ymer afan primary school ysgol gynradd ymer...
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Several events have taken place across the federation this term, all of which have gone fantastically well
due to the work which has gone on by the staff behind the scenes. Our recent sporting events such as
junior football tournaments and the Thomas Flynn Cricket Tournament have allowed all junior pupils to
represent their school in at least one sport.
N Rec Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6 Whole
School Croeserw Glyncorrwg Pen Afan
Fed
(No N) NPT
91.6% 93.5% 94.5% 94% 92.9% 94.2% 96.1% 93.4% 94.1% 93.4% 95% 91.1% 93.2% 94.15%
Figures are averages for this academic year, ie from September to present. We aim for AT LEAST 95%
Family Information Service
The Family Information Service (FIS) is based in Ffrwdwyllt House, Taibach. It aims to provide comprehensive, up to date and accurate information for children, young people, families and professionals with families on a wide range of topics, such as:
Childcare
Education and family learning services
Health and Wellbeing Services
Play, sport and other recreational activities
Social care and family support services
Youth services
Financial and Legal Services
Child Development
Staying Safe
Other local information.
They have a very informative website which can be found on the address in the graphic above, or by scanning here:
IMPORTANT SCHOOL NEWS Today we say goodbye to Miss Emily Thomas for the last time, as she returns in September as Mrs Davies. The staff and children would like to wish Miss Thomas the very best for her upcoming wedding.
Miss Newberry-Wall will be having some well deserved time at home from September to have and enjoy
her baby. We can’t wait to meet the new addition to the Cymer Family. We are very lucky to be welcoming Mrs Lynne Rowlands, a familiar face to you all, onto the staff. Mrs Rowlands is making the move all the way across the car park from Flying Start to take on a position with us in September. Mrs Gray and Mrs Rowlands will be teaching Nursery in the mornings in September and will be working across the other classes during the afternoons.
Cymer Afan Primary School
Ysgol Gynradd Cymer Afan
Newsletter
July 2019
Dear Parents and Carers,
It has been yet another very busy year and we are delighted that the pupils have made so much progress in
that time. We are really pleased with the way in which the schools of the federation have continued to work
closely together and we’re sure that you as parents can see the benefits for your children. This is especially
the case with the Y6 pupils who are moving onto their comprehensive schools as they have had several
opportunities to get to know the children in the other schools over the past year. They will undoubtedly still
be a little nervous about September, but we wish them luck whichever school they’re going to.
September will see a change in education in the valley. With the closure of Cymer Comprehensive School, we
will become a new organisation: The Federated Primary Schools of the Upper Afan Valley. I must give my
personal thanks to all of the head-teachers I have worked with in the last six and a half years—I have learned
valuable lessons from you all.
Many thanks for your continued support and we wish you a restful summer holiday.
Mr Rob Appleby (Primary Phase Leader and Headteacher from September 2019)
Email address: [email protected]
Web address: http://cymer-afan-primary-school.j2bloggy.com
Safeguarding Across The Federation
We have had a number of parents visit the
office lately expressing their concerns about
vehicles entering or leaving the grounds at speed.
For the safety of our children, we would like to
remind the community that the school car park is to
be used by staff only as there is a risk of accidents
happening (as has happened in the past) if a large
volume of traffic were to enter the area.
This also applies to Breakfast Club times when pupils
are entering the premises.
Those who hold blue badges can visit the office
where suitable arrangements will be made to suit
your needs.
Visitors and delivery vans can access the grounds but
MUST close the gate behind them and proceed at a
sensible speed.
We are aware that there are times when the gate is
left open but stress that at the times when a number
of children are likely to be accessing the area
NO VEHICLES are to enter or leave.
