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Dydd Gŵyl DdewiThe children came to school in traditional Welsh and red clothes. We learned about St David and took part in many activities. |
Fantastic World Book Day!Thank you Anni Llyn/Ceridwen for joining us. A day full of stories, games and creating a poem! |
PodcastYear two and three children had a very interesting afternoon creating a Podcast with Marc Griffiths. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience. |
Kariad ShowEveryone enjoyed a virtual show by ‘Kariad’ company today! Magic and Self Confidence! |
Carys Ofalus and Road SafetyThank you Miss Paula for teaching the children about Road Safety! |
Ysgol feithrin Visit.We had a wonderful morning with the Nursery crew. Thanks for coming to us! |
‘Sach Hud Siôn Corn’‘Sach Hud Siôn Corn’ was our vitual Christmas concert this year. All the characters looked great in their outfits. |
A week of celebrations!Year 2 and 3 children have been busy creating Santes Dwynwen mural with Dafydd Trefor a local artist. We also had a grand party to celebrate Mistar Urdd's 100th birthday! |
Children in need
We raised £132 for Children in need this year by taking part in a virtual duck race and dressing up in Pudsey themed clothes. Here is a video of some of the children responding to the ‘Actia dy oed’ challenge set by Aled Hughes, BBC radio Cymru.
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Thanksgiving
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PumpkinAfter we planted seeds in March, four huge pumpkins grew in the garden! We had a lot of fun collecting them and this is currently the theme of both classes; learning about the pumpkin. |
Welsh Music Day
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Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen
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Wool Journey
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Welsh language Charter - gold award! |
Singing Christmas carols at Plas Madryn
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Christmas coding
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Children in Need Click here to see more photos. |
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Shwmae Su’mae day |
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RECYCLING WEEK! Click here to see more photos |
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The Garden |
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Owain Glyndwr Day Click here to see more photos. |
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Summer Reading Challenge |
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Walking To School Week |
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Classroom Transfer Day |
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Lettuce ForSale |
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Maritime Museum |
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Coleg y Bala |
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'Wales Outdoor Learning’ Week |
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St Davids day celebrations |
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St Davids day parade |
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Santes Dwynwen |
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WCW |
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Lloyd George museum Click here to see the photos. |
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Christmas show |
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Celebrating Owain Glyndwr day |
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Selling Blackberry cakes Click here to see more photos. |
Greenwood Park Click here to see more photos. |
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Potatoes |
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Summer fair |
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Cyw’s birthday |
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Recycling |
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Collecting Rubbish on the beach |
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Classroom transfer day |
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Leisure Center activities |
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Gardening |
Full attendance |
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Contact between the school and the Cylch Meithrin |
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Welsh music day |
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Eisteddfod Congratulations to these three pupils in the Eisteddfod in Pwllheli and good luck to them in the county Eisteddfod in Bangor. |
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Attendance Congratulations to these children for full attendance during the Autumn term. They all attended school every day! Well done! |
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Christmas 2017 We had lots of fun celebrating Christmas again this year. Following a great concert by the pupils we went on a Christmas trip to watch a panto in Criccieth and stopped to see Santa on the way home. Everyone wore their Christmas jumpers to come to the school party, collecting money for Evie Hughes' fund. We raised £42! Click here to see all photos of the Christmas celebrations. |
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Learning about the 1st World War with Steve Jones Steve Jones came to school to discuss architects of the 1st World War with year 2 and 3. They learned interesting facts in his company. Thank you for his time. Click here to see more photos. |
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Singing Christmas Carols in Plas Madryn Following the Christmas concert, the pupils went to sing carols to the residents of Plas Madryn. We received a warm welcome as usual. Click here to see more photos. |
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Gymnastics Year 2 and 3 had fun making different body shapes in the gymnastics lesson. They worked in pairs, solving problems to create shapes where different parts of their body made contact. |
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Singing in Plas Madryn Following the thanksgiving service, the whole school went to Plas Madryn to sing the songs to the elderly. We received a very warm welcome and the staff had prepared cupcakes to thank the children for singing so well and cheering up the residents. Click here to see all of the photos. |
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Defib training Phillip Jones, Welsh Ambulance Service, came to school to talk to the children and their parents about the defibrullator. Everyone learned its importance in the community. Click here to see the photos. |
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Plas yn Rhiw, October 2017 Reception and Year 1 pupils would like to thank Robert who works for the National Trust for yet another fantastic morning in Plas yn Rhiw. We looked for birds, learning their names and then made some food balls for them using lard, seeds and nuts. Click here to see the photos. |
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Summer reading challenge 16 pupils succeeded to finish the Summer reading challenge this year. Here is a photo of them with their certificates and medals. Congratulations! |
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Visiting the 'Ysgwrn' Year 2 and 3 went to visit 'Yr Ysgwrn' in Trawsfynydd to remember the bard Hedd Wyn who died 100 years ago in the 1st World War. The saw the 'Black chair' and the farmhouse. A fantastic experience! Click here to see the photos.
