School Calendar

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Oakwood Park reminder

Dear parents just a quick reminder prior to tomorrows trip.
·         If your child is not going on the Oakwood trip they will go to Mrs. Jones in class two at the normal time.
·         Children are not required to wear school uniform.
·         Maximum of £5 spending money.
·         If your child receives free school meals we will provide them with a packed lunch – if your child does not receive free school meals please provide them with a packed lunch from home.
·         We ask that the children go to class for 8 am, we will quickly register the children before walking them to the bus.
We will update twitter when we get to the park, post photographs throughout the day and update you on our arrival time home. You can follow us on twitter @primary_glenboi

or
vist the school website http://glenboiprimary.weebly.com and choose “news, tweets and dates” to find the same information.

We hope to be back at school between 4.45pm and 5pm.

Thank you for your support


A   Llewellyn 

Monday, 18 May 2015

Kensuke's Kingdom - ALEX

18th May 2015


Kensuke’s kingdom

Blog

My name is Alexander James Wilson

I am 10 years old and I like my best friend, Jack.

I am writing this blog because I would like to retell the story.

The best thing I have seen so far is a brave lion in South Africa.

The most amazing thing about the trip is that I always get something from each country as a gift for me to remember my trip.

The worst thing about the trip is I always get sea sick.

The one thing I miss is the lovely kangaroo from Australia!!!

Kensuke Kingdom - CALLUM

18th May 2015


Kensuke’s kingdom

blog

 

My name is Callum west.

I am 9 and I like good computer games.

I am writing this blog because I want to retell events from my adventures.

The most amazing thing I have seen so far is a goofy gibbon from the jungle.

The best thing about the trip is the super calm sea.

the worst thing about the trip is no ps3 because there is no electricity on board the ship.

the one thing I miss is my nintendo 3d xl.

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

FAST Evaluation


Families and School Together for children aged 3-8
FAST Reminder

Just a reminder that all of our FAST families are invited into school at 9am on Friday 27th March, for a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit. Whilst at school, we would like to present you with a complimentary family photograph from the graduation.

We would kindly ask that you fill in the evaluation form whilst you are at the school. I MUST STRESS that the evaluations are CONFIDENTIAL, ANONYMOUS and are intended to evaluate the success of the programme.

We really hope that you can join us, however if you cannot please give the school a call on 01443 473747 and we can rearrange a convenient time for you to complete the evaluation.

If you would like to view additional photographs from the graduation please visit


You can order any photos directly through the website or by giving the correct money and photograph number to Mrs. Doolin who will order the prints for you.

Thank you for taking part in FAST 2015, the school thoroughly enjoyed working with you.

Yours sincerely,


Mr A. Llewellyn
Acting Head Teacher

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

March Newsletter

Dates for your diary

Wednesday 18th March
  • Glassbrook Football Competition

Thursday 19th March
  • FAST Graduation. Parents are invited to come along with additional family members to celebrate graduation.

Friday 20th March
  • Cycle / scoot / Walk to school 
Children are invited to cycle, scoot or walk to school and wear non school uniform to raise money for our new school yard. A £1 donation would be gratefully received and go towards our new yards. Work will begin on the yards over the Easter holidays.  

Thursday 26th March
  • YEAR 6 – PC  Rogers - Cyber Safety
  • Year 4 – PC Rogers  - Friend or Foe

Friday 27th March
  • Easter Fayre

We are holding our Easter Fayre on Friday 27th of March at 1:30pm. We would like to receive donations of tins, bottles, gifts, toys, and chocolate items as soon as possible. We would also be grateful for any cakes on the morning of the Fayre.

We will be having an Easter Bonnet/Hat parade in the morning, and the children should bring their hats/bonnets to school in the morning.

Raffle tickets are on sale and can be bought from Mrs Doolin in the office or Mrs Dixon in class 2

Monday 13th April
  • School reopens after the Easter Holidays

Monday 27th April
  • INSET DAY – School closed to pupils.

Nursery Places

WE are delighted to inform you that despite the council’s decision to cut funding for Nursery Education to part time, Glenboi Primary School will be providing full time education for all nursery age children (3 -4 years old) from September 2015-16.  We still have a few places left for September 2015, please contact the school should you wish to take up a place. 

