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Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed some quality time with the family?
If, like us, the family have cleared the bread loaves 🍞 from the kitchen shelves and tangerines 🍊 out of the fridge at home, or you just need to re-stock, our friends at Newtown Food Surplus are in school from 2pm this afternoon.
Come on down and save it going to landfill!
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**Exciting announcement ** ☺️❤️

We will be hosting a food share on Tuesday the 27th of December at Ysgol Calon y Dderwen from 2pm - 3pm in their main school hall.

We are so thankful to the school team for making this happen 😃

There will be parking on site and lots of faces to guide you down to the hall itself.

Please spread the word of this location change, it will be warm & well lit inside and full of our friendly volunteers 😃

We presume there will be lots of lovely food on offer at this share, so bring a bag and come and help yourself!

Remember this is FREE service, there will be donation pots dotted around the place should you be able to help 🥰

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Xmas at Park Street Infants School..........1965......(Courtesy of Mike Poston)

Our pupils of the week last week - recognised for their hard work and dedication both in class and through our school play performances.
Such perseverance and positivity.
Sending us into Christmas in style!
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Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd!

Wishing all our incredible children, parents, families and friends a truly wonderful Christmas, filled with family fun and festivities.
Thank you for all your continued support over the year, it’s very much appreciated.
Spend that quality time with eachother and enjoy those special moments.

School doors will be open next Tuesday 27th when the Newtown Food Surplus visit (2-3pm) and if anyone needs anything else over the holiday period, please drop us a message. ❤️❤️

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School may close for our Christmas holidays today but next Tuesday (27th December), we open our gates and doors to the Newtown Food Surplus programme.

If you are planning on having a second Christmas dinner, any family gatherings or just need to re-stock the shelves and fridge, please feel free to pay a visit to the school hall.

This really is an amazing programme and saves so much food going to waste and landfill.

Don't forget to bring some bags :)



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**Exciting announcement ** ☺️❤️

We will be hosting a food share on Tuesday the 27th of December at Ysgol Calon y Dderwen from 2pm - 3pm in their main school hall.

We are so thankful to the school team for making this happen 😃

There will be parking on site and lots of faces to guide you down to the hall itself.

Please spread the word of this location change, it will be warm & well lit inside and full of our friendly volunteers 😃

We presume there will be lots of lovely food on offer at this share, so bring a bag and come and help yourself!

Remember this is FREE service, there will be donation pots dotted around the place should you be able to help 🥰

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Last day of the term and it’s definitely feeling like Christmas!
Today children are welcome to come to school in their Christmas Jumpers and bring a small donation (£1) which will go to the NSPCC.
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Hi Frank,
Another picture from Park Street Infant School Nativity Play. Fred Lloyd included this time.🤣...........1964/65.........(Courtesy of Mike Poston)

It’s Christmasssssss!
What an absolute delight it was today to be in our halls once again all together enjoying an amazing Christmas dinner.
A massive Diolch yn FAWR to our superb team in both kitchens for serving up a right royal feast! With well over 200 dinners served to our children and a further 25 to staff thanks to our local Newtown Food Surplus delivery on Friday.
Not much movement this afternoon as we nurse those full tummies!

Christmas Dinner - Tomorrow 🎅🏻🎄😀
Tomorrow, the whole school will be treated to a Christmas dinner served up by our amazing kitchen staff 🙌
Children are welcome to come into school dressed for the festive occasion 👍

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Xmas at Ladywell Green School.........1974.......(Courtesy of Melissa Pugh)

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Xmas at Park Street Infants School..........c1964........(Courtesy of Moyra Pugh)

The Foundation Phase children have had such a wonderful morning watching the visiting panto Dick Whittington today!! We sang, we laughed, we groaned at the jokes! Thank you to Mrs O for arranging such a fun treat for us all!!! Did we love it? Oh yes we did!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

And that’s a wrap!!! 🙌 🎁 🙌
Thank you all so much for your support over the last few days and evenings. 👍
Our children and staff have certainly put on four wonderful shows, each great in their own unique way! 🔝🎭🔝🎭🔝🎭🔝🎭
We have loved having the opportunity to welcome you all back into school and share this special moment with you.
Our focus now turns to the next few days and let the fun and games begin! 🎅🏻 🎄 🎁 ❤️
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How it started ……. How it finished! 🙌
What an absolute pleasure it was to welcome our families and friends to school today and tonight for our Christmas Concert!
The children performed exceptionally well and did us all proud.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening ….. we go again! 💚🌳

An absolute pleasure to host such a wonderful project and truly inspiring team of volunteers. So much food saved from going to waste. 💚🌍💚. Can’t wait until the next one. 👍

Aaaaaand, that is a wrap on our revised location Food share this evening. What a fantastic evening we all had.

