The end of term can be an exciting time for lots of reasons. During Friday’s presentation the awards for pupils of the year were given out, with each winning child receiving a £10 voucher for Argos. Sisters, Megan and Emily also had the chance to show their medals they were awarded for singing and dancing competitions entered in their own time. Directly above are all of the children who are leaving the school this year, which leave with our best wishes for a happy future. Finally, the last picture shows most of our school eco team, which were called up to the front to acknowledge the hard work they have to maintain our green flag status this year.

On Thursday the 2010 cohort of Year 6 has their chance to perform for the last time in front of the school. They shared their hopes and dreams for the future as well as their best and worst memories of their time at our school. Time was made during the assembly to award each Year 6 child with an award including motor mouth and best dancers. The assembly was fantastic and enjoyed by all. We wish all children leaving Llantrisant Primary this year all the luck in the world with their upcoming adventures in their new schools.

To celebrate the end of term and give the Year 6 and other children leaving the school this year a chance to say goodbye, the PTA held a Hawaiian themed disco in the last week of term. There was a great turn out on the night and everyone put a lot of effort into their fancy dress. The children enjoyed dancing, music and party games and due to the excellent support of the event £250 was made for the school. Many thanks to everyone who came along on the day!

 Dear Parent, With the school breaking up for the summer holidays on Friday, 16^th July at 3.30pm,  it just remains for me to say a few big  ‘thankyous’  for what has been another excellent year here at the school.I would like to congratulate the classroom staff for the tremendous grades they achieved in the quality of teaching and very high standards that the inspectors witnessed being produced by the children during those lessons. Thanks to yourselves as parents for your support during the inspection and the governors also for the input that they had. The children were keen that the school was successful and this was a pleasure for all of us at the school.  Emotions stirred by the Infants Christmas Concert and the Juniors Carol Service,  were as strong as ever and the outstanding performances that the children gave in our very own Wozard of Iz is a credit to them and the staff that work so hard to prepare them for the show.DVD’s of which are on sale now for £3.00, see Mrs.Lisa Davies in Class 3. The sporting teams competed well with the rugby team getting to the final of the Small Schools’ Cup and the cricket team performing particularly well again to reach the semi final of the Mid Glamorgan County Championships.The school has grown over the course of the year. From November we will have a pre nursery class which will be lead by Mrs. Sian Williams from Class 1,  allowing us to take in all three year olds after their third birthday throughout the forthcoming year.  A variety of trips have enhanced the children’s learning but not always been smiled upon by the weather. A number of improvement projects are planned both internally and externally to the school over the next few weeks and,  during the autumn term, we hope to go ahead with an extension stretching out from Class 2 towards the picnic tables,  giving our infant children more space in which to learn through the foundation phase strategies. The new PTA Committee have been very active this year and have done tremendously well with fundraising. The disco last night made a profit of £300. Thanks to you all.A big thanks to all you parents who have supported the school so well again this year, helping us to help your children. At the end of the year it is always sad to say goodbye to our Year 6 pupils, all bar one of whom are going to Y Pant Comprehensive. They have been a pleasure to have at the school and we wish them all the best for a happy and successful future. Don’t forget Year 6, whether you are successful academically or sportingly,  we want to hear from you.I would also like to say a thank you and a goodbye to Mrs. Jenny Prewett,  who has been working in Class 6 in the mornings for a couple of years now and has been a valued member of the team during this time. Finally could you please note that we have been advised from Catering Services that meal prices will increase from September 1^st to £9.25 per week, £1.85 per meal. I would like to wish you all a very happy and safe summer holiday and look forward to seeing you and the children back at school on Monday, September 6^th.Yours faithfully,Mike Emanuel (Head Teacher)

On Friday both the Infant and Junior departments went of their summer trip. The Infants visited Manor Farm Wildlife Park in Tenby. Unfortunately for the Infants the weather was not our friend on the day and it rained most of the morning. The children enjoyed a close up encounter with wallabies where they were allowed to feed them and also got very close to the different varieties of lemurs they had in the park. We saw other animals such a bison, flamingos and camels. Thank you to everyone who came on the day and apologies for not being able to sort out the weather for us.

At the moment class 2 are reading the book “Class two went to the zoo”, in which an anaconda follows the children and tries to eat them. To find out more about snakes we asked Mr Rogers (parent at the school) to bring in some of his more unusual pets. He kindly obliged and brought in one of his 13 bearded dragon, Bart and Jake, a corn snake. The children enjoyed seeing these animals up close and most of them touched them to see how they felt. I’m not sure that some of the staff enjoyed their visit quite as much!

The end of term is always a busy time of year and this term has been no exception. This was shown at the celebration assembly on Thursday where rewards and prizes were aplenty. As well as the usual weekly class awards the year 6 writer of the year award was given to Megan as recognition of the wonderful creative and narrative writing she has produced this year. All children who walked to school on Wednesday as part of our new WOW initiative were given a certificate and goody bag. All of the junior swimmers were presented with their distance awards and Chloe received a brand new bike thanks to the cycling proficiency team that visited our school a few months ago. Well done to all of the children!

On Monday sport’s day was held for both Infant and Junior children. The weather held out meaning the event could be held on the field. The morning saw the Infants competing in sprint, egg and spoon, relay and obstacle races as well as some very competitive mums and dads races. All the children joined in well and received a certificate for their efforts. In the afternoon the Juniors competed in their individual events including relay, javelin throw, shot put, target throwing, speed jumping and long jump. Well done to all the children who competed and thank you to all parents who joined us on the day to support their children.

Last Wednesday and Thursday saw the performance of the much anticipated junior production of the Wozard of Iz. The story was based around the famous Wizard of Oz story but the script was adapted to suit Llantrisant by Mr Owen, Mrs Davies and Mrs Cowley and so a change in title seemed appropriate. The performance required a lot of rehearsal time prior to the show but it clearly paid of as both performances were fantastic and enjoyed by all that went to see them. Many thanks to all staff, children and parents who contributed time and effort to this special event.