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Y Cyngor Ysgol Newydd (Welsh only available...) Llongyfarchiadau i bump cynghorydd newydd Ysgol morfa Nefyn. Etholwyd y pump ohonynt yn dilyn perfformiad yn rhannu syniadau a’i gweledigaeth o wella yr Ysgol gyda’r holl ddisgyblion. Mae ganddom gadeirydd a chadeiryddes, trysorydd, ysgrifennydd ac ysgrifenyddes. Maent wedi cychwyn ar eu gwaith yn barod ac yn mwynhau y cyfrifoldebau. Cliciwch yma i weld lluniau o’r etholiad
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Visiting the Lifeboat Reception, Year 1, 2 and 3 pupils went to Porthdinllaen this week to present a cheque of £50 that the School Council had raised for the Lifeboat. In the afternoon, we cooked marshmallows on the fire on the beach with Laura and Robert from the National Trust. We were caught in the storm and everyone was soaking wet when arriving back at school. A fun filled day! Click here to see the photos.
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Hinduism Year 2 and 3 learned about Hinduism with Mrs Pari, learning about a religion which is different to Christianity. Lili’s grandmother brought clothes and artefacts from India to show the children. Click here to see more photos of the classroom activities.
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Cooking samosas When learning about Hinduism as our classroom theme, Year 2 and 3 cooked healthy vegetable samosas. Very tasty! Click here to see photos.
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Plas Menai Year 2 and 3 enjoyed taking part in outdoor water activities on their trip to Plas Menai. They took part in paddle boarding, kayaking and working as a team. Thay also jumped into the Menai strait. Click here to see more photos.
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Trip to Pili Palas Reception and Year 1 went to Pili Palas on their school trip this year. Everyone had an amazing time learning new facts about minibeasts and held some frightening animals! Click here to see more photos.
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Sports Day and Summer Fair Thursday, July 13th On the school field School sports day starts at 5:00pm and Summer fair at 6:30pm Click here to see more information
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Selling lettuce |
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Gardening in the village |
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Performing in Pontio |
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Raising money for the RNLI |
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The Urdd Athletics |
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The Urdd athletics |
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Professional Teaching Award Wales Click here to watch a video of the nomination |
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Leisure Centre Activities |
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Monthly Club Congratulations to Colin Jones, Guto from year 1's father for winning in the monthly club this month with the number 6. |
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Swimming Congratulations to these children for receiving grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3 water skills certificate this term. Good work! |
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Minute a day Year 3 Congratulations to these children for succeeding in learning the 3 times table by using the 'minute a day' method. |
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Minute a day Year 2 Congratulations to these children for succeeding in learning the 5 times table by using the 'minute a day' method. |
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Eryri Urdd Eisteddfod Congratulations to these three pupils who succeeded to go on stage in the Eryri Urdd Eisteddfod. Well done! |
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Felin Uchaf Reception and Year 1 have been learning about various types of homes as part of their classroom theme this term and a visit to Felin Uchaf, Rhoshirwaun was organised so that they could see Celtic round houses. Everyone enjoyed the visit and learned so much new information about the Celts, as well as comparing the round houses to our homes today. Thank you to everyone at Felin Uchaf for their warm welcome. Click here to see photos. |
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Comic Relief The school's council organised a 'funny day' on Friday, 24th of March, 2017 for comic relief (red nose day). The children and staff came to school in funny outfits dressing up as clowns, wearing funny wigs, and some of the girls came dressed as boys the boys dressed as girls! In the afternoon the children told jokes and recited funny stories! Ms Williams paid money for the children to be quiet for 2 minutes! Then, at 3 o'clock the children sold red nose cakes by the school gate. A sum of £111.50 was raised. Thank you to everyone who raised money for a good cause. Click here to see photos. |
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Welsh flag As requested by the school council, Dewi Pws came to school to raise our new Welsh flag. The parents joined in at the end of the day and watched him cut the ribbon and raise the flag. Everyone sang the anthem 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' (Old land of my fathers). Click here to see photos and a video. |
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Estyn awards The school head teacher and teacher was invited to an Estyn awards ceremony in Cardiff on the 9th of March. The awards was to recognise excellence in education throughout Wales. The school received a certificate for their outstanding results in the 2015-16 inspection. We are very proud of this success. Click here to read the Estyn awards brochure and read about ysgol Morfa Nefyn's success |
