We are a small school but a very big part of the community in Fochriw so are proud to share our journey and achievements.

• Smile Around the MUGA! BBC News Wales

  Tue 14 Mar 2017

  Monday 6th March, Collette Hume, Educational reporter from BBC Wales visited our school to share our good practice in health and well-being. Please visit the links below to see us on BBC News Wales! A video will be uploaded shortly on the Sports Council page! 

   

  'Daily Mile' takes small steps at Fochriw

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39205235 

   

  Fochriw School's Daily Mile helps improve classroom performance

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39224298 

   

  

• Girls Football Tournament

  Thu 06 Oct 2016
  This week 2 teams were taken to the girls football tournament in Abertysswg. A wonderful afternoon of sport was played with one of our teams coming runners up in their first ever match! Well done to all that played!! 

  

• Gerald Jones Visits Fochriw Primary School

  Fri 30 Sep 2016

  This week we were very excited to welcome Gerald Jones MP to our wonderful school. Mr Jones is our local MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. 

   

  Mr Jones joined the Foundation Phase on their 'Mile around the MUGA' our healthy schools initiative, took part in a Q&A session with Dosbarth Swansea City, celebrated our many achievements in our weekly celebration assembly, giving out the Anti-Bulying Ambassadors Certificates and finally had a portrait painted by our budding artists at Fochriw! 

  

• Anti Bullying Ambassadors Program!

  Thu 22 Sep 2016
  This week, a group of 12 children from KS2 went to the Oasis Academy in Bristol to take part in the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors Program. The children were trained how to become an Anti-Bullying Ambassador for their school. The children had a fantastic day, and will be putting all they have learnt into practice at Fochriw! 

  

• Thrills, Spills, Coding and Mechanisms!

  Wed 14 Sep 2016

  Dosbarth Swansea City

  This term our topic is Thrills and Spills. For our immersion trip, we went to The Eden Centre to learn all about mechanisms and forces, and how to construct them. During our time there we created a mechanical arm, and had to create enough pressure to make it move. The second task was to create a formula one car using Lego. We had to program and code the car to move, in groups we then raced our cars! 

   

   

  

• Dosbarth Merthyr Town walked like Egyptians!

  Tue 13 Sep 2016 J.Elliott

  This week was the start of our 'Immersion trips!' and as our Topic this term is the Egyptians, we went to Swansea University where we learnt all about them. We learnt about the Egyptian Gods, animals, how Egyptians dressed and we even got to take part in the mummification process! It was incredibly fun! Take a look at the pictures below and ask your child what they learnt!

  

• Launch of our Mile Around the MUGA

  Fri 09 Sep 2016
  Today we had the launch of our new healthy schools initiative, our 'Mile around the MUGA'. With our launch, Robert Price builders merchants donated 120 water bottles for our children here at Fochriw! We are extremely thankful! We can't wait to use them to keep us hydrated! 

  

• End of Year Water Balloon Fun!!

  Wed 20 Jul 2016

  To end the year off we decided that we would ask the year 6 to having a final photo for their time at Fochriw School. They did not expect what came next!!! 

   

  We wish Year 6 the best of luck on their new journey to the secondary school!! 

  

• New Website Launched!!

  Wed 08 Jun 2016 Mr Elliott
  Welcome to our brand new school website! The Digital Leaders and School Council met together to discuss what we would like on our new school website! We are extremely happy to announce that this is the brand new design! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates!

  

• Noahs Ark!!

  Tue 07 Jun 2016

  Revered Williams came into school today to tell us the story of Noahs Ark. With this we also learnt a lot of important lessons, one being to look after our world. We always look forward to Reverend Williams fantastic assemblies!! We can't wait for the next one !!