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Date |
News |
|---|---|
| 12th May 2010 |
Winning Entry for Year 7 Congratulations to year 7 who have won the 'Smokefree Class' competition run by the Welsh Assembly. |
| 4th May 2010 | Another win for Ben Success in Young Writers competition |
| 23rd April 2010 | Tastebuds tickled on Seafood Day Thanks go to Spiro and his team for introducing pupils in the Primary School to new flavours in this unique event. |
| 9th April 2010 | Young Enterprise Victory Le Splatt represents Cardiff and Vale area finals. |
| 26th March 2010 | Newsletter Issue 2 News from across the school over the course of the Spring Term. |
| 26th March 2010 | Charity seeks HOSTS in South Wales HOST, a national charity backed by the Foreign Office is looking to expand their South Wales operation. |
| 12th March 2010 | The ISA Rugby Sevens, Princethorpe The Senior school 7's team put in a great performance at this year's competition. |
| 12th March 2010 | Your support needed to win a Green Roof! As part of National Science Week, our school is taking part in a competition to win a Biodiversity Green Roof. Please help us to be successful! |
| 12th March 2010 |
Schools Trader A new website is launched. Take a look if you're in Spring cleanout mode! |
| 8th March 2010 | Chess Team Victorious at National Finals The school chess team has brought the Championship Trophy back to Cardiff after 7 years! |
| 5th March 2010 | Primary School Maths Fun World Maths Day brings fun to Mathematics and IT for pupils in years 4 to 6. |
| 2nd March 2010 | Classics Award for Talented Writer A student in year 9 wins a prestigious national writing competition. |
| 1st March 2010 | Eisteddfod Celebrations A full size Dragon makes a surprise visit to the primary school! |
| 26 February 2010 | Archaeologist visits Primary School Pupils were yesterday treated to a visit from Dr Paul Nicholson of Cardiff University’s department of History and Archaeology. |
| 23 February 2010 | U 14 Football Team victorious against Fynone House. |
| 19 February 2010 | MAT Day in Yeovil 'More Able and Talented’ students from Kings Monkton Senior school take part in a study day at Richard Huish College in Yeovil, Somerset |
| 11 February 2010 | Sit Up and Take Notice! Sit up event raises nearly £100 for Haiti appeal. |
| 29 January 2010 | Hats for Haiti Event raises £300 for charity. |
| 18 January 2010 | Chess News Results from all the latest competitions. |
| 14 January 2010 | S'no Disruption! School has remained open despite the heavy snow and severe inclement weather of late. |
| 18 December 2010 | Newsletter, Issue 1 Keep up-to-date with news from the Autumn Term with our new-look newsletter. |
| 02 October 2009 | Jeans for Genes Fundraising Pupils swapped their uniforms for jeans in aid of Jeans for Genes Day to raise almost £400 for Gene research. |
| 25 September 2009 | EU Debate Hots Up students take part in the ‘Mock Council of the European Union 2009’ event held at the National Assembly for Wales’ youth debating chamber, Siambr Hywel, in Cardiff Bay. |
| 25 September 2009 | European Day of Languages With the likes of lessons on Renaissance Italy, European Buildings and Structures and with European food on the menu, pupils were yesterday paying tribute to all things European. |
| 17 September 2009 |
Presentation Evening Students' success celebrated in a multitude of fields. |
| 07 July 2009 |
Cardiff Student Chess Whizzkid Representing Cardiff and Vale U9’s chess team, Lewis M (age 8) of Kings Monkton School in Cardiff won all his games to reach the top spot at June’s championships held in Merthyr Tydfil. |
| 29 June 2009 | Kings
Monkton Chess News Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Summer 2009 Junior Super League. |
| 25 June 2009 | ISA
Athletics Finals Alexander Stadium – Birmingham |
| 20 June 2009 |
Primary School Open Morning Kings Monkton School is having an Open Morning on Saturday, 20th June. |
| 15 June 2009 | Welsh
Intertown Championships – June 2009 A ‘very well done’ to Lewis M for representing Cardiff & Vale U9s in this important event. |
| 9 June 2009 |
Kings Monkton Make Raid Into
