Thinking of our beautiful, brave and brilliant Sam; forever in our hearts, forever a shining light of Bassaleg School. A wonderful student and incredible friend to so many; much loved and missed by us all. Rest in peace beautiful Sam ❤️💙💛
@BassalegSchool1
We stood together today as a community
@BassalegSchool1
to say goodbye to our beloved Ross, who will always be a shining star in our hearts forever. Our thoughts, prayers, love & strength are with Ross’s family and friends 💙💛
The most unbelievable delivery arrived yesterday from a very wonderful set of parents wanting to say thank you to our brilliant staff
@BassalegSchool1
We are all so touched by this incredibly kind gesture!
#KindnessMatters
🦌
As we return to lessons today, we stand together
@BassalegSchool1
&
@NewportH
to remember our much-loved sixth form student who will be in our hearts forever & missed greatly by us all. Thank you for the kindness & support shown to our school; our thoughts are with the family💛💙
MADE IT!!!! 🚴🏻♀️🇬🇧🇫🇷💪 300 miles, 4 days London2paris in soaring temperatures; it’s been an incredible adventure! Thank you SO much for all your support, means the world ❤️
@BassalegSchool1
Marking a very special moment
@BassalegSchool1
today 💙💛 Such a joy to see and hear just how much Yr7 & Yr11 love our new facilities in Adeilad Balch; can’t wait to welcome you tomorrow Year 8 as part of our phased induction to the new site
#believingandbelonging
🦌
Amidst all the challenges school colleagues are currently facing, something wonderful like this can make your term! Thank you so much to the kind person(s) who delivered these flowers anonymously to staff
@BassalegSchool1
today; we’d love to be able to thank you in person ❤️
Closing the door
@BassalegSchool1
on what has been an extraordinary year. Huge thanks to our wonderful staff on an exceptional team effort; to our wonderful students for the enormous resilience you have shown throughout & to parents/GB for your unwavering support
#bringon202021
Absolute privilege to welcome back Grand Slam winner
@aaronwain97
to Bassaleg today. After some time with PE classes, Year 7 were treated to a fabulous Q&A from
@MaughanBassaleg
Aaron, you are an absolute inspiration to us all!
@BassalegSchool1
87' Ollie Dewsbury comes onto the field to become the youngest-ever player to represent Rovers in the FA Cup and the second youngest to play for the first team.
👏 Congrats Ollie.
Couldn’t agree more; our students have been monumentally let down by a system & it is simply not good enough. Our students deserve much more than this; at the very least: equity and fairness. Our profession needs to be trusted
@wgmin_education
@wjec_cbac
@BassalegSchool1
"We have done everything we possibly can to support the grading process in difficult circumstances, but there is a time to say enough is enough." See our full comment on AS and
#Alevel
results in
#Wales
here
Huge congratulations to Catrin Phillips who has been offered a place at Oxford University to read History in September; so proud of you! 👏 Catrin is one of 5 students
@BassalegSchool1
to be offered places at either Oxford or Cambridge Uni this year 🦌📚
@HistoryBassaleg
Wishing the entire community
@BassalegSchool1
a restful and relaxing Easter break; be kind to yourselves this holiday. Thank you to our staff, parents/carers, students & governors for the incredible support shown to one another; it’s a privilege to lead such a special school 🦌
Can’t really put into words how proud I feel of the whole Bassaleg community coming together today; was the most special day in every way! Thank you every single person who came out to support today - the flags were incredible!
@BassalegSchool1
@LucyEllisLove
Very emotional day for our fabulous Yr 13 - we are so proud of how incredibly maturely you have approached such unprecedented times; you are all true superstars & such an inspiration to us all! Look forward you seeing you at a very special reunion
@BassalegSchool1
🦌🌟💛💗🧡
A huge thank you to the very kind anonymous parent/carer who delivered such a thoughtful card & gift to the school today. We continue to be so grateful for the support & kindness being shown to everyone
@BassalegSchool1
at such challenging times for all schools
#KindnessMatters
A massive congratulations to our fabulous students
@BassalegSchool1
on your outstanding GCSE results today! We are just so proud of every single one you having shown such resilience and commitment to your studies in what has been an extraordinary year. Well done 👍
A huge thank you to the entire community
@BassalegSchool1
for responding with such composure to today’s ‘live police incident’ in the village. Great team work from pupils, staff & parents 🙌Thank you to
@gwentpolice
for keeping us updated & safe throughout 👍
Feeling incredibly proud to be part of the teaching profession at the end of an exhausting week; big shout-out to everyone working in schools ‘making it work’ for our young people! 🙌 special thanks to the superstars 🌟
@BassalegSchool1
🦌
#clapforteachers
Very pleased that the production line for protective visors began
@BassalegSchool1
today. In partnership with
@RougemontSchool
we’ll be supplying these essential materials to front line staff. Thank you & well done Mr Lewis, Mr Williams & Mr Parker 👏
@BassalegSciTech
🌈🦌
End of another school year & a momentous one
@BassalegSchool1
as we look ahead to a new chapter with Adeilad Balch opening in September. Wishing our wonderful community a restful, relaxing and enjoyable summer break ☀️
#believingandbelonging
🦌
The day has come to say farewell to our fabulous Year 11 & Year 13 students
@BassalegSchool1
You have made us so very proud, but particularly over this last extraordinarily challenging year with your incredible resilience. Enjoy today & keep looking up!
