Miss Griffiths says "Well with so many sucesses and achievements throughout the year, this word is being used a lot!"

"Llongyfarchiadau." -
"Congratulations."

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

We hope that you are enjoying your summer holiday and we look forward to hearing all about it on the return to school and start of a new academic year on Monday the 6th September.

There are lots of different events and activities on over the summer. We encourage everyone to have a break and a rest but keep up all those fabulous learning skills you have worked so hard on. The Reading Agency encourages children to use their local library through their "Summer Reading Challenge" this year the theme is about space and the website is spacehop the children already know about it, just go along and get your free poster to record your progress. There are lots of wonderful resources at Ely Library for the whole family.

Showcase Cinemas in Nantgarw is running its Bookworm Wednesday again just download the form fill in a book review and use it as an admission ticket. There are also some great family shows on for just £1 on at Cineworld, Vue and Odeon Saturdays

This Saturday is Nelson Mandela day, many important people the children have interviewed have said that Mandela is the most inspirational -and nicest person- they have met. Another important United Nations Day is August which is the start of the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF YOUTH

There are some great activities on at St Fagans, such as bee week and Insect week for you to learn about biodiversity, Pondipping is always great fun. Techniquest has a workshop on Energy Generation

Do not forget to take your Millies on holiday and send us photos of you both enjoying yourself.

WHAT IS NEW IN THE GALLERY? :-

The most important event of the year is the Leavers Assembly. There are some snaps of the Leavers' Disco too. There are the class group photos plus the trips to Oakwood by the Juniors and the Infant trip to Dan-y-Ogof.

Mrs Cleaver's leaving presentation is here as part of Class Two's assembly. The children in Green Gang gave up their time to do another Litterpick. We had some volunteers showing us how hard they worked for the community by building an infant outdoor classroom. Pudsey visited an assembly to give certificates to class 5 but everyone got a cŵtch!

The Summer Fayre is here. Snaps of some of year 5 at Cardiff City Stadium. There are some of Sports day, class 3's day out at the Really Rubbish Awards. Class 3 make some potato salad Class Four meet Rose a climate Change Champion and have their class assembly all about the Tudors.

There are a few snaps of the Football Tournament in which the team won every game- well done. There is some of the 'Kick for Cancer' football fun day. You can see when some of Green Gang visited the '2041 Voyage for Cleaner Energy'.and lots more photos of planting in the Garden. Class One had a great time learning about safety and taking even more photos of the wildlife in the Garden too.

Ellie Simmonds came in to see us and tell us about her life ahead of Green Britain Day. The whole school took part in HEARTSTART learning Emergency Life Saving skills. The children took some nice shots of the plants and minibeasts in the garden. Green Gang interviewed the Welsh Environment Minister Jane Davidson. There are photos of the Ducklings hatching and growing as well as a few snaps of Green Gang.

there are some shots of Class 3/dosbarth Dewi Sant at Caerleon. There are interviews of the crew of the Plastiki in the South Pacific, and Peter Davies the Sustainable Development Commissioner. The children have been making a Dalek Compost bin. Green Gang visited a Chrysanthemum Nursery to learn about agriculture and with the infants visited a Tomato nursery too

We have some photos of class2 planting some spuds, Ely Dance Festival, We finally had some photos of the Football team in their new kit. Another Sports fun day this time for fundraising and cookery club as well.

There is another litterpick online, photos of VENTURE WEEK and some of Bonnie the dog telling the children about Responsible Dog ownership. Some of the children working on the SAVE THE CHILDREN project.

There are a few snaps of the girls football team with their medals for winning the Tournament. There are a few snaps of Green Gang doing their litter pick and visiting the new BHF shop to learn about reducing reusing and recycling. There are a few snaps of the children working on the floral wheelbarrow.

Year 4 have been having fun encouraging wildlife into the garden.and some of year 3's class assembly and their visit to the local Harvester to learn about healthy eating.

There are some photos of the children enjoying their Pirate Fun Day and the Easter Bonnet parade. We learnt about Energy as part of Science week .There are some snaps of class 5 learning about what a JP is and holding their own magistrates court. We had lots of fun on our SPORTS FUN DAY with lots of activities. Mrs Brown visited us with baby Jasper and Mrs Riddle shaved her hair to raise funds for our minibus. We also had a wonderful opera performance from the Choir and the students at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

There are some snaps of Reception learning about Dinosaurs and of course pictures of our St Davids day Eisteddfod and craft competitions.

