🏆 1️⃣2️⃣ Pupil Awards and commended by H.R.H. in 2019! 2️⃣ Global (Diana Award) 5️⃣ International (Virgin Atlantic Scholarships) 5️⃣ UK (SPUC/First Give/YSW)
After 27 years of teaching RE/RS/PR/RVE, farewell to one and all! Always follow your dreams, know your value, fight for justice and righteousness with the courage of your convictions! Remember to "Be excellent to one another" (Ted Theodore Logan) and "Party on" to
@DefLeppard
🙏
Incredible experience! Our first picture of MACS pupils/staff meeting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry and Megan) in a private meeting, backstage at Wembley Arena, London for WE Day UK 2019! It certainly was the best school trip ever!
@WEMovement
@MacsDrama
@MacsLrc
1/8: It gives me great pride, to announce that our incredible and inspirational Y10 pupil Alysa Neads, has won the prestigious worldwide
@DianaAward
for her outstanding social action, fundraising £3,058 for
@LeeGardensPool
in our
@FirstGiveUK
programme! 😍😊🏆👏
#2020DianaAwards
A little video for the incredibly FAMOUS, soon to be legendary Rocco! What a superstar you are! We are all subscribing to your YouTube channel
@jonnylock09
@WRUMediaOffice
@Walesrugby
🎤 HUGE congratulations to
@Main_MACS
Y9 pupil Amy Macintosh! She has just won an incredible £1000 for
@LeeGardensPool
in the
@FirstGiveUK
'Helping From Home' February competition, through
@MACS_RS
🤩 We are SO proud of you! 😊👏👏👏Keep your entries coming in for next month! 👍
A HUGE thank you to the brilliant 3 x Snooker World Champion
@markwil147
and gentleman
@robwalkertv
for the zoom interview this morning with our
@Main_MACS
pupil Cody, on his top 5 ‘Young Sporting Wonders’ UK competition win! Cody is so proud, happy and excited for what is next!
🎤HUGE congratulations to our former
@Main_MACS
pupil Brad Williams, who has won the highly prestigious global
@DianaAward
for his incredible social action journalism, which he began at MACS aged 14 and continues today with
@gtfm_radio
😊🤩🎉👏 Enjoy the ceremony!
#2021DianaAward
@huwbbc
@Prendergast_PLS
@PLSEALDep
@BBCNews
@BBCYoungReport
We would be honoured if you could come and speak to the pupils in our media studies GCSE class
@Main_MACS
next year. 😊It was a joy to meet you and chat about our pupils 'Spotlight' magazine, when you came to our school to film for the 'Aberfan' documentary a few years ago.🤩👏🏴
What a wonderful addition, to our
@MountainAshCS
display cabinets in school tomorrow! 😍 The stunning
@DianaAward
win certificate, of our incredible pupil Alysa Neads! Just 1/184 global winners, 1/8 in Wales and the youngest Welsh winner!🏴
@FirstGiveUK
@CSCJES
#2020DianaAwards
Huge congratulations to Kia Kinsey and Charlotte Napier on winning places for this years 'Virgin Atlantic - Be the Change' scholarship to help build a school in Rajasthan, India this summer!
@WEMovement
@FirstGiveUk
👏 🎉
🎤 A HUGE thank you to the incredible
@markjesterselby
and
@robwalkertv
for this brilliant personal video message, to our
@Main_MACS
pupil Cody, to help celebrate his ‘Young Sporting Wonders UK Completion’ win today! 🤩😎👍🏴
Another fond farewell today. This time to our incredible Y13 RS and
@FirstGiveUK
alumni superstars - Lauren Hughes, Abi Thickett and Gina Lewis. ☺️ You have all been an absolute pleasure to teach and you will no doubt, go on to achieve wonderful things! 👍👏👏👏
@MACSupperschool
🎤 WOW! Our first ever
@FirstGiveUK
final
@PencoedtreHS
was simply E-P-I-C! 😊🤩Our amazing pupils were brilliant in their presentations to a 200 strong audience! They gave away an astounding £5,661.51 to their seven chosen class charities!
Incredible
@MountainAshCS
GLOBAL news coming very shortly! We cannot wait to attend the first ever
@DianaAward
virtual award ceremony on July 1st. Tickets in hand & red carpet attire ready to go! We are so excited for the special guests, performers and surprises!
