Education & Learning
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- Today, the Welsh Government published their school categorisation and overall, there has been a slight increase in the number of schools in Torfaen ranked in the top 2 categories.
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- A Torfaen Adult Community Learning tutor who reminds adult learners that maths can be fun has won a national award.
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- Torfaen Council welcomed the Welsh Government's Minister for Education, Kirsty Williams AM, to officially open Croesyceiliog School.
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- Torfaen Play and Short Break Service is now recruiting new Play Volunteers and Play Helpers for the Summer 2020 Play schemes in Torfaen and Monmouthshire.
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- Over 35 children with additional needs and their families were supported each day over the festive period through Torfaen Play Services free holiday Play and Respite provisions.
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- Torfaen's Education Service become the first in Wales to receive Children and Young People Participation Kitemark Award.
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- We are delighted to announce that Torfaen Adult Community Learning team were the first learning provider in Wales, and the UK, to register to deliver the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Infection, Prevention, and Control in Special Procedures for Practitioners.
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- This week, the annual Play Service Volunteer Awards took place at Pontypool Active Living Centre to celebrate some of the key achievements young people across Torfaen make to support every child's right to play.
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- Torfaen Libraries 'Read To Me' companions are bringing comfort and joy to residents across Torfaen.
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- Following an Estyn inspection in September 2019, Woodlands Community Primary School has scored 'excellent' in all five inspection categories, greatly improving on their positive inspection back in 2014.
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- It is widely known that Torfaen Play Service offers a large range of play opportunities for children and young people across the county borough, seven days a week.
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- Today, Torfaen pupils have received certificates in the council chamber to celebrate their outstanding attendance in the last academic year.
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- Today (Friday October 18), the Gwent Safeguarding Children Board are holding their first young people's conference at the Celtic Manor Resort.
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- A revised Free Swimming Initiative, funded by Welsh Government and delivered by Sport Wales in partnership with the Torfaen Leisure Trust, will be introduced in public pools across Torfaen from October 2019.
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- Today, (Thursday 12 September) a topping out ceremony took place on the roof of the Torfaen Learning Zone to mark the latest milestone in the £24 million development.
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- This week, Torfaen Council received approval by Kirsty Williams, the Welsh Government Minister for Education to replace the Cwmbran High School governing body with an Interim Executive Board (IEB).
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- A topping out ceremony will take place on Thursday 12 September to mark the latest milestone in the development of the Torfaen Learning Zone.
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- Torfaen Libraries Shared Reading Service expands to offer a 'Read to Me' service to residents that are experiencing social isolation and loneliness in the borough.
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- Last week (23/08/2019), more than 300 Torfaen Play Service staff attended Victory Church in Cwmbran to celebrate what has been the busiest year ever for playschemes.
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- The Childcare Offer for Wales provides 30 hours a week of Government funded early education and childcare for working parents of three and four year olds in Torfaen, for 48 weeks of the year.
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- Adult Learners across Torfaen are celebrating following fantastic results in their GCSE exams and a successful year of learning with Torfaen Adult Community Learning.
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- In the national performance benchmark the level 3 threshold increased from 92.3% to 94.4%
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- This summer, Torfaen Play Service are doing their bit to help improve the local environment and reduce their carbon footprint by handing out 3,000 reusable drink bottles.
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- Preparations are well underway for this year's summer play schemes!
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- Details of Torfaen's 2019 summer playschemes
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- Representatives of the Torfaen Youth Service received the Silver Quality Mark for Youth Work in Wales
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- A brand new Well-being and Work Hub will launch on Friday 28 June at Cwmbran Library from 10am until 1pm.
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- Torfaen Council has signed up with Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) to provide anti-racism workshops in schools across the Borough.
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- Following on from last years success, this year Torfaen Youth Service have yet another action packed summers worth of activities and trips for young people in Torfaen to take part in.
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- A recent inspection conducted by Estyn, Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales, on Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw during May 2019, provided an overall judgement on the school's current performance.
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- During the half term period more than 500 children took part in Torfaen's open access playschemes.
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- This year, the annual Mic Morris Torfaen 10k road race will be taking place on Sunday 14 July, 2019.
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- Torfaen Employability and Haford work together to ensure Volunteers find job success in the care sector.
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- Torfaen Play Service will be providing a range of free activities during the half term period.
