Glantaf News

Edition 2 February 2012

Storey Arms
Welcome to the second edition of our school newsletter. This half term has been an extremely busy one, with concerts, trips, extra-curricular activities and of course our annual Sports festival. Glantaf News will be published every half term to keep you up to date about the exciting events here at Glantaf. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter please e-mail mp@glantaf.cardiff.sch.uk.
After eating so much over Christmas, a group of year 9 and 10 pupils went for a week of adventure to the Storey Arms Centre in the Brecon Beacons. Despite the wind and the rain we enjoyed four fantastic days jam packed with activities day and night. Activities such as, caving, night time walking, gorge walking, waterfall walking, canoeing and following ropes through the forest in the darkness. The highlight of the trip much to everyones amusement was when Herr Evans got wedged between two rocks in a claustrophobic cave, with a lot of pulling and pushing, the instructor eventually managed to get him out! This was a great start to the New Year and I highly recommend booking your place early for next year. By Anna Lawson (Year 10)

Sports Festival
Our annual Sports festival was held during the last week of the Autumn term. As the Sports facilities have vastly improved at Glantaf we decided to hold the festival at school instead of at Sophia Gardens. On Friday Dec 13th years 7, 8 and the Sixth Form enjoyed a day of competing in a variety of sports such as football, netball, basketball, hockey, table tennis, rowing and badminton. Unfortunately, due to poor weather conditions, the rugby was forced to be cancelled. It was the turn of years 9,10 and 11 on the Wednesday. Hundreds of pupils enjoyed the competing and taking part to try and earn as many points for their house as they could. Despite the weather, once again this years Sports Festival proved a roaring success. Dewi won the day with Teilo a close second, Illtud and Dyfrig finished 3rd and 4th respectively. Well done to all that took part! A huge thank you to all the staff who made this day run so smoothly.

Important Dates
School Eisteddfod 29th February Sophia Gardens Year 10 Parents Evening Mon 5th March 3.15-6.10pm Year 13 Parents Evening Tues 20th March 3.15 6.10pm March 12th-March 16th. Year 10 Work Experience INSET Day Thurs April 5th. School Closed to Pupils.

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Congratulations!
Glantaf would like to congratulate the following pupils on their outstanding achievements

Music Department
Concert Concert for Rhiwbina!s Welsh Language Society.
On Monday the 16th of January, a group of boys from Glantaf put on a small concert in Bethany, Rhiwbina, for the areas Welsh Language Society. Under the baton of Delyth Medi Lloyd the boys performed an assortment of musical pieces; the school!s Male Voice Choir sang to the tunes of "Dwyfol Un! and "Cyn Oeri!r Gwaed!. magna quis many Nunc cursus There were also outstanding individual performances including, Charlie Lovell-Jones and Gwern Parri playing the violin, Harry Lovell-Jones playing the xylophone, Daniel Rich on the classical guitar, and Carwyn Harries playing the cello and singing a solo. A very enjoyable time was had by all. It was good to see a group of boys enjoying their singing and representing their school to such a high standard. Well-done boys!

Huge congratulations to
Carwyn Graves Carwyn gained the highest marks of all candidates who sat the A2 Welsh examination in summer 2011. Carwyn was awarded with a certificate, prize money of 50 and a personal letter from the WJECs Chief Executive Gareth Pierce. Carwyn is currently studying French and German at Oxford University Good Luck for the future Carwyn! Dale Vosper - Dale recently won a Merit award by the WJEC, for producing one of the most innovative A2 Design and Technology projects in Wales in 2011. Montanna Deacon (Year 10). In December Montanna came second in the Welsh National Swimming Championships in Newport. Montanna has won over 100 swimming medals over the years well done Montanna we are very prod of you! Iwan Marshall (Year 7). Iwan recently won an under 16s Tae Kwando patterns competition for Black belts. Lance Stephens (Year 7) Lance achieved second place in the Under 13s category at

St. David!s Church # Thursday, December 15 th .

