The NHS have arranged to vaccinate our children here in school on Thursday 14th October. Vaccinations are offered to all age ranges except Nursery children. Please make sure you complete and return the parental consent form to school by Monday 20th September.

Information for Parents and Children

 

 

We are looking forward to welcoming all the children back with us on Monday 6^th September when our Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 classes reopen. Our Nursery children will begin to start with us from Monday 13^th September.

For the first week back, our times and organisation for the beginning and end of the day have not changed. At the end of the day it is busy and quite crowded on our yards – as soon as you’ve collected everyone please don’t hang about and leave as quickly as you can. We would still encourage all visitors and adults to wear face masks whilst on the school grounds as it can be quite crowded at pick up times.

 

Here are the times again as a reminder:

Arrivals

08:45 Year 1 and Year 2 via the Nursery Gate

08:45 Years 3 & 4 via the Coychurch Road Gate / Years 5 & 6 via the Main Gate

09:00 Reception & Nursery via the Nursery Gate

 

 

Gates for Entry:

Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 via the Nursery Gate

Years 3 & 4 via the Coychurch Road Gate

Years 5 & 6 via the Main Gate

 

Departures

15:00 Full Time Nursery – Collect & Leave via the Nursery Gate

15:00 Reception – Enter via the Main Gate and leave through the Nursery Gate

15:00 Years 1 & 2 – Enter via the Main Gate and Leave through the Back Gate

 

15:15 Years 3 & 4 – Enter and leave via the Coychurch Road Gate

15:15 Years 5 & 6 – Enter via the Main Gate and leave through the Back Gate

 

 

 

During the first week, when it will be easier to make contact you, we will start to send out information about the changes we will need to make to bring the operation of the school back to how it was before the first lockdown in January 2020.

We anticipate being able to start our breakfast club from Monday 13^th September for children in our Reception to Year 6 classes.

The children had a great time on Friday with the Race4Life

The Pencoed Swimming Pool car park will be open from Monday to provide additional parking at the beginning and end of the school day. We hope this might help reduce congestion on Coychurch Road. There is a good safe footpath/cycle path from this car park to our school past the play park.

This car park will be open from 8am to 4pm every week day.

Please be aware that cars left after 4pm will be locked in.

We are very grateful to Halo Leisure who have kindly allowed us to use their car parking facility.

Our questionnaire for Breakfast Club provision can be accessed using the link below:

 

https://forms.gle/Mz2b2nJA8hriRZug6

 

Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the UKs first lockdown because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It will also be a Marie Curie National Day of Reflection and this is a charity that has been very much supported by Croesty Primary School in the past and particularly by a former Chair of Governors Cllr. Ken King. Today the charity looks after people who are very unwell and who unfortunately will not get better.

The Charity is named after Marie Curie the Polish scientist who was a trail blazer in the study of radio activity.  Marie Curie became the first woman professor of Paris University and from the very beginning she could see through her science investigations that her discoveries could be used to help others.

Today we see how her work has impacted on modern medical science as we use radio activity in X-rays and to control and destroy cancers.

The symbol of the Marie Curie Charity is the daffodil – and you’ll see plenty of these on our school grounds at the moment. You’ll also notice them around a plaque and growing under a tree at the front of our building. The plaque commemorates the fund raising efforts of Cllr King and Croesty Primary School for Marie Curie and the tree was planted by Cllr King and the children in 1995.

 

We received some very sad news this weekend with the death of  Mrs Sue Taylor. Sue was one of the longest serving memebrs of staff here at Croesty Primary School. Starting as a lunchtime supervisor in March 1977, Sue stayed with the role right up until July 2011. Over  thirty four years Sue helped to look after thousands of children here at Croesty. So many who will now be adults will have some very fond memories  of Sue and their lunchtime plays because of her work and that of others in her team. Sue loved working with the children and was always full of fun and enthusiasm. Our thoughts are with Sue's family and friends - she will be greatly missed.

Croesty Primary School reopens for all children once again on Monday 15th March. We've changed some of the organisation for arrivals at the beginning of the day and departures at the end. We are doing our best to maintain good social distancing for everyone and reduce waiting times too if we can. We will be about on the first few days to make sure everyone knows how best to get on and off the site. We'll also be looking for ways to improve the organisation and make things safer for everyone.

Our Foundation Phase parents have been amazing with social distancing in the mornings and afternoons and everyone has left the grounds in under five minutes at the end of each school day which is really impressive.

Make sure you've downloaded the schoolapp to your mobile phones so we can contact you easily and quickly. We are hoping that we don't have to close any of our classes because of COVID-19 and we're confident that everyone in our school community are working together to do everything we can to reduce the risks.

We know these are difficult times and some of our families will be struggling financially because of the impact this pandemic has had on people working. We are encouraging all of our children to wear their school uniforms but if your child has grown out of their uniform since they wore it last and buying new uniform is going to be a challenge don't worry. So long as your child is wearing comfortable appropriate clothes and shoes we won't be asking questions for the rest of this school year. 

We have now had confirmation that all KS2 (Junior) children will be returning to school for face to face learning on Monday 15th March 2021. Please check your emails and the SchoolApp regularly for further information.