Newsletter

Sep- Oct 2019

Mrs Haggett

Together We’ll Make A Difference!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

What a busy first half term we

have had here at Craig Yr Hesg!

Since returning from the six

weeks holiday the senior

leadership team have been busy

undertaking lesson observations,

learning walks and pupil voice

interviews in Literacy, Maths

and Digital Competency

Framework with the Challenge

Advisors from Central South

Consortium and I am pleased to

tell you standards are good and

excellent.

The pupils have elected their

new School, Eco School and Criw

Cymraeg councillors and they

have been doing an unbelievable

job and I am sure you have

received a number of their

letters informing you of their

plans.

We have also had home to

school teacher meetings,

Harvest assemblies and so much

more I hope you enjoy reading

this newsletter and have an

amazing half term.

Mrs Haggett x

The Percentage of parents who

attended home-school meetings

with teachers was 68%

If you missed out and would like a

meeting please see your child’s

teacher.

As part of our attendance monitoring, we will now be issuing FPN

(Fixed Penalty Notices) warnings for children with 10 or more

unauthorised absences during a half term.

This is part of our drive to improve attendance in Craig Yr Hesg

Primary School.

What does this mean to you and how does it work?

If your child is off school for 10 days or more without a valid reason

or has 10 late marks after the register closes at 9:30am (during a

half term), the school will refer to the Attendance and Wellbeing

Service.

You will then be given a 3 week monitoring period to improve your

child’s attendance, if you fail to do so, you will be issued with an

Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN). If your child’s attendance improves you

are withdrawn from the monitoring process. Please note you can be

referred as many times as necessary during a school year!

School Lunch £2.50 per day or

£12.50 a week. This MUST be on

a Monday or Friday to the office.

This is an RCT policy any late

payments will be chased up by

the Local Authority. A text

message reminder will be sent.

A huge thank you to all of the

Friends of Craig Yr Hesg and all

the volunteers for their hard

work this term.

The Friends of CYH have

organised our Halloween Disco

and sorted out all the raffle

prizes.

A massive thank you also goes to

our volunteers who read and

help with sports club each week

with our pupils.

Special Mentions go to: Derek,

Dilys, Josie, Carly, Sophie,

Tiffany, Doug,

If you interested in this please

speak to Mrs Haggett.

Could all children please wear

school uniform everyday please!

If you are struggling to provide

one for your child please speak

to a member of staff.

Our Catering Direct run

breakfast club times are:

Opening times 8:10am

Closing times 8:30am The club remains free of

charge.

Please ensure you are checking out the school

website. Letters we have sent out including

dates for events will all be posted there

alongside any class information. Check it out

at www.fernfederation.co.uk

This autumn term the School Council have

decided to raise funds to support 2 charities.

These were:

Children in Need and

The British Legion.

The children will be able to purchase a wide

variety of Poppy Appeal objects after the half

term, including zip pulls 50p, Reflectors 50p,

Wristbands £1, Snap bands £1, Drinks Bottles

£1.50, Sharpeners, pencils and erasers all 50p

each. Children, staff, community members and

parents can also purchase a poppy for a

donation of your choice.

Further details re Children in Need to follow

from the school council.

Thank you to everyone who attended our Harvest Assemblies on Monday 21 October and Tuesday 22

October 2019, we hope you enjoyed it! Please check out the website to see all the photographs.

The children were as amazing as usual and the singing was spectacular and was a good warm up for

our Christmas Concerts.

Craig Yr Hesg are the BEST!

Date: We return to School on Monday 4th November 2019

HEALTHY SNACKS: Remember after half term children should only be bringing in

Fruit, vegetables, yoghurts and water for snack

PE KIT: Remember after half term children should only be wearing a plain white t shirt

and plain dark tracksuit bottoms or shorts for PE.

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS KS2: Christmas Concert drama club Wednesday first week back

Sign Language : 19th November: Parents, Children and community

Date: November 12th School photograph day – individuals and siblings

Class Teifi – Miss. Andrews

During the autumn term, we have been working extremely hard on our topic: ‘Espana’. We

have had so much fun with this topic so far and are thoroughly enjoying learning Spanish with

Pontypridd High School. We have looked at maps of Spain and Wales and made comparisons.

We have also looked at the difference between the temperatures and rainfall in Spain

compared to Wales.

We have even planned a holiday to Spain with a given budget

(I wonder if Mrs Haggett will let us go?)

Visit our class page on the school website by scanning this QR code!

In literacy, we have explored travel

brochures and script writing for weather reports. We have

created our own travel brochures to persuade people to go

to Spain (not that we need much persuading). We have loved

finding out lots of facts about Spain! We have also created

our own weather reports on Spain after watching and

evaluating how the professionals do it!

