Stomp Farddol
Cynhaliwyd ein stomp flynyddol ar Nos Wener Mehefin 17eg, ac roedd llond y lle yn y Felin Brwcws ar gyfer noson hwyliog braf. Roedd digon o chwerthin i’w glywed wrth i’r cystadleuwyr John Glyn Jones, Haf Llewelyn, Arwel Emlyn Jones, Gruffudd Antur a Les Baker ein diddori. Y Stompfeistr eleni oedd Arwel ‘Pod’ Roberts, a wnaeth yn arbennig i gadw trefn ar y beirdd a sicrhau i’r noson redeg yn esmwyth! Er bod y noson yn llawn o farddoniaeth wych, Arwel Emlyn Jones oedd yn fuddugol a chipiodd stôl y stomp - stôl bren wedi ei wneud a’i roi’n hael i’r digwyddiad gan Alun Jones (Bwyellwyr Clwyd), Fferm Bryn Isa’. Hoffai’r Fenter ddiolch i Lenyddiaeth Cymru am eu nawdd ag y Felin Brwcws am y lleoliad a hefyd i bawb a wnaeth fynychu’r digwyddiad a chyfrannu at yr hywl. Diolch yn fawr.
Huw Stephens - Welsh is a Winner Tour
Welsh is a Winner Tour
The next week is going to be a very exciting one for Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych. In partnership with Denbighshire County Council and Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Huw Stephens, famous as a DJ on Radio 1 and Radio Cymru will visit all secondary schools in the county as part of the tour “Welsh is a Winner Tour ". Huw will speak to pupils about the financial benefits of bilingual skills in the workplace and about the exciting opportunities to socialise in the Welsh language, explaining how the language has influenced his life.
Cymwel Bands
Summer Newsletter 2010
Dafydd the Dragon
Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych held a competition ‘Name the Welsh Dragon’ at their stand at the Woodfest Festival at St Asaph recently. The competition was open to children of all ages. The children were asked to colour in a picture of the Dragon and guess what they thought its name was. The prize was a pet dragon of the cuddly variety!! The competition was a great success with nearly 50 children competing. However there could be only one winner and the correct name, Dafydd, was chosen by Emily Reid of Rhyl. Emily attends St Bridig’s School, Denbigh. Congratulations to Emily!
Youth Festival
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Tuesday, August 10,
St Asaph Leisure Centre |
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Wednesday, August 11,
Corwen Sports Pavilion |
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Thursday, August 12,
Rhuthin Leisure Centre |
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Friday, August 13,
Denbigh Leisure Centre |
A night of Trading (Friday 23 of April 2010)- Click here for more information
0-ond-1 Competition, for more information- Click here
A Star for Supper
If you wish to take part in a new, exciting television programme ..... click here
Nationwide Community & Heritage Awards
Volunteers which has been a great help to create puppets with children from Ysgol Caer Drewyn and young children from Clwb Cymru Corwen has been nominated for Nationwide Community & Heritage Awards.
The awards were established to recognise the efforts of people like the volunteers who make a real contribution within their local community.
The volunteers has been nominated in the Heritage – Groups category for the Wales region from which three winners will be selected during June 2008. In each of the 12 judging regions three Community and three Heritage regional winners will be selected as national finalists, from these one national winner will be chosen in each category.
A preview of the Owain Glyndwr puppets show (script by Iwan Llwyd) will be shown at Eisteddfod Llangollen during Tuesday morning (08/07/08).
Poetry Slam 2010
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Food Festival Friday the 5th of March- Click here
Menter Iaith and the Urdd's trip to Patagonia 0ctober 2009 Report- Click here
Photos from the Patagonia trip
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Ready to compete in the Eisteddfod
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Patagonia Concert
As part of their effort to raise money for their journey to Patagonia, Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych organised a concert at the Town Hall in Denbigh on Thursday April 30th. A number of very talented local artists performed on the night and the concert was a great success. All the money raised on the night will go towards the voluntary journey of Urdd Gobaith Cymru and Mentrau Iaith y Gogledd to Patagonia in October 2009.