School meals

The new financial year has seen school meal prices increase from Monday 13th April 2015 is  £2.40 per day.

Miss.Stone

At the end of the Spring Term Miss. L. Stone will be leaving Glenboi Primary School to pursue a career opportunity. Miss. Stone has worked at the school for 7 years and given a great deal to the whole school community and of course most of all to the children.  On behalf of the school I would like to thank her for her hard work and wish her every success for the future.

Attendance Update

I would like to thank you for your efforts in improving attendance and punctuality.
Our attendance target this year is 95%, and we are on target to achieve it, if we achieve our goal, we will be alongside the best schools in Wales.  It is clear that high attendance supports high achievement and as a school we have evidence which clearly supports this.

Please remember to:
  • Pick your child up from reception not the class if your child has a medical appointment.
  • Notify the school if your child is absent.

School Values

As a school we have identified 7 core values that we want to ensure that our pupils understand and demonstrate. Our Value for February is Equality, we are discussing the importance of freedom of speech, equal rights for all and equal opportunities for all. I  would appreciate your support by talking to your children at home about

This will support all of the work we are doing in class and in assemblies.

School Website and Twitter

All school dates, information and pictures can be found on our website. If you have a smart phone, tablet or PC why not follow us on twitter, the staff are updating the twitter feed with important messages, information and photographs each week. Alternatively you can always stay updated via the website. Our new school website http://glenboiprimary.weebly.com
follow us on twitter @primary_glenboi.

Yours sincerely,



Mr A. Llewellyn 

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Class 4 Blog


11.03.15


Pupils have been reasearching Dr Who and the characters.  Pupils this week have been writing diary entries after wathcing the episode 'Victory of the daleks'. Here are some of the extracts:


Dear Diary,

It all started in the morning when Amy and I went into my tardis and there were three guns pointed at my head. I was not scared I was happy because I saw my old friend Winston Churchill. We were on the roof top, the daleks were shooting lasers. "Tell me tell me what is that?"(Curiously). I had asked the dalek 'What are you doing here? and the dalek said "I am your soldier".

Jayden


Dear Diary,
 
I had 3 guns pointed directly at my face and I saw my old friend Winston Churchill. After, I  discovered a dalek on the rooftop shooting space ships rapidly. I asked Amy to question one. Unfortunately, she didn't find anything out (sadly).  I was disgusted when Churchill use a dalek to defend London.

Callum

Dear Diary,

I had 3 long guns pointing at my head. I wasn't scared because I saw my old friend Winston Churchill. I saw Churchill's dalek shooting at the planes. I was not happy. I asked Amy to talk to the dalek, however, he just said "I am your soldier".

Coen

Dear Diary,

Today I had three guns pointed directly at my face (I was happy to see him) because I saw my friend Churchill.  Later on, on top of a rooftop, I found out that Churchills new secret weapon was a dalek.  I was really nervous because the dalek could betray us and destroy London.

Alexander





















 

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Class 3 trip to Cardiff Bay 24/2/15

As part of our Calon Lan topic we have been looking at the similarities and differences of Cardiff Bay and Mountain Ash. We have recently researched what both areas were like 50years ago and thought about how they have changed to the present day. We have noticed that the land use has changed dramatically for Cardiff Bay and wanted to find out first hand how.
 
Before the big day arrived we decided we wanted to know why people go to Cardiff Bay and how they get there. We thought the best way to do this was to create a questionnaire. We'd never done this before so thought it world be best to design one for the children in school and ask them about their favourite games. we then practiced our oracy skills by asking two children from each class to complete it.
 
 
After deciding on things we would like to find out as a class we thought of questions we could as people and possible answers. We also discussed the importance of not asking for personal information, this linked with PC Rogers' internet safety lesson. 
 
Our journey started on the 9.30 train from Fernhill, whilst on the train we met a very friendly elderly couple with a guide dog, some of us had a nap and the rest of us were just far too excited. Miss Harding was driving us nuts taking pictures to tweet to show our parents we were safe.


 
 
 
 
We had to get on another train at Cardiff Queen Street to take us to The Bay. Miss Harding was at it again 1,2,3...24,25 ok we'r all here lets go. As soon as we were there we set off exploring.
 
 
 
 
In the afternoon we made our way to Techniquest for a fun filled human body show. We also found some time to try out the other exhibits.