School News.. Spring 2023 update

First class return to school for Saundersfoot Pupils. 

Saundersfoot CP School pupils have had first class results following the Urdd regional heat held on Friday 3^rd March.  Sixteen talented  (albeit nervous)  individuals attended the heats held at Ysgol Hafan Y Mor.

The highlight for Saundersfoot was Year 5 and 6 pupils who were awarded 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place in the Year 5 and 6 recital – Siopa. This unique achievement was extra special as there were 41 competitors in the field, with a Saundersfoot pupil starting the competition and ending it. Congratulations to all pupils who took part especially to Elizabeth- 1^st, Lily – 2^nd and Breagh 3^rd.

We must also congratulate the pupils who are new to the Welsh language and represented the school,  Denisa and Frankie.  Denisa, a Year 2 EAL  pupil should be congratulated for her hard work and pronunciation of Welsh and was awarded 2^nd place in her recital. Frankie, a year 4 pupil moved to Saundersfoot last year from Hampshire and has been amazing in learning Welsh and narrowly missed out on a podium finish.

Mr. Allen, Headteacher said ‘ We are tremendously proud of all our pupils for taking part. We must not forget some of these pupils have never experienced this type of arena due to the impact of Covid. I know for sure some of our pupils battled their nerves just to stand on the stage. They represent us all by displaying resilience and a never give up attitude. As always, I am so grateful to staff members who have given up their time to help support the pupils; Mrs Howell Evans, Mrs Davies, class teachers and parents/carers-a heartfelt Diolch yn fawr.’

Parental Workshop Presentation – 31.01.2023

Below is a video of a presentation delivered on Tuesday 31st January. 
We hope you find the presentation useful. We welcome feedback and suggestions on future presentations.

We held our third parental workshop recently and below is the presentation for parents and carers who could not make the evening.

Curriculum for Wales and ALN Reform Saundersfoot’s Summary

Saundersfoot CP School |  CfW  |  2022/23

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 Friday 14^th October  the school was party of the welcome party for HRH The Princess Royal. The whole school performed a sea shanty for HRH, quite apt for the naming of the schooner. Mr Allen, Headteacher said ‘ As you can imagine moving the whole school down onto the decking was quite a logistical challenge, yet alone preparing the children for singing outdoors and the etiquette of greeting Royalty. The staff skilfully and creatively worked these into lessons and activities, so we were fully prepared. I could not be prouder of the children, staff, volunteers and parents for all the support and their conduct during the whole afternoon. Even the deluge of rain as we walked back to school could not dampen our spirts!! This is an event that the whole community of Saundersfoot came together to celebrate and I am so grateful that the school played its part.’

The school representatives, Four Purpose Ambassadors presented the Royal party with Poses of Flowers. Ambitious and capable ambassadors – Grace and Halle, Creative Contributor ambassadors – Lowri and Ava, Ethic and Informed ambassadors Dylan and Diruksha and Health and Confident ambassadors Flynn and Meg.

Welcome to the Autumn Term 2022.

We  hope you all  enjoyed the Summer break, there were some beaming smiles this morning – mainly from parents and carers but definitely from the children too. It was lovely to see so many eager to return to school. Welcome back to you all.

The school celebrated the Jubilee with a ‘street party. We share a short clip of our street party taken from the schools drone. It was a fabulous afternoon and one in which we hope the children will remember for a long time. Thank you parents and careers for assisting the children to dress to impress, thank you to the children for their attitude and approach to the party and taking such good care of our visitors, thank you FOSS for the lovely ice creams and finally, thank you to the staff for all of their efforts to set up, run and pack away the party. A true team effort!.

Saundersfoot CP School – Ukrainian ‘School Bag’ Project.

The pupils and community of Saundersfoot CP School have been working together to assemble school bags for Ukrainian children who attend schools in Pembrokeshire.

