School Uniform, attendance and lunch information for parents of pupils at Rhydyfro Primary School
At Rhydyfro Primary School in Pontardawe, we care about providing the parents and carers of our pupils with all the information they need. Please find information below regarding our school uniform, lunch menus and attendance. If you have any questions or would like to arrange a visit to our school, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us.
School uniform at Rhydyfro Primary School in Pontardawe
Our school uniform requirements:
- Royal blue school sweatshirt or royal blue cardigan
- Black or grey trousers
- Black or grey skirt / dress
- White polo shirt
- Royal blue / white checked cotton dress for summer months
- Sensible closed toe shoes
Badged school uniform (sweatshirts, fleeces and jackets) are available from:
My clothing - https://myclothing.com/ and you can find view the price list here.
Order Uniform UK. Email enquiries to sales@orderuniform.co.uk
Swansea Valley Customised Wear - You can visit the
Facebook page here.
Jewellery
If your child has pierced ears, small studs are permitted. However, these must be removed by the child for PE lessons/clubs. No other jewellery is allowed to be worn in school.
Useful information for parents
Lunch Menus
Payment Information
Newsletters
Prospectus
Attendance information
Good attendance and punctuality play a vital role in the education of our children at Rhydyfro Primary School. The Welsh Government and school target is for all pupils to achieve a yearly attendance of 95% or above. Regular, unbroken attendance is vitally important in order for your child to reach their full potential.
To help us improve attendance please could you:
- Inform us as soon as possible on the first day of your child's absence from school
- Wherever possible try not to take your child for routine dentist / optician appointments during the school day
- Please ensure your child arrives in school by 8:55 am at the latest. A teacher is on duty on the yard from 8:45 am. All staff come out to welcome the children into school at 8:55 am. On wet mornings, all staff members are in their classrooms by 8:45 am ready to welcome the children into school. In the nursery / reception / Year 1 area the doors open at 8:55 am to welcome the children into school.
Holidays taken during term time will be recorded as an unauthorised absence.
Lunch menus for primary school children
Neath Port Talbot Catering Services provide 1 million school meals a year. Our menus are carefully planned to meet the Welsh Nutritional Guidelines for school lunches by our catering managers, food advisers and saffron nutritional analysis system. Our catering staff have undertaken nutrition training so pupils will be encouraged to eat nourishing vegetables or fruit daily and to make healthy choices.
It is our aim to ensure that all pupils can be provided with a healthy, nutritious meal and vegetarians and any special diet requests are catered for. There is a hot main meal choice including a vegetarian option available daily plus a selection of vegetables, seasonal salads, a pasta option and wholemeal bread. There is also a daily main pudding with an additional option of fruit bowl choice. A daily selection of chilled milk or water is available.
Meals cost £2.35 per day for a two-course meal including a drink and are great value. You can view and download the current School Lunches Menu from the Broccoli Bob website.
