Our Eco Team managed a very good collection of clothes for recycling this November. The total weight of clothes came to 194kg making £97 for the school but also the collection will help out others less fortunate and reduce waste in our world. Well done everyone for a job well done!

We are all ready for Diwrnod Shw Mae at Croesty with a fantastic range of costumes for the fashion show this afternoon. Unfortunately 'does dim llais gan Bronwen heddiw!' Bronwen hasn't joined us today because she has lost her voice. Bronwen will come and join us for the workshops in November.

Thank you for all of your donations of cans, dried and packed food for the Bridgend Foodbank. We will be organising for your donations to be collected later this week.

We have also completed some fundraising as part of our maths week. During the week the children in all of our classes designed maths games and on Friday 4th October we had a Great  Maths Games Day in our hall where the children charged each other to play their maths games. It was a fantastic noisy event which raised £245.45. We will now arrange for some of our children to do a FairTrade shop at the Coop using this money to buy more food for the Foodbank.

It's with great sadness that we have to say a final farewell to Ken King former Chair of Governors for Croesty Primary School. Mr King passed away recently at the Princess of Wales Hospital and will be fondly remembered I'm sure by a great many people who have had a connection to Croesty Primary School since its opening in June 1970. Ken completed an astonishing 38 years unbroken service as a Governor and Chair of Governors for our School. In this time Mr King presided over many changes and some difficult times. As a school community we will always remember him for the tremendous contribution that he made to the success of Croesty.

Mr King finally retired as a governor in July 2012 but continued to visit  taking a strong interest in our school. He last visited us this July for our Summer Fete which he very much enjoyed. A highlight of this visit for Mr King was meeting  our new Chair of Governors, William Bond.

Our thoughts and sympathy are now with Mr King's wife, his two daughters and the family.

 

Our Educational Welfare Officer is with us this week monitoring lateness in the mornings with the 'Late at the Gate' programme.

Please remember that all children should be in school and lined up ready for class by 08:55 and our gates should be closed at 09:00.

We have seen a big drop in attendance at Croesty over the last school year and we really want to encourage families not to take holidays out during term time if at all possible. As a school we've been penalized  for opening during our day of snow last year. Pupil attendance on that day was very low and this has had an impact on our overall attendance which wouldn't have happened had we closed for a snow day.

As part of this Year's Active Travel Programme we'll be having a cycle to school week between 23rd and 27th September when we'll be encouraging all of our children to have an active journey to school and we'll be submitting our number of cyclists for a National Sustrans Data Collection. If you're cycling please remember to wear your helmet to keep you safe.

We've already made a fantastic start this year with fifteen children achieving the National Cycle Safety Award to at least Level 1.

Well done children!

100%

This year ten children have achieved 100%* in their attendance which is a fantastic achievement. They are:

Harrison and Leo in Year 3

Aled and Freya in Year 4

Caitlin, Isabel, Arlo and Ieuan in Year 5

Tomos and Adele in Year 6

 

99% to 99.9%

 

We have had lots of children gaining 99% attendance and we’re very proud of you.

 

Reception: Fraser

Year 1: Dominic, Grace and Amber

Year 2: Chloe and Zac

Year 3: Monty, Menna, Thomas and Willow

Year 4: Morgan, William, Katie, Chloe, Huw and Holly

Year 5: Summer

Any one of our children who gained 97% or more has done really well and has reached our school target.

 

*Attendance measured from 1^st September 2018 to 5^th July 2019