What a fantastic time 8C1 had today practising their rapping skills as part of our "Street Culture" Expressive Arts project! Here is just a snippet of our healthy confident learners in action... CCYD Arbenning pawb!🎤👏🤩

"Been spending most our Friday, living in a Year 8 paradise!" Outstanding teamwork from Year 8 today! Diolch Jacob Dyer, Jack Harris, Jack Kinsey, Ashley Williams and Carys Williams for sending us home smiling into the weekend! Ardderchog! 🎹🎤👏🤩CCYD CCYD Expressive Arts

Amazing work completed today by Penny Jenkins in year 10!

So proud of Year 10's Offelia, Emmy, Arieon, Seren & Daisy for entertaining a packed hall of proud learners, parents, carers and staff at this evening's CCYD Elite Team celebration. A first public performance for 3/5 of them & what a fantastic job they did too 🤩🎶🏆@ccyd_school

Year 7’s Joseph Thomas-Bizjak has been taking the music department by storm this week! There’s something for everyone here with his fabulous performances on the piano, clarinet and drums! Arbennig Joseph! Another star in the making! 🤩🎶👏 @ccyd_school

Welsh artist Chloe Rodenhurst inspired mug design. Well done Yr 7!

We certainly had that Friday feeling at choir today! And Abba just wouldn't be Abba without some dancing and some disco lights! 🕺🪩💃 Singing and smiling into the weekend thanks to these lovely learners! 🎶🤩 Dawnsio a canu gwych pawb! CCYD CCYD Drama Department CCYD Expressive Arts

What a treat we had after school today when past learners Flick and Ellie came in to join their little sister Jasmine to rehearse for her GCSE music ensemble performance! It really was the “greatest show” girls and so lovely to catch up! Ardderchog! 🎶👏🎤👩‍👩‍👧🩷 CCYD

Great ensemble skills demonstrated by 9S1 today. We thoroughly enjoyed their performance of "Don't Stop Believin'!" A super team effort and smiles all 'round! Gwaith Ardderchog Blwyddyn 9! 🎶🎹🎸🥁🎤👏CCYD

Well, this made our Wednesday morning… Year 10’s lovely Tyler Walker practising for his Vocational Studies solo on the bass guitar. Gwaith Ardderchog Tyler! We’re so proud of you! 🤩🎸👏@ccyd_school CCYD_STUDENTSUPPORT

3, 2, 1 Action! We're beyond proud to share some snippets of the incredible work by our year 9 learners who have used their creative skills to put together powerful short films that shed light on the impact of bullying and explore the role each of us plays in preventing it. 🎬✨

Awh Jaylan! We absolutely love this! Seeing you on the Atrium TV at the end of the day today made our Monday! What an absolute star you are! We can't wait to see you for a Jaylan Derulo dance masterclass later this week! CCYD 🤩🎤🕺😎

Ardderchog Dosbarth Gelli! We're so impressed with your concentration and fantastic ensemble skills. Excellent rhythm and excellent timing! Some future @ccyd_school rock stars in the making here! 🎶🥁👏

What a wonderful week of music making our primary cluster have had! We love this collaboration between BetwsPrimarySchool, Blaengarw Primary and Ffaldau Primary! A big DIOLCH to Bridgend Music Service for the invaluable experiences that they continue to provide for our learners CCYD 🎶💜👏

Some lovely paired work from Year 8, who have been learning all about the "Blues" genre. Ardderchog Oscar, Damon, Jessica, Sophie, George a Hayden! We look forward to hearing your improvisations next 🎹👏🤩 CCYD

Bendigedig Blwyddyn 7! 👏 7C2 picked up the traditional Swahili call and response song "Kye Kye Kule" and accompanying actions in record time today as part of their study of "Dreams of Freedom." We loved their enthusiasm at 9am at this morning! 🎵🎤🌍🇬🇭CCYD

📢CCYD are delighted to announce that we will be putting on the musical “Matilda Jr” in the Spring term of 2025 🎶🎭💃🕺📚 There will be a meeting at break time on Friday 14th June in the Main Hall for any learners interested in taking part. All year groups welcome 😀

📢CALLING ALL PERFORMERS!📢 Singers, Rappers, Instrumentalists, Dancers, Comedians, Magicians, Gymnasts and more... WE NEED YOU! CCYD'S School Eisteddfod will be taking place on Monday 15th July! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💜 Have you got what it takes to impress our judges? CCYD @CCYD_Cymraeg

Happy World Music Day! We love this poster that Year 9’s Amelia Cook has created to mark the occasion 🎶🌎 Gwaith Ardderchog Amelia! @ccyd_school #worldmusicday

What a lovely evening we had celebrating our fantastic KS4&KS5 learners on Thursday CCYD It was an emotional farewell to department stalwart Phillip Gordon, who has been a huge part of CCYD Music since joining us in Year 7. We really do have the best job in the world 💜