Mrs Brown added a few snaps of Class 3 doing some science and a few more of class 4's Tudor Gardens. The choir visited our friends at the Regency Nursing home

We all support our friends in "Jukebox Juniors" in their competition on Sky TV on Sunday. Reporters Club visited the Echo, We held a Safer Internet Day event for Parents. Mrs Brown visited Techniquest. There are a few snaps of class 4 doing science. and a few of the football tournament.

We had a range of activities throughout the week as part of 'National Storytelling week' with UNICEF's Day for Change in which we raised money for Haiti. Dosbarth Dewi Sant learnt about Roman food and Dosbarth Laura Ashley learnt about Tudor Gardens. We have a few of visits to the Library for Class 5, class 2 and class 3

There are a few snaps of children taking part in the RSPB's 'BIG SCHOOLS BIRDWATCH' project. Some of us visited G24i a fantastic state of the art factory making solar panels. The boys won four matches to get through to the semi finals at the Community Cup and everyone had a taster session of Karate.The Upper Juniors played Squash. There are a few snaps of the Rising Stars club and Dosbarth Dewi Sant "learning about sound" in their Science lesson.

There are some shots of the missdorothy.com welsh launch at the school as well as some of Derek and his harmonica. Some of the family pottery club. We added a few photos of the pupils enjoying the snow in our first week back in 2010. The Ambassadors updated their page and added a section about their project on Cardiff Castle admission policy for young people.

There a few videos and snaps at the Carol Service at St Davids. We had some smashing performances from the children in the school concerts and they also had a great time at the parties. There are a few snaps of the juniors visit to the Pantomime in Barry.

Our MP Kevin Brennan came into school to tell us all about the UN conference in Copenhagen. Pentatonic Brass Quintet visited us to show us how to play the trumpet and other instruments

Our Ambassadors interviewed the The European Commissioner for Young People. Mrs Webber's & Meyricks retirement party is online with a few snaps of the choir singing too. The Christmas Crafts Club have a few snaps along with the Judo club as well as class 2 doing some ICT work

Everyone wanted to interview Cardiff City Player Joe Ledley at the Vale training ground, but 3 lucky pupils did and got to meet the players too. There are a few snaps of the Christmas Fayre.

The ambassadors visited the Children's Commissioner as part of their training. We planted 20 trees as part of the BBC's TREE O'CLOCK record breaking attempt and Green Gang also organised the Blue Hand prints to raise awareness of the Copenhagen agreement and global warming.

We have some nice shots of Children in Need, The Anti bullying workshop and Celebrating 20 years of Children's Rights at the Senedd. The infants are photographed at Trelia Sports Centre and so are Class 5 we also have some shots of doing Rugby.

We have some photos of the Footballers doing training over at Trelai Park. The Ambassadors interviewed the UN Ambassador about his work with some fab pictures of Millie in New York too. We all had lots of fun and raised funds for more fun and activities in our Halloween Funday whilst we also collected Shoes for Africa as a practical way of helping others. Green Gang had a great day at the Energy Awareness Conference.

Class 4 had a great time the Vue cinema as part of National Schools Film week and also explored the new Central Library. Class 5/Dosbarth Anuerin Bevan gave a great Harvest Festival Service and did some work with the Fire Service. Class 3 deigned & made some Pizzas with Miss Garcia. Class 2/ Dosbarth Dylan Thomas had a great time with the Fire Service and made a lovely display on Friendship.

We have some pictures of us celebrating the UN Day of Peace and, following their election, we added a bit about our Children's Ambassadors who will be doing a lot of work on promoting the work of the Children's Commission. There are some of Dosbarth Dewi Sant and Dosbarth Laura Ashley in the front of the school enjoying the sun. The first photo this year was of the Energy Enforcers.

We had our leavers Assembly with the special Millie Awards. Friday was Green Britain day and you can see some of our promises and ideas chalked on the playground.

You can see photos of our Champion Football teams at the Ely festival. the Summer Fayre including the Final of Millbank's Got Talent is here and some shots of our Fitness Day as well as the Quest Seekers project running with at Ely Library over the summer. Millie learnt all about Armed Forces Day and we are all proud of the Girl Footballer of the Year award too. Mrs C Brown has shots of Dosbarth laura Ashley doing Applique and Shadow puppets

There are shots of the Tag Rugby Team, First Aid Club and Netball Club. We all enjoyed Sports Day. Class 1 gave us a lovely assembly, and you can also see them visit a working Farm. We have more pictures from the Barn for Year 6 and more in class 4. You can see the stamp launch pictures.

