A really warm welcome to the Cynffig Comprehensive School website.
Cynffig Comprehensive is a friendly, caring and supportive school which places people and relationships at its core. We value the relationships we establish by working together: pupils, staff, parents and the wider community.
The website will give an insight into all we do, believe in and promote at Cynffig. As a school we uphold the values of respect, courtesy and consideration for others.
Our aim of striving for excellence underpins our determination to achieve the very best for our pupils: we do our very best to ensure that each and every pupil who comes through our doors has the opportunity to be successful, and we ensure that learning opportunities are provided to make this a reality.
Mrs Hannah Castle, Headteacher.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
Stay safe. Keep your distance. Wash your hands!
Polite Reminder
The school gates are locked between 3pm and 3.20pm every day to ensure the safety of our pupils.
Latest Notices
Please see the new buttons at the top of the website for the very latest advice in relation to Coronavirus (Covid-19)
and
Our Learning@home page - with all the information needed to access various subject areas, student advice, parental advice and guidance.
Thank you.
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Letter for parents regarding examinations - Year 11 - Year 12/13
National Tests - Update
All National tests for Years 7, 8, 9 will not be completed this academic year. All pupils are advised to continue to access the literacy and numeracy resources via the 'Learning@Home' link on the schools website.
Year 9 Options
Many thanks to those pupils who at a difficult time have managed to return their year 9 options form; I have received forms from almost 75% of the group. Please can I ask that these forms continue to be returned to admin.cynffig@bridgend.gov.uk
Year 11 Options
I have received a high number of sixth form free choice forms, as a result the final option columns can now be designed. Over the next few weeks I will add a link to the final sixth form options form to the school's website. I will also include details as to how and when to return.
Communication
Please remember that as well as the school website, the Cynffig App and the Sims Parent App we also communicate information and updates via a number of Twitter accounts. Please follow:
@Cynffigofficial - the school's official account
@MStephensDHT - Deputy Headteacher
@CynffigStudent - Cynffig Student Parliament
@CynffigM - MFL Department
@CynffigPe - PE Department
@cerddcynffig - Music and Drama Department]
@cymraegcynffig1 - Welsh Department
@BridgendCBC - Bridgend County Council official account
Many thanks for your continued support.
Stay safe and keep learning.
Mr Stephens
Deputy Headteacher
Year 9 Options
As you will be aware the school closed for KS3 pupils on Wednesday 18th March 2020, this closure has impacted on the return of options forms and subsequent subject choices for year 10.
Year 9 options forms can be returned electronically to admin.cynffig@bridgend.gov.uk - Please see the final options form here.
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Year 11 Options
The final sixth form option columns will be released in the forthcoming weeks.
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Many thanks,
Mr Stephens
Deputy Headteacher
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Recent News
Read about what our pupils have been up to this month on page 25 of the Seaside News
Hali Walker and Millie Adams representing Cynffig at the Student Ambassador Conference
It was a privilege to watch our first LORIC assembly today! 8D really showed their leadership skills in their well prepared, thought evoking presentation on Racism! #PiXLWales
The Yr7 Netball teams had a fantastic afternoon at Brynteg on Wednesday 26th Feb.
The Cynffig A team won overall. Players player was Olivia Hughes. All players played with excellent grit and determination demonstrating some excellent skill on court. Roxy Jones was top shooter.
The B team came 3rd overall. Players player Amelia Whittaker. All girls worked really hard in a number of tightly contested games.
The girls were a real credit to the school both on and off the court.
Student Parliament training day took place on the 7th October in the Youth wing. It was a very productive day where student parliament members were training in a variety of ways to govern over the course of the year. We have several visitors, Apollo Teaching who taught us action planning and market research, Matthew Bunt from Keep Wales tidy who taught us how to keep our community clean, Mrs Thomas who taught us to have a positive and calm mind set, Jordan James from Hawliau Plant teaching members the rights that they have as a child, Lois Sutton who taught us about topical issues in today’s political climate and Helen Dale from Lleisiau Bach who helped form the departmental ideas for the student parliament to achieve over this coming year. Our student support department held Mental health day which was a huge success showing the amazing sense of community between staff and pupils here at Cynffig. At the moment we are holding year group council meetings to gather ideas on how the student parliament should adapt to further vocalise pupils and their opinions.