This term the school  welcomed a pupil from Kyiv, Ukraine to Year 5, and the  class provided a school bag with all the necessary resources for a pupil to welcome them and help them succeed and learn in their new country. ‘This was such a success’ said Headteacher Mr. Nick Allen ‘we decided to scale up the project and provide school bags for any Ukrainian pupil enrolling in schools in Pembrokeshire. We really believed as a community this project would help in a meaningful and genuine way.’

We asked families to donate; Ruck Sack (unisex, plain colours ideally) Lunch box, Drinks bottle, Pencil, case Pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers, colouring pencils or felt tips. picture book and a new note pad or colouring book and anything else would benefit a pupil in this situation.

Mr Allen added, ‘I do need to thank all parents and carers who helped contribute to the project and especially Year 5 who helped put the school bags together. An excited group of children accompanied myself as we handed them over to Darren Gilbert, Leader worker for the Pembrokeshire Ukrainian Scheme. Part of our school vision is to help our children be emotional literate with well-being at the forefront of our education and this project certainly promotes that for all. We hope the school bags help children from the Ukraine settle into their new life in Pembrokeshire.’ 

We are very much aware of the current news topics and the questions children may have on and around the issue affecting Ukraine. As a caring educational establishment the school has always taught with impartiality whether this relates to historic events, political views or social subjects. Using these topics to develop understanding and critical thinking alongside tolerance and resilience.

We share these supporting documents on the situation in Ukraine as we feel they are helpful to us all, should we face questions or discussions on  this challenging topic with our children, should the topic arise.

We hope you find them useful, and only share them as we look to provide our children with accurate information that is presented in a balanced way, reassuring them that there is more good in this world than evil and is in no way political.

Advice if you’re upset by the news – CBBC Newsround

January 2022.

Welcome to 2022 in Saundersfoot CP School!!

Blwyddyn Newydd dda! Happy New Year!

I hope you have all enjoyed the festive period and are fully recharged! It would appear that we all needed that full charge, as we face an uncertain January and Spring 2022.

Summary.
Staffing capacity currently 95%. Subject to change on a daily basis. All efforts will be made to ensure face to face teaching, only after school has exhausted all other plans will remote learning take place.

End of school collection as planned in final newsletter of 2021. We will begin dismissing our classes with our youngest pupils, Reception at 3pm, a rolling program at 5min intervals will then follow. We will continue with our dismissal of all siblings with the youngest child.
All adults collecting children are asked to wear a facemask and maintain a social distance.

Buckle up, the next few weeks are going to be a challenge.

Team Saundersfoot

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Saundersfoot CP School and Signsmart.

Saundersfoot CP School has worked with local company signsmart to design and install a fantastic new image for the reception and foyer area.

Headteacher Mr. Nick Allen commented ‘ This design has been a few years in the making really. The large curved wall had been crying out for a feature and a number of staff both past and present expressed desire to include Monkstone point in some form of design. We then took the opportunity to include our recently developed vision, core values and new curriculum four purpose characters. As the wall is in the reception area the final design feature was to include ‘Welcome’ in all the languages spoken within Saundersfoot. I must thank those parents and carers for their help in ensuring the translation was accurate.

We are tremendously pleased with the feature and would like to thank Zung and Kasumi Tran from Signsmart for the artwork and support throughout the design process.

We hope that you are all safe and well. We would like to thank you for keeping in touch with us during this challenging time and for your involvement in, and support of, your child’s learning.

At Saundersfoot CP School we are looking forward to the Summer term and the challenges it is sure to bring.  The following information will help us all to ensure, as much as possible, a safe and purposeful experience as we move into 2021.  By working together we will ensure that our children in Saundersfoot School will feel cared for, ready to learn and safe.

Schools, families and communities are now  truly in a   collaborative approach from both home and school, we do appreciate it is not easy and we are here to help in whatever way we can. The staff wish you all to know that we are committed in helping to maintain literacy, numeracy and social connections for all our pupils.

