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Parentmail 20.10.23
Fri 20 Oct 2023Dear Parents/Carers,
Several Spooks and Sparkles costumes were bought/exchanged at the end of last week, and we look forward to seeing them at the discos next week.
As the weather gets colder please remember to wrap children up warm so that they can enjoy going outside for fresh air, fun and exercise during the school day.
Parents’ Consultations
If you haven’t booked your parent consultation yet, please do so via the link https://Lakesideprimary.schoolcloud.co.uk/. We are looking forward to welcoming parents/carers into school next week for their consultations with class teachers. Please note that the booking window closes Sunday evening to allow staff time to prepare for the meetings on Monday.
PTA Spooks and Sparkles Discos Thursday 26th October: 5-5.45pm and 6-7pm FLYER ATTACHED
Entry to BOTH discos is via the main School Entrance (by the Winnie the Pooh Garden). Please purchase tickets via ParentPay. Children will be ticked off from our lists on entry. Cost of entry: £2.50 each.
Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2: 5pm – 5.45pm
An adult needs to stay with their child and enjoy the dancing. Exit will be via the KS2 Door.
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6: 6pm – 7pm
Children can be dropped off, but please make sure they go into the school building. No mobile phones please. Pick up will be from the KS2 Door at 7pm. Children will not be allowed to walk home without a responsible adult picking them up.
Fancy dress is encouraged, not essential. But dancing like nobody’s watching is obviously compulsory!
Colorfoto Photos Day: Wednesday 8th November
Colorfoto will be coming into school to take individual pupil photos.
Lost Property
Please see the lost property page of the web site if your child has mislaid something: https://www.lakesideprimaryschool.co.uk/lost-property-eiddo-coll/ It would help us greatly if children’s property was labelled with their name, especially school uniform, so that we can reunite owners with their clothing or other items. Many thanks.
Year Group Christmas Sharing sessions
Following the success of these last Christmas, the children will be sharing a Christmas-themed presentation with parents/carers. Below is the timetable for these events. Each session will start at 9.30am and will take place in the Big Hall. Thank you.
Day / Date – 9.30am starts, Big Hall
Year group
Monday 11th December
Nursery AM
Nursery PM (time TBC)
Tuesday 12th December
Reception
Wednesday 13th December
Year 1
Thursday 14th December
Year 2
Friday 15th December
Year 3
Tuesday 19th December
Year 4
Wednesday 20th December
Year 6
Thursday 21st December
Year 5
Wishing you a pleasant weekend.
Best wishes,
Rachel Mitchell, Headteacher
Upcoming events / Term dates
Monday 30th October – Friday 3rd November – half term break
November
Wednesday 8th November – Colorfoto individual pupil photos
Friday 10th November 2.30pm – Year 6 Remembrance Assembly for parents/carers
w/c Monday 13th November – Anti-bullying Week
Monday 13th November – Wear Odd Socks Day for Anti-bullying Week
Thursday 16th November 6.30pm - PTA Annual General Meeting, School Hall
Friday 17th November – CRAZY HAIR DAY for Children in Need
Monday 20th November – Year 4 children receive Universal Free School Meals (please remember to order before 8am each day)
December
Friday 1st December – Christmas Fayre
Thursday 7th December – Christmas Jumper Day for Save the Children
Thursday 7th December (to the 15th) - Hannukkah
Friday 22nd December – Pantomime
Friday 22nd December – Break up for Christmas
Term dates
2023-2024 academic year
Additional INSET days TBD
Break up for Half Term
Friday 27th October 2023
Autumn Half Term
Monday 30th October, 2023
Friday 3rd November, 2023
Break up for Christmas
Friday 22nd December
Christmas Break
Monday 25th December, 2023
Friday 8th January, 2024
Return to school
Monday 8th January, 2024
Break up for Half Term
Friday 9th February, 2024
Spring Half Term
Monday 12th February, 2024
Friday 16th February, 2024
Break up for Easter
Friday 22nd March, 2024
Easter Break
Monday 25th March, 2024
Friday 5th April, 2024
Return to school
Monday 8th April, 2024
EARLY MAY BANK HOLIDAY
Monday 6th May, 2024
Break up for Half Term
Friday 24th May
Summer Half Term
Monday 27th May, 2024
Friday 31st May, 2024
Last day of term
Monday 22nd July, 2024
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Parentmail 13.10.23
Fri 13 Oct 2023Dear Parents/Carers,
Yet again I must thank you - our Lakeside families - for your continuing generosity. On Tuesday staff and pupils wore yellow for Mental Health Day and you donated £379.50 to Bronwen’s Wish. The charity is funding the building of a wellbeing pod in the school grounds and it is nearing completion. Lakeside is the first school in Cardiff to receive a pod and the charity hopes to build many more in schools over the coming years. Thank you again, therefore, for your contribution to this worthy cause.
