Year 6 Abernant Raffle Winners

As part of our entrepreneurial initiative in Year 6, pupils organised a raffle in order to raise funds to pay for the coach. Prizes were donated by Mrs Linda Edwards, the children and Mrs Flanary-Davies.
The prize winners were as follows:-
1st Prize - Louise Haggerty
2nd Prize - Madison Bevan
3rd Prize - Rachel Matthews
4th Prize - Dylan Roblin
5th Prize - Dylan Owen
6th Prize -  Madison Bevan
7th Prize - Roxy
8th Prize J Casey

Prizez can be collected from Mrs Thomas in the School Office. Thank you very much for supportiung us in this initiative.

End of School term arrangements

School ends at the usual time tomorrow Friday 21st December. Pupils do not need to wear school uniform. We will be presenting certificates for 100% attendance for the term and for the Winter Challenge run by the Attendance and Welfare Service in a special end of term assembly tomorrow afternoon.
May I take this opportunity to thank you for on behalf of the staff for all the cards and presents that you have given us this year. They were very much appreciated.
School recommences for all pupils on Tuesday 8th January 2013. Breakfast Club will be open at 8.00 a.m. as usual. The staff will be undertaking training in Llanelli on Monday 7th January.
I hope that you and your families will enjoy a happy, peaceful Christmas and a prosperous new year and thank you for your continued support throughout the term.

e-news e-newyddion

This term we have published an addition to our information service in the form of our e- news magazine. It can ony be downloaded from the Moodle site and is read by using the Adobe Reader programme which is contained as a plug in on most P.C's or can be downloaded from ww.adobe.com. It features articles and images about what's happened during this busy half term. Click on this link to access the Moodle site and download the Binder1 pdf file and enjoy reading. If you would like a copy emailed to you please send an e-mail to head.gellipri@rctednet.net with the words request Autumn e-news in the subject box and it will be delivered to you as soon as possible.

Wednesday 19th December 2012

Pupils in Foundation Phase (Classes 1, 2, 3, 4) come dressed in Party clothes.

Thursday 20th December 2012
Pupils in Junior departmeent (Classes 5, 6, 7, 8) come dressed in Party clothes.

School uniform is not needed for the remainder of the term.

Toy arrangements.

Your child's class teacher will text you the times when Toys are to be brought into school. Please will you ensure that the ones that are brought in are appropriate and avoid any expensive gadets and breakable items as we cannot be held responsible for loos or damage.

Arrangements for the Junior Concert

Details of arrangements for the Junior Concert will be circulated by pupil post this afternoon. It can also be accessed from our Moodle site at https://rctmoodle.org/gellipri/index.php

This year we will be using Mount Zion chapel as the venue for our two Junior concerts. We are very grateful to the Elders and Pastor for allowing us to use the chapel and it will be fitting that the pupils will perform the Nativity Cantata – Away in a manger by Roger Jones. The dates and times of the performances are listed below. We are able to accommodate up to 230 people in the audience for each performance. The majority of the seats will be upstairs with the children singing from the pulpit and front pews. We will have limited seating available for those with mobility problems who may find climbing the stair to the gallery difficult. You will be allocated TWO tickets for each concert. Tickets will be available from the school secretary from Monday 10th December onwards. Any unsold tickets will be made available for general release from Friday morning. Tickets are priced at £2.00 each we will include a donation to the Chapel for the use of the facility and for heating the building,
Costumes
Mrs Johnson has asked all pupils to wear white shirts and trousers for the performance. Our intention is to create “a heavn’ly choir of angels” around the pulpit area. As you know we don’t ask parents to buy specific clothing for any school event and should you experience difficulty in obtaining white trousers then a pair of cream, light brown or grey trousers will do.
Babies, toddlers prams and pushchairs.
We will be unable to accommodate any babies or toddlers as there will be no room to them to sit on laps during the concert or for any prams, pushchairs and buggies. I do realsi that this may be inconvenient for some but every year I have a number of comments that babies and toddlers who become unsettled during the performance causes disruption. I would appreciate your co-oporation in this matter.
Pupils are expected to attend BOTH concerts and should be in the Chapel by 5.40 p.m. for the evening performance at the latest. Pupils will be expected to be collected from the Chapel unless you give prior consent for them to walk home.
Please complete the booking form and send to school with the correct money. Your tickets will be returned by your child at the end of each day

Newsletter 5 distributed today

A newsletter was distributed by pupil post today. If you did not receive one it can be accessed from the Moodle page at https://rctmoodle.org/gellipri/. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access it.

