School News - Friday 15th May ‘26

Residential Visit to PGL Liddington

Year 6 had a fantastic time on their residential at PGL this week! They have all shown bravery, determination and perseverance, as well as brilliant team work skills encouraging and supporting their friends. They’ve enjoyed lots of fun activities including: abseiling, vertical challenge, giant swing, raft building and survivor! In addition, they’ve all shown excellent manners and have been great fun. All of the teachers are so proud of them! 

A HUGE thank you to Miss Summers, Mr Burgess, Mrs Goldsworthy and Mrs Hall for giving up their time to take the children on the visit and for making it such a positive and memorable experience!

Fourteen Locks

Year 1 had a very exciting time visiting Fourteen Locks this week as part of their summer term enquiry project ‘How do things go and grow?’.  The children engaged in a variety of learning experiences including: a mini-beast hunt, making observational drawings, photographing wildlife and investigating floating and sinking. Thank you to all those adults who helped make the visit a success.

KLA Tag Rugby Festival

Our Year 6 boys took part in the KLA Tag Rugby Festival at Rodney Parade. During the day the team played brilliantly, demonstrating excellent rugby skills throughout the tournament. Glasllwch came third place overall, having won four games they narrowly missing out in the semi-finals, losing 7-6 to a golden try! The team were recognised by the organisers for both the high quality of their play and their conduct on and off the pitch. Llongyfarchiadau! Diolch to those parents who supported with transport and made competing possible.

Girls Cricket Festival

Also, this week, some of our Year 5/6 girls took part in the Newport Live Cricket Festival at Malpas Cricket Club. The girls played really well coming joint second! They did Glasllwch proud! Llongyfarchiadau! Thanks again to those parents who helped out with transporting the children. Diolch!

Reminder - Reporting Absences

A polite reminder that all absences must be reported to the school office. If your child is absent, please contact Mrs Griffiths via the school email address glasllwch.primary@newportschools.wales or telephone: 01633 266398. Thank you for your co-operation.

Reception New Intake Meeting

A meeting for Reception parents for the September 2026 intake has been arranged for Monday 22nd June at 4:30pm in the school hall.

At the meeting you will be introduced to key members of our staff and have the opportunity to visit the Reception classroom. Dates and times for the new starters to spend time in the Reception class during the Summer Term will be given out. Information will also be provided about what to expect when the children start school in September. We look forward to welcoming new families to Glasllwch.

Learning Conversations

As we move closer to the end of the summer term, we are looking forward to being able to welcome you into school to hold Learning Conversations with your child. During these sessions you will be able to spend some time with your child looking at their books and talking with them about some of the activities and experiences they have engaged in during this academic year.  Your child will have the opportunity to share with you the learning they have enjoyed, what they are most proud of and also, for our older learners, how they have developed as a learner since September.

These learning conversations will take place on the following dates/times:

29.6.26 - Rec-Y2 Learning Conversations - from 2pm

30.6.26 - Nursery Learning Conversations – 10:45am/2:30pm

1.7.26 - Y3-Y6 Learning Conversations - from 2pm

More information will follow after half term.

INSET Days 2026-2027

Our INSET Days for the academic year 2026-27 are as follows:

·         Tuesday 1st September ‘26

·         Monday 2nd November ‘26

·         Monday 15th February ‘27

·         Monday 19th July ‘27

·         Tuesday 20th July ‘27

·         Cluster INSET Day - tbc

Welsh Phrase of the Week

‘Mwynhewch y penwythnos’ – ‘Enjoy the weekend’

Upcoming Dates

Diary dates for the week ahead can be found on our home page. Please visit our school calendar to access diary dates for the year ahead. We will continue to add dates to the calendar as we move through the school year.

Yours sincerely, 

Mrs J. Munslow

Headteacher