Gwersyllt CP

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:

https://wrexham.com/news/young-artists-inspired-by-dementia-friendly-gardens-at-wrexham-care-home-254952.html

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

Dear Parents/Guardians,

A very busy week at Gwersyllt CP this week with many whole school activities going on.

Pentrellyncymer

Can I just say again how much of a pleasure the pupils were to spend time with last week in Pentre. We couldn’t have asked for more from them. No doubt many of them slept well last Friday and are still recovering this week (I know I am). We have provisionally booked for next year for the dates 17-19^th September 2025.

Author Visit

Thursday saw the visit of an author to school. He took time to speak to as many of the children as possible. Reading his book and enjoying their questions. It was great for the pupils to see that these books can be and are created by an idea and don’t simply appear on the shelves. Hopefully it will have inspired a few creative minds and we will see the fruits of this in years to come.

Welsh Day

We enjoyed our first termly Welsh day today. It gives the pupils the opportunity to deep dive into all things Welsh and its culture. The pupils do carousal sessions in a variety of classes and looked fabulous in red or the Welsh attire. All proceeds are going towards the Eisteddfod in Wrexham this year.

Harvest

Nest Friday we will have a harvest assembly in which we will be asking the pupils to bring up a class hamper offering at the end. We are requesting any non perishable goods be sent in from Thursday for this assembly. All offerings will go into the school community cupboard. Many thanks

Parking

Just a kind request from Noddfa (and ourselves) not to use their staff and visitor car park on pick-ups or drop offs. Please use Home Bargains carpark. The side gate will be open at the start and the end of the day.

….and finally, a lovely exampe of perseverance by Gabriel below. After swimming he set himself a mini task of building a card tower. I was alerted to this by the huge roar that filled the top half of the film after he had succeeded. Da iawn Gabriel.

Have a lovely weekend

Dear Parents/Guardians,

I hope this week’s newsletter finds you well. Our apologies for the technical hitches we have been having with it recently. We do endeavour to get it out on Friday for everyone, but recently the system we use has not been running them through as scheduled. We hope this problem ceases soon. 

Parents Evening 

Speaking of technical hitches, I hope the problems we have had with the parents evening booking form have corrected themselves and everyone is now able to book an appointment with their pupils classteacher. These will be for the week beginning the 7th October. The exception to this will be Bedwen. We are planning for these to take place in November to allow a fully informed conversation with Miss Jones upon her return. 

Pentrellyncymer 

We are at day three of the residential in Pentrellyncymer and I wanted to take this opportunity to say how fantastic the pupils have been. Enthusiastic, willing to try anything and great company, myself, Mrs Sailes and Miss Newell have thoroughly enjoyed our time with them. 

Hopefully, you have managed to access the photos on Class Dojo. I will endeavour to put a few more up on the website next week. 

Dear Parents/Guardians,

A full and busy week this week. We have seen visits from Lili Jones (Wrexham and Wales Footballer) who came to talk with Masarnen, Derwen and Onnen as part of their ‘Up the Town’ topic. Explore have been in with our Year 6 pupils to look at being Future Leaders and, in what has been a busy week for them, our Year 6’s also continued the creative curriculum work on Tuesdays. All this alongside the normal diet of swimming, forest schools, playmaker training etc.

Phew!

Data Collection

Just to make you aware that the Data Collection Sheets will be out in the next couple of weeks. Could you please check that all information is current and return the sheets regardless of whether there are alterations or not.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We have reached the end of our first full week now and most of the school timetable is up and running. Hopefully, over the course of the next couple of weeks, you will hear information about some of the school clubs that we plan to offer this year.

Just for your information, and so you know what environment your child is entering each morning, I have placed pictures of each class below. Please do take a look at the lovely spaces that teaching staff have created.

Glasbren

Llwyfen

Bedwen

Masarnen

Derwen

Onnen

Afallen

Celyn

Attendance and Lates

As we are at the beginning of the school year it seems apt to remind everyone of the importance of regular attendance and arriving at school on time. The latter is hugely important as it starts the pupils off in the right frame of mind that sets them up for the rest of the day. It really can be very daunting entering a classroom that has already started work.

Just to request that we do ask you to contact us if your child is going to be absent from school. If we don’t hear from anyone by 9.30am a text will be sent out. If a reason has not yet been given by 10am we will give you a phone call.

Pupils arriving between 8.50am and 9.30am will be given an ‘L’ code for late. After 9.30am the code will alter to ‘U’ which will unfortunately count them as absent for that session. Of course, this does not include any medical or dentist appointments.

Have a wonderful weekend and let’s hope the weather improves.

Cofion cynnes,

Dear Parents/Guardians,

A huge welcome back to everyone. As always it was fantastic to see the pupils on the first morning back and all seem to be settling in well into their classes and routines (some new, some more familiar). I hope you all had a pleasant summer.

This academic year sees some change in personnel – we welcome Miss K Jones full time in Dosbarth Masarnen and Ms S Binnersley will be joining the Year 1 and 2 team (though is supporting Dosbarth Bedwen initially).

Cleaner Vacancy

There is a vacancy for a cleaner at Gwersyllt Community Primary School. If you are interested in this post please contact pam.burgess@wrexham.gov.uk who can talk you through the details and the process of application.

Supermarket Grants

I am delighted to say that the school have won a grant from Tesco to add a piece of exercise equipment to the school yard. Thank you for all that promoted the schools cause when shopping there.

Currently there is a promotion in Asda called ‘Cashpot for schools’. I believe that every time money is spent at ASDA a small donation is made to the school if they are nominated.

Many thanks.

Have a lovely Weekend,

At the end of a long year we reach the point in which we have to say goodbye.

Not only are we saying goodbye to our wonderful Year 6 pupils- who wowed us all with their leaving performance on Thursday (we really are waving farewell to some incredible talent)- but we say good bye and thank you to a few members of the school team.

A huge thank you to Mia Tomlinson and Iola Agnew who worked with us this year as apprentice TAs. They quickly fitted in and have offered so much to the school. We wish them all the best moving forward and hope our paths will cross again at some point.

Mr Edwards is leaving us for a year to follow a Welsh sabbatical, though will be popping in regularly to lend his newly found expertise in the language.

Finally, a massive thank you goes to Mrs Edwards. Initially arriving at the school as a volunteer, over the course of 20+ years, she has had a hand in nearly every pupils education as they passed through Gwersyllt CP. Mrs Edwards also worked as a treasurer for the PTA and as a part of the governing body. We said our farewells during the foundation learning assembly on Wednesday and hope that we get many a visit over the course of the years that follow. The staff and pupils will miss her dearly and all her hard work is greatly appreciated. Diolch yn fawr Iawn.

We at Gwersyllt hope all of the above and yourselves have a great summer break.