Friday 20th November
Highlights of the week
Although our fantastic Reception children haven’t been in school this week, they have still managed some awesome home learning based around ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ We can’t wait to see you all back in school at the end of next week! Exciting times in Nursery this week with their first visit to the school hall. They all had great fun playing with feathers. Year 1 created some very imaginative Rangoli patterns and thoroughly enjoyed learning about sources of light and life before electricity, while electricity was a big favourite in Year 2 as well with their electric circuits a highlight. Letter writing was a big hit in Mrs Leyshon-Breeze’s class with some impressive and very thoughtful letters written from evacuees and the standout activity in Mr Jenkins’ class was painting designs of their electrically powered WWII quiz games. Rapping was the runaway highlight in all three Year 5 and 6 classes this week. They applied their knowledge of the Romans and poetic devices to produce some wonderful pieces of music.
A big thank you for your generous donations towards ‘Children in Need.’ During these tricky times for all, we were still able to raise a magnificent total of £441.40. Well done everyone!
Influenza Immunisations
These will take place next week on Wednesday November 25th. Our Reception class has been rearranged for Monday 14th December. Please remember that if you have any queries, you should contact the school nurse (contact details on form).
INSET DAYS
We can now confirm our INSET DAYS for the Autumn and Spring terms:
Autumn
Monday December 21st
Tuesday December 22nd (Last Day for pupils Friday 18th December).
Spring
Monday January 4th (Pupils return to school on Tuesday January 5th)
Friday March 26th
Weekly reminder
Please take individual responsibility for social distancing. As the wearing of face masks becomes normalised in society, the Swansea Education Directorate supports all schools in asking parents to consider wearing masks when in closer proximity to others such as drop off and pick up time. This provides clear benefits, with regards to reducing virus spread and risk of school closure. Many thanks for your consideration of this matter as we strive to ensure the health and safety of our whole school community.
Can my child come to school?
Does your child or anyone in your home have one of the following symptoms?
- a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
- a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal.
If the answer is YES to ANY ONE of the above symptoms, for anyone in your household, your child CANNOT be in school, no matter how mild the symptoms are.
to arrange for a test contact https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing-and-tracing/
As always, if you have any concerns, queries or feedback please don’t hesitate in contacting the school or Mr Evans directly evansj737@hwbcymru.net
Thanks for your continued support! Have a great weekend!
Mr Jamie Evans (Acting Headteacher)