Our final long service award goes to Mr Goddard, who has worked as a Teacher and latterly, Assistant Head here at Chepstow for 25 years! Mr Goddard completed his NQT year here & stuck around! We would like to thank him for his continued dedication & service to our school. (4/4)
We’ve made some changes over the summer holidays - both externally and internally. We can’t wait to welcome our staff back tomorrow and pupils on Monday.
#inspiringlearning
We’d like to say a huge Thankyou to all of our parents/carers for being positive and patient throughout this A level crisis. Behind each grade is a student and we are working hard to make sure our pupils are not disadvanged in any way.
After a turbulent few days, time for some GOOD NEWS!!! Please see attached an update letter from our Headteacher and Chair of Governors following a recent progress review by Estyn:
#InspiringLearning
Former Wales captain Ryan Jones was in school delivering an assembly to year 11 pupils… but couldn’t resist a photo with Noah in the Dalek! Diolch Ryan 🏉
@BBCCiN
@BBCSport
@WelshRugbyUnion
Today we celebrated 3 members of staff who have worked at Chepstow School for an amazing 25 + years! These are landmark anniversaries, which we did not want to pass by unnoticed. We are very grateful for their outstanding contributions and dedication. (1/4)
Chepstow School proudly presents an online professional seminar on Wed 10th February 2021: 4pm - 5.30pm. ALL welcome to attend this free event featuring prominent educational speakers. The MS Teams link will be uploaded to this webpage on the day:
As part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this video demonstrates some of the measures we have put in place to prepare the school for the 'new normal' as we plan to reopen from week commencing 29th June 2020.
A phenomenal first night for the very talented cast and orchestra at Chepstow School. If you have missed this mesmerising production, contact the school for tickets for tomorrow.
#TheWizardofOz
A BIG thank you to Tesco and Wilko for their generous donations to create wellbeing packs for our Young Carers. A special thanks to Miss Tiller for organising and hand-delivering these packs at a time when this group of young people will be feeling the pressure, more than ever.
Huge congratulations to all of our students who collected their outstanding A Level results today. Wishing them all every success for the future. Please see the attached link to our press release.
Welcome back!!
A BIG thank you to all the staff who gave up their half term break to take students to Andorra and Madrid.
The students were a credit to their families and Chepstow School. ⛷️🇦🇩🇪🇸✈️🛥️
Year 11 Leaver's Day-Class of 2021. "You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
We look forward to welcoming lots of you back to 6th Form in September. The rest of you-we wish you all the best of luck on the next stage of your journeys.
This week we are celebrating two very special members of staff - Mrs Back and Mrs Bedford. Both have completed 25 years of service to
@chepstowschool
. Thank you both for your continued contribution and dedication to our school and
@MonmouthshireCC
Today’s the day!!
Over night our school has been transformed into another galaxy for our Children in Need/ Dr Who day! Wonderful to see our staff come together to support and help Noah’s dreams come true 🌌 da lawn 👍
#equity
We are so proud to be School of the Week in the South Wales Argus 🗞
It’s a great achievement to showcase our exemplar school community 🌟
#positivity
#ambition
Year 13 Leaver's Day - Class of 2021. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." WE WILL MISS YOU! Wishing you all the very best of luck on the next stage of your journeys. 1/3
Our first long service award goes to Mary Peniston, who has actually worked at Chepstow School for 26 years this year! Mary runs our Sixth Form café and is an integral part of our community. We would like to thank her for her continued dedication and service to our school. (2/4)
Diolch Noah, Merry Christmas to you and your family from all of us here, and the Chepstow School community. We are all still talking about our wonderful Dr Who day 😊
8.10pm update: Chepstow School will be shut Monday 11th December. We will be working to make the site safe for Tuesday 12th. Further updates here, School website and parentmail
Last week our youngest volunteer did her final shift at the foodbank. She joined us for Gold DofE
@chepstowschool
and is leaving us for an exciting future
@cardiffuni
. She helped us keep the foodbank open during lockdown so thank you for being such an amazing volunteer!!!
Thank you to all who tuned in tonight, we had such a laugh bringing the festival to your screens. Thanks to the dynamic duo, all involved backstage, our talented students, staff & parents and all who watched and donated! We've exceeded our target of £2500!
@SDFHC
@AneurinBevanUHB
Today students at Chepstow School are celebrating and being congratulated on their AS and A Level achievements. Despite a falling national picture, students at Chepstow continue to excel and achieved impressive A level results with 100% of students securing university offers.
Thank you to our Chair of Governors, Mrs Judith Langdon for dropping by to check out the Tardis which was designed, built & painted by our wonderful DT department,Tim Smith, Emily Powell & our caretakers 🙌
To our pupils/students, parents/carers, staff, governors, cluster primaries and the wider Chepstow community. Thank you ALL for your support in what has been a very challenging year. We wish you all a safe and peaceful Christmas with your loved ones.
