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• HOUSE CAPTAINS 2010-11

   

  The following three pupils have been elected House Captains for the year by their fellow pupils.

  We wish them a successful year in office.

   

  Edwards          Sofia Luporini Lewis

  Lloyds             Lloyd Arnold

  Walters            Christopher Jenkins

   

• WIMBLEDON 2010

  

  Lucky Form 4 pupils outside Centre Court. They visited Wimbledon on the penultimate day of the 2010 Championships, to watch the Championship doubles semi-finals being played on Court 1.

   

• FRENCH TRIP 2010

  

  The 2010 French Trip included a visit to Mont St Michel...shopping for souvenirs essential!! See more of the trip in our photo gallery here (opens in new window)

   

• CROSS COUNTRY SUCCESS

  

  Hannah Willaims. Molly Jones, Elinor Williams and Isabella Ruckley Jones mount the podium to receive their bronze medal following an excellent run in the Welsh Athletics Annual Cross Country Championships 2010 Primary School Girls event held at Singleton Park. Well done girls! (Picture courtesy of DEPhoto)

   

• ABERTAWE FESTIVAL FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS

  

  Our 28 strong orchestra performed in the Abertawe Festival for Young Musicians gaining a very creditable Silver Award. The judge described us as 'an excellent symphony orchestra'.

• GOOD NEWS IN MATHS

  Two Form 4 pupils, Nicholas Evans and Isabella Ruckley Jones are through to the Grand Final of the Primary Maths Challenge to be held on February 4th. Congratulations and the best of luck to both of them!!

• ALL IN THE FAMILY

  

    Older members of the School Choir were proud to perform at the wedding of Richard Owen and Clare Friswell in St Teilo's Church, Bishopston on December 4th. Richard and Clare are both former pupils of the School.

• INFANT CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION 2009

  

   

  

   

  

    Infant 3 on the way to the performance

• NURSERY NATIVITY 2009

  

• NANCY LLOYD JAMES PLAYING HER FLUTE AT THE SWANSEA HIGH SCORERS CONCERT

  

    Nancy scored exceptionally well in her flute exam in the summer and was awarded The High Scorers Trophy. Well done Nancy!

• POTTERY CLASS FOR INFANT 3 AT GOWER HERITAGE CENTRE

  

• INFANT SPORTS

  Infant Sports was held on a rare dry afternoon in July. Walters house was victorious and the team is see here with their House Captain, Ben Turner and Vice captain, Joely Lomas

  

• WAY BACK WHEN

  Infant 1 and 2 went off to the seaside on a Victorian adventure, using the Mumbles Train, just before term ended.

  

   

  

• FURTHER EXCITING CHESS NEWS....

  The school team has won the Swansea Primary Schools Chess League for 2009. Also, the u11 West Wales team which was made up of 12 players, 6 of whom are from this school, has won a three cornered championship involving Cardiff and Monmouth. This is the first time the u 11 team has won.

  Well done, everyone concerned!

• CATRIN CUTS HER LEAVING CAKE THE DAY SHE LEFT SCHOOL TO EMIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA

  

• FORM 1 EXPERIENCE LIFE AS ROMAN SOLDIERS

  

• SPORTS SUCCESSES

  A number of pupils have achieved great success in a variety of sports recently:

  • Alex Francis is the new Welsh under 12 Table Tennis Champion.
  • Ben Turner is the third fastest 100m sprinter in Wales at under 13 level
  • Miles Keller Jenkins is the fourth highest Welsh under 12 High jumper 
  • Nicholas Evans is the under 10 Supremo in South Wales Chess
  • Brother James Evans is nder 7 Supremo in South Wales Chess.

  Well done all of you!!

• RUGBY TEAM REACHES QUARTER FINALS

  Our rugby team are now through to the quarter finals of the SSRU Cup after defeating Newton School by seven tries to two this afternoon (January 20th) at Murton.

  Although three tries up in the first quarter the game became much more equally contested from there on but a few breaks by 'Billy Whizz' (Captain Ben Turner) led to a convincing victory.

  Well done team!!

