9th April 2025

It all started like this… we were talking about the importance of communicating our opinions and how we did that in a democracy if we want to influence change. We talked about writing letters, filling in targeted questionnaires, making petitions and peacefully protesting. We hard about the potential closure of Bedwas Leisure Centre and Bedwas Library and so we set to work.

We attended an on-line drop in session to air our view- we even received an email back with further explanations of anything that couldn’t be answered.

Bext we set to work and all answered questionnaires that had been published about opposition to the closure of Bedwas Pool. We also decided that a protest might be in order! We made posters ready for the big day and invited other local school to join us. We also contacted the Community Police for permission.

The Big day was on 9th April. We walked to Bedwas pool and along with pupils from Tyn-Y-Wern and Bedwas Juniors, we protested about the closure of the pool.

We also had a petition which we asked the children in the other schools and any other passersby to sign if they supported our cause.

…and all this before lunchtime!

March 11th

Mrs Mansfield

So sorry for the gap in our posts – there was a problem uploading images after the configuration of our systems. Hopefully no we’ll be back on track! What did you miss? Well, our big event of the year. That is to say the big event of the careers and Communication Senedd – the 2025 careers fair which was on 11th March. here are our presenters.

Hopefully you can see that we had an Influencer, well we would have, had she not been called to the Dominican Republic for work! This was a big sister of one of our Year 5 pupils. We learned about the Architecture aspect of construction, we had a dance instructor/PT visit (ex-pupil), a local farmer, a radiographer and an ex-air steward. The pupils had an enjoyable morning learning about all these different careers.

Mrs Mansfield teacher supporting Department of Careers and Communication

Sorry to have not added to our Blog recently – since our computers have updated, I have found it difficult to add images to the Blog, but I have now successfully found a way around this.

So much has happened since our last update. However, the best, for me, was the Year 6 Residential to Llangrannog. What fun we had and THE WHOLE CLASS WENT! This was a first. I’ll let the pictures do the talking!

Yr6 Llangrannog. Second activity… tobogganing! #healthyandconfident pic.twitter.com/hsbdHaogWJ

— St Helens RC Primary (@HelensSt23663) February 11, 2025

I could go on. What a cracking few days. Most of the pupils wanted to stay longer and i don’t blame them.

Braydy, Alfie Frankie, Oscar, Cameron

This week we have done an athletics tournament. All sixteen people participated well.

In the netball tournament yesterday, we did well too very good coming third overall. We won 3 lost 1 and drew 1.

Cassie , Abbie , Norah

This week we have been doing activities about the jubilee Year of Hope 2025.

Leo Dan Mason Darragh

Yesterday we met an Author called Paul Leyshon. He wrote a book called Joni Jones and the ghost train.

It is about a kid getting lost on Halloween and it also includes ghosts from WWII, Vikings and the war in Ukraine. Were gonna stop writing this because it is a spoiler.

Paul Leyshon was a TV director too.

By Lilly, Clara ,Sophia ,Amalie

Year 5 is reopening the cafe on Friday 17 of January so stop and have a cup of tea or coffee and enjoy a chat.

This week we are getting ready for an Athletics tournament. I wonder who will get in the team to represent the school .

By Maxson Ollie Jacob and Kieron

The Epiphany was on Monday 6th and all of KS 2 walked to the church for Mass.

We are pleased to be back in school (not). Only joking

Made by: Tysh, Clara, Ollie and Flora.

Today, we went around different classes during Senedd including: the cafe, year 5, year 4, year 3 and year six classrooms and we took some photos of the children having fun!

In the year four classroom, they are making posters about coping strategies. It seems like fun! They are doing health and well-being.

In the year five classroom, they are talking about the parish and they are making cards about God the father. They are the chaplaincy group.

In the cafe, they are learning about computer safety and organising folders on their computers. they are the IT group.

In the year 3 classroom, they are learning about Welsh traditions and they are making Welsh cards. They are the Welsh Senedd group.

Everybody is very excited for Christmas! I hope you are as well! Have a good Christmas and a happy new year!

Braydy, Alfie, Frankie, Oscar,Cameron

This week key stage 2 had their Advent Service down the church. KS2 also went down to see the foundation Phases ‘Higgeldy Piggeldy’ everyone liked it!