Elfed High School

📢Breaking news from Science Club! Students brewed up some 'magical' potions—luckily, no professors were turned into toads! 🧪✨ Don't forget to sign up to the Potion Class on 3/3/25! #ScienceMagic #DailyProphet #worldbookday @ElfedScience @ElfedHS

We’ve been spellbindingly busy preparing for #WorldBookDay! 🧙‍♂️📚 ✨ Mandrakes with Mrs. Smallwood 🕯 Floating candles & potion cabinets with Miss Blackwell 🦉 A student even created an owl! 📖 Miss Burmingham & 3 students dressed as Harry Potter characters for the Readathon!

Also a big shoutout to Mr Elson and his Year 8 class for exceeding 2.5 million words since September. You are the champions of term 1! 📚✨ #ReadingChampions #Year8Wins #reafingrewards

Big shoutout to Mrs Jones and her Year 7 class for smashing it as this term's @AccReader champions! 📚✨ Your hard work and love for reading is inspiring – keep turning those pages! #ReadingChampions #Year7Win

Thank you to all our amazing students for embracing the @AccReader program this term! 📚 We’re so proud of your efforts and growth. Wishing you a Christmas full of love, laughter, and plenty of reading adventures! 🎄✨ #ProudReaders #FestiveReading #readingrewards

📢 The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to @ElfedHS from 20th-25th September! 📚 Students can create a wishlist of books to take home, which you may choose to purchase. Every book bought earns FREE books for our school library. #reading #newbooks #bookfair #Scholastic #countdown

🎨 Our second competition is here! For a chance to win a £5.00 Scholastic book voucher, draw the second half of "Roald Dahl" symmetrically! Look at some of our entries so far! ✍️📚 @ElfedHS #Competition #Win #ScholasticBooks #CreativeKids #ArtChallenge #roalddahlday

Elfed’s Eco Council had a great first meeting this morning and have started our journey towards gaining an Eco Schools Award with Keep Wales Tidy. If you are interested in joining the Eco Council and helping make Elfed more eco friendly, please see Mr Breeze.

A huge congratulations to all our students in Years 10 and 11 who have collected their results today. We are so proud!

A chance to gain valuable work experience at your local library. #Flintshire #buckleylibrary #workexperience

Southdown enjoyed participating in a Buckley consortium Jambori yesterday which was hosted by the Elfed. The children from 6 schools took part and sung 7 Welsh songs. It was great to see the children so enthusiastic #canujambori

There are many benefits to keeping #active, so we encourage our staff to do all they can to get moving for their wellbeing👟 We launched a campaign to encourage staff to be more active. Activities included hiking, swimming and more 🏄‍♂ Well done👏

Outstanding work today by our Mathematicians! 2nd place in the GWE North Wales final!! Bendigedig pawb. #maths #gwe

Certificates and queue jumps ready for our year 9 Hafan class! Well done year 9, you have smashed it. You have read a total of 603,001 words this year and are this years @AccReader Hafan champions. Da iawn pawb.

Auditions took place this week for our upcoming production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. The performances were so good, even the Trunchbull would have been impressed! Recalls have been issued, and the cast will be revealed next week. 👏👏👏

Year 10 have been enjoying some invaluable Work Experience this week. Thanks to our business and organisation partners for their support in providing these fantastic opportunities.

Careers Wales have a wealth of advice to support students, parents and carers in making informed choices following GCSE results day on 22nd August. The link below can be used to take you straight to their resources: rb.gy/avu0xb

Congratulations to our student for successfully reading and quizzing, and for unlocking the box to win a prize! Keep up the great work by continuing to read and quiz, and you could be part of the reward afternoon!

Great day at the year 7 Flintshire athletics. Some excellent performances all round!