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PGL Liddington

Fri 06 Mar 2026 E Whitney

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Please click the link to view the photos from our PGL Adventure 2026.

Criw Cymraeg Competition Cystadleuath

Thu 23 Oct 2025

Criw Cymraeg are proud to present a cystadleuaeth ffantasteg!

This is a competition to design some bilingual signage for the Oaklands Woods.

The signs will remind people how to take care of the environment and help them to learn a few Welsh words too.

The winning designs will be made into signs and posted in the woods near our school.

You can use anything to design your poster – paints, pencils, felts, crayons, collage, bubble writing, Adobe – and they must be a landscape design.

Make sure you add your name, class and house as there will be house point prizes too!

Please choose one of the following phrases for your design:

Cadwch y coed yn taclus.

Keep the woods tidy.

Caru’r anifeiliad.

Love the animals.

Rhowch y sbwriel yn y bin.

Put rubbish in the bin.

Dangoswch parch.

Show respect.

Carwch eich pentref.

Love your village.

Gofalwch am y coed.

Take care of the woods.

All entries should be handed to the Criw Cymraeg by Dydd Llun 3 Tachwedd

(3rd November)

Dosbarth Helyg trip to Royal Opera House

Fri 13 Jun 2025

Please click the link to give permission: https://forms.office.com/e/VFrDa9gN4f

We have been invited along to visit the Royal Opera and Ballet facility in Aberaman to celebrate its 30th birthday. The warehouse in Aberaman is where costumes and sets are built for the Royal Opera House and Ballet in London and when they tour. They are giving us an exclusive behind the scenes tour and an opportunity to take part in a creative workshop to help celebrate the 30 years they have been working in Aberaman. The pupils will have the chance to see how different jobs contribute to the Royal Opera and Ballet and this will help with our Careers and the world of work area of our curriculum.

We will be leaving school at 9.30am, to take part in the session from 10am-12pm and will return to school for lunch as normal at approximately 12.30pm. The pupils will be walking across to the Aberaman Industrial estate so will need to wear their uniform and comfortable, sturdy shoes.
Please complete the form below.
Many thanks, Miss Whitney

Dosbarth Helyg trip to Techniquest

Fri 13 Jun 2025

Please complete the permission form here: https://forms.office.com/e/gJWHyKkbrD

Please click this link to make the payment of £7: https://shorturl.at/Fqs6U

We will be going on a trip to Techniquest on July 2nd to take part in a science workshop as part of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s (RWCMD) annual summer puppetry project as part of the ‘Summer of Invention’. The theme of the workshop is "Team Space" and the theme is all about meeting the team of astronauts on the International Space Station and to explore how they live and work together to make a home in space!

We will leave at around 9.15am and return before the end of the school day.

Pupils will need to wear school uniform and sensible shoes, and a coat/suncream depending on the weather. Pupils will need a packed lunch. We will not have time for the shop so pupils will not need any money.

Many Thanks,
Miss Whitney

Any questions, please drop us a message in Teams or contact Mrs McFadden in the office.

World Book Day at Oaklands

Thu 06 Mar 2025

Children had lots of fun celebrating with and sharing their favourite books today. Lots of different activities took place in every class including story telling, map making, online quizzes, puppet making, book exchange and more!

Please find attached a voucher for a FREE book for your child from participating stores.

How to exchange your £1 token

Children can swap their £1 token for any of the £1 books or get £1 off a full price title, any full price book or audiobook (as long as the book or audiobook costs at least £2.99 at participating booksellers. Find your nearest participating retailer.

Please note that the World Book Day book tokens cannot be used for online purchases.

World Book Day books are available locally at Tesco, Asda and Lidl.

St David's Day Competitions

Fri 21 Feb 2025

It's that time of year when we celebrate our patron saint, so here are the competition details for 7th March when we celebrate at school! Everyone get creative!!

Whole school dress a leek and onion competition:

Get a leek or an onion and decorate it to look like something else!

It could be an object, a pet, a person, a plant, a vehicle…you can paint it or make

clothes and accessories for it – just be creative and use your imagination!

Dosbarth Bedwen Bach and Bedwen - Dragons

Dosbarth Onnen - Daffodils

Dosbarth Gwern and Llwyfen- Castles

Dosbarth Helyg and Derw - Famous Welsh people

Last week of Christmas Term

Thu 12 Dec 2024

There are lots of things happening next week for our last week of term. Please keep an eye on your child's Teams page for details.

Christmas Fete 2024

Thu 05 Dec 2024

Christmas Fete 2024

We are please to announce our Christmas Fete will be held on Thursday 5th December at 3pm in the school hall.
Please look out for raffles that your child may bring home. There are some great prizes!

We are also welcoming donations of toiletries, tins and cakes.

If you are interested in renting a table please contact Mrs McFadden in the office.
Many thanks for your support!

Litter Walk

Mon 15 Jan 2024 Dosbarth Helyg

Dosbarth Helyg have been working hard to start the new term. We explored Aberaman to find out if there were any litter hot spots. Unfortunately, we found a few. So, we wrote emails to St Elvan's church in Aberdare which is a Keep Wales Tidy Litter Hub and asked to borrow some litter picking equipment to head off out on a clear up. Some children even brought their own litter pickers from home! We managed to gather up 11 sacks of rubbish that had been thrown on the street, left in the lanes or blown into the trees. We hope that we have inspired our community to look after our world a little bit more and we will be getting in touch with the local council next to try and persuade them to get some more bins! Watch this space!

Thank you the parents who helped us, St. Elvan's Church and Tyler Whitney Photography for supporting our litter pick!

If you are interested in helping out further, there is a local litter pick at Cwmbach Community Wetlands every Sunday and you can contact the group here.