Today's arrangements

After the six wonderful concerts we have had in the last two days, my thanks go out to the staff and children for some memorable performances.Thank to you parents, grandparents and other members of your extended families for supporting us and giving the children so much encouragement and applause and generously donating over £250 in the collections. The staff have already decide to earmark the money towards purchasing the wet weather gear for the Foundation Phase children and some more Flip Video cameras for the Juniors to use to record their work.
Tomorrow the Junior children will enjoy their Christmas party. They can wear party clothes to school and all children are allowed to wear their normal clothes until the end of term.

Christmas Dinner

Mrs Edwards and the kitchen staff prepared a fantastic Christmas dinner for us today. The staff helped serve the food as there were so many pupils opted to have school dinner today. The children really enjoyed as you can see from this video. Diolch yn fawr Mrs Edwards.

Cheltenham trip

I would like to thank all those who supported the SHOPPING TRIP to Regency Cheltenham on Saturday, we all had a great time. As always a massive round of applause to Mrs Sims for organising the event so efficiently, as usual, and managing to have a quiet word with Derek the Weather Man to keep the rain in Wales. We raised a total of £70 from the quiz and raffle on the trip that will go towards school funds. Diolch yn fawr bawb.

Christmas Concert tickets

Our Christmas Concerts will take place on the following days.

Nursery and Reception, (Miss Mathias, Mrs G Dyer)

Tuesday 15th December 2009 at 1.30. p.m.

Wednesday 16th December 2009 at 9. 30 a.m.

Year 1 and 2 concerts (Mrs. Fraser, Mrs K Dyer)
Tuesday 15th December 2009 at 2.15. p.m.
Wednesday 16th December 2009 at 10. 15 a.m.


There will be a short break between the two concerts for parents to come in and out of the hall.
We do not charge an entry fee but a retiering collection will be taken for school funds.


The Junior Department Concerts
Wednesday 16th December 2009 at 1.30
Wednesday 16th December 2009 at 6.00 p.m.
We do not charge an entry fee but a retiering collection will be taken for school funds.

You will have received a letter with a ticket allocation form on which needs to be brought back to school by WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9th. Tickets will be sent out via pupil post that evening. Should there be any additional tickets available we will inform you by pupil post then and any spare tickets will be distributed on a first come first served basis. There will be a limit on how many additionl tickets that will be vailable per family.

INSET Day

Friday 27th November will be an INSET day for the staff at Gelli Primary and school will be closed for all pupils.

Children in Need Day

Tomorrow is Children in Need Day and as usual we will be celebrating and raising money for children who are less fortunate than us. This year we will be dressing up "all spotty" either in pyjams or just anything that has spots on. In fact you can dress up in anything at all as it is a non uniform day. We will collect a donation and this year our students will be organising a class competition where each pupil will have the opportunity to chose an area on a BIG PUDSEY BEAR. The students will reveal winning area and the name revealed will will a Pudsey Bear. During the afternoon we will spend our Golden Time undertaking special Children in Need activities with the staff and students.
Look out for our special Children in Need space on the School Gallery. Check out what we got up to in 2008.

Photograph gallery

I have begun to post collections of photographs from activities undertken by the children and staff at Gelli Primary in a Photographic gallery. I have had some feedback from parents that this link requires a password and log in. Please will pupils and or parents try to access this area either via the link above and more importantly via the link on the school website site map.
The latest additions are photographs of the Gelli Primary School Choir Remembrance Concert and the Wales v Samoa game.
If you have problems accessing this site please report any problems to me by e-mail at head.gellipri@rctednet.net or by telephone.