#believingandbelonging
🦌
Preparations continue to enable pupils & staff to return safely to
@BassalegSchool1
Thank you so much to our site team & cleaning staff for investing so much time and effort to getting everything ready!
#greatteam
So proud to present our Estyn report “Bassaleg School is very successful in securing a caring & supportive ethos; “Excellent” in care, support and guidance. A report of which the whole school community should feel proud! 🌟
@BassalegSchool1
@NewportCouncil
As the sun rose amidst the frost
@BassalegSchool1
this morning, I smiled & felt incredibly grateful for the brilliant team of staff working on site to support some of our more vulnerable learners & children of key workers. Thank you & well done team!
#wellbeingmatters
To all the teachers, LSAs, support staff, site team, cleaners & senior leaders out there - another week clocked & you should feel incredibly proud of the brilliant job you’re continuing to do in exceptionally challenging circumstances 🙌
#superheroes
@BassalegSchool1
Such a pleasure to chat to Tan in Year 11 today about his football aspirations, having been called up to the National U17s squad 🏴 ⚽️ Also humbled to hear about Tan’s aim to inspire young people to work hard to realise their own ambitions; such a credit to
@BassalegSchool1
🦌
Wishing all of our fabulous students
@BassalegSchool1
a very Merry Christmas 🎄 Can’t begin to explain how proud we are of your incredible efforts throughout the course of this term; you have shown such resilience & heart!
#proudheadteacher
#keeplookingup
🦌
Incredibly proud to share the brilliant news, Miss Chase, English Teacher
@BassalegSchool1
is a ‘Shortlisted Finalist in the Secondary Teacher of the Year Category’ of the Pearson National Teaching Awards, also known as the ‘Teaching’
#oscars
You’re a superstar
@AChaseBassaleg
⭐️
So proud of Maddie Meredith, Yr 9
@BassalegSchool1
for being selected from thousands of applicants to join the Alpine Formula 1 team to be on their engineering mentor program! Such an incredible achievement Maddie; follow your dreams!
#believingandbelonging
🦌
Thank you to my amazing friends, family, colleagues & everyone
@BassalegSchool1
community for all the messages of support since Sunday. Surgery on my ruptured Achilles has gone well; road to recovery starts today 👊🚴🏻♀️🏊♀️🏃♀️🏉
#PositiveThoughts
#WeGotThis
#keeplookingup
🦌
As an incredibly eventful week for schools in Wales draws to a close, big shout-out to leaders & site staff in particular working around the clock to prepare plans for the ‘next stage.’ Parents, pupils&staff thank you for being patient; together we can do this!
@BassalegSchool1
🦌
Big shout-out to our incredible team of LSAs
@BassalegSchool1
who are doing a superb job supporting learners on site whilst engaging with other learners remotely in live online lessons; you are all superstars 🌟& we are very lucky to have such a professional, enthusiastic team!🦌
Closing the door on a wonderful year
@BassalegSchool1
Wishing our fabulous community a restful and relaxing summer break. Special thanks the incredible staff I am privileged to work alongside every day for continuing to give everything!
#happyholidays
☀️
#believingandbelonging
A staggering £1922 has been raised today at Bassaleg School with money still coming in! So proud of our extraordinary pupils and staff for digging deep and giving something back!
#childreninneed2018
#keeplookingup
@BassalegSchool1
Incredible effort from staff
@BassalegSchool1
at ‘It’s a Knockout’ this weekend; really special community event in memory of two of our superstars Ross & Sam 💙💛
#believingandbelonging
🦌
Huge congratulations to Aaron Corcoran-Lockley from Year 12
@BassalegSchool1
who has been admitted to the Yale Young Global Scholars Connect Programme with a scholarship from
@WG_Education
& YYGS. An enormous achievement; we are all very proud of you! 👏
Absolutely the right decision; thank you for giving our young people the qualifications they deserve and for showing trust in our profession
@BassalegSchool1
A level, AS, GCSE, Skills Challenge Certificate and Welsh Baccalaureate grades in Wales will now be awarded on the basis of Centre Assessment Grades.
