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Plymouth University Teacher Fair

21st October 2011

PLYMOUTH initial teacher training students are being given the opportunity to sign up to the New Directions Way. Representatives from the companies’ Bristol Branch will be in attendance at the University’s Teacher Fair. Students will be given the opportunity to sign up as teachers, classroom assistants and ancillary staff to work at schools all over […]

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Parkland Primary School Celebrate Harvest

20th October 2011

Parkland Primary School in Swansea is one of many schools this year who celebrated a Harvest service with enthusiasm and pride. Friday 14th October saw pupils of Parkland Primary share harvest loaves during the morning. All donations were made to UNICEF which supported the famine in Somalia. The donations were brought to School in decorated […]

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The Good Life for Pupils at Llanrhidian Primary

Lucky pupils at a Swansea school are being given the opportunity to learn outside of the classroom due to the introduction of a mini farm on the school grounds. Llanrhidian Primary have introduced ducks and chickens to a previously unused area of their grounds, and in addition the children are also working with a local […]

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Sofrydd Primary School – Still In High Rugby Spirits!

Even though Wales sadly got knocked out at Semi-final level in the Rugby World Cup 2011, Sofrydd Primary pupils will be going into school early this Friday, to watch the final whilst in assembly. All school pupils are allowed to dress up in rugby outfits, and watch the rugby as part of their day before […]

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RCT Student Wins Top Award

A young scientist from Tonyrefail Comprehensive School recently won the prestigious Griffin Mill Rhondda Cynon Taf Student of the Year Award. Eighteen-year-old Azaria Coupe landed the top prize at a gala dinner event at the Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff, beating 19 other students. The eighth-annual awards, sponsored by Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Education […]

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Tredegar Teacher Honoured

Retired schoolteacher Steven Knapik, from Tredegar, received an MBE awarded in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Mr Knapik was awarded his MBE for services to young people in Merthyr Tydfil and to young people in Poland. Mr Knapik spent much of his career, at Merthyr Tydfil’s Pen-Y-Dre High School. The […]

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Egremont Primary becomes a ‘Forest School’

19th October 2011

Egremont Primary have received funding towards becoming a ‘Forest School.’ By becoming a Forest School they hope to inspire the children to learn through outdoor experiences, helping them develop a good understanding of the world around them using their emotions, imaginations and senses. The school will be using local woodland in addition to their our own […]

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Official Opening of LFC Education Centre

Rainhill High School officially opened the LFC Academy Education Centre and to the amazement of all pupils and staff, Liverpool FC Manager Kenny Dalglish was the guest of honour. The new facility forms a central part of a new partnership between two organisations, which has seen the school designated as the preferred supplier of educational […]

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Over The Moon

Pupils at Ysgol Maes y Morfa in Llanelli have recently had the opportunity to look at and handle meteorites which were collected during NASA’s manned space missions to the moon during the 1960s and 1970s. The lunar samples were provided by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council and are some of 382kg of material brought […]