News Update – 20th September ’24

20 Sept 2024

Newport Girls Netball League

Yesterday our Year 6 Netball Team went to Lliswerry for the first of three Newport Girls Netball League festivals. The girls played brilliantly, showing great team work and determination. A fantastic start to the sporting events for this academic year. Da iawn pawb!

A HUGE thank you to the parents who helped with transporting the children and also to Mrs King for organising our involvement in the festival.

Four Purpose Characters

In school we continue to use our Four Purposes characters with the children. These characters were designed and re-created digitally by the children. They thought carefully about the characters and how their features reflect the statements outlined in the Four Purposes.

The characters are:

‘Ethical Earth‘ for ethical, informed citizens

‘Ambitious Ace‘ for ambitions, capable learners

‘Healthy Heroes‘ for healthy, confident individuals

‘Creative Crew‘ for enterprising, creative contributors

The characters are visible in the classrooms and used with the children during lessons to reflect on their learning. Please talk to your child at home about the Four Purposes characters and their learning.

Cardiff Metropolitan University Partnership

As you may be aware we have developed a strong partnership with Cardiff Metropolitan University over a number of years. The partnership enables us to work closely with the university to provide Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for PGCE students. As a school we benefit from the opportunities the partnership creates for our school and very much look forward to continuing our work with the staff and students from Cardiff Metropolitan University. During the course of the year there will be PGCE students based in school, they will be working closely with the class mentors under the supervision of Mrs Zahr who is our Senior Mentor.

Also, we will have a number of students on teaching assistant course placements who will be in school this year working across a number of classes.

Year 6 – Secondary School Applications

Today, all current Year 6 Parents/Carers will receive a letter with information on how to apply for a place at Secondary School for your child. The application window is from 25th September to 13th November 2024, places allocated will be available on 3rd March 2025. Please make sure you put down more than one school choice, as in the past when only one school is applied for – if there is no availability or you do not meet the criteria you will not be offered another school. This causes unnecessary distress to your child and yourselves.

Please apply within the application window to – www.newport.gov.uk/schooladmissions

Reminder – School Photos

Colorfoto will be in school on Wednesday 25th September to take individual and in-school sibling photographs of all pupils. Please ensure your child wears their school uniform to school that day, even if they would usually have P.E.

ASDA Rewards

Asda are running a fundraising initiative for primary schools and we are excited to raise as much as we can for our school before the scheme ends on 30th November. When someone chooses to support our school, Asda will donate £1 and then 0.5% of the value of the shopping!

All you have to do is opt-in through the Asda Rewards app, choose our school (type in the postcode: NP20 3RH) and then shop & scan online or in store. You only have to do it once and it won’t affect your own rewards!