COMING UP … WEEK BEGINNING … MONDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2018 Y

Monday 12 Valentines Quiz Fundraiser for Zambia Botswana Trip Year 11 Options Deadline

KS3 Swimming Gala Tuesday 13 Y8 Prelims Eisteddfod KS3 Swimming Gala Wednesday 14 KS3 Swimming Gala Thursday 15 Y7 Prelims Eisteddfod Friday 16 Deadline for GCSE PE External sport evidence

COMING UP … WEEK BEGINNING … MONDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2018 HALF TERM

Monday 19 HALF TERM Tuesday 20 HALF TERM

Wednesday 21 HALF TERM

Thursday 22 HALF TERM

Friday 23 HALF TERM

Year 10 Year 12

Work Experience

A reminder for students to continue their search for work experience

placements.

Year 10 work experience dates: Monday 2 to Friday 6 July 2018 with a deadline

for documentation on Monday 16 April.

Year 12 work experience dates: Monday 16 to Friday 20 July 2018 with a

deadline for documentation on Monday 16 April.

Mock interviews year 12 - Following the parent mail last week, if Year 12

students want a mock interview in June, please can students return their sign up

slip to Mrs Perks in the Sixth Form Study Room asap. Mrs R Youssef

Year 11

GCSE PE

All Year 11 GCSE PE pupils wishing to use external sports as one of their three

sports must submit their video evidence to Miss Ireland on memory stick or CD

ROM by Friday 16 February. Miss S Ireland

Domino Diversity Group

February is LGBT History month. On Thursday 8 February we have a

Stonewall Role Model speaker coming in to deliver a talk to students during

lunchtime. All students are welcome to attend. This will take place at 12.15pm

in the Sixth Form Study Room. Mrs R Youssef

Y12 Fieldtrip

The final payment for the Y12 Geography fieldtrip to Margam Discovery

Centre is due on 22 February 2018. A letter outlining the final arrangements and

appropriate clothing will be sent out next week.

Mrs Knight

Heads Up Week Beginning: Monday 12 February 2018

WEEK A

Music Eisteddfod: Preparation has started for this year's Eisteddfod. Rehearsals for Kitchen Band, Dance and

Karaoke have begun and other competitions are being shared via Show My Homework. Please encourage your child to take part and represent their house - every entry gets a point!

Y7 Prelims - Thursday 15 February Y8 Prelims - Tuesday 13 February Eisteddfod - Thursday 1 March

Miss R Power Music

Red Wool and Black Buttons Reminder November 11 2018 will be the 100-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. The Radyr and Morganstown History Society are organising a festival. Several volunteers throughout the community are currently in the process of knitting poppies. In order to help them with this, we would like to receive donations of black buttons or balls of red wool. If every child in school brought just one black button it would be a massive help to a great cause. Thank you to those parents and students who have already donated. Please bring all donations into the Humanities faculty. If you can knit and would like to volunteer to help please contact Mrs Knight.

Number Day Report

On Friday 2 February, Radyr Comprehensive School took part in the NSPCC’s Number Day 2018. Students and staff were asked to "Dress up for Digits" and wear an item of clothing with a

number on it (eg a football shirt, cap or netball shirt). This was a great way to make maths fun and bring about a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude towards it. There were various number based

activities throughout the day, such as "Teacher Maths" and “Who wants to be a mathionnaire?” Teachers displayed posters of their favourite maths joke or quote. It was great to see so

many students taking part and enjoying these activities. The winners of the Teacher Number Fact Treasure Hunt were:

Year 7: Luca & Peter

Year 8: Lauren, Ruby, Evan, Scarlett & Catrin Year 9: Bethan

Many thanks to everyone who supported Number Day and helped us raise an amazing £1014

towards this fantastic cause. All the money we raised will make an enormous difference to children today and help change the lives of children tomorrow.