Invitation to Fairoaks

Thursday March 25th saw a new learning experience at Dinas Powys site. A group of elderly residents from the Fairoaks complex attended after school to experience an ICT lesson. This was delivered by Mr May and assisted by Mr Ellis and Mrs Oldfield. Some pupils from Yr 9 were on hand to explain the complexities of the computer! The session was a great success and plans are in place to follow with further lessons next term. (26/03/2010)

Science Success

Congratulations to Lewis Acford, Abigail Hallum, Tomos Havard and Azizah Khan of 8PJJO, who won first prize at the “Salters’ Festival of Chemistry” at Cardiff University on the 24th of March. The pupils worked in the undergraduate research laboratories to carry out two investigations. The first investigation used forensic science techniques to work out which suspect had committed a crime, and the second investigation tested the pupil’s ability to carry out chemical reactions accurately. Schools from across Wales and England arrived to compete in this extremely popular festival, so well done to our More Able and Talented pupils, whose excellent teamwork skills and very accurate practical results led the University to award them the top prize. The pupils received both certificates and prizes for their efforts, and also won molecular modelling kits for the Science faculty worth over £100. (26/03/2010)

New Headteacher Appointed at Sy Cyres

A FAMILIAR face has been appointed as the new headteacher of St Cyres Comprehensive School in Penarth. Senior deputy head, Dr Jonathan Hicks, will take over from current headteacher Brian Lightman in September. Dr Hicks, who served as acting head of the school in 2007/2008, said: “I am delighted that the governors have given me the honour of leading the school from September. “Mr Lightman will be a hard act to follow but I know I have the support of the staff and pupils, and fully intend to ensure that St Cyres moves from strength to strength in the near future.” More ... (26/03/2010)

GCSE Art and Textiles students collaborate for Metro competition

Five girls in Year 10 are keeping their fingers crossed as they submit their entry into this years Metro Re-create competition. The competition is for students of Art or Textiles to create an innovative piece of work inspired by re-cycling newspapers. The competition has fantastic prizes; the first prize in each category being £750. Maria Muhmood, Ellie Kilberg, Hannah Roberts, Sara Rahman & Palvi Rupalia, chose the word FREE as their inspiration and have entered their costume into the Fashion and Jewellery section of the competition. It was difficult to complete the outfit during the four after-school sessions, but teamwork played an important part and each girl contributed to a different element of the design. I was impressed to see students from the two subjects working collaboratively; sharing their personal skills and wish them luck in the competition. If you find this topic interesting and want to look at last years entries visit www.metrorecreate.co.uk By Mrs E Fisher (25/03/2010)

St Cyres Annual Awards Evening

Pupils, parents, staff and Governors enjoyed a memorable evening at the St Cyres annual Awards Evening this week. During this important event, pupils were rewarded for the commitment, excellence and endeavor they have demonstrated in a number of different areas, from contributing to our school and local community to excellence in different subject areas.

Each department gave an award for excellence. These pupils received their awards from Deputy Headteacher Ms Hilary Thomas. Local businesses also supported the school by sponsoring awards and these included the J.M. Textiles Awards won by Naomi Lewis and Luke Penberthy of Year 7 and the Dragonfly Training Award won by Lucas Podesta.

The Friends of St Cyres recognised the contribution made to the school by Robert Edwards as a student who really is an inspiration to others. The David Davies Award for Endeavour was awarded to Pauline Alvarez in Year 10 and the Governors’ Award for ‘Most Improved Student’ went to Mikael Khalid.

One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation by Ron McLean, the Project Manager for the new school building. Ron gave an entertaining account of his career to date and gave some valuable advice to pupils on making key decisions in their future careers.