Glantaf pupils held an excellent Christmas concert once again this year. The concert created a lovely atmosphere in the beautiful Church of St. David!s in Cardiff. There were excellent performances by the school choirs, orchestras, bands, harpists, and talented soloists, with the pinnacle of the evening being the Male Voice Choir. Thank you to

Glantaf Christmas Concert

everyone who took part in this festive concert. Thank you to all who gave generously to "Head to Heart!, a charity that is close to our hearts here at Glantaf. Almost 500 was raised!

the Welsh competition.!

National

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Glantaf Musicians Representing Wales!

Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Welsh National Youth Orchestra. Welsh National Youth Wind Band. Childrens Orchestra of Great Britain. Ellen Roberts Harry Lovell-Jones Gwern Parri Josh Pennar Dafydd Phillips Owen Harries Charlie Lovell-Jones Alys Howells Hannah Roberts Branwen Jones Year 10 Year 10 Year 13 Year Year Year Year 2 Year Year Year 13 11 10 8 8 8 8 Double Bass Percussion (reserve) Violin Trombone Trumpet Cornet Violin (Lead) Viola Viola Viola

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Extra-Curricular Activities
Gymnastics
This year, the annual Urdd Gymnastics Competition was hosted by Ysgol Glantaf. Many Glantaf gymnasts took part. In the year 10 and 11 age group Eilishe Dummett came first and Celine Gregory finished 2nd in the Individual Gymnastics competition. Carys Thomas and Montanna Deacon won the pairs competition. The girls from year 7,8 and 9 were equally as successful as their older counterparts, with Megan Squire winning the individual competition, Elin Lewis 2nd, Bethan Dummett 3rd and Catrin Williams 4th. Courtney Campbell and Cianna Deacon won the pairs competition with Bethan Little and Carys Stephens in 2nd place. In the group competition Megan Squire, Sophie Azzopardi and Elin Lewis came first with the threesome of Courtney Campbell, Cianna Deacon and Elin Williams as runners up. Everyone who won their competition will now go through to the National competition in Aberystwyth on February 8th Good luck to you all!

Hockey
Glantaf first team recently had the unique opportunity to play against a team from Argentina. With a well-taken short corner, the team from Buenos Aires opened the scoring early in the first half. Glantaf fought back hard, with excellent individual skill from Alys Smith who weaved her way through the Argentinian defence to pass the ball to captain Amie Fletcher who neatly slotted the ball over the line making the half time score 1-1. As a result of Amies inspirational team talk at half time the girls came out fighting in the second half. Alys Smith and Lara Durrani scored a goal a piece to put Glantaf comfortably in front. The final score was Glantaf 3, Andrew Scott School 1. An outstanding individual performance by Catherine Hughes in defence won her the man of the match award. Well done to everyone who took part. Congratulations to Alys Smith and Elinor Mahoney who have been selected to take part in trials for the Welsh under 18 hockey team.

Netball
Glantafs Netball teams have proved successful in their recent games. Year 8 (A) beat Ysgol Plasmawr 10-5 (Man of the Match Becca Hayes), and St. Teilos 11-1. Years 10 and 11 qualified through to the second round of the Anne Smart Tournament by beating Howells School 15-7 Good luck in the next round! Year 8 (B) lost 4-3 in a tough game to Ysgol Plasmawr (man of the Match Gwenno Waddington), and year 9 lost 20-8 to a strong St. Teilos side. On Saturday January 11th 3 Glantaf girls played for Cardiff and the Vale County team against Afan Nedd Tawe. Congratulations to all three Kate Chidley, Angharad Thomas, and Ffion Davies (pictured left). Kate Chidley has been chosen as one of the best 12 players in the county to compete in the county championships in Wrexham at the end of the month. Kate is not only an exceptional netballer but also was awarded player of the season for the under 14s county hockey team. Kate is also a member of the Welsh Volleyball squad.

