Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating awareness event about school meals in Britain. National School Meals Week has been running since 1993 and is organised by the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA). The week encourages schoolchildren to enjoy a healthy school meal ...
Cardiff Council’s Executive will next week consider a recommendation to dispose of the former Hawthorn Junior School in Llandaff North to the Steiner School. The Executive is recommended to exercise its wellbeing powers in the disposal of the Victorian school building to the Steiner School subject to their confirmation of funding, which would retain the ...
‘A’ Level students in Cardiff schools can once again be proud of their achievements. In a year when more students took ‘A’ and ‘AS’ Level examinations in Cardiff than in 2010, the performances of the city’s schools were improved for all key measures and once again were above the Wales averages. This is the second ...
The first day at school is a key milestone in all children’s lives so Cardiff Council is reminding parents of the need to register their preferred option for their child to attend primary school in 2012/13. Most parents will know the local schools in their area and which one they would like their child to ...
With the school holidays on the horizon, here are some ideas on what to do with the kids throughout this summer. Where better to spend your holiday than in a castle? Become a history detective and join the Holiday History Club at Cardiff Castle where children can delve a bit deeper into the past. Each ...
The school library at one Cardiff primary has received a major boost. St Paul’s Church in Wales Primary School has been presented with £500 to spend on books as part of Cardiff Council’s Reading Power campaign to drive up literacy standards across the city. The Grangetown school earned the reward for being the school with ...
There’s more than bargains and must-haves on offer for shoppers and visitors to the city centre this weekend as Cardiff Council launches the new On Course Neighbourhood Learning guide. Officers from the Neighbourhood Learning team will be joining shoppers on Queen Street on Saturday, July 16 to promote the new prospectus that is packed full ...
Bright sparks from Cathays High School have scored success in a competition at Cardiff University’s School of Engineering. A team of six Year 8 pupils entered the Faraday Challenge at the university, competing against students from other high schools in the Cardiff and surrounding area. The event was one of 50 Faraday engineering challenge days ...
Around £180m of approved investment has been committed to school buildings in Cardiff in recent years as part of the Council’s aspiration of developing viable and successful schools across the city. A report detailing the past achievements and the existing financial model in the Schools Organisation Plan will be received by the Executive next week ...
This summer Cardiff Central Library will host comedy workshops to tickle the fancy of wannabe comedians aged between 15 and 19.Laughing Matters comedy workshops will be held at the library from Monday, July 18 until Thursday 21.The workshops are free and will run from 11am until 5pm.During the workshops young people will learn essential stand ...
Cardiff Council’s Park Services has worked closely with Whitchurch Women’s Institute (WI) to refurbish two special war memorials. The...
Primary schools across Cardiff will be marking National School Meals Week this week – the biggest national healthy eating...
A Merthyr Tydfil-based recycling company has been fined for failing to take appropriate measures to control the risk of...
A Cardiff letting agent has been sentenced after a handyman was exposed to asbestos-containing material while carrying out work...
A loan shark who preyed on vulnerable people is due to be sentenced on Wednesday 9th November at Cardiff...
The Public and Commercial Services Union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK, announced by the...
Since the General Election councils in England and Wales have lost over 101,000 jobs and the Vale of Glamorgan...
A group of Barclays staff based in Cardiff have successfully completed the UK Three Peaks challenge in aid of...
The Public and Commercial Services union which represents civil and public servants has called on the government to invest...
On the 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste...
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