📚 Weekly Attendance Update 📚

Thank you to all our pupils and families for your continued support with school attendance this week. 

📊 This Week’s Attendance: 93.41%

While we are just below our school target of 95% this week, every day of attendance makes a difference. 🌟 Regular attendance gives children the opportunity to learn, make progress, spend time with their friends and fully take part in school life.

👏 A big thank you to everyone who has helped their child attend school regularly this week.

🌟 Let’s work together to get back above 95% next week! 🌟

Everyday counts, and together we can make a difference! 💪📚✨

Celebration Assembly

This week’s Celebration Assembly was a particularly special one, as it was the first assembly led by our newly elected First Ministers! Having been voted for by their peers last week, they took on the responsibility of planning and running the assembly, demonstrating fantastic leadership, confidence and enthusiasm throughout.

🌟 Stars of the Week
We celebrated pupils who have gone above and beyond—whether through hard work, positive attitudes, resilience or fantastic progress. Their achievements truly brighten our school community, and we are incredibly proud of each and every one of them!

🏆 Class Attendance Award
A huge ‘Da iawn’ to Dosbarth Glas, who achieved the highest attendance this week, with an impressive 97.86%. Keep up the fantastic effort!

A huge Da iawn to our First Ministers for leading their first Celebration Assembly so confidently, and to all of our pupils for another fantastic week.

Da iawn pawb! 👏🌟

🔢 The Number Hub

On Friday 9th October at 9:00am in our School Hall, Miss Williams, who is leading Mathematics and Numeracy across our Taff Bargoed Partnership will be running our Number Hub information session for parents and carers of Nursery and D. Melyn children.

The aim of the session is to share a range of fun, practical games and activities that you can use at home to support your child’s mathematics and numeracy development. These activities will complement and build upon the work we do in school.

Mathematics and Numeracy are a key school development priority this academic year, and we are really keen to develop a strong partnership with families to support our children’s learning and progress at home.

We also hope that the session will help to take away some of the worry or stigma around Maths for adults and show that supporting your child’s mathematical development can be enjoyable, relaxed and easy to incorporate into everyday life.

The session will be very informal and relaxed, with no pressure at all. Once Miss Williams has introduced the activities, you will have the opportunity to explore and try them out at your own leisure.

You will also receive an information sheet to take home with ideas and activities to continue using with your child.

This session is specifically for parents and carers, so we kindly ask that children do not attend. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing some helpful information with you.

We would love to see as many of you as possible! 💚🔢

☕ Macmillan Coffee Morning 💚

A huge thank you to our wonderful school community for your incredible support of our Macmillan Coffee Morning! 💚

We’re delighted to share that, together, we raised an amazing £203.02 for such a wonderful and worthwhile cause. Every cup, cake and kind donation helped make the morning a great success.

A special thank you to Mrs Rees, Mrs Morgan and Mr Smith, who did a brilliant job serving up delicious cakes and treats to all of our classes. 🧁☕

And, of course, enormous thanks to our lovely school community for your generosity, kindness and continued support. It was wonderful to see everyone come together for such a special cause.

Diolch yn fawr iawn! 💚

🌟 Our Parent Council

We are excited to introduce our Parent Council — an opportunity for parents and carers to have a stronger voice in our school community and work in partnership with the school to help shape its future.

The Parent Council will provide a two-way forum for communication and collaboration between parents, carers and the school. It will give parents the opportunity to share their views, raise ideas and discuss matters that are important to families, while also helping the school understand the experiences and perspectives of our parent community.

🗣️ What will the Parent Council do?

The Parent Council will meet once each term with the Headteacher to:

• Share parents’ views, suggestions and ideas.
• Discuss aspects of school life that affect children and families.
• Provide feedback on proposed changes or developments.
• Raise issues or concerns on behalf of the wider parent community.
• Contribute ideas about how we can continue to improve our school.
• Help strengthen communication and relationships between home and school.
• Work collaboratively with the Headteacher and school staff to support positive outcomes for all pupils.

🤝 How will it work?

The Parent Council will consist of a group of parent/carer representatives who are willing to listen to the views of other families and bring these to the termly meetings.

The Parent Council is not a complaints forum and individual concerns about a child or member of staff should continue to be raised through the school’s usual channels. Instead, the council will focus on wider issues, ideas and improvements that benefit the whole school community.

We hope the Parent Council will create an open, respectful and positive space where parents and the school can work together, share ideas and have meaningful conversations.

💬 Your Voice Matters

We want our parents and carers to feel that their views are valued and that they have an opportunity to contribute to the life and development of our school.

Together, we can continue to make our school an even better place for our children to learn, grow and thrive. 🌟

We will be accepting donations of non-perishable items to pass on to Merthyr Foodbank.

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