There are snaps of the Community Garden event at Glyn Derw, and of course Green Gang have a quick revision on composting from the experts at Lamby Way. There are a few of the Pirates & Princesses day. Dosbarth Laura Ashley did some fun work making a giant tarantula sculpture out of old milk cartons. We have also added more photographs to Venture week and those of the butterflies emerging in dosbarth Dewi Sant.

The children took lots of snaps of the chicks and have put up the video of them hatching too. There are some snaps of the school council's visit to the High Sheriff at the Law Courts. Class 3's wonderful assembly about the weather is online, including a few videos of them singing and dancing. You can see some of the juniors enjoying their Cycling Proficiency training.

There are some snaps of the eggs in the incubator and then hatching. Some photos of venture week are online as well as more of Class 3 climbing at the barn, they also have some nice shots of the caterpillars. Class 2/dosbarth De wi Sant put their assembly about Mexico on to parents. The photographs of the Bee assembly are online with Green Gang getting their awards.

You can see that the Interview club had a great time with the Chief Constable and exploring the police museum. Enterprise week was fun with everyone learning about the world of finance and making lots of lovely craft items. There a few snaps of the dog warden visiting year 6. Year 3 have put up a few snaps of them rock climbing at Trelai Barn as well as some of their visit to Caerleon. Whilst Class 1 had put a few snaps of their day trip to Barry island and a visit to the woodland. well done to Green gang got third prize for their' Bee Friendly' wheelbarrow at the Cardiff Royal Horticultural Show.Year 6 visited Cardiff Bay with Mrs Lawrence and had a great time surveying the site and doing some designs for some great attractions.

A few snaps added in the Funky Friends club. The teachers had a Quiz as part of Red Nose Day and you can see the main Red Nose Day assembly with cake sales and lots of fab costumes. In the afternoon we interviewed the Children's commissioner for Wales Keith Towler. You can see Year 6 working with Mrs Lawrence on the history of TV's and watch as Digit Al came in with the TV crew from ITV Wales, the news article is here. Class Four mean while had some fun trying Caviar and making blinnis as they learnt a bit about Russia

There are some photos of our St David's Day celebrations, it was great to see so many children taking part. You can also see some of the children making 'Dewi the dragon' for their Eisteddfod display. There are some snaps of us enjoying the Jugglestruck Road safety theatre.

We all had a lot of fun in the snow building our snowman. Miss Clissold took class one over the Park to have lots of fun in the snow and put up some other snaps of their small world project too. Mrs Cleaver surprised us all by announcing 25 years service we quickly knocked up a card to say a huge thank you for being such an important part of the school. You can also see some of year 6 working on their St Davids Day dragon here.

You can see all the fun the infants had celebrating Chinese New Year. Camera Club got in the Echo with their interviews and fab video skills. Year 6 actually took some pictures of their visit to the Crucial Crew. A few snaps of some of the clubs the Violin, Ball skills and guitar clubs as well as the Funky Fun club

There are some pictures of Class 3 & 4 playing Rugby and having a great time too. They also have some photos and video of their interview of their MP Kevin Brennan and Echo News reporter Moira Sharkey.

We set up our first website as prior to the schools centenary celebrations in 2002, it has been a really useful tool in communicating with parents actually showing them just some of the activities that go on everyday at the school. We have received compliments from around the world on the 'quality & friendliness' of our school, the pupils really appreciate this. Why not take the time to explore our old website by clicking the monitor opposite

We hope that the Council will put the website back up again soon.

The internet is such an integral part of children's lives today and can be a wonderful place. However just as we teach children to be safe and aware in the real world, so we do in the online world.

If you would like to know more about safety on the internet click on one of the links below or visit the "Miss Dorothy.com" website.

You can see our "Rules for Responsible Internet Use" and the "E-safety Policy" We always welcome your comments and suggestions.

This is where we are in the world;

This is where some of the visitors of this page are from.

From healthy tuckshops to plenty of fun exercise we are keen to work with parents and pupils to ensure that they get the best opportunities in life

The cut down Welsh version is here. There is also a sister website which helps you keep the planet healthy as well as your family.