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Visiting Plas Madryn The children walked to Plas Madryn, Morfa Nefyn to sing traditional Welsh songs to the elderly, following the St David's day concert. We would like to thank them for their warm welcome and for the lovely cake. Click here to see the photos. |
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St David's day We learned about St David in school this week. The children came to school in traditional Welsh clothes or red coloured clothes to take part in many interesting activities. Dewi Pws joined the children on stage in the St David's day concert to sing traditional welsh songs. The pupils had so much fun in his company. Click here to see photos. |
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Pancake day The children had so much fun cooking pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. We wrote recipes and instructions on how to make the pancakes and then measured and weighed carefully before enjoying cooking and eating them. Click here to see the photos. |
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Farm to fork Year 2 and 3 and Reception and Year 1 pupils visited Tesco in Porthmadog this week. The children learned how they baked the bread and tasted tiger bread and a variety of cheeses. They took part in a quiz to learn interesting information about fruits and vegetables and walked into the fridge and freezer!! Reception and year 1 also worked on the tills. Click here to see the photos. |
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Singing with Dewi Pws Dewi Pws came to school to sing St David's parade song with the children. The parade is taking place in Pwllheli on the 25th of February. Everyone is welcome! Click here to see photos and a video of the children singing the song. |
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The Cylch meithrin visits the school The children who attend the Cylch Meithrin in Morfa Nefyn joined us at the school with Aunty Emma, Aunty Eira and Aunty Bethan. They enjoyed themselves taking part in many activities and Reception and year 1 pupils as well as the older children enjoyed their company. Click here to see more pictures |
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Owen Edwards John Dilwyn Jones from the archive in Caernarfon came to talk to the children about kitchen equipment in Owen Edwards’ age. The children learned about old traditions such as washing day and the importance of the fire to cook and dry clothes. Click here to see more pictures |
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Speak out. Stay safe! A member of the NSPCC service came to school to make sure our pupils have the knowledge and understanding they need to stay safe from harm and how to get help if they have any worries. If you would like any more information about the service go to their website nspcc.org.uk/schools |
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Christmas concert The Christmas show this year was Cinderella and we had a fantastic performance from the children. Thank you to the parents, staff and members of the school governors for helping. A DVD of the concert is available to buy for £5. Click here to see photos of the children performing. |
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Visiting the Lloyd George museum Year 2 and 3 visited the Lloyd George museum in Llanystumdwy on Thursday, the 24th of November to learn about celebrating Christmas in the Victorian age. They learned about the school and the 'Welsh Not'. They made a traditional Christmas pudding and a Christmas decoration to hang on the Christmas tree. Very lucky! Thank you to all the staff for an interesting day. Click here to see the photos. |
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Building a home for the hedgehog Everyone from Reception and Year 1 attended the busy hands club Robert who works for the National Trust came to school to take part in Autumn activities with Nursery, reception and Year 1 pupils. We had lots of fun learning about the animals who sleep during the Winter and we were busy building a home for the hedgehog. Click here to see more photos. |
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Children in need The school council collected £89.02 towards children in need this year. Everyone paid £1 to wear spotty clothes and the children decorated buiscuits to sell. We had a competition where all pupils had to draw a picture of Pudsey. Here is a photo of the winners, which was one boy and one girl from each class with their prize. Thank you for the parents contribution. Click here to see the photos. |
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Busy hands club Everyone from Reception and Year 1 attended the busy hands club this week, where the children took part in a variety of activities to develop their fine motor skills. We are already looking forward to next week's activities! Click here to see photos of the children enjoying themselves. Click here to see more photos. |
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Learning about Diwali Nursery, Reception and Year 1 pupils has been learning about the Diwali celebrations this week. We learned new information about India and compared the Hinduism religion to our own religion. We took part in map activities about India, read new information about the country, used Indian spices to paint rangoli patterns and decorated Mehndi patterns using purplemash. Everyone created a Diwali lantern to take home to remember that Diwali is known as the 'festival of light' in India. Click here to see more photos. |
