Huge support from families and friends has helped Pupils from Golden Grove School-Ysgol Gelli Aur in raising funds to enhance the range of books in the school's very popular library. The library is visited daily by pupils from throughout the school, changing their reading scheme books and borrowing others for more casual reading. The library is run by classroom library monitors who undertake all the usual duties of a librarian. The school actively promotes the reading of books for pleasure and the use of the library is a reflection of the popularity of reading has. World Book Day, supported throughout last week was an ideal opportunity to raise some much-needed money to increase the range of books on offer to pupils in all age ranges. Pupils were tasked with reading daily at home with and to an adult they being sponsored by friends and family. Collectively, the pupils raised £650.

Readers who were involved in the fund raising were thanks by the school at an assembly and presented with certificates on their achievements and one pupil from each class as awarded a prize book in a draw. The school acknowledges the support from the families and friends.

The age old question of 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' Has been considered by many of the pupils in Golden Grove School-Ysgol Gelli Aur this past week. Fair to say the answer has not been  agreed upon, however the pupils have been excited to watch the arrival of 12 new chicks as they hatched in an incubator placed in the school foyer. It has been a science project for year two at the school, however it has captivated all pupils passing by with pupils monitoring the progress of the chicks as they emerged. The last chick to hatch was named Tom after a member of staff who gave it a bit of extra help to emerge. Nearby posters explain the chicken life cycle which is a good way of explaining life cycles in general. A log has been kept of the emerging chicks with date, time and incubator data being recorded. A motion sensor camera has been utilised for the times that school is closed. The two week science project has been arranged in conjunction with Living Eggs and follows a similar successful project last year.