Newsletter 24/02/2010
February 24, 2010
24th February 2010. Dear Parent, Welcome back for the second half of the Spring term. There’s lots going on this week for the children. On Monday evening, Cheerleading classes started for Years 5 & 6, the class was well attended but the instructor has agreed to allow children from Years 3 & 4 to attend from next Monday, should they wish to do so. Yesterday afternoon, the school rugby team played its first cup match of the season and ended up winning a competitive game against Castellau by 21 points to 7. Try scorers were Creegan Griffiths, Tom Prosser and Lewis Willington, all three tries were converted by Corey Encoh. Well done to all the team, every player contributing to the win. Today, members of RCT’s Road Safety Team came to the school to talk to the children in Class 1. Every child in that class will now be receiving a road safety magazine delivered monthly by post to your homes. With World Book Day around the corner, we are planning to hold a Swap Shop Day for books in school. We would like to use this to help build up the supply of books in the school libraries too, so please could you send your children in with two books. This will entitle them to choose one from those brought in by other children, whilst the remaining books will help stock up the libraries. Please could all books sent in be in good repair. Could all parents in Class 2 be extra vigilent at the moment please as I have had a report of head lice in the class from a parent who had to treat her child last night.Could I remind you that if head lice are spotted parents are encouraged to come to school to take the children home for treatment, in order to limit the spread of these pests. Over the next few weeks the school will be trialling a text messaging system called ‘Teachers2Parents’. We need a main mobile contact number for each family so that we can send any important information to you quickly and easily. One number per family will help to keep the costs of the texts down. Swimming restarts for the pupils in Classes 4 tomorrow. The lessons will take place over the next 12 weeks. The first session however, coincides with Class 3’s visit to the War Museum in Swansea, so they will miss this first swimming lesson.Also tomorrow, Classes 2 & 6 are visiting the Rhondda Heritage Centre. Next Wednesday afternoon some of the pupils in Year 6 will have the opportunity to visit the Trimtec Plant on the Llantrisant Industrial Estate. This is a follow up to the visit to the school by the managing director and owner, Harry Palmer. In order to keep up the school’s Green Flag Eco status one of the ideas the children are currently supporting is to encourage as many parents as possible to either walk with them to school or to park at Gwaun Ruperra and walk over from there. This will both reduce traffic congestion around the school, so increasing safety and also get people a little fitter. With applications for places at the school currently high, I know a number of you have concerns regarding places for your children at the school from next September. Hopefully these will be sorted out over the next couple of weeks, but if you do have any concerns please contact me for further details about the current situation. Yours faithfully, Mike EmanuelHead Teacher.
I enclose the main mobile telephone number for my family to which I wish text messages to be sent. Mobile Tel:________________________ Child’s Name______________________ Class_________ Name of Parent _______________________________________(Please Print)
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