NEWS
2011-14 Children and Young People's Plan
We have to make sure that the work we do and the way we go about that work, is the right way for the children, young people and families across RCT.
The best way to find out what is the right way, is to ask people their views through consultation, and this means collecting information by listening and responding to people, in a way which best suits them.
The information collected this way will then be acted upon and help improve our work.
Sometimes it is not possible to do everything that is asked but then we will explain why we cannot.
We consult with children, young people and their families using lots of different ways e.g. Surveys, questionnaires, DVD’s, leaflets, posters, and in many locations e.g. leisure centres, schools, at local events.
Framwaith are currently developing the next Children and Young People's Plan for 2011-14, a draft of which is available below, and is now out for consultation. Fframwaith would be grateful to receive your views. The consultation questionnaire can either be accessed online via this link: Draft Children and Young People's Plan 2011-14 or alternatively complete a hard copy and return by freepost or fax.
If you require a hard copy of the draft Plan or questionnaire, please contact the Support Team at:
Fframwith Support Team
Ty Trevithick
Abercynon
CF45 4UQ
email : fframwaith2@rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk
Telephone: 01443 744382
Fax:01443 744387
Consultation period between 1st November 2010 and 21st January 2011
CONGRATULATIONS UNFACED (LAUREN SLYE, SHAUNA PRITCHARD, LAURA SEMMENS and SHANNON BRITTON)
Last night (25/05/2010) 4 girls from Ferndale Community School took to the stage at the Parc & Dare Theatre and put on a performance that blew everyone away. The girls, who are all self taught and had no dance lessons put on a show that wowed the judges at the V Factor.
Shannon, Laura, Lauren and Shauna were up against tough competition from Brandon Sherwood from Rhyd Y Waun with his amazing body popping and break dancing routine and Divas from Treorchy Comprehensive School with a top notch Bollywood performance. UNFACED, however, pulled it out of the bag and stepped onto the stage with an extraordinary dance performance, with so much energy the audience couldnt help but cheer them on.
After the performance there was an agonising wait whilst other finalist performed, followed by performances from Lloyd Daniels and Jukebox Juniors. Finally the results......
After announcing the best Drama act (Lucy Andrews - Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun) and the best Music act (Emily Ady - Y Pant Comprehensive School) it was time for the best Dance act to be presented. As the judge spoke about the winning act, everyone from Ferndale and Ferndale Community School held their breath. Finally it was announced that UNFACED were the 2010 V Factor best Dance Act winners, the crowd errupted!
Many, many congratulations to Shannon, Laura, Lauren and Shauna on their well deserved win. Everyone at the school are proud of you. Good luck in all of your future performances!
Support Ferndale Skatepark
Keep a look out on the national lottery awards website to see how Ferndale Skatepark have done in the Semi Finals. Results will be announced at 9am on 3rd August.
Table Tennis News
Saturday 11th July
Unfortunately Wembley High had to withdraw from the semi final match this weekend due to lack of transport. As a result Ferndale go through to the final to face the strong West London Academy.
Due to the match being cancelled we arranged for Nanymoel Table Tennis club to come to Ferndale to play against the Ferndale squad. It was great to see so many players from Ferndale and Nantymoel packing out the Barn with great team spirit and sportsmanship shown throughout the day.
A handicap tournament was played giving all players a fair chance of winning, Ferndale's squad members Chris Griffiths and Ryan Oyler did well both reaching the semi final stage.
A big thank you to Nantymoel's Dave Treharne for helping out on the day, also a special mention must go to Pauline Fawkes and parents for helping out with the tuck shop which managed to raise £21.30 for the Ferndale Table Tennis Academy. Every bit helps and this money will go towards competitions/kit for next season.
Police Football
Every other Friday evening between 7pm and 9pm, the local PCSO's have organised a football tournaments for young people in the area. If you are interested in taking part you can contact the PSCO's on:
Lee PCSO 07805301081
Paul Jones 07805301085
or see Lisa in the E3 office for more information.
Top E3'ers so far
Congratulations to 7EM for their outstanding attendance at E3 activities over the past two terms. Pupils from this year group have clocked up an amazing 577 sessions over the past two terms. As a reward pupils from the year group will be treated to a free trip during May half term. Keep your ears to the ground for more information on the trip.
Well done to everyone in 7EM! As a reward an ice skating trip has been organised for 22nd May for all pupils in class 7EM.
Topping the list for individual attendance is Chris Griffiths who has attended a massive 119 sessions over the past two terms. Closely followed by Liam Winder with 107 sessions and Brandon Davies wth 102 sessions. Well Done!
