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