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  • Inspiration in a lorry!

    Published 05/07/19
    This week, Key Stage 3 students had the opportunity to visit the 'GSUS Live' trailer.  GSUS Live is a mobile education unit which is a multi-media classroom in a lorry trailer. It tells the story of three teenagers facing real-life issues in their lives, and how they get inspi... Read More

  • Collaborating with Texas A&M University

    Published 04/07/19
    On Friday 4th June, 4 A Level Maths students had the opportunity to work on a STEM project in collaboration with a group of students from Texas A&M University. During the day our pupils worked on a variety of different projects ranging from testing Water quality to investigating the defence syst... Read More

  • Horse Riding Success

    Published 03/07/19
    Congratulations to Morgan Carr in Year 7 who recently came first place in a Welsh horse riding competition at Pencoed College, Bridgend. “I had to ride over obstacles, complete weaving challenges and show that I can stop and start.” Well done Morgan and good luck with your next competiti... Read More

  • What a slice!

    Published 03/07/19
    What better way to introduce ourselves than by designing ourselves as a Jon Burgerman inspired pizza slice! Our transitional lesson examined the doodle work of British born global artist Jon Burgerman who has recently worked for Apple and Pepsi. He takes inspiration for his characters from his own e... Read More

  • Shoes glorious shoes!

    Published 01/07/19
    This week year 7, 8 and 9 have been revising for and completing their end of year Art exam. The task set was to complete a tonal observational drawing of a shoe of their choice using only HB, 2B and 4B pencils. Pupils rose to the challenge and have produced some exquisite final outcomes which demons... Read More

  • Year 6 Gamemaker Workshop

    Published 01/07/19
    As part of the transition offer to our Primary Cluster, Year 6 pupils from Cwm Ifor spent the morning in one of our specialist ICT suites designing, coding and testing their own video games. The workshop was thoroughly enjoyed by all pupils and they were a credit to Cwm Ifor.   “I... Read More

  • Artist Praise!

    Published 06/06/19
    GCSE Art pupils have been working hard to develop their understanding of  the formal elements and principles of art, and how different mediums can achieve different outcomes. Currently they have been exploring the technical capabilities and manipulations of oil pastels and focussing on the them... Read More

  • TriSciCymru

    Published 22/05/19
    Y7 pupils enjoying another Chemistry workshop from TriSciCymru looking at the chemistry of plastics pollution in the third dimension! Read More

  • STEM Events

    Published 22/05/19
    Congratulations to this Y9 team in winning the Autonomous Vehicle challenge using Lego Mindstorms. They designed and built their vehicle from scratch and successfully programmed it to navigate a circuit. They also prepared a marketing pitch to identify potential customers! Read More

  • National Vegetarian Week 2019

    Published 19/05/19
    The Home Economics department participated in National Vegetarian Week by only cooking vegetarian or vegan recipes for a whole week. Thanks to a very generous grant of £1000, awarded to school by the Vegetarian Society, following an application by Mrs Ryder, all cooking sessions for that week... Read More

  • Ski 2019

    Published 07/05/19
    A group of 58 students travelled to America over the Easter holidays on the school’s biannual skiing trip. The group skied at the 1960 Olympic venue of Squaw Valley in the picturesque Lake Tahoe region of California. The group were able to visit San Francisco whilst they were away, which... Read More

  • Year 9 First Campus visit to Cardiff Metropolitan University

    Published 12/04/19
    On 12th April, 40 Year 9 pupils, accompanied by Mrs Ryder, Mrs Davies and Mrs Shipp, visited Cardiff University. The aim of the day was to give pupils an insight into university life. There was a workshop discussing some of the myths around university and the courses available; this was followed by... Read More

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