Welcome to Ysgol Heulfan's Website!

Inspection quote of the month

"Bearing in mind the broad spectrum of needs embodied in the pupils who attend the school, the high quality teaching and the very effective care and support pupils across the school receive, the school clearly gives OUTSTANDING value for money."

Welcome back to this new term and what an action packed few weeks we have ahead!

We would like to thank you for your tremendous support before the Christmas holidays. The children had a fun filled few weeks - the special activities would not have been possible without your generosity. Thank you all!

Staff, pupils, governors and parents of Ysgol Heulfan, Gwersyllt are celebrating after being recognised as an outstanding school, following a recent inspection by Estyn (16th – 19th November 2009).

The report published this week identifies many outstanding features which include:

Motivational and innovative teaching in many classes;
Very high quality of care, support and guidance;
Inspirational leadership and management, and
The very effective provision in ‘Y Canol’ and in the Foundation Phase.

Galleries

You can now see what a fun time we have at our school! There are four new galleries that have been added to this site for you to view:

Snow!

What a snowy couple of weeks we have had! Please check the Wrexham Council website 'School Closures' page for any future details of school closures (let's hope there are no more for this year and for many years to come!!!).

This website has the latest details and we post information relating to Ysgol Heulfan (closures only) as soon as possible.

New School Documents

We want to let you know that we have two new documents at school. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact school.

Good news!

The Foundation Phase is now up and running from Nursery to Year 2. All of our planning has been re-written to reflect the new curriculum. Children learn through first-hand experiential activities with the serious business of ‘play’ providing the vehicle – everyone has lots of fun!

The skills based curriculum was introduced in September 2008. We have now re-written all of our Schemes of Work to reflect the new curriculum. The new curriculum aims to focus on the learner and offers reduced subject content with an increased focus on skills. We plan more whole school topics and again, we have lots of fun!

Please feel free to contact school if you would like to discuss the new approaches with us. You are also welcome to come on a tour of our school; please telephone to book an appointment.

Swine Flu Update

Although we are closing for the Summer break, we have been advised to share information with our parents. If we have any further information to share, we aim to post it here.

You will be aware of the increasing number of confirmed cases of Swine Flu within the Wrexham area. We have received a directive from the Welsh Assembly Government relating to school procedures in the event of an outbreak of this virus.

We will continue to operate as normal however we will remain alert to any child exhibiting flu-like symptoms.

Any child or member of staff who may have flu should stay at home and medical advice should be sought.

Unless we are advised to close on health grounds or if we have too few staff to guarantee pupil safety, we will remain open as usual.