Our Chairing Ceremony was held on 1 March as part of the school’s St. David’s Day celebrations. As usual the school’s prefects, Jasmine Lewis and Iwan Tomos, were responsible for the event.
This year, the Chief Bard Rhys Jones, who won the chair at the National Eisteddfod in Anglesey in 2017, was the adjudicator. We received his decision in the form of a video that was shown during the ceremony and we thank him for his thorough work in adjudicating.
It became clear that ‘Y Real Slim Shady’ had pleased the adjudicator greatly. It was also great to see Rhydian Cleaver from Year 13 getting up from his seat at the back of the full hall to receive the privilege of being the school’s Head Litterateur this year. Congratulations to him. In second place for the chair was Nel Richards from Year 12, with Nel once again in joint 3rd place with Sion Thomas from Year 8! The Welsh Department would like to thank everyone who competed and especially the staff and pupils who took part in the ceremony – especially Rhys Whatty for accompanying on the harp, Annwen Breakspear for singing the chairing song, Mrs Shanklin for the fanfare and Bethan Hawkins and George Griffiths for bringing the winner to the stage. It was also lovely to see representatives from each year on the stage after being chosen because of their commitment to Welshness at the school.
Congratulations also to Ffion Thomas for winning the English Trophy.
Here are the results of the other literary competitions:
Year 7 Poetry
1st- Ella Mai Davies
2nd – Ffion Rachel Jones
3rd – Holly Crocker and Evie Harris
Year 7 Prose
1st- Kaitlin Reilly
2nd- Ceris Wood
3rd- Ella Mai Davies
Year 8 Poetry
1st – Sion Thomas
2nd– Marcus O’Brien
3rd- Carys Evans
Year 8 Prose
1st- Mirain Owen
2nd- Ella Cutforth and Anest Cunliffe
3rd- Laicee John
Year 9 Poetry
1st – Ffion Tomos
2nd- Anwen Morgan
3rd- Catrin Kiernan and Aimee Kelly
Year 9 Prose
1st- Jack Thomas
2nd- Raife Jones and Joseph Elsey
3rd – Ffion Tomos
Year 10 Poetry
1st- Thea Wood
2nd- Ffion Whitehead
3rd- Ffion Gould and Tirion Beynon
Year 10 Prose
1st- Megan D
2nd- Ffion O D and Abby Rees
3rd- Grace James