What’s coming up?

After School Clubs:

• Choir After School Club (Caswell and Oxwich): Mondays 3.20-4.15pm. Consent form: https://forms.office.com/e/sv4C9BRrfD
• Netball After School Club (Oxwich): Thursdays 3.20-4.15pm. Consent form: https://forms.office.com/e/k8X7seibis

Dates for the Diary:

• Y5/6 Residential meeting: Wednesday 29th November at 3.30pm
• Half price book fair / Christmas jumper and Christmas costume swap shop : Thursday 30th November and Friday 1st December 3:30pm until 4:15pm. 
• Carol Aid: Friday 1st December 6.30pm Pantygwydr Church – Choir performing
• Christmas Concerts:
  Pobbles – Friday 8th December 9:30am and afternoon time TBC
  Bracelet – Tuesday 12th December 9.30am and 4.00pm
  Caswell – Wednesday 13th December 9.30am and 4.00pm
  Oxwich – Thursday 14th December 9.30am and 4.00pm
• Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper Day – Friday 15th December
• Christmas Holidays – Monday 25th December to Friday 5th January
• Inset Day – Monday 8th January – School closed to pupils for staff training.

WOW – The Walk to School Challenge

We are taking part in the WOW – Walk to School Challenge from Monday 28th November.
WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably (walk/wheel, cycle or scoot) once a week for a month, they get rewarded with a badge. It’s that easy! Look out for more information coming by email.

Nut-free Classes

Due to severe allergies, the following classes are nut-free zones:
– Bracelet B
– Bracelet L
– Bracelet N
– Caswell M
– Caswell N
If your child is in one of these classes please check the packaging of packed lunch items or any other food items being sent into school to ensure that they do not contain nuts. Thank you.

Christmas Swap Shop

School Bags

Many children are bringing large school bags into school and we are struggling to accommodate them on our cloakroom trolleys and coat hooks. If you are buying new or replacing any school bags please choose the smallest option where ever possible. If your child has a school dinner and is only bringing a water bottle to school, please consider whether they need to bring a bag at all. We have a lot of stairs in school, and therefore bags with wheels are not suitable and unsafe. Thank you for your understanding.

Dinner Money

Reminder that Swansea Council have a zero debt policy, and dinner money must be paid in advance. If your child is having school dinners and is not eligible for Free School Meals, please ensure that your iPay account is topped up.

Easy Fundraising

You can support the school just by doing your usual shopping. To find out more about easy fundraising and to sign up click the link:

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/brynmillps

PTA news

Save the date: Half price book fair with Scholastic Thursday 30th November and Friday 1st December 3:30pm (after all children have been collected) until 4:15pm. 

We will also be hosting a second hand uniform sale at the same time. We are very keen for any donations. This can include coats, P.E kit and shoes with lots of life left in them as well as any uniform. Please can any donations be dropped off at the school office in a bag. All donations must be washed and dried.

If anyone would like to volunteer during these events, please get in touch via email (friendsofbrynmill@gmail.com) 

Don’t forget you have until November 27th to enter our book fair competition. Using paint, pencils, crayons, markers, pastels etc create an image of your favourite book character. Hand it into your teacher by Monday 27th November to be in with a chance to win a voucher to spend at the half price book fair. Winners will be announce during Star of the Week assemblies. 

Our Christmas raffle fundraiser is now live!

https://go.rallyup.com/christmasraffle2023bps

There’s are loads of prizes to be won including a flight with a pilot from Swansea’s very own Team Raven! Other prizes include jewellery from Thirty Pieces of Silver, a £150 voucher from online shop &Mother, vouchers for Common Meeple, Panshee Indian Restaurant, The Spa at LC2, Brynmill Coffee House, Exist Skatepark, Bluebell Coffee & Kitchen as well as artwork and crafts by local artists and makers. 

All funds raised will go towards new play equipment and other improvements to the outdoor spaces, teaching and reading materials, supports for school trips and social events. Entries can be purchased be purchased at £2 for x10 entries. Winners will be drawn and contacted on December 15th 2023. Tickets can be bought from the link above or with cash during our Christmas concerts.