Addition to the Photo Album

Photographs of the visit to the Wales v Samoa game can be accessed by clicking on this link which takes you to our photo album. There's one of Mrs. Taylor with her former PE teacher and now BBC Wales Scrum V pitchside reporter Phill Steele.

Wales v Samoa

We made a big noise and waved our Gelli and Cymru banners last night when we visited the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff to see the Wales v Samoa rugby international. We also got ourselves on to the television as well. The pupils were wonderfully behaved and were a credit us. Thanks to the staff and parent volunteers for accompanying us. Shame about the result and the performance of the team.

Children in Need 2012

Today

Newsletter published today

A newsletter contatining information regarding our Annual Book Fair, Children in Need Day, Wales v Samoa game arrangements and dates for the end of term was distributed today. A copy of this can be accessed on our Moodle site.

Book Fair

We will be holding our annual book fair on Thursday 15^th and Friday 16^th November this year. We have invited the South Wales Travelling Book Company to visit the school. The book fair will be open from 3.00 p.m. Please come and browse around and make your selection. Further details can be found on the South Wales Travelling Book Company website at www.travellingbooks.co.uk

School Calendar updated

Dates for the upcoming half term have been updated on the School Calendar. This can be accessed either from this link or via the links on the school website and blog.

Visit to the Millennium Stadium to see Wales v Samoa

 

Here are the arrangements for our visit to the Wales v Samoa international at the Millennium Stadium on Friday 16^th November 2012.
1.      Please will you make sure your child is in school by 4.45 p.m.
2.      The coach will leave Gelli Primary at 5.00 p.m. as we anticipate some heavy traffic on entering the city centre.
3.      The coach will drop us off in the area where coaches are recommended to park by the police. The city centre areas are not open to traffic.
4.      We should arrive in plenty of time to walk to the ground before the game, which kicks off at 7.30 p.m.
5.      The game should finish at 9.15 and we will need to make our way to the coach park area outside the University buildings in Cathays Park.
6.      It will take some time to make our way out of Cardiff through the traffic but we should be back in Gelli between 10.30 and 11.00 p.m.

Other arrangements:-

1.      Food and drink

We are NOT able to take any bags or other items into the ground, so I suggest that your child has a good meal before leaving and that we take a small bottle of water and a few sandwiches to eat on the way back on the bus. Please can we make sure that any litter is brought back with them in their backpack. In addition please can we NOT take chocolate, sweets, crisps, pasties, yoghurts or fizzy drinks etc that will make a mess on the bus.

 

2.     Mobile phones

The children will be NOT NEED to take a mobile phones to contact you on the way home to update you on our time of arrival. 

I will use our Text to Parents facility to contact you when the bus will be in Porth which will give you about 10 minutes to make your way to school to pick your child up when the bus arrives.

Please make sure that Mrs Thomas has your current mobile number in our system.

3.     Payment Balance

Please will you arrange to pay the balance of the cost of the trip by WEDNESDAY 14^th NOVEMBER unless you have already done so.

4.     Adult Supervision and safety arrangements
We have an adult child ratio of 1:4 and your child will be allocated a member of staff to look after them. We will insist that your child listens to the member of staff at all times, follow instructions and co-operate at all times.
We will observe the following safety procedures:
·        When we are walking to and from the bus we will hold hands so that children are not separated from each other.
·        There will be frequent head counts and staff will have each other’s contact numbers in case of emergency.
·        Children will be supervised at ALL times and accompanied to the toilets by members of staff.

5.     Medication and travel sickness
If your child has difficulty travelling please will you ensure that she / he takes some travel tablets to avoid this. (I would appreciate if you could let us know if this is the case.)
Also if your child needs to take an asthma pump with them that this is given to the teacher in charge of your child’s group and inform us.

6.     Money
We will NOT be allowing the children to visit the cafes or bars inside the stadium. I suggest that the children only bring a maximum of £7.00 in coins so that they can buy a souvenir match programme if they wish to do so. There will be no other opportunity to spend money.

