We enjoyed celebrating the following learners in assembly this morning - we are proud of our role models.

Linked to our RESPECT behaviour traits, they were recognised as being self-aware. Children were identified as being self-confident, self-discipined and honest whilst being adaptable and humble.

We are delighted to be involved in 'Lions at Large', a county wide fundraising initiative for new cancer care facilities in Cheltenham with digital consulting rooms, space for state-of-the-art research, as well as therapeutic outside space. You will find more information here:

A pride of large Lion sculptures will be designed and painted by local artists and joined by the Cub Club - a pride of Little Lions created by local schools and community groups. We want to be part of this!

The School Council would like to invite you to help us raise at least £750 to support the Cheltenham & Gloucester Hospitals Appeal.  We have set up a Just Giving page so that everyone in and linked to our community can donate.  Please share with friends and family as widely as you can:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/dunalley-primary-school-cub-lion

If you have donated via Parent Pay, we will refund this money so that you can donate into the Just Giving page and utilise 'Gift Aid' if appropiate.

We would also like to invite all the children to help inspire the decoration our Cub Lion.  Each child will come home today with a template to decorate over half term - please can all completed lions be handed into class teachers on Monday 24th February.

Please encourage your children to consider the following when coming up with a design:

 - whats important to them

 - colour & vibrancy

 - our local community / where we live

 - consider a play on words related to the project: lion, pride, Dunalley

 - finally please be aware of copywrite and ensure designs are non political

Additional templetes can be downloaded here:

We will also be running the following fundraising activities and ask that you donate directly into our Just Giving page: 

COMMUNITY Lion Art and Craft Competition

Deadline for entries - Friday 21st March

There are different categories:

• Nursery/Pre-School and Reception
• Years 1 and 2
• Years 3 and 4
• Years 5 and 6 
• Years 7 to 13
• Adults

To participate in this competition, we would like to suggest that entrants make a suggested donation of £1 to our Just Giving page.

To raise further funds, we plan to host a silent auction and sell entries which artists/crafters are happy to donate. We will send you an invitation to this as soon as the arrangements have been finalised.

When sending your entries in, please ensure that they are clearly labelled as follows:

1) Artist/Crafter's name:

2) Category: 

3) Link to Dunalley if a Y7-13 or adult entry e.g. Grandparent of Annie in year 3

4) Whether or not you would like to donate your entry to the silent auction (we will return items that you would like returned after the exhibition)

To share this information, you might like to print off the following slip and securely attach it to your entry at home:

For those of you who are not able to print at home, we will make blank slips and tape available in our main reception.

Wacky Hair Day - Friday 11^th April (there is no swimming for Year 4) - £1 suggested donation.

Pippin's Birthday Party - Sunday 6^th April - 10am-12noon

• OPAL Stay and Play
• An opportunity to view the Lion Art Exhibition in the hall with winners being announced at 11am
• Refreshments available 

We are pleased to let you know that Lates continues to thrive.  The childcare facility is working at full capacity.

The Lates team continues to work tirelessly to ensure that children enjoy their time in school whilst benefiting from a range of activities and opportunities.  

After half term there will be some operational changes to how we run the Lates provision.

We will have a Little Lates (Nursery & Reception), Middle Lates (Year 1 & Year 2) and Big lates (Year 3, 4, 5 & 6) and each group will have their own base. We will explain this to children after half term.

The team will continue to ask your children about what they would like to do and continue to do their best to facilitate this whenever possible.  Our aim is to ensure that everyone is happy and safe.  

The collection of school aged children at the end of the session remains the same: 5.20pm from the main entrance (when the gates open).

Nursery and pre-school aged children must be collected by 5pm.

We would like to take this opportunity to remind families that staff are not employed to work in the office between 5pm and 5.30pm.

We are happy to facilitate early collections if you need to get your child to an after school activity e.g. a swimming or music lesson. Please email [email protected] to pre-arrange a before 5pm pick up time in these circumstances. 

Families who have pre-arranged an occasional early collection from Lates must come to collect their children before 5pm.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

We celebrated Safer Internet Day on Tuesday, the children enjoyed learning about internet safety during assemblies.

Families can access information on online safety via our website; link below:

We are always delighted to receive donations for our OPAL Play initiative, if you are having a spring clean over the half term holiday please keep us in mind.

We have also asked children who attend LATES if they would like any particular activities.

Please pass anything to Mrs Byrne via the school office, or leave them in the black OPAL donation box outside of the main reception.

OPAL We are always keen for:

• Beach Toys
• Suitcases
• Paint brushes and rollers
• Dolls
• Construction toys
• Planks of wood
• Balls
• Dressing up clothes
• Old keyboards

LATES We are looking for donations:

• Wool (brightly coloured)
• Knitting needles and crochet hooks (suitable for children)
• Lego/Duplo/Plus Plus
• Toy Cars

We would also welcome any Bean Bags/Floor cushions and wipeable table covers.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Welcome to Emily Coulter and Anne Spencer who have both joined our Nursery & Pre-school team.

Emily will be working with our Pre-school children after half term and Anne supports the nursery children at lunch time.

We hope that they will both be very happy in our Dunalley team.

We have two vacancies here at Dunalley Primary School.  Please refer to our website for details, via the links below.

Teaching Partner/Medical Assistant to a Designated Child

Teaching Partner

Just a quick email to remind you of the update to the ATLAS CAMP booking system if you want to book any children in over the February half term.
The details for this are below: 

Follow the link - https://bookings.atlascamps.co.uk/listing/holiday-clubs

• Create an account – this will enable you to save children for future camps rather than inputting all information in again.
• When you have selected the days and children you would like to book, go to payments, and select ‘affiliate School’.
• Atlas Camps will then send you an invoice for payment following your booking.
• If you need to make any amendments to your booking this can all be done through the bookings through your account. 

Atlas Camps have asked that you please ensure that the emergency contact numbers are for the parents or guardians who will be ‘on call’ in case they need to get In touch for any reason. You can include these in the address section for each individual child.

We would like to wish all of our families a wonderful half term break.

We look forward to seeing you all back at school and nursery on Monday 24th February.