Every year we support the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal and we are proud to support the Armed Forced Community past and present.

Some of our Reception children made some paintings of poppies to remember the fallen and we had a minute's silence  at 11 o'clock on 11-11-2021

SCHOOL MEALS & BREAKFAST CLUB

Due to the staffing instability within the Bridgend School Meals team hot meals can no longer be provided for children at Croesty Primary School for the short term. This situation is likely to continue until at least Monday 29^th November.

Packed lunches will be provided for all children with Fee School Meals entitlement. These can also be ordered for your child as an alternative to a lunch at school. If you pay for school meals and opt for the school packed lunch you will be charged from your account for these. If you opt to do your own packed lunches the balance on your child’s dinner account will remain.

Everyone wishing to have a packed lunch from the Kitchen Services must complete and return the School Packed Lunch Pre-Order Form. New laws require a form to be completed for every child intending to have a packed lunch in school. The form clearly outlines exactly what is in a packed lunch for primary school children. These forms will need to be with us tomorrow please, if you want your child to have a packed lunch from school.

Breakfast Club

All Breakfast Clubs are managed and staffed by the Kitchen Services Team. Unfortunately, this service cannot be provided tomorrow and for the rest of this week. Kitchen Services will review this situation on Monday next week and the school will provide you with updates as soon as we receive them.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Kind regards

Mr M. Kaye

Head Teacher

Our Parent/ Teacher Consultations will be by telephone this year and you will be able to book your ten minute consultation with us on line the week after half term. Please find below the timetable of consultations for our different classes.

 Dear Parents

Please find the link to our online image consent form below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuHM8XnzW9srX2Kvvt2aOQWS5QwCi2Q2VQozPQjkgW2zbBNg/viewform?usp=sf_link

This is a very special year for the Urdd as the organisation celebrates its centenary in 2022. You can join the Urdd online with individual membership £10, family membership £25 (3 children or more) and £1 for children eligible for free school meals.

A vast range of activities and opportunities for children and young people aged 8-25 will be available for members this year.

Here is a link to the Urdd website to find out more:

https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urdd.cymru%2Fjoin&data=04%7C01%7CMarilyn.Cullinan%40croestyps.bridgend.cymru%7Cb8471751dadd4ba4284f08d97365c7f1%7C4f3f0e52b734416494091b601d147993%7C0%7C0%7C637667703243717920%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=gBTNbnH%2BqhRNBqoBQP6cuMfHW581f%2Fw8reu3%2BtvFC8s%3D&reserved=0

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.