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Autumn activities at Plas yn Rhiw Reception and Year 1 pupils took part in Autumn activities at Plas yn Rhiw with Robert who works for the National trust. We had a fantastic day learning about the four seasons, about the trees in the Autumn and the animals who hibernate in the Winter. The activities were very interesting. Click here to see more photos. |
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Pear tree All the children and staff would like to wish these two pupils best of luck in their new school. Thank you both for the pear tree, which has now been planted in the school garden. |
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End of term dance Click here to see photos of the end of term dance which was held at the Ganolfan in the village by the parents association. Everyone looked very smart in their posh clothes. Click here to see the photos. |
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Astra programme Cangratulations to these 4 pupils who were chosen to take part in the new Cyw programme called Astra. They had a fun morning filming in Cibyn, Caernarfon. |
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Activities on the beach We all joined Laura, Roberts and Fred from the National Trust down at the beach to take part in many fun activities. We learned about the birds that visit our beaches and collected wildlife in the water pools on the rocks. In the afternoon the nursery children joined us and everyone cooked marshmallows and made popcorn in front of the fire. A pirate visited the children to sing various songs full of interesting stories about his life at sea. Click here to see the photos. |
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Diwrnod Môr-ladron Wrth gyrraedd diwedd y tymor a diwedd thema môr-ladron daeth plant blwyddyn Meithrin, Derbyn ac 1 i’r ysgol wedi gwisgo fel môr-ladron. Cafodd pawb flasu ffrwythau trofannol amrywiol gan gynnwys pinafal a mango cyn eu defnyddio i greu diod trofannol blasus. Yn yr ardal hydrin, bu’r plant yn defnyddio jeli glas ac orennau i wneud llongau môr-ladron ac yn yr ardal dwylo prysur bu iddynt greu mwclis gan ddefnyddio ‘cheerios’. Aeth pawb ati i wneud map trysor gan farcio ble mae’r trysor yn cuddio gyda chroes goch. Cliciwch yma i weld y lluniau. |
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Collecting rubbish on the beach After learning about the effects of ‘pollution and recycling’ in science lessons this term, year 2 and 3 went to the beach in Morfa Nefyn with Catrin Glyn to collect rubbish. In our lessons, we learned how pollution affects our environment and the lives of sea creatures. We succeeded to collect lots of rubbish. Click here to see photos. |
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Lois Llywelyn Lois Llywelyn came to school to show her drama medal which she received at the National Eisteddfod in Flint, 2016. Lois used to be a pupil at Ysgol Morfa. She is now an 18 year old student studying her A levels in Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor. She spoke with the pupils about the influence of her education and the welsh language on her success. Click here to see photos. |
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Plas Heli Year 3 went to Plas Heli in Pwllheli to learn how to sail a boat. Despite the weather, they had a fantastic day. Click here to see photos. |
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Alun yr Arth's New Shirt Alun yr Arth would like to thank Cynan, Enfys and Caio for his new Wales shirt. He's looking forward to wearing it to support our Country on Wednesday night. Good luck Wales! |
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Art on the beach Reception and Year 1 went to the beach to take part in art activities. We have been learning about the artist Andy Goldsworthy in the classroom and emulated his work by using a variety of natural things found on the beach to make drawings and patterns. Click here to see the photos. |
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School trip We visited Anglesey Sea Zoo for our end of term trip because both classrooms have been learning about sea creatures during the summer term. We had a great day seeing a variety of creatures and learning new information about each one. Click here to see the photos. |
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Selling vegetables The gardening club was a success again this year and the produce has grown successfully. Year 2 and 3 have collected the lettuce this week and Menter Morfa, year 3's business company, sold the lettuce to parents at the gate. The profit will be used to buy more seeds and vegetables for next year's gardening club. Click here to see the photos. |
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Patrobas The group ‘Patrobas’ came to school today to sing a variety of welsh songs including ‘Fflat Huw Puw’. Parents joined in the fun. Carwyn, who plays the drums for the group used to be a pupil at Ysgol Morfa. The School Council sent him an email asking if he would come to school . During the afternoon, we looked at photos of when Carwyn was a young boy at the school performing in concerts. We also watched a DVD of him acting in a Welsh TV series and the programme ‘Cyw’. He spoke about his career as a Welsh performer. Yestin Tyne brought his crown which he won for writing in the Eisteddfod this year. Click here to see photos of everyone enjoying themselves. |
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Sponsored run Thank you to everyone who came to support the school and joined in the sponsored run on Morfa beach. Everyone had made an effort to wear fancy dress! The school organised the run to raise money towards buying new computers for the classrooms. Click here to see photos of every family in their fancy dress. |
