What’s coming up?
After School Clubs (week beginning 10th June)
Choir (Caswell and Oxwich): Monday 3.20-4.15pm
NO netball this week due to the Oxwich residential trip
Dates for the Diary
- Oxwich Residential Trip – Wednesday 12th June to Friday 14th June
- Bracelet B Class Assembly – Friday 21st June – Parents and Grandparents welcome. Starts approx. 9.00am and lasts about half an hour. Please queue at Gate 2 on Trafalgar Place from 8.50am after the children have been let in.
- Summer Fete – Friday 28th June
- Sports Day – Thursday 4th July
- Pobbles T Class Assembly – Friday 5th July
- Reserve Sports Day – Monday 8th July
- Pobbles R Class Assembly – Friday 12th July
- Year 6 Leavers Concert – Wednesday 17th July
Keeping your child safe online
Whilst there are many positives associated with social media and access to the internet, there is a pressing need to safeguard children of primary school age.
We continue to support children and their families to deal with the fallout from misuse of social media and/or exposure to harmful content online. Issues are generally harder to resolve when they are complicated by social media. Schools have no control over which children are allowed to create and use online accounts, and most misuse/exposure to misuse or inappropriate content happens outside of the school day/week.
We understand that it can be a real challenge for parents/ carers to have oversight of everything that their child experiences online. Unfortunately, when it goes wrong, schools have limited access (or no access) to accounts of all those involved, some of whom might not even attend our school.
Most social media accounts are for people aged 13 and over, but some are younger or older. Age restrictions are there for your child’s safety.
Our school website has some useful information and links for parents/ carers, including:
- App guides for families – with the official age rating for most popular apps
- How to report harmful content
- Accessing support for children/ who have been affected by harmful content
- Starting a conversation and getting involved in your child’s ‘virtual life’
- Safer internet – tip of the week
Swansea Council: Keeping Safe Online – Tip of the week
Tip thirty encourages parents/carers to help their children to understand the potential for online advertising to be manipulative and links to a youtube video guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCV2Cd4um4
Asylum Seeker wifi
Swansea Central Library are offering free SIM cards loaded with data to adults in asylum seeker families as long as they meet the relevant criteria which can be found here. The SIM cards are provided by The National Databank, O2 vouchers can be issued for 12 months. The data can be used on other devices via hotspotting. To obtain a SIM card from Central Library, adults will be required to fill in a form and join to become a member of the library. Please direct any queries to the school office.
PTA News
Friends of Brynmill Primary needs helpers for our upcoming fete! Could you lend a hand in running a stall or helping on the day from 3-5:30pm on Friday 28th June? If so we’d love to hear from you.
This event is on a bigger scale than our previous discos and other events so if we cannot confirm a good number of volunteers then we won’t be able to proceed with the event.
Children are of course welcome to help with you. If you can spare some time and are interested in helping out, please get in touch via friendsofbrynmill@gmail.com
We are also looking for cake sale donations for the fete. So if you’d like to bake us some muffins or cookies to sell we’d welcome any donations on the day of fete. We just need to know in advance of the event so we can make sure we have enough items to sell.
A reminder, we are also looking for leftover party bag items that we can use as prizes for the games at the Summer fete. Please hand these into the office if you’re able to donate anything.
Our AGM will be taking place in September this year. We’ll keep you posted on the date and would encourage anyone who’d like to find more about the PTA to come along.
Finally we’re hosting another Guys Board Game night! Date to be announced shortly which will take place in July.
Thank you as always for your support!
Green Scene
We’ve blinked and our next Green Scene volunteer session on school grounds is fast approaching. Details of our session on Saturday 15th June can all be found on the poster below. Everyone is welcome. Just please let us know if you’re coming
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 June
You have the right to rest and play (Article 31)
Value of the Month for June
Fairness