Gwersyllt CP

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Finally we are getting some warmer weather and the pupils are getting outside with increasing frequency.

This is particularly true of our Year 5&6 classes, who are trying to ensure that, through their topic of ‘following in footsteps’, the pupils are having a day a week in which they are enjoying numeracy and outdoor learning activities. Always more enjoyable when the sun is beaming down.

Congratulations

I am delighted to say that we have been the proud receivers of two more awards this week. One is the Gold award for investors in families- in which the continued hard work of our family learning team has been rewarded with the third award from investors in families. It sits proudly alongside the other two we have.

Also, a well done to dosbarthau Derwen and Onnen who, after receiving the Bronze award a couple of weeks ago, have now received the silver award from the Woodlands Trust Green Tree awards.

Some, but all, of the activities they have completed are:

1. Tree trackers- identified the trees on our school grounds
2. Trees in different cultures
3. Wildlife survey – birds
4. Lesson outside –  maths session outside
5. Books outside – daily reading session outside

Keep up the hard work!

Holi

Finally, more evidence of the pupils enjoying this burst of good weather. On Thursday afternoon, pupils in Llwyfen, Bedwen and Masarnen enjoyed a fully immersive experience of Holi. Nothing is quite like being in the midst of this celebration but some of these photos should give you a good idea.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Here we are at the end of a long, busy and successful term. It has been full of hard work, various events and lots of smiles and laughter. None more so than this last two weeks when we have enjoyed Cinema trips, parties, Early Years and  Year 1 and 2’s Christmas Performance, Year 5’s Service, Year 3 and 4’s Crafternoon, Afallen’s film premiere, Year 6’s Creative day showcase, Lower KS2 Wrexham documentaries and much more besides. I’m exhausted listing it.

A huge thank you to the pupils for being an absolute pleasure to be around, you should be very proud of them. Thank you to all of you for your continued support and a big thank you to the staff for their hard work and effort and making Gwersyllt CP a great place to be.

Today we give out our certificates for attendance and pupils of the term. Well done to the deserving winners.

We also say goodbye to Mrs W Howe after many years working with both Nursery and Little Chicks. We wish her all the best for her future endeavours. Thanks you for all your hard work. I am sure Little Chicks will be announcing shortly who will be filling the role. As for Nursery, we are happy to say that a Miss Lillie Callaghan will be a new member of staff with the term from January onwards. I am sure we will all give her a warm Gwersyllt CP welcome.

All that’s left to do is to wish you all a fabulous break and we will see you on January 7^th at the normal time to start the new term.

Have a great couple of weeks,

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Firstly a correction, in the last newsletter I referred to the school council members visiting training. This was cancelled at the 11^th hour, to late for the newsletter to be cancelled unfortunately. This will be rearranged for after Christmas

Illness

As you will know we try to keep the attendance of all pupils and the school as a whole as high as possible. Having said that, the months are getting colder and there will be illness rearing its head. In the newsletter we have scanned in the information sheet we have for a variety of illness if you wish to check recommended guidance.

Diolch

A huge thank you to everyone who has attended the events put on over the last week. The audience are a huge part of how well a show goes and we are fortunate to have the best audience going. This week we have a couple of events remaining before we break up for the holidays on Thursday 19^th December 2024.

Gwersyllt CP Under the Spotlight

Please see below a lovely piece written about Gwersyllt in the investors in Families newsletter.

Spotlight on Gwersyllt Community Primary School

This week, we’re delighted to shine a light on Gwersyllt Community Primary School (@familyGwersyllt on X), a school that goes above and beyond to strengthen family and community engagement.

What We Think is Great:

Family Stay and Play: A welcoming event where families can enjoy a variety of activities, creating a relaxed atmosphere to build connections.

Home Learning support regularly shared through their you tube ‘Boost’ channel. These creative challenges encourage families to get involved in their child’s learning.

Family Meditation Sessions: Families are invited to join in with a calming, peaceful afternoon together.

What We Can Learn:

Community-Centered Approach: Gwersyllt prioritises creating spaces and opportunities for families to feel part of the school community.

Engaging Through Social Media: Their X account and you tube channel is a great example of using social platforms to share updates, resources, and inspiration with families.

Inclusive Family Activities: By designing events that welcome all, they ensure every family feels valued and supported.

