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April 2025. Estyn Inspectors visited us in February and we are delighted to share their report –
Inspection report Ysgol Craig Y Don 2025
Parents and carers – Inspection report – Ysgol Craig Y Don 2025
September 2026 – Welcome Back/Croeso yn ol! We hope everyone had a fun an restful Summer break! It has been wonderful welcoming the children back to their new classes for the start of the new academic year.
PTA – our PTA is looking for additional members – please e-mail with your name/mobile number if you are interested! Thank you
Reminder – Nursery and Reception School place applications for September 2027 – these are now open, please follow this link –
School Admissions – Conwy County Borough Council
June 2026 Cricket Success – Conwy County Finals. The cricket team competed in the Conwy County Finals at the Oval in Llandudno. We were against the 4 best teams of the County. After battling hard, hitting many 6s and claiming countless wickets, the boys came second in all of Conwy! We are very proud of their hard work, attitude and perseverence. Da iawn chi!
June 2026 – Craig Y Don Netball Teams – Last weekend, two netball Teams from Craig y Don, one girls team and one mixed team competed in Aberystwyth All Wales tournament! We are so proud of all of they have accomplished so far, and over the weekend both teams represented themselves and Ysgol Craig y Don amazingly – Da iawn! The mixed team came 4th in Wales! What an achievement. A huge thank you to parents who took pupils to Aberystwyth and to Mrs Jensen who accompanied the pupils over the whole weekend!
Timau Pêl-rwyd Craig Y Don – Timau Pêl-rwyd Craig Y Don – Penwythnos diwethaf, cystadlodd dau dîm pêl-rwyd o Craig y Don, un tîm merched ac un tîm cymysg yn nhwrnamaint Cymru Gyfan Aberystwyth! Rydym mor falch o bopeth maen nhw wedi’i gyflawni hyd yn hyn, a dros y penwythnos cynrychiolodd y ddau dîm eu hunain ac Ysgol Craig y Don yn anhygoel – Da iawn! Daeth y tîm cymysg yn 4ydd yng Nghymru! Am gamp. Diolch yn fawr iawn i’r rhieni a aeth â’r disgyblion i Aberystwyth ac i Mrs Jensen a aeth gyda’r disgyblion dros y penwythnos cyfan!
June 26 – Girls Cricket Success! Huge congratulations to the girls’ cricket team who attended the Cricket Festival with Mrs Owen last week. They won two out of 3 games and we are very proud of them and their achievement. Da iawn!
June 26 Boys Cricket success – Huge congratulations to the cricket team who attended the Festival with Mr Llewelyn Jones. They won the whole competition! We are very proud of them and their achievement. Da iawn pawb!
June 26 – thanks to Llandudno Football Club who visited the school with the UEFA 19s Football Trophy!
June 26 – Cymraeg / Welsh – In line with the Welsh Government’s initiative to reach one million Welsh speakers by 2050, as a school and cluster, we are working towards a Conwy County Council Welsh Education Strategic Plan to increase and improve provision for the Welsh language. Over the coming weeks, we will begin to send you bilingual correspondence as part of this long term plan, along with offering other opportunities for our families and pupils to learn and develop Welsh Skills. We will write to you about this initiative in more detail in the coming weeks.
June Urdd Athletics Competition – some of our junior pupils attended the Urdd Conwy Primary Athletics Competition on Wednesday – we are delighted to announce that Ysgol Craig y Don came second overall which is a fantastic achievement again this year! We are all extremely proud of them!
June 26 Sammy’s Donated Clothing Project – We would like to say a huge thank you to all our children, families and Eco Council who raised an amazing £179 for our school through donated clothing and the Sammy’s Project! Da iawn pawb a diolch yn fawr 😊
May 26 – Newsround! Please find links to the Newsround programmes featuring some of our pupils! We are so proud of everyone involved!
Elections –
Ysgol Craig y Don – Newsround – Elections – 2026
David Attenborough –
Ysgol Craig y Don – Newsround – David Attenborough’s 100th Birthday!
May 2026 – Alder Hey Hospital Fundraising. Thank you all so much for your wonderful donations! We raised an amazing £328.56 towards two of our pupils’ Safari Sponsored Walk to raise money for Alder Hey. Thank you for your generosity.
May 2026 – Dance collective. To celebrate the culmination of Ysgol Craig y Don’s work with the Dance Collective over the past few years, the children proudly showcased their dance performance, inspired by moving bridges and the RNLI, at Ysgol John Bright alongside our cluster schools. Working collaboratively, the children choreographed the dance to a piece of music, using creative movement to represent a moving bridge, flowing water and boats. The performance highlighted their teamwork, imagination and growing confidence as young dancers.