Dates For Your Diary 2019
Monday Sept 2nd - INSET DAY
Tuesday Sept 3rd - INSET DAY
Wednesday Sept 4th - Children return to School
Friday Sept 27th 2pm - Macmillan Coffee Afternoon (PTA)
Friday Sept 4th - Finesse Photography Whole School
Monday 28th Oct - Friday 1st Nov - Half Term
Thursday 28th Nov - Fluoride Varnishing (Whole School)
Friday 20th December - Last day of Term
Slimming World
Please remember that Slimming World hold sessions
every Thursday starting at 4.30pm in the school hall.
Dinner Money Dinner costs will be increased in September to £2.35 per day.
Dinner money must now be paid in advance. Any overpayment
on the system is carried forward to the next week. Please speak
to office staff if you have any queries.
Thank you
Criw Cymraeg
This term we have enjoyed cwl clwb after school where Criw and non
Criw members celebrated our welshness. We created fact files on famous
welsh people, made posters to put around our school encouraging children to
speak welsh, made love spoons out of salt dough and tasted a variety of welsh
foods such as welsh cakes and bara brith.
Our Tuesday assemblies are well underway and we have loved the new welsh
songs we have been learning from our Criw who learnt them in
the Urdd Jambori
We have some lovely new interactive welsh boards on our yard
too that children have loved using.
A huge thank you to our Criw this year, you have all worked so hard.
Look out for nominations in September for our new Criw Cymraeg.
Mrs Jones
Friends of Cymer Afan Primary Summer newsletter 2019
What a successful year!
This year we have paid for the whole school to have a
FREE Christmas and summer trip, paid £5 per child to-
wards an academic trip, given each child an Easter egg,
paid for the leavers’ leaving gifts and much much more!
We were also successful in two different grants; with this
money we had amazing new yard markings for the main
school yard and 4 new iPads where we will be running a
community ICT group from September.
We need you!
Running film nights, applying for grants and
planning fetes are not easy, and the more hands
on deck, the easier each job becomes. Please
come along and join us next year, whether it’s
to help fill in forms, serve tea and coffee or
to add your great ideas. We always welcome new
members; after all, we are doing it for the
benefit of our children!
Summer fete 2019
We were so lucky to have the sun shine
down on us for our second summer
fete. Thank you to everyone who
attended helped out and donated cakes
and raffles helping us to raise a fantastic
£494.
Goodbye and good luck!
We would like to say a huge good bye and good luck to our year 6 children. We wish them the very best of
luck for their next chapter in secondary education! Also a big good luck to the other children as they all
move up a year in September!
Summer BINGO!
We love BINGO! There is always a great turn out to help
us raise money. Thank you for helping us raise a total of
£290.
Alzheimer’s Cupcake afternoon
Thank you for helping us support such a
worthy charity, we raised an amazing £203!
Finally we would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us
over the past academic year helping us raise a fantastic £2569.24! We wouldn’t
have been able to raise such amazing funds and treated the school and children if
it wasn’t for your support. We look forward to more fun fundraising next year!
Have a wonderful break!
We had lots of fun walking to the Gelli Houses whilst raising money for Cancer Research UK
#raceforlife. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed ’racing’ the grown ups as they do every year.
You helped Cymer Primary raise an amazing £129.67 which will be donated along with the
Federated Schools sponsors.
Well done to everyone.
After spending many years coming in to the primary schools to present very interesting assemblies enjoyed by all pupils, Mr and Mrs Ashmore have decided that it is time to spend some time relaxing.
We wish them both the very best in their retirement and staff and pupils would like to say a huge thank you to them for the time they have given over the years.
SPORTS DAY
Well done to the Yellow team on
winning the Sport’s day cup again this
year. Everyone who took part put in an
amazing effort and thoroughly enjoyed
themselves. We were fortunate to have
a gnat free lovely day so thank you also
to all the people who came along in
support of the pupils.
Pupils thoroughly enjoyed the
fete this year.
Thank you to the Mayor of
Neath Port Talbot, Cllr Scott
Jones for attending and joining
in with pupils.
We were fortunate to have a
beautifully sunny day.
Thank you to the
PTA for hosting
the day, families
and friends for
attending and
donating and
school staff for
manning the
stations.