Football
Year 7 to 9 played in their first ever football matches recently. The girls won 2 out of their 3 matches, beating St. Teilo!s 4-0, and 4-1. The girls lost in a close match against Plasmawr 1-0. Keep at it girls!

Glantaf Rugby beat Whitchurch High!

Year 8 (B) Year 8 (A) Year 10 Year 9 (A) Year 9 (B) Whitchurch Whitchurch Whitchurch Whitchurch Whitchurch Won 5-17 Won 22-0 Won 55-10 Won 14-7 Won 38-0 R Drayton T Ireland-life, R actie, L Sharpe, G john. 3x M Price, R Cooper, E Clarke, A Coverdale, G Thomas, C Frowen, A Ward, J Evans. A Cynon, C Escott, 2X N Mathias. 3x A Wood, C Hayes, S Bennett, M Paladino.

For up to date rugby results visit www.schoolsrugby.co.uk 3

E-mail MP@Glantaf.cardiff.sch.uk with your sports results or Tweet @Ysgol_Glantaf

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Thank You Glantaf!

Head to Heart would like to thank Ysgol Glantaf for helping us to raise a huge sum of money for the Childrens Heart Unit for Wales and the Neurosciences Specialist Rehabilitation Unit in Wales. With the help of Glantaf pupils, parents, teachers, families and friends we have managed to raise over 35,000 an amazing amount! This money will go far to improve the quality of life for many young people throughout Wales. Not only have we raised a huge amount of money, but also we have had great fun doing so. The sponsored fun run and fancy dress in October was brilliant and approximately 15,000 was raised from this event alone. Thank you to everyone who made this day a great success. Another major event was the Gala Evening. Many talented people generously gave up their time to entertain us and join us for an evening of fun and celebration. This event enabled us to bring together the school community and the medical teams; who have both been so supportive of our families. The Gala was a fitting tribute to the hard work and dedication of the medical units and also to the bravery shown by Rory and Alaw and others alike. Throughout the year, many of you have organized events to help us raise money. To raise awareness of our charity the 6th form rugby teams, coached by Blues stars Xavier Rush and Paul Tito played in a charity match, which was refereed by none other than international referee Nigel Owens. Some of you have busked, donated signed football shirts, made and sold cakes, run marathons, played gigs amongst many others. The year ended with a beautiful carol concert, which raised almost 500. We will never forget the past year or the support that you at Ysgol Glantaf have given our families and us. We are very proud to be part of Ysgol Glantaf. Thank you from Cian, Osian, Rory, Alaw and families.

Twitter Question of the half Term What was/is your favourite thing about Ysgol Glantaf?
@ysgol_glantaf The Welsh rock scene there, Many rock groups from the school around 1984-93 such as U Thant, Crumblowers, Bili Clin, Cofion raljiex ac Edrych am Julia Sion Jobbins @marchglas. @ysgol_glantaf School productions, concerts, life in the sixth form and many happy memories Elan Meredydd @elanevans. @ysgol_glantaf The new Bistro, I have put on so much weight as a result of the bistro but its still great! Carys Fry @smurfiscwl. @ysgol_glantaf Travelling with the rugby team was the best, we had so much fun in places like Rosalyn Park, Ipswich and of course South Africa Tom Isaacs @tommy_isaacs. @ysgol_glantaf Miss Luned Vaughan!! Rhys Blumberg @rhysblumberg. @ysgol_glantaf the best thing about Glantaf are all the lunch time and after school activities Jamie Morgan 9A @seikachanx

Menter Caerdydd
A variety of activities are being organised during February Half Term for pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 - Paddle boarding, Skiing, White Water Rafting, Animation and Cookery. For more details, please visit our website www.mentercaerdydd.org and click on the Youth Page or email angharad@mentercaerdydd.org. You can also keep up to date with all the latest news by checking out our Facebook, Twitter and You Tube pages!