Ysgol Gymraeg Penalltau

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We strive to create a safe, supportive and happy environment where pupils and staff can develop to their full potential through support, encouragement, and respect. All learners at Ysgol Gymraeg Penalltau are encouraged to be independent learners who think creatively to achieve the highest possible academic standards and to develop the necessary skill to be life-long learners.

• To encourage respect and passion for the Welsh language, our culture, and heritage and to ensure that equal respect is shown towards other languages, cultures, and religions.
• To ensure pupils develop the necessary literacy and numeracy skills essential for everyday life.
• To give every child an opportunity to reach their full potential in all areas of the curriculum.
• To promote respect, honesty, and a sense of responsibility in every child and ensure a high standard of behavior and courtesy.
• To treat every pupil fairly, ensuring equal opportunities for all regardless of ability, race, gender or sexual orientation, religion, cultural or economic background.
• Provide a safe, happy, and supportive environment for all members of the school community.
• To provide stimulating and challenging learning opportunities.
• To encourage every pupil to be independent, creative, and inquisitive by developing their thinking skills enabling them to process information, investigate, reason, and evaluate.

The success of our school is based on the fact that we are a happy, open and friendly school. Our main aim is to ensure that all children are happy and enjoy coming to school to enable them to achieve their full potential. To ensure that this is the case, we employ the very best teaching and support staff. All our staff work hard and are committed to the continued development of all the children within the school. We aim to foster a partnership between parents and the school, to provide the very best education for your child. It is essential that you as parents have high expectations of us as a school and we, in turn, have high expectations of your children.

It is our vision that our school is a place where both staff and are highly motivated, where they have opportunities to experience success and develop to make the most of their talents. Our recent Estyn inspection noted that “the pupils’ voice and wellbeing are very strong features of the work of Ysgol Gymraeg Penalltau.” Welsh is the main language of our school, both for instruction and social communication around the school.

Our children are educated through the medium of Welsh only in Foundation Phase, with English introduced as a subject from Year 3, enabling pupils to become fully bilingual in Welsh and English, and ready to transfer to Welsh-medium secondary school. Pupils are encouraged to learn about the heritage and culture of Wales and we nurture a strong sense of identity and belonging.

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