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Recycling Gwenllian, a recycling officer, came to talk to Year 2 and 3 about the importance of recycling. They have been learning about the effect that pollution has on our environment in the Science lessons this term, focusing that pollution has a terrible effect on sea creatures. Click here to see photos of the activities. |
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Kerbcraft Catrin, a road safety officer, came to school to teach the children about road safety as part of the ‘kerbcraft’ scheme. She took the children outside to the village to learn important skills. Click here to see photos. |
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Porthdinllaen Seafood festival The Seafood festival was organised again this year at the Porthdinllaen beach. The children were invited to open the afternoon by singing traditional songs about the beach. Their performance was praised by many. The Parents Association raised £154.60 selling cakes on the day. Click here to see photos. |
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The Gardening club The gardening club was very successful again this year with every child from year 2 and 3 attending. They were taught a variety of new gardening skills. They planted colourful flowers to make the outside area attractive and also planted a variety of vegetables. Click here to see photos of the hard work! |
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Walking to school week May 2016 Carys Ofalus was invited to school again by the School Council. She reminded the children of road safety rules before the School Council encouraged them to walk to school daily. The staff, pupils and the road safety officer walked a short journey around the village to school on Monday morning to encourage everyone to continue throughout the term. Everyone enjoyed a tasty and healthy breakfast after arriving back at school. The School Council will take register of everyone who is walking to school every day and will award at the end of the term. Click here to see photos of the first morning. |
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A morning in the company of the Cylch meithrin’s children The children of the Cylch Meithrin came to school with Aunty Emma, Aunty Eira and Aunty Bethan. They spent the morning in Miss Ferris’ classroom with reception pupils and Year 1 working in the inside and outside learning areas. Click here to see the photos. |
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Easter Term Attendance Congratulations to everyone in the photo for having an attendance percentage of 100% during the Easter term! Well done! |
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Eisteddfod Here is a photo of three children who were successful in the Eisteddfod in Bangor. Congratulations to them and good luck to Eiri in the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Flint. |
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Coleg y Bala The children had a wonderful day at Coleg y Bala. We learned more about the Easter story and took part in a variety of interesting activities throughout the day. Click here to see more photos.
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'Cyw' programme Elain Llwyd who works with the 'Antena' filming company in Caernarfon came to school and the children took part in a workshop during the afternoon. Elain will choose 4 children from schools throughout Wales to be a part of a new show by 'Cyw' on S4C. Good luck everyone! Click here to see photos. |
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Fu’s Caernarfon As we are learning about the Chinese New Year this term, reception, year 1, 2 and 3 visited the Fu’s restaurant in Caernarfon. It is a Chinese restaurant and the children had a lovely lunch whilst tasting a variety of Chinese foods. They watched the cooks preparing the food in the kitchen and the owner showed them how to use chopsticks. They had fun trying to use them to eat their food. Click here to see more photos. |
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World Book Day Year 2 and 3 dressed up as a character from welsh folk tales and the Nursery, reception and year 1 pupils dressed up as a character from their favourite book. We had a fashion show at the caban where everyone discussed their character and the story before writing about their character in the classroom. Click here to see photos. |
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St David’s Day The children came to school wearing Welsh clothes to celebrate St David’s day. We listened to stories about St David, took part in art and craft activities and learned about his important message that “small things counts”. We had an Eisteddfod at the Ganolfan, where the children sang traditional welsh songs to their parents and the community. Everyone enjoyed a cup of tea and some welsh cakes. Click here to see photos. |
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The fire service Lance from the fire service came to school to discuss fire safety. We had a story about Tanni who set his house on fire by accident. We also looked at photos of rooms in our homes and recognised the dangers in every photo. Some of the children got to wear a fireman suit. Click here to see more photos. |
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Seagrass Project The children spent a day at the beach in Porthdinllaen with members of the ‘seagrass project’. The aim of the project is to win a competition so that they can create activities for young children on the local beaches to promote awareness of sea life. Ysgol Morfa was chosen to be a part of the filming with ITV to create an advertisement for the competition. Good luck the project and thank you for a fun day at the beach. Click here to see the photos. |
