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CIRCUS PERFORMANCE

The recent circus performance in school was fantastic. The children enjoyed displays of juggling, acrobatics and other tricks.

The best part of the show had to be Mr Fitchett and Mr Gillett dancing with a man on a unicycle!

Many thanks to the Friends of Crynallt who met the cost of the visit. We are very grateful!

Dates for your diary:

Monday 9th December: Year 2 Concert (2.15pm)

Tuesday 10th December: Concerts- Nursery (9.15am) Reception

(10.15am) Juniors (1.30pm) Year 1 (2.15pm)

Wednesday 11th December: Concerts- Year 2 (9.30am) Juniors (1.30pm and 6pm) Reception (2.15pm)

Thursday 12th December: Concerts- Year 1 (9.30am) Juniors (6pm)

Friday 13th December: Music Makers Concert

Thursday 19th December: Christmas Coffee Morning organised by Yr. 5

20th December: End of Term

Encouraging Enterprise:

What an amazing Enterprise Event last week! I was so proud of quality of the children’s work, their confidence and their ability to explain what they had done. Visitors from industry were equally impressed with what they saw. The Enterprise project encourages so many skills which will be so valuable to children, including:

1) Resilience;

2) Co-operative and team working;

3) Creativity;

4) Communication and presentation;

5) Developing literacy and numeracy skills in a real life context.

All the classes made a profit and the children in each class will be able to choose what they spend the money on. This could be games for wet playtimes, donations to charity, a ‘cinema’ afternoon or any other ideas they come up with! Thank you all so much for your support- without it this type of event would be impossible to run.

Parent’s Forum

The Parent’s Forum met last week and discussed a number of things. This included:

School Photographs: we will put out a questionnaire early in the new term to gather parents views on the photographs as we have had a very mixed response this year.

Schoop: you will all receive a letter with instructions about signing up to the new app for school called Schoop. It is essential that you do sign up to this as the school text service will be finished at the beginning of January and the current app in a couple of months. Schoop will replace both these services and all letters, including newsletters, will be sent out via the app.

Free Desktop Versions of Microsoft Office and Minecraft Education Edition

Wales will be one of the first countries in the world to fund Microsoft classroom software for all state schools, thanks to new investment from the Welsh Government.

The licensing deal contains a range of Microsoft products, including:

• The full desktop version of Microsoft Office 365

• Minecraft Education Edition with Code Builder

All teachers and learners will be able to download and install the latest versions of these software applications on up to 5 personal devices at no cost. The online version of Office will continue to be available online through Hwb for use anywhere, such as public computers in libraries.

To redeem your free Microsoft software you will need to have signed the Hwb consent form. These are given on entry to the school, so please check with the school office to find out if you have already signed up. Once your consent form is signed, Mr Parvin (Digital Leader) will activate your license and you will be able to download the software to your personal devices at home.

For any questions please contact Mr Parvin after 3:20 via the school office

Concerts

Can I please appeal to all junior parents to bring your child back for the evening concerts? The evening concerts are essential for working parents and they deserve to hear all the children’s wonderful singing.

Last year several classes only had 8-10 children returning in the evening which puts pressure on the children who do come back.

Thank you for your continued support.

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