7.     Clothing
There is NO NEED to wear school uniform. If your child has a Welsh Rugby Shirt or any other suitable item such as scarves, hats etc please bring them along. (There is no need to buy these specially!!) Please make sure that your chid has a warm, waterproof coat as we will be walking some distance from the bus to the stadium.
I anticipate that we will have a wonderful experience next Friday and the Welsh team will run in plenty of tries and we will spend most of the evening cheering. The staff are experienced in supervising children in these situations and I expect that the children will be excellent ambassadors for Gelli Primary.
If you wish to discuss any of these arrangements with me, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Children in Need Day

Gelli Primary will be supporting the Children in Need appeal on Friday 16th November. The pupils will be invited to dress up in pyjamas or as Rock stars or any other clothes as school uniform need not be worn on this occasion. We will be taking a coin collection as usual and the money will be donated to the BBC Children in Need appeal. Teachers and the School Council have organised some activities for the afternoon. If you want some help in making the most of the day all the information is on the BBC Children in Need website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/

Foundation Phase Christmas Production

This term Classes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are performing “Digital Ga, Ga” in the school hall as their Christmas production.
There will be two performances – the first on Monday afternoon 10th December at 1.15 p.m. and the second on Tuesday morning 11th December at 9.15 a.m.
Each family will be allocated TWO tickets for each performance. Tickets will be on sale from Class 1 Nursery (Miss Mathias) at the end of the day and will go on sale daily from Friday 16th November.
Any unclaimed tickets will then be sold on a first come first served basis on November 30th.
The cost of each ticket will be £3.00.
Due to Fire and other Health and Safety regulations we will insist that everyone is seated and you will be asked to leave if you chose to stand.
We will be unable to accommodate any babies or toddlers as there will be no room to them to sit on laps during the concert or for any prams, pushchairs and buggies.
I would appreciate your co-oporation in this matter.
I hope that you will enjoy the show and look forward to welcoming you for the performances.

Purple Mashh access from the Blog

You can now access our Purple mash site from the menu bar of the Blog and use the 2simple software we use in school to create documents and presentations at home.

It can be located on the right hand side under Gelli Primary websites



Click on the Puple Mash hyperlink and when you are prompted to insert your child's unique password in the box.

Please do not give this password out to any other person in your family as this may lead to your child breaking the terms and conditions of use if any inappropriate material is found under this log in.

Year 6 Abernant trip deadline

I have contacted Manor Adventure and they have agreed to defer the £50 deposit deadline until November 5th. They have agreed to keep our booking open for the three schools until then. May I remind you that this is a non refundable deposit and it needs to be paid to secure a place for your child on the trip. It may not be possible to add your child’s name to the party after this date. Should you wish to discuss this with me please do not hesitate to contact me.

The Choir visit the Rhondda Care Home

Here's a short excerpt from the Choir's performance to residents of the Rhondda Care Home in Ystrad yesterday. I'm sure you will enjoy it as much as the patients did.



PTA Christmas Shopping Trip to Worcester

This year the PTA have arranged a shopping trip to Worcester on Saturday 24th November 2012. The bus will leave Treherbert at 8.00 a,m and we aim to leave Worcester around 5.30 p.m. and are normally home around 8 00 p.m. depending on traffic. Seats cost £12. 50 Unfortunately the trip is not suitable for children. For further details please contact Becky Sims on 01443 431395

Christmas Shoebox appeal

This year, in conjunction with our friends at Mount Zion Chapel, we are participating in the Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box appeal.

This is what is required -

YOU wrap an empty MEDIUM sized shoebox and fill it with great little gifts.

Suggested items include:-
TOYS.
Bear, soft toy, finger puppet, jigsaw, yo-yo, building blocks, small musical instruments, cars, dolls etc.

EDUCATION SUPPLIES
pens, pencils, felt pens, pencil sharpeners, erasers, colouring books, notepads etc.

OTHER ITEMS.
gloves, hat, scarf, sunglasses, bangles, necklaces.

Please will you NOT include any of the Following

NO MEDICNES
NO FOOD
NO WAR RELATED ITEMS
NO FRAGILE ITEMS
NO LIQUIDS
NO DANGEROUS ITEMS

Please will you also donate £2.50 towards the shipping costs.

Our School has been designated as a DROP OFF POINT and you are able to deposit the shoeboxes at any time between November 5th and 18th.