April 2026 – Eco Council.
The Eco Council enjoyed spending time in the Nature Garden looking at the equipment that has been purchased with the Tesco Stronger Starts Grant. The equipment will be left in the Nature Garden in a box for all the pupils to enjoy. Equipment includes den making tarpaulins, pegs and ropes, butterfly/flower/insect signs and binoculars.
April 2026 – Red Nose Day – we raised an amazing £177.45 towards this charity by wearing red ! Thank you once again!
April 2026 Playschool – We are absolutely delighted to welcome Craig y Don Playschool onto our school site. Playschool is run as a completely separate entity to schoolThe move has gone smoothly and we are very pleased to have them with us and look forward to working closely with them. 😊 Please read their very positive recent Estyn inspection report by following this link Inspection report – Craig y Don Playschool 2026
March 26 – Eisteddfod Dydd Gwyl Dewi Craig y Don – Wear something red, green, white – Wednesday 4th March 2026 – The children are all busy practising for our Ysgol Craig y Don Eisteddfod which we are holding in the hall next Wednesday during the school day to celebrate St David’s Day! Everyone in school can wear something red, green or white, or Welsh football/rugby kits if they wish on Wednesday. Please do not buy anything new – anything with red, green or white will do!
Some of our pupils also represented our school by competing in the local Eisteddfod reciting competition, we are very proud of them!
January 26 – Glan Llyn – Year 5 had a fabulous time at Glan Llyn this week! A big thank you to the pupils for being amazing as always and joining in with the activities and trying new things out of their comfort zones! A huge thank you to staff too who run and supervise the trip 😊
December 2025.
A Santa Dash was held on 17th December to raise funds towards local St. David’s Hospice. The children had great fun dashing around in their Santa hats that were provided! Thank you to all those who donated, we raised over £250!
November 2025. Ysgol Craig y Don won the School of the Year Award at the Ffit Conwy Sports & Wellbeing Awards 2025!!
We are very proud of all our pupils, past and present and of course the staff who provide these wonderful opportunities for the pupils! All current pupils and staff will receive a medal to commemorate this very special occasion. If you would like to watch the presentation, please follow this link to our You Tube channel to watch!
Ysgol Craig y Don – School of the Year Winners! – Conwy Sport Awards
Christmas Fair
A huge DIOLCH YN FAWR to our PTA team and all the teachers who organised and prepared for our Christmas Fair and to everyone who attended. The event raised over £1000 which will be spent on the children! Thank you also to everyone who donated towards the raffle prizes.
Family Engagement Officer.
We are extremely lucky as part of the Community Focused Schools initiative, to be a pilot school to work with a Family Engagement Officer. An informal drop-in meeting was held on Friday 28th November to have a cup of tea and a chat!
Children In Need.
Many thanks to everyone for their kind donations towards Children in Need this year – we raised over £251.38!!
October 2025. Tesco Stronger Starts In Store vote – we are delighted that our school has been successfully selected for the customer vote in local Tesco stores! Funds will be towards our Nature Wildflower Wellbeing Garden! Thank you to our 24/25 Eco Councillors who helped with the bid! Olympian Jessica Ennis can be seen in the video below promoting our school campaign – please click on link below!
October 2025 – Garden Award Winners! We are very proud and pleased to annouce that we have been winners of so many Garden awards recently! We have won the following – thanks to our staff, pupils and parents.
Llandudno in Bloom – Gold award for Communal Gardens – Class 2. Certificate – Llandudno Blooming Gold Award Sep 25
Llandudno in Bloom Dioversity and Sustainability Award Certificate – Llandudno Bio & Sust award Sept 25
Wales in Bloom Level 4 – Blossoming Award Certificate – Wales in Bloom Certificate Sep25
Wow!!
Young Minds Hello Yellow Charity event – we raised a total of £163.38 towards this charity which provides help and advice for children and parents. Online resources can be found at www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/
September 2025 – McMillan Cake Sale – thank you to everyone for their kind donations of cakes, we raised a total of £242.85 towards this charity. Thanks to the new School Councillors (and some Eco Councillors!) who helped to sell the cakes during the morning.
September 25 – Football Urdd Tournament – congratulations to the year 5/6 boys football team who took part in the Urdd Conwy County football tournament. They were top of their league and went through to the play-offs. The boys played brilliantly and we as a school are very proud of them. Thanks to the parents for the support on the day and to Mr Llewelyn Jones for training and taking the team.
August 25. Food and Fun School Holiday Enrichment Programme.