Speaking during the evening, Headteacher Mr Brian Lightman, said ‘Pupils have once again excelled themselves and provided role models for others to aspire to. It is a privilege to work with such highly motivated pupils and to share the delight of parents with whom we work throughout the year to ensure pupils fulfil their potential.’ (25/03/2010)

Photos: Sam Berg receives award for Excellence in Mathematics, Matthew Roan receives award for Excellence in PE, Rosie Lyne receives award for Excellence in History, Headteacher Mr Brian Lightman presents the David Davies Award for Endeavor to Pauline Alvarez, New school project leader Ron McLean, Ron McLean presents Hanah Foat with one of the Sports Awards.

Would your family enjoy introducing someone from another country to your way of life?

There are international students from all over the world at universities in the UK. They speak English and most are in their 20's. They would love to spend a weekend sharing your family life. You could have fun introducing them to British food, customs, your local community and area and you could learn about their country and culture. This is an opportunity to make friends across international boundaries. Geography comes alive, and afterwards, any news bulletin about your guest's country will have much more meaning.

HOST is a national charity, backed by the Foreign Office, which has been linking students with volunteer hosts for many years. See www.hostuk.org or call Lynette Chappin, the voluntary organiser in South Wales, on 02920 693903. (18/03/2010)

Vale Council rallies behind rising badminton star

A rising star of Welsh badminton is aiming to reach the pinnacle of her sport with a helpful volley from the Vale of Glamorgan Council. Thirteen-year-old Ellen Mahenthiralingam, from Dinas Powys, is one of 20 elite athletes from the county whose sporting ambitions are being supported during 2010 by the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Sports Academy Scheme. More ... (12/03/2010)

Football News

The Year 9 (under 14) side has progressed furthest so far with eight wins (Whitchurch, Llantwit, Corpus Christi and St Richard Gwyn) in the Cardiff qualifying cup for the National competition. The side, led by George Hooper, has subsequently beaten the representatives from St Joseph’s (Neath/Port Talbot) and Croesyceiliog (Cwmbran) in the national quarter-final. In the Cardiff Cup the boys squeezed past Llanishen 1-0 and were more comfortable against Mary immaculate in recording a 6-2 win. We have since met Cowbridge in the quarter-final and despite a patchy performance (2-1 win) we will now meet Fitzalan in the semi-final.
The other St Cyres squad blazing a trail this season is Nicky Coles’ first XI. The boys removed Whitchurch 3-2, St Teilo’s 2-0 and Radyr 5-3 before suffering a 5-2 reverse to Bishop of Llandaff in the final of the qualifying competition for the national play-offs. Happily, the champions and runners up represent Cardiff and the Vale in the National play-offs. St Cyres seniors have progressed to the quarter final following a successful (4-1) last 16 clash with Swansea’s Morriston Comprehensive School. We will meet Gwent champions St Albans of Pontypool in the next round. In the Cardiff Cup, wins against Barry 4-2 and an extra time, last gasp, 2-1 steal against Whitchurch High School have earned a Cardiff semi-final against Atlantic College.
The Year 7 (under12) squad, led by Regan Poole, has now exited both competitions at the hands of Llanishen and Cardiff High School following two wins against Barry 6-2 and Bishop of Llandaff 4-1.
At under 13 level, the Year 8 team captained by Harry Simpson has beaten Whitchurch high School 3-1 and Llanedeyrn High School 5-1 in the Cardiff Cup. Corpus Christi and St illtyd’s withdrew from the quarter-final and the St Cyres squad will meet the winners of the Cardiff High School/Llanishen quarter in the semi-final.
The Year 10 side missed out in the under 15 Cardiff Cup quarter final with a 4-2 loss to Barry. This followed an eventful 3-1 win at Willows High School.
The Year 11 squad departed from the Welsh Cup in the play-off against Ysgol Bro Morgannwg but has progressed to the semi-final of the Cardiff Cup with wins over St Illtyd’s 5-3, Willows 6-0 and Barry 4-2. We await the draw for the semi-final. (11/03/2010)

Coursework deadlines!

