Diddy Dragons Holiday Club Easter 2025

REMINDER  If you would like your children to attend Holiday Club this Easter, please email MatthewsK125@Hwbcymru.net with dates and times.  The closing date is Wednesday 2nd April and please ensure that the dates you are giving are correct as you will be charged whether your children attend or not.  Any questions please don’t hesitate to … Read more

Newsletter; 21st March 2025

Usually end the week incredibly proud of the great behaviour in school- today though, we have to share that so, so many rules have been broken!  Luckily it was all aid of Comic Relief and the ‘Break a Rule day’ organised by our School Council and we can end the week incredibly proud of having … Read more

Year 2 Parent’s evenings postponed.

Dear Year 2 parents, Unfortunately we will have to rearrange parents’ evenings until after Easter due to staff sickness.  We will be in touch once we have new dates/times.  We apologise  for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding with this matter. 

My Happy Mind – Silver Accreditation

We are proud to announce that we are a myHappymind Silver Accredited school! This means that as a school we consider the mental health and wellbeing of our children as one of our top priorities. We have created a whole school culture that helps build our children’s resilience, confidence and self esteem as well as … Read more

Comic Relief 2025

We are excited (and not at all nervous!) about the School Council’s Break a Rule Day in aid of Comic Relief.  Remember it’s 50p per rule that you break… No uniform or pyjamas  Crazy hair Make up or face paints  Unhealthy snacks  fiddle toy in class  See you all in the morning! 

Parents Evening

Please be aware that today will be the final day where it is possible to book an appointment for parents evening.  Please use the link provided below to book an appointment if you haven’t done so already. 

Absence from school

Bore da! Just a quick reminder that absences from school should be reported to the office – 01978 820616.  Press 1 to leave a message giving your child’s name and the reason they won’t be in school. It’s really difficult to monitor emails as we receive so many in a day. Diolch!

Important change to Breakfast Club

We have received messages regarding balances on ParentPay accounts for children that have come to Breakfast Club around 8.20am.  As the system is automated on the School Meals Cypads, even if children come in with seconds to spare before the free sessions starts, they are being charged £3.  We appreciate this seems unfair but the … Read more

Diddy Dragons Holiday Club Easter

We are hoping to run Holiday Club this Easter Half Term, we will not be open Good Friday and Easter Monday. If you would like your children to attend, please email Kerry, MatthewsK125@Hwbcymru.net with the dates and times you require. Please ensure the dates and times you are providing are the correct ones, and that … Read more

Comic Relief 2025

Uh-oh….we asked School Council to plan this year’s Comic Relief for us and guess what they thought would be fun… Break a Rule day for all children at Ysgol Acrefair!  Therefore, on Friday 21st March all children are invited to come to school and break any of the rules below.  They can choose just one … Read more

Exciting News- Big Walk Week!

We’ve signed up for Sustrans Big Walk week which begins on the 24th March!  During the period from 24th March- 4th April each journey to school that is completed on foot/bike will score us points towards an overall school total.  There’s an amazing prize at hand- a live BMX show for all of the children! What a great … Read more

Celebrating Wales- Non Uniform this Friday

Children in our Criw Cymraeg would like to invite everyone to wear ‘Wales’ themed non-uniform this Friday.  Perhaps you might wear a sports kit from a Welsh team, an item of red or green clothing or even dress up in traditional Welsh costume!  We will be celebrating with a morning of songs, poetry and storytelling … Read more

Pupil Parliament

This evening we held our first ‘Pupil Parliament’ meeting at school. Children from each of our Pupil Voice Groups met to discuss the ways that their group can help to improve our school; this included representatives from the Digital Leaders, Happiness Heroes, Eco Team, Criw Cymraeg and our School Council.  The children made a wonderful … Read more

Parents Evening

We would like to invite you to make an appointment to discuss your child’s progress with their class teacher at Parent’s Evening.  Appointments for Reception-Year 6 will be available on:  Monday 24th March Tuesday 25th March Please note, appointments for Year 5 only will be the following week:  Monday 31st March  Tuesday 1st April  Appointments for Nursery pupils … Read more

Access to Tower View

We are sorry to be posting again regarding vehicles driving up Tower View- we understand that this must be frustrating for those people who are following our requests.  As we have stated previously, we have very genuine concerns over safety on this road whilst the building work is completed at the activity centre; the road … Read more

Year 3 parents

Would it please be possible for children in Year 3 to come to school in forest school/outdoor clothes tomorrow. They will also need suitable footwear.   Apologies for the short notice Many thanks Mrs Halley