INSET day Thursday 31st January 2013

The staff will be involved in In-Service training at Ty Dysgu in Nantgarw on Thursday 31st January 2013. This training was arranged by the LA and is part of the Authority's response to the Welsh Government’s National Literacy Strategy. All schools in RCT will undertake this training and I decided that it would be more effective to send the staff on the same training day rather than individuals attending training courses separately. By sending them on this day I have also avoided the necessity to employ visiting teachers to cover the classes for the days they needed to at Ty Dysgu. This would have incurred an additional £1325 to cover the cost of visiting teachers. This will be the fourth of five permitted In-Service training days allocated by welsh Government. Please make alternative childcare arrangements for this day as school will be closed for all pupils.

 

Parents Evening arrangements

Letters were distributed today containing details of the arrangements for next week's parents evenings. We would like to offer you an appointment to discuss your child’s progress with your class teacher next week beginning on Monday 4th February until Thursday 7th. The teachers are working at different time during the week and a list of their appointment times are included below.
Here are the arrangements for our parent evenings.
• You are invited to report to the school main hall FIVE MINUTES prior to your appointment where you will be taken to meet your child’s teacher by one of our Year 6 pupils.
• The bell will ring after each ten minute appointment.
• Please will you complete a parental response form after your appointment commenting on your child’s achievements and progress to date.
• Please will you ring Mrs Thomas, the school secretary to make a specific appointment or if you are available to come at any time then an appointment will be made for you.
• You will receive confirmation of your appointment be letter on Friday.

Please fill in the appointment times on the sheet outside the Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2 classrooms.

A copy of the letter is available on our Moodle site by clicking here.

Llongyfarchiadau Rowan and Erin

Congratulations to Erin and Rowan on being successful in winning the Gelli heat and going on to represent the school in the semi final stage. We will post their performances and other videos and photographs on this site soon.

Treorchy Male Choir JMoftheYear

This year's Gelli Primary School heat of the Treorchy Male Choir Junior Musician of the Year Competition takes place in the school hall tomorrow afternoon at 1.00 p.m. We welcome the members of the choir who will act as adjudicators and Mr Tony Davies the competition organiser as well as any parents of pupils who are competing to join us.

Our new Gelli Playgroup Blog

Welcome to our newly created Gelli Playgroup Blog. There is a link on the sidebar to this new site which, if it is as successful as our main blog, will keep parents up to date with developments. The recent inclement weather has caused the delay in the sessions being carried out, however, we see this as an ideal opportunity to provide your children with a safe and secure play environment in which to begin their "Great Educational Adventure" with us. We will be contacting parents to make sure that they are able to access this site and keep in touch with this development.

 

Thank you Colin.

Thanks to our caretaker Colin for working so hard in clearing the snow so that school could take place today. Over the past few days he has been clearing the site of snow, then the ice that formed on top and salting the areas so that walkways could be made safe for school to be possible. Diolch yn fawr.

School is OPEN 24th January 2013

SCHOOL IS OPEN 24th January 2013. Paths have been cleared by the caretaker and Breakfast Club will open as usual. Plesae wear appropriate clothing and footware and take care when using untreated roads and pavements. As there is no further forecasted snow please assume that today will be a normal school day. If any unexpected changes occur please make sure that you have your mobile phones at hand for any urgent messages.