Huge congratulations and thanks to Mrs Joy who completed a 10,000 feet skydive 🪂 during the summer holidays. She also managed to raise a whopping £1000 for the school 🤩
I am delighted to announce that the Court School has received the Siarter Iaith Cymraeg Campus silver award. Huge thanks 🙏 to Mrs McIver and the rest of the staff team for their hard work 😓 🏴
HUGE congratulations 🎉 to our brilliant Deputy Headteacher Ross Fitzpatrick for running the 100 mile coastal ultra marathon over the weekend. It really was an amazing achievement and he raised over £1100 for the Velindre Cancer Centre. We’re all so proud of you 👍 👏 🏃♂️
Following our assessment last week I am delighted to announce that we are now a TISUK Award winning school! Thanks to all of the wonderful staff for their hard work and dedication - you are amazing 🤩
I am absolutely delighted to say that the school has been awarded with the UNICEF Right’s Respecting School’s Bronze Award: Rights Committed. Huge thanks to staff and pupils for their hard work 😓
HUGE thanks and goodbye 👋 to Mrs Hartwell who left the school yesterday - you will be sorely missed! Good luck 🤞 in your new role - you’ll be fantastic. Please stay in touch and let us know how you’re getting on. Diolch eto 🙏
This young man has led the way over the past couple of days with an incredible Comic Relief fundraising effort. G and friends completed 1000 laps of the school playground and raised over £120! 👍
As a treat, GG went out to Llanishen reservoir this afternoon to spot birds as part of his birthday celebrations. He had a wonderful time with Mr Bullock and was really sensible. Da iawn 🦢 🥳
We hosted our annual Leaver’s Assembly at the Court School today. It was a really wonderful occasion and was well attended by parents and carers (and ex-staff). K was our ‘Pupil of the Year’ and we are all super proud of him. He’s made so much progress during his time with us 👍
What a wonderful year at the Court School 🏫. HUGE thanks to all of the amazing pupils, parents and carers - you’ve been brill 👍. A special thanks 🙏 to the caring, committed and hard working staff who continue to be absolutely incredible. Happy holidays everyone! 🤞☀️
Huge thanks to Lloyd for coming and visiting us at the Court School today. The boys are having a wonderful time creating their own graffiti designs to take home 😀 🎨 👍
We’ve been talking a lot about children’s rights over the last couple of weeks. The pupils painted these wonderful murals with support from Lloyd or on our yard. They look absolutely fantastic don’t you think? 😀👍
Thankyou to Mrs Gudgeon 📞 and Dawn 🍽 for being so awesome day in day out. We are lucky to have them working at our school and we massively appreciate their hard work 😓
We are absolutely delighted with J who is making so much progress with his reading. This week, he told us that he is now able to read the menu when he goes out to eat. Amazing! 📚
Thanks again to
@Lloydthegraff
for coming in and working on boards for leavers and murals throughout the school. They have really brightened the place up and it’s been great to capture our values in the fabulous tree design. Diolch yn fawr 👍
E has had a lovely start to the week with Mrs J and Mr H. He’s been absolutely superb and has thoroughly enjoyed getting out and about. Super effort E - da iawn 👍
We had a wonderful day celebrating 🥳 our 70th anniversary. Thanks 🙏 to staff to really going for it! Just three days to go now before we break up for the academic year 😎
Dosbarth Pry-Copyn thoroughly enjoyed another visit to Llanishen Reservoir today. They had a wonderful time and the weather was beautiful ☀️. HUGE thanks to the staff at
@LisvaneLlanRes
for welcoming us over the summer term. We’re hoping we’re able to come back in the Autumn?! 🤞
We are super proud of this achievement ‘Gwobr Arian Siarter Iaith Cymraeg Campus’. Huge diolch to the school’s community for their hard work 😓 and perseverance 😀 🏴 👍
Thanks to the wonderful (and very talented)
@Lloydthegraff
for leading graffiti workshops throughout the day today. The boys had so much fun 🤩 and the school looks brighter and more colourful. Bendigeddig! 👍 🎨 🏴
It is now the summer holidays and pupils return from 7th September. Huge thanks to staff for their hard work throughout the year and thanks to parents for your ongoing support. Take care and stay safe everyone! Mr B
K made an excellent choice this afternoon and played with the cars/mat in the front room. A big thumbs to you 👍. You’re having a brilliant start to the 23-24 academic year and we’re super proud of you 👏
We had a lovely leaver’s assembly earlier this week. We are so proud of the amazing 🤩 progress our year 6 pupils have made. We wish them all the very best for High School and for their lives after school 👍😀
Huge thanks to pupils, staff, governors and visitors for making our enterprise event such a success this morning. The products looked fantastic and the customer service was absolutely brilliant! Da iawn 👍
Dosbarth Gwdihw have shown great enthusiasm, listening and behaviour during
#OutdoorClassroomDay
. They especially enjoyed roasting marshmallows in the fire area. Yum 😋
Fabulous end of half term at the Court School. Thank you to parents and carers for your support. Back to school from Monday 1st November. Take care and stay safe! 👍 🎃 😀
E is continuing to do well and is enjoying lots of time outside of school. Thanks to E for being so brilliant and to staff to organising and facilitating 👍🤩
