July Hawthorn
High School – Year 5 visit Day
1st July Hawthorn
High School Transition Disco
5th
July Hawthorn High School
- Year 6 –transition day “Healthy Body, Healthy Minds”
5th July School
transition morning – including new children due from Trallwn
7th July 2pm - Year 6 Leavers’
Assembly
8th July Bronze Ambassadors USW
Sports Park (TBC)
11th July All
Year 2 – Trallwn and Coedpenmaen – picnic and team games on the field
12th July All
Year 5 pupils to HHS
12th July All
Year 5 taking part in ‘Disney Showcase show at 5pm at Hawthorn High School
13th July Year 6 Prom – arranged by
Sadie’s Mum.
14th July Sycamore,
Holly and Hazel classes to Southerdown
14th July Year
6 Curriculum Day – Hawthorn High School transition – plus parents’ evening at
HHS.
14th July Year 2 Leavers’ Assembly –
2pm (TBC)
15th July Yr5
to Hawthorn High for visit and activities
18th
and 19th July Coedpenmaen’s Key Stage 2 - Summer
Performance–Pirates of the Curry Bean
19th July Reports due to parents
20th July Last day of term.
All this in just over 6 weeks!
**Summer trips for Ash,
Cherry, Maple and Acorn will be confirmed soon**
It appears that some parents do not
seem to have had notification of some upcoming events. Some
key dates for this term have been included in newsletters since April
2016. If you have not been receiving the
letters from school, please check in the office to ensure we hold up to date
email addresses. If you do not have
newsletters emailed to you, all other letters are sent from school by ‘pupil
post’.
It is as
important over the next few weeks as always for the children to be in school
every day. Please remember that if you
are planning on going on holiday that there are ‘Absence Request’ forms to be
completed. Details of our Attendance
Policy have been shared previously, with the full policy available on our
Moodle. (https://rctmoodle.org/cpm/)
As always, we need your help
with our attendance target! Our school
attendance is now only 94.5%. As you are aware, this is below our target of 95.3% - we cannot meet this target
without your continued support.
There are a number of visits
set for Year 5 to visit Hawthorn High.
Please note that these days are for all pupils, regardless of which
school you choose for your child at the end of Year 6. This is a usual school day, and all pupils
will be expected to attend.
New classes from September 2016
Following a review of pupil numbers,
it will again be necessary to have ‘mixed classes’ from September. This
is normal practice in primary schools. Class lists are currently being
finalised, and parents will be informed of their child’s next class and teacher
within the next 2 weeks.
Many thanks to our fantastic PTA. The recent cake day raised £165.05, the
Easter Disco £264.82 and the Christmas DVD sales £280. Much of this money has been donated to
support our developing garden and resources for each class across the
school. Thanks for all their hard
work! Don’t forget, volunteers will be
gratefully received for the ‘Great British BBQ’.
Our Value
for this half term is Responsibility.
The children will be encouraged to consider that whilst they have
‘rights’, these rights are shared by everyone and we have a responsibility to
ensure each person has access to the same rights as themselves.
The
Welsh Government tests have now been completed.
You will receive the results with your child’s report at the end of
Summer. Please remember: these tests
only give a ‘snapshot’ of your child’s attainment at school in reading and
Mathematics. Remember to celebrate ALL
your child’s skills – we are all wonderfully different!
School Uniform.
Parents are reminded that the school is very proud of our school uniform
and encourage the children to wear this uniform every day. If you require uniform with the school emblem
embroidered, this is available from Footprint Promotional Products Ltd (previously
know as Merlin Sports). Claim a 10%
reduction by quoting the code FBFPPL2016.
Please bring
your dinner money in an envelope each Monday.
Local Authority auditors monitor this – we are not permitted to allow
families to build up a ‘debt’ of dinner money. Unless there are
exceptional circumstances, children MUST
maintain the same arrangements for lunch throughout the week. This
ensures that the kitchen orders the correct amount of food as well as helps
office staff with the accurate administration of dinner money.
Microsoft Office Code - We still have Microsoft Office codes available if you wish to
use this free offer. Just send your email address to school and we can
forward the details to you.
As usual, if you have any
concerns, please pop into school where I will be happy to discuss any concerns
you have.
I hope to see as many of you
as possible over the coming weeks
Please note: Thursday
1st and Friday 2nd September will be INSET days. Term will start back in September on Monday 5th
September.
Yours,
Mrs Loveridge
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