Welcome to our new St Mary's Weekly Newsletter!
Parents' Evenings
Thank you to all parents for attending this week's parents' evenings via Teams. It was lovely to see you all and to report on the super progress being made by your children. Da iawn pawb! Mr O'Toole's class parents' evening will be rescheduled on his return to school. We wish him a speedy recovery.
School class photos will also be rescheduled later in the year when we hope the number of Covid cases will have reduced.
Our Service of Peace and Prayer- Thursday 31st March
Next Thursday 31st March, we are inviting all children to make a minimum donation of £1 to wear their own clothes and to join our outdoor 'Service of Peace and Prayer' in our beautiful new 'Garden of Hope.' We will be praying especially for all those affected by the conflict in Ukraine.
For many years, the parish of St Francis of Assisi, Llay have maintained a close bond of support to the Annunciation Parish in Sumy, Ukraine, and over the years have arranged reciprocal visits, fundraised and donated many thousands of pounds to help the Sumy parish and their local orphanages and special school.
As our school belongs to the parish of St Francis' in Llay , we would like to support their fundraising as they are making arrangements to welcome refugees from Sumy back to Llay. Therefore, all monies collected next Thursday will help support many people displaced by the war in Ukraine at this very difficult time.
Please support us in our on-going efforts to extend the hand our love and support to those in need through both our continued prayers and financial help. Diolch
Collection buckets will be on the gates for all donations. Many thanks
From fossil hunting, to handling data, to investigating 'blood', to creating fact files, to creating diaramas... What a busy week!
Makaton Sign of the Week
This week's sign is Mum
Click on the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OOZxDWYow8
Look who has good news to share this week!
Years 1 & 2- Dylan has completed wave 5 and moved up to wave 6 in his swimming this week, George and his Grandad captured live footage of birds in his bird house using a hidden camera, Max scored his second goal for Borras FC last Sunday, Thomas played a super game for Borras FC and was chosen as the 'Man of the Match.' Natalia has been promoted to 3rd Dan in Thai boxing, Dylan G has moved up to Wave 6 and Dylan R is tasting for Cadbury's on Sunday! Lucky boy!
Years 3 & 4- Rodrigo's new baby sister Sophia has been born, Fabian plays for Brickfield and they won 3-1 and Theo passed Wave 2 in swimming. Violet's mum has had her operation, Nelson has moved to Wave 3 and Filip's mum is home from Poland today.
Years 5 & 6- It was Joakim's grandma's birthday recently, Zac has passed silver Rookie Lifeguard, Emilia and Julia have moved to Sharks in swimming. Scarlett received a certificate for her drama competition and Natalia is choosing her First Holy Communion clothes tomorrow. Phoebe is going to watch Wrexham play at the weekend, Brandon is moving to a new house very soon and Ryan is going to watch Liverpool at the weekend. Will and Maisy have a new puppy called Clover. Thomas won the 'Instructors' award at the gymkhana. He also won a football and was awarded player of the match. Rebecca won a bronze in 50m backstroke and gold in 200m free during a gala held in Leeds in a 50m pool! Lola's mum is getting married on Saturday and Harry has made his First Confession.
St Mary's Catholic Primary - Reviewing our School Vision
As a whole school community, we are revisiting and updating our school vision to make sure it is relevant to our shared aims and new curriculum.
Please help us to make sure that you are represented in our school vision by adding your 'top three' for each of the headings below. Just a word or two, or even a small phrase would be really beneficial. Diolch yn fawr.
Please click on the link:- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIAKrhIlxHR5a0y43_PhHM4G6XCdhBYvTnBvRMKiyYfezUyw/viewform
Welsh Government Announcement
Physical punishment of children is now illegal in Wales. Children have the same protection from assault as adults. This is to protect children and their rights. To find out more visit: http://gov.wales/EndPhysicalPunishment
Support the Friends of St Mary’s
to raise much needed funds for the benefit of all our children Friends of St. Mary’s School are now registered with easyfundraising, which means you can raise FREE donations for us every time you shop online. Over 4,000 shops and sites will donate to us when you use easyfundraising to shop with them – at no extra cost to yourself!
These donations really mount up and make a BIG difference to us, so we’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign up and support us. It’s completely FREE and only takes a moment.
Do it today- Sign up by clicking on the link below
Please encourage your family and friends to do the same.
St Mary's Rock Your Socks!
Thank you for wearing your odd socks and buying the sock biscuits in support of our friends William and Dylan and the FRIENDS' charity. #lotsofsocks
Click on the link to make a further donation https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/sam-oneill?utm_term=g3vNDqppV
Keeping everyone safe- Covid 19
Once again, we have seen an increase in the number of Covid positive cases which have affected both children and staff over the past week or so. If you have been sent a letter/ email advising you of cases within the class/ contact group, please take lateral flow tests in the morning before coming to school. This will help us to limit the risk of further transmission within our school community.
In addition to the 3 classic symptoms of a cough, high temperature and loss of taste or smell, we are noticing that many children who are testing positive are also displaying some of the following symptoms :- vomiting, headaches, runny nose, sore throat (symptoms similar to the common cold)
Local Authority advice remains that all children and staff who are displaying symptoms of illness or testing positive on an LFT or PCR test should not come to school and continue to isolate.
Thank you for your support and understanding.
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