Here’s a link to the School Council’s Harvest video, which we made last Wednesday when the children took all the wonderful donations to the Food Bank at Emmanuel Church in Gabalfa. https://lakeside-primary-school-cardiff.primarysite.media/media/school-council-harvest-video-2023
Parents’ Consultations
The booking system for Parent Consultations is ‘going live’ on Tuesday 17th October at 10am.
Shwmae Day Friday 13th October
Thank you all for joining in Shwmae Day to celebrate all things Welsh. We had some great costumes on the day and pupils enjoyed some Welsh-themed activities throughout the school. Look out for Year 6’s rendition of Sosban Fach on the school gate at home time!
PTA Preloved Spooks and Sparkles costumes Sale: Friday 3.15pm
Remember to come and browse for a costume in the PTA Preloved costume sale after school today
PTA Spooks and Sparkles Discos Thursday 26th October: 5-5.45pm and 6-7pm
Entry to BOTH discos is via the main School Entrance (by the Winnie the Pooh Garden). Please purchase tickets via ParentPay, which has gone live today. Children will be ticked off from our lists on entry. Cost of entry: £2.50 each.
Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2: 5pm – 5.45pm
An adult needs to stay with their child and enjoy the dancing. Exit will be via the KS2 Door.
Years 3, 4, 5 and 6: 6pm – 7pm
Children can be dropped off, but please make sure they go into the school building. No mobile phones please. Pick up will be from the KS2 Door at 7pm. Children will not be allowed to walk home without a responsible adult picking them up.
Fancy dress is encouraged, not essential. But dancing like nobody’s watching is obviously compulsory!
Lost Property
Please see the lost property page of the web site if your child has mislaid something: https://www.lakesideprimaryschool.co.uk/lost-property-eiddo-coll/ It would help us greatly if children’s property was labelled with their name, especially school uniform, so that we can reunite owners with their clothing or other items. Many thanks.
Year Group Christmas Sharing sessions
Following the success of these last Christmas, the children will be sharing a Christmas-themed presentation with parents/carers. Below is the timetable for these events. Each session will start at 9.30am and will take place in the Big Hall. Thank you.
Day / Date – 9.30am starts, Big Hall
Year group
Monday 11th December
Nursery AM
Nursery PM (time TBC)
Tuesday 12th December
Reception
Wednesday 13th December
Year 1
Thursday 14th December
Year 2
Friday 15th December
Year 3
Tuesday 19th December
Year 4
Wednesday 20th December
Year 6
Thursday 21st December
Year 5
Wishing you a pleasant weekend.
Best wishes,
Rachel Mitchell, Headteacher
Upcoming events / Term dates
October 2023
w/c Monday 23rd October – Outdoor Learning Week at Lakeside
Tuesday 24th October – Parents’ consultations
Wednesday 25th October – Parents’ consultations
Thursday 26th October – Spooks and Sparkles Disco
Friday 27th October - Break up for half term
Monday 30th October – Friday 3rd November – half term break
November
Wednesday 8th November – COLORFOTO individual pupil photos
Friday 10th November 2.30pm – Year 6 Remembrance Assembly for parents/carers
w/c Monday 13th November – Anti-bullying Week
Monday 13th November – Wear Odd Socks Day for Anti-bullying Week
Thursday 16th November 6.30pm - PTA Annual General Meeting, School Hall
Friday 17th November – CRAZY HAIR DAY for Children in Need
Monday 20th November – Year 4 children receive Universal Free School Meals (please remember to order before 8am each day)
December
Friday 1st December – Christmas Fayre
Thursday 7th December – Christmas Jumper Day for Save the Children
Thursday 7th December (to the 15th) - Hannukkah
Friday 22nd December – Pantomime
Friday 22nd December – Break up for Christmas
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Parentmail 6/10/23
Fri 06 Oct 2023Dear Parents/Carers,
I often thank you – our families – for your generosity whenever we raise money or collect donations, and I mean every word. Yet again, I must thank you for your incredible kindness. Last Friday, we collected £343.43 in donations that you made to St John Ambulance. Then at the end of Friday there was a PTA Cake Sale in aid of the Morocco and Syria DEC appeals, which raised an unprecedented £449.16! That’s £792.59 raised in one day! Then, on Wednesday, we held a Harvest assembly and the donations flooded in! We estimate at least 500 cans of food collected, many kilos of pasta, rice, snacks, plus puddings, toiletries and cleaning items. The School Council and the food squashed into a mini bus and delivered the donations to Emmanuel Baptist Church Food Bank in Gabalfa. We couldn’t fit all the food into the storage space at the church and there are now several ‘overflow’ boxes. The church Food Bank distributes food every Friday and say that they have enough for the next six weeks at least. The School council are making a video about their ‘trip’ to the Food bank, on which they worked very hard! So, thank you, thank you, thank you Lakeside families – you always rise to the occasion! (Thanks also to Mrs Harries, the PTA and Mrs Street for organising these events and collections).
