Dear All,
I hope that you have all had a a lovely Christmas break!
Thank and you so much for supporting our fundraising for ‘Tackle Melonoma’.
We raised a total of £141.84 through our Casual Day, staff donations in lieu of Christmas cards and a special donation of £40.00 from Chepstow Garden City Under 11s Football Club.
Congratulations to our Early Bird prize winners-Mohhammed Nut and Mya Burke! They both win a £5.00 WH Smiths gift card.
For the next two weeks we are running World Fortnight. Children in each class are learning about different countries and these are shown below:
Nursery Wales
RH Spain
RD France
1/2D/J Italy
1/2MS Romania
1/2VS China
3/4G Japan
3/4M India
4/5B Sri Lanka
5/6W Brazil
5/6P South Africa
We welcome any information or objects from any of these countries that you would like to share with us. Please let us know if you, or a family member of friend, would like to talk to children about any of these countries.
All clubs will start back next week.
There is no GEMS Reading Café this week. It will start again on Wednesday 11th January.
On Thursday afternoon, Mrs Sam Bevan, from the National Literacy and Numeracy Framework Support Consultancy, will be running Roald Dahl Numeracy sessions in Classes 5/6W and 5/6P.
On Friday, Classes 4/5B, 5/6W and 5/6P will be joined by a member of Anthony Jinman’s Polar Team to continue the Cluster Science Project.
Dates
The Diary Dates sheet and Topic Letters will be sent home on Monday 9th January.
Year 5 swimming starts on Monday 9th January and children will need to be in by 8.30am.
Cars
Please park carefully and safely at the front and back of the school and do not obstruct neighbours’ drives or the school car park. Thank you for your co-operation with this.
Reception Admissions for September 2017
The closing date for applications for Reception 2017 is the 13th January. It is very important that you get your application in on time because, for several years, we have had more applications than there are places available and it is very possible that late applications might be refused. (We still have children on our waiting list for our current Reception.)
Admission Forms can be found at www.newport.gov.uk
Christmas Card Competition
We are taking part in the annual Christmas Card Competition to collect as many as possible. In order to make this fair across Newport, judging will be based on the average number of cards per pupil so please count the cards before sending them in and write the amount on the bag.
The Eco Team will be co-ordinating this collection and the last date to send in cards is Friday 13th January.
Bonus Ball
Congratulations to Ryan Lloyd’s mum, who is our winner from Saturday 17th December. The competition starts again this Saturday.
Very best wishes for the New Year!
Yours faithfully,
H Vaughan
Headteacher