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Hywel Dda Primary School is a busy but friendly school situated in Ely in the South West of Cardiff, with lots going on. We offer a happy and caring environment where your child can feel safe and secure. The education we provide is carefully matched to the learning needs of individual children. We aim to provide a warm, welcoming, and happy environment where pupils are encouraged to achieve their full potential and develop into responsible citizens. We take pride in our grounds and use them extensively to enhance children’s learning. As children progress through school they will be offered the opportunity to participate in many extracurricular activities. We hope the time your child spends here will be profitable and enjoyable. Our vision and values are at the core of everything we do. They underpin our teaching and learning and provide an environment that prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens. The school aims: To provide a happy, caring, secure and enriched learning environment for all children. To encourage all children to develop their full potential by stimulating their intellectual curiosity, enthusiasm, and imagination. To encourage the children, their families, and the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school to have high expectations of what can be achieved. To prepare children to play an active and positive role in society by developing their skills, knowledge, confidence, and independence. To ensure everybody learns in an atmosphere of tolerance and respect in which they appreciate their own and other cultures. To foster an appreciation of Wales and things Welsh through the implementation of Cwriculwm Cymreig. To provide and deliver a curriculum that is broad, balanced, relevant, and differentiated. To value the importance of caring for the environment and acquiring a healthy lifestyle. To raise awareness of the school in the community by fostering links with parents, extended families, residents, and businesses. View full school

The school is an Infant/Junior School and therefore caters to children from the age of 3 to 11 years. The Authority has categorized the School as a Dual-stream school. This means that the school can offer English medium or Welsh-medium education. The children in the English classes are taught Welsh as a second language whilst the children in the Welsh classes are taught Welsh as the main medium of communication. Children leave the school in the July following their 11th birthday, to attend a local Comprehensive School - usually Dyffryn Taf or Bro Myrddin. Ysgol Llys Hywel's Aims and Objectives: To create a happy environment in the school, To teach pupils to be courteous and respectful of each other, To ensure they have a good understanding of the Welsh and English languages, To develop a love of reading, To develop a knowledge and understanding in the context of maths, To develop an inquisitive mind, To ensure they know their cultural heritage, To develop good handwriting and creative skills, To provide fun experiences through physical activities, To develop a cooperative environment where all stakeholders work together to put these objectives into action. It is a primary aim of our school that every member of the school community feels valued and respected and that each person is treated fairly and well. We are a caring community, whose values are built on mutual trust and respect for all. The school's behavior policy is therefore designed to support how all members of the school can live and work together in a supportive way. It aims to promote an environment in which everyone feels happy, safe, and secure. The school has several rules, but our behavior policy is not primarily concerned with rule enforcement. It is a means of promoting good relationships so that people can work together with the common purpose of helping everyone to learn. This policy supports the school community in aiming to allow everyone to work together in an effective and considerate way. The school expects every member of the school community to behave in a considerate way towards others. We treat all children fairly and consistently apply this behavior policy. This policy aims to help children grow in a safe and secure environment and to become positive, responsible, and increasingly independent members of the school community. The school rewards good behavior, as it believes that this will develop an ethos of kindness and cooperation. This policy is designed to promote good behavior, rather than merely deter anti-social behavior. View full school