Easter Fayre and Parties

Thank you for all your support and help at these events. The Fayre was very successful once again and we raised approx £300. The parties were very enjoyable [!!!] and load and raised approx £400! Thank you you for sending in children's raffle money which raised £109 and will be drawn this morning.
Thank you to all PTA members for helping out at the events, a special thank you to Heather Robinson for making a fantastic Easter Bunny! and we wish Gill a speedy recovery.
Have a Hoppy Happy Easter!!

Angela

Easter Blog

With only two days left until the holiday, I wanted to comment on all of the exciting things that are happening. We had a wonderful Easter Parade this afternoon - the hats were wonderful and I can't wait for mine!!! The parents in Area 3 raised nearly £200 towards their outside area. Over the holiday new planters, canopies and flooring will be installed as a result. The children were absolutely wonderful.

You have all noticed the willow play area which the children helped construct - they worked really hard. This is the first part of the environmental work planned by the children before Christmas. Soon we hope to develop the woodland area and allotment area so that the children can grow vegetables.

The playground painting has also begun and seating and benches will be installed over the holiday - all kindly donated by the PTA. The first patchwork quilt has been completed and is now displayed in the hall. I hope to have the other three completed soon but would welcome any help in this.

Finally, I was amazed by the kindness of you all in raising over£2600 for the NSPCC - this is mind blowing and I am so proud.

On behalf of the staff of the school, can I wish you a lovely Easter holiday and try not to eat too much chocolate!!!

Mr. Roberts

Events and Term Dates for 2010 and 2011

Please see diary at the bottom of Blogg - more events will be added shortly.

Easter Parties - Thursday 25th March

Nursery 2 – 3pm
Easter Egg Hunt! Party clothes to be worn to school. Crisps & drink included. £1.00

Infants 5.00 - 6.30pm [After School]
Entrance fee £1.50 Children’s entertainer, games, crisps & drink included. All children need to be collected from the hall & not the school gate, thank you.

Juniors 7 – 8.30pm [After School]
Entrance fee £1.00 Disco & tuck shop. All children need to be collected from the hall & not the school gate, thank you.

Non uniform day - Thursday 18th March

Don't forget non uniform day Thursday 18th March because there is a Easter Fayre straight after school!
Forfeit for nursery pupils - pre-packed cakes : infants and juniors - Easter Eggs

Choir After School Club

Sorry for the short notice, but choir is cancelled for tonight [16th March] as Mrs Jones is not in school. If you cannot collect your child at the normal time, don't worry there will be other staff in school.

PTA Easter Fayre -Thursday 18th March

PTA Easter Fayre starts straight after school on Thursday 18th March.

It will be a non-uniform day. The forfeit for wearing non-uniform will be -

Nursery -pre-packed cakes
Infants & Juniors - Easter Eggs

[Juniors will finish at 3.25pm on this day]

After School Hockey Club

There will be no more hockey club after school this term.

Chairing of the bard- A oes heddwch?

Yes, there was "heddwch" (Peace) at Maesybryn last Friday when the winner of the Eisteddfod literary competition was "chaired". Mr Roberts announced the winner by the pseudonym "Candy Cane". At the fanfare- the winner stood- and we saw it was Phoebe Thomas- year 5. Ardderchog, Phoebe- your story was indeed amazing. After the traditional sword ceremony, she was greeted by the flower dancers from class 7, then serenaded by many items including a violin solo from Niamh Fish, folk dancers from class 4 and a selection of Eisteddfod winners. My own "Seren yr Eisteddfod" award would certainly go to Luis Morgan with his action packed recititation- "Fy ngol gyntaf". The individual champion this year, having won two first and one third prize was Caitlin Jones, year 3- da iawn Caitlin.
We have lots of talent at our school -it is great to showcase it!
Mrs Decaro

Hockey After School Club

Hockey After School Club for today [Thursday 4th March] is cancelled, apologies for short notice.

Eisteddfod bendigedig!

What a fabulous Eisteddfod -da iawn pawb! All children took part with Welsh poems and songs.The adjudicators - Mrs Janet Williams and Mr Huw F. Lewis from the Welsh advisory service at ESIS congratulated everyone on the very high standard of Welsh . We dedicated the Eisteddod to our friends at Sikusi Primary School. The children there are also proud of their culture and heritage - and love to sing and dance!
By the way, Sikusi now has a new library, courtesy of the mound of books donated by Maesybryn children last October. They were delighted! They were also very excited by the gifts we took out for them - the big books, footballs, yo-yos, bouncy balls, bubbles and of course the parachute. They also now all have an exercise book and pencil each, bought with your donations. Their pencils and books are very precious to them, they take them everywhere and use the pencils until they are tiny stubs - a lesson for us not to be so wasteful!
Diolch yn fawr everybody for your support and interest!
Mrs Decaro

Diary Dates

We have been busy booking trips. Please see diary [scroll down to bottom of blogg] for details. Letters will be sent home in due course with further details with permission slips, etc.