If you wish to know more about the work that is being carried out please follow the link to www.samaritans-purse.org.uk

Autumn Half term holiday

School closes for the half term vacation after school on Friday 26^th October and reopens on Monday November 5th. Breakfast Club will be open as usual at 8.00. a.m.

Christmas Concerts and end of term activities

Here are the dates for the Christmas Celebrations and activities in order that parents who need to can book time from work to see your children.


Wednesday 12th December
Christmas Disco (Same arrangements as Ugly Bug Ball)
Foundation Phase 3.30 – 4.30 p.m.
Juniors 4.30 – 5.30 p.m.
Thursday 13th December Y
ear 2 and 3 Eskimo Jo’s

Friday 14th December
Nursery, Reception and Year 1 Eskimo Jo’s

Monday 17th December
Nursery, Reception and Year 1 and 2 Father Christmas

Tuesday 18th December
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Junior Christmas Concerts
1.30 p.m. and 6.00 p.m.
Ticket allocation will be available after half term

Wednesday 19th December
Foundation Phase Party

Thursday 20th December
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6. Party

Friday 21st December
School closes for Christmas holidays at usual time.

Monday 7th January 2013
INSET day 3 of 5 – Staff are training in Llanelli

Tuesday 7th January 2013
School reopens for Spring term

Thursday 31st January 2013
INSET day 4 of 5 – Staff are training in Nantgarw. (
This replaces the INSET day originally scheduled for 8th January)

“Dare to wear it pink “Day – Supporting Breast Cancer awareness

Wear it pink is the biggest and best pink day during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, Breast Cancer Campaign is daring everyone in the UK to wear an item of pink on Friday 26^th October and donate any spare change that you have to the charity to help us beat breast cancer. Children will be undertaking some activities during the day. Some of the activities can be seen on the "wear it pink website" at http://www.wearitpink.co.uk/ We will be taking loads of photographs during the day and class activities will be posted on the blog and an article sent to the Rhondda Leader.

Ugly Bugs Ball

We will be holding our Ugly Bugs Ball on Wednesday 24^th October. The Disco will take place in the school hall from 3.20 – 4.20 p.m. for Nursery, Reception, Year One and Two pupils. The younger children MUST be accompanied by an adult. The disco for the Juniors will be from 4.30 – 5.30 p.m. You can dress your child up as an Ugly Bug. An entrance fee of £1 per child will be charged. There will be food available, some party games. Proceeds from the evening will go to purchase equipment for the pupils.

Gelli Primary Blog on your mobile

Over the past few months I have been redisigning the blog and it now includes a new feature whereby it is now accessible on your smart phones. Click on the Blog site address and the HTML will appear on the screen in an appropriate size depending on your make of phone. I hope this will be of use to those parents who use this service.

This year's term dates and INSET days

This year's term dates and holidays are contained on the Rhondda Cynon Taff CBC website page.

Click on the link here and scroll down the page. There are also the agreed dates for 2013-2014 as well.

There are FIVE designated INSET days for staff training this year and they are as follows:-

Day 1 - Monday 3rd September 2012

Day 2 - Wednesday 26th September 2012
All schools in the Treorchy Cluster will be involved in staff training today.

Day 3 - Monday 7th January 2013

Day 4 - Tuesday 8th January 2013

Day 5 - Monday - 8th April 2013

School will be closed for all pupils on these days.

Free School Meals Entitlement

Free School Meals are available for children whose parents or guardians receive certain benefits and entitlements.

Visit the Free School Meals Page to find out more

Starting School procedures

The Local Authority is responsible for admissions to all schools. Parents are requested to make applications for places in pre-nursery, nursey, reception and to the Comprehensive School. Full details are available in the Starting School 2012-2013 booklet. These forms are available from school or by contacting the admissions team at Ty Trevithick on 01443 744 232 or by e-mail. You can also visit the website www.rctcbc.gov.uk/schooladmissions. Gelli Primary School has very few surplus places and it is advisable to make sure that your form is returned promptly to guarentee your child a place with us. 

Autumn Term 2012

As the holidays come to an end, this is to confirm that school reopens after the summer holidays for all pupils on Tuesday 4th September. Breakfast Club will be open from 8 a.m.
Term dates, including details of INSET days are available on the new Moodle site by clicking on the Calendar icon on the right hand side of the page.

