Ysgol Gynradd Dafen Primary School

Dafen Primary School caters for boys and girls with ages ranging from three to eleven years. At present, there are approximately 156 children on the roll. The school was built in 1938 to serve the Dafen Community. It is situated in Lon Yr Ysgol, a cul-de-sac away from the main road traffic. The building contains spacious rooms in which carefully structured learning is organised. The school’s location offers the children varied environmental experiences – rural, urban and marine studies.

Visits to different localities are regularly organised so that the children may appreciate their heritage, take pride in the environment and learn of the contributions of the contrasting areas to a rich and fulfilling way of growing up.

Dafen School is committed to promote equality for all and equality of opportunity for disabled people: pupils, staff, parents, carers and other people who use the school or may wish to. The School’s equal opportunities policy states that: “It is the policy of the school that no one, whether child or adult, should be discriminated against on grounds of age, gender, colour, creed or disability, physical or mental. The school supports the County’s policy of equal opportunity and will actively seek ways to implement it. The same curriculum will be available to both boys and girls.”

The school promotes a broad and balanced curriculum appropriate to the needs, interests and experience of the child. In the early years the children learn through structured play. In subsequent years, the learning becomes more academic and formal, based on the principle that learning must be meaningful and placed in an appropriate context.