Croeso!

We have elected 13 enthusiastic members to our Criw Cymraeg Council - a pupil led initiative to promote incidental Welsh and a Welsh ethos within the school. Each member is passionate about the Welsh language and heritage and has lots of ideas on how we can drive Welsh forward in Gwauncelyn, ensuring that the school's vision for Welsh has a high focus. We have weekly meetings every Thursday morning to discuss our targets and progress.

Y Criw Cymraeg or 'Welsh Crew' have an important role within the school. Some of their jobs include:

• Helping to promote a Welsh ethos and the Welsh language. 
• Ensuring that pupils enjoy learning Welsh through daily Helpwr Heddiw sessions and weekly Welsh lessons.
• Encouraging pupils and staff to communicate through the medium of Welsh.
• Ensuring that pupils understand that Welsh is an important part of our culture.
• Leading Welsh assemblies.
• Helping to plan and organise special Welsh celebration days/events such as Shwmae Day, Dydd Santes Dwynwen, Dydd Gwyl Dewi, Yr Eisteddfod etc.

Targets for 2024-2025

1. To train lunchtime staff to use key sentence patterns and vocabulary.

2. To introduce weekly Welsh challenges

3. To create slide shows for incidental Welsh.

We are also working towards achieving Y Wobr Arian (The Silver Award) 

Prosiect Partneriaeth Cymraeg-Saesneg

Following on from our successful partnership project in 2022, we are excited to announce that we will be taking part in another CSC project this year which will enable us to strengthen our links with the local Welsh medium school Gartholwg and also promote the use of the Welsh language. We are looking forward to meeting up with the pupils from Gartholwg to discuss our ideas for developing the use of incidental and informal and supporting pupils Welsh oracy skills.