Our Value of the Month for January is Responsibility

This beautiful artwork, “Around a Christmas Tree in Penclawdd” by Alfie Neale (aged 9), captures the magic of the season perfectly — creativity, community and a little sparkle ✨

We’re also so proud of the way our pupils have reflected on their learning through their class blogs. What a fantastic way to celebrate progress, share achievements and show the wonderful experiences happening every day in our school. Please do take a moment to have a read — they’re packed with proud moments, smiles and super work! 📝🌟Click here...

Wishing you all a peaceful, happy Christmas and a restful break.

Nadolig Llawen from everyone at Penclawdd Primary School ❤️🎅🎁

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿A Warm Welsh Welcome! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming our friends from Sant’Anna Arresi Primary School in Sardinia for their first visit, accompanied by our Governor, Sarah Hopkins. It was a fantastic opportunity to share a taste of Welsh culture and strengthen our international connections.

We’re also thrilled to be embarking on the Thread of Peace project alongside our partner schools in Normandy, Tunisia, and Sardinia. This exciting collaboration will help our pupils explore global connections, cultural exchange, and the values of peace and unity. Looking forward to the journey ahead! 🌍✨ 

British Science Week 2025 

We have been taking part in lots of fun activities this week to celebrate British Science Week and the theme ‘Change and Adapt’.  We took part in computer science lessons, delivered by Technocamps, to develop our coding skills and have been exploring a range of science themes using VR Headsets! There has been an abundance of science activities taking place in classes from delivery of an incubator and eggs,  making Wormeries, creating new animals with different adaptions for their habitat, learning about how viruses spread and antigens and antibodies and so much more! 
 

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Celebrating Sporting Success!

This week, we’re proud to celebrate the achievements of our boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams, as well as our mixed rugby team.

Our Year 5 and Year 6 mixed rugby team took part in a series of friendly matches, demonstrating fantastic teamwork, skill, and sportsmanship. Their enthusiasm and determination were truly inspiring!A special thank you to Mr. Wooliscroft for his support and for stepping in as referee for some of the matches—it was greatly appreciated.

Well done to all our athletes for their hard work and dedication!

Nursery Open Morning

We are thrilled to invite new parents to our Nursery Open Morning on Thursday, 8th May at 9:30am!

New parents will see our warm, welcoming, and engaging learning environment, where children thrive from their very first steps in education. Estyn has praised our school for excellence, and we are proud to offer an outstanding start to a child’s learning journey.

We welcome younger siblings of our current families, as well as new parents, grandparents, and friends—everyone is invited to come and see what makes our school so special!

Urdd 

We are excited that some of our learners will be representing the school in the first round of the Urdd competition.  We have two of our Yr 1's who have learnt a Welsh poem and will be reciting this on their own, on  stage on Tuesday - we are so proud of you Hari and Gwen!  We also have a group of our junior children who have worked hard with Mrs Thomas and Miss Short on a group poetry recital and a disco dance, these children will be performing to judges next Friday.  In addition to the recitals and the poets we have two musicians who will also be representing the school this spring term with a piano recital and a drumming set. We are so proud of you all! The Urdd is a National Voluntary Youth Organisation and champions children to make positive contributions to their community through the medium of Welsh - we really are proud of our members! Pob Lwc blant!

Calendar events

21st March - Red Nose Day

21st March - Urdd Round 1

25th March - Choir to perform at The NGP Cluster Event in The Brangwyn Hall 6.30pm

31st March - April 1st - Parents' Evening

4th April - Eggs on the hill

8th April - Easter Bonnet parade for Nursery

9th April - 11th April - Y5 and Y6 Urdd Residential in Cardiff 

9th April - Tabernacle Easter Service for the children

The term is in full swing and the children are working hard on their topic. This week the Flamingos and Sea Lions visited the Swansea community farm ( the only city farm in Wales) and had such a wonderful experience. Mr Miller and the Sharks visited Plantasia to learn all about predators and food chains. They have also been learning about performance poetry. Listen to their emotive performance of Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar here! 

We are excited to share some wonderful news and mark an important date in our calendars. On February 13th, 2025, we will be visited by an Estyn HMI (His Majesty’s Inspector) as part of a thematic review of teaching and learning across Wales. We are one of only 15 primary schools selected for this review, and we are thrilled by the opportunity. At the conclusion of the review, a report will be written covering all the schools visited. We will share this with you.

Urdd Y5/6 Cross Country at Pembrey

We are incredibly proud of these 3 pupils who competed in this race. They came home with the Team GOLD !!!

We also wish all our runners the best of luck for our NGP cluster event at the Elba this afternoon. Pob lwc!