With exam classes approaching their coursework completion date students are working extremely hard producing their final products. Standards of work are very high this year, and all workshops are a hive of activity. Pictured below are some of our A level students preparing their final projects. Mr. D Parker (10/03/2010)

Murder in the Library!
St Cyres Celebrates World Book Day

Competitions were held throughout World Book Day 4th March in the Learning Resources Centre. Pupils submitted entries for best book review and also designed their own book covers. The winning entries were by Angharad Webb Year 7 for her book review and Carys Inker for best book cover, congratulations and well done! The main event ‘Murder in the Library’, a book themed murder mystery, also took place in the LRC with scores of pupils from all years turning up to investigate the crime. Clues were to be found around the library and by the end of the day the case was solved. The winning ‘investigators’ were Sam Wiblin-Rowlands Year 8 and Ryan Morris Year 7, well done. (10/03/2010)

Success for St Cyres Young Writers

St Cyres pupils entered the Young Writers competition ‘Mini Sagas’ a creative writing competition held annually for school children throughout the UK. Entries are judged on use of imagination, perception, expression and creative use of language. We were delighted to recently receive a letter from Young Writers advising that no fewer than 100 of our pupils have had their work chosen to be published in the next book entitled ‘Mini Marvels South Wales’. Many congratulations to all pupils involved, this is an excellent achievement. (10/03/2010)

Marie Curie Annual Collection

The annual collection for the Marie Curie Hospice once again took place in the school and, after several weeks of anticiaption, was again organised by the Year 10 pupils who have supported the charity so readily since they joined in Year 7. The usual pupils were joined by Dina Ismail and Sahra Arwo and gave up every break and dinner time throughout the collecting week. The fund-raising culminated in the Eisteddfod on the Friday when every pupil in the Lower School was encouraged to purchase a daffodil to wear. The Year 10 pupils are indebted to the younger pupils from the Dinas Powys site for their help. The collecting tins and buckets were returned to Marie Curie by the Penarth students - shown in the photograph with Mrs Karen Jones and Ms Georgina Burke from the Fund Raising Office. (09/03/2010)

Fair Trade Tea-Shirt Competition

The winner of the Fair Trade Tea-Shirt Competition is Sarah King in 8CLB. Her winning design incorporates a black background, a teacup and saucer and steam rising. This bold statement design strongly promotes the use of Fair Trade tea. Sarah will receive a Fair Trade T-shirt and her design will be printed onto t-shirts as advertisements during Fair Trade Fortnight. She will also receive a £5 voucher to spend at ‘A Class Apart’ The panel of three judges from Dinas Powys Fair Trade Group would like to thank all the students for their thoughtful ideas and found all the entries very interesting; second prize went to Jennifer Kerslake and third to James Haworth. James’ tagline, ‘Fairtrade Tea is Tea-riffic’ was a great idea. Both students will receive a £5 voucher. Some other design work was also highly commended by Rhys Lane, Dominic Curtis and Rhiannon Jeffrey all in year 8. The Fair Trade Foundation focus is on the Big Swap when it is hoped that 1,000,001 people will swap a normal product for a fair trade one e.g. bananas, chocolate, biscuits or whatever, but specifically with a focus on tea. Other age groups have been asked to design different things, again on a tea theme, and the intention is to exhibit everyone's work at the Parish Hall on Saturday 6th March. Mrs E Fisher (09/03/2010)

Penarth Town Fairtrade Forum

The AGM of the Penarth Town Fairtrade Forum took place on Friday 5th March and involved several of our pupils in major roles. Hannah Richards and Tomos Evans, both of Year 13, have served on the Forum for the last two years and, as they are now off to University, the members of the meeting, including Lorraine Barrett AM, Cllr Mark Wilson and representatives from local businesses, charities etc, thanked them for their consistent support and hard work over this time. Hannah had been elected as Publicity Officer in the last AGM and has proved to be an excellent ambassador both for the Forum and for the school. The meeting ended with a presentation by two of our Year 10 pupils, Rosa Greenburrows and Ruba Ashraf - both of whom were speaking in public for the first time. They gave an account of the work of the school in supporting the Fairtrade programme and were rewarded by a rousing round of applause for their infomrative and interesting talk. Well done girls - you also were excellent ambassadors for St Cyres School. The photos shows our students with some of the other guests and members at the meeting and Rosa and Ruba delivering their talk. (08/03/2010)

