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Happy New Year from the editors! This is our newsletter for January 2020 edition, we hope you like it,

thank you. Diary Dates

14th January – 3:15pm Parent Forum 16th January – opening evening @Brecon High School – 6 -8pm 20th – 23rd January - Year 6 Cycling Proficiency 30th January – PC Skyrme to visit Y3 and Y6 6th February – Y5 song writing workshop 11th February – Y2 class trip to Techniquest 14th February – HALF TERM

Committee News The next “Shout it out Friday” event will be

on Friday 17th January. Look out for news

from each committee in next February’s

newsletter.

House News Last term there was a special prize for the

House who won the most house points at the end of term.

The winning house was Dewi and on the last day of term they were treated to a cup of hot

chocolate with Mrs Lawrence!

Playground Buddies Year 5 spent all last term completing 3 Workshops, and lots of different activities, to train to become a Playground Buddy. The Playground Buddies encourage children to be good role models and play an important part in creating a safe, friendly, happy and peaceful atmosphere for children during playtimes and lunchtime. It also gives them some feeling of responsibility. Not only do they help to make the playground a happy place for all the children, they also offer great help to the staff on duty at lunch.

Clubs Clubs will start running from Monday 13th January

Monday - Needlework (Years 3-6) 3:15-4:15pm Homework Club (Years 3-6) 3:15-4:15pm Tuesday – Kiddy Cook 3:15-4:15pm starting on January 23rd initially for Reception - Year 2 and after half term Years 3 – 6. This club will only run for pupils who have already signed up. Wednesday – Running Club (Years 3- 6) 8:30am Netball (Year 5 and 6) 3:15-4:15pm Friday – Little Cwtch Dance Club (Reception to Year 2) 4 – 4:45pm

Little Stars are going to be learning all about

colours and numbers this term.

Little Steps are going to be learning nursery

rhymes and finding out about bears.

The Reception Class are very excited about their

topic this term which is called “Bears of all

sorts.”

Year 1 Their topic this term is called “Amazing

Animals” and they are going to have a visit from the vets very soon!

Year 6 Year 6 have been really busy this week already! They have written balanced

reports about Homework and finished the topic by holding a debate about whether

we should have homework or not. What do you think? Their topic this term is “Read all about it!” and they started the term with a

WOW day involving books, poems a quiz and a book scavenger hunt along with the

rest of KS2. It was great fun!

Year 2

Year 2 have a new topic for the

term called “Space rocks” and

they are going to learn all about

the solar system. They have lots

of new areas in their classroom

like a space rocket and a solar

system. They also have a Space

Station are going to Techniquest

for their WOW day.

Year 3 Year 3 are learning about the Australia, we look forward to listening to what they have to say about the country.

Year 4 Year 4 are planning on becoming authors for the term and they are going to make production stories. After their EPIC planning session, they have decided to design build a treehouse for Gardd Tawel. We can’t wait!

Year 5

Year 5 are doing their one page

profiles and have been doing

fractions and decimals in

Maths. They have started to

write their own legends.

Scarecrow’s Wedding Theatre Trip – Years 2-4

Last term Years 2, 3 and 4 were very fortunate to receive the “Go and See” grant from the Arts

Council Wales to go and watch the production of “The Scarecrow’s Wedding” by Scamp

Theatre, in Theater Brycheiniog. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful music and

interesting storytelling. We are very grateful to the Arts Council Wales for giving us the

opportunity to watch this live production at the theatre.

Our ELSA room is available for pupils to use

during lunch time if they are finding the break

difficult. It is manned by a fully trained ELSA

(Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) staff who

can help work out solutions to problems, or just

be there for a chat.

Break times Outdoors! We love playing on the field and in the

wooded area outside, even when it is

raining. This can mean that sometimes we

get a bit muddy.

If you have any

spare wellies or old

shoes, please bring

them in and leave

them in school for

pupils to change into

so that they are not

getting their school shoes dirty.

Llanfaes School Rocks, Swap Shop

The School Council launched The Revolve Project before Christmas. It is an exciting opportunity for schools to make a change in Wales. The Children’s Commissioner is asking

schools to think about how they could encourage more children to reuse their school uniforms by setting up a uniform shop in their school. Thank you very much for all the donations

received before the Christmas holidays. If you have any other items please send them into school.

With so many bugs around at this time of year, here are some guidleines for when your child should return to school after an illness.