As you know from our previous letter in October 2024, the Year 11 End of Year Celebration Evening is on Tuesday the 24th of June 2025. Full details below:
HPV / MMR Vaccinations
The School Nursing Team will be visiting school soon to deliver the HPV Vaccination to all eligible year 8 pupils.
There will be pupils who have missed their vaccination in previous years. We may have consent forms for these pupils, in Years 9- 11, and these pupils will be called on the day of the session at school. At the same session, we will be offering the MMR Vaccination to all pupils who have missed a dose, from year 7-11.
Documents, consent and further information can be found in the documents below:
SEND Project for ND
The SEND project consists of psychoeducational courses for young people, parents and carers, as well as siblings of young people who have been on the ND assessment waiting list for over 12 months. (e.g. ASD/ADHD).
Full details below :
Art & Photography trip to Barcelona
Attention Years 7-10!
We’re planning an Art & Photography trip to Barcelona during the Easter holiday 2026! Explore stunning architecture, vibrant street art, and capture incredible photography moments. Interested? See Mr. Larkman to pick up an expression of interest letter. Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity!
Attendance Letter to Parents
Mr A. D. Thomas the director of education has written to all parents to stress the importance of good attendance and the support on offer to help improve attendance.
Llythyr ynghylch presenoldeb
Secondary Phase Flu Vaccinations
Throughout the week next week flu vaccinations will take place for secondary phase pupils.
- The Patient Information Leaflet is included below and can be downloaded.
- If your child has asthma & been unwell with a wheeze or has had to use inhalers more often in the last 72hrs &/or they have needed oral steroids in the past 2 weeks, then you need to notify the School Nurse on SBU.schoolnursing@wales.nhs.uk or 01639 862801”
Year 11 Celebration
Dear Parents and Carers,
An evening of celebration for our current Year 11 pupils has been provisionally booked to be held at the Manor Park Country House, Clydach, on Tuesday the 24th of June 2025.
We have tried to promote this event as fully inclusive and as such there is certainly no expectations of formal dress. Return transport will also be provided for all pupils who wish to attend. Whilst we all want to enjoy the evening, school cannot be responsible for any extra costs associated with this event and encourage all families to keep this in mind when making choices. This year the ticket cost will be approximately £42 and will be payable via Parent Pay when opened in the Spring Term. We will confirm the ticket price as soon as the venue release their new season prices in the new year.
Pupils and their families and friends can meet at the front of the school, for photographs between 5:15 – 6:00pm. We will leave school promptly at 6:00pm and travel by coach to the Manor Park Country House for the celebrations, which include a raffle, buffet, and disco. This is always an enjoyable night and a great end to their school lives. The pupils need to be collected from the rear school car park on their return at approximately 11:00pm. As usual, we thank parents in advance for not attending the venue due to the logistical and safety issues this presents.
All pupils will start the year with an invite, and we hope that by embracing their final year of school in a positive way this evening of celebration can be shared by everyone. However, if there are any reasons why this may not be the case the pastoral team will be linking with pupils and parents to try to support a positive outcome, but this will be at the discretion of the Headteacher.
Additionally, there will be a Leavers Assembly on Friday 20th of June at school for Year 11 pupils only and further details will be shared closer to the time.
Regards,
Mrs S Rogers
INSET Days
School INSET days for 2024/2025
2 September 2024
4 November 2024
6 January 2025
21 March 2025
11 July 2025
21 July 2025
Parent Governors
New parent governors have been appointed.
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Parent Governor Vacancies
Please see the attached letter regarding Parent Governor Vacancies:
Celebration Evening Year 11
Please see letter below regarding Celebration Evening. Please note payment deadline 13th of June.
Summer School Uniform
Dear Parents and Carers,
School uniform is central to our way of building a sense of community among students, staff, and parents as well as the local community. Each year we review the wearing of PE kit as a summer uniform. Once again we will be allowing pupils from Nursery to Year 10 to wear PE kit to school from after half term.
I would like to be clear that pupils in have two options only. To wear normal school uniform or to wear normal PE kit. Inappropriate garments such as crocs or hotpants will not be permitted, and my team will be contacting homes where pupils do not respect our policy. Our full uniform requirements are set out in full here: https://bit.ly/YBBUniform
If pupils do not have the correct PE kit, then they must wear their normal school uniform.
I would ask that Year 11 continue to wear uniform to their formal examinations as they have done up to this point. The examination hall has air conditioning.
For school uniform to have a positive effect in building our community and improving standards, then it needs the support of all our parents. Pupils need clear and consistent messaging from both school and home, and we hope that we can rely on you for that. We want to help those families that are struggling, but the best way to help all of our children right now is to set out the high expectations we all have for them.
We hope that once again this compromise to our uniform policy will support pupils to be more comfortable in class without compromising our expectations for high standards.
Yours faithfully.
R. Rees