We regularly talk about mental health at the Court School but it’s been a real focus this week. Staff and pupils really enjoyed ‘Wear it Green’ day yesterday and the 🦉 boys have created some excellent mindful art using items they collected from their nature walk 🌳
A selection of the boys from the school were chosen to go to the climbing centre with staff from Storey Arms today. They had a wonderful time and are hoping to go again soon🤞
We are really proud of T who has had a wonderful week. He’s been really kind to his friends and has been polite and respectful towards all staff. He’s doing brilliantly and achieved ‘pupil of the week’ today. Da iawn 👍
We are delighted to announce that we are a finalist in the
@mhwwalesawards
for Outstanding Impact in Education. HUGE thanks to all of the wonderful staff who work at the school and diolch to the wider school community (pupils, parents/carers, governors etc) 👍😀🤞
Thanks 🙏 to Quizmaster Seaward for organising a fantastic Christmas 🎄 quiz for staff this evening. Mr Purcell was the eventual winner. He was really pleased with his trophy 🔍
What a fantastic day! HUGE thanks to the TIS team for organising such a brilliant conference. Here are some of our wonderful staff with Dr Jonathan Baylin, Dr Dan Hughes and Dr Margot Sunderland. Diolch yn fawr 🏴
Thank you to all of the wonderful pupils, parents/carers and staff who have made the autumn term so special. We are really proud of the progress our pupils are making. It is now the Christmas 🎄 break and we’ll be re-opening on Monday 9th January ‘23. Take care everyone 😀
We had loads of fun today at the Court School celebrating Comic Relief. The money is yet to be counted but thank you for contributing. Here is a picture of K who had a brilliant day (as usual). Take care all and have a relaxing weekend 👍
The boys from Dosbarth Broga had a wonderful day out last week where they got to enjoy ice skating ⛸ and a visit to Cardiff City Stadium 🏟 on the same day! 👍
We’ve had a wonderful first week back after the Christmas break. It was really lovely coming together again in our weekly ‘Special Mention’ assembly. There were so many positive things to share! We hope everyone enjoys a relaxing 😎 weekend and we’ll see you fresh on Monday 👍
Diolch to Whitchurch Fire Service for visiting the Court School yesterday. The boys thoroughly enjoyed their experience and learnt lots about what it means to be a fire fighter 🔥
Diolch yn fawr i Circus Sensible
@papaclive
for the brilliant and thoroughly engaging circus skills workshops. The boys (and staff) thoroughly enjoyed themselves and learnt lots of new skills 🎪
The boys in Dosbarth Cadno 🦊 are having a wonderful week so far. They’ve been making dragon 🐉 eyes in class and enjoyed a trip out to Roath Park conservatory yesterday. Da iawn 👍
Huge thanks 🙏 again to the wonderful staff at
@LisvaneLlanRes
for another brilliant session on the water. The boys had a wonderful time and are looking forwards to visiting again 😀
We’ve been talking about things that are good and bad for our mental health throughout the week and have been really impressed with the contributions of our wonderful pupils 😀👍
At the beginning of this week K, G and L were selected to go to Fluidity Freerun Academy. They had a wonderful afternoon out and thoroughly enjoyed burning off some energy 🏃♂️
K has been chosen to be the pupil representative for health and safety this academic year. He is doing a brilliant job and was presented with this fantastic ‘hi-vis’ vest yesterday 👍
Huge thanks to G and Mr Bullock for organising such a fantastic chess ♟ tournament. R was the eventual winner but G and G (in 2nd and 3rd place) were incredible 👍
We have had a wonderful first week back at the Court School. We finished the week with some time on the bouncy castle that both pupils (and staff) really enjoyed 😀
A has done an amazing job this week collecting rubbish from around the local area, e.g. Court Field. He is absolutely passionate about improving our local environment and enhancing living conditions for the local wildlife 🐿 🐦. We are really proud of you! 👍 ♻️
It is our ‘Ethical and Informed Citizens’ immersion week this week and pupils have been out and about collecting rubbish to reuse ♻️ in their masterpieces. K has worked really hard 😓 and has thoroughly enjoyed himself 👍
Huge thanks to all of the wonderful staff for organising such a fabulous Macmillan Coffee Morning yesterday. I particularly enjoyed tasting all of the entries to the staff Bake Off competition 🍰
The boys in Dosbarth Broga learnt about the Grand Canyon last week and conducted an experiment to find out more about erosion and how it works. Great attitude to learning guys 👍😀
As part of the ‘Healthy, Confident Individuals’ immersion week Dosbarth Broga 🐸 + guests had a wonderful time swimming 🏊♂️ yesterday. They had great fun 🤩 and their behaviour out and about was fantastic! Da iawn 👍
Thankyou to Sarah from and Alfi from
@CariadPet
for coming out and meeting with pupils and staff yesterday. We’re looking forward to spending more time with you over the next few weeks 👍
The school’s health and safety committee met this morning to discuss some emerging concerns. We then popped to our local Selco for a chain and some 🔐. The boys were superb and listened brilliantly. Super effort guys 👍
These 3 boys were chosen to go out on a trip to
@ParcPlay
yesterday because they’ve such a wonderful week at school 👍. We’re super proud of you - da iawn 😀