2014-15

• Amber -> Red categorisation

2015-16

• YELLOW CATEGORISATION
• The Community Education ‘Green Schools Sustainability’ runner up award.

2016-17

• YELLOW CATEGORISATION
• Caerphilly’s Pride in Your Place 1^st place winners in the ‘Healthy Living’ category for ‘Healthy Living at Fochriw Primary School.’
• Caerphilly’s Pride in Your Place 1^st place winners for the ‘Environmental Education’ category for ‘The Salmon Story.’
• The Speaker’s School Council award highly commended for ‘Promoting Positive Relationships through a Whole School Anti-Bullying Initiative.’
• Better Energy School Awards for Excellence in Environmental Education, ‘Totally Clued up Regional Champions,' THE RED KITE PROJECT.
• School Council Parliament Speaker's Award for work on Anti-Bullying.
• First School in Wales to achieve the Primary Science Quality Mark, GOLD Award

2017-18

• GREEN CATEGORISATION
• Tidy Wales ‘Eco-School of the year’ finalists.
• Lead Network School (LNS) for SCIENCE - practice is shared across South East Wales in partnership with the Education Achievement Service (EAS)
• Caerphilly’s Pride in Your Place CHAMPIONS for work within the school and the local community.
• Better Energy School Awards for Excellence in Environmental Education, ‘Totally Clued up Regional Runners Up,' HELP OUR HOGS.
• Primary Science Teacher of the Year at Fochriw Primary School.
• National finalists for Enterprise Troopers, 'Worry Dolls of Fochriw Primary School.'
• Recognition award ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Bargoed Branch partnership with the school.
• Welsh Heritage winners 2018 for historical enquiry into 'The Newport Transporter Bridge.'

2018-2019

• GREEN CATEGORISATION
• Philosophy for Children (P4C) Sapere Bronze award winners (*only school in Caerphilly and one of only a handful in Wales)
• Lead Network School for Science
• Heddlu Bach/Mini Police School of the year
• UN Bronze Rights Respecting School award. This recognises our commitment to the journey for Unicef UK for the Rights of the Child.
• Better Energy School Awards for Excellence in Environmental Education, ‘Totally Scientific  Regional Champions for CLIMATE CHANGE.' 
• Most celebrated school in the Welsh Government’s Enterprise troopers – winning THREE awards for entrepreneurial practice. Winners of the Enterprise Troopers Award. Winners for Curriculum Links. Winner of Outstanding Talented Individual 
• Platinum Eco Schools (*only one in our cluster). We were also verified as having BEACON ECO SCHOOLS STATUS, which is only awarded to a handful of schools in the whole of Wales! This means that any schools who need ideas/guidance and if Welsh Government wish to visit schools with excellence in Environmental Education we are on the database.   
• Cymraeg Campus Bronze Award recognising excellence in Welsh language development and practice across the school.  
• Recognised Operation Encompass School.
• Signed pledge to National Participation Standards.
• Dementia Friendly Schools status.  
• One of only two schools in Caerphilly chosen as pilot schools for the Resilience Framework.   
• School accredited Digital Heroes trained for intergenerational work with digital technology.