Nasal Flu Vaccinations
These were given to those who consented and were in school yesterday. If you missed it and wish to have your child vaccinated, you will need to attend a catch up clinic – we will parentmail you when we are informed of any available sessions. In order to have the vaccination, you will need to use the e-consent form which we parentmailed previously to access a catch up clinic.
Wear Yellow for Mental Health Day Tuesday 10th October
Tuesday 10th October pupils and staff are invited to Wear Yellow for Mental Health Day and we will be collecting donations for Bronwen’s Wish, a charity very close to our hearts here at Lakeside and which is financing the Wellbeing Pod being built in the school grounds at the moment.
Shwmae Day Friday 13th October
On Friday 13th, we will celebrate Shwmae Day and all things Welsh by wearing red or anything Welsh, and enjoying some Welsh-themed activities throughout the day. Please note that this is not a fundraiser so no need to bring money to school.
PTA News
Thank you to all those who attended the PTA meeting we held last week, lovely to see lots of new faces wanting to get involved. Really is worthwhile and very rewarding.
Here are some ways that you can help the PTA:
- Helping to organise events
- Help can take many different forms, e.g. helping set up, helping at the event, clearing up afterwards
- Forming local links with businesses e.g. restaurants, caterers, artists, suppliers, entertainers etc., and/or companies that could sponsor events or make donations
- Helping to be a year group communications link between your year group and the main PTA members. Send us an email if you would like to be included on the PTA WhatsApp as a start.
The email address is lakesideprimarycardiffpta@gmail.com
Friday 13th October – PTA Preloved Spooks and Sparkles costumes Sale.
Ahead of the Disco, we are organising a sale of Pre-loved costumes. Please drop donations of any which no longer fit your children etc that may benefit other families at the office next week and you may even find yourself a bargain at the sale on Friday 13th 3.15pm
PTA Spooks and Sparkles Disco Thursday 26th October
Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 Disco is at 5pm till 5.45pm
Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 Disco is 6pm till 7pm
Christmas Cards
The children have already prepared their designs and these are now with the printers. As soon as they return back with order forms we will have a short turn around in order to get the best outcome for the PTA so please ensure you make your orders as soon as possible when these are available. We are led to believe additional products have been included this year. They do make lovely Christmas gifts.
Thanks, PTA
Lost Property
We have MANY water/drinks bottles and Tupperware boxes without names on that have been handed in as lost property – a photo has been added to the lost property page of the website which you can find at Parents > Lost property, or via this link https://www.lakesideprimaryschool.co.uk/lost-property-eiddo-coll/ If your child has mislaid something please take a look at the photos and let us know if you recognise anything. Thank you.
Wishing you a pleasant weekend.
Best wishes,
Rachel Mitchell, Headteacher
Upcoming events / Term dates
October 2023
w/c Monday 23rd October – Parents’ Consultations
w/c Monday 23rd October – Outdoor Learning Week at Lakeside
Thursday 26th October – Spooks and Sparkles Disco
Friday 27th October - Break up for half term
Monday 30th October – Friday 3rd November – half term break
November
Thursday 16th November 6.30pm - PTA Annual General Meeting, School Hall
December
Friday 1st December – Christmas Fayre
Friday 22nd December – Travelling Pantomime
Friday 22nd December – Break up for Christmas