TRANSITION TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
KS2 / KS3 Transition
Our children transfer to either Ysgol Bro Teifi or Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn.
There are close links between our school and both secondary schools.
Parents of Year 6 children will receive information from the Carmarthenshire education department in December before the transfer date and parents will be able to state a preference for a school by completing the appropriate form.
 | Ysgol Bro Teifi Llandysul Ceredigion SA44 4JL Telephone: 01559 362503 E-mail: swyddfa@broteifi.ceredigion.sch.uk |
 | Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire SA38 9LN Telephone: 01239 710447 E-mail: admin@emlyn.carms.sch.uk |
Local Businesses
Penboyr School has excellent working partnerships with a number of local businesses. These encompass a variety of cross curricular learning experiences which benefit our pupils, providing them with invaluable opportunities for success.
Having this wide range of specialist expertise inspires pupils and challenges their skills and digital skills and enriches their educational experiences.
We are delighted to have close working partnerships with local businesses such as Stiwdio Box, Angelsoft, Meinir Mathias, our artist in residence, The National Wool Museum, etc…
To find out more about these local businesses, click on the links below to visit their websites:-
Stiwdiobox http://www.stiwdiobox.co.uk
We bought our radio station from Marc Griffiths Cymru FM. We upload our programmes to Stiwdiobox to be broadcast on Cymru FM. Marc is always available to help us.
Angelsoft http://www.angelsoft.co.uk
Angelsoft is an Advisory Service that provide schools with ICT Solutions and services. Angelsoft produce resources that address the find and analyse strand in our ICT curriculum. The team are always available to help and offer advice.
Meinir Mathias http://meinirmathias.co.uk
Meinir is our artist in residence. She often comes into school to work on new projects with the pupils.
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/wool/
We are fortunate that we are close to the National Wool Museum and are often involved in workshops and initiatives provided by the museum.
Community Partnerships
Community partnerships are an essential part of our school ethos. Our community links are a part of life at Penboyr School. We value the importance developing strong links between the school and the community. Working with local volunteers contributes an important role in enhancing our pupils learning and experiences, which support the curriculum.
We have dedicated reading volunteers from the community who support the school by listening to the pupils reading.
We encourage community involvement by inviting them to participate in our curriculum activities, fundraising events, concerts and special assemblies. As a church school we take pride in our community church services led by our pupils, eg Christingl, Easter, Harvest and Christmas. The collections from our services are donated to support local charities and good causes such as Plant Dewi or Air Ambulance. Last year the collection contributed to setting up our Sunday School.
We provide opportunities for all pupils to take part in local community events. The pupils enjoy participating in village activities from singing in the launch of the village historical society, entertaining at the Old Peoples Home and recently singing at the unveiling of a plaque in the village. We feel that these community based activities and experiences are paramount to community-school life and create broad and exciting experiences for pupils.
Visitors from the community and wider community are invited into school to talk about their experiences; these are linked to our curriculum topics. As well as visits from the local police and fire service, our local gardening club helps us with our school garden.
We are very proud of our community cohesion and like to think of the community as part of our school family, referring to our school’s mission statement,
‘As one family we learn together’
