School Gateway – Please download the School Gateway App, which is part of the SchoolComms system.

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Attendance – If you have any attendance messages please contact the school office by email/phone or School Gateway, please do not use ClassDojo.

Reminder – School Photos – The school photographer will be with us tomorrow ( with Wednesday as a reserve day) Please ensure you have registered with them to have your child’s photo taken.

Please follow the link to register

https://schools.rozandkirsty.co.uk/add_consent/13?pin=5825

School Trips – Caswell & Oxwich have trips coming up, and we are asking for voluntary contributions to cover the costs. Unfortunately trips may be cancelled if we are unable to cover the cost of admission and transport.

Vomiting & Diahorrea – The current guidance is that children must stay off school for 48 hours following any vomiting or diahorrea.

Inset Day – Reminder we have an Inset Day on Friday, when school is closed to pupils for staff training.

Caswell H – Mrs Howard’s class assembly is tomorrow, parents and grandparents are invited to come and watch. Please queue at Gate 2 (after the classes have come in and the Gate has been locked).

Building a strong community

Home school communication is important to us at Brynmill. In terms of home/ school communication, we want to ensure that:

• parents and carers contact the member of staff who is best placed to respond.
• important messages are not missed simply because they have not been sent directly to the ‘right’ member of staff.

Class Dojo is currently used as a means of communication. Messages can be sent to class teachers and some other school staff. Staff will try their best to check communication throughout the school day; however, the school day is extremely busy and therefore messages may not be seen until it’s too late. If there is an urgent message please contact the school office.

Please be aware that messages sent outside of the working day (approx. 8:30 am – 5:00 pm) may not be read and therefore class teachers and school staff are unlikely to respond. For this reason, we respectfully ask parents and carers to avoid contacting staff outside of the working day if at all possible

Here are a few examples of the types of things that you may want to raise or discuss and the staff member who is best placed to respond:

Class teacher	Family Wellbeing Leader	School Office/ Admin Team
Sharing important information with your child’s class teacher	Mrs Ciaburri is our Family Well Being Leader she can be contacted by phone or on class dojo.	Mrs Morgans – School Administrator Miss Rees – Attendance and Dinner money (sQuid) & general enquiries Mrs Evans/ Miss Woollacott – Resources and general enquiries.
Any worries or concerns about learning or issues directly related to your child in class	Anything relating to the mental or emotional wellbeing of your child, for example, request for support with routines at home	Important messages, for example an unplanned problem with collection arrangements.
	To update Mrs Ciaburri with information that you would like to share.	Messages about your child’s attendance, any issues in relation to absence or punctuality.
		Squid/ Dinner Money/ issues with Class Dojo.
Please do not send urgent messages/ messages about attendance or squid to your child’s class teacher as they will not be read whilst your child’s teacher is teaching.   Please speak to our school office instead.		If you are not sure who to speak to, please speak to a member of the Admin Team, giving a brief reason for your call.

End of year concerts

Many of us have missed the end of year concerts for the past couple of years and have been eagerly awaiting news of their return in 2022. Each Bay Team will perform a morning and an afternoon concert. The after school performance (with exception of Pobbles) will start at 4 pm, which has the advantage of pupils being able to stay at the end of the school day so not needing to be collected and brought back to school. Additionally, children are less likely to be very tired the following day as the concerts will start and finish earlier.  We wanted to give parents/carers/ families as much notice as possible, please find details below:

School Photographers – Our school photographers will be here on Tuesday to take individual and sibling photos of children in school. They may also be here on the Wednesday if they don’t finish taking all the photos.

They will need parental consents filled in from each child by Thursday 6th October at the latest. Please follow the link below to access the form. Thank you.

https://schools.rozandkirsty.co.uk/add_consent/13?pin=5825

Volunteers – Thank you to everyone who responded to our volunteers questionnaire. We have a meeting on Monday 17th October at 9:15am for anyone who is interested in volunteering.

School Trip – Oxwich classes will be going to Theatre Na Nog on Wednesday 26th October, we are asking for Voluntary Contributions of £13.00. Unfortunately if we do not cover the costs we may have to cancel the trip. Please pay on sQuid.

School Trip – Caswell classes will be going to Caerleon on Monday 24th October, we are asking for Voluntary Contributions of £20.00. Unfortunately if we do not cover the costs we may have to cancel the trip. Please pay on sQuid. Please note the children will return to school at 4:00pm approximately.

Inset Day – Our next Inset Day is Friday 14th October, when school will be closed to pupils for staff training.

Half Term – Monday 31st October to Friday 4th November

Class Assembly – Oxwich J have their class assembly next week on Tuesday 4th October at 9:10am. Parents and grandparents are welcome to attend. Please start queuing at Gate 2 on Trafalgar Place from 9:00am. As that gate is in use by Caswell T & Caswell J, please let the classes enter first, and wait for the gate to close before queuing, we will reopen the gate once the classes are in.

Parent/Teacher Meetings – Meet the Bay Team. As you may be aware we have renamed our classes this year after various bays/beaches around Swansea. Therefore Year Group Meetings are now called Bay Team meetings. These take place next week:-

Oxwich D – Mr Davies
Oxwich E – Mrs Evans
Oxwich J – Mrs Jenkins

Monday 3rd October 2022 at 4:00pm
Please use Gate 1

Caswell H – Mrs Howard
Caswell T – Mrs Timaeus
Caswell J – Mr Jenkins

Wednesday 5th October 2022 at 4:00pm
Please use Gate 1

Bracelet L – Mrs Lewis
Bracelet B – Mrs Breeze
Bracelet M – Miss Maliphant

Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 4:00pm

Please use Gate 1

Pobbles R – Mrs Roach

Pobbles B – Miss Brown

Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 3:30pm

 Please use Gate 5

Come along to an event on:
Thursday 13th October 2022 at 5.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m., George Hall, Guildhall,
Swansea. SA1 4PE
Where you will:
• Discover more about the role of a governor
• Find out about the work of the B.A.M.E. governor working party
• Hear from current governors and find out what it actually entails for them
• Listen to a Headteacher of a Swansea school regarding the importance of the
governing body being a true representation of the community the school
serves
• Speak to the School & Governor Team to find out how they can help you
become a governor
• Opportunity for a Q + A session
This event is free but booking is essential. To book a place please visit
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/governors/governor-recruitment-event/e-avlpga

Bank Holiday – Monday 19th September is a bank holiday for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. School will resume on Tuesday 20th September.

As part of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations last term we ordered books for the children, which we received last week, and so we are offering children a copy of the book to take home today.

Year 2 children will be having Kerb Craft lessons starting next week from the Local Authority’s Road Safety Team. Please ensure you have signed and returned the permission slip.

School Grounds – A huge thank you to one of our parents Jodi Moss, and her volunteers for all their work in fundraising and transforming an area of the Pobbles’ yard over the summer holidays. We are very grateful. Jodi hopes to keep the fundraising and transformation going as they have plans to improve and introduce green areas in our other yards.

Oxwich J Assembly – Due to the bank holiday we have postponed Mrs Jenkins’ Class Assembly until October 4th.

PTA – Parent Teacher Association – PTA events have been on hold over the last couple of years due to lock downs and restrictions, and we would like to start it again. There is a meeting on Monday 26th September at 3.30 pm for anyone interested in joining. After you have collected your child, please come to Gate 1 (please wait until the children have been dismissed from that Gate). The PTA put on events such as Disco’s and Fetes to raise money to benefit all children in the school.