• FURTHER RUGBY SUCCESS

  After reaching the semi finals of the Swansea Schools Cup last season this season has 'kicked off' with a most impressive home win by ten tries to one against YGG Brynymor.

   

   Well done squad and well led captain and vice captain, Ben Turner and Alex Francis.

   Next round in November!!

   

• FIRE RAISING!

  Form 1 meet Stone Age Man at Museum and learn how to make fire!

• END OF YEAR GIFTS

  Form4 present end of year gifts to the School, July 2008



HOUSE CAPTAINS 2008-09

 

The following three pupils have been elected House Captains for the year by their fellow pupils.

We wish them a successful year in office.

 

Edwards          Greg Ballantine

Lloyds             Alexander Francis

Walters            Ben Turner

 

• TROPHIES 2008

   

  Successful pupils pose together after being awarded trophies at the end of the 2007/8 academic year:



• School MUSIC 

  

 

As part of a school-wide project on Bishopston Valley, Year 5 have recorded two songs on appropriate themes. Click on the play buttons in the bars below to hear their performances:

 

 

 

•        I Can See the Sea  (2.5Mb MP3 file)

       

•          It Always Rains in Wales (1.5Mb MP3 file)

         

 

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• JANUARY 2008

  A jubilant rugby squad celebrates after winning the group stage of the Swansea Junior Schools Rugby Tournament

  

  Building Fund Foundation laid

   

  The Christmas Bazaar and Raffle were the first fund raising activities in respect of the new Building Fund. This is to enable the building of a  link between the sports hall and the main building, allowing for storage space for hall items, further cloakroom space and dry passage from school to hall and back.

   

  It will also enable the siting of a netball court and large playground at the rear of school adjacent to the sports hall.

   

  The Bazaar and Raffle raised £2,200.

   

  The winning numbers are as follows. If you are a lucky winner please contact the school to arrange collection  of your prize. The raffle raised over £1300 towards our new building project.

   

  Thank you for buying tickets and a Merry Christmas to you all !!

  Numbers in order of prize allocation:

  1734, 2715, 3381, 1799, 0215, 3592, 7124, 5755, 2873, 5242, 2903, 7287, 3110, 5776, 6818, 5765, 2585, 5743, 5562, 0244, 2099.
  

• School joins Chess League 

  Following the commencement of chess as an extra curricula activity in 2005, certain pupils have made such progress with their coach, Susan Evans-Quek, that we now have a team in the Swansea Primary School League. Matches are played each month and winning schools in a group enter the final round in the Summer Term

   

  We are delighted that Nicholas Evans and Cameron Joseph are already winning competitions in their respective age groups and look forward to further successes in the terms ahead

   

• URDD NATIONAL GALA

  Oliver Ford achieved a silver medal in the Urdd National Swimming Gala recently. He was timed as the second fastest 50m boy in all Years 5 and 6 throughout the country. Our Year 5 and 6 boys' freestyle relay team also competed well, and came eighth.

• SNOW 07

  Just as Year 6 began their creative writing piece for the week, entitled: "The Snow That Never Happened", flakes were seen passing the window! The heaviest snow fall for some years put paid to any further work on Friday, February 16th 2007.

  

• VALENTINE

  In celebration of Valentine's Day 2007, Nursery baked hundreds of Valentine cookies to sell in support of the British Heart Foundation. Grace, Eloushka and Carys are seen here in the quality control department, before the sale to pupils which raised £175. Well done to the bakers.....Mrs Richards, Miss Williams and all of Nursery.

  

• SCHOOL INSPECTION

  The school received a full inspection by Estyn in 2006 (Estyn is the office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales). During the inspection, they found the school to be 'very good value for money'. The full report is available for download. (PDF - 316 kb)

• WIMBLEDON TRIP

  Eight lucky Year 6 winners of the draw to visit Wimbledon. Glorious weather and excellent tennis made it a memorable day.

  

• ROYAL VIEW

  Pupils wait patriotically for a glimpse of HRH Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall as they passed School while visiting Gower on the 50th anniversary of its becoming Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

  

• ARTISTIC WINNER

  Jack Langstone being presented with his prize as one of the winners in the Campion Gardens Art Competition, held as part of their Summer Festival.

