At the end of September, a group of Year 11 students completed their Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition in the Wye Valley, spending three days navigating the great outdoors and carrying everything they needed on their backs. Between challenging climbs, freezing nights and breathtaking views, the expedition pushed us to our limits and tested our resilience, independence and teamwork in ways we hadn’t quite anticipated. However, the journey began long before the assess

Exciting preparations are underway for our Kindness Week (16th-20th November). Our journey for this year starts year today - Monday November 2nd. Our pupils are busy learning about what kindness looks like at Bassaleg School, including making a kindness wall, developing a kindness toolkit with strategies for young people to use in order to be kind, compassionate and empathetic to each other and their environment. Pupils and staff are already thinking of what "odd accessories

On Wednesday 15th October, Bassaleg came together to celebrate Shwmae Day (Hello Day) and promote the use of Cymraeg across our school community. Staff and pupils embraced the challenge of starting conversations in Welsh, spreading a little more Cymraeg throughout the day and showing that every shwmae makes a difference! There was fantastic enthusiasm from everyone, with staff rewarding pupils for their efforts to use Welsh through Tocynnau Iaith and A1s. A special da iawn go