Thank you
Josef Gray
On October 15 Cynffig celebrated the Welsh language during the annual Diwrnod Shwmai event. Activities included 'Brecwast Bingo' (breakfast Bingo), Hoff Air Cymraeg' (Favourite Welsh Word), 'Cwis Cymraeg' (Welsh Quiz) and 'Hwyl Mr Urdd' (Mr Urdd Fun)
After a highly contested election week our Student Parliament 2019-20 is established! Congratulations to Josef Gray on being elected as Chairperson 2019-20.
He will be joined by his Student Cabinet, Tegan Walker (Environment), Megan Radmore (Student Support), Joseph Powell (Teaching & Learning), Shenay Evans (Community) and Shauna Lewis (Health & Fitness).
Congratulations to you all!
Year 6 pupils enjoyed our Language and Culture event, sampling 'Dawnsio Cymraeg' (Welsh Dancing), Cerddoriaeth Roc (Music Rocks), Swper Sbaeneg (Super Spanish)
and Dramatig Drama.
Immensely proud of our Year 7 MAT pupils who planned and facilitated our first cluster MAT event! The collaboration between the Year 6 and 7 pupils and their independence in completing the challenges was inspirational! Looking forward to future projects!
"Congratulations" to Cynffig's Year 12 Engineering Education Scheme team as they took home two prestigious awards for their entry to this year's competition. Team members Emily Davies, Leah Evans, Charlotte Roberts, Britney Griffiths, Jacob Hesketh, Ryan Legg, and Lowri Thomas impressed the judges with their confidence, technical proficiency, presentation skills and general brilliance, taking home the award for 'Best Application of Engineering and Technology' and also going through as one of only 5 teams (out of 66) invited to represent Wales in the National 'Big Bang' science fair at the Birmingham NEC in March next year. Whilst it is always nice to attend a glitzy celebration, in reality this marks the result of over six months of hard work and dedication from the students as they met every week in their own time whilst working with engineers from our partner company Zimmer Biomet to come up with a viable technical solution to the brief the company had set.
We would also like to thank Matthew Burnell from Swansea University,
Daran Griffiths, Andrew Radmore and Lloyd Dewar from Zimmer Biomet for all the
support and guidance you provided to the students during the project.
Well done everyone, you deserve a hard-earned Happy Easter!"
Cynffig Eco project.
On Monday February 11th Matthew Bunt of Keep Wales Tidy paid a visit to our school to spread the word about plastics and what we can do to conserve our environment.
Matthew delivered a hard hitting assembly to our Year 7s, followed by a workshop for our Eco-Committee. During lesson 3- two Year 7 classes joined forces to tackle the litter problem up at the line behind the school. We collected over 9 bags full of rubbish!
After lunch, Matthew spoke about the Young Reporters for the Environment competition, which we are keen to be a part of!
We are hoping that our pupils will be more ethical and put their rubbish in the bin- every person has a role to play.
Please follow us on Twitter @CynffigEco.
Art Visit to the Tate Modern Art Gallery, London
Friday 8th February 2019
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Mr Williams, Mrs Morris, Mr Morrish and Mrs Kale accompanied 49 pupils to London to research artists’ work and gather primary source evidence for their coursework and examination themes.
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On Monday 21 January Tegan Walker and Josef Gray of Year 11 represented Cynffig’s Student Parliament at the Student Ambassador Conference. There they had opportunity to meet the Children’s Commissioner for Wales, Sally Holland and attend workshops on promoting Rights of the Child within school, gender equality and how to tackle cyber bullying in schools. #childrencomwales #childrensrights