Table Tennis News
The latest Welsh Rankings:
Under 13s
Jamie Davies 7th, Keiran Tann 9th, Chris Girffiths 10th, Steven Fawkes 12th, Jack Johnson 13th, Ryan Howells 14th, Liam Winder 15th, Kieran Isaac 21st, Brandon Davies 24th, Sam Griffiths 24th, Ethan Lewis 28th
Under 15s
Boys
Keiran Tann 15th, Jamie Davies 16th, Steven Fawkes 19th, Sam Griffiths 26th, Chris Griffiths 29th, Ryan Howells 33rd, Kieran Isaac 38th, Jack Johnson 39th
Girls
Beth Eaces 18th, Abi Sayce 18th, Lauren Slye 22nd
Under 18s
Boys
Steven Fawkes 38th, Keiran Tann 41st, Jamie Davies 47th, Jack Johnson 48th, Sam Griffiths 54th, Chris Griffiths 60th, Ryan Howells 62nd
Girls
Beth Eaves 17th, Abi Sayce 18th, Lauren Slye 27th
Well Done to everyone and great to see so many of the Ferndale players doing well especially in the under 13s with the top 20 consisting of 7 Ferndale players.
New term of activties on its way!
Our Winter term is over and what a great term it was even if th weather seemed to be against us. Well now that term is over we have planned a great new programme for the summer term. Keep your eyes peeled for the new programme of activities which will be distributed during the first week back. A sneek peek of the new programme can be found on the timetable part of the website. Remember, if you have any ideas for new activities please see Lisa in the E3 office.
By Us, About Us, For Us Event
In March E3 and members of the 6th form were invited to attend Cardiff Universities By Us, About Us, For Us Event, which was al about how information is collected about young eople and how it is used. E3 at Ferndale Community School's display was entitled 'Give us a Clue, It's all about You' and demonstrated the way in which we have used the Viewpoint survey (Which the majority of pupils completed during IT lessons last July) to tell us what activities that you want to see in your E3 programme. The day was a great success and was enjoyed by all who attended. Check out our photographs of the day.
February Halfterm Fun!
On the Monday during February Halfterm pupils joined E3 on a trip to TeamSport Go Karting Centre in Cardiff. Everyone got in the competitive spirit of things and put thier foot down on the accelerator to win the team competition. At the end of an exciting day the winning team was announced as Team Ferrari with Sarah Ford at the helm of a fantastic team! As for the time trials, Challem Phillips won with an amazing time of 32 seconds. Well done to Team Ferrari and Challem.
On Tuesday another group of pupils went to Longleat Safari park for the day. Everyone enjoyed seeing all of the different animals at the park and some even held a trantula and a snake! Check out the pictures on the photographs section of the website.
Snow Days
Due to the bad weather conditions this week (Week Commencing 02/02/09) E3 activities have been cancelled while the school is closed.
Table Tennis News
Ryan Howells and Steven Fawkes represented Greenhouse Wales in Scotland 31st jan-1st feb both performing really well.
Sam Griffiths, Jamie Davies and Jack Johnson played in Cippenham on 1st February Sam had a trophy for best personaility of the day!!
Welsh League- Ferndale B Team of Steven Fawkes, Ryan Howells, Sam Griffiths and Ferndale C team of Abi Sayce, Lauren Slye and Beth Eaves made the journey to Wrexham on 24th Jan. The girls won 1 match and lost the other while the boys won both there matches and are sitting 2nd in the table.
Kieran Tann found it tough against more experienced oppostion in his first international appearance but did manage to pick up 1 win.
Welsh Rankings: many Ferndale players are listed on the Welsh national ranking list. Jamie Davies is ranked 6th in the Under 13s and Abi Sayce 17th in under 18s.
15 players from Ferndale have entered themselves in the Dragon tournament at Sophia Gardens on the 15th Feb which is a fantastic reponse.
We now look forward to the half term camps and also the trip to Sweden in half term!
Half Term Trips
February Half Term Actvity Timetable has been added to the special events page of the site. keep checking back for more updates!
Table Tennis News
Th Welsh rankings for Rhondda players have been issued and can be found
here. Check out the rankings of the Ferndale Table Tennis Players.
Sports Squad
The Sports Squad is now fully formed and will be helping out with the sporting activities in the school. You can't miss them as they will be wearing their pink hoodies with Sports Squad printed on the back. They will be running all Turn up and Play sessions on the tennis courts so if there is a sport or activity you and your mates want to play at lunch then let them know and they will sort the equipment out for you.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Kieran Tann who has made it through to play for Wales in Table Tennis.
New E3 Term
I hope you had a great Christmas break and are looking forward to a new E3 term at Ferndale Community School. We have a new programme of activities for you to take part in and programmes will be given out in registration classes in the first week of term.
If you have returned your signup forms dont forget to check out the E3 notice boards to check what activities you have been selected to do! Keep your eyes peeled to the notice boards forinformation about other events and activities throughout the term as we are planning some additional taster sessions activities and half-term activities in February.