Home, safe, sound ..... and tired

Our Year Six pupils have returned from a wonderful weekend away from their parents in the Abernant Lake Hotel near Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys. 23 pupils accompanied Miss Hatch, Miss Owen and Colin spent from Friday lunchtime until after school this afternoon undertaking some of the outdoor activities on offer at the complex. We hope that each year pupild from Gelli Primary will be able to experience a similar time each year enjoying themselves and being excellent role models for the school. Visit their blog over the next few days to see the hundreds of photographs and videos they took on the trip.

End of Spring term 2012 Newsletter

A newsletter was distributed by pupil post on Friday 30th April 2012.

School Photographs
The photographs taken by the photographer are now available from the school office for you to purchase. Packs are priced at £10. Please pay for your photographs before taking them.

Dinner Money
Please will all dinner money and any arrears owing for dinners this term be brought to school as soon as possible. Mrs. Thomas has assured me that any credits will roll over to the next term. Any parents in arrears will be contacted by the Local Authority. I hope that we can avoid any embarrassment in this instance.

Treorchy Male Choir Young Musician of the Year
Congratulations to Lauren Lewis who performed so well in the Grand Final of this competition last Tuesday evening. She was an excellent ambassador for the school and we are very proud of their achievements. Lauren and a number of other pupils from Year 6 also participated in the Cluster transition concert at Treorchy Comprehensive School last night. It was a great showcase for the musical talent we have in the Upper Rhondda and I hope that our pupils will continue to develop their creative talents in the future.

Easter and end of term arrangements
Easter Disco
We are holding an Easter Disco as part of our Entrepreneurship activities on Tuesday 3rd April. The play leaders have identified some more equipment to fund raise towards and this is part of our plan to upgrade our play facilities in the yard.
The Foundation Phase Disco will take place from 3.30 to 4.25. Pupils can wear normal clothes to school that day and all pupils must be accompanied by an adult.
The Junior Disco takes place between 4.30 and 5.30. They can also wear normal clothes to school that day.
Entry is a £1

Easter Bonnet Parade
Pupils are invited to participate in our annual Easter Bonnet parade on the morning of Wednesday 4th April. It will take place after lunch so will parents please bring them into class when they bring pupils to school.

Easter Service
The pastor and his wife from Mount Zion Chapel will conduct an Easter Assembly in school on Wednesday morning at 10.00 a.m.

Easter Holidays
School breaks up at 3.00 p.m. on Thursday 5th April for the Easter holidays. Friday 6th is Good Friday and a national bank holiday.

INSET days
As we did not close the school this year due to any inclement weather, the Minister of Education has granted school two additional INSET days to the Five we usually have. These will be taken during the Summer term. Monday 23rd April 2012 will be the 5th designated and I propose to close on Tuesday 24th April in order that the staff are able to undertake two consecutive days training on the use of ICT in class and to develop our PESS programme. School will re-open on WEDNESDAY 26th APRIL for all pupils with Breakfast Club open at 8 00 a.m. as usual.
Our final INSET day will take place on Friday 1st June when the staff and Governors will undertake a self evaluation of the school’s performance. School will break up for the half term on Thursday 31st May 2012 at 3.00 p.m.
Details will be posted on the school blog, calendar and we will use our text messaging service to remind you

Website and other electronic forms of communication
The redesign of the School website in under way and more and more items are being added daily. In addition for those who use Twitter we shall be tweeting information via that platform. You can follow us on @gellipri. The Friends of Gelli Primary Facebook page has been mothballed and those of you who have not reapplied for membership will need to do so to be kept in touch with posts. I hope that this amount of home school communication helps you keep abreast with developments at school.

The Treorchy Comprehensive School Cluster Transition Concert

Gelli Primary pupils rehearsing for a performance of The Circle of Life as part of the Transition Concert.

On Thursday 28th March some of our Year 6 pupils along with others from the 20 Primary Schools that feed into Treorchy joined the pupils from the music department to perform a joint concert. Elicia and Charley played the violin with  the Junior Orchestra, Charley and Catherine played Cornet and joined in with the Junior Brass Band while Alyx, Amy, Megan, Katerina, Katie and Josh sang with the 250 strong combind choir to perform the Circle of Life from The Lion King. Lauren also sang and accompanied herself on the piano singing "Somebody like me.
It was very pleasing to see such an array of talent from all the Primary Schools performing with pupils from the Comprehensive. The event was co-ordinated by the Head of Music, Mr. Davies with help from the staff of the music department and visiting peripetetic staff from the Music Service. Mr. Jones, the Head teacher spoke very highly of the achievements and looked forward to welcoming the new intake to Treorchy in September.

