Morfa Bay, Feb 2025 

In March, we visited Morfa Bay for our TCS Cluster Residential trip. We had an action-packed three days which involved abseiling, rock climbing, bushcraft, archery,  rock pooling, and more. We made lots of friends from the other cluster schools and are already looking forward to meeting up with them all again in year 7. 

We learnt that working outside our comfort zone, in challenging weather conditions, in activities we didn't think we were capable of, made us grow in resilience and achieve great things.

EFL Kids Cup Regional Finals, March 2025 - Luton

Having won the Cardiff City football tournament in January, the year 6 footballers were invited to represent Cardiff City in the English Football League National finals day, which was held in Luton. 

Before the finals day, the team visited the Cardiff City Stadium, where they were given a tour of the stadium and presented with their playing kits for the tournament. 

During the finals day, the team competed against some tough opposition, and despite playing some wonderful football, they narrowly lost to Coventry in the quarter finals of the tournament. 

During Cycling session one, we learnt the skills and safety we would need when going on to the road  in Session two.

National 10s Rugby Tournament - LLandovery 

Having won the RCT Super 8s rugby tournament, the team were invited to represent the Rhondda in the National 10s tournament, which was held in LLandovery RFC. 

World Book Day, 2025

We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters; prizes were given for the most original, homemade costumes. 

We spent the afternoon reading to our reading buddies and sharing our love of reading with the younger children in the school.

Megan Mattravers, an author from Llantrisant came to visit and shared her published books with us. We got to meet her and ask her questions about anything. She gave us lots of ideas to write our own stories. Her two published books are called, Vintage Owl and The Elephant and the Buns. We were given the task to research key facts about her before she came.

We particularly enjoyed the reading of her book The Elephant and the Buns. This was particularly enjoyable as many knew the setting of the story. We were given the opportunity after the reading, to ask questions about being a writer. The talk was inspirational and the budding writers went home with new ambitions!

We enjoyed our World Book Day Assembly, with the whole school, where book prizes  and certificates were given to the most original costumes

Cwmlai Eisteddfod

Our final Eisteddfod in Cwmlai came round all too quickly! We threw ourselves into the competitions and worked very hard to complete them by the deadline, after a very busy term and returning from our Residential trip to Morfa Bay.

We had a great morning and witnessed talent in each year group.

Table Tennis 

A few of our talented table tennis players were invited to represent Cwmlai in the Welsh Primary School Table Tennis Championship in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. 

 #hardwork+dedication=talent 

We compared the traditional music in Wales to the strong beat of the South American area, we were fascinated to see that music was shared by the Welsh settlers and the Patagonians. 

We were interested to find out that the early versions of songs like La Bamba, which was popularised in Mexico, originated in Patagonia.

We performed both songs as part of Cwmlai's Welsh Heritage assembly.