A book fair is being held at Rhymney Comp Library. Please come along and pick up a bargain.

Tuesday 17th December: All day

Wednesday 18th December: 2pm-7pm

Thursday 19th December: All day.

We, the Eco Squad have been working extremely hard throughout the last year. We have been participating in a variety of competitions based on improving our school environment and the local community.

In October 2012 we joined the Sky School Rainforest Challenge for the second year running and participated in the challenges that it offered. The contest was very competitive with over 1,400 schools taking part which motivated us to hold more Eco Squad meetings and up our game. We spent hours writing original blogs about how we felt about what people were doing to the environment and what we had been doing in the club. Eight months later, the results for the year’s competition were released and we were announced British Champions. As a result we were invited to attend the Nudge to Norm annual conference at BAFTA in London.

Here we gave a short presentation about all the things we have been doing in Eco Club and showed the video that we had produced.

Well done to Martin Evans yr 10 who won his matches in the chess tournament, also a big pat on the back to Gaige Day yr 7 who came 2nd and Ethan Kilby yr 9, Ben Spencer yr 8, who came 3rd in their matches.

Congratulations to you all.

Dame Kelly Holmes praised 15 year old Elise Burgess from Rhymney Comprehensive School after completing a sixth month scheme to make a difference in her community. 

Read more in the pdf attached.

As ever, this year’s Children in Need day was a huge success. This year’s sixth form threw themselves into the organisation and coordination of events with some interesting new ideas. Throughout the day events took place such as ‘x-factor’, ‘Rhymney’s got Talent, ‘Don’t forget the lyrics’, ‘Mr and Mrs’ to name but a few! There were also many sporting activities taking place these included a basketball tournament, sixth form V teachers football match and a dodgeball tournament.

The total amount of money raised was £1823.