Newsletter Ysgol Deiniol 17th January 2025

Literacy Skills - This week, Year 5 have been using videos from The Literacy Shed to help their writing skills. They have been watching a short video from the film, Avatar, and then used that as inspiration to produce a diary entry. Once they wrote a diary entry they edited it and typed it up to produce a final version. Here we have one version of the diary from Charlotte in Dosbarth Berwyn.

Nursery Admissions Are OPEN! Admissions for Nursery 2025 are now open for children who are aged 3 and over from 1st September 2025. Parents and Carers are now being asked to use the online portal (please see link below) to apply for places here at our school. The closing date for applications is February 17, 2025.https://nwc.cloud.servelec-synergy.com/Wrexham/live/SynergyWeb/

Chess Competition - Children from the juniors have been pitting their wits against each other in an ongoing chess competition. We have entered the local chess championships on 19th February so Mr. Perry is busy trying to find the next Grandmaster! We'll let you know how our team gets on once we've selected our team ready for the competition.

Cymraeg yn Ysgol Deiniol - One of our priorities at Ysgol Deiniol this year is to encourage pupils to use more Welsh in and around school. Over the last week we have introduced simple phrases to the whole school in order to encourage our pupils and staff to use Welsh independently. So far we have introduced: Bore da - Good morning, P'nawn da - Good afternoon and Ga i..? - Can I ...? Our next phrase that we are introducing is Ble mae'r...? - Where is the...?

My Happy Mind - A reminder that we are still using MyHappyMind in order to support our pupils with strategies to keep a happy and healthy mindset. You can sign up for extra FREE resources here: https://www.learn.myhappymind.org/Customer-Parents-Resources-Activation-Code Using the code 400428. Please download the free app to see what we do in school and to give you strategies on how to help your children.

Easyfundraising - When making purchases online please can you go through the 'easyfundraising' app as a small percentage of the transaction will be sent to the Friends of Deiniol. It doesn't cost you anything at all and most online retailers take part: Amazon, John Lewis, M&S, Tui etc. Just download the app, choose Friends of Deiniol School Yard and then use the app to choose an online store to buy from. It's really simple to use and easy money for the school!

Recycled Clothes - Please keep bagging up and sending in any unwanted clothes to the school. It's really easy money for the Friends of Deiniol which is then sent back into school to help our children.

Dog Blog - Please see our latest blog from Albert. https://ysgol-deiniol-cp.secure-primarysite.net/dog-blog/

Created By

Kevin Baugh

Credits:

Created with images by Kanomaoi - "New Year 2025 written in the sand on a beach with sea wave background." • Ngampol - "Leadership chess and thinking strategy plan about crash overthrow the opposite team and development analyze for successful"