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CHD awareness The school supported CHD awareness again this year. The School council decided to ask every child to contribute £1.50 to wear red clothing or clothes with hearts on them. During the day, we made heart shaped pancakes and got to guess the toy dog’s name. Here is a photo of the child who guessed correctly that the dog was called ‘Twm’. S4C came to schhol to film the children taking part in the activities and it was shown on the 9 o’clock news on S4C. Click here to see photos of the activities and remember to visit ‘S4C clic’ online to see the programme. Click here to see the photos. |
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The Grey Mare Mair Tomos Ifans came to school to talk to the children about the welsh traditions of celebrating the New Year. The children had a fun filled day of creating the grey mare with colourful ribbons, learning her stories and songs. At the end of the day, parents came to the school to see the children perform. The theme has continued in year 2 and 3’s classroom where they have taken part in a variety on literacy and numeracy activities. Click here to see photos. |
Victorian Christmas |
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Gymnastics Competition 2015 |
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Children in Need |
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The children were busy during the day making biscuits and Menter Morfa (Year 3 business) sold them to the children at play time and at the school gate at 3 o’clock. Here is a photo of the competition winners, congratulations! Click here for more photos of the activities. |
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Welsh Language charter |
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A visit from Gwenda who works at the museum |
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Cooking Club |
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New school council |
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Carys Ofalus visit |
Summer activities at the Dwyfor Leisure Centre |
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Summer reading challenge A representative from the library came to school to introduce the children to the summer reading challenge. |
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The theme this year is ‘Record breakers’. Ysgol Morfa’s record is that 18 pupils visited the library last year during the 2014 summer holidays. How about breaking this record? | ||
All you have to do is visit the library 3 times during the summer holidays and read 6 books. Stickers and prizes can be collected and every child who succeeds will receive a medal and certificate. Membership is free but during our recent trip to the library we have already made sure that all our pupils are members and that they have started the challenge. |
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Trip to Pili Palas and Foel farm |
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Year 3 bike lessons |
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Fathers Day |
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Glynllifon |
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Patagonia 150 Year 2 and 3 took part in celebrating Patagonia 150 at Ysgol Pentreuchaf on the 6/6/15. They performed a new song called 'Patagonia' by Ms Nia Williams which was about the Welsh moving to Patagonia 150 years ago. The children enjoyed dancing and wearing Welsh clothes on the day. They also had the opportunity to learn Spanish, Salsa dancing, eating Oinc Oink sausages and drawing with Luned Parry the artist. Click here to see a video of the children performing the song on the stage. |
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Tasting Sausages with Oinc Oink |
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Patagonia 150 |
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Walk to School week 2015 We supported ‘Walk to School week’ again this year. Its aim is to promote being healthy and caring for the environment. Carys Ofalus came to school to teach the children about road safety. On Wednesday morning, all the staff and pupils walked a short journey around the village to school and everyone enjoyed breakfast in the ‘caban’ when we got back. Click here to see photos of the journey. |
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Many of the children made an effort to walk to school during the week, even through the rain on Monday morning! This is a photo of everyone who walked to school every day. Congratulations to all of them and thank you to the parents for supporting. The school council has decided to keep on awarding those who walk more than 3 days a week until the end of the term so that they can help them to keep healthy, look after the environment and stop the traffic on the road at 3pm. |
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A journey to see the pigs at Bryn Bach |
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Activities at the Leisure Centre |
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Gardening Club Click here to see photos. |
100% attendance |
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Anos Africa |
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Eclipse On Friday, the 20th of March, the children watched the eclipse at 9:15am. Many of the children brought welding masks to be able to watch it safely. The children imitated what was happening in groups. One group imitated the sun, another group imitated Earth and another group imitated the moon blocking the light of the Sun. Everyone enjoyed the historic day and recorded what happened in their literacy books so that they will remember it forever. Click here to see more photos. |
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Mother's Day The children have been busy decorating flower pots and planting primroses as Mother's Day gifts this year. Weheard some very interesting things about you mothers when talking to the children! Click here to hear what your child had to say about you!! |
