What’s coming up?
After School Clubs (week beginning 30th September)
Choir (Caswell & Oxwich) – Monday 3.20 – 4.15. Consent: https://forms.office.com/e/Bt9B1gm62P
Netball (Oxwich) – Thursdays 3.20 – 4.15. Consent: https://forms.office.com/e/VhfjmFMhfT
If you would like your child to take part in choir or netball please ensure that you have completed the consent form for this school year, even if your child was already attending last year. Thank you!
Dates for the Diary
- Olympic Athlete Visit – Wed 2nd October
- PTA meeting – Fri 4th October 9am
- Wear Red Day (Show Racism the Red Card) – Fri 18th October
- Parent Workshop – Emotional Regulation – Fri 18th October 9.15am
- Halloween Disco – Wed 23rd October
- Parent Workshop – Everyday Welsh at home – Thurs 24th October 3.45pm – 4.30pm
- Inset Day 3 – Fri 25th October – school closed to pupils
- October Half Term Holiday – Mon 28th October to Fri 1st November – school closed
- Individual / Sibling Photos – Tues 5th November
- Parent Workshop – Big Emotions – Anger – Fri 15th November 9.15am
- Christmas Holidays – Mon 23rd December to Fri 3rd January – school closed
- Inset Day 4 – Mon 6th January – school closed to pupils
Class Assemblies
Parents / carers / grandparents are welcome to join us for class assemblies. They start at approx. 9.00am and last about half an hour. Please queue at Gate 2 on Trafalgar Place from 8.50am after the children have been let in. These are the class assemblies coming up:
- 11th October – Caswell H
- 24th October – Oxwich E (CHANGE OF DATE due to inset day)
- 8th November – Caswell M
- 15th November – Caswell N
Athlete Visit
We are getting excited for our visit from Olympic athlete, and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Natalie Powell on Wednesday 2nd October. Natalie will be giving an inspiring assembly, and putting the children through their paces in a sponsored fitness circuit. To sponsor your child you can use the QR code below, go to the link: https://sportal.greatathletes.org/events/landing, or send in cash with the paper sponsor form that was sent home last week.
Parent / Carer Workshops
We are in the process of creating a workshop programme offering a variety of informative, useful workshops for parents / carers in our Community Hub room. If you would like to attend any of the upcoming workshops please complete the forms below:
Emotional Regulation – 18th October 9.15am: https://forms.office.com/e/C1fVfB81Jy
Everyday Welsh at Home – 24th October 3.45-4.30pm: https://forms.office.com/e/bnH2axJugd
Big Emotions – Anger – 15th November 9.15am: https://forms.office.com/e/E5T6cpLgBd
If you have any ideas for future workshops or ways that we can support our school community please fill in the form below:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Ug4_TzS3ZEGUCRtgHRR5k5hoAZQj7BZDppSZ0B6wzlhUNFQ5TlhHM1pFU05CU1pVNFpDNVo4OE9GTC4u
Welsh Questionnaire
We are gathering information on parent knowledge / confidence of the Welsh language, and how we can help you to support your child with Welsh. If you did not get chance to fill in the questionnaire at the Bay Team meetings and you would like to contribute your views, the link is here: https://forms.office.com/e/C7h2dWNGc7
Wear Red Day
On Friday the 18th October children and staff are invited to wear something red for Wear Red Day 24, raising money for Show Racism the Red Card. Suggested donation £1.00. Please pay in cash, or into the Charities Offer on iPay.
Show Racism the Red Card is an anti-racism education charity which utilises the high profile of professional footballers as anti-racist role-models to combat racism in society. They produce educational resources and deliver training events and workshops. For more details please see www.theredcard.org
PTA News
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our second hand uniform sale and donated items, we raised a brilliant £57 for our school!
On Friday 4th October at 9am we’ll be hosting a meeting in the community room to organise our upcoming Spooktacular disco! We’d love to invite any volunteers to this meeting and equally if you’d like to just turn up on the night to volunteer or bake something we can sell to raise funds, please email us on friendsofbrynmill@gmail.com
Please note the Spooktacular disco will take place after school on Wednesday 23rd October and the main doors will open the following times: 3:30-4:30pm Pobbles & Bracelet 4:45-5:45pm Caswell & Oxwich Don’t forget your fancy dress! We can’t wait to see you all there.