Welcome to Cynwyl Elfed School
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Cynwyl Elfed Primary School's website. A great deal can be seen here - prospectus, information, news, pictures and the school calendar. For further information, use the folders in the navigation bar.
TYPE OF SCHOOL
The present building was opened in 1976. It consists of classrooms, quiet rooms, a library and a hall that is also used as a canteen and gymnasium. A modern kitchen leads from the hall. The school grounds consist of a tarmac playground and extensive grassland. 
It is a mixed county primary school, teaching children from 3 - 11 years of age. Children are admitted to school at the beginning of the term in which they reach their fourth birthday, and they are transferred to Bro Myrddin Bilingual Comprehensive School, or Queen Elizabeth High School Carmarthen in the September following their eleventh birthday. Parents, however, have the right to send their children to any secondary school of their choice, following consultation with the Education Department.
The school is classed as a 'Category A' school which means that Welsh is the main medium of life and work in the Under 5 Department and Key Stage 1 (KS1), to ensure that the children acquire a sound foundation in the language. We emphasise however, that we treat children with an English background with great sensitivity, 
ensuring that they understand, feel secure and happy, and progress to the best of their ability. Needless to say therefore, English is spoken as necessary. In Key Stage 2 (KS2), there is a strong element of bilingualism in the teaching to ensure that the children are prepared for further education at secondary schools in the language medium of those schools.
The aim of this bilingual policy is to teach children to be totally bilingual by the time they leave primary school, and this school is remarkably successful in this matter. Results at secondary schools show that bilingual education promotes later success in foreign languages.
THE SCHOOL'S GENERAL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this school are to teach all its pupils to the best of their ability. This means offering a curriculum that is appropriate to each pupil, and that meets her/his needs.
- Promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, nurturing respect and tolerance towards other races, religions and ways of living
- Prepare pupils for the opportunity, the responsibility and the experiences they will come across as adults, in a world that is changing rapidly
- Attempt to give to children with special educational needs that which they are able to accept, in order to prepare them for as rich a future as possible
- Provide varied and extensive experiences in order to develop every child's full potential
- Develop a lively and inquisitive mind, a scientific and mathematical attitude towards problems, and to encourage children to ask and discuss logically, inventing experiments and examinations in order to seek answers
- Offer a curriculum that includes the National Curriculum and the Whole Curriculum together with Religious Education and Worship
- Assist pupils to devote to physical tasks and skills, and to use language and number efficiently
- Nurture a wide variety of skills and the ability to adjust to new ideas, new ways of doing things and other changes in the future
- Nurture an ethos that enables the promotion of acceptable attitudes, principles and relationships within a pleasant environment, and a feeling of assurance
- Foster mastery in the variety of studying skills likely to be needed by the pupil
- Ensure a level of achievement in literacy, numeracy and graphics that is appropriate to ability, and sufficient to meet the basic requirements of modern society
- Enable children to participate fully in a society where Welsh and English are used as modes of communication, and to foster understanding and compassion towards the heritage and culture of Wales