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“24 Game Challenge 2009”
Congratulations to the sixty pupils who took part in the 24 game challenge before Christmas. Competition was fierce between all pupils in years 7-11. Year 7 and 8 pupils were particularly strong easily beating much older competitors. The photograph shows the pupils who reached the semi-final stages. Owain Steer (Year 8) and Luke Rosser Jones (Year 7) did extremely well narrowly losing to the finalists Shane Higginson (Year 8) and Lauren Cooper (Year 11). Lauren went on to win the final for the second year running. As Lauren will be leaving Pontllanfraith this year, we will be looking for someone to take her place. The boys seem to be dominating the game at the moment so... “Come on girls – Get Practising!”
Luke Rosser Jones, Shane Higginson and Owain Steer
Lauren Cooper
PONTLLANFRAITH YOUNG ENTERPRISE
Young Enterprise aims to get young people aware of the business world. We want to be part of this and now have our own business. Pontllanfraith Applied Science Shows (PASS). This is aimed at KS2 pupils (Years 5 and 6). We provide a fun, hands on and educational approach to the science and hope to inspire children to take up the applied sciences at a later age. Bryn Primary School has bought one session in the first week of February on Forces and we are hoping that others will take up the offer. We are entering the Young Enterprise competition and are hopeful that we will be successful. This is our team.
Jessica Hancock, Andrew Morgan, Emma Hughes, Sam Davidge-Smith, Ieuan Marshall, Cai James(Managing Director), Poppy Parr, Grace Morgan, Joel Crooker, Andrew Chan.
ECO SCHOOL BRONZE AWARD
We are delighted to receive the Eco school bronze award. This demonstrates that we have made a good start in improving the sustainability of the school. We will now be working towards gaining the Silver Award.
Year 10 Netball vs Brynmawr
A team won 17-3
B team won 9-0
Excellent performances by all who played.
Ellie Johnston, Stephanie James and Kadie Thomas are representing the S E Wales Netball squad on Saturday January 30th against West Glam and Dyfed
TERM DATES
Click here for the complete term schedule for 2009/10
THE GIVING MACHINE
You can generate free cash donations for our school every time you shop online. It will not cost you anything extra - the online shop pays the donation on your behalf. Go to www.TheGivingMachine.co.uk for more details.
OUTSTANDING RESULTS IN EARLY ENTRY MATHS G.C.S.E
Congratulations to the Year 11 pupils who sat their Mathematics GCSE in November. They achieved 8A*, 8A and 1B grade. A fantastic effort has been put in by all and they thoroughly deserve these results.
Pupils are: Tom Baker, Lauren Cooper, Sam Dempsey, Emily Evans, Jared Gore, Bridie Howells, Emilie Hughes, Nathan Jones, Kayleigh Kenny, Kit Wing Lam, Liam Morgan, Joshua Morris, David Penwarden, James Perrett, Nathan Russell, Alex Stokes, Kieran Woods.
Last Update: February 5th
