Welcome to Wales
Croeso i Cymru

Wales is part of the United Kingdom, which is made up of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and WALES.

We have our own Welsh language, which is reflected in some of the place names on the map of Wales. We are a nation famous for our choirs, singing, mountains, valleys, coalmines, castles and rugby.

Our school is 5 miles/8 kilometres from the seaside town of Porthcawl.

Our town is called Bridgend and it used to be a market town. We are 25 miles/40 kilometres from Cardiff which is the capital city of Wales.

This is Ogmore Castle, which is about 5 miles from our school. The stones used to be used by the local people to cross the river.

This is the Cardiff Castle

On March 1st we celebrate St. David's Day - the patron Saint of Wales. We have an Eisteddfod which is a tradition of Wales.
The children are in three competing groups or houses and they compete against each other. The competitions are art, handwriting, re-telling a story - these competitions are judged before the day. On stage, in front of the parents, are solo singing, recitations, dialogue, disco dancing and choir - all through the Welsh language.

On March 1st the girls wear traditional Welsh costume, which consists of a red flannel skirt, shawl and tall black hat. Nowadays the older children and boys usually wear a red rugby shirt to show their loyalty to Wales.
We also wear a yellow daffodil, which is our national flower. This is a picture of some children in our school wearing their National costume with pride. This photo was taken March 1st 2004. You can also see our locality behind them so that you can see the type of houses we live in.

Our school day starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 3.30 p.m. with an hour for lunch. We have a number of after school clubs such as dance, computers, rugby and netball until 4.15 p.m.
We have English and Mathematics in the morning and science, history, geography, PE:, games, RE, art, Design technology and music in the afternoons. We have three playgrounds and a large grass area to play on.
Our school has 180 pupils with seven teachers and a headmaster.

We also love the game of rugby and this is a picture of inside the Millenium Stadium, which is in Cardiff. It is also used for football matches and pop concerts.