Cannot thank Ysgol Calon y Dderwen enough for this opportunity to host a central to Newtown food share in a warm & well lit up hall 🥰

We had a footfall of 106 people tonight which is massive for us, absolutely everything was redistributed and taken home, we are thrilled at this show up 🙌🏼

What an amazing community we have & we cannot wait until the next one!

A reminder that the Newtown Food Surplus distribution will be at school today from 2:45pm - 3:30pm and again from 5:30pm this evening.
Please bring an empty shipping bag.
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This is an amazing way to save our environment, food going to waste and fill our shopping bags at the same time!
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🔈 ATTENTION 🔈

On Monday the 12th of December, our food share will be running from Ysgol Calon y Dderwen (Next to Newtown library) in the main Ladywell hall.
Time: 5:30pm - 6pm
This will be a free service, all are welcome to join us on the 12th ☺️

This means we will NOT be running our morning food share over at Pen Dinas - please spread the word of this revised food share location.

Full address for the food share:
Ysgol Calon y Dderwen
Park Lane
Newtown
SY16 1EG
Wales

Parking is available for customers, the turning for the parking is after the library and will be signposted on the day of the share ☺️

We look forward to seeing you at our new location for one night only 🙏

Come help us fight the war on food waste ❤️

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Recognize anyone from this Xmas Group Folks?..........(Courtesy of Jean Hughes)

Thanks to all for your support at our Christmas Fayre this afternoon. 🎄
Such a wonderful turnout and fantastic support. I know the children worked hard on their products and are very appreciative.
How lucky were we too that Santa called in. 🙌🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻🙌
Thanks also to those from outside who brought some stalls in - was great to see you part of our event. 🎅🏻
Mr Gregory hasn’t been seen since he stepped into the Mid Wales Photo Booths. We know he loves a good photo shoot and may be there until Monday!! 📸
After a challenging few years with restrictions limiting our festive events, this was a great big tick ✔️ to getting things back on the road.

True acts of genuine kindness by our friendship winners this week.
each one has a story to share on being helpful and a true friend. 👍💚🌳


*a schoop has been sent to each individual parent with your own personal message. If you haven’t received one, please update your details in the Schoop settings and enter your child’s name. Diolch. CH*

💚🌳 This week has been full of top drawer performances both inside and outside of the classrooms.
A huge ’da iawn’ to each and every one of our superstars who really are pulling out all the stops with such postitivity and an ability to work together.
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*a schoop has been sent to each individual parent with your own personal message. If you haven’t received one, please update your details in the Schoop settings and enter your child’s name. Diolch. CH*

Did I just hear someone mention Christmas Fayre?!! 🎄
Tomorrow from 3:05pm in our school halls - because having just one hall isn’t big enough! 🙂
I’ll post up further details tomorrow but know that it’s going to be an absolute cracker!

’sonhisway

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*New School Building*
Over the past few months Staff and Governors have been working with Powys County Council Transformation Team on our new school building. The first two stages of this process look at the current requirements and what we would like included in our new build.
Some draft plans have been made and it was great to be able to share them with our school Learning Council this week and take in their views.
We will now take this feedback to our next meeting with the Transformation Team and develop the plans further.
We are hoping to have some further plans to share with our parents soon in the new year.

💚🌳Great eco news! 💚🌳
After the efforts of our classes a few weeks ago, it has been confirmed that we collected a mammoth grand total of 48.52kg of PURE and WHOLESOME Calon y Dderwen acorns from our school grounds!
Our efforts were judged by Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales , along with the efforts of 132 other schools and community groups across Wales. They measured the quality and quantity of our collection as well as the time and care taken to collect the acorns.
The outcome of this was that we have been awarded as the winning collection and awarded with the GOLDEN ACORN AWARD, which we are incredibly proud of! 💛💚🌳💛
Our school name, badge, vision embraces everything about the oak tree and our truly wonderful school grounds and it’s great to have been involved and recognised for this award.
A huge diolch o’r galon to Miss Allen for driving this effort and to all our children for collecting what have been recognised as some of the finest acorns in the land!
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Can’t wait to welcome you all next Monday 💚🌳

🔈 ATTENTION 🔈

On Monday the 12th of December, our food share will be running from Ysgol Calon y Dderwen (Next to Newtown library) in the main Ladywell hall.
Time: 5:30pm - 6pm
This will be a free service, all are welcome to join us on the 12th ☺️

This means we will NOT be running our morning food share over at Pen Dinas - please spread the word of this revised food share location.

