Macmillan Coffee Morning

Good afternoon,

Just a quick thank you to everyone who supported our Macmillan Coffee Morning last Friday, September 30th 2022. The event was a complete success and we sold out of all of our cakes within 10 minutes so were very pleased to help raise funds for this charity.

Once again many thanks for your ongoing support of our charity fundraising efforts as we seek to help and support those within our community.

Best wishes

Mr Lovell

Assistant Head

Harvest

Dear Parent/Carer,


As harvest time is approaching we would be very grateful if you could support us in our harvest assembly. The assembly will be held on Friday October 7th. Together, we hope to support our community, by contributing items which will be donated to the Merthyr and Cynon Valley Foodbank, operated by the Trussell Trust.

We would be very grateful if you could support us, as you are able, by donating a minimum of one item from the list below, as these are the items that are currently in most need by the Foodbank.

Tinned rice pudding

Tinned tomatoes

Tinned fruit

Tinned soup

Tinned meat

Packets of mashed potato

Jam

Cartons of long-life juice (not from the chiller cabinet)

Cartons of long-life milk (not from the chiller cabinet)

Pot Noodles (but no pasta)


Please can items be brought in to school and given to your son/daughter’s form teacher by Thursday 6th October 2022 at the latest. Thank you in advance for your support as we celebrate harvest and work towards helping those in our community.

Bank Holiday - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the state funeral is scheduled to take place on Monday 19th September. 

As you will be aware, following the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the state funeral is scheduled to take place on Monday 19th September. 

Aberdare Community School will be closed on this day as this will be a designated bank holiday.

We have been requested by the local authority to advise our parents and carers of this at the earliest opportunity so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

2022 Advanced Level Results

Aberdare Community School is delighted to announce their A Level and BTEC results and would like to congratulate all students and staff for their resilience, determination, hard work and commitment during such a challenging time.  A fantastic 100% of Year 13 students secured level 3 qualifications of which 33% of grades achieved were A*-A and 80% of grades achieved were A*-C. Nearly all students have been successful in securing their first-choice university place. This is a fantastic achievement. 

We would also like to congratulate our Year 12 learners who also received examination results today. 

Headteacher, Mrs C Morgans, said “These young people need to be congratulated for their tremendous achievements in challenging circumstances. They have demonstrated a great level of resilience and maturity which will stand them in good stead for the future.  We are delighted with their success and wish them well in their next steps.”      

Head Learners

Good morning,

Following the interviews yesterday the following learners will be Head Learners next year:

Ethan Cooper
Tristan Griffiths
Jessica Holifield
Grace Rees-Whippey

Furthermore, the senior prefects will be:

Finn Davies
Nicholas Edmunds
Xin Yi Lin
Alicia McGovern
Jayden Jones
Josh Moore
Harley Newble
Carolina Rego
Ellis Richards
Theo Roberts
Brooke Summers

All of the learners who applied were a credit to themselves, their families and the school and it was a genuine pleasure to listen to the quality of their answers and to be working with them.

Apprenticeships

Please see below details of apprenticeships that are coming up over the next few weeks that you may be interested in if you do not have a destination.

For Year 12 this is for information only if you are thinking of not returning to school.

Many thanks

Mr Lovell

I have been informed of a number of Apprenticeships with Newport City Council - please scroll down as the Apprenticeships are amongst the vacancies through the link - Search results (newport.gov.uk)

I have also been informed by the NHS that a number of vacancies will be going live shortly for the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran:

Vacancies include: applications are through NHS Jobs

  • Domestic/Ward catering combined roles

  • Domestic roles

  • Chef role