Project: Fair Trade Catwalk

You may have recently seen size zero models and unbelievable creations strutting down the catwalks of London Fashion Week and wondered how the elite fashion world can continue to relate to the needs of the population. As an alternative, on Thursday 27th February at 7.30pm a totally different view of fashion was taking place. Real size models refused to conform to stereotypes and proudly walked the catwalk promoting Fairtrade clothing from a number of manufacturers. Jan Tucker owner of ‘Fair Do’s’ in Canton kindly supplied a wide range of men’s and women’s clothing from her shop as well as accessories like hats, scarves and bags. www.fairdos.com Hannah Richards, year 13 who is publicity officer of the Penarth Fairtrade Forum was the driving force behind The Fairtrade Fashion Show. With help and advice from Mr Clarey, she enrolled Counsellor Mark Wilson, Mrs Margaret Edwards and the ladies of the Women’s Institute and several members of St Cyres School staff to participate in raising awareness of The Big Swap, 22nd February to 7th March. www.fairtrade.org.uk Highlights of the evening included two gorgeous crushed velvet dresses, a range of printed and hand beaded tops and patterned silk skirts. All the models looked fantastic and were well received by the audience with rounds of applause. The show stopper had to be Dan Payne, year 13 who wearing designer boxer shorts from ‘Pants for Poverty’ marched boldly down the catwalk, making the front row smile! During the interval, St Cyres School Choir entertained us with a wonderful performance and The Mayor of Penarth, John Fraser, gave the event a sense of occassion in the beautiful surroundings of The Paget Rooms. Although this was not a fund raising event, but more about promoting awareness, volunteers from Oxfam in Penarth Town were on hand selling Fairtrade products like coffee, tea and chocolate. By Mrs E Fisher (05/03/2010)

Mad Hatter's Tea Break

On Saturday 27th February six students from St Cyres School participated in an event at Youldon House, Dinas Powys in support of Fairtrade Fortnight. Tasmin Pickford, Jennifer Ham, John Turingan, Dominique Tsoi, Charlotte and Jessica Woodfield all gave up their Saturday morning to get creative! The task was seemingly simple, 'create the maddest hats possible with the materials provided'. That would normally be no problem for this group of talented students, however, ten wonderful local ladies with their minds set on making Easter Bonnets gave them a bit more of a challenge. Artistic ideas were put on hold so that Conversation, Compromise and Care became the key words to success. Phyllis with her partner Jessica, were the ultimate prizewinners and treated to some Fairtrade chocolate. I would like to thank Sue Hamer from the Dinas Powys Fairtrade Group who organised this event in association with Soul in Dinas. This was a valuable opportunity to socialise across generations and make connections between groups of people who would possibly never meet. The conversation flowed as we exchanged ideas about local places of interest and nattered about craft projects over cups of tea and toast. All of the ‘Mad Hats’ will be on display at Dinas Powys Parish Hall on Saturday 6th March. (05/03/2010)

St Cyres - Football Teams' Progress

For an update on our football squads progress in all competitions in each age group this season please Click Here (01/03/2010)

Royal Marines Quintet

The music department were treated to a morning's entertainment by the Royal Marines Quintet. WO2 Ian Davies MBE RM and the quintet performed for GSCE and A Level Students giving them a taste of life in the forces. Ian Davies who has played for the Queen and all around the world with the Royal Marines also gave a presentation to the group that gave an insight into the incredible opportunities that a career in the Royal Navy can provide them with. Following this visit a number of our pupils have shown an interest in joining the Royal Marines School of Music when they leave St Cyres. For further information please visit www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk (25/02/2010)