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CHD awareness week We raised £73.67 during CHD awareness week (Coronary Heart Disease). The children came to school wearing red clothes and made a variety of hearts in the art and craft learning area to raise their awareness of the charity. Thank you to the parents and staff who contributed. Click here to see photos of the activities. |
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Welsh Language charter – Comic Relief Year 2 and 3 children will be on the Comic Relief ‘Live Stream’ on the 27th of February. The programme will begin at 9 pm until midnight on Saturday the 28th of February! 27 hours altogether! Go to the Comic Relief website to see the live recording: comicrelief.com |
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This is a brilliant example of dissemination of the Welsh language to Great Britain by the young children of Morfa Nefyn School! Fantastic! BBC Comic Relief will choose highlights of the ‘Live Stream’ to put on the Comic Relief programme on the 15th of March! Fingers crossed that they choose the pupils of Ysgol Morfa Nefyn! |
Welsh Charter Silver award |
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Christmas Trip |
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Children in need |
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Glynllifon |
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Cooking club |
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Porthdinllaen Lifeboat |
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Summer reading challenge |
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Creating a Welsh dresser with Luned Parri |
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Our trip to the Rabbit farm
Even though it was raining, we had a great time at the Rabbit Farm in Llanystumdwy. The children saw a variety of animals and everyone had the chance to hold a rabbit, ride a horse and watch a busy farmer sheering a sheep. A very unforgetable experience!
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Learning cricket skills
Mr ap John, Caio and Enfys' father came to school to teach cricket skills to year 2 and 3. They had a interesting morning in his company. We thank him for his time.
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'Walk to school' week
It was 'Walk to school week' this week (19th - 23rd of May). Its aim is to promote being healthy and caring for the environment to families and young people. Many of the children made the effort to walk even when it was raining! This is a photo of all the children who walked every day of the week. Congratulations to all of them and thank you to parents for supporting!
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Swimming Gala
Six pupils from year 2 and 3 attended the swimming Gala in the Leisure Centre on Friday, 16th of May to represent the school. Congratulations to every one for competing and for doing their best. Here is a photo of the team.
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Gardening club
Thank you to everyone from year 2 and 3 we stayed after school to help in the gardening club during the month of May. They have been very busy weeding and planting vegetables and flowers to make sure that the outside area of the school is colourful.
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'Zoolab' came to school this week. Reception and year 1 pupils got to meet very interesting animals from around the World and learn new information about every one. They were very brave when holding th animals, including a snake, a millipede, a tortoise, a giant african snail and more!
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Y Gerdd fawr/ The big poem:
Year 2 and 3 children have been writing a verse in a competition called 'Y Gerdd Fawr' with Mrs Medwen Parry the teacher. The task was to write a verse about 'Fy Mro' for the Welsh poet for children, Aneirin Karadog. The verse was choosen amongst schools thoughout Wales. Congratulations to all of them.
This is the verse:
'Hardd yw Porthdinllaen wrth y mor,
Tywod euraidd, o diolch Dduw,
Plant Morfa 'n canu yn un cor,
"O dyma le braf i ni gael byw!"
The children will appear on a video in the Urdd Eisteddfod , Bala Tuesday, 27th of May, 2014.
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Gwynedd language charter - Teaching Welsh to parents
Parents who are learning Welsh were invited to school again this month. 7 parents joined the children. They sang whilst taking part in the morning register and then learned how to play the welsh 'playtime games'. The children chose two games to introduce to them which was 'Pont Llanaber' and 'Clap'. We would like to thank them again for being so enthusiastic to learn Welsh and for singing the rhymes in the games so well. Click here for more photos.
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Gwynedd Welsh Charter - A visit from Malcolm Allen
As part of the 'Gwynedd language charter', every school in the Botwnnog catchment area is having the opportunity to meet famous people from Wales who have succeeded in different aspects. Malcolm Allen, the famous footballer, came to school to talk to the children about the influence of the Welsh language on his career. Click here for more photos.
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Gwynedd Welsh Charter - A visit from Ed Holden
Ed Holden came to school to teach the children some 'beatboxing'. The children had so much fun creating different sounds! Click here to see more photos.
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Year 2 and 3 visits Cricieth Castle
As a part of this term's classroom theme, Year 2 and 3 visited Cricieth Castle. Click here to see all the photos.