#2020DianaAwards
A fond farewell today, to our incredible Y11 pupil Star Baines. Eisteddfod will never be the same without you! Thank you for your beautiful CD. A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Hopsun and Mrs. Oliver for your wonderful work with and support of Star over many years! 🤩
@MACSupperschool
Our first team, going through to the school First Give final, have been chosen by their peers! Representing
@matvmind
are Blessing Akintoye, Alisha Fear and Lloyd Healy! HUGE congratulations to you all! 😍😇🏅💪🙏👏😊
WOW!!!! And I do mean WOW!!! The Beauty and the Beast performance by the insanely talented
@PencoedtreHS
pupils and staff was EPIC! 🎤🤩❤️ The best school show that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing! ❤️ Huge congratulations to
@Miss_theatrical
and
@coombs_j
- Superstars! 💪
A HUGE thank you to the boxing legend
@JoeCalzagheCBE
(46-0) for your kind gift of these signed 🥊 gloves, for our
@PencoedtreHS
pupils
@FirstGiveUK
fundraising! Just Wow! 🤩 The pupils have loved them! Cheers from myself,
@re_saunders
and our pupils! 👍🙏🏻
Huge congratulation to Connor Acteson (yr 13) , Lowri Morgan (yr 13) and Nicole Walker (yr 10) who have been selected to visit Rajasthan in India to help build a school or sink a well. We are very proud of you 👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much
@DerekTheWeather
for the incredible gift of your ties, helping our
@PencoedtreHS
pupils fundraising efforts for their 7 chosen charities, as part of their
@FirstGiveUK
programme. 👍☺️🤩 They have all been bought in advance by our brilliant staff!
@re_saunders
WE Day - Prince Harry, Liam Payne, Nicole Scherzinger, Naomi Campbell (amongst others) and I can now reveal the incredible news that Nicole, Conor and Lowri are coming backstage with me to meet Prince Harry and Megan! 👑 👏
Today we're announcing our
#HelpingfromHome
winners!
We'd like to congratulate
@alfiefirstgive
from
@Main_MACS
, our first winner. Alfie has been sending out lots of care packages of donated food to various key workers in his community such as nurses and firefighters.
#MyFirstGive
A massive congratulations to Miss Summers, who will very sadly be leaving us, to take up a new position in the RS department in Dwr y felin. We will miss you terribly, but we wish you all the very best.
We are delighted to announce that Nicole Walker, a former winner of our £1000 First Give final, has accepted our invitation to be a judge this year! Nicole also won the Virgin Atlantic/WE Movement scholarship to India and met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex! 😇👏👏👏
@macs_CJB
Christmas came early to
@Main_MACS
today, as we took delivery of ten laptop packages for our pupils from the wonderful
@asda
🤩The incredible
@asdaaberdare
brought our pupils some extra goodies! A beautiful start to the day for
@MacsLrc
, our nurture class teachers and pupils! 😊
The Diana Award is 'the most prestigious accolade that a young person aged 9-25 can receive for their social action or humanitarian work.' Just 184 Diana Awards have been won today in 35 countries! Alysa Neads is one of only eight winners in Wales and the youngest!
@MountainAshCS
🎤 I am elated to unveil my unauthorized
@DefLeppard
fan and collectors ‘Memoirs’ book, all in aid of charity. ☺️ All proceeds of my book will be donated to
@noahsarkcharity
in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Available worldwide via Amazon, early 2023! Rock on!
@PencoedtreHS
@FirstGiveUK
It was wonderful for our
@Main_MACS
pupils Amy Macintosh and Alfie Ford to meet
@BethWinterMP
this afternoon at the
@LeeGardensPool
community event, celebrating their
@FirstGiveUK
£1,000 charity wins and making the front page of the Cynon Valley Leader newspaper. 🤩😎☺️🏴
(1/5) 🎤 I am honoured and humbled to represent
@Main_MACS
at the
#TeachingAwardsCymru
2020 'Virtual' award ceremony, on Sunday 29th November at 6 p.m! The Facebook/YouTube link will follow soon. Again, thank you so much to our wonderful pupils, for their lovely nominations! 😊
🎤A HUGE congratulations to
@Holibobsteam1
on winning the amazing £1000
@FirstGiveUK
grant in the school final today
@PencoedtreHS
😊🤩🏅🤘Both
@re_saunders
and I are super proud of you all! Our professional photographs will be tweeted soon. So your team photo is just for now.
