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• Macmillan Coffee Morning 2023 "The Mad Hatter's Tea Party"!

  Fri 22 Sep 2023

  Everyone is welcome!

   

  10.30am Friday 29th September

   

  Ty Gwyn School Hall

   

  All hats welcome, the more unusual the better!

   

  Raising money for this very important cause, 1 in 2 of us will get cancer, joining together to fight this disease means one day, we will beat it ⇒

   

  Thankyou to everyone who donated including our generous staff and those who called in - we raised £127! 
   

  (check the gallery page for pics)

  

• Roald Dahl Day 2023! A celebration of his life and loved works.

  Wed 13 Sep 2023

  Staff decided to surprise our pupils today by not being quite themselves…In celebration of the much loved works of Roald Dahl.

  The pupils loved guessing (some were quite tough Bruce Bogtrotter!) and finding out more about his life, times and the enduring popularity of the wonderful writings many of us grew up with.

  
  check out the gallery page  for more !

  

• Council statement on RAAC concrete investigations

  Thu 07 Sep 2023

  There has been significant media coverage in recent weeks in relation to the use of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in buildings.

  On September 4, the Minister for Education and Welsh Language issued a written statement on this matter.

  It can be confirmed that Rhondda Cynon Taf has no reported instances of RAAC in our schools. 

  Officers are now undertaking further studies, which are currently underway in-line with Welsh Government’s advice on this matter. 

  The Council will continue to work with Welsh Government to ensure due diligence is undertaken to keep our school buildings safe and well maintained.

  Wales has largely taken a different approach to England in relation school building maintenance and investment.  While school building programmes in England have been vastly scaled back, both the 21^st Century Schools Programme and the Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme in Wales have resulted in significant capital funding for schools, with RCT Council benefiting from hundreds of millions of pounds of investment with new and improved school buildings.

  Based on previous surveys, school facilities in RCT largely fall in to three different categories which do not meet the criteria for buildings typically containing RAAC, namely:

  • Older Victorian-style school buildings;

  • CLASP (Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme) style buildings which consist of light, prefabricated steel frames and wooden roofs;

  • New or refurbished modern 21^st Century School buildings

  The Council will continue to prioritise pupil and staff safety in undertaking further survey works urgently.