Dear Llanmadoc Open Gardens Committee,



Newsletter 13

December 2017

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Dear Parent/carer,

Christmas is now well underway, with practice for “Whoops a Daisy Angel” going well. Tickets are now available from the office for next week’s performances. There will be other festivities coming up to Christmas well so keep an eye on the calendar.

Another great session following on from our Theatre Nanog trip earlier in the term with lots of coding using Scratch to extend the children’s DCF skills. The football team did really well in their match with a well-earned draw against a strong Crwys side.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Jenkins

Dinner Money

You can now top-up your sQuid account with any amount instead of the minimum top-up of £10.00. This new functionality is effective form today for all users.

Please make sure that you top up your sQuid accounts as we have been instructed by the local authority that we can no longer have any arrears on dinner money accounts. All dinner money must now be paid in advance. The sQuid system allows for automatic top ups to help with this. If you have any issues please get in contact with the school.

Attendance

Our competition winners last week were Mrs Porter’s class with 99%. Well done! As a school we were 96.3%. An excellent result.

103 children got 100% attendance last week. What a fantastic effort. Well done to everyone for trying to reach our target.

Our winners for 100% competition this week were Gwen Barrow, Eve Barron and Oscar Wakeford.

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Pupil Voice

Rights Respecting Ambassadors:

The winners of the anti-bullying mission have been chosen and we are making a display of the best entries to remind children what to do if they have any worries. Thank you for all the entries. They were amazing.

School Council:

The coffee and cake event to support Macmillan Cancer this was a great success and we raised a total of £174. A fantastic effort for an important cause. Thank you to everyone who donated cakes for the sale. We will be following up on the suggestions in our make the school better box and putting them on the display in the main entrance.

Bronze Young Ambassadors: We are the new sports ambassadors for the school and it is our job to promote health and fitness through the school. We have lots of ideas and will share those with the children and you over the coming months.

Easy fundraising

Thank-you to everyone who has registered and joined easy fundraising to collect donations. We currently have 47 supporters and have raised a total of £960.00 So a big thank-you to everyone who is collecting donations and if you are not yet registered then please follow the steps below.

We are raising money for Knelston Primary School – Swansea via easy fundraising.

It’s so simple to get going all you have to do is:

1. Go to

2. Sign up for free

3. Get shopping and start raising

No catches, no hidden charges and Knelston Primary School - Swansea will be really grateful for your donations. It would be fantastic if you could join me and really help make a difference.

PTA Events

  

Christmas Masquerade Ball: 7pm Friday 8 December at Reynoldston Village Hall - Tickets are going fast for the Christmas Masquerade Ball with over 60% of tickets now sold!!  For catering purposes this will be a ticketed event only so please buy your tickets well in advance as ticket sales will close two days before the night.  Tickets are on sale from the school office at £10 per head including a meal and entertainment.

There will be an auction on the night with some amazing prizes already secured including: a bottle of the new GŴYR Gin, a Glamping Pod weekend courtesy of Bank Farm, Gower boat trip voucher from Gower Coast Adventures, Gower Sunset Tour trip from Gower Tours, a £200 meal voucher donated by Tom Hargreaves of Blue Frog Scientific, fantastic fruit and veg hampers from Shepherds and a wine hamper from the PTA. 

  

Christmas Disco: Thursday 21 December - the end of term Christmas Disco promises lots of festive fun! There will be exciting games on offer from the Year 5 & 6 children, children's handmade Christmas Crafts for sale and mulled wine for the grown ups!  As usual, please note that children in Nursery/Reception/Y1/Y2 will need to be accompanied by an adult for this event.

he end of term Christmas Disco promises lots of festive fun for the children!

Music Lessons

For those pupils who are having music lessons with Mrs Charlotte Gibbs there are no lessons this week. Lessons will resume next Tuesday 12th December 2017.

Mr X Christmas Appeal

Thank-you for all the donations so far it has been brilliant. If you would like to donate any items then please see the below list.

We are looking for donations of toys and clothes to be used as Christmas gifts for the children. Please see the below suggested list of items that can be donated for the children:-

Pyjamas or onesie

Hat, gloves and scarfs.

Selection boxes

Arts and crafts – toys or colouring

Stationary sets

Reading books

Toys cars and trucks

Dolls

Soft Toys

Board games – depending on ages

If you are able to buy or donate any of the suggested items then please bring them to the school office where they will be distributed to the children. We will be sending our items to social services week commencing the 4th December 2017.

Clubs

|Date |Year Group |Club |

|Monday 4th December |All |Minecraft Club 3:30-4:30pm |

|Wednesday 6th December |Y3-6 |Science Club 3:30-4:30pm |

|Thursday 7th December |Y4-6 |Ukulele Club 3:30-4:15pm |

|Friday 1st December |Y5&6 |Football Club 3:30-4:30pm |

Forthcoming Dates

|Date |Year Group |Activity |

|Friday 8th December |All |PTA Masquerade Ball at Reynoldston Hall 7pm till late. Tickets are £10.00 and available from|

| | |the School Office. |

|Tuesday 12th December |Foundation Phase |Christmas Concert 1:30-2:30pm |

| | |Tickets are £3.00 |

|Wednesday 13th December |Foundation Phase |Christmas Concert 6-7pm |

| | |Tickets are £3.00 |

|Thursday 14th December |All |Christmas Lunch & Christmas Jumper Day for Save the Children |

|Monday 18th December |Foundation Phase |School Trip to Gower Christmas Trees & Winter Wonderland |

|Wednesday 20th December |Y3-6 |Christmas Pantomime – Jack & the Beanstalk |

|Thursday 21st December |All |Christmas Disco 3:30-5pm |

|Monday 5th February – Friday 9th February |Y5-6 |Abernant Residential |

|2018 | | |

|Wednesday 14th March –Friday 16th March 2018 |Y3-4 |St Madoc Residential |

INSET DAYS

|Date |

|Monday 8th January |

|Monday 16th April |

|Monday 4th June |

Term Dates

School term and holiday dates 2017/18

|Term |Term begins |Term ends |Mid-term holiday |Term begins |Term ends |Total days |

| | | |Begins |Ends |

|Spring 2018 |Monday |Friday |Monday |Friday |

| |8 January |16 February |19 February |23 February |

|Summer 2018 |Monday |Friday |Monday |Friday |

| |16 April |25 May |28 May |1 June |

|Total: |195 |

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