Blaenau Gwent in Bloom is celebrating a quarter of a century of green fingered fun – and the challenge to entrants this year is to plant mini wildflower meadows throughout the county borough. The annual gardeners’ competition kicked off with an official launch at the new REGAIN building at The Works:Ebbw Vale, attended by work...Read More
A team of year 7 girls and year 7 boys travelled to Aberystwyth yesterday (Thursday May 9th) to compete at the Urdd National football seven a side tournament. All the players did extremely well considering the monsoon conditions and the fact that the other sides consisted of mainly year 8 pupils. The girls were playing...Read More
The Rt. Hon Carwyn Jones AM, First Minister of Wales kept a promise to students when he visited Ebbw Fawr Learning Community and PenycwmSpecialSchool today following a cancellation of a previous visit due to a Cabinet reshuffle in March. The Minister had expressed his desire to personally view the new facilities incorporating both schools and...Read More
YOUNG learners got the chance to walk the corridors of power in a bid to bring politics into the classroom. Year 10 and 11 groups from Ebbw Fawr Learning Community visited the Houses of Parliament as part of their Welsh Baccalaureate studies. Alongside learning about the ins and outs of how Westminster works – including...Read More
The year 9 team played their first fixture of 2013 on Thursday, March 14th against Abertillery. 16 boys turned up and 5 who came to watch requested to be involved in the next game, so although the result did not go our way we are more than pleased that the participation levels and enthusiasm is...Read More
Over 40 parents of students in Yrs. 9-11 at Ebbw Fawr Learning Community returned to the classroom this week as part of a drive to improve parental involvement in learning. The parents were taught how the brain works and how to help students revise using a range of different techniques such as mind mapping, word...Read More
Dear Parents/Carers, This year Ebbw Fawr Learning Community are really excited to be raising money for Red Nose Day 2013. As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Red Nose Day brings the entire nation together to do something funny for money. To do our bit and raise money our whole community will be taking...Read More
Ebbw Fawr Learning Community’s Art Department gets involved with trying to break a World Record and enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the World’s Longest Continuous Landscape Painting whilst doing good for charity. On Thursday 29th November, Mrs Keohane and Mrs O’Neill attended the event with Cerys Tucker and Ewan Williams who represented...Read More
We are delighted to welcome our local Assembly Minister, Alun Davies, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European Programmes to our Primary Phase today. Escorted by the Council Leader and Chief Executive Officer. Alun visited the site and officially launched our new web site , www.ebbwfawr.co.uk.We are delighted to welcome our local Assembly Minister,...Read More
