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Tag: Lewis School Pengam

“All the victims were individuals and they all had a life and a story”

Thursday, January 27, 2022Thursday, January 27, 2022

To mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, which has a theme of ‘One Day’ we have republished this 2020 article detailing a trip by students to Auschwitz.

“A gentle and artistic soul” – Tributes paid to former assistant headteacher

Monday, January 10, 2022Monday, January 10, 2022

Andrew James, a former assistant headteacher at Lewis School Pengam, died over Christmas.

Row over £70k council review of school contracts

Thursday, August 20, 2020Thursday, August 20, 2020

A review of school PFI contracts has cost Caerphilly County Borough Council nearly £70,000 to date.

School gets LTA tennis awards recognition

Friday, April 24, 2020Friday, April 24, 2020

Lewis School Pengam has won an award for its tennis provision.

13-year-old died after “violently reacting” to drugs, coroner says

Monday, April 20, 2020Monday, April 20, 2020

Carson Price, from Hengoed, died on April 12 last year after taking a form of ecstasy known as ‘Donkey Kong’ in Ystrad Mynach Park.

Scammers target free school meal parents

Thursday, March 26, 2020Friday, March 27, 2020

Schools have warned that some parents have received a scam email asking for bank details.

Coronavirus: Five schools to open for “key workers” – and other education service updates

Friday, March 20, 2020Friday, March 20, 2020

Five school ‘hubs’ will open on Monday, March 23, for children of key workers.

Post-16 education plans approved

Wednesday, February 26, 2020Wednesday, February 26, 2020

The new arrangements for post-16 education will come into force in September.

Students visit Auschwitz-Birkenau to learn of horrors of Holocaust

Wednesday, February 26, 2020Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Students from Caerphilly County Borough visited the former-Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

Teachers are refusing to teach disruptive pupils

Monday, January 20, 2020Monday, January 20, 2020

Teachers fearing for their safety at Lewis School Pengam over the behaviour of some pupils have voted to no longer teach them.

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