Final arrangements for the Residential weekend

Here is the arrangements for those attending the residential weekend and those pupils who will remain in school.
Pupils attending the residential weekend • Pupils are expected to be in school at the usual time on Friday morning. Pupils can attend Breakfast Club if they wish to do so
• Please will luggage be placed in the back of the Hall ready for departure later that morning
• The bus is expected to leave Pontygwaith Primary at 11.30 a.m. and we expect it any time after that. Parents wishing to wave their children goodbye can meet them at the school entrance at this time. You can bring luggage with you at this time if you wish.
Please do not park in front of the school lay by as the bus will need to use this space
• Pupils will be having an early school dinner and packed lunch before they leave.

Pupils remaining in school.
• Friday 30th March and Monday April 2nd will be normal days for pupils. Miss Bruce will expect all pupils who are not going on the residential trip to be in school for normal lessons. Any absences will be marked down as unauthorised unless supported by a medical certificate. There is a Golf Day experience for pupils on Monday at the Pentre Astroturf.

Additional information for the weekend.
We have decided that we do not wish to allow pupils to take mobile phones with them on the weekend. We will use our text2parents system to send messages to you at times during the weekend. We also have a list of your emergency contact numbers should we need to contact you. The contact number for the Abernant Hotel is listed in the handout I distributed to pupils earlier this term. These details will be posted on the school blog.
We would also ask pupils not to bring iPods, mp3 players or any other electronic devise such games machines as the staff cannot be held responsible for them and we would wish you to respect our request to avoid any
Please can we remember that we set a limit of £5.00 spending money for the weekend and that this needs to be in change.
As the weather will be very hot can I ask you to provide your child with a hat and sunscrean to avoid sunburn.
I hope that this clarifies some points for you and I am confident that the pupils will enjoy the experience.

Gelli Primary support Sport Relief on Friday 23rd March 2012

Gelli Primary School will be supporting Sport Relief this year on Friday 23rd March 2012.

Pupils can dress up as their favourite sportsman or sportswoman, although this is optional. We will be taking a coin collection and you are welcome to make a donation of your choice in aid of the BBC Sport Relief appeal. 

We will be celebrating the London 2012 Olympics next term

More pupils achieve targets and score into the Gelli Goals

Pupils from Dosbarth 4 have been working with Mrs Fraser on achieving their Gelli Goals. Liam, Kia, Jay, Ocean, Alfie, Jake, Cory, Kian, Degan and Katie each presented their achievements to their fellow pupils in this afternoon's assembly. Well done everyone. Da iawn blant.

Wearing Red to work for Wales

Today we have been getting excited about the BIG GAME in Cradiff tommorrow. We asked everyone who wanted to WEAR RED TO WORK FOR WALES in support of the Rugby team who will be playing France in the Millennium Stadium tomorrow afternoon. If they beat the French team they will not only win the Six Nations Championship but complete a Grand Slam

Mr. Jones, the head teacher, also decided to join in as he always wears a suit when he goes to meetings and has special visitors, but also like to wear our school uniform to show us how much it means to us.

Those of us who are not so lucky to have a ticket for the match will be able to cheer our team as we watch the game on the television. Dewch mlaen Cymru .... Come on Wales.

Newsletter has been distributed by pupil post

A newsletter has been distributed by pupil post on Tuesday 13th March. If you have not received a copy you can find it on our newsletter page of the school website.

Grand Slam weekend

To support the Welsh Rugby team in their quest for the Six Nations Grand Slam this weekend we are going to "Wear Red for Wales" on Friday 16th March. Pupils can wear anything red, although there is no need to purchase rugby shirts especially for this. The Canteen Staff are also preparing a special lunch menu for the day. Let's roar Wales on to a Grand Slam Gelli style.

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St David's Day Celebration update

This is Year 4 Dosbarth 6's Eisteddfod Gwyl Dewi performance. We hope you like it.

