PRIORY CHURCH IN WALES PRIMARY SCHOOL
01874 623549
Celebrating Imagination, Creativity and Belief
Welcome from the Headteacher
Croeso, welcome, it is with great pleasure I welcome you to our school website. This website is a showcase of the learning experiences that take place in our school and the wider community.
Priory Church in Wales Primary School provides a nurturing, fun and inspiring learning environment where children take a huge role in planning and refining learning experiences. Our children enjoy reflecting, sharing and publishing their learning journeys. It is paramount to us as a school that each learning experience displays personalised learning and individuality. In our school each child helps to steer the curriculum through their interests both individually and collaboratively and supports the practitioner in deepening their skills to ensure they can be the best they can be.
Positive relationships between everyone in the school community is key to the ongoing success of our school, which is why we have a high emphasis on supporting our community in Brecon through our Community Swap Shop. We welcome opportunities and learning experiences to invite our local community into our school community to draw on the skill set that they have, this supports our learners with lifelong skills, and helps them gain aspirations.
Our Christian values and pedagogy provide the children with a sense of Cynefin, belonging and a 'moral compass' to help develop the whole child to be a responsible, kind and considerate member of the school community and beyond.
We are a Mantle of the Expert Training School and regularly hold Study Days to celebrate the children's creativity, independence and wonderous imaginations. We support colleagues across Wales in sharing our practice and provide them with a snapshot into our children's Mantle adventures.
We have worked collaboratively with schools across Wales to develop the new Curriculum for Wales- Curriculum for Life and are currently excited to be working with Welsh Assembly Government on curriculum design and assessment.
As a team we are very proud of our nurturing school and happily welcome prospective parents, pupils, parents, volunteers, stakeholders and professionals to come and visit our school and see all that we can offer.
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Claire Pugh
Headteacher
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A Welcome From The Children
Welcome to our school website. At Priory we have lots of fun and excitement.
​We are a Church in Wales Primary School which means we have reflection time every day (worship) and we go to the cathedral weekly for one of our assemblies. We share our Christian values every day inside and outside of school. Our Christian values help us to be good role models and we treat others how we want to be treated ourselves. When we go to assembly/worship it is a time for us to reflect and be together as a school family.
Our school is exciting because we learn through Mantle of the Expert which lets us go on adventures and helps our imagination grow. We work together as a team to solve problems.
We have lots of places to learn different skills all around school, not just in our classroom. We have forest school which helps us learn about the environment and nature. We have lots of fun at lunchtime as our adventure playground allows us to climb and take risks in our play. We have a special place which is our TeePee which allows us to read books and reflect in a quiet space, we use this at lunchtime and sometimes when we work with adults. It is relaxing and calm.
We welcome visitors to our school to help us have different experiences in the classroom and learn skills to help us be more creative.
At Priory School we feel happy, excited, energised, joyful and thankful. We learn in lots of fun ways, but we always remember the golden thread
‘treat others how you want to be treated yourself.’
We feel we are respectful and responsible.
By Alex, Cai, Freya and Jason
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Daily Fitness
Every morning starts with 'check-in' or a P4C (Philosophy for Children) session where we find out how everybody is and check we're all ok and respectfully debate matters which are important to us. This is followed by 30 minutes daily fitness where EVERYBODY puts on their PE kits and we all keep fit together. Our pupils plan the programme of events including skipping, gymnastics, dancing, football skills, bat and ball skills or the whole school running around the field!
