Dear Parent/Carer,
Our Swimming Course started today and every morning, for the next three weeks Y5 pupils are going to the International Sports Village at Spytty Park for their lessons.
Milttlepad worked with Class 4/5B and 5/6P today to help them develop their coding skills. Next week they will be working with classes 4/5B and 5/6W.
On Tuesday, the Western Front Organisation, who have planned an exciting range of activities in commemoration of the end of the First World War in 1918, including a school project later in the year, are unveiling a plaque at 23, West Street, in memory of Annie Brewer, a long serving World War 1 nurse who lived there. Vice Captains are attending this unveiling which will take place at 11.00am. This event will be also attended by Vaughan Gethin AM, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, Jayne Bryant AM and Councillor Debbie Wilcox, Leader of Newport City Council. If you would like to see it, you are welcome to go along.
Nursery are having very special Baby Day on Wednesday as part of their topic work. Parents will be joining us in the morning and the afternoon, bringing their babies and small toddlers to join our Nursery children. We hope to see lots of you there!
Class 1/2S are holding their Class Assembly on Friday morning. It starts at 9.15am and parents and grandparents are very welcome to join us for that.
In The News
It was lovely to see our pupils, together with pupils from Newport High School, on the front page of the Argus on Friday with the Emirates Cup, prior to Saturday’s big match for Newport County AFC! If you missed it, you can find it at:
We work closely with the County in the Community Football Training Programme and really value their support with activities in school.
Backpacks
Many thanks if you are helping us with the request not to send your child in to school with a backpack. If you are new to the school, we ask parents not to send their child in with a backpack because we do not have any room to store them.
Please only send your child in with a lunchbox (which can go on a special trolley) and their bookbag (which is stored in the classroom).
With still growing numbers of pupils we only have limited cloakroom space and cannot put any coat hooks on stairways because they are fire escape routes.
Therefore, your support of this request really helps us ☺
Aspiration Project
Our Aspiration Project has been running for many years now and its purpose is to introduce children to the wider world of work. As part of this project, it was lovely for Classes 5/6P and 5/6W to be visited last week by Mr Jeff Preston, a past pupil who has recently returned to the UK after working in software and app design for the past twenty years. He talked about a flight simulator that he designed and has offered to return to visit us in the next few months to show us one of his programmes.
We are always on the lookout for anyone who is willing to talk to our children about their education, job and also their route to employment and it is especially nice when we are joined by past pupils, parents or anyone with a connection to the school. If you think you might be able to help us with this and be willing to join us for about an hour (or know someone who might be willing to do this), please let us know.
In coming weeks the next people visiting us are Bradley Cox, a past pupil who is now in Y12 at The John Frost High School and who will be talking about his path since leaving us at the age of eleven and also Mr Tutton, father of Lennon and Emily, who has offered to talk to us about his role as an Insurance Investigator with Admiral.
Appointments and Early Collection of Pupils
Our school attendance is currently running at 92.6% which is below our target of 95%.
Where possible, please book medical/dental appointments outside of school hours.
If this is not possible and you are collecting your child from school during the day for a medical/dental appointment, please bring a copy of your appointment card/letter and inform your child’s class teacher or the office beforehand.
If your child is absent from school for a medical appointment they are marked as having an authorised absence because they are not in school and this affects your child’s attendance.
Bonus Ball
There is a roll over this week.
Yours sincerely,
H L Vaughan
Headteacher