Extra curricular

Dwr-y-Felin is part of ‘The Red Wall’

Dwr-y-Felin 15/10/2019 Extra curricular, Sport

Dwr-y-Felin has continued to support our national football team as part of ‘The Red Wall’ in this year’s Euro qualifying campaign. A small group of passionate supporters have been to every home game in this campaign! Firstly we watched Wales take on Slovakia and win 1-0, then Azerbaijan with another win, this time 2-1, and finally, last night, witnessed Wales achieving a draw in a thrilling match against a very physical, World Cup Finalists, Croatian team. We will be venturing…
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Welsh Baccalaureate Project Goes Live

Dwr-y-Felin 22/03/2019 Extra curricular

Six of our Year 9 pupils recently had the opportunity to try out their Enterprise Skills as part of their Welsh Bacc. qualification by face painting in the Liberty Stadium before Swansea City played Brentford in the FA Cup. They raised £125 for Ty Hafan and Great Ormond St Hospital. A massive well done to all involved! Click here to read more on the Swansea City Supporters Trust webpage

Dwr-y-Felin commemorates 100 years since the end of World War 1

Dwr-y-Felin 10/12/2018 Extra curricular, History

This term our pupils had the opportunity to learn even more about the First World War and the hardships faced by British soldiers. The History department has been successful in securing a grant from the Welsh government in order to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War and this has allowed us to work with other organisations in delivering extra sessions to our Year 9 pupils. On Tuesday 20th November we welcomed members of ‘Yeoman’ to…
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Wales Rugby & Football

Dwr-y-Felin 20/11/2018 Extra curricular, Sport

This term has once again seen some of our pupils have the fantastic opportunity of supporting our national team playing both rugby and football live in Cardiff. Unfortunately, Wales was defeated in both games of football, firstly against Spain and then more recently against Denmark. Nevertheless, both games were very exciting, the atmosphere was electric and we did get to see a Gareth Bale goal! The rugby against Scotland gave us a better result with Wales winning by 21 points…
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Dance World Cup 2018

Dwr-y-Felin 13/06/2018 Extra curricular

Emily, Alana and Eleri have been selected to represent Team Wales in this years’ prestigious Dance World Cup, the largest dance competition in the world! It takes place in Barcelona from 22nd-30th June. 5000 dancers from 47 countries from around the world will be taking part.

Year 10 have won!

Dwr-y-Felin 07/12/2017 Extra curricular achievement, competition

Huge congratulations to our very hardworking #PLEnterprise team who won the local heat today and now get to represent #SCAFC. They have given up hours and hours of their own time over the past 4 weeks to come up with a fantastic pitch based around autism inclusion at matches. Their presentation was superb and they were a credit to themselves and the school all day yesterday at the Liberty Stadium. Plus, they got to meet Trundle and have a Q&A with…
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Music Exams

Dwr-y-Felin 18/07/2017 Extra curricular, Music achievement, exams, music

Congratulations to pupils who have taken graded exams on their instruments this term… Catrin Thomas – Year 7 – Distinction Grade 5 (clarinet) Penelope George – Year 7 – Pass Grade 4 (Violin) Abigail Thomas – Year 7 – Distinction Level 1 Junior Brass Certificate (Cornet) Caty Macdonald-Robins – Year 7 – Distinction Level 1 Junior Brass Certificate (French Horn) Izabelle Jones – Year 7 – Distinction Level 1 Junior Brass Certificate (Tenor Horn)

Pupil Achievement

Dwr-y-Felin 17/05/2017 Extra curricular, Sport achievement, athletics, competition, sport

Year 10 pupil, Bethany Moule, has been selected to represent Wales in the Javelin event in this years’ Youth Commonwealth Games, to be held in the Bahamas this coming July. What an amazing achievement! Congratulations Bethany and good luck!

Pupil Achievement

Dwr-y-Felin 16/05/2017 Extra curricular achievement, dance

Year 11 pupil, Lara-Jai Lewis, has been selected to dance in the opening ceremony of the UEFA Champions League Cup Final in Cardiff on June 3rd. She will be taking part in the opening ceremony with the artist who has not yet been named. Lara-Jai has appeared as a dancer on television previously, on channel 5 and CBBC, but this will be her first paid work as a professional dancer. Hopefully this is the beginning of a promising career. Congratulations…
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School Council – Children’s Rights

Dwr-y-Felin 30/01/2017 Extra curricular info, school council

Sally Holland the Children’s Rights Commissioner attended our school council meeting to inform pupils about the Rights of a Child and to chat about the Student Ambassador Scheme.