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World Book Day
The children came to school dressed up as a character from a book. Nursery, Reception and Year 1 dressed up as the characters of ‘Gwlad y Rwla’ and year 2 and 3 as characters of Welsh folk tales . Their clothes were well worth seeing and a big thank you to their parents for their effort in making them look so fantastic. Go to the gallery to see more photos of the fun we had and also photos of some of the children’s written work about their character.
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Pancake day
The children were very busy cooking tasty pancakes. There was a lot of weighing, counting and mixing the ingredients. Some even managed to flip the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan. Go to the gallery to see more photos and to look at the children’s recipes.
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St David’s day
Here is a photo of the children celebrating St David’s day. They came to school wearing traditional Welsh or red clothing. They listened to a story about St David and took part in a variety of activities to learn more about him, including writing his story, creating daffodils and leeks in the art and craft area and colouring in a Welsh flag. To learn more about St David go to the HWB website.
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Siarter Iaith
Parents have been invited to come to school to learn Welsh for one morning of every month. 5 parents joined us in February and enjoyed various activities: singing and dancing to nursery rhymes, taking part in reading activities at Miss Nia Ferris’ classroom, sharing fruits in the fruit shop and playing Welsh playtime games. We are very grateful to them for trying their best to learn Welsh and we are looking forward to more activities on Friday, the 7th of March 2014.
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A performance by ‘Cwmni’r Fran Wen’
The school was privileged when chosen to be a part of a Cwmni Y Fran Wen’s workshop to create a performance called ‘Y cwpwrdd dillad’ (The clothes Cupboard) . We watched their performance at the Ganolfan in Morfa. It was great! Every child enjoyed the comedy and many emotions displayed in the show. It was amazing to be a part of creating such a performance and the children being able to see their ideas being performed by professional actors. We are very grateful to them for giving the children such an inspiring experience.
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St Dwynwen’s day
We had lots of fun celebrating St Dwynwen’s day on the 25th of January. The children enjoyed listening to the story and singing the song ‘Santes Dwynwen’ by the group ‘Y Cariadon’. Everyone was busy creating wonderful hearts to take home. At the end of the day, we had so much fun playing ‘Sion and Sian’. Here is a photo of the winners with their special prize. Congratulations! Click here to listen to the song ‘Santes Dwynwen’.
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Walking to school
Paula Owen, a Road Safety Officer came to school to give every child a new ‘Careful Steps’ hat. The hats are yellow and there is a silver strip on the front and back which reflects light. Every child will wear the hat to walk to school in the morning and to walk home in the afternoon. The hats will make sure that every child can be seen clearly on the roads which will keep them safe. Here is a photo of the children wearing their new hats.
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Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog
'Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog' came to sing songs from the album 'Codi angor'. Everyone enjoyed listening, singing and dancing to J Glyn Davies' songs. Visit the gallery for more photos.
Christmas Trip
We had an amazing Christmas trip on Monday, 2nd of December. The children enjoyed going underground in the train to see Santa in Llechwedd. We also saw the interesting slate museum. In the afternoon we went to watch a Panto called 'Cawr y Gilfach' in Cricieth. A day to remember! Visit the gallery for more photos of the trip.
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Operation christmas child boxes
On Thursday morning, the 21st of November, 25 'Operation christmas child boxes' began their journey from Ysgol Morfa Nefyn. The boxes are travelling all the way from Wales to Belarus to make sure that every child all over the world has a Happy Christmas. Thank you to all the pupils who brought a box to school.
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Summer reading challenge
Congratulations to every child who succeeded to complete the summer reading challenge, ‘Creepy House’. They have been very busy reading a variety of books during the summer holidays. Well done!
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Dylan Owen from Awstralia
Dylan Owen, Miss Elen Owen’s brother came to school to meet the children. Dylan has been living in Cairns, Australia for 16 years and was on holiday in Wales with his wife and children. Dylan is a policeman in Australia and the children learned lots of new information about his work and how he deals with problems such as crocodiles!!!! Everyone enjoyed his visit and the children and staff learned so much..
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Young Ambassadors
Congratulations to Cai Wyn Morgan and Hana Williams from Year 3 on being chosen to be the school’s ‘young ambassadors’. They attended a training day in Caernarfon on Thursday, 3rd of October. Their responsibilities include helping in various Physical Education activities that take place in the school, including the annual sports day.