Every Minute Counts

Lateness = Lost Learning

(Figures below are calculated

over a school year)

5 minutes late

each day

3 days lost

10 minutes late

each day

6.5 days lost

15 minutes late

each day

10 days lost

20 minutes late

each day

13 days lost

30 minutes late

each day

19 days lost

Please work with us to provide your child

with the best chances of learning by ensuring

they are in school, every day and on time.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Concerns regarding lateness ~ As a

school we are concerned about a

number of children who are arriving

late to school every day. Lateness

has a very negative impact on your

child’s learning as well as disrupting

the learning of other children in the

class. Mr Simon Jones, our

education welfare officer, is

currently monitoring ‘lateness’,

children must arrive for registration

at 8:50 am, lessons begin at 9 am.

Children who arrive late must report

to their teacher and their reason

for their lateness will be recorded.

Children who arrive after 9.15am

are recorded as an unauthorised

absence. The amount of time lost

through their lateness is recorded in

the register.

Year 4 News ~ This week in Year 4 we have re-created a skeleton with black

bin bags and masking tape. We used the bag

to represent the human

body and the tape to

locate and represent our

bones. We are enjoying

watching Pod DVD’s in

Welsh and then

completing activities on

the new vocabulary that we have learnt, this week the main

characters Ffion and Crad were ‘yn y parc’. We have been working

with fractions and remainders in maths and enjoyed learning about

how Harvest is celebrated across the world after thanking God for

our Harvest during our concert.

Year 6 News ~ Last week, the children competed in their

first Costain league matches in netball and rugby. The boys

played extremely well, led by Captain Lewis R. There were

outstanding performances from many boys who have never

played rugby before. They all demonstrated great

determination and perseverance and were a credit to our

school; well done boys!

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The girls won their first netball match with some great shooting from Emma and Martha

led by their captain Bethany McI; what a great start! In class, we have continued to find

out more about the Tudors by using our Numeracy skills to answer questions about a Tudor

time line. We have also carried out our first peer teaching activity which was great fun

and a really interesting way to learn. This week,

we have been revising multiplication and using

multiplication to solve problems involving Roman

Numerals. In English, we have written non-

chronological reports about Henry VIII. These

have formed part of our Tudor display in class.

Year 1 News ~ This week we have been working hard to learn

our Harvest song, 'In My Trolley.' The song is about all the

things we are fortunate to have in our supermarkets and even

more fortunate to be able to put in our trolley and take home to

our cupboards. We talked about all the

foods in our song and if we liked eating

them. We put pictures of the food

onto the interactive whiteboard and learned the Welsh words for

them. We have enjoyed looking at all the Autumn things that the

children have collected and have been busy sorting and counting

them in our Autumn tuff spot.

Nursery News ~ This week in the Nursery we have had lots of fun starting to learn about

Autumn. We enjoyed performing our songs in our harvest assembly.

We sang ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’ and ‘Under the Harvest Moon’.

We enjoyed singing together on the stage and joining in with the

actions.

We have enjoyed talking about the signs of Autumn and colouring and

painting Autumn pictures. We are looking forward to visiting the park

next week to collect lots of Autumn objects. As the weather is

getting colder, we made healthy vegetable soup this week. We helped

to cut carrots, potatoes, swede and onions and add them to our soup.

We especially enjoyed tasting the different vegetables in our soup.

Bilingualism ~ This year as part of our continued drive to improve and maintain standards

in Baglan Primary School, we are looking at the development of Welsh and bilingualism;

dwyieithrwydd. As part of this the children will be:

• discussing the weather;

• using Welsh commands in and around the school;

• using Welsh in as many different subject areas where appropriate;

• encouraged to use Welsh in the dining hall, playground and when sending messages;

• rewarded for their use of Welsh with bilingual certifcates;

• be able to attend the Welsh clubs Urdd (different age groups at different times

throughout the year).

Shining Stars

Ser Disglair

Mrs Davies ~

Nursery

Lily F ~ for her excellent singing in our Harvest assembly.

Olivia Jayne L ~ for creating a beautiful Autumn picture.

Mrs Challenger ~

Reception

Lily May J and Summer M ~ for their super singing in our Harvest

assembly.

Mr Atkins ~

Dosbarth 1

Lacey C ~ for trying really hard to sound out her letters, excellent.

Macsen W ~ for setting an excellent example of how to behave in

class.

Miss Morgan ~

Dosbarth 2

Harri P ~ for his confident and excellent work in mathematics.

Reuben D ~ for always knowing important information and words when

we have class discussions.

Mrs Roosmalen ~

Dosbarth 3

Florri D ~ for her excellent work on the ipad using the ‘poplet’ app.

Grace T ~ for the fabulous information collected about Vincent Van

Goch.

Miss Griffiths ~

Dosbarth 4

Holly E ~ for singing so well in our Harvest assembly and working

hard to complete work during all lessons this week, da iawn.

Will H ~ for working hard in maths this week and for trying his best

even when he finds something difficult, dal ati.

Mrs Giles ~

Dosbarth 5

Poppie R and Shannon O’C ~ for their excellent gymnastic sequence in

PE.

Mrs Smart ~

Dosbarth 6

Elinor K ~ for her positive attitude and being helpful.

Aimee P ~ for her excellent non chronological report, fantastic.

Let’s Grow ~ This year, once again we are collecting ‘Morrisons’

Let’s Grow Vouchers. The vouchers will enable us to receive

equipment that will allow us to continue to plant our own

flowers, fruit and vegetables. The more vouchers we collect,

the more equipment we will receive. Please could you help us

by asking all your friends and family to collect vouchers for us

too! The vouchers are available until 26th October 2014.

Thank you very much, the School Eco- Council.

Dates for the Diary:

16.10.14 PTA School Disco

27.10.14 ~ 31.10.14 Half Term Holidays

03.11.14 INSET: School closed to pupils

10.11.14 Parental Consultation Evening