In Mathematics, we have enjoyed looking at many

different types of problems. This half term we have been

using our skills of perimeter to help Anthony design new

bins for our classroom! We have also been inputting data

into HWB and creating graphs. In Science, we have used

our maths skills to work on Air Resistance and which we

used to design our own helicopters! (Phew!)

We have had a fabulous, amazing and exciting start to

Autumn term and cannot wait to see what is in store for us next half term!

Class Teifi you are the BEST!

Class Cynon- Miss Wookey and Jackie

It’s been a wonderful half term in reception and we have been loving our topic “Marvellous

creations and celebrations”. We have been learning all about Harvest and the story of the

Little Red Hen. We found out that her friends were not being very kind to her so we sorted

pictures of what being a good friend looks like and this has transpired in to our classroom;

where we are all kind friends.

We also received a video ‘Skype’ call from the Little Red Hen asking us to help her harvest

vegetables! We used our amazing counting skills to count all the things we had harvested.

The Little Red Hen was soon calling us again as she needed our help to structure her

instructions to make bread! We worked so hard working collaboratively to put the

instructions in the correct order and then we followed them to make our own bread to make

sure they were right.

Finally we started to learn about celebrations in different cultures and acted out the story

of Rama and Sita for Diwali. Everyone has settled in Reception really well and we are looking

forward to continuing our learning next half term.

Ardderchog Cynon!

Dosbarth Tywi

This half term we have been enjoying our topic “Globe Trotters” we have been finding out

about the weather and climates all around the world. Using atlases, we have enjoyed learning

about the different continents, climates and oceans. At the start of the topic we used our

pupil voice to lead our learning. A strong consensus from the class was to find out about the

Rugby World cup. We started this by locating on a world map all the countries taking part.

After this we decided to calculate the distance each team had to travel to get to Japan.

In P.E the class have been working hard to compose and perform their own version of the

Famous Haka

.

We have also enjoyed this half term learning about space as part of this topic. We

have looked closely at the sun, we have created databases to learn more about the different

planets in our solar system and over half term we are designing and making moon buggies we

would like to create to send to the moon to help us learn more about the planet.

This last week we have been looking closely at Typoon Hagibis, children have enjoyed

finding out about what it was like to live through this natural disaster. We looked closely

about the geographical causes of this storm forming and we used what we learnt to write a

first person account of the life of the people in Japan who lived through this natural

disaster.

We have had a very bust half term and I am looking forward to continuing with this

topic next half term. Well done Dosbarth Twyi. Have a brilliant half term, and enjoy a well

deserved break.

Scan the QR code below to

watch one of our dances we

created by Charlie, Tyler and

Chadd

Dosbarth Rhymney – Miss Lewis

Wow! What an incredible first half term we’ve had in Year 3 / 4!

During the first few weeks in September, we worked collaboratively to establish our groups

and classrooms, as we got to know more about each other and our teacher. We decided upon

our class rules, as well as elected School/Eco Council members, and found roles and

responsibilities for every member of our class.

In Literacy we have been working on developing our oracy and writing skills. We started by

writing a piece all about ourselves, then we explored directions, and have ended the half

term enjoying shape poetry. Our class have become great detectives spotting onomatopoeia,

alliteration, time connectives and bossy verbs! During Maths we have explored the four rules

of number, measurements of length, money and temperature. As a class we have focussed on

consolidating and developing our times table knowledge.

Our afternoons have been just as fun and busy as our mornings. We had a mysterious

suitcase left in our class, we emailed the owner who said they had come to Wales from Spain

to find out more about Cardiff. So, naturally, we got busy and researched all about Cardiff

to make a fact sheet for them…I wonder what they will be able to tell us about Spain?!?

During PE we have perfected Jac Y Do, and compared it to a traditional Spanish Flamenco

dance. In Welsh we have focused upon the weather, and what activities we can do in each.

Our Welsh skills have astounded Miss Lewis so much that she’s inviting her friend Marc

Griffiths in to do a radio show where we can read out our Welsh poems! In our Science

sessions, we’ve perfected the perfect prediction, and have conducted our first full

investigation into air resistance and the size of helicopter blades. Finally, in RE we have

focused upon different celebrations, which ended with a fantastic performance in our

Harvest assembly.

Llongyfarchiadau Blwyddyn 3 a 4! You have been outstanding this half term and made Miss

Lewis exceptionally proud!! A big thank you to everyone…children, parents, families, school

volunteers and staff, who have made this half term so enjoyable. Miss Lewis is looking

forward to seeing you all back in November!