Once again its important for you to keep us up to date with the activities that you want to try out. Let us know your suggestions by either putting a note in the red suggestion box at the front of the E3 office, fill in the
suggestion page on the website or come and chat to Lisa and James.
Table Tennis
After numerous competitions across Wales Ferndale players now have a National Welsh Ranking on the latest list:
www.ttaw.co.uk Under 13 Boys Under 15 Boys Under 18 BoysJamie Davies 7th Jamie Davies 17th Steven Fawkes 43rd
Jack Johnson 14th Steven Fawkes 17th Jack Johnson 52nd
Steven Fawkes 17th Kieran Tann 17th Kieran Tann 52nd
Kieran Tann 17th Liam Morris 53rd
Sam Griffiths 26th
Under 13 Girls Under 15 Girls Under 18s girls Lauren Slye 12th Abi Syace 16th Beth Eaves 19th
Abi Sayce 21st
Lauren Slye 31st
Dragon RankingRyan Howells 9th, Sam Griffiths 12th, Steven Fawkes 25th, Jamie Davies 27th, Liam Winder 30th, Chris Griffiths 31st, Jack Johnson 37th, Kieran Tann 37th, Kieran Isaac 31st, Ethan Lewis 52nd
- Abi Sayce selected to represent the Boys and Girls clubs of Wales this coming weekend in London.
- Ryan Howells and Steven Fawkes selected for a trip to Scotland in January
- Jamie Davies and Jack Johnson selected to go to Sweden in February with Greenhouse Wales.
- Jamie Davies, Jack Johnson, Steven Fawkes, Ryan Howells selected to train with welsh national squad every Wednesday night.
- 6 year 7s are going to London on the 21st December to Compete in their first English competition
http://ttkferndale.blogspot.com/ Thanks to E3 and Ferndale Community School for your support
Girls Football
Click on the link below to see how FCS Girls Football team got on in their last two games against Porth And Aberdare Girls.
Half Term Fun
75 pupils got involved in E3 Half Term Activities. On Monday there was multisports where participants got a chance to try out new sports. On Tuesday some pupils went Horse Riding at Greenmeadow Riding Centre, everyone had a great time riding out on their horses. On Thursday everyone jumped on the bus to Cowbridge in Cardiff where they took part in Paintball. Lisa (E3 coordinator) received the prestigious award of Plonker of the Day for spending more time on her backside than on her feet! Despite this the E3 staff team still managed to get passed the rest of the pupils during the president assasination game! Well done to James (5x60 Officer) for successfully fooling the other side. On Friday another group got up really early to go to Alton Towers. Everyone had a great time at the theme park despite the long journey.
Half-Term Activities
E3+ and 5x60 have organised a rangeof different activities for the pupils of Ferndale Community School to participate in this October Half-Term, including an Alton Towers trip and Paintballing. Check out the Special Events page for more information!
Good start at Welsh League
3 Teams from Ferndale community school competed at their first welsh league competition on Sunday 5th October. Ferndale A team of Jamie Davies, Jack Johnson and Ryan Oyler beat North Gwent (b) 5-2 and Tonypandy (b) 4-3 and lost out to Ael-Y-Bryn 6-1. Ferndale B team of Kieran Tann, Liam Morris and Steven Fawkes beat Nanytmoel (b) 4-3, and Newport 7-0 losing out to Tonyrefail (b) 6-1. The all girls team of Ferndale (c) Abi Sayce, Beth Eaves, Lauren Slye and Georiga Atkinson beat Newport 4-3, Swansea 5-2 and lost to Nantymoel (b) 5-2.
All players came away with some good wins and will now be placed on the Welsh ranking list. This was a very successful start to the welsh league season, the attitude and team spirit shown was excellent throughout the day. All players should be proud of their efforts, keep it up!!!
Thanks to assistant coach Simon Oyler and girls coach Emmaliegh Newman for their efforts!!
Autumn Programme Launched
The E3+ and 5x60 programme has now been launched. Programmes were distributed to all pupils and the uptake of activities has been fantastic. To check out the current timetable take a look at our Timetable page on the website. If you have signed up for an activity check out the E3+ notice board to check what activities you will be participating in and when!
E3+ Launch Night
Thursday 25th September saw E3+ and 5x60 Launched at Ferndale Community School. The young people of the school and community members had the chance to try out the various different activities that will be on offer through the E3+ and 5x60 programme. Lisa and James would like to thank all of the facilitators who attended on the night and helped to make the Launch a success. Activities on offer included Football wth Cardiff City Football in the Community, Driving School, Get Cooking!, Breakdancing, Film Making and a Gaming Tournament.
