5th September 2016
Dear
Parent / Carer
Welcome
to the new school year at Coedpenmaen – to new pupils, new parents and new
staff!
Staff
have been in school over the last few weeks, making plans and preparing
classrooms, as well as undertaking some updates to their training (Child
Protection and awareness of Autistic Spectrum Disorders).
We are all looking forward to our
whole school projects on the Wonderful World of Roald Dahl. We will be sharing some fabulous books and
enjoying our very own Roald Dahl Day on 21st Oct 2016.
Each class will focus on a specific
novel, and this will be supplemented with other books throughout the term.
Mrs
Deverill, Mrs Pugh, Ms Green and Miss Newman’s class :Danny, Champion of the World
Mr
Munday and Miss Grba: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mr
Carter and Mrs Cannon - George’s
Marvellous Medicine
Mrs Vukashin and Mrs Maher - Fantastic
Mr Fox
Miss
Bailey and Mrs Davies - The Enormous Crocodile
I
am pleased to inform you that we have again been successful in applying for a
grant, this time from the ‘Big Lottery Fund’.
This grant is to be used to develop a ‘trim trail’ type activity for
pupils in the junior yard. We have a
number of other applications in for other areas of the school grounds.
PARKING:
Parking is an issue at almost
every school in RCT! Parents are reminded that there should be NO PARKING
on the zig-zag lines at the back of the school. Please also consider our neighbours
and avoid parking across their driveways. Car access to the school via
Coedpenmaen Close should also be used on rare occasions – parents are not to
use this front car park to drop children off/pick up from school and are
advised to use the rear of the school when possible. Please also supervise children carefully if
walking through the staff car park.
Care for our neighbours: I would also like to remind families
that I have received complaints about litter in the locality. Please encourage
your children to dispose of the litter responsibly.
I have
included the initial diary dates for your information – but please regularly
look at our Moodle page where the calendar will be updated regularly.
5th
Sept Children return
to school.
15th
Sept Yr
6 – Cycling Proficiency
30th
Sept Macmillan
Coffee Morning
6th
Oct School Harvest
Year 3 Parents welcome from 1pm for Y3
assembly
13th
Oct Faces photography
– individual photos
14th Oct Ambulance Service workshops
for pupils ‘Shoktober’.
21st Oct Roald Dahl Day at school
Half Term – 24th Oct – 28th
Oct
31st
Oct Scholastic Book
Fair arriving at school
1st
Nov Flu inoculations
2nd
and 3rd Nov Parents’
Evening
18th
Nov BBC
Children in Need
14th Dec Year
1 – Year 6 – Panto at Muni - £5 per pupil
16th Dec Last day of term for
Christmas Break
19th December – 2nd
January – Christmas Break
3rd
Jan Proposed INSET
Day (to be confirmed)
13th
Jan INSET
Dates for
Christmas Concerts and the Christmas Fayre will be included as soon as
possible.
We have many ways of
keeping in touch with what is going on at school. Over the next few weeks, class teachers will
be setting up Class Dojo once again.
This is an excellent way of keeping seeing what is happening in the
classroom. We also have our school
‘Blog’, the newsletter page on the Moodle (rctmoodle.org/cpm), as well as
Twitter @Coedpenmaenpr1.
Our Value this term is Friendship.
The children will learn how to be a good friend about what makes a good
friend.
Pirates of the Curry Bean - I’m sure you will all recall the
amazing performance of Pirates of the
Curry Bean before the Summer. We now
have a number of copies of the show on DVD.
These are available at a cost of £5.
If you wish to have a copy, please send the money to school in an
envelope, clearly labelled so that we can get the DVD to you as soon as
possible.
School Dinners - 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 to
cook as well as helps office staff with the accurate administration of dinner
money.
School Uniform : parents are reminded that we
have a very smart school uniform which we encourage the pupils to wear at all
times. There is no need to have jumpers
/ t-shirts with the school badge embroidered, as a plain white/pale blue
t-shirt and navy jumper are also acceptable.
School ties are available from the school office if you wish to purchase
one for your child.
It is always a pleasure to
meet parents through our open-door policy. Please remember, if you have
any concerns you are able to discuss them initially with the class teacher
(before or after school is always best to avoid teaching times). If you
needed to see me, please either pop in, or if I am not available, please make
an appointment.
As always, your help with our attendance target is much appreciated! Unfortunately we did not meet our target last
year. Parents are reminded that the
Welsh Government target for attendance for all pupils is 95%. Your support in this is always much
appreciated.
We are all
looking forward to another successful, happy and busy term!!
Mrs
Loveridge