Geography Awareness Week

This week pupils in year 7-9 have been taking part in fun activities in their Geography lessons. Year 7 pupils have had a quiz, year 8 have been designing a school for the future and year 9 have been junk modelling a sustainable house. Hopefully the pupils have enjoyed their lessons, I know the staff have! (12/02/2010)

Consultation Continues with Design Team

Following the series of special assemblies that were held last week, the consultation process on the design of our new school continued today with a series of meetings with each of the Year Councils. The purpose of these meetings was to ask the pupils on each of the Year Councils for their ideas for the new buildings and to find out what facilities they would like to see in the new school. As always, the pupils came up with lots of interesting and exciting ideas and the Design Team were very pleased with the feedback they received from the pupils and they will take away and consider all of the ideas discussed during the day. (12/02/2010)

St Cyres Hockey Results

The Year 9 hockey team recently played in the County Hockey Tournament. The team started well with a victory over Cardiff High School. Rachel Hignett was dominant for St. Cyres with a hatrick. She was well supported by Ellen Mahenthiralingham, Ffion Gould, Chanelle McIlroy and Maryam Chaudhary. The girls then faced a tight match against Ysgol Bro Morgannwg. They managed to contain Rachel and eventually Bro Morgannwg scored despite some good defending from Caomhie Wingren, Sahar Ibrahim, Dana Yee and Ffion Thomas. The girls then lost against Glantaf who were the eventual winners.

The Year 7 hockey team also played Bro Morgannwg in a friendly fixture. This was their first 11 a-side match and both teams played really well. St. Cyres midfield of Naomi Lewis, Amy Morgan, Emily Hill and Isabella Podesta showed real skill at times and did manage to create some attacking opportunities. The attack of Lydia Gardner, Emily Gadsby and Georgia Morgan made some good attacking runs but just couldn’t get the final shot on target. The defence of Chloe Benson, Shauna McManus and Chloe Wathan were solid throughout. The girls have their County Tournament after half term. (10/02/2010)

Design Technology Engineers Club

Year 9 young engineers lunch club busy completing their iPod amplifiers. Pupils are combining their Resistant materials and Systems & Control skills to create innovative speaker docks. By Mr. D Parker (09/02/2010)

Football News

Congratulation to the senior football team, led by captain Nicky Coles, who have progressed to the semi final of the Cardiff Cup following a 2-1 win over Whitchurch High School last night. Also, congratulations to the Year 8 squad who have progressed to the quarter final of the Cardiff cup having beaten Llanederyn High School 5-1 last night. St Cyres School now have more teams in the advanced stages of the Cup Competitions than any of the other 33 schools in Cardiff and The Vale. Well done to the 100 boys who have represented our school in the 6 different age groups. (09/02/2010)

Elodie Wilton Appeal

In response to a request for help in the Penarth Times a group of 13 pupils from all year groups in the school decided to help raise money to fund a £40,000 operation for 2-year old Elodie Wilton, the daughter of a past pupil who had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The operation would dramatically change Elodie's future life and was only available in America. The appeal was so successful that we were able to present Mr and Mrs Wilton with a cheque for £1,000 in a special Year 7 assembly on 5th February. In her thank you speech to the school Mrs Wilton was able to say that Elodie had been accepted for the surgery and the fund currently stood at £23,000 - we wish them well with their future fund-raising. (05/02/2010)

St Cyres Year 9 Football Squad Success

St Cyres year 9 boys, champions of Cardiff, played Neath-Port Talbot champions St Joseph's yesterday afternoon. As a result, our under 14 football squad has progressed to the quarter final of the National Competition. The score was 6-0 and the St Cyres squad is led by captain George Hooper. The goals came from Kieran Heppenstall, Matt Leyshon (2), Liam Driscoll, George Hooper and Shane Parker. The strikes by George and Shane would have graced any level of football. (04/02/2010)