This Welsh Government initiative project was run for the first time this year in our school for 3 weeks during the Summer Holidays. The purpose of the project is to work together to promote healthy living, support positive well-being and improve engagement with education and the school during the summer holidays. It provides food and nutrition education, physical activity, enrichment sessions and healthy meals.
July 25 Royal Welsh County School Winners & Llandudno in Bloom Gold Award!
During July, our school won the Royal Welsh County School Garden competition and we were also awarded the Llandudno in Bloom Gold award for our school gardens. Our Royal Welsh entry can be found by clicking on the following link. The children wrote a letter outlining the work they did in the garden and what they particularly enjoyed (they all love watering!) We are very lucky to have a supportive PTA to help with these activities. Please click on the link below to see our entry –
Gerddi Ysgol Craig y Don Gardens
June 2025 Arts/Dance Project Performances.
During the academic year 24/25, some of our Year 2 and Year 3/4 pupils took part in a pilot Dance Project scheme, culminating in a performance in front of other schools. The teachers who took part in this project will cascade their learning to other staff within our school. Performing in any capacity, such as acting, dancing, or singing, significantly enhances a child’s confidence by providing a safe space to express themselves, face fears, and learn resilience. These activities also encourage public speaking, develop body awareness and physical confidence, and foster a sense of community. Our Year 3/4 performance can be found below –
May 2025 Wormhout, France Football Success – Champions!
Our pupils represented Llandudno and Ysgol Craig y Don in a football tournament in Wormhout, France in the May half term (with two of our staff – Mr Huw Llewelyn Jones and Mrs Sue-Ellen Jensen travelling to Wormhout during their holidays). All our amazing pupils played in our victorious twinning match for the Artillery Trophy against a Wormhout select 11 on the Friday night, and one of our teams won the prestigious international football tournament on Saturday 31st May! Llandudno winning the double has never been accomplished before and we are so proud of our pupils and staff. Many thanks to our fabulous teachers Mrs Sue-Ellen Jensen and Mr Huw Llewelyn Jones who gave up part of their half term break with their families to take the pupils to France and make the trip possible. Thanks also to Llandudno Town Council for arranging the event and to parents for their support. We held a whole school assembly to celebrate their achievements and also held a special celebration event for parents/carers and all those involved in June. The Mayor of Llandudno, Cllr Antony Bertola said ‘I am very proud of the pupils from Craig y Don for representing Llandudno in the tournament. This is a fantastic achievement’. Cllr Greg Robbins, Chairman of the Town Twinning Committee added ‘A fantastic result by our young players who have represented the town so brilliantly both on and off the pitch’.
Mrs Jensen also created the following video of the Wormhout experience –
Netball – 3rd in the All-Wales competition in Aberystwyth!
The 24/25 school year was a particularly successful one for netball under the coaching of Mrs Sue-Ellen Jensen. Our girls’ netball team achieved great success at the annual Urdd Netball Tournament, where they not only won the county tournament but also went on to represent Conwy at the All-Wales competition in Aberystwyth. The team’s hard work and dedication paid off, and they made it to the semi-finals—a tremendous achievement and a very proud moment for the team, the school and the county. Later in the year, our mixed netball team also showcased their talents, winning every game in the group stages of the Urdd County Mixed Netball Tournament. They made it all the way to the semi-finals, and their performance was nothing short of outstanding. Both of these achievements are a testament to the commitment, skill, and sportsmanship demonstrated by our students and Mrs Jensen who gave up weekends to ensure that the teams had her support during the matches. A brief video follows of the tournament –
Urdd Football Success
We were the Conwy County Urdd year 5/6 Football competition winners and went through to the All Wales final in Aberystwyth. We were also Semi-finalists in the Conwy County Primary 5s football tournament.
June 25 – Cricket success!
We were winners of the Llandudno Town Inter-School Cricket League with a team of both girls and boys and we won the Llandudno Area Cricket Tournament with the boys team. In the Conwy County Tournament, the boys were finalists. The girls cricket team won the Conwy County Tournament and came 4th in the whole of North Wales. Wow!
March 2025. The school was visited by Lynne Neagles, Cabinet Secretary for Education.
During the visit, Lynne Neagles had a full tour of our school and saw how we have benefitted from an ALN Grant. We were also featured on itv news – please see link below!
March 2025 Netball Success!
The Craig y Don girls netball team made the school proud when they won the Urdd County netball tournament in March.
A whopping 17 teams competed this year and the girls won the majority of their games with more than a 10 goal difference! The final was really tense, as the score was equal throughout. Luckily, our team got the winning goal in extra time. Ysgol Craig y Don will be representing Conwy county in the Urdd National Tournament in May. Good luck girls!