Really looking forward to seeing all of our fantastic pupils over the forthcoming week! Chatter, laughter and community spirit have been missing from our corridors. Feels like a welcome home! 🏡
Big shout out to
@chepstowschool
who have 16 members of staff taking on 3 peaks today, with a £1,000 target to raise vital funds for Marie Curie in memory of loved ones lost.
@MarieCurie_Ali
Today we celebrated a new era of UK-Japan friendship and cooperation with a very special Sakura Cherry Tree planting ceremony. We are the first school in Monmouthshire to receive one. Many thanks to all who attended and our amazing pupils. More info here:
Dear Years 7, 12 and 13
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you back to school tomorrow; Thurs 3rd Sept 2020, looking smart and ready to learn at 8.45am. We have an exciting and engaging few days planned which we can't wait to share with you!
From the staff at Chepstow
Thank you to all staff and pupils who assisted with our Remembrance Service this morning. Special thanks to Lowri for her beautiful Welsh reading, Thomas for playing a moving last post and our Student leadership Team for their poem.
#WeWillRememberThem
Fantastic achievement for Madeline Smith (Year 13) receiving an offer from Cambridge University to study Modern and Medieval Languages, well done Madeline we are all very proud.
Our staff this morning enjoyed a wonderful well-being breakfast spread to celebrate all their hard work and effort this term. Da iawn pawb 🌟
#positivity
Chepstow School proudly presents an online professional seminar on Wed 10th February 2021: 4pm - 5.30pm. ALL welcome to attend this free event featuring prominent educational speakers. The MS Teams link will be uploaded to this webpage on the day:
It is with a heavy heart that we share this news. Cllr Dovey was our longest standing Governor and a passionate advocate of Chepstow School. A true gentleman indeed, who will be sadly missed by all whose lives he touched. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Dovey family.
It is with great sadness we share the news of Councillor David Dovey’s passing.
Councillor Dovey was a respected elected member of Monmouthshire County Council for over 12 years, also carrying out the responsibility of Chairman in 2013. (1/4)
Big congratulations to Team Chepstow who completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge yesterday. They’ve raised over £1000 for
@MarieCurieCymru
. There’s still time left to donate here:
Thanks to all our presenters and to the 120+ people who attended our seminar this evening. For those who missed it, the event was recorded and will be shared in coming days. In the meantime, you can catch up with Dr Neil Ingram's presentation here: .
The school community came together in our Remembrance Service today to take a moment to stop and pay their respects to remember the service & sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms & protected. A video of the service will be available soon!
#LestWeForget
To celebrate World Teacher Day Chepstow School’s well-being team collated amazing messages composed by our lovely pupils. A word-wall was created and presented to each of our incredible teachers, we are so lucky to have the best staff and pupils!
Our very own Mr Sims appeared on ITV Wales at Six last night (feature starts at 06:40 mins in, if you don’t want to watch the whole programme) regarding
@wgmin_education
publication of “The decision framework for the next phase of education and childcare”
Morning from Berlin! Today we are visiting: the House of the Wannsee Conference, The Olympic Stadium, than then we are heading out to Sachsenhausen Concentration camp.
Today Mr Sims and Mr Parkin awarded a Year 8 pupil, Rohan Harris a certificate of outstanding achievement. Rohan has accumulated over 500 positive achievement points so far this year. He has shown outstanding effort and resilience towards all of his subjects. Da iawn Rohan!
Rhiannon Craig is our first student to send off her UCAS application today. Rhiannon is applying to study medicine at a number of Russell Group Universities and we wish her the very best of luck with her application.
#inspiringlearning
We were delighted to welcome children from the local nursery group to our school this morning. The smiles on the faces of each child was so wonderful to watch. We cannot wait until they are old enough to join us in Year 7.
Today Mr Sims presented Walter Jeremiah with an iPad that was kindly donated to us by
@SupplyDeskWales
. Walter won the iPad by earning 12 skills tokens from his teachers for his use of skills across various subjects during the winter term. Well done Walter!
#inspiringlearning
On Fri, we raised money for
@MNDoddie5
with our Xmas Jumper Day. This Xmas, Mr Phillips is going to cycle the distance from Chepstow to Murrayfield on his Peloton bike to continue to raise funds for this cause, which is close to his heart. Find out more:
A wonderful evening showcasing the fantastic talents of both pupils and staff of Chepstow to our community. A big thank you to the PTA for providing refreshments.
In addition to all the local business who donated, a BIG thank you to staff and pupils who helped pull together our Christmas Care Packages. These packages are being hand delivered to our most vulnerable pupils by our dedicated wellbeing team this week.
#communitysuperheroes
Staff, pupils and students are supporting
@youngmindsuk
, a leading UK mental Health charity for young people. Because a little yellow goes a long way!
#HelloYellow2021