Waunarlwydd Primary News

SCHOOL HAS RE-OPENED

Following yesterday's power problems, the school is open as usual today.

SCHOOL CLOSURE

SCHOOL CLOSED

Chinese Teacher Begins Work

Xiaoyu Fu starts with us today. Ms Fu will be teaching Mandarin Chinese as well as the art of Chinese calligraphy to our Year 6 pupils every week until July. Having explored some of the outcomes from Mrs Daves' initial visit to our partner school in Chongqing in May, pupils were interested to begin learning the language used by their new friends and also to develop some of skills in chinese lettering they have seen them using in the videos.

Singing Club CHANGE OF DAY

Visit from Mr. Mark Mathias

Mr Mark Mathias. Police Superintendent for Swansea / NPT visited us today and joined the school council in a number of activities. Council members shared with Mr Mathias some of the activities which help promote team building and took time to explain the nature of their work.

Mr Mathias has offered us a link to the police website which would allow our weekly podcasts to be uploaded there as well.

Bread Making with Brace's Bakery!

Brace's Bakery provided us with a bread making session this morning during which pupils were able to gain a better understanding of how bakeries operate.

Webstars wing their way back to the website.

The webstars once again return to Waunarlwydd...

After School Club restarts

In response to parents' requests, we have restarted our After School Club. In addition, we have arranged for child care provision to run until 6pm each night. Parents will recall that the club ceased to run previously because of a general lack of interest. In order for the club to be viable it really needs to cater for a minimum of 15 children each day so I would urge parents, especially those who campaigned so hard for its reinstatement, to make as much use of it as possible and to help us spread the word to parents who have not previously used the provision.

Infant Sports' Day - cancelled due to rain.

Eco Success!!

Huge congratulations need to be offered up to Mrs John, Mrs Taylor and the Eco team for their amazing work towards the second green flag award. The assessor visited the school today to examine our work which aims to develop pupil awareness of global citizenship issues. He was deeply impressed by the range, scope and quality of the outcomes he observed and as a result our school becomes one of only two to gain this hugely respected award. Incidentally, he was also extremely complimentary about the attitude and behaviour of our pupils. We are so proud of the fforts of this team and very grateful to Mrs John and Mrs Taylor's hard work which ensures these key objectives (which contribute so much to our school's positive ethos) are sustained. Well done, everyone!! A very special celebration assembly is planned for Monday, July 13th.

Swansea In Bloom awards

Our school has won a 'Highly Commended' award as a result of this year's Swansea In Bloom entry. In recognition of the remarkable effort of our youngest pupils this year, two Nursery and Two Reception pupils accompanied Mrs Davies, Mrs Jones, Mrs Hellier and Mrs Halfpenny to collect the award at a ceremony held in the George Hall.

Reception Parents' Welcome Evening

Parents of our new Reception class 2009 children joined us for a 'welcome evening' this week. As well as finding out a little more about the daily routines which their children can look forward to in September, parents were introduced to the different learning activities our pupils benefit from. The PTA would also like to offer a warm welcome to all new parents and have asked me to remind everyone that the first meeting of the new school year will take place in September.

celebration week

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Swansea in Bloom

Our 'Swansea in Bloom' garden was judged today. Well done to Miss Stokes for organising such a stunning entry this year, and thank you to everyone who helped make it such a success. Thanks especially to all Nursery parents who contributed so generously!

K'Nex Challenge Day

Pupils had the chance to work with Careers Wales on a design and make project today. The challenge was to produce a K'Nex model. The finished items were then judged against the original design brief. Well done to all taking part and a special 'thank you' to Mrs Cornish for helping to co-ordinate the event.

Choir Sings For Charity

The choir recently sang at a local charity event....click for more information.

Cricket Triumph

  Our cricket team enjoyed a fantatsic day at the cricket tournament which was held in Gowerton today, winning 3 of their matches outright. The team, which was made up of girls and boys, performed magnificently against the other schools and have been spurred on to pursue other fixtures before the summer term ends

Transition Art Project

Our pupils have produced some amazing artwork focusing on our local area, whilst working with an artist in residence, Nina Morgan. Well done to Mrs Ford for organising such a successful project and to Mrs Treharne for all her talented input too!

Choir News

The choir some upcoming "gigs". Add these to your diaries...

Eco Day

We ended a spectacular Eco Week with a 'Green Focus Day' today. Everyone dressed in green for the event and celebrated the many imaginative activities classes have been involved in over the course of the week. Our usual weekly celebration concert took on a green focus too and we were pleased to welcome Mr Geraint Davies again (2nd time in one week!) who presented awards on behalf of the Eco Team. Many thanks to the Eco Team, all staff, and Mrs John in particular, who worked so hard to make this week a success.

Questionnaire Responses

Spring Newsletter

Mrs Hansen has given our termly newsletter a bit of a makeover! Look out for it as it's brought home tomorrow!

Dance Workshop

  Our pupils congratulated for their behaviour!

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School Council Meeting with Geraint Davies (prospective Parliamentary candidate)

School Partnership - Chongqing

Visit by prospective parliamentary candidate

WEST GLAMORGAN MUSIC SERVICE CONCERT

Rebecca Willimas has been invited to join a concert at the Brangwyn Hall this evening as the representative from Waunarlwydd Primary. Rebecca plays the cornet and earned this honour in recognition of her skills. Well done Rebecca!

European Links

Following on from Mrs Davies' study visit to Norway and Mrs Hanson's visit to Poland as part of our bid for commenius project funding, Miss Smith's class has embarked upon an e Twinning project with a school in Slovenia. This is one of the schools involved in both of the visits and it is hoped that this project will enhance our awareness of european culture by giving us daily opportunities to communicate by email and, eventually, video conferencing.

Cross Country

Following on from last week's success the team competed in the area finals today.One of our pupils won through to the county's finals which take place next week.