We have some fantastic new. Two of our pupils won Young Achiever Awards at Radio Carmarthenshire's Gala event last Friday.
Morgan Beckett in year 4 won the Child of Courage Award sponsored by Olympic Wales.
Klaudia Piesecka who has just gone to secondary school this September won the outstanding progress award sponsored by Teaching elite and Intro-teach.
The school nominated these pupils and we are extremely proud of their achievements.
Mr Stevenson and Mrs Williams represented the school on the night.
Mr Stevenson was quoted, “Morgan is a super lad who is brave, determined and often dismisses support as he can ‘do it himself’. He recently had a nasty tumble when using his tricycle which resulted in him breaking his arm, he didn’t shed a tear and continued to smile through it all. He is a truly outstanding young person who is always happy and is very courageous in his attitude”.
Click here to see Morgan receiving his award.
About Klaudia Mr Stevenson said, “Neither she or her family spoke a word of English when she joined in year 4. Clearly joining a class so late in the primary years was going to be stressful. Slowly, she began to pick up words and phrases (including some welsh ones!). Two years later, when it was time for her to leave Primary school for secondary school she was a fluent in English and excelled in all subjects, including Welsh. She certainly stood apart as being the child that made the best progress.”
To find out more about the awards click here.
Congratulations to our 100% attendance winner for October. He wins a 5 pound book voucher.
Year 2 also had the best attendance of all the classes.
Today was our special harvest thanksgiving day. Mr Stevenson told the story of the parable of the sower during assembly and we learned about not wasting the advice and words of wisdom we receive in school.
Pupils also brought in food for our harvest assembly to raise funds for Enoch our sponsored child. www.penygaerschool.co.uk/enoch-our-sponsored-child/
It was also a non uniform day. Thanks to all the pupils who brought in 25p for the raffle and 25p for the non uniform.
Congratulations to the four children who won 2 shopping bags each in the raffle.
These are the pupils that came to school every day of the last academic year of 2013 to 2014. Well done children, da iawn plant.
They all received a 5 pound book voucher each.
Over the past two days years 5 and 6 have been visiting various places around Llanelli as a part of their project on Our Wonderful World. On Monday they walked to Parc Howard, Llanelly House, St Elli Church, the Eastgate and various other places in town.
Today they continued their visits to various sites around Llanelli. They first visited Stradey Castle thanks to a guided tour by Claire Mansel-Lewis. They then walked five miles from Sandy Water Park to Penclacwydd looking at North Dock, Machynys Golf Course and the cycle path. Finally they called in Parc y Scarlets.
This will help them with their presentations on the last week of half term where they will present "The Wonders of Llanelli."
Well done years 5 and 6, your behaviour was excellent in every place we visited.