COMING UP … WEEK BEGINNING … MONDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2018 Y

Monday 5 KS3 swimming gala Tuesday 6 Vaccinations Year 8 and Year 9 girls Wednesday 7 Year 11 Parents’ Consultation Evening Thursday 8 LGBT Event Stonewall Role Model Speaker 12.15 Friday 9 Year 8 Anti-racism PSE session

COMING UP … WEEK BEGINNING … MONDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2018 WEEK A

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

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

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 5 February 2018

WEEK B

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.

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

Science Trip The Physics Department have

organised a trip in June for Y12 students to visit the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN

near Geneva.

URDD.

Becci De Torres and Bethan Beynon both

represented Radyr Comprehensive School

for swimming at the URDD. Becci won

Gold for 200 IM and Silver for 100

Free. Bethan won Bronze for 100 Fly. An

amazing achievement for both girls and

first time Radyr has entered a School

swimming competition for 12 years.

Year 10 Enterprise & Employability Challenge

Mrs Clarke, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Youssef and Miss Jones are extremely pleased on how well the

Year 10 Enterprise and Employability “pitches” have been presented.

The pupils had to work together in groups to create a product of a specific theme :“wearable

technology”. Pupils had to write and prepare for their company`s pitch as well as create a display

board to use as part of their pitch. Mrs Clarke, Head of Skill faculty said “There has been so many

innovative ideas on “wearable technology” this year. They are all amazing!”

Pupils will soon be told who the winner is in each of their WBQ classes followed by an overall

Enterprise and Employability Challenge winner. Watch this space!!

Here are some of the pupil`s boards that were used in the pitches.