The school successfully transitioned over to on site teaching and learning during the Spring term, acting on the feedback given as part of the parental survey. Additional feedback is always appreciated as this will help ensure the school continually develops its systems and procedures, helping to keep everyone safe during this extremely pressured and challenging time.

The video below is a sample of our remote learning teaching and learning from Year 6 all the way down to the Nursery.

Parental feedback March 2021.

Saundersfoot School worked extremely hard to provide support, structure and education to our children throughout the pandemic. On day’s where my children needed the schools hub provision they always came out smiling and I can’t thank the staff enough for providing the children not only with an education but a safe enjoyable place as well. 

I felt that the school handled the lockdown fantastically, my daughter had online learning everyday which she engaged in and enjoyed. Thank you

They did everything they could in such hard times. A lot of respect and gratitude to Mr Allen and all staff at the school for their way they adapted so well.

I could not ask for better, the way Saundersfoot CP School managed the hole lockdown was amazing. Massive thank you!

The difference of support with the Google classrooms made a big difference to the children in feeling more like a part of the class. Mrs Evans made real effort to keep that lovely community sense going g in particular, I loved how they all had ‘story time’ together with Miss reading to them and then discussion afterwards as a group. 

We really are genuinely impressed with the schools handling of both lockdowns. The google classroom was excellent and Leon enjoyed interacting with both the teacher and pupils. The system worked very well for our family.

Parental feedback January 2021;

I must say the Live classrooms offer from Saundersfoot School has been brilliant. Children are engaged and working really hard. I realise how much hard work must be going into setting up this new way of working. Whilst nothing beats face to face teaching, what you have all developed has been a triumph as far as I can see. Well done all. Year 2 and  4 parent – Mrs Howells.

The Google meet classroom has been brilliant this week. We are so impressed with the standard of teaching that has been delivered and how you have managed this transition to home learning. We really appreciate how much hard work it has taken to deliver this support and are so grateful. Well done to all the staff at Saundersfoot school! Year 5 parent Mrs McAllister.

Thank you so much for the live lessons. They are brilliant! So impressed with how the school has adapted under these circumstances to help our children. Well done everyone for all your hard work,  Year 3 and 5 parent, Mrs Griffiths. 

It is important to be aware that school IS NOT the same as it was before the COVID-19 crisis. It is also important to realise that government guidance changes frequently, so all plans are subject to further changes outside of our control.

Sfoot Recovery Parental Leaflet
Sfoot Recovery letter 16062020

Estyn November 2019.

We are delighted to share with you the outcome of the recent Estyn inspection visit. Estyn have confirmed that the school has addressed all of the issues identified in the May 2018 inspection.

Key highlights from the report are:

• The standards of teaching and learning have improved significantly across the school. 
• Teachers provide exciting, relevant learning experiences that engage pupils successfully. 
• Teachers have high expectations that their pupils will work hard and try to do their best. 
• All staff have worked hard to develop a consistent approach to providing feedback to pupils 
• Collaborative working at all levels has improved since the core inspection. 
• Teachers and learning support assistants know that their work is valued and are committed to achieving the best outcomes for their pupils 
• The headteacher has managed the changes at the school thoughtfully. He has been consistent in his expectations that all teachers will take part in the school’s improvement journey. There is now a purposeful working culture at the school. 

The school is committed to building upon these firm foundations, ensuring that all pupils make the progress of which they are capable.

To access the full report click here.

Message from our Mr Allen and the Governors. 

Choosing the right school for your child is vitally important. Parents want a good education for their child but they also want them to be happy and to feel safe and secure. At Saundersfoot School we believe that we can offer all these things.

The dedication of all staff ensures that they support the development of resilient, creative and ambitious learners who will become positive members of the local and wider community. We also pride ourselves in having strong values within the school to drive good citizenship and help our pupils to be valuable members of our future society. 

Reading about the school is helpful, however, visiting the school is essential so you can experience the nurturing, inclusive ethos within each class and the school.