Category: ENGLISH

  • A Dahlightful Day!

    Pupils from year 7 (7Mrs Morgan) were given the exciting opportunity to visit Cardiff’s Millennium Centre and the “Wondercrump” exhibition and workshop showcasing the weird and wonderful works of Roald Dahl. As part of the author’s centenary celebrations, pupils went on a whistle-stop tour of Roald Dahl’s life and imagination and took part in a…

  • Speaking Success

    Huge congratulations to the school’s public speaking team for their recent triumph in the ESU competition regional heat in Bridgend. The team will now go on to the Welsh final to be held in Cardiff Bay next March. The team consisted of three year 10 students (Manon, Rhys and Steffan) and the judges were fulsome…

  • Living the Dream!

    Year 10 pupils have been working hard over the last few months towards a performance of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival 2016. Over two nights, local schools performed famous works by William Shakespeare at the Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea. Pupils had a fantastic experience of working in…

  • Dare to Dream

    To celebrate the success of our school’s production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for the Shakespeare Schools Festival, we have organised a special performance for Tuesday night, 6th December in the Main Hall. Tickets are £4 for adults and £2.50 for concessions to see this much-applauded production and are available from the school. Watch the…

  • A Dahlightful Triumph!

    It is a great pleasure to announce that Josh’s story ‘Grandad’s Rocket’ has been chosen as the winner of the e ‘Dahlightful stories competition’ in the secondary schools category. The competition was open to all pupils across Wales between school years 3-13. Josh’s story, ‘Grandad’s Rocket!’ will be published in an Anthology of the collection in February…

  • Year 11 Internal Examinations

    Click on the link below to see the examination timetable. Year 11 Examination timetable  

  • News from the Welsh Department

    A group of Year 13 pupils went to see the Welsh film “Y Llyfrgell” in the Taliesin Theatre and enjoyed it greatly. During the same week, Year 12 and 13 pupils studying A Level Welsh had the opportunity to attend a day of lectures at Academi Hywel Teifi. Thanks to the Academi for organising several…

  • Letters 2016 – 2017

    Date Subject 06/07/2017 End of year trips year 7 and 8 06/07/2017 End of year trips year 9 and 10  19/06/2017  Classes 2017 09/06/2017 Year 12 End of Term Arrangements 26/04/2017 Election of Parent Governors 05/04/2017 Easter Revision Timetable 28/03/2017 National Reading and Numeracy Tests 13/03/2017 Year 7 Parents’ Evening 13/03/2017 Home work letter to…

  • Literacy Booklet

    Support and Enrichment booklet