Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Diabetes Awareness

  Tue 17 Nov 2020
  

• Estyn Revisit

  Mon 02 Sep 2019 Anna Britten

  We are delighted to share news of our successful Estyn monitoring visit in July. Estyn recognised the considerable progress made by the school. Please take time to read the full visit report. 

  Ponthir is a school committed to school improvement. We are continuing to build on the firm foundations set in place during the last academic year. The sky is the limit!

• Ponthir is ACE Aware!

  Sat 27 Apr 2019 Anna Britten

  Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

   

  The whole staff have been undertaking training into ACEs through a recent Public Health Wales initiative, which has been quite challenging for us. Examples of ACEs are a parental split, domestic abuse, a parent in prison, alcoholism, drug misuse and bereavement along with the usual (more obvious) child protection issues such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. ACEs have a significant impact not only on childhood but can have serious lifelong consequences for physical and mental health and wellbeing. The figures for Wales are quite startling and if applied to our school quite worrying; 50% with 1 Ace or more (54 at our school), 17% with 2 or 3 ACEs (18 pupils) and 14% with 4 or more (15 children). These are, of course, estimates when applied to our school, but it is a lot of children. Some of these children we know about and are supporting. However, many we clearly do not know about and we are looking to support all of these children as we recognise that unless we address their emotional wellbeing issues, we will struggle to help them meet their academic potential. As such, if there are things that perhaps we would be better knowing in relation to your children, let us know. I understand that this is a difficult area, but we are simply trying to do the best by your children and will deal with issues as sensitively and supportively as we can.

  

• Website Launched

  Wed 23 Jan 2019
  Welcome to our brand new school website! 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!