New St Cyres School Design Team Present Plans to Pupils

Pupils in every year group in the school were today treated to a special presentation by the design team responsible for building a brand new school for St Cyres. There was great excitement amongst both staff and pupils as the team unveiled their proposals for this state of the art building designed to educate pupils in the 21st century. On show during the presentation was the proposed plan for the new school along with a number of images showing what the internal spaces such as classrooms, corridors and open spaces might look like. This is the first stage of the consultation process with pupils and more events such as this are planned as the plans develop. (03/02/2010)

Welsh Baroque Orchestra visits St Cyres

The Welsh Baroque Orchestra, led by Andrew Wilson-Dickson gave music students from year 10 to 13 a fantastic experience at St Cyres on Monday 1st February. The orchestra brought both baroque and modern instruments and performed a number of pieces from Bach to Poulenc. After the performances, which displayed the differences between Baroque and modern day instruments, St Cyres students were led by Andrew Wilson-Dickson in a compositional workshop where they deconstructed and then composed a piece of Baroque music which was then performed by both St Cyres Students and the orchestra. (01/02/2010)

Climbing News

The Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan Schools' climbing competition was held at the Boulders Climbing Centre in Cardiff on 22 January 2010. St Cyres year 11 student Rhoslyn Frugtniet won the senior girls' climbing event with sister Bethan in second place. Bethan went on to win the bouldering competition. Year 7 student Seren Cain has made an excellent start to her climbing career. Seren was third in the junior girls event finishing ahead of many more experienced climbers. (29/01/2010)

English Achievement

Year 13 student Kareshma Popalyar has a lot to smile about; she has just been awarded a good English GCSE having completed all the coursework in just six weeks. Amazingly, she speaks six languages including Dutch, Persian and German! (28/01/2010)

Music Annoucement

The Welsh Baroque Orchestra, led by Andrew Wilson-Dickson will be coming to St Cyres Monday 1st February and will giving a workshop to year 10/11/12 and 13 music students. (26/01/2010)

Governors' Annual Meeting for Parents

The project team from Davis Langdon will be giving a presentation to parents about the proposed rebuild of St Cyres this Wednesday (27 January) the Old Hall Penarth at 7.00 p.m. at the rescheduled Governors' Annual Meeting for Parents. The plans are advancing rapidly and you will be able to see details of what our new school is likely to look like and the timing of the project. There will also be an opportunity at this meeting to ask members of the Governing Body questions about their Annual Report. (25/01/2010)

Fencing Classes

Pupils on the Dinas Powys site were excited to take part in the first of several planned fencing classes after school on Friday 22nd Jan. This was arranged through the school's 5x60 officer Peter Sullivan. All pupils agreed that the session was great fun and they are looking forward to the next session immensely! (25/01/2010)

Welsh Baccalaureate Training Event

St Cyres hosts a Welsh Baccalaureate training event to share our good practice with colleagues from schools in South Wales. We have shared our experiences of the planning and implementation of the Foundation and Intermediate WBQ at Key Stage 4 as well as the enjoyment and success our Year 10 pupils have gained. Watch this space for future activities. (22/01/2010)

Double Whammy, ends in victory in local Derby.

The year 10 rugby boys had a busy few days this week, with a rugby league competition on Wednesday and a Union match versus Stanwell at home Thursday. The league competition took part in Llanharry school, nr Bridgend. The 15 players arrived in good spirit and started the competition well, with convincing wins over Llantwit Major School and the hosts Llanharry School. More... (22/01/2010)

St Cyres Students Join Mensa

Congratulations to St Cyres pupil Sam Berg and Marcus Hicks who recently qualified to join Mensa. Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, with the only qualification for membership being a high IQ. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top two per cent of the population. Sam and Marcus were amongst a group of more able and talented Year 10 pupils from St Cyres who took the Mensa IQ test, with all pupils proving to have an IQ in the top ten per cent of the population. (22/01/2010)

