ATTENDANCE

Headteachers Note

We are 3 weeks back into the new term already! I have to say how amazing the children have been in adapting to the new way we have to do things. You have received a few messages from the staff over the last few days with information about what is going on this term, google classroom information and ideas to help your child progress at home. Please make sure you read them. Next week I will be sending out a letter about school photos, breakfast club and fruit money. An automated message will go out every Sunday night to you to remind you about putting money on your parent pay account

Thanks

P. Morgan

Nursery Reception – Miss Gardiner We’ve had the most

wonderful start to the new school year. It has been fantastic to

welcome Nursery pupils into our classroom and watch our

grown up Reception pupils adapt to the longer school day. We

have enjoyed reading ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’ in class – it has

really helped us during the first few weeks back. We have made

our own worry monsters, they now live in our trays to help us

whenever we feel a little worried. We have created little cress

heads and hope they will grow, we have linked this to growing

our minds and never giving up. Lastly, we have spoken about

being kind and created leaves to stick on the kindness tree if

anyone catches us being kind. Reception have also started their

Jolly Phonics journey too, we already love singing the songs

and writing the letters. We are excited to start learning about

China next week!

UPCOMING DATES

Monday 28th September

School Photographs

Monday 26th – Friday 30th October

Half Term

Friday 13th November Flu Vaccination Reception – Year 6

Friday 18th December Last Day of Term

Tuesday 5th January Spring Term Starts

YNYSFACH NEWS September 18, 2020

Nursery/Reception – 89.6%

Reception/Year 1 – 89.6%

Year 2 – 91.5%

Year 3 – 94.2%

Year 4/5 –90.7%

Year 5/6 – 84.1%

Whole School Attendance –89.8%

Best Class Attendance – Year 3

Our target attendance is 95%

Well done Year 1 on the best attendance this week. Please

remember the importance of attending school regularly.

Your child’s target is over 95%, if you fall below this you will

receive a text to inform you.

Reception/Year 1 Mrs Pickering We’ve had a very busy start to our Autumn term, and

everyone has settled in really well. As part of our return to

school, we have been looking at the story ‘The Colour

Monster’ and have completed lots of lovely tasks. We had

lots of fun making our own colour monster using play

dough and loose parts. Each one looked different and was

very special. We have been practising our Welsh

vocabulary such as colours, numbers and sentence

patterns and have used these to make a class graph of

favourite colours, on the school yard. This week we have

been looking at the artist Andy Warhol and have created

our own Andy Warhol inspired Colour Monster pictures.

Please remember to take a look at our school Twitter

account where you will find lots of photos of our class and

what we get up to throughout the week.

Year 3 – Mrs D’Angeli What a fantastic transition into year

3. Mrs D'Angeli is so pleased with how well the whole class

have adapted to new routines in the juniors and how quickly

we are all settling....How grown up!

We have all thoroughly enjoyed our 'settling in' tasks. We

shared our worries about coming up to the juniors and we

also discussed plenty of things we were looking forward to,

such as playing on a huge yard!

From our lovely shared stories this week we have learnt the

importance of talking and sharing any worries we might have.

We created our own worry bags, worry monsters and

completed a book review.

Mrs ZigZag our class worry monster certainly helps us share

and deal with any worries we might have in class

What a fabulous fortnight in year 3 and so happy to be back

amongst our teachers and friends.

Year 4/5 Mrs Thomas Welcome back to school! Year 4 / 5

have settled really well into their new classroom and have

quickly got back into the swing of things. I am really impressed at

how we have all taken it in our stride, it’s like we haven’t been

away We have enjoyed a ‘Wellbeing week’ since returning to

school and focused a lot of our work / activities on our

emotional wellbeing and allowing ourselves time to get back into

class routines. We have been reading ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’

which all the children have loved listening to. Lots of our tasks

over the past 2 weeks have been linked to this book and any

worries we may have on returning to school and in day to day

life. It has been a great time for the children to think of their

feelings and strengths and how we can be excellent learners this

year. It has been lovely to see how happy all the children are

being back at school and how eager they have all been to get

straight back into learning – Da iawn!

Year 5/6 – Mrs Thomas Welcome back to school!

Year 4 / 5 have settled really well into their new classroom

and have quickly got back into the swing of things. I am

really impressed at how we have all taken it in our stride,

it’s like we haven’t been away We have enjoyed a

‘Wellbeing week’ since returning to school and focused a

lot of our work / activities on our emotional wellbeing and

allowing ourselves time to get back into class routines. We

have been reading ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’ which all the

children have loved listening to. Lots of our tasks over the

past 2 weeks have been linked to this book and any

worries we may have on returning to school and in day to

day life. It has been a great time for the children to think

of their feelings and strengths and how we can be

excellent learners this year. It has been lovely to see how

happy all the children are being back at school and how

eager they have all been to get straight back into learning

– Da iawn!

Pupils Voice We would like to introduce ourselves to

you all, I’m Gwen the head girl, I’m Leon the head boy, I’m

Bailey the deputy head girl and I’m Cyran the deputy head

boy. We are looking forward to taking assemblies, helping

pupils out, doing jobs for the staff and welcoming visitors

to our wonderful school. The whole school has settled in

nicely to their new classes and bubbles. We think pupils

have made new friends in their mixed classes and spending

more time with them in their bubbles. Our Book of the

term ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’ has been a nice start to

the term and has brought the school together. Everyone is

enjoying their new classes and they are working hard and

helping each other. We are looking forward to the next

few weeks and months ahead.

Year 2 – Miss Evans Welcome back to a new school year. The

children have had an amazing first week back and have all settled well

with the new routines we have had to follow. The children were very

sensible when creating suitable class rules to follow. Our class book

'The Colour Monster' was a huge hit and they had fun painting and

drawing their own emotion monsters. They filled jars with pictures of

things that made them feel each of the emotions introduced in the

book too. We have shared many wellbeing stories focussing on

worries that they may have. We then voted for our favourite story

and created a graph using J2data in pairs and small groups. Ruby's

Worry was the winner! We have also been practicing forming our

letters and numbers correctly as this is very important. Please

remember to send your children's reading book and/or sounds folder

in every day. P.E. will be every Wednesday, please wear jogging

bottoms, trainers and a polo shirt on this day in order to limit bringing

extra items in to school.