Mawrth/March 25. Brawddeg yr Wythnos 5 – Cymraeg/Welsh ‘Mae gen i…..’
Mrs Jensen and our Criw Cymraeg continue to be extremely busy creating new videos for our ‘Brawddeg yr Wythnos’ (Sentence of the week). These Welsh videos will continue to be shared regularly and will be used around school to try and promote the Welsh language amongst our staff and pupils and we would invite all our parents to join us! Please watch our 5th video on the following link –
Brawddeg yr Wythnos 5 – ‘Mae gen i…’ a ‘Does gen i ddim…’
Mawrth/March 25. Brawddeg yr Wythnos 4 – Cymraeg/Welsh ‘Dw i’n hoffi…’ / ‘I like ….’?
Brawddeg yr Wythnos 4 – ‘Dw i’n hoffi…’ a ‘Dw i ddim yn hoffi…’
Urdd Eisteddfod – Mawrth 25/March 25
After months of rehearsals, our pupils finally had their opportunity to compete against other schools in the Urdd Eisteddfod. Everyone did amazingly well and all performances were exceptional – we are very proud of them – Ardderchog!
Red Nose Day / Comic Relief March 25
Children had the opportunity to wear something red for school on March 21st to raise funds for the Comic Relief charity – a fun day was had by all!
Chwefror/February 25 Criw Cymraeg. Brawddeg yr Wythnos 3 – Cymraeg/Welsh ‘Ble mae….?’ / ‘Where is ….?’
Chwefror/February 25. Brawddeg yr Wythnos 2 – Cymraeg/Welsh ‘Ga i …..?’ / ‘Can I have…?’
Brawddeg yr Wythnos 2 – ‘Ga i…’ a ‘Ga i’r…’
Curriculum for Wales
Here are some examples of how we, at Ysgol Craig y Don have developed the Curriculum for Wales in our school –
Ionawr/January 25. Brawddeg yr Wythnos 1 – Cymraeg/Welsh ‘Sut wyt ti….?’ / ‘How are you…?’
Brawddeg yr wythnos 1 – Sut wyt ti?
Swimsafe Years 5 and 6
Years 5 and 6 enjoyed Swim Safe sessions held at Porth Eirias, Colwyn Bay where pupils were taught how to stay safe in the sea.
Forest School / Outdoor Learning – November 25
We are so lucky in school to have such excellent outdoor learning opportunities including our Forest School area and allotment which provide excellent opportunities to learn all about nature and the environment. Our PTA have also purchased waterproofs so that the areas can be used in any weather!
Attendance Information for Parents/carers
Please click on the link below to read about our Attendance Information for parents/carers – our Governors have currently set an attendance percentage of 93% for pupils attending our school.
PTA Monster Ball October
Thank you to our PTA and staff who organised this event raising funds for our PTA !
October 24 – Asda Grant received by the PTA for development of the Forest School – thank you!
PTA Newsletter October 24
We are very lucky to have such a proactive PTA – a copy of their Annual letter can be found below –
PTA News letter 2023 2024 Oct 4th
Allotment – Before and After October 2024 – many thanks to our PTA for their hard work in developing our Allotments for all our pupils – here are some before and after photos –
Pupils celebrated World Mental Health Day – October
The day is about coming together to talk about mental health and show everyone that mental health matters. Talking about our mental health can help us cope better with life’s ups and downs.
Welsh National Opera, Venue Cymru – October 2024
All our Junior pupils were lucky enough to step into the wonderful world of opera and classical music with the Welsh National Opera. There was plenty of opportunity for everyone to interact with the music, from dancing and clapping to singing along – all while learning about dynamics, rhythm, speed and of course the instruments that make up an Orchestra.
School Prospectus September 2024 – please click on the following link
Craig Y Don Prospectus Sept 2024
July 2024 – Governor Report to Parents/Carers 23 to 24
The Governor Report to Parents/Carers for 23 to 24 can be found by clicking the link below:
Governors Annual Report to Parents
Scholastic Book Fair – October 24
Pupils had the opportunity to browse through the books and our School Council pupils were responsible for taking orders etc. Any purchases that were made went towards free books for our school!
Dangerpoint Trip – Years 5 & 6 September – Interactive Visitor Centre, North Wales
DangerPoint is an independent charity based on the North Wales Coast. It is an award winning interactive visitor centre where children have the opportunity to learn about safety – but not in the way you might think. The centre is full of fun and interactive activities to keep everyone entertained.
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