Well-being Newsletter April 2024

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Learning for all… Happy New Year!

Even though it has been a short Spring Term for Libanus pupils, staff and families, we have been very busy. We also have a lot to celebrate, including our first residential trip of the year, for our Year 3 pupils, to Cardiff.

The Spring Term has been a term of learning for all members of staff, not just Mrs Crandon. Staff have been researching, planning and delivering their own training during staff meetings, INSET days and twilight sessions

Some of these sessions included developing wellbeing, digital skills, music and literacy knowledge.

Llongyfarchiadau to our wonderful Mrs Crandon Whilst our children have been learning, Mrs Crandon has also been working hard to develop her knowledge by completing her Masters We are so proud of you! Congratulations

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St David's Day. We thoroughly enjoyed watching our pupils participating in our Eisteddfod and Eisteddfod concert this year. We are extremely proud of each and every one of them for taking part in this years events. A special mention to Sam R for being chaired the Bard for his story writing. Da iawn pawb!

University Students

Yet again, we have welcomed more University of South Wales students into our school, The students have seemlessly fitted into school life and we are thrilled to have them learning alongside us.

Show Racism the Red Card

This term saw us introduce our first Show Racism the Red Card awareness day. The whole school participated in age related activities and some of our older children even entered into the national competition. We were impressed with our pupils knowledge and mature attitudes to learning

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Ex-Libanusians

As a school we invest in our children and we take great pride in seeing our children use their wings to fly when they leave us We have been thrilled to see our Libanusians embracing life after Libanus, and we would like to congratulate a few of them for their recent achievements .

Oakley Perrin - who presented a speech in the Senedd Chambers to over 60 people and was elected Cabinate Youth Representative for Environmental Issues

Leo Rawson and Christian Paraman - who have been given the opportunity to study at Oxford this coming September

Maddison Churchill, James Vacariuc, Maisie Moore, Zak Dainton and Carrie Jenkins - for being selected to participate in The Scholars Club organised by The Brilliant Club In Year 8, these pupils will be assigned a university lecturer and will particulate in studies that will be graded at a university level Wow! It is not only our pupils who go on to achieve great things, butalso our very own Headteacher Mr Jenkins, who has been selected for the Welsh cricket team. Way to go MrJenkins!

Physical Wellness

Thanks to Mrs Cox, ourPhysical Education Lead Teacher and Coordinator, we have continued to promote healthy lifestyles, entering our Netball and Football teams into this years cluster leagues. Our pupils always turned up with fantastic attitudes, gave 100% effort and represented us in an impeccable manner. It has been an honour to take our pupils to these sporting events

A special mention to our netball girls for their outstanding performance this year, resulting in the accolade of being named… champions of Caerphilly!

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Internet Safety Day

During the Spring T around internet saf own script and even c they se Digi members then provided coding training, using spheros We would also like to thank P George for coming into school to share his knowledge with our pupils and families. Diolch!

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HEDDLU BACH

Heddlu Bach members also held a whole school assembly to introduce their new playtime initiative to ensure all pupils are happy and never feel lonely What a great idea!

A huge thank you to Jeanette and her dedicated Kerbcraft team who have taught all of our Year 2 pupils invaluable road safety skills. All Year 2 pupils passed their training and have taken home certificates along with high visibility bags Well done to all involved

The NHS Design to Smile program is up and running in school for our Nursery to Year 2 pupils. The NHS team also attended school to apply flouride varnish onto our pupils teeth We hope this program sets up our children for happy and healthy lives in the future.

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Enrichment

Once again, thanks to our wonderful enrichment team, we have seen our children develop a wide range of skills ranging from cooking, riding bikes and developing fine motor skills at our very own woodwork area. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication, these skills and experiences will always be remembered!

World Book Day

As always, we celebrated World Book Day and it was a huge success Pupils were invited into school in their pyjamas with their favourite cuddly toy and book. Pupils took part in shared reading, book quizzes and were asked to guess the Masked Reader Staff also enjoyed reading, an end of day story, to a different class. This term Mrs Crandon and her Reading Champions set up their mobile school Library which will now run every Wednesday lunchtime. An emphasise on life long reading habits has seen our pupils take their books out onto the school yard to enjoy during free time. Just look at those smiles!

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Community links

Engaging with our community to develop our pupils sense of belonging and knowledge of the world around them is a key element of teaching and learning in Libanus.During this term we have also had visits from Sam, our local librarian, Hayley, a member of our local Principality branch and Dr Mark Smith, our favourite Nuclear Fushion Astrophysicist .

Senedd Member, Rhiannon Passmore, came to visit us this term, having heard we won the School of the Year award last summer She was very impressed with the school and commented on how wonderfully polite our pupils are. We were also visited by Natasha Ashgha MS who also works at the Senedd, to speak with our Year 3 pupils prior to their Senedd visit.

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Family Support

We are often asked the question ''What makes Libanus special?' and the answer is the commitment from our pupils, staff and families. We are always blown away by the support our families provide our pupils The commitment to show up to school events such as our annual Easter hat parades, open classrooms, concerts, fun days and learning showcases are what gives our pupils the safe, supportive environment to develop their confidence and grow their roots and wings.

Thank you families!

Pupil Voice

Children in Libanus have been using their voices this term, collaborating with our cluster of schools during a Rights of the Child meeting, and discussing all things health related during our govenors meeting What informed and confident children we have!