Let’s celebrate Gwersyllt’s fantastic initiatives and consider how we can incorporate similar strategies to enhance family engagement in our own settings. Their work reminds us of the power of meaningful connections in creating a thriving school community.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we will see you all for the last few days next week

Nursery in Dosbarth Glasbren have been working on a class project about hedgehogs. They have completed a number of projects to help increase the hedgehog population in Gwersyllt CP. 

The Men Shed in the Port- a group of men from Ellesmere Port have built a hedgehog home and we have been given this for our area in Jaxons Wood. Fingers crossed we have new residents soon! 

Dear Parents/Guardians,

As term gets busier there is a lot to update you on.

Football Team

As per usual our sporting teams did us proud at the end of last week. 8 pupils represented the school at the Wrexham Football Tournament at Rhosnesni High School. They played fantastically throughout the day and made it all the way to the final, a close fought game, which they lost 1-0. Mr McAteer was extremely proud of them and the way they battled hard, yet showed great sportsmanship in every game – win, lose or draw. Well done all.

Stay and Play and Club Aderyn

The Family Learning Team (after a very successful Gift sharing event last week) continued the hard work with both Club Aderyn and Stay and Play. Whereas Stay and Play gives the opportunity for the Early Years pupils to play with their parents in school the Club Aderyn focuses much more on those that are yet to join the Gwersyllt CP family.

Christmas Fair

Thank you everyone for making our annual Christmas Fair another well attended success. The PTA have raised a substantial amount of money through it and none of this would be possible without your support. Of course, a huge thank you as always to the PTA for the hard work that they put into these events.

School Council

Finally, four of our school council attended training this week at Ysgol Bryn Alyn to ensure that they do the job to the best of their abilities. The four boys worked alongside the High School and a couple of other primaries to create a cluster plan moving forward.

Please do check further down the newsletter to see what other events are taking place next week.  We will text out times that the doors will open to those that are visiting nearer the date of the event.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Firstly, I would like to thank all those who have given generously for the poppies and other assorted items over the course of the last week or so. Mrs Evans knitted poppies have, as always, sold out, more made, and then sold out again. Those sales alone have raised roughly £130. Alongside the donation made for the other items we have raised a good amount of money for the Royal British Legion.

The school held a Remembrance service on Monday in the hall from Year 1 and above and a wreath was placed by the school at the Community Service on Sunday. Our Year 6 speakers have also been going out into the community on Friday to deliver a service to the Luncheon club in the Congregational Church.

Also thank you to all those who participated in the Children in Need Event in school today.  Suggested £1.00 donation can be made via the link the in the newsletter below via Parent Pay.

Pendine

Our pupils also made one of their regular visits to Pendine to work with the residents. This is a fantastic community link and both parties get so much from the time that is spent there. Please see the link below to a piece that was written about this in July:

Have a lovely weekend,

Dear Parents and Guardians,

I hope you are all well and thank you to everyone who came to Parents Evening this week. Hopefully it gave you the first opportunity to catch up with your child’s teacher and how the first month of school has gone this year.

Harvest

The school celebrated harvest through an assembly today. We discussed harvest and looked at the equivalent in America, thanksgiving. Each class then brought an offering to the front of the assembly for the community cupboard. Dosbarth Bedwen and Llwyfen also visited the local church to take some food items. Thank you to everyone who donated something to this.

Attendance

A few of you may have received a letter regarding your child’s attendance in school. This will largely be based on holidays and hopefully your child’s attendance will improve as the year gets longer. We have been advised by County Policy and the attendance officer to send these out as a cautionary measure at this point.

However, I am delighted to say that the school’s attendance currently sits above 95% and is comfortably up there with the best in Wrexham. It would be fantastic to keep it this way. A huge thank you to everyone for playing your part in ensuring that the classes are full and the pupils don’t miss out on any vital teaching.

Tempest Photographs

Tempest will be in on Monday 21st October to take individual photos. They will also be doing siblings of pupils in school. Unfortunately, due to time, we can only do pupils currently in Gwersyllt CP.

Club Aderyn

Finally, we started our Club Aderyn on Friday. This is a sequence of sessions for pre- school pupils to come and join us in ordr to get us to the school environment. We had a great turn up this week and we look forward to getting to know them over the course of the sessions

Have a lovely weekend,

Cofion cynnes