School Blog

School Blog Friday 27th November 2020

Thu 26 Nov 2020 R Jones

This weeks news:

1. Residential School Trips

In these exceptional times, a decision has been taken in the latest governor meeting to suspend all residential school trips until the next academic year. We are informing you of this decision well in advance as we do not want to raise children's hopes and then have to let them down later on.

2. Covid19

Should you need to report a positive case "out of school opening hours", please use the contact form on our website. The link to this page can be accessed here. Non urgent queries or requests, can continue to be raised through the office email: Llanrhidian.primaryschool@swansea-edunet.gov.uk

3. Christmas Disco and Jumper Day

We will be holding our Christmas Disco day on December 16th. The disco will be held in the marquee in podlets. We will be allowing a 15 minute break in between podlets to allow for cleaning time. This will also be our Christmas jumper and Christmas dinner day too! This year, instead of a cooked Christmas dinner, the local authority is offering a party bag as an alternative. The food will be provided in activity fun bags still making the time as special as we can.

4. Consent for Christmas Film

As you know, each podlet is planning a "Christmas Showtime" video which will pull together a range of talents including singing, dancing and drama. These will be released on the website for you to enjoy as a family. We hope you enjoy. As this is a new production, and will be hosted on the school website, we need your permission before uploading your child's performance. Without this your child will not be in the final video. However, they will still take part in all the rehearsals so they do not miss out on the skills. Please click here to complete the consent form

School Blog Friday 20th November 2020

Fri 20 Nov 2020 Mrs R Jones

The headlines this week:

1. Reports

Teachers are currently completing the pupils' individual reports which will be available at the end of term by logging in to your child's HWB account. These reports will have important targets which will outline some of your child's next steps in their learning.

2. Home learning

Please encourage your child to access their pod page at home regularly throughout the week. Much of the resources for the weekly activities are posted on the Flip Bit pages. This enables your child to both prepare themselves for their weekly topics, and consolidate learning which has already taken place.

3. Consent for Christmas Film

Each podlet is planning Christmas videos which will pull together a range of talents including singing, dancing and drama. As this is a new production, and will be hosted on the school website, we need your permission before uploading your child's performance. Without this your child will not be in the final video. However, they will still take part in all the rehearsals so they do not miss out on the skills. Please click here to complete the consent form

4. Shopping Channel

Don't forget to visit our very own shopping channel to buy some festive Christmas crafts. All proceeds will be used to benefit the children.

School Blog Friday 13th November 2020

Wed 11 Nov 2020 D Caswell

1. Christmas Jumpers

If you have any spare Christmas jumpers please send them into school asap. We will be selling these soon for £1 each.

2. Parents' Meetings through TEAMS

On reflecting on our "telephone" parent evenings, we would like to encourage families to engage with us through Teams. (Unfortunately the school systems do not support Zoom or Skype) We have put a support page on this website to help you with the setting up of teams. This is a great platform for meeting with staff, and is already part of your child's Hwb account. To learn more please click here.

3. Christmas Lunch

This year, instead of a cooked Christmas dinner, the local authority is offering a party bag as an alternative. The food will be provided in activity fun bags still making the time as special as we can.

4. Digital Exclusion

We have been asked to share the following information from the Local Authority: Digital Exclusion - During the first lockdown, schools looked to identify those pupils that were digitally excluded and with the support of Swansea Council and Welsh Government, provided connectivity and devices to learners. We are currently trying to ascertain any further barriers to home/blended learning, especially those caused by digital exclusion. We would be grateful if you could share this survey (digitally or hard copy) with parents to enable us to find what these barriers are and so that we can continue to provide appropriate strategies that support you with the continuation of learning. Please click here

5. Christmas Raffle

We are now collecting raffle prizes for our traditional Christmas Raffle. Please see below for the colour of your class.

Nursery - Green

Reception - White

Year 1 - Silver

Year 2 - Purple

Year 3 - Purple

Miss Colwill - Red

Mr Dowsett - Gold

If you would like more tickets please contact the office or visit our Christmas Shopping Channel

6. Santa's Grotto

We have made a deal with the real Santa to provide pupils with a personal video from Llanrhidian's Grotto. For more information visit our Christmas Shopping Channel.

7. Christmas Shopping Channel - Pupils will be making and selling goods online this year on our new Shopping Channel! This is a great place to see what goods we have available - all profits benefit the pupils.

School Blog Friday 6th November

Wed 04 Nov 2020 D Caswell

Here are this week's headlines:-

1. COVID19

The North Gower Partnership are requesting that from Monday all parents, carers and visitors wear masks when entering the school grounds or premises. This includes when dropping off and collecting pupils. As the wearing of face masks becomes normalised in society, the Swansea Education Directorate supports all schools in this matter. Many thanks for your co-operation as we strive to ensure the health and safety of our whole school community. Please ensure you pass this message on to any relevant members of your family or network.

2. Harvesting the Earth's Riches Day Monday 9th November

To celebrate harvest this year the children will be participating in a fun day of harvest activities. Some of our activities will be taking place outside so please ensure your child has appropriate clothing and footwear i.e. wellies and warm waterproof jacket. We are supporting Matthew's House with our food bank this year, so we kindly ask that you donate a small tin, packet, or jar of non-perishable food. Please could we have donations by Thursday 12th November.

3. Christmas Raffle

We are now collecting raffle prizes for our traditional Christmas Raffle. If you know any businesses who would donate a prize, we will tweet a thank you. Please donate to your class hamper with a small treat (sweets, wine, toiletries Christmas items etc) in the following colours. Raffle tickets have been sent home today. Please return with name and contact details in an envelope with the correct money or a cheque made payable to Llanrhidian Primary School. Thank you for your support.

Nursery - Green

Reception - White

Year 1 - Silver

Year 2 - Purple

Year 3 - Purple

Miss Colwill - Red

Mr Dowsett - Gold

All donations will be put into quarantine for 72 hours. Staff will make up the hampers wearing PPE. If you would like more tickets please contact the office or visit our Christmas Shopping Channel

4. Santa's Grotto

We have made a deal with the real Santa to provide pupils with a personal video from Llanrhidian's Grotto. For more information visit our Christmas Shopping Channel.

5. Christmas Shopping Channel - Pupils will be making and selling goods online this year on our new Shopping Channel! This is a great place to see what goods we have available - all profits benefit the pupils. Don't throw out your old soap dispensers! If you wash them and send into school, we will put them into quarantine and then the children will re-use them to create goods which will can be sold on our online shop!! Thank you for your support.

6. Children in Need Day 13th November

The children may come to school on this day wearing their favourite rainbow colour. We will be collecting donations of £1 for Children in Need.