Rights Respecting School

As a Rights Respecting School, we focus each month on a particular Article from the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. Assemblies, Circle time and class activities are based on these Rights. In connection with these, we also have a Value of the Month. Together, the Rights & Values encourage our learners to be respectful of each other, safe, and to be the best they can be.

Right of the Month for November – You have the right to be kept safe (Article 19).

Value of the Month for November – Peace

What’s coming up?

After School Clubs:

• Choir After School Club (Caswell and Oxwich): Mondays 3.20-4.15pm. Consent form: https://forms.office.com/e/sv4C9BRrfD
• Netball After School Club (Oxwich): Thursdays 3.20-4.15pm. Consent form: https://forms.office.com/e/k8X7seibis

Dates for the Diary:

• Oxwich J Class Assembly: CHANGE OF DATE Apologies for the previous incorrect date – the assembly will be on Friday 24th November. Parents and Grandparents welcome from 9.00am to 9.30am approximately. Please queue at Gate 2 on Trafalgar Place from 8.50am after the children have been let in.
• Deadline for Reception / Year 7 admission applications: Friday 24th November
• Y5/6 Residential meeting: Wednesday 29th November at 3.30pm
• Half price book fair: Thursday 30th November and Friday 1st December 3:30pm until 4:15pm. 
• Christmas Concerts:
  Pobbles – Friday 8th December
  Bracelet – Tuesday 12th December
  Caswell – Wednesday 13th December
  Oxwich – Thursday 14th December
  (Times to be confirmed)
• Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper Day – Friday 15th December
• Christmas Holidays – Monday 25th December to Friday 5th January
• Inset Day – Monday 8th January – School closed to pupils for staff training.

Children in Need

The children looked great in their spots and stripes today for Children in Need! There is still time to donate on iPay if you haven’t already. Go to account – select your child and look for the fund ‘Charity – Children in Need/ Red Cross Appeal’

Easy Fundraising

Thanks to all those who support us via Easy Fundraising, we have been paid £125.77, bringing the total amount to £2526.32. To find out more about easy fundraising and to sign up click the link:

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/brynmillps

Lateness

We have noticed an increase in pupils arriving late to school at the start of the day. We would like to remind you that the school gates open at 8.40am, ready for the start of the school day at 8.50am. We want to raise awareness of the importance of punctuality and would appreciate your assistance in helping your child arrive to school on time. From Monday, if you arrive late, we will be asking parents / carers to bring pupils to the school office to sign them in. Our Education Welfare Officer will also be assisting us by undertaking punctuality spot checks. Thank you in advance for your support in this matter.

Absences / illness – reminder to report absences to the school office by phoning 01792 463019 and leaving a voicemail on the attendance answer phone, or by emailing brynmill.primary@swansea-edunet.gov.uk. Please do not send text messages to the school number as these are not received. Thank you.

Holidays & Planned Absences – please remember to give as much notice as possible and complete the form: https://forms.office.com/e/MruSui5Lfc

Tesco Blue Token Scheme – If you are in either the Marina or Fforestfach branch of Tesco, please pick up the blue tokens and vote for us!

PTA News

Save the date: Half price book fair with Scholastic Thursday 30th November and Friday 1st December 3:30pm (after all children have been collected) until 4:15pm. 

We will also be hosting a second hand uniform sale at the same time. We are very keen for any donations. This can include coats, P.E kit and shoes with lots of life left in them as well as any uniform. Please can any donations be dropped off at the school office in a bag. All donations must be washed and dried. 

If anyone would like to volunteer during these events, please get in touch via email (friendsofbrynmill@gmail.com).

Don’t forget you have until November 27th to enter our book fair competition. Using paint, pencils, crayons, markers, pastels etc create an image of your favourite book character. Hand it into your teacher by Monday 27th November to be in with a chance to win a voucher to spend at the half price book fair. Winners will be announce during Star of the Week assemblies.

