Cefn Fforest Primary Weblog

Welcome to Class 3P( http://class3p.blogspot.com), they have joined the world of Blogs. The class have blogged about their work on World Book Day. Also looking ahead to visits to school by authors and book illustrators this week - more on that soon...

Both the Infant and Junior Hall ( above) were transformed today into an Art Gallery by the gentleman from 'Images'. 3 weeks ago all classes submitted art using a variety of media to be mounted displayed and hopefully eventually sold ( at a reasonable £6 for a framed original piece of artwork).

It certainly brightened up the school as the display was both bright and colourful and attracted a good response from parents at the end of the school day.

Members of the Year 6 News Team were certainly excited by the display and you can expect a report to be written for our Making the News project within the next few days.

We now begin full steam ahead toward Christmas there will be a lot of things going on at CFP throughout the next few weeks, so do keep with us in order to find out what's going on in and around our school.

Here are some of the dates to put in your Diary :

Monday 13th November - School Art Display, this will be your opportunity to come into school, view the art produced by the pupils. All of the art on show will be 'named and framed' and also available for purchase by you. This will be your chance to buy a piece of your own child's work, I am sure that their work will make you proud.

Friday 17th November - School Closure Day , teachers will be working at the ESIS building in Nantgarw that day, school will be closed.

Looking further ahead - Friday 1st December !!! ( yes December already!!) Parents ( grandparents , uncles and aunties) along with  pupils will be cordially invited to the Infant School Yard where the Silver Band will be playing Christmas Carols from 3.15pm until 3.45pm. This will be followed by the Friend's of the School Christmas Fayre which will open from 3.40 pm. This is sure to be a very enjoyable way to spend a Friday afternoon in early December  don't miss it.

There will be further information on Christmas Concerts and Christmas Parties soon - * watch this space* 

Preparations are going full steam ahead for CFP's Harvest Festivals, as we said yesterday many thanks to our local Asda Superstore in Blackwood for supplying the school with ' Foods from around the World'

   This gift will certainly enable us to put on a super show tomorrow. A dedicated group of teachers and teaching assistants have been working hard to prepare both halls for their big day.

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As you can see there has been a transformation of the Junior Hall in particular, so many thanks to Miss Watson (oops sorry for previous ommision!!) Mrs. Carter, Miss Mallon, Mrs Davies, Mrs Bishop and  for all of their efforts to make our Harvest Time a real celebration.

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We look forward to welcoming Infant parents to the Infant Hall tomorrow and could we remind you once more that our Silver Collection will be taken for the Premananda  Orphanage.  http://www.orphancentre.org/

 The Junior harvest in full swing with Rev Roy on the left before he told us how God surely enjoys a party, as he gave the Jews 3 Harvests throughout the Year. We sometimes forget the effort needed to bring us the food we eat. ( Mr Gannon said that we can't have 3 weeks off to celebrate 3 harvest as the early christians did !!!! shame...)

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Below is our Harvest Loaf ( before it was cut up and eatenby the pupils) - Thanks to the bakery in the village for supplying both of our Harvest Loaves today,

Other news our Year 6 pupils will be going over to Blackwood Comprehensive School on Friday for their 'Year 6 Challenge Day' Good Luck to all involved have a good day on Friday.

Belated congratulations  from all of the staff and pupils of Cefn Fforest to Mrs Rees and her husband. Mrs Rees gave birth to baby Isobelle (7lb 61/2oz) last Wednesday at 2.30am - Well Done Miss

Mrs Rees with Mrs Edwards in July

** Thank You ASDA Blackwood **

Our local Asda store in Blackwood Town Centre has kindly donated a selection of foods from around the world - to decorate both the Infant and Junior Halls for our Harvest Festival celebrations on Thursday of this week. Thank You very much to the staff of Asda Blackwood from everyone at Cefn Fforest ( thank you also to Mrs Carter for going to the store and discussing the gift )

I am sure that the diary for the week ahead will fill up soon - keep ahead of the rest by regularly checking here for updates on the latest news.

So far the only date in the diary for this week is Harvest Festival Celebrations on Thursday 19th October with celebration on Harvest Around the World to be taken by Rev Roy Evans - the children are asked to bring in money for a Silver Collection on that day, all donations will be going towards sponsoring a child at the Premananda Orphanage in Andrha Pradesh, India.

We have been supporting the orphanage with donations over the past 4 years and have so far sponsored quite a few children, so do help us to continue this work with your silver donation.

 The aim of the centre is to rehabilitate some of the 'street children' and orphans, the centre aims also to try to stop child labour and exploitation of these children.

If you want to find out more about the work that they do at Premananda follow the link - http://www.orphancentre.org/ 

You can also find the nearest town Ongole in Andrha Pradesh using Google Earth - take a look !

 Thank You

What a busy day at CFP today, the weather gods smiled on us after a less than hopeful start and this heralded a flurry of activity in the garden - with Mrs Richards and Mr Bird being first in action tending the friendship garden.

While the rest of the school prepared for planting -  we have been gifted a large selection of old tyres that it has been planned to place around our Infant Yard and plant up with bulbs, today was the day!

The pupils and staff made an early start getting tools prepared before the start of school - and it wasn't long before all

Year Groups were out planting - 'green fingers' showing all over the place.

The hard work continued throughout the school day and it was our Year 3 pupils who finished their gardening at 3.20 this afternoon.

Wow what a great day at CFP!!!

Good news we are going to attempt our Environmental Day Planting tomorrow - Friday 13th October - It will be a non-uniform day ( jeans/old clothes) to enable most classes to get their planters started. If you have any compost lying around unused - we can use it !!! also tools for digging and planting would be useful - so go on -Have a look in your shed - you never know what you might find !!!

Other news - Friends of the School are running a 'Guess the weight of the Pumpkin' competition ( The Giant Pumpkin is at present in the Infant Hall and is enormous !!!  Have a guess (10p a go ) prizes will be awarded next week for closest quess.

If you follow the link to our Flikr Photoset on the left you will see a photoset from the Year3's visit the St Fagans Celtic Village today.

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