What a month of football

Over the last month the boys and girls' football teams have been extremely successful and very busy. After coming runners up in the all Wales Urdd Competition, today we took part in the New Directions Finals at Sophia Gardens. The girls played really well and made the semi final. Tomorrow our roving reporters will give a full report here on our sports blog.

Sports Day 2009

This years rearranged sports day is on Monday June 1st (the first day back after half term) please remember your house t-shirts.

Pontyclun Primary School - Boys and Girls' Primary School Champions

Today was a fantastic sporting day for the children at Pontyclun Primary School. We became the boys and girls, Mid-Glamorgan Football champions for the second consecutive year. We took four strong teams to the University Of Glamorgan Playing Fields and were amazed at the football produced by all teams. The girls Rovers team made the semi finals, the United team came out champions after wining the final against Cwmgarw of the Cynon Valley 2-0. The Boys Rovers team (below) were just as impressive with a narrow loss, three draws and one win, they narrowly missed out on the semi finals after coming third in their group. The boys United team were magnificent all day and topped their group before wining the semi final 1-0 and the final against Castellau on penalties. Although nobody likes to win a tournament on penalties all present said that the best teams won both tournaments. We all eagerly look forward to the National Competitions at Aberystwyth, where we will be representing Mid Glamorgan against all of the other regional champions. With such a large amount of children competing the help and support of parents was essential, may I thank both the children for their excellent behaviour and the parents for their support, good luck to both teams in Aberytwyth. Today some of our players created a musical tribute to all four teams - as they are all champions. To see it click movies on the right hand side or click below:
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Pontyclun School Cheer On the Bluebirds

Due to our ongoing work with Cardiff City's Football In The Community Scheme, we were given 50 tickets for their recent match with Nottingham Forrest. The children from years 5 and 6 had a fantastic time and were a credit to the school. Josh, Katie and Tom had their poems in the match day program and one lucky member of our school even had the opportunity to "score from the corner" in order to win £900. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful but he did come very close. May I thank Gary Wilmot, CCFC liaison officer and the other members of staff who came along with us and gave up their Saturday afternoon to take the children to the match. Here are a few memories of the day.

Training session for our netball team.

The netball team spent the morning at the University of Wales Treforest practising their dragon netball skills. The girls had some useful tips from welsh players of the Wales U21 team.

Netball Tournament At Llantrisant Sports Centre

CCFC Community Cup

On Friday 5th December Pontyclun took a group of boys to play in the CCFC league community cup, there were 6 year 6 boys and 2 year 5 boys. Firstly Pontyclun played Peter lea and Pontyclun beat Peter lea 1-0, the goal was scored by Oliver, and there could have been lots more goals. In Pontyclun's second match they played Romilly Primary School and Pontyclun lost 2-1 our goal scorer was again Oliver. Pontyclun's third match was against Oaklands, who we beat 1-0, thanks again to Oliver. In the quarter final we met All Saints School and Pontyclun tried their best to score a goal against All Saints but they could not score so it went to penalties. Sadly we lost on penalties to All Saints who went on to win the tournament.

By Lewis (Defender)

Mr. Llewellyn adds: He is very proud of the boys, they played their hearts out. We have a fantastic team and a lot more football to play, well done.