Year 5 Practice Song for Assembly

Here is a Youtube video for Year 5 to practice for their class assembly

Hwb is coming to Gelli Pri

Hwb is coming to Gelli Primary.

Hwb is the all Wales Learning Platform

Supporting national action to:

• encourage, support and prepare teachers to share digital practice
• develop a national collection for creating, storing and sharing digital resources

During this term each pupil will be given a password that can be used to access Hwb and Hwb + from school and at home.

Hwb will be a communication tool with areas for each class to blog, create discussions, conduct surveys and submit homework online.

It has a class and school calendar that can be accessed from home and letters and other information attached.

Look on here for updates and for information when the Gelli Primary site will be live.

Design a new school logo

Our School Logo needs updating,  The School Council want to modernise it so that we can use it on our new school uniform from September onwards. Please will you spend the Easter holidays designing a new one. Entries will close at the beginning of next term. The design needs to reflect our local area and what your child thinks about what the school represents, our heritage, our values and our ethos.

The competition will be judged by members of the School Council, the Governing Body  and representatives from our local uniform suppliers.

School uniform with the old logo can still be worn until you need to replace it.

The winning entrant will see the design being processed by our manufacturers and receive a prize and recognition on our school website and publicity material.

Easter Celebration Video by the School Council

Easter Bonnet Parade and Easter Project for the Juniors

Gelli Primary School Easter Celebrations

On Thursday 10^th April, we will be holding an Easter bonnet parade for classes 1, 2, 3 & 4 (infant classes).  Could you please help your child to make a bonnet of their choice as prizes will be given to the most creative entry?

Our school council would also like to run an Easter competition for all the junior classes i.e. class 5, 6, 7 & 8 where they need to produce a project that relates to Easter.  This could be a poster telling the story the Easter, decorating an egg, Easter bonnet, bake a cake etc.  Again prizes will be given to the most creative.

All creations will be judged by our school council.

On Friday 11^th April, children are allowed to bring a toy of their choice.  Please do not allow your child to bring in expensive equipment i.e. iPads, Mobile phones, Nintendo DS etc as any loss or damage is entirely at your own risk.

Many thanks for your continued support

Gelli Primary School Council

Pont Choir of the Year Semi Final

The School Choir has successfully won its way through to the final of the Pont Choir of the Year Final. This will be held at Pontypridd High School on Wednesday April 3^rd. Tickets for the event and further details will be circulated to parents as soon as we receive them from the organisers. Thank you to Mrs Johnson for rehearsing with the choir and we wish them every success in the final.

The PESS team have requested that we observe Sport Relief day this year tomorrow, Friday 21^st March. This year we are really excited to be raising money for Sport Relief 2014! As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change Gelli Primary School has decided to get involved and help raise money for this incredible cause.

To do our bit and raise money we will be: allowing pupils to wear sports kit for the day and complete a Sport Relief walk around the school playground. Please will you send in a donation of your choice. The money raised by the public is spent by Comic Relief to help people living incredibly tough lives, both at home in the UK and across the world's poorest countries. To find out more about Sport Relief visit sportrelief.com/schools.

We will also be using Sport Relief as a teaching opportunity so that our students can learn about the issues children across the world face, and how the money we raise can help them.

We really appreciate your support and hope that you’ll have fun helping our school raise lots of money for Sport Relief!