England Following our success with small select groups of athletes in previous years, this summer the school sent a full compliment to the ISA South West Athletics Trials at Yeovil. |
| 2 June 2009 | Kings
Monkton Chess News Very well done to everyone for playing so well in the South Wales Megafinal 2009 in Swansea. These were great results and a particular well done to all those who scored 4 or more points to qualify for the British Gigafinal in Manchester in July 2009. |
| 15 May 2009 |
The Rugby Tour to France Following the highly successful rugby tour to Biarritz at the end of March, we were delighted to receive a letter from the tour operators ′Inspire Sport′. |
| 1 May 2009 |
Swine
Flu |
| 27 March 2009 | French
Breakfast In French class Year 8 have been studying the topic of food and drink, and to end this term they all enjoyed a French breakfast. |
| 23 March 2009 |
Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Junior School′s
Festival Congratulations to Lily B and Elin E, both in Year 6, in their recent St David′s Hall performance in the Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Junior School′s Festival. |
| 20 March 2009 | CfBT
Schools′ Choir Event Wednesday 18th March 2009 13 pupils from the Primary school, each blessed with an angelic voice, made the long journey to Oakfield Preparatory School in Dulwich, South London, on Wednesday to take part in the CfBT Schools’ Choir Event. |
| 16 March 2009 | Kings
Monkton Chess News Welsh Junior Chess Championships 2009 |
| 9 March 2009 |
St Clare’s Football Festival – March
9th-10th PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS: KINGS MONKTON ST MICHAEL’S, LLANELLI ST JOHN’S, CARDIFF ST CLARE’S, PORTHCAWL FYNONNE HOUSE, SWANSEA |
| 6 March 2009 |
Kings Monkton ′We Are Writers′ Book I am pleased to announce that in conjunction with Scholastic’s ‘We Are Writers’ service, we are publishing our very own book! |
| 23 February 2009 | Kings
Monkton Chess News A record number – 233 – entered the Cardiff & Vale Individual Junior Chess Championships 2009 at County Hall in the Bay. Among them were ten players from Kings – accompanied by Mr Cox – achieving great results in all age categories. |
| 12 February 2009 | Kings
Monkton School News 11+ Scholarship Exams These took place last Friday for our own pupils in Year 6 and on Saturday morning 7th February for a large group of pupils from various local schools around Cardiff. Clearly, despite these troubled economic times, there continues to be a high level of interest in the quality of education that we offer as a school and in the standards that we achieve. The papers are now being marked and results will be announced soon after the half term break. |
| 3 February 2009 | Return
of Mrs Hannah! This week we welcome back Mrs Hannah to the school to teach Spanish, following her maternity leave. |
| 3 February 2009 |
Visit to the Imperial War Museum,
London Last Tuesday saw the pupils from the Year 10 & 11 history classes visiting the Imperial War Museum in London. The visit was planned to coincide with Holocaust Day and the pupils’ studies were brought very much alive as they met a survivor of the Holocaust, as well as someone who had managed to escape the horrors of the concentration camps. |
| 3 February 2009 | Cricket
Success! Congratulations to Alasdair M on being selected to play for the Cardiff & Vale under 13 cricket team. |
| 3 February 2009 | Cancer
Research Collection bags have been distributed throughout the school for you to bring in donations of good quality clothes, accessories, books and homeware. |
| 3 February 2009 | Year 11 Careers interviews. |
| 3 February 2009 | Duke of
Edinburgh Participating pupils in year 9 & 10 have completed their First Aid module and qualified for the skills section of the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award. |
| 26 January 2009 | GLAMORGAN
CRICKET I am delighted to inform you that Kings Monkton School has signed up as an Education Partner with Glamorgan Cricket. As I am sure you all know, this is an historic year for Glamorgan Cricket, who will play host to the 1st Npower Ashes Test between England and Australia, here in Cardiff, starting on Wednesday 8th July. |
