Bill Symington and Jim Donaldson from the Variety Club and Yvonne Crawley MD Cymru Vehicle Hire Ltd will be presenting a brand new minibus (17 seater with tail lift) to Ysgol Pendalar on Thursday 7th of June at 11.00 a.m at the present school should you wish to be present along with members of the Appeal Committee.
Light refreshments will be served after the presentation.
A photo of Catrin (Physio) Crabtree on her 50th Birthday 16-01-07. Congratulations!
Cadnant have held an Easter Raffle this week. Cadnant would like to thank the parents' for their support. Children brought Easter eggs and chocolates to school,
which were then raffled. Over a £100 was raised, which will go towards the school.
There was so much chocolate
that Pendalar was able to give some to the local children at the Tryweryn Nursery, Maesincla.
This year the Senior Unit will be taking part in Operation Christmas Child, which is a project run by Samaritan's Purse.
Samaritan's Purse work with almost a hundred countries throughout the world, and in addition to Operation Christmas Child it gives support to people who are the victims of war, poverty, famine, disease and natural disaster.
The Senior Unit will be wrapping and filling shoeboxes with gifts for children who are helped by Operation Christmas Child. Here are some photos of Mrs. Mair Parry speaking to the class about the work carried out by Samaritan's Purse. Click on any image to enlarge.
New Website
At last we have the opportunity to be able to show people what actually goes on within a special school like Ysgol Pendalar. Today’s launch of the school’s new web site will enable parents, friends, politicians, staff from mainstream schools or the public in general, to understand the philosophy, ethos and work of the school and to discuss, or learn about, other issues involving special education.
We find that, even in 2004, people visit the school and they have no idea what to expect and they go away in amazement that our children can read and write and can use computers as well as learn many other skills relevant to everyday life. Today’s launch will open up a whole new world for many people, a wonderful world of much happiness as well as some sadness, of hard work and great fun and basically a world which is crying out to be understood.
Meic Roberts from Delwedd has started to fill the web site but he intends to spend many hours this summer working to keep the web site up to date so that by September more and more parents will feel even closer to us than before and we will have more and more friends who will at last have a balanced and educated view of the world of special education.
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North Wales Special Games
The North Wales Special Games were held at Bangor on the 7th July. Nine pupils represented the school, competing in the swimming and athletics events. The swimming competition took place in the Bangor Swimming Pool, where four pupils took part in the gala. Ten medals were won by the four pupils competed. Dan, Neil and Kyle representing the school in the relay race, and a bronze medal was won.
After an enjoyable evening of singing and dancing at the disco, everyone had a good night's rest to prepare for athletics at Treborth Track on Thursday.
Although the weather was not in our favour, the nine pupils did their best on the track and field, and won a total of twenty medals.
