School News - Friday 19th September ‘25

Bullies Out – Playground Pals

This week our Year 5 Resolution Role Models took part in a Bullies Out workshop to develop their peer-mediation skills. The children who took part will become our Playground Pals; they will be out on the yard at playtimes supporting the younger children with positive play and resolution of minor disputes. Da iawn pawb!

Trussell Trust Food Bank

Year 2 were lucky enough to have a visit from the Trussell Trust Food Bank, Risca. The children learned all about the role the food bank plays in providing emergency food and support to local people locked in poverty. We look forward to being able to support them this year with our Harvest food collection.

Four Purpose Characters

In school we continue to use our Four Purposes characters which were designed and re-created digitally by the children when we refined our school curriculum, in line with Curriculum for Wales. These characters have features which reflect the statements outlined in the Four Purposes, our school aims.

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. Year group specific information leaflets for parents are available from the school office.

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

All current Year 6 parents/carers will have received a letter this week with information on how to apply for a place at Secondary School for your child. The application window is from 19th September to 31st October 2025, places allocated will be available on 2nd March 2026. 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 24th 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.

Upcoming Events

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. Please note – upcoming dates for the week ahead can also be found on our home page.

Thank you in anticipation of your continued support. Wishing you a restful weekend.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs J. Munslow

Headteacher