Year 5 / 6 netball club on Thursday

Apologies for the short notice. Mrs Brophy will be starting netball club this Thursday (3.15- 4). Pupils can bring a change of trainers/clothes to get changed quickly into after school.  Football club will be on tomorrow unless really torrential rain. If that is the case, they can go home as normal at 3.15 or they … Read more

Grants available for Free School Meals Children

All children now receive universal free school meals, however if you receive any of the other benefits you will also be eligible for a school grant of up to £200.   Income Support (IS)* Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (IBJSA)* Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Income-related Employment Support Allowance (IR) Child … Read more

Flu Vaccine – 10th October 2023

SENT ON BEHALF OF BCHU Help keep your child well this winter – make sure they have their flu vaccine. The immunisation team will visit School on 10th October 2023 to offer children anasal spray flu vaccine. The NHS recommends that your child has a flu vaccination every year. We must receive your consent to do … Read more

Extra – curricular clubs this week.

Wednesday  Year 5 and 6 football club. 3.15 – 4.15. Pupils still need to wear white pe tops to school that day, not football tops. Thursday Year 3 and 4 tennis club. 1 – 1.30. Again pupils should be in white pe tops as they have PE that day.  Ar gyfer yr unigolyn y cyfeirir … Read more

Snack Shop Open Monday!

  Year 6 are so excited to be opening their Super Snack Shop from Monday.  Mrs Halley will be placing the fruit order on Saturday morning on behalf of the children. We hope that lots of people decide to use our Snack Shop to help them have a healthy snack all week  If you would … Read more

Newsletter

  We hope that everyone has had a brilliant week.  Please take a few minutes to read our weekly newsletter to find out more about what we have been learning throughout the school this week. Have a lovely weekend everyone!  Newsletter-Friday-15th-September-2023.pdf

Photograph Permissions

  ?????? We may sometimes take photos of the children in our school.  We use these images as part of school displays/printed publications/our website/learning journeys etc. It is important that we receive your permission to do this.   Please can you complete the form on the link even if you are happy for us to take … Read more

Attendance matters!

  Please find attached our attendance leaflet.  You may have noticed that we have a new electronic signing in and out system. Hopefully this will make the process a lot faster.  Please remember that all children arriving late or being collected early must be signed in by their parent or carer. Also, a reminder from … Read more

Wellies in the Woods

We have a couple of spaces left for our ‘Wellies in the woods’ sessions . these are taking place on Wednesdays starting at 9:00 until 10:30 in our Forest School. This is for parents and children in Year 2 or Year 1 .  Please book by following the link below: https://forms.office.com/e/ysiq0QQybC

Year 4 Glan Llyn trip

     Mr Allman will be available after school today to answer any questions with regards to the year 4 residential. The trip will become active on parent pay in the next few weeks. Please can all form B’s be completed and returned by the 27th October at the very latest. Diolch Ar gyfer yr unigolyn … Read more

Harvest Appeal 2023

    Once again we are collecting for The Harvest Appeal for Wrexham Foodbank.  The Foodbank have provided a list of items they are looking for which means that they can give each person visiting them a carefully designed food parcel that will contain three days’ worth of nutritionally-balanced meals.   As the storage unit has … Read more

Local Business Sponsorship Opportunity

The school football team are looking for a local business to sponsor a new football kit for the school this year. If you, or your company, are interested in sponsoring the school football team then please contact Mr Allman.  Diolch Ar gyfer yr unigolyn y cyfeirir yr e-bost hwn ato yn unig y mae’r neges … Read more

Gresford Colliery and Mining in the local area

  In coming weeks, Year 6 pupils will be undertaking an local industry, both past and present.  Part of this learning will relate to Gresford Colliery, including the Gresford Disaster, as well as mining in the local area.  If you have any family links to these areas and are able to contribute to our learning … Read more

MyHappymind

Dear parents/carers, Wrexham have generously purchased a new programme for all schools called myHappymind. We have started to introduce the programme here at Ysgol Acrefair and the children and staff are really enjoying it. Please find attached a letter with further information about the programme and a link/QR code for you to access the parent … Read more

Attendance Matters!

  Attendance matters!  This week’s class attendance is as follows:  Reception- 98% Year 1-93 %  Year 2- 99% Year 3 -96% Year 4 -97% Year 5- 98% Year 6- 88% You can find more information about our attendance targets, and why it’s so important that children are attending school on the attendance page on our … Read more

ParentPay

  Good morning, we hope you all had a lovely weekend. ParentPay aren’t having a good start to their week; the system seems not to be coping well with the thousands of accounts trying to access it in the mornings.  We’re aware that some parents have had issues earlier when ordering school dinners.  You may … Read more

Snack

  We are really looking forward to the Year 6 pupils opening their Snack Shop at playtimes from Monday 18th September. They are excited too.  Just a quick reminder to parents of children in Years 3-6 that lunch is going to be slightly later from this week (12:30 instead of 12:15pm), so please do ensure that … Read more

Welcome back newsletter

  We hope that everyone has had a wonderful first week back! To give you some ideas about what each class has been up to this week, please take a look at our weekly newsletter.  Have a wonderful weekend.  Newsletter-Friday-8th-September-2023.pdf

School Meals

Our cook, Miss Byrne, has been so busy this week with the roll out of free meals for all.  With the help of Miss Matthews and Mrs Law, by the end of today they will have served over 600 meals!  Their hard work is really appreciated, especially with it being so hot working in the kitchen. … Read more

IMPORTANT REQUEST FROM YEAR 6

  A request for parents of children in Years 3-6 from the children in Year 6…. Our brilliant new Year 6 class have been really busy today trying to solve the problem of unhealthy snacks in school.  They have decided to set up a shop which they will be calling the ‘Super Snack Shop- Vicious … Read more