A HUGE fond farewell to the incredible Y11 GCSE RS class. You will be missed very much. You really have been an absolute pleasure to teach! ☺️🥲👏
@MACSupperschool
What a final !
@FirstGiveUK
👏🏻👏🏻 so proud of each and every one of the pupils who have taken part! A big well done to our winning charity who have received £1000
@MencapCymru
👏🏻👏🏻
Good luck to Keira Campbell (Y8), who has entered the
@SkyCinemaUK
@VirginRadioUK
competition all by herself! Our school could win a Christmas cinema experience! Not only that, but the
@achrisevans
Breakfast Show will come along also for a special live broadcast!
@MountainAshCS
Tomorrow,
@re_saunders
along with Amina and Mia in the Sixth-Form, will represent
@PencoedtreHS
as Wales ‘Ambassadors to Auschwitz’, with
@HolocaustUK
🏴 We are looking forward to your ‘Next Steps Project’ with the pupils and staff at school upon your return.
@mrspaulakis
@
Congratulations to the wonderful
@PencoedtreHS
pupils/staff who made our
@FirstGiveUK
final another phenomenal success! Our pupils gave away a superb £4,708.36 to their 7 chosen charities! Our £1,000 prize winners were the brilliant
@mindfirstgive
representing
@mindinthevale
🤩
A change_maker is a young person who has transformed the lives of others and been carrying out their work for 12 months or more.
Do you know a
#Change_Maker
?
Celebrate them.
Nominate them.
Nominations are open for the 2020 Diana Award until 12th March.
Listen to Gareth Williams talking to Mountain Ash Comprehensive School teacher David Church about Two Rhondda Cynon Taf students who have received 'The Diana Award 2020' in recognition of their anti-bullying campaigning
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🎤 HUGE congratulations to our
@Main_MACS
pupil Cody, on being a winner in
@robwalkertv
wonderful ‘Young Sporting Wonders’ UK competition! Cody had a very special presentation in class this morning! We are very proud of you! Thanks to Assistant Headteacher
@Ashley_Loynton
First Give final teams, selected by their peers today are
@CarersRct
- Sophie, Arwen and Megan.
@LeeGardensPool
- Alysa, Madison, Carys and Teigan.
@Kidscancer88
- Amber and Kaiya.
@CR_UK
- Zoe, Elle-May and Rachel. Photos to follow on Sunday. We are VERY proud of you all! 😍😇🏅
A magical visit yesterday
@MACS_RS
from the wonderful judging panel
@maxpittaway
@jannehayward
on behalf of the
@WG_Education
'Professional Teaching Awards, Cymru 2020'. Thank you so much to each and everyone of the 97 people who spoke on my behalf or gave written testimonials!
Huge congratulations to our sensational Star Baines on becoming the runner up in the Welsh Factor (age group 14) at the Samuel centre, Swansea on Saturday night. Star gave a tremendous rendition of young hearts, run free. 👏 congratulations!
"A child can shine bright at any time, they just need the opportunity to do so." Today, 9X2 were treated to the talents of Lewis 🕺🎤 in our end of day karaoke 'sing a long' to 'Country Road' by John Denver! 😀 🤣 👏 Watch out BGT next year, I have a feeling someone might apply!
Best wishes to Kia Kinsey, Charlotte Napier
@MACS_RS
and Niall Humphreys
@welshbacc
who are on their travels to Rajasthan, India to help build a school over the next seventeen days with
@WEMovement
Be safe, make great new friends and enjoy this once in a lifetime experience! 😇
Our new school display board - featuring incredible memories of the most inspirational WE Day in London yet! What an honour to also be featured in Hello magazine!
@WEMovement
@craigkielburger
Welcome to the Humanities Department Miss. Morgan! 🌏✝️📚Watch out
@MissGemmaBush1
as Miss. Morgan, our new Humanities teacher, transforms her grey metal cupboard into a white marbled effect one! Grand designs afloat! ✂️👏💪