Thank you!

A huge thank you to our PTA for a fantastic Christmas Fayre! Lots of lovely stalls, activities and goodies to buy! A huge thank you to all who came to support our school. It is greatly appreciated!

Now the Christmas Concerts are approaching the children are very busy learning their lines and songs! Don't forget to buy your tickets for your child's performance.

PTA Christmas Fayre tomorrow!

Pontyclun Primary School PTA Christmas Fayre is tomorrow in main hall from 2.00-5.00pm. All welcome.
We have a selection of specialist stalls, from jewellery to vintage candles, children’s gifts to handbags as well as our old PTA favourites, tombola, homemade cakes, catch a cracker, chocolate challenge, and stocking fillers.
Please come and join us for a mince pie and mulled wine while doing a bit of Christmas shopping.
The school choir and the Welsh Country Dancers are performing from 3pm and the Llantrisant Community Band from 4.00pm.
We are also looking for donations of cakes, alcohol (for the ‘boggan of booze’) sweet mugs, tins or chocolate donations. Could you please bring any donations to school in the morning.
Thank you and look forward to seeing you all there.

Dates for your diary

Dates for your diary
KS2 Christmas Concert tickets go on sale - 24th November.  
Grandparents free (2 per family) ( Grandparent concert only)
Parents £2 each. 2 per family.

KS2 concert ticket resale- 4th December ( 3 ticket maximum)

Foundation Phase Concert tickets on sale- Monday 1st December.
Grandparents free (2 per family) ( Grandparent concert only)
Parents £2 each. 2 per family.

Foundation Phase concert ticket resale- 10th December ( 3 ticket maximum)

Reception Christmas Trip- Friday 5th December 

KS2 Christmas concert- Monday 8th December
Grandparents only performance - 9.30am
Parents performance - 1.30pm

KS2 Christmas Concert- Tuesday 9th December
Parents performance- 1.30pm

School Christmas Dinner- Wednesday 10th December (to be paid by Monday 8th December £2.25)

Years 1-6 Pantomime Trip - Thursday 11th December

Foundation Phase Christmas concert- Monday 15th December
Early Years Grandparents Performance - 9.30am
Year 1 & 2 Grandparents Performance 1.30pm

Foundation Phase Christmas Concert - Tuesday 16th December
Parents Performance - 9.30am
Parents Performance - 1.30pm

Foundation Phase Christmas Concert - Wednesday 17th December
Parents Performance - 9.30am
Parents Performance - 1.30pm

Christmas Parties - Thursday 18th December

Toy Day/ End of Term - Friday 19th December 

NEWSLETTER 21ST November 2014

Apologies for the lack of news on this blog recently. We have had some difficulties with this in the last half term but thankfully it has been fixed! We will be updating this regularly and informing parents of any latest news and also the newsletter will be show on here.

To also find out regular updates please follow us on twitter @pontyclunpri

Children In Need

Thank you very much to all the pupils and parents who helped make our Children In Need day such a success. We are very proud to have raised £1,172 for Children In Need

Dates for your diary

Monday January 5th is an INSET day for teachers and the school opens for the Spring Term to pupils on Tuesday January 6th 2015. We apologise for any confusion this might have caused.

Attendance

The local authority is continuing to monitor our school attendance and every year provide us with a target to achieve. This year the target is 96.1%. Please would parents continue to support the school in achieving these targets. We will be informing parents of attendance figures fortnightly from now on. 

Strike Action

Dear Parents,

Due to members of Unison, GMB and the NUT undertaking industrial action on Thursday July 10^th 2014 we will be closed to pupils on that day.

School will be open for pupils on Friday July 11^th.

For Year 6 pupils transferring to Y Pant, the transition day will now be Friday July 11^th from 8.30am-11.30am. Pupils are to make their way to Y Pant for an 8.30am start. Pupils will then be brought back to Pontyclun Primary for the remainder of the day.

Pupils in years Nursery to year 5 will spend the morning of July 11^th meeting with their new class teacher. We are looking at making two new teaching appointments for September 2014 and the interviews will take place on Wednesday July 9^th. Parents will be informed of the classes for next year on Wednesdays July 9^th.

Next Week at a glance

Monday

·         Year 6 prom 18.00-21.00

Tuesday;       

·         Year 6 Parents evening at Y Pant

·         Year 6 musicians to visit Y Pant (During the school day)

·         Foundation Phase fun day (Please could pupils wear t shirts, shorts, trainers,  etc. sun cream if required)

·         Cluster swimming gala for KS2 swimming team  

Wednesday

·         Year’s 2,3,4,5 and 6 sports day (Please could pupils wear house t shirts or white t shirts and sun cream if required) Parents are very welcome to attend at the school sports field next to the memorial. Start time 1.15pm

Thursday

• School closed due to strike action

Friday

• Year 6 Visit Y Pant transition day
• Nursery parents 2014-15 to visit school
• All pupils visit new classes/teachers for academic year 2014-15

Junior trip  - Unfortunately, due to transport difficulties we are not going to be able to run a junior trip this year.  

Yours faithfully,

H.Roberts

Head Teacher.

We are just leaving Liddington Bay now, children have had a fantastic time and behaved impeccably

Liddington Bay

Dear parents,

after a thoroughly enjoyable three days, the children are expected to leave Liddington Bay at 12.30 today, therefore they expect to be back at the Library Entrance to the school at 14.30.