Dear Parent/Carer,

Class 1/2E showed a lovely Space imovie (which they made on ipads) in our Friday assembly. Each class will be showing their work on imovie over the next few weeks so that they can share what they have been learning. This Friday it is Class 4/5B’s turn.

Thank you very much for all your donations today for our Fayre on Friday! They will be used for our Tombola and for other stalls.

Raffle tickets will be on sale in the Nursery and also every breaktime in school. They are 50p a strip. Some of the prizes are on display in the hall.

Thank you also to the Friends of St Woolos who have been visiting local businesses and have obtained some lovely prizes already! Thank you also to parents and staff who have sent in items for the raffle. Two of the items to be won are food hampers which are put together with donations from staff.

Tomorrow Mrs Barton is taking a group of children to the Netball Tournament at Newport Leisure Centre.

Gateway Rugby continues on Tuesday morning for Class 4/5B.

On Wednesday morning, Year 3 pupils are visiting Nant Coch Church for a ‘Christmas Unwrapped’ activity session which local schools are attending this week.  Mrs Kemp and Mrs Peterson (from Bethesda Baptist Church) who run our Discovery Club will also be helping with this. In previous years it has always been an excellent morning and I’m sure that everyone will really enjoy it.

Our Reception/ Year 1 Numeracy Family Learning course starts on Thursday at 9.00am and it will run for a total of six sessions. As with the Literacy course, each session finishes with the chance for you to do an activity with your child, and they have loved joining in with these. You are welcome to bring a family member with you to this course if you would like to.

There is no Drama club on Thursday.

The Nursery Language and Play course is running on Friday morning at 9.15 and in the afternoon at 1.00pm. This week’s session is the last of the series of three. Another Language and Play course will run in 2015 for parents of new ‘Rising Three’ pupils who are joining us so if you haven’t been able to attend ths current course, you may want to join us for the one in the Spring.

Councillor Wilcox, who is the Cabinet Member for Education, will be joining us for our Friday Celebration Assembly. Councillor Wilcox first visited us in September when she accompanied Mr Stephen Crabbe, Secretary of State for Wales, so it will be good to welcome her back to the school.

On Friday morning, all the Nursery children are visiting Belle Vue Park. There is no afternoon Nursery. This is always a very special visit!

The Christmas Fayre takes place on Friday 28th November from 3.45pm. Thank you very much indeed to all parents and grandparents who have offered to help so far! Any more offers of help will be very welcome!

The doors will open at 3.45pm so that all children can be dismissed from their classes first and staff can get to the hall for the stalls. Please join the queue by the front entrance.

Parents of pupils in Class 3/4C, 3/4G  and 4/5B are reminded to wait outside the gates so that the area is uncrowded and safer for the pupils who are leaving.

Any child not collected in time on Friday afternoon will be taken to the Nursery to wait for parents because the hall is very crowded once the Fayre starts.

Father Christmas will be joining us at our Fayre and will be with us until 5.00 pm.

Age Cymru

Staff from Age Cymru were unable to attend our recent assembly to tell us the results of the competition because of illness, but they will be joining us on Wednesday 3rd December to give out the prizes.

Concerts

Please remember that no child younger than Nursery age will be able to attend our concerts. A separate letter about tickets for the Junior Concert will come out separately. No tickets are needed for the other concerts because fewer children are taking part.

Y1/2 Concert – Weds 3rd Dec. 2.00pm
Reception Nativity – Fri 5th Dec. 2.00pm
Nursery Concerts – Weds 10th Dec. 10.30am/2.00pm
Junior Concerts – Thurs 11th Dec. and Fri 12th Dec. 2.00pm

Nursery Garden

The Nursery garden gate will be closed each day from 9.00 – 9.10am and from 11.50am – 12.45pm. (Nursery parents have had a separate letter about this.)

Eco Tip

Replace a light bulb with a lower wattage one whenever possible.

Bonus Ball

There is a rollover.

Yours faithfully,

 

H Vaughan

Headteacher