Criw Cymraeg
 

Our Criw Crymraeg members for 2024 to 2025 are:

Our Criw Cymraeg aims to encourage our children to:

• To raise the profile of Welsh across the school
• To promote bilingualism across the school
• To promote a sense of pride and belonging to the Welsh culture and nation

Why?

We are very proud to be a school in Wales therefore we feel it is important we learn about our language, history and culture.  The Criw Cymraeg helps to facilitate this. Welsh and a sense of ‘Cynefin’ runs through the very core of the new Curriculum for Wales and it is very important that our future generations feel a strong sense of belonging to the Welsh Culture.

Our Criw Cymraeg’s job is to create a culture of Welsh being ‘cool’ in our school in order to encourage and engage pupils with our native language.

Criw Cymraeg should give pupils the experience of:

• taking ownership of the school’s weekly ‘Sach Cymraeg’ initiative
• developing the use of Welsh language yard games at break times
• developing their entrepreneurial skills when creating and selling cards for prominent dates in the Welsh calendar e.g Dydd Santes Dwynwen.

Our Criw Cymraeg should encourage pupils to develop:

• A sense of ownership over policy and practice
• A consensus over school issues such as curriculum developments
• A sense of belonging and understanding of Welsh history and culture

Elections:

Pupils from Years 2 – 6 submit an expression of interest note/letter in early September and these result in representatives from each year group being elected by their peers.

Organisation:

• Representatives from each class
• Link Teacher - Ms L. Martin
• Link Support Staff - Mrs Rh. Tucker
• Link Governor - Mrs D. Lewis
• Weekly meetings - Tuesday 12:30pm

Link between the School and Pupil Voice Groups:

Criw Cymraeg are given opportunities to lead collect worship to promote messages which are important to them.