Ysgol Babanod Morfa Nefyn

School Council 2019 - 2020

Welsh Music Day

Everyone brought instruments to school to celebrate Welsh music day and joined in whilst listening to Welsh songs. The disco and ‘Cool Karaoke’ session was so much fun.

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Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen

Everyone has been busy learning the story of Dwynwen by taking part in literacy, numeracy, digital competence and craft activities.

Welsh language Charter - gold award!

We have received the Welsh Language Charter gold award again in 2019. Well done everyone! Here are two members of the school council with the certificate.

Children in Need
Thank you to everyone who supported and contributed towards Children in Need today. We raised £77.05. Everyone dressed up and joined Joe Wicks and Pudsey in the Big Morning Move. Great ideas from the School Council. The business company LLOND BOL have been busy making healthy treats to sell to the children.

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Vegetable Soup
Year 2 and 3’s business company ‘Llond bol’ decided to make vegetable soup for the parents using the vegetables which they had contributed to decorate the chapel for the Thanksgiving service. Most of the vegetables was given to the residents of Plas Madryn.

Welsh Air Ambulance
The School Council decided to contribute the Thanksgiving Service collection this year towards Wales Air Ambulance charity. Here is a photo of them presenting a cheque of £128.25 to Eryl, who works for the charity.

Shwmae Su’mae day
Click here to see a video created by the children and parents. Thank you to the parents for taking part by greeting in Welsh! Well done everyone!

Red nose day
£68.44 was raised today with everyone paying £1 to wear funny clothes. We had a jokes telling session and everyone made their own silly glasses. We would all like to thank Isobel’s nain for the tasty Red nose cakes.

Welsh language music day
We had so much fun celebrating the Welsh Language music day. We sang karaoke to the new song by Seren & Sbarc and listened to their playlist whilst eating lunch. At the end of the day everyone danced to a variety of Welsh songs; ‘Rhedeg i Baris’ by Candelas being the favourite this year. Good luck to all the parents and children in the quiz this weekend - a chance to win a special prize!

Children in Need
The pupils came to school dressed up as Pudsey, wearing spotty or yellow clothes to raise money towards Children in Need. £75 was raised. Thank you everyone, especially the school council for organising.

Shwmai, Su’mae day
The school council greeted parents and children in Welsh at the gate this morning to celebrate Shwmai, Su’mae day. Here is a photo of the competition set to parents from the School Council. Do you recognise these famous Welsh faces? Congratulations to everyone who got them right and especially to the winner of the competition; Elin Williams (Nel Lois’ mother). She received a CD of 40 Welsh songs as a prize.

Welsh music day
Thank you to Owain Llyr for bringing his DJ equipment to school to celebrate Welsh music day. We had an amazing disco, listening to Welsh music. A very good idea again from the School council.
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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.

Raising money for Epilepsy

The School Council invited Catrin Davies from Ysgol Cymerau to school to talk to the children about cutting her very long hair (40cm) on ‘Heno’, a programme on S4C. Catrin’s hair will be used by ‘Little Princess Trust’ to make wigs. Also, Catrin was raising money for ‘Epilepsy’ and to help her raise more money, the School Council decided to organise a ‘crazy hair day’. Every child and staff came to school wearing wigs or coloured their hair. We helped Catrin raise another £61.03.

Raising money for the RNLI
The School Council decided to support the RNLI fundraising in May. Every child paid £1 to come to school in 'Summer clothes' and raised £50.25. Thank you to all the staff and parents for supporting.

Walking to school week May 2017

The school council decided to support walking to school week again in May, encouraging the children and parents to walk to school every morning and walk from school every afternoon. Click here to see photos of the children who received certificates for their effort.

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.

St Dwynwen

We celebrated St Dwynwen’s day on the 25th of January. The children took part in many activities including a disco and played ‘Sion a Sian’. Congratulations to Cian and Ania from year 3 for winning. Everyone came to school dressed up for the party and paid £1. The school council decided to give the money towards CHD awareness.

Welsh Language Charter

The School Council accepted a 'gold award' certificate from the Gwynedd Welsh language charter for their hard work in promoting the Welsh language in school, with parents and the community. Congratulations!

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.

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.

Welsh Charter

The School Council gave a presentation for parents about the ‘Welsh Charter’ this week. In the presentation they emphasised how lucky we are to have two languages. Two languages...twice the choice! The council showed photos of the activities they organised during the year to develop the use of the welsh language further.

Anno's Africa

Following wearing red clothes on St David's day to raise money, the School council presented a cheque of £41 to the Anno's Africa charity. Joy Brown came to school to accept the cheque. The money will be used to buy a school uniform to a child in the slums in Africa.

Children in Need

We raised £110.66 towards Children in Need this year! Great! Thank you to everyone who contributed and to the school council for their ideas on how to raise money. Everyone came to school dressed as their hero. They made a picture of their hero towards the competition and Year 2 and 3 wrote a description about them. 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.

Welsh Language charter

The school council attended a reward ceremony at Ysgol Glan y Mor. The school received a gold award for their work in developing the Welsh language charter.

Thanksgiving Service

£301.14 was raised at the thanksgiving service this year! The money will be going towards ‘Move over poverty’. The children made a cow using a milk carton and took her home to collect money as a piggy bank. The School Council decided to use the money to buy two cows for the poor families in Ethiopia, Africa. Thank you to everyone for their contribution.

Cyflwyniad Cyngor Ysgol Morfa Nefyn (welsh version only...)

Dyma ein gwaith yn ystod 2014-2015 - click here

Children in need

Thank you to everyone who contributed on Children in need day. The School council succeeded to raise £126.31 with the help of all the pupils and the kind parents. Year 2 and 3 had been very busy cooking cakes at home to sell at school and everyone came were wearing yellow or spotty clothes for the day. We held a competition to create a new mask for Pudsey. The winners were Dylan Binch and Nanw Jones from year 2 and 3 and Ifan John and Enfys Griffiths from Reception and Year 1. Click here to see more photos.

Thank you to the School Council for buying new sport games for the children to play during playtimes. They are all games to develop their aiming skills. The pupils are very excited with their new equipment. We now have netball hoops, ten pin bowling sets and other aiming games.

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