Please read and share this full update:
Absolutely thrilled to congratulate Maddie Conlan & Matt Turner as new Head Students
@BassalegSchool1
Had the pleasure of interviewing a brilliant team of Deputy Heads & Senior Prefects yesterday embodying such excellent core values; reminds me of how much I love my job 🦌
Such a delight catching up with Harvey Brown & Ioan Wallace, Yr 7s
@BassalegSchool1
this morning to congratulate them on their recent brilliant act of kindness helping out a member of the public on their way to school; the most wonderful role models!
#believingandbelonging
🦌
Super excited to see our official new STAG gym open
@BassalegSchool1
Well done to
@BassalegPE
for the incredible time, energy & vision invested to making this a fantastic health, fitness & wellbeing resource for staff & pupils 👏
#believingandbelonging
🦌
Nostalgic morning with Yr 7
@BassalegSchool1
leading the very final assembly in Forge Hall, prior to its demolition. Pupils enjoyed listening to some of our favourite memories of a very special place with Mr Batten closing the assembly for the final time
#believingandbelonging
🦌
A reminder that work will be set on google classroom for all pupils
@BassalegSchool1
tmw & Tuesday with live online lessons due to commence remotely from Wednesday. Looking forward to re-connecting with our school community & being there for each other
#believingandbelonging
🦌
The legacy of phenomenal teaching right here👇Such a privilege to watch the moment when former pupil
@BassalegSchool1
Tyler Edwards, now BBC journalist, came back to school to congratulate his inspirational teacher
@AChaseBassaleg
@TeachingAwards
So honoured to have lived through the reign of most extraordinary Monarch; the most wonderful role model in every way. Deepest condolences to the Royal family at this very sad time 💙💛
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
A big shout-out to the fabulous teaching and support staff
@BassalegSchool1
who will all be returning to site Monday after 10 phenomenal weeks of working remotely; so proud of you all! Can’t wait to be back together as a team welcoming our brilliant pupils back from Monday 🦌
Such a pleasure congratulating
@VennRugby
on his team’s recent victory at the Deaf Rugby World Cup. Mr Venn coaches the women’s team who beat England in the final in Argentina. This brilliant achievement will no doubt continue to inspire our young people
@BassalegSchool1
🦌
#stags
Made the most of the gorgeous spring sunshine ☀️ during
#wellbeingmatters
hour this afternoon 🏃♀️How did you spend the time staff, pupils & community
@BassalegSchool1
?🦌
Very proud to be able to deliver protective visors to local care homes in the
@BassalegSchool1
community today - Tregwilym Lodge & The Oaks in Rogerstone. Thank you to staff
@BassalegSciTech
for your continued brilliant efforts 👏🦌🌈
@NewportCouncil
We are in awe of you
@AChaseBassaleg
inspiring all of us
@BassalegSchool1
with everything you do! You are the most wonderful role model & we are just so proud of you 💙💛 Thank you
@dowden_amy
for making that so special for Abi!
Goodbye and good luck to a truly awesome year group; we are so proud of you and the legacy you’ve left behind. We wish you every success! 🌟 🌟 🌟
@BassalegSchool1
Looking forward to supporting this fantastic event to raise funds for 2 very special charities as we remember two of our very special stars
@BassalegSchool1
💙💛 ⭐️ ⭐️ 🦌
So incredibly proud of
#TeamBassaleg
at the end of what’s been an extraordinary term! Big shout-out to every superstar across all of our schools contributing to “making this work” for our fabulous young people!
@BassalegSchool1
🦌🌈
Such a pleasure to catch up with sixth formers Mia & Oliver
@BassalegSchool1
today to thank them personally for their incredible act of kindness in helping out a neighbour recently. You’re such wonderful role models; we’re so proud of you!
#believingandbelonging
@Bassaleg6th
🦌
Great to see so many year 8s return to school site today; lots of smiley faces amongst our fabulous team of staff and students enjoying a wellbeing catch up & subject specific workshops 👍 So proud of the team
@BassalegSchool1
🦌
@miss_parfitt
@wgmin_education
@EAS_MDirector
Such a pleasure to send our wonderful year 13s a montage of farewell messages from your staff
@BassalegSchool1
🦌 A tribute to an incdredible group of young people who will always have a very special place in our hearts; we are so proud of every single one of you 💛💕🧡
Feeling very proud of
#TeamBassaleg
ahead of tmw’s big race; everyone’s worked so hard and we will be digging deep thinking about three very special young people tmw 💛💕🧡
@BassalegSchool1
@LucyEllisLove
Huge congratulations from us all
@BassalegSchool1
to Aaron Corcoran-Lockley who’s been offered a place at Cambridge to read English Lit, also Ffion Thomas to study Education. Equally proud of Izzy Mawhinney who has been offered a place at Oxford to read French and Spanish 🙌🦌
Our community
@BassalegSchool1
stood together this morning to pay our respects to all those who gave their lives serving their country; a special thank you to all those playing a part.
#LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay