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

Eco Schools Status and Supporting Future School Events

The school has gained three Eco Schools Flags and we are now gearing up to achieve the fourth and final Platinum Award during the next academic year. We held an exhibition to celebrate and chart our journey so far on the 19th of June during our Open Classroom Evening and we were really pleased that so many of you came along to have a look. However, our work in this area is not just about getting flags and awards; more we want to change to the habits and mindset so that our children can grow up and enjoy all the things that we have enjoyed about this our fantastic world. Last year for the first time 40% of the human race used more of the world's resources than can ever be replaced. We are facing a global animal extinction event which has lead David Attenborough to describe humanity as a plague on the Earth. We've heard so much about plastic pollution but let's not forget that our thirst for energy is causing changes to our climate which will have a detrimental impact on world food production. How much food do we all throw away each week? Scientists across the world think we really are reaching a tipping point and if we don't start to Respect our world our disrespectful activities will make these changes irreversible. We can however, make some changes if we all come together and do our bit.

This is sports day and fete season. We'll be providing refreshments but from now on please bring your own cups, mugs and bottles. Please don't drop any litter - please take it home with you and recycle it.

Our Bag2School collecion made a fantastic £72.00. Thank you to everyone who brought in a bag - not only have we made some money for our school but you've also done a little bit more to protect our environment. Remember, when you reduce, reuse and recyle you help to keep our world safe!

Croesty Primary School remained open today but despite this our children still managed to get some fun from playing in the snow. We went onto our field to avoid any slips on hard surfaces and made some giant snowmen. If was great to see the children working together; some of them had never made snowmen before and so they learnt how to roll and shape the snow for the first time.

Our Choir took part in a very special concert this evening along side the choirs from seventeen other local schools and the wonderful African Children's Choir from Uganda. As part of the 'JUST AS I AM' Hymns Tour the combined choirs wowed a packed St David's Hall.

We'd like to pass on our congratulations to all of our singers and a very big thanks to Mrs Emma John our choir leader who has been working so hard with our children and who has enabled them to take part in such exciting events. We also like to thank Mrs Spratt, Mrs Rogers and Mrs Brisley who've helped out with all of our events this year.

Finally we hope that this evening's concert has been successful in raising money for the orphans of Uganda - the performance of the African Choir this evening was truly inspirational! 

We had a very good turnout of thirty six parents and grandparents for our Learning Share Event in Year 4 this afternoon. To start the event off the children performed some of their play scripts. The children then shared their learning related to the topic on Medieval Life and castles and parents were able to see the children’s model making with salt dough, weaving, stained glass windows and paintings of castles. Finally the children staged a puppet show for parents in our school library.

Please go to Year 4's Class Area for further photographs of today's events