Brecon Beast Donation - A Big Thank You From All at Ysgol Penmaes



Picture shows Tom Forbes (far left) and Peter Morris (far right) presenting a cheque of £500.00 to Ysgol Penmaes representatives.

Penmaes Pupil Reaches Special Olympics 2009

Hannah is a member of the Brecon Integrated Sports club that she has
attended regularly for last five years and where she has had the opportunity
to try out many different sports all of which she very much enjoys.

Hannah also regularly trains with the Powys Panthers football team and has
taken part in several football tournaments. She has also played disabled
cricket.

In August 2008 Hannah was invited to the Brecon Athletics event and took
part in several sports competing for the first time she came 1st in the Shot
Put, 5th in the standing long jump and 5th in the 100 meters. After this
she was invited to join the Welsh Special Olympics athletics team. Hannah
now trains with Brecon Athletics Club and when possible with the Wrexham
Special Olympic athletic club.

In January 2009 Hannah went to Deeside athletics club to compete with the
other special Olympians and in March attended the opening ceremony and
athletics event at Wade Dean High School in Cheshire. On the 2 May Hannah
went to an athletics event in Wrexham where she competed against several
English clubs and a team from Ireland she came 1st in the under 5 metres
shot putt and second in the 100 meters she also took part in the first Welsh
girls SO relay race and they managed to come in fourth position.

Hannah is training hard and looking forward towards competing in the Special
Olympics in Leicester in July 2009.

for more information visit - http://www.sol2009.com/

Ysgol Penmaes Earns Healthy School Status

Ysgol Penmaes has recently earned Healthy School Status. We have all been working extremly hard in both eating healthier and participating in various sporting events and excercises. Well done everybody.

Ysgol Penmaes is now a Fairtrade School



Well Done everybody, we have now been named as a Fairtrade School. With all your hard work and commitment we are now proud to call ourselves a Fairtrade School. Keep up the good work.

Ysgol Penmaes Earns Second Green Flag

In February two assessors came to assess Ysgol Penmaes for the second Eco-Schools Green Flag. They met with members of the Eco-Council Committee and had a tour of the school. The assessors were very impressed by the schools continuing enthusiasm for the programme. In particular "The ownership of the programme by the pupils" and "Global citizenship is being addressed really well within the school". We were also very pleased that our site was found to be completely litter free. The pupils and staff at Penmaes were very pleased to recieve the second Green Flag.
We now need to get a flagpole to fly the Green Flag, if anybody would like to donate a flagpole please contact the school.