2008-9 Football Season

Football Season 2009

Today was the grand final of our annual tennis tournament. Pictured below are the 128 competitors who took part in this years tournament. Below are the four finalists and the eventual champions. The match was fantastic and all of the crowd enjoyed it as they ate their strawberries and cream. After the match was the season finale, this years grudge match between Mr. Roberts and Mr. Workman V Mrs. Gardiner and Mr. Roberts. The children really enjoyed this encounter, which was finally won by Mr. Williams and Mr. Workman.

Dragon Sports Award

A big thank you to our pupils in years 6 and 3 for collecting the award on behalf of the school for 'Dragon sports contribution to extra curricular activities'. The ceremony was held at Aberdare Coliseum on June 24th. Congratulations to all the staff and pupils who attend these clubs and for making this award possible.

The County Cricket Finals

Thursday 16th June was the highlight in this years school's cricket calendar. Having made it through the regional finals our school's cricket team lined up at Miskin Cricket club to take on the best 10 teams in Mid Glamorgan. This is the third consecutive year that we have made it to this stage, and the standard was as high as ever. The boys played amazingly well and produced their best cricket of the season so far. Our school team came a very respectable third, in our group of 5 teams. With a number of matches left this season we still have a great deal to look forward to. If you would like to play cricket come along to training every Thursday evening at Miskin Cricket Club 4-5pm. Well done to all the boys who played yesterday, you represented the school fantastically well. To see photographs of our season so far click on the cricket picture to the right.

Press play below to see just if one of teh difficult decisions that Mr. Llewellyn had to make as umpire. Was it out? Let me know in school.

Sports Day 2009

This years sports day was again a huge success with children having a fun filled afternoon at the school field. All the children tried their best and showed great sporting spirit. Clun dominated the day winning the School Cup, the boys relay, the girls relay and the year's 2 - 6 mixed relay. Well done to all the children who took part, you represented your houses remarkably well. Click on Mrs. Davies and Mrs. Marlow below to view some great images of our sports day 2009.

Sports Day 2009

Click above to view the sports day album.

Football Success

This past month has been a fantastic month for football in Pontyclun Primary School. Here is a short round up of a month that has has seen Mr. Llewellyn with short finger nails and very hoarse.

The boys have become Urdd regional champions, represented the region in the national championships in Aberystwyth, and narrowly missed out on the semi finals in the New Directions Tournament and the Cardiff City Tournament.

The girls have also become Urdd regional champions, represented the region in the national championship in Aberystwyth coming (all wales) runners up after loosing via a penalty shoot out in the final. This week the girls reached the semi finals in the New Directions Tournament, loosing 1-0 to last years champions. The tournament involved 93 schools and was played to a very high standard. In the last month the girls team has played 22 matches, scored 45 goals and conceded 4 goals, they have been tremendous sports in victory and defeat and have represented the school, village and region admirably. Their consistency easily puts them in the top 2 best school teams in Wales this year.

As coach of both teams I would like to thank all of the children who have trained hard and played so well this year. All of our players have shown an excellent attitude towards the game and a superb team spirit, it really has been a pleasure to coach these children. I would also like to thank the wonderful support of the parents who have given of their time to help with transport, and been there to witness all of the recent highs and lows. I hope that the children continue to train and work hard on their skill levels, as we have a great deal of talent in Pontyclun. Keep going boys and girls, the premiership awaits...



Our boys in the dugout and players tunnel at CCFC.

Our girls receiving their runners up medals in the all Wales Urdd tournament, Aberystwyth.

If you click this link and press play you should see one of our goals from our day at Ninian Park. (Hopefully the video hasn't been changed yet).

http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/page/CommunityFootball/0,,10335~1660353,00.html

These medals were really hard to get at Aberystwyth.

We were regional champions in both the girls and boys' tournaments click below to see the musical tribute that our children created for the teams when they got back to school.

http://picasaweb.google.com/PontyclunPrimary/Movies?authkey=Gv1sRgCOm4uNPyua_2qQE&feat=directlink

Our "Roving Reporters" from Year 6 have recently sent a full report on the season into the Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer, it should be shown over the next week or two.

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.