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- Torfaen Youth Service has been nominated to attend the Youth Work Excellence Awards in Conwy, Wales on the 28 June 2019.
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- Torfaen pupils received certificates in the council chamber to celebrate their outstanding attendance in the last academic year.
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- Local volunteers and Torfaen Play Service are working hard supporting a project that helps improve safer routes around the community.
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- Yesterday (Wednesday 1st May) the Welsh Government's Minister for Education Kirsty Williams, officially opened a refurbished and extended Penygarn Community Primary School.
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- 20 pupils from Nant Celyn Primary are making a positive impact at the school through their roles as Heddlu Bach (mini police).
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- There are currently 46 registered childminders in Torfaen and there is potential for this to increase.
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- 18-year-old Thannaya Lewis, 17-year-old Josh Legge, 20-year-old Libby Martin and 17-year-old Carla O Brien are the latest cohort to complete Torfaen Youth Services apprenticeship programme.
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- Torfaen Play Service are working in partnership with Sports Development and Families First to deliver a series of health and well-being sessions to families in Torfaen.
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- Over the half term period, Torfaen Play Service provided a wide range of free play related activities for children and young people.
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- Plans to transform the former Victoria Primary School building into a community arts centre and base for a children's service collaboration were approved by councillors.
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- Torfaen Play and Short Break Service is now recruiting new Play Volunteers and Play Helpers for Summer Play schemes in both Torfaen and Monmouthshire.
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- Young people aged 14-25 across the country are being given the chance to apply for £500 to lead a project that celebrates UK native wildflowers and fungi in exciting and engaging ways.
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- On Monday 14 January, Torfaen Council opened statutory consultation on proposals to extend the age range of pupils at Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw.
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- Torfaen Play Service started 2019 by doing what they do best, offering play and support sessions to children across Torfaen.
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- This week, Torfaen Play Service hosted their annual Volunteer Awards evening to celebrate the work of nearly 200 volunteers this year, delivering community play provision across the borough
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- Today (3rd December), Estyn, Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales published a monitoring report on Cwmbran High School which places the school in special measures
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- On Monday 3 December young people across Torfaen are set to celebrate another successful year supporting community play settings in Torfaen at this years Play Volunteer Awards Ceremony.
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- Record numbers of gypsy and traveller children in Torfaen are gaining new skills and qualifications thanks to the success of the borough's gypsy and traveller service.
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- Today, (Monday, November 19) Torfaen Council and Coleg Gwent officially cut the first sod of Torfaen's new post 16 learning centre to mark the beginning of a new era for education in Torfaen.
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- This morning, ex-service men and women from Torfaen joined with pupils and staff from Crownbridge School for a service to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
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- Gypsy and traveller pupils from West Monmouth School raised £800 for the Royal British Legion by designing and selling their own poppies.
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- Pupils from Greenmeadow Primary School choir has recently visited Ty Gwyn Care Home in Cwmbran as part of their Dementia Friendly Schools commitment.
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- Torfaen Youth Service works with young people across Torfaen to support them towards a prosperous future as qualified Youth Workers. Conor Smith is the latest apprentice youth worker to take on this.
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- More than 200 families are attending Torfaen Play Service 'Family and Play' sessions across the borough, with six sessions being delivered on a weekly basis.
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- The closing date for the Nursery 2019 admission round is Friday 5 October.
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- Penygarn Primary will be closed to all pupils tomorrow (Thursday) 27th of September.
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- More than 175 children attended the first health and happiness conference organised by children for children at Blenheim Road Primary School on Friday.
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- More than 200 pupils and staff at Greenmeadow Primary school have completed Alzheimer's Society's awareness training and have become Dementia Friends by learning about dementia and what life is like for people living with condition.
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- Today (19.09.18), the Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning Eluned Morgan AM, visited Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw to announce the allocation of capital funds to boost Welsh medium education across Wales.
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- This week, Torfaen Council in conjunction with Blaenau Gwent Council are rolling out the new Welsh Government Childcare Offer for three and four year olds in Torfaen.
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- In the national performance benchmark of A level A* - E, 98.2% of Torfaen pupils gained grades A* to E which is up from 97.1% last year and nearly 1% above the Welsh average.
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- Ellis Dalling, 18 from Cwmbran, Olivia Williams, 19 from Pontypool and Lily Skyrme 21 from Blaenavon are the latest cohort to have passed the programme and will be starting a degree course in late September.