Great success in mathematics

This morning two pupils from Dosbarth 5 came to see Mr Jones the head teacher with some great news. Both Holly and Jacob had full marks in their Maths Makes Sense progress test. Da iawn blant. At the end of this topic the children said that "they can add up 4 figure numbers successfully, they can tell and write a Maths story and we can plot a rectangle on a graph." They received one of Mr Jones' white house points as a reward and a head teacher's sticker.

St David's Day Celebrations

This is a video of the Brass Group performing "Ar hyd y nos" during the 2012 Dydd Gwyl Dewi Eisteddfod.
We hope you will enjoy.

Rhondda Leader Photographs 2012

This year’s St David's day pictures will appear in editions of the Rhondda Leader in the coming weeks. Pictures are on sale, a large number of parents contact us each year, wondering where they can purchase the pictures. They are available from - Mrs M Gunton 5 Bryn Terrace, Tylorstown CF43 3AU If you have any questions regarding your St David's day picture's please contact her on  01443 733277. Please send your order along with a cheque, made payable to M Gunton to the above address. Prices are a highly competitive £6.50 for an 8 x 6, colour photograph, presented in an attractive folder. Mrs Gunton informs us that each school will once again retain 10% of the money raised by the school, as a good will gesture.

Nursery - Dosbarth 1

Reception - Dosbarth 2

Year 1 Dosbarth 3

Year 2 Dosbarth 4

Year 3 Dosbarth 5

Year 4 Dosbarth 6

Year 5 Dosbarth 7

Year 6 Dosbarth 8

Drayton Manor Park Summer Trip

Due to the success and positive feedback received from parents last year we have decided to run another whole school summer trip to Drayton Manor / Thomas Land.
We have provisionally booked four 70 seater luxury coaches for Friday 22nd June 2012. Parental feedback from last year's trip requested this.
The cost of the trip is estimated to be no more than £20 per child and £25 per adult. This price will be revised when we know exact numbers.
Primarily the trip will be open to all pupils in the school. Infant children must be accompanied by an adult. Adults can also accompany children from Year 3 if they wish. All junior children will be supervised in small groups by a member of staff. Babies or younger children from the ages of 0-2years will have free entry to the park but will be required to pay for the bus.
Similar to last year if there are places still available then these will be offered at a' first come first served' basis to family and friends of all pupils.
If you would like to secure your place please could you fill in the form sent home by pupil post and return with a non refundable £5 deposit for each person by Friday 2nd March. We will then require further payments to be paid by certain dates when the prices have been confirmed.

Pupils achieve targets and put their goals in the back of the net

Great news! Four pupils from Dosbarth 5 have reached their goal and are placeing their target on a football which is now being placed in the Gelli Goal. Alfie, Lowri, Katie and Ieuan have all achieved an improvement in handwriting, Mr Jones, the head teacher, gave them a special white house point for this achievement. Da iawn blant. Well done.

New pages published on the School website

Two new pages have been added to the school website. Ckick on the links below to see the pages.

Breakfast Club and Lunchtime Supervisors

Site management and Cleaning Services Staff

More pages will be added in due course.

Follow us on Twitter

Gelli Primary School encourages the responsible use of social networking sites as a means of communication in the 21st Century. We have a policy that reflects our vision in creating responsible learners of the future who use this media in a positive environment.

Please conduct yourself responsibly on these sites as any inappropriate comments will be deleted and passed on to the site managers for appropriate action to betaken.

Please also remember that we are all ambassadors for the school and need to be good role models for our pupils so that they can learn how to use this media in a sensitive and proper manner in the future.

Information posted on twitter will be generic and non personal and be appropriate to the audience. It will duplicate messages posted om the blog, website, pupil post and sent via text message and is intended as another form of communication with parents, and aimed at those who find this form of communication best suited to their needs. 

School Photographer

The school photographer will visit us on Wednesday March 14^th. Individual and group photographs will be taken of pupils in the morning and family group photographs in the afternoon. I regret that we will not be able to arrange a time for these afternoon sittings and it will be done a first come first served basis. The photographer will begin the afternoon session at 1.15 p.m. Further details will be circulated nearer the photograph shoot

Treorchy Male Choir Young Musician of The Year

Congratulations to Poppy Davies and Lauren Lewis who won the vocal and instrumental category respectively in our school heat before half term and will now advance to the semi final stage of the competition. We will inform you of the arrangements for the semi final should anyone wish to attend and support our pupils.