The seven who have been chosen to go from local schools have been busy raising money in a number of small projects. These projects have included selling tea and cakes at the local Eisteddfod and doing a sponsored walk from Abergwyngregyn to Aberffraw. This was a 12 mile walk over three days starting in Gwynedd and finishing in Anglesey.
This hard work will continue over the next months as the young people hope to reach their personal target of £1,500. In Patagonia the young people will take part in voluntary work within the Welsh schools in Patagonia. This work will include running different workshops and distributing Welsh books and materials to the Schools in Patagonia.
The journey’s purpose is to foster a closer relationship between Wales and Patagonia, to learn about the differences and similarities between our cultures and to show the people of Patagonia that the Welsh language is alive among the young people of Wales.
Brigyn Workshop
For three days in October the band Brigyn held a music workshop in three schools in Rhyl. The band let the children use computer software to record their own music. They used keyboards, guitars and voice to create creative material. The three schools were Ysgol Bryn Hedydd, Ysgol Dewi Sant and Ysgol Llywelyn. The workshops were funded by communities first and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The three days were a huge success with the children.
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"Awards For All Wales" Grant for Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych
Primary and secondary schools in Denbigh in partnership with Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych (Denbighshire Welsh Language Initiative) were successful recently in obtaining funding from Awards For All Wales, Heritage Lottery Fund and Denbighshire County Council to hold heritage and language mural workshops with local artist Wendy Lawrence.
The workshop offers the children a chance to communicate through the medium of Welsh and create a piece of work that will be put on public display when Theatr Twm o’r Nant reopens at the end of the year. It also offers the children the opportunity to learn about Welsh heritage and Welsh history.
This is the first time that Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych have had the opportunity to do a mural project with Denbigh schools and this is of great benefit to the local children and young people. Menter Iaith will be creating another mural with the public (over 18 only) during Sunday 22nd June at the Town Hall as part of the Denbigh Mid Summer Festival. This project is funded by a grant awarded by Cadwyn Clwyd. Menter Iaith is very grateful for all the grants received, without these, the mural projects would not take place.
For further information contact Menter Iaith’s Heritage and Language Educational Officer Sian Elin (01745) 812822
Welsh for the Family
Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin and Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych working in partnership to deliver Welsh for the Family and to raise awareness of our heritage
Recently Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin in partnership with Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych (Denbighshire Welsh Language Initiative) were successful in obtaining funding from the Children and Young people’s partnership in Denbighshire to hold three Welsh for the 
Family courses within Ti a Fi groups in Rhyl, Upper Denbigh and Glyndyfrdwy.
The Welsh for Families scheme offers training over 6-12 sessions for parents on simple Welsh language patterns based on everyday situations that arise in the home. It also offers parents the opportunity to learn songs and Welsh rhymes in addition to adopting skills to enable them to read simple stories to their children in Welsh.
This year for the first time the Welsh Language initiative have secured a follow up course by inviting Nia Williams in at the end of the course to create a craft exhibition on traditional Welsh nursery rhymes.
“Wales has a wealth of folk songs and nursery rhymes passed down from generation to generation", said Nia.
"And we will be making a collage in each session that ill be brought together at the end to create an exhibition.”
To see photos from the collage workshop - click here
This is the second year for Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin to endure funding from the Partnership and this development shows that working in Partnership is an advantage for local children and young people.
For further information contact:
Carys Gwyn MYM 01978 363422
Sian Elin (01745) 812822
Llandrillo Primary School Workshop
Children from Llandrillo Primary School in Corwen have created this mural of the village. Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych's Gwenda Owen and Neil Dalrymple worked with the pupils to make the mural which includes the river Ceidiog and the bridge, the stone circle and the local church.
Sian Elin Huws from Menter Iaith Sir Ddinbych said the group would like to thank Gwenda Owen and Neil Dalrymple for their co-operation. The project was supported by The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.