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- Wednesday 1 August is National Play Day and playscheme sites across Torfaen are celebrating it in style!
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- The Art department at St. Alban's RC High School is inviting the public to attend an end year exhibition that will showcase the work produced by the school's aspiring young artists.
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- Children from Garnteg Primary School are through to the next round of a national competition which aims to find and nurture the most promising young business talent in Wales.
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- A special ceremony marks the official opening of a new teaching block at Coed Eva
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- From September, Torfaen Council will be the latest local authority in Wales to roll out the Welsh Government's Childcare Offer for three and four year olds.
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- On Friday Nant Celyn Primary School hosted their annual football tournament at the school which involved ten local schools taking part .
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- Torfaen Council and Coleg Gwent need your help to choose a name for this new £20 million purpose built learning centre which will be the home of all English Language A Level education in the borough.
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- Businesses from across Torfaen are working with school children to help them create their own products as part of the borough's second primary school enterprise week.
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- Pupils at Nant Celyn Primary School Hearing Impairment Resource Base celebrated and championed 'National Deaf Awareness Week' this week.
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- A recent school inspection on Ponthir Church in Wales School by Estyn has provided a judgement against 5 key inspection areas.
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- A Torfaen secondary school has been described as having a 'calm and pleasant environment' and showing improvements in quality of teaching, pupil attendance and behaviour following a recent visit by Estyn inspectors.
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- Torfaen's floristry students have once again outdone themselves in their efforts to raise money for charity.
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- Torfaen Adult Community Learning has released the new Summer 2018 brochure.
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- Public Health Wales is urging young adults and teenagers to make sure they are protected against measles with two doses of the MMR vaccine as it investigates an outbreak of measles in South East Wales.
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- Today, (20.12.17), Eluned Morgan AM, the Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Skills formally approved Torfaen Council's proposals to overhaul post 16 education in the borough with the closure of three English language 6th forms.
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- Christmas can be a magical time of the year for children and families and this year Nant Celyn Primary School have been focusing on Christmas being a time for giving.
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- Three Primary school teachers from Torfaen schools have been nominated for 'Teacher of the year' award for the 2018 Professional Teaching Awards Cymru.
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- West Monmouth School has held its annual Christmas shoe box appeal again this year, with over 150 boxes collected.
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- The Blaenavon World Heritage Youth Ambassadors have been recognised with a prestigious Diana Award at a ceremony in Cardiff.
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- Pupils and teachers at West Monmouth School have planted 113 ceramic poppies at the school entrance, in honour and remembrance of the 113 service men that attended the school and had lost their lives in the war.
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- Torfaen Youth Service has been working closely with West Monmouth School Gypsy and Traveller students, alongside Blaenavon Royal British Legion in order to raise funds through the poppy appeal.
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- People across Wales have until Thursday 30 November to nominate outstanding teachers in Wales for the Professional Teaching Awards Cymru. With three extra categories, there are even more opportunities to celebrate the very best in Welsh education.
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- Nant Celyn Primary School are celebrating after achieving the highest recognition from Torfaen 'Healthy Schools' scheme by successfully completing Healthy Schools 6 award.
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- Over 400 children, aged 3 to 11 and staff at Nant Celyn Primary School have been raising money and supporting the Cancer Research 'Race for Life' charity.
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- Nant Celyn Primary School has been successful in securing new PE equipment through the newly established 'Premier League Primary Stars' school programme.
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- Griffithstown Primary School in Pontypool is the first primary school in Gwent to become Dementia Friendly.
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- A new opening date has been announced for the proposed 6th form centre in Cwmbran.
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- Adult Learners across Torfaen are celebrating today following fantastic results in their GCSE exams and a successful year of learning with Torfaen Adult Community Learning.
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- Today, pupils from across Torfaen have been celebrating their GCSE results.
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- Students across Torfaen are celebrating their A-level achievements.
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- Children from Llanyrafon Primary School in Cwmbran are hoping to take on the charts with a music video all about sweeties.
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- Residents with learning disabilities & difficulties that attend Independent Living Skills classes have been awarded.
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- George Street Primary School year 5 pupils have recently showcased all the work they have completed for their Arts Awards.
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- Class 7 pupils at Garnteg Primary School have been attending Garndiffaith bowls club each Wednesday for the past 6 weeks and have enjoyed learning all about outdoor bowls
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