Ashton Gate Primary School Newsletter

Last week, a group of year 5/6 girls took part in a cricket festival at Bedminster Cricket Club. They played fantastically and and scored a remarkable 103 runs in one of our games! Well done to all who took part. 

This week we had STEM ambassador Garry Packer come in to Reception and Year 1 do tell us all about bees. The children were able to make beeswax candles, taste local honey, dress up as beekeepers and even see a real beehive full of bees! Year 2 are looking forward to their bee workshop next week!

Happy Friday!

We wanted to start off by saying what a fun week it’s been with all the class discos! Of all the events we put on they are one of our favourites. Watching all the kids have fun and letting loose of the dancefloor – it really is great to see!

Who Was The Smartiest?

It’s that time to declare the winners of the Smarties Tube Challenge!

Drum roll please…..and the winners are Caterpillars and 3T

Congratulations to both classes and a huge well done for everyone’s hard work and effort over the Easter Break. We’re still counting the money raised, so watch this space next week for the final total.

Summer Fair 13th June 2026– Volunteers Sign Up

With the summer fair fast approaching we’re asking for volunteers to help run our usual fun games and stalls

Each class has been assigned a stall to run. There are four 1-hour slots per stall starting from 11:15am to be ready for an 11:30am start – the fair will finish at 3:00pm.

Each will have two adults running it, so please team up with other parents to cover all the slots. You are also more than welcome to invite partners, grandparents and your kids as helpers.

You can sign up for your chosen time slots here, stalls will be allocated a few days before the fair.

Thanks as always for your help and support! Without you we wouldn’t be able to run these events, which are not only great fun, but raise much needed funds for our amazing School!

Have a great weekend!

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Wednesday 20^th May from 3-4.30pm 

Upton site Main Hall

We would like to invite parents to a drop-in session with the school Nurse and school Pastoral Learning Mentor focusing on children’s emotional health and wellbeing.

Please come along to the Upton Hall for tips and strategies for supporting your child’s emotional health or to chat about any concerns that you may have.

Regular school attendance is one of the best ways to help your child succeed. When children come to school every day, they keep up with their learning, build confidence in their skills, and develop good routines that set them up for the future. Every day at school matters—it helps your child stay on track and get the most out of their education.

It is also important to arrive at school on time. If a child arrives late to school every day, their learning begins to suffer. Below is a graph showing how being late to school every day over a school year adds up to lost learning time over one academic year.

Please remember to order your child’s lunch before 10pm on a Wednesday. If your child only has a meal once a week, you will still need to book this.

We are still having a lot of children who do not have a lunch booked with no packed lunch. Please remember the default meal is always salad bar. No other option will be available.

Please remember not to order a school lunch if your child is on a school trip, where a packed lunch is required. If you have already booked a meal for this date, the meal can be cancelled by the payer until 10pm on a Wednesday for the following week. As all food is pre-ordered there will be no refunds issued for non-cancelled meals.

A reminder that we are a nut free school. Please do not send your child to school with snacks/packed lunch with items containing nuts. This includes items such as Pesto, filled crepes and chocolate spread.

We are now on Facebook. Please like our page, we will be using this page to celebrate events and learning moments taking place across the school. We encourage you to invite other parents and family members to join as well, so that too can be part of our vibrant school network. Rest assured, our Facebook page will prioritise the privacy and security of our children. We will follow all the necessary precautions and guidelines to protect identities and ensure a safe online environment.

Studybugs is no longer in use. Please record any illnesses/medical appointments using the Arbor parent portal app. For planned absences please complete the online form on the attendance page of our website.