Ysgol Tir Morfa - Newsletter Friday 16th JANUARY 2026

Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been a very busy week at Ysgol Tir Morfa, with everyone settling back into the new term so well. A quick reminder that Mrs Hill will be holding a Families Together meeting in Brews next Tuesday at 10am – all families are very welcome to attend.   As you are aware, we have our Estyn Inspection taking place next week, from Monday 19th to Wednesday 21st January. We are very much looking forward to celebrating our wonderful school. Parents are warmly invited to attend a meeting with the Inspectors on Monday at 2.30pm in the school hall on the Ffordd Derwen site. If you are attending and collecting your child, they will be supervised until the end of the meeting, so please don't worry.   Thank you, as always for your continued support

Kind regards,

Susan H. Roberts

Headteacher

Calendar of Events
  • Monday 19th January - Estyn Parents Meeting - Ffordd Derwen - 2.30pm
  • Tuesday 20th January - Familites Together Meeting - 10 to 11am - Brews Cafe - All Parents/Carers Welcome
  • Wednesday 28th January - Therapy Dogs visiting Grange Road - 9.30 to 10.30am
  • Friday 13th February - School closes for half term
  • Monday 23rd February - School opens to pupils
  • Friday 27th February - Staff Training Day
Our Week at Tir Morfa
Fabulous Canu Cymraeg this morning. Pupils use their voices through different communication methods to choose which song they would like.
Dosbarth Findeg in Enterprise activities this week.
This week Dosbarth Haul have experienced the colour red through a range of activities.
This week Aled class have been busy with shop, cook and eat and using their artistic skills in Write Dance.
Famau enjoyed playing table cricket during well-being and played fairly together.
Brenig have been making a numberline for our investigation shed this week.
Enfys have been working hard on their communication and physical skills this week in a range of environments, including the classroom, the soft play and in Rebound therapy.
Dosbarth Alwen have been learning how to sit together at snack time, this week they did it! Da iawn pawb!
Fabulous Canu Cymraeg this morning. Pupils use their voices through different communication methods to choose which song they would like.
Dosbarth Tegid practiced the core word of the week out and about this week. They used the stairs and the lift and found the ‘up and down’ indicators.
Core Word of the Week

Core word of the week next week will be: in & out

Information & Other Events

Attendance Information for Parents and Carers

As part of our continued focus on attendance this year, we have decided to share attendance data regularly with parents and carers through our newsletter. Attendance remains one of our school priorities, and we believe that sharing this information helps keep everyone informed and working together to support our pupils. In Wales, the Welsh Government defines good attendance as 95% or above. Attendance of 90% or below is classed as persistent absence. These benchmarks are used nationally across schools in Wales. We would like to reassure families that we fully recognise that many pupils at YTM have significant health or medical needs which may make it difficult, or sometimes impossible, to meet these targets. As a school, we understand this and want to be very clear that no parent or carer should feel pressured or judged where absences are due to genuine health-related reasons. Our intention in sharing attendance data is simply to ensure transparency and awareness of our overall school attendance and the expectations placed upon us as a school. We value our strong partnership with families and appreciate your continued support in helping pupils attend whenever they are able to do so. If you would like to discuss attendance in relation to your child, please do not hesitate to contact the school - we are always happy to work together to provide the best possible support.

Term Dates for this year are now available on our website by clicking the button below

Term Dates
Ffordd Derwen Dinner Menu

The dinner menu at Ffordd Derwen next week is: Week 3