Full address for the food share:
Ysgol Calon y Dderwen
Park Lane
Newtown
SY16 1EG
Wales

Parking is available for customers, the turning for the parking is after the library and will be signposted on the day of the share ☺️

We look forward to seeing you at our new location for one night only 🙏

Come help us fight the war on food waste ❤️

Many thanks to MAWW Fire and Rescue Service Powys Community safety Angela for visiting our Year 2 and Year 5 classes today to talk to our children about Fire Safety.
We looked at how we can reduce risk and keep safe at home.
Please please please check your home fire alarms. If you discover a fault call 0800 1691234 and the Fire Brigade will come out and fix them for free 🙌
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Scooting Sensations!! 🛴
What a great first day of our Scooter Skills sessions!
Every child in our Foundation Phase had the chance to dust off their scooting skills, put their pedals to the floor and navigate their way around the obstacles!
Many thanks to Tara and Sustrans for taking our children for these activities.
Looking forward to more of the same with our junior children tomorrow 👍🙌🛴

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Exciting News! 💚🌳
Next Monday, 12th December, the amazing Newtown Food Surplus will be using our school hall for their Monday free distribution.
There will be two sessions, one at 2:45pm and a later one at 5:30pm - 6pm.
Please bring a shopping bag.
We are so fortunate to have this programme in our town, serving our community and having a huge impact on looking after the environment.

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Do you need to apply for a place in Reception at Primary School in September 2023?

If so, the Primary School Admission Round for learners born between 01/09/2018 – 31/08/2019 opened on Monday 3 October 2022.

Parents/Carers need to complete an online application at https://en.powys.gov.uk/article/1161/Apply-for-a-Secondary-School-Place

Applications need to be made by the deadline of Friday 6 January 2023.

Primary Common Offer Date is Monday 17 April 2023

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The criteria are different for different types of school, so please check carefully to see if you qualify by checking the Home to School Transport Policy which is available on the following webpage: https://en.powys.gov.uk/article/3879/Apply-for-school-transport

This week’s Eco pick up from our friends at Newtown Food Surplus was a full berry 🍓 and tasty tangerine 🍊 mix!
Our children loved their breaktime treats that’s for sure!
Another 10.5 kg of good quality food saved from landfill!

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This week’s KiVA awards go to this group - showing true acts of kindness and friendship to others in class and encouraging other to do well.
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*a schoop has been sent to each individual parent with your own personal message. If you haven’t received one, please update your details in the Schoop settings and enter your child’s name. Diolch. CH*

Showing true strength in all areas of their work throughout November are this great bunch. 💪🙌👍
They really have shown a wonderful attitude to learning and are making excellent progress in school.
Recognised for efforts and showing lots of signs of our learning dispositions to help them become successful learners. 🙌
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*a schoop has been sent to each individual parent with your own personal message. If you haven’t received one, please update your details in the Schoop settings and enter your child’s name. Diolch. CH*

Our Eco Warriors are at it again!
A huge thanks to Newtown Food Surplus for today’s offering.
Free bread and milk at the school gate.
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Saving the environment and filling our shopping bags at the same time! 🙌

Not to be this time. 😞
Diolch Cymru ❤️
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Fruitastic! 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍅🍌
After yesterdays Newtown Food Surplus collection, our Eco Warriors distributed their fruit and vegetables across the school today and cleared the table within minutes.
This is a great effort and saved over 22kg of food going to waste!
Tomorrow, we still have plenty of bananas 🍌 and milk🥛 for those who would like a snack.
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Pob lwc Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️🤞

Fantastic for some of our school Eco group to link up with our friends from the amazing Newtown Food Surplus programme.
We have not only saved some food going to waste but have also got some free treats and snacks for our children during breaktime tomorrow.
After a busy morning, both sat down for a well deserved treat of warm crusty croissants and a glass of milk.
(Even the staff had a treat of a sausage baguette 🥖 (locally sourced!)
Looking forward to this becoming a regular occurrence by our Eco Council 💚🌳