Rights Respecting School – As a Rights Respecting School, we focus each month on a particular Article from the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. Assemblies, Circle time and class activities are based on these Rights. In connection with these, we also have a Value of the Month. Together, the Rights & Values encourage our learners to be respectful of each other, safe, and to be the best they can be.

Right of the Month for November – You have the right to be kept safe (Article 19).

Value of the Month for November – Peace

What’s coming up?

• Choir After School Club (Caswell and Oxwich): Mondays 3.20-4.15pm. Consent form: https://forms.office.com/e/sv4C9BRrfD
  
• Netball After School Club (Oxwich): Thursdays 3.20-4.15pm. Consent form: https://forms.office.com/e/k8X7seibis

• Children in Need Day: Friday 17th November. Children can come dressed in spots and stripes, suggested donation £1 – can be paid on iPay or in cash.
  
• Oxwich J Class Assembly: CHANGE OF DATE – Please note that this will now take place on Wednesday 22nd November. Parents and Grandparents welcome from 9.00am to 9.30am approximately. Please queue at Gate 2 on Trafalgar Place from 8.50am after the children have been let in.
  
• Deadline for Reception / Year 7 admission applications: Friday 24th November

• Christmas Concerts:
  Pobbles – Friday 8th December
  Bracelet – Tuesday 12th December
  Caswell – Wednesday 13th December
  Oxwich – Thursday 14th December
  (Times to be confirmed)

• Christmas Holidays – Monday 25th December to Friday 5th January

• Inset Day – Monday 8th January – School closed to pupils for staff training.

Fruit Tuckshop – The offer for this half term’s Fruit Tuckshop is now on iPay. If you are having problems with iPay please speak to Ms Rees in the school office.

Holidays & Planned Absences – please remember to give as much notice as possible and complete the form: https://forms.office.com/e/MruSui5Lfc

Tesco Blue Token Scheme – If you are in either the Marina or Fforestfach branch of Tesco, please pick up the blue tokens and vote for us!

Oxwich Classes – Residential Trip – The dates of the residential are 12th to 14th June 2024, and it will be at the St Madoc Centre in Llanmadoc, Gower. Please complete the form so we can gauge interest, thank you if you have already done so. https://forms.office.com/e/c8Cjm29J4M

There will be a meeting for parents to find out more information about the residential on Wednesday 29th November at 3.30pm

iPay – We have had a few queries from parents who can’t find the various offers such as fruit Tuckshop/ Y6 Hoodies. The iPay home page only shows a couple of offers, to find the rest:-

Log in to iPay – ipayimpact.co.uk

Click the three horizontal lines/ menu button

Select Account

Select your child

Scroll down

You should now be able to see all relevant offers.

PTA News

Save the date: Half price book fair with Scholastic Thursday 30th November and Friday 1st December 3:30pm (after all children have been collected) until 4:15pm. 

We will also be hosting a second hand uniform sale at the same time. We are very keen for any donations. This can include coats, P.E kit and shoes with lots of life left in them as well as any uniform. Please can any donations be dropped off at the school office in a bag. All donations must be washed and dried. 

Finally, we are also making a call for prize donations for our annual Christmas raffle and would love to know if any individuals or local businesses would consider donating a prize. 

Prizes can take the form of a physical item or a gift voucher. We’re so lucky to have secured donations from Thirty Pieces of Silver, Common Meeple, Brynmill Coffee House, Joio Day Nursery, Lc2 Swansea, Dr. Organic and RAVS Vintage as well as an incredibly special prize in the form of a flight with with one of the pilot’s from Swansea’s very own team Raven! 

Please email friendsofbrynmill@gmail.com if you’re able to support with a donation. Thank you so much for all of your continued support.

Rights Respecting School – As a Rights Respecting School, we focus each month on a particular Article from the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child. Assemblies, Circle time and class activities are based on these Rights. In connection with these, we also have a Value of the Month. Together, the Rights & Values encourage our learners to be respectful of each other, safe, and to be the best they can be.

Right of the Month for November – You have the right to be kept safe (Article 19).

Value of the Month for November – Peace