Summer of Smiles

Summer of Smiles

Cardiff is planning on providing a great summer for children and young.

The Summer of Smiles festival for children and young people of Cardiff is here! To find out more please visit www.summerofsmiles.co.uk and share the opportunity with all the children, young people, and families that you work with. The festival is made of 3 parts:

Churchill Way takeover: 25th June – 29th August

Child Friendly Cardiff is working with partners to take over Churchill Way filling it with natural play scape and art installations. First phase opened to the public on the 25th of June, development of the space will continue up to the summer holidays.

Festival Site: 20th July – 8th August

Pitched on the lawn of City Hall our Festival Site will be packed full of fun and exciting opportunities for children and young people of all ages. The site will host three sessions per day and run for the first three weeks of the summer holiday! Download the app or visit our festival schedule to view sessions and book a ticket.

City-wide Activities: 17th July – 29th August

The smiles aren’t limited to the city-centre! The Local Authority is working with some amazing partners in all corners of the city. Our activity schedule is live! Visit the website to check out the line-up and book tickets

Health And Wellbeing Day

Dear Parent/Carer

Health and Wellbeing Day

You might be aware that this week, February 1st to 7th is Children’s Mental Health Week. During this recent lockdown period, it is even more evident to us all that children and young people’s mental health has never been more important. We are more than aware of the issues that lockdown, home-schooling and working from home are presenting to the whole of our school community. The health and wellbeing of our pupils is of utmost importance and this is why, as a school, we will be supporting this important week.

We have decided that in line with Children’s Mental Health Week we will make the afternoon of Friday 5th February 2021 a Health & Wellbeing afternoon at Radyr Comprehensive School. This afternoon will be dedicated to activities to promote mental health and wellbeing. There will be no timetabled lessons, no work set and no live lessons. The expectation is for pupils to actively focus on activities to promote their own wellbeing, and promote an understanding that learning should be about the whole person. We will be suggesting a range of activities that your child can choose from, with the expectation that pupils choose a minimum of two.

No electronic devices (such as X-boxes, Playstations or mobile phones) should be used and at least one activity should be a physical activity. All of the activities have huge benefits for pupils’ physical, social, mental health and wellbeing and we hope will give everyone a much needed constructive break from timetabled lessons. Please only select activities that can be completed safely within your home or locality. Please remember the Government guidance for lockdown restrictions. Exercise from home, with members of your household and stay safe.

Activities and instructions will be emailed to pupils by Thursday. This will allow pupils and families time to prepare if necessary. If pupils want to share photos or videos of themselves enjoying the activities then they can, this is not a requirement, but we would love to see them.

Please tag @radyrcs or @RCSWellbeing and #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek on social media or ask the pupils to send photos to Mrs Chloe Powell at cc.powell@radyr.net.

We hope that Friday afternoon will be an opportunity to get our pupils away from a screen, enhance their own health and wellbeing and to help children (and adults) to explore the different ways that they can share their thoughts, feelings and ideas.

There are lots of resources on www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk that you can use with your child at home. We hope you all have a happy and constructive afternoon, with fingers crossed for fine weather!

Kindest regards
Mr A D Williams
Headteacher

Access To Microsoft Office 365

All students have access to the full suite of Microsoft Office 365 applications including Word, PowerPoint, Teams and OneDrive which has their own personal allocation of online storage.
These applications can be accessed through the school website using the students’ login details.

This video guide explains how students can access Office 365.

Free School Meal Applications Go Online

New applications for Free School Meals can now be made online, via the Council’s website.

Our Benefit Support Team has worked with the Web Team to develop the online application system, making it quicker and easier for qualifying families in the city to apply. Applicants will no longer need to submit a paper application as the short online form can be completed from personal devices at home

Applicants with queries or who need support should contact the Free School Meals line on 029 2053 7250 where members of the team will be able to resolve most queries without the need for an appointment. Access to PCs on an appointment-only basis is available in hubs across the city for anyone without access to a device or the internet

Details of eligibility for the scheme and the new online application form are available here

firebreak

Dear Parent/Carer,

You will no doubt have heard the announcement made by the First Minister at lunchtime today. Wales is entering a 2-week “firebreak” and only pupils in Years 7 and 8 are permitted to attend school w/b 2nd November.

We are meeting with Heads of Department after school today. Parents of pupils in Years 9-13 will receive a detailed plan outlining the virtual learning package that will be put in place for your child by the end of the week. Please rest assured that pupils in these year groups will continue to be educated using electronic means during the “firebreak.”

Parents of Year 7 and 8 pupils should continue to send their child to school as normal w/b 2nd November.

Kind Regards
Mr A D Williams
Headteacher
Radyr Comprehensive School

Appealing Exam Grade For Summer 2020 Exams

As you will be aware, your final exam grade is based on the result your teacher predicted you would have achieved.

If you have concerns about your grade, you should complete the Appeal Form. School will compare the grade your teacher gave you and the grade WJEC has awarded you.

It is important to remember that:

  1. You can ask your school or college to check whether it made an error when submitting information to WJEC. Errors might include, for example, mixing up two students with similar names, or accidentally copying across the wrong data. If your school or college finds it made a mistake in the information it provided it can ask WJEC to correct it.
  2. Your school or college can appeal to WJEC on your behalf if it believes WJEC made a mistake when it communicated your grades.
  3. You cannot challenge the centre assessment grades or your rank order positions submitted by your school or college under WJEC’s appeals process. Any appeal would have to be undertaken by someone better placed than your teachers to judge your likely grade if exams had taken place. In the unique circumstances of this summer, we do not believe WJEC can fulfil this role

If you would like to initiate a possible appeal, please print, complete and sign the form and then email a scanned copy to Mrs Davies, Exams Officer, c.davies@radyr.net.

The deadline date is 15 September 2020
Appeals can only be accepted from the candidate.