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NEW YOUTH HOSTEL TO OPEN IN 2008
76-Bed B&B facility to offer ‘value for money’.
...the official launch of Mulberry House Hostel on Friday 18th January - bringing a new YHA facility to Monmouthshire.
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14th April 2008
NEW RESEARCH
'A Journey to Excellence - Investigating Self-Assessment as a Quality Management Tool and Performance Management System for a Non-maintained
14-19 Education Provider of Natural Environment Studies based in Wales', 2008.
Contact tmescabergavenny@aol.com for further details.
'The Value of Field Studies and Outdoor Learning Opportunities in contributing to Learners in Wales achieving the 14-19 Learning Core', 2007. Independent study. Contact tmescabergavenny@aol.com for further details.
20th March 2008
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the education charity Ty'r Morwydd Environmental Study Centre will be held at The Old Convent, Abergavenny on Tuesday 25th March 2008 at 6pm. Members of the Charity are invited.
7th March 2008
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Moving Mountains
Moving Mountains is a new project will be launched this March 2008 to bring together traditional field study
techniques with the very latest
multi-media technology. Ty'r Morwydd was recently successful in
securing funding from the Aggregage Levy Board to develop a range of new education programmes linked to Quarrying and the following
subjects: Geography, Geology, Biology, Environmental Science, Key Skills, Welsh Bacaluareate and a range of vocational subjects such as Leisure and Tourism & Construction. We teach from KS2 to KS5 but can also support your own curriculum or teambuilding programme.
Our NEW digital media centre and new programmes will be ready soon.
Call Vivienne Compton on
01873 855959 for further information or email: tyrmorwydd@aol.com
Download our Moving Mountains leaflet here (635kb)
7th March 2008
Geography Assocation Conference 28/29 March 2008
See us at the GA Conference from 27th to 29th March and find out further information about our latest Digital Media Centre. Download the attached voucher which offers teachers a FREE WEEKEND IN WALES in 2008 to have an opportunity to view our facilities and visit our field study sites.
Download our voucher here (181kb)
8th January 2008
Minister Approves Ty'r Morwydd Bid for New Education Resources in 2008!
A recent education development project bid submitted by Ty'r Morwydd Environmental Study Centre in partnership with iEARN UK has just gained full approval by the Minister to the Environment, Jane Davidson. The new funding will enable an exciting collaboration of traditional fieldwork activities combined with the very latest digital media technology and online classroom learning. The project will enable, for the first time, this meeting of minds and the exciting new development of educational resources for schools linked to industrial heritage, quarrying and the environment. The 'Moving Mountains' project will be launched in January 2008 and will also promote industrial heritage electronically, for the benefit of local tourism providers - making 'Sense of Place' information accessible and available to locals and tourists. The funding will be used to pilot programmes related to the Welsh Baccalaureate and Key Skills. It will also be used to launch new Geology fieldstudy programmes. For further information please contact Vivienne Compton, Centre Director, Ty'r Morwydd Environmental Study Centre, Monmouthshire. Tel: 01873 855959 or email: tyrmorwydd@aol.com
14th December 2007
New AS Curriculum
Our tutors are busy planning changes to our fieldwork activities to better suit the new AS level specifications (commencing September 2008). Fieldwork remains an important part of the study of geography, and is essential in allowing students to gain practical experience of topics covered in the classroom. Detailed information of our new courses will be available early in the Spring term.
12th December 2007
Improvements to facilities
Recent investment in our computing facilities means that we now have all of our classroom computers on a wireless network, leading to much improved internet access for all visitors. Wireless enabled laptops may now be used in all classrooms and common rooms. In addition to this we are now able to provide a second digital projector for use in our classrooms.
23rd November 2007
Welsh Baccalaureate
We are currently developing a series of study days tailored to the Welsh Baccalaureate. These studies will focus in content on aspects of the Wales, Europe and the World or PSE components, and will incorporate key skills. By the end of the day students will have had every opportunity to gain the necessary evidence for specified key skills areas. All study days may be developed further to individual investigations.
12th October 2007
National Tourism Awards
Our Housekeeper, Val Snell, attended the National Tourism Awards ceremony as a finalist in ‘The Extra Mile Award’ category. This award recognises those people who work behind the scenes in the tourism industry and who go the extra mile to accommodate guests or bend over backwards to ensure visitors enjoy their stay. We are all very proud of Val for this achievement.
Photo: Val Snell (left) with Mulberyy House/Ty'r Morwydd colleagues