  

• FAREWELL TO THEIR HOUSES

  Ben, Gareth & Nicola, the retiring House Captains, take one last opportunity for a photograph before departing for pastures new. We wish them well and welcome the new House Captains,: Alex Ashburner, Ben Packer and Toby Mountfield.

  

• ASSEMBLY VISIT

  Year 6 become one of the first schools to visit the new Assembly chamber in Cardiff, only a week after it opened. Pictured with Alun Cairns A.M., who kindly spoke to the class about its workings.

  

• A WHALE OF A STORY

  Gareth Horrocks, Year 6, entered a Sunday Telegraph creative writing competition, based on the recent 'whale in the Thames' incident.
  He was one of ten runners-up in this national competition entered by thousands of children. Well done Gareth!
  We hope you enjoy reading his story here

• ST. DAVID'S DAY

  The first St. David's Day snowfall since 1967 didn't interfere with the School's Annual Eisteddfod, with a fine showing of traditional Welsh costume from Infants and Nursery:

  

  

   

• SAYING FAREWELL

  Mrs. Diane Davies and Mrs Julia Allison celebrate their last day of teaching with champagne and cake at break time, with all the children. The children, of course, had cake alone!

  

   

• WALTERS WIN INFANTS SPORTS

  Whilst Lloyds took the Junior Sports Trophy yet again, Walters made it two in a row in the Infants.

  William Muxorthy, who gained the most points for his House, collected the trophy. Here he is with a few of his fellow team members, celebrating the victory:

  

• CHARITY EVENT A GREAT SUCCESS

  

   
   
  On Sunday June 10th a charity cricket match was played at St Helen's County Ground in Swansea between Badgers Cricket Club and Craig y Nos Harpists, the latter celebrating its 21st season this year.

  The match was played to raise money for local charities and the Craig y Nos contribution to this was a total of over £3,000. The money was raised jointly by the Harpists (the fathers' cricket team) and a sponsored Fun Fit in school.
   
  More photos from St Helens          

   

• EATING WELL

  School lunches have changed recently, in line with current thoughts on the provision of food for children in school.

  

  "Aunty Jan" has restructured the lunch menu, and some would say that Jamie Oliver himself needs to look out!!

  Although our meals were relatively healthy before this, with no deep fried food ever on the menu, and "oven" chips only offered once a week, Jan has now introduced new ideas, such as:

  • lamb kebabs with couscous and roasted vegetables
  • pasta with meatballs, and
  • chilli con carne with wholegrain rice and salsa.

  Did the pupils appreciate the difference? The consensus of of opinion was that they are great. The one or two who "only like burger and chips" will hopefully be tempted in the near future!!

   

• WELL DONE  JOELY LOMAS......winner of a national art competition for under 8s...Joely's colouring of a clown has won her first prize and her name and winning entry on the 2005 Sherston educational catalogue.

• THANK YOU to all pupils for their donation of over £350 towards the Tsunami Appeal. The older girls organised a Black Thursday....attending school in casual but black clothing, which focussed our attention on the plight of so many other children at the start of this new year.

• 20 Years on...

It is over 20 years since the school moved to Clyne Common. It left Eaton Crescent in October 1983 and has flourished in its more rural setting.
Do you have any pictures of life at Eaton Crescent? Please let us see them.

• Congratulations

Congratulations to 8 and under mini tennis team of Christopher Reason, Toby Mountfield, Jack Rosser and Dominic Griffiths.

After successfully reaching the Welsh finals of this Tennis Wales Tournament, the team won all their singles and doubles matches at Llandrindod Wells to become the 2004 Welsh Champions.

• Congratulations also to Ben Packer on becoming the Royal Mail Young Letter Writers Champion for 2004. Ben's letter was chosen the best out of over 20,000 entries. It was on the theme of "Thank You" and Ben wrote to Santa thanking him for coming every Christmas.

• Two new members of staff joined the school in September 2004. Mrs Rachael Richards replaced Mrs Chris Alexander who has retired after 19 years in Nursery.

Miss Georgina Brown became the new music teacher as Miss Adams has moved to Manchester.