Emergency Childcare Provision Letter

Please see updated message from the Local Authority.

We want to reassure residents that, in collaboration with our partners, all necessary steps will be taken to ensure the wellbeing of our communities.

At the moment council services remain open. Following the government announcement today we will be assessing the position and making further detailed announcements tomorrow.

Government guidance is that schools should remain open for the time being. The message to parents is that, as in other areas of Wales, schools will open tomorrow as normal and the position will be kept under continuous review.

Residents and parents are urged to follow the Government’s revised social distancing guidelines and anyone who is experiencing symptoms should continue to follow Public Health Wales advice which can be found here: https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/latest-information-on-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/

 

I will be available during Breakfast Club and at the end of the school to answer questions or concerns.

Suzanne Hamilton

Acting Headteacher

 

As we continue to follow UK, Welsh Government and Public Health Wales advice, the Council has advised us that all schools in Swansea are open as normal on Monday 16th March 2020. The situation is being kept under continuous review and we will advise immediately if something changes. It is also worth noting that the number of days any school is open and the date of school holidays are decided by the Welsh Government and not the Council’.

No additional measures need to be taken above the advice already provided by Public Health Wales.

If you need any further information please go to: https://phw.nhs.wales/coronavirus and there is also general information here for the public: https://www.swansea.gov.uk/coronavirusadvice.

If you have any further questions, I will be in the hall during Breakfast Club and in the Year 3 classroom at the end of the school day.

Suzanne Hamilton

Criw have been working hard to promote the Welsh language across the school. They invited the Urdd to attend the school to play Welsh games with every class. They also arranged a visit from the Siarter Iaith mascots, Seren a Sbarc. It was lots of fun watching them dancing in our assembly and singing along with the Welsh songs we had learnt!

Criw continue to plan and organise weekly assemblies to promote the ‘Patrwm yr Wythnos’. They have recently been arranging quizzes during their assemblies to encourage the development of Welsh vocabulary. This term we have been focussing on ‘Food’. They also award tokens to those who are heard using Welsh with their friends. During the assemblies this term, Year 6 showed videos of them taking part in Welsh discussions; Year 3 showed us how they do the dinner register in Welsh every day and Year 4 sang a beautiful Welsh song they had learnt as part of their work on Santes Dwynwen.

To highlight the importance of ‘Welsh Language Rights Day’, Criw held an assembly to promote the work of the Welsh Language Commissioner and the target to get one million Welsh Speakers by 2050. They set a competition for classes to design a poster to promote the use of the Welsh Language in businesses and around the locality.

With the help of Mr Probert, we celebrated Dydd Miwsig Cymru with a whole school Welsh disco/dance off! There were some specular moves from all classes! Every class listened to Welsh music and some classes completed music appraisals.

Criw are currently working hard, thinking about ways we can make good use of Apps and websites to enhance learning and enjoyment of Welsh. Watch this space!

We have had a busy few weeks in Nursery learning all about looking after our planet!

We’ve studied worms in our wormery to see how they mix the soil, and we’ve planted flowers to please the bees in our outdoor area. We’ve explored important topics such as littering and recycling. We have sorted our classroom waste into the correct bins and have made new things from old things e.g. we made bird feeders from our plastic milk bottles. Reading the story ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ made us realise how litter can hurt animals and it inspired us to look after injured animals in our vet role-play area.

We have been making patterns both inside and outside, and we’ve begun a weekly session of ‘Squiggle while you wiggle’ to develop our early writing skills.