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MARCH NEWSLETTER

Mon 31 Mar 2025

Dear Parents/Carers,

Another month has passed and it has certainly been a busy one at Sketty Primary School. We continued our celebrations for St David’s Day during our Welsh week, culminating in a fantastic Eisteddfod where all the children had the opportunity to perform. We also celebrated Comic Relief and World Water Day. These days are so important in developing the children’s awareness of the wider world beyond Sketty and how we can help others. World Book Day was another fantastic occasion in school and it was lovely to see the children, and staff, dressed up in such amazing
costumes and bring their favourite books to school.

It has been a pleasure again to welcome Parents and Carers to school over the last few weeks for our Spring Term meetings with class teachers.

We would be very grateful if you could complete the feedback form to help us plan for next year.

https://forms.office.com/e/5u0UCkcJEf

A huge thank you to our PTA who organised the Rainbow Dress up day and to all parents and carers who supported by sending in items for the hampers. They look fantastic and we are going to have a number of very lucky winners before the end of term. If you would like additional raffle tickets, these can be collected from the school office.

Kind Regards
Mr Simon Lloyd-Jones
Acting Headteacher
Sketty Primary School

Certificate Winners

Sun 30 Mar 2025 Julie Miller

Huge congratulations to this week's certificate winners

Certificate winners

Fri 28 Mar 2025

Apologies for the lateness, but here are last week's certificate winners, a huge congratulations to these children.

Toileting support for children starting school

Mon 24 Mar 2025 Julie Miller

Hello we're ERIC, The Children's Bowel & Bladder Charity, and we're reaching out to let you know about some free resources we're making available to you all to support with toilet training children in preparation for school.

No doubt you'll be aware of recent figures that show that 1 in 4 children are now starting school still struggling with toileting. ERIC offers support and reassurance to families who are struggling with any kind of bowel and bladder issue.

We've set up an initiative called Toilet Train, to help get as many children toilet trained and ready for school as possible by offering support via email, our website and our helpline.

We have free digital assets for you, packed with advice sheets, videos, posters and leaflets which you can download.

The advice sheets include:

Potty training advice
Toilet training children with additional needs
How to tackle constipation
Bottom wiping advice
Daytime and night time wetting
Handling toilet anxiety

Parents and carers can also sign up to receive information and advice sent straight to their inbox.

We want to make toilet training fun, simple and accessible to everyone. You can access your pack now by clicking the link below and heading to our website to download it.

https://eric.org.uk/all-aboard-the-toilet-train-get-ready-for-school/

To download the advice sheets, click below to take you to the school ERIC page

https://www.skettyprimary.co.uk/eric/

Parent/ Carer ALN survey

Mon 24 Mar 2025 Julie Miller

Arad Research are conducting an evaluation of the ALN system on behalf of Welsh Government. As part of the evaluation, this survey will gather the views of parents and carers about the ALN system in Wales. This important research will help the Welsh Government to understand how it can continue to improve the ALN system. For further information, please contact Arad at alnevaluation@research.arad.wales. We want to hear the views and experiences of parents and carers of the Additional learning needs system

The ALN system is in its final year of transition from the special educational needs (SEN) system to the additional learning needs (ALN) system.

Arad Research are conducting the evaluation on behalf of Welsh Government. Please complete the following survey, to have your views heard.

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/aln-parents-carers/