Year 10 Catering Achievements

The Year 10 Catering class making sponges for their gateau. Pupils decorated their gateau by piping cream and adding grated chocolate or nuts and fresh fruit. Great results were achieved by all. We have some budding Jamie Olivers and Nigellas in the making. (21/01/2010)

Visiting Author, Phil Carradice

Popular local writer, Phil Carradice, has been in school on both sites as part of the Read a Million Words Together in Wales project, running writing workshops and answering pupils' questions about his books and the craft of writing. He is seen here with pupils from Penarth site discussing their poems entitled 'Journey'. (21/01/2010)

Art, Design & Technology Year 13 Christmas Party

Santa made a visit to St Cyres school just before the end of the December to visit the Year 13 Technology class. Many of the pupils noticed that Santa had in fact lost a lot of weight and was looking much more ‘stream lined’…. Many festive fun games were played to celebrate the Christmas season, musical chairs, and Pin the tail on the Tech teacher to name a few. Santa welcomed staff to sit on his knee and tell him what they would like for Christmas, one ex-member of staff (Mr Andy Duncan) made a special appearance just to give Santa his ‘wish list’. By Mr Erickson (21/01/2010)

Design Technology Achievements

The following pupils were highly commended in Design Technology for their achievements in their Systems & Control projects. Pupils had to design and make an animated display using their skills in electronics and resistant materials to promote a topic of their choice. All pupils have a real flair for Design Technology and are quickly developing into our ‘future designers’. Pupils in Photographs: Abigail Hallum, Azizah Kahn, Fatehea Rahman, Abbie Keen. By Mr. D Parker (20/01/2010)

St Cyres Key Skills Success

A special assembly to mark the outstanding success of our Year 10 pupils was called this week as the school received the news that 220 pupils from this year group had passed their Level 2 Key Skills qualification in ICT. What is even more remarkable is that these pupils actually completed this work during Year 9. This Key Skills qualification is an important building block for the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification which is a core part of our curriculum in Year 10 and is studied alongside the usual GCSE qualifications. Pupils are currently completing their Application of Number portfolios and these will be entered later in the term. St Cyres has a strong national reputation for outstanding success in the Advanced Diploma WBQ qualification which is studied by students in our Sixth Form and the indications are, based on these results, that pupils will enjoy the same levels of success in this Intermediate Diploma. The school wishes to congratulate all pupils who received this qualification and we look forward to hearing news of further success from this Year group. (19/01/2010)

St Cyres Pupil on TV

Reuel Bertram, Year 9, will be performing for your votes on Sunday, Sky 1, ‘Got To Dance’ with Davina McCall at 6 PM. He will need your votes and support so tune in and look out for ‘Jukebox Juniors’. He is through to the final 16 and his journey can be seen on the pre-main event show Tonight, 8 pm Sky 1.
See their audition on the Web. (19/01/2010)

Headship of St Cyres

Following Mr Lightman’s appointment as General Secretary of ASCL, the Headship of St Cyres at is advertised at TES Connect. An application form and further information can be found on our vacancies page.

Incoming ASCL general secretary Brian Lightman will bring an esteemed reputation and cross-border experience to the role in September. More... (15/01/2010)

Textiles Year 8

These examples of excellent kite design were made by pupils in Year 8. Tasha Ahmed, Georgia Williams, Liam Coray, Dominic Curtis, Jon Capistrano, Thairien King. Following a simple diamond kite pattern pupils were able to add a personal motif design on an aspect of their hobbies or interests.

An Appliqué technique was used to stitch the fabric pieces together and although the fabric proved to be very ‘slippery’ at times the pupils did a great job. By Mrs E Fisher (14/01/2010)

ASCL Confirms Appointment of Next General Secretary

The Association of School and College Leaders is pleased to announce that Brian Lightman, headteacher of St Cyres School in Penarth, near Cardiff, has been confirmed as the association’s next general secretary. He will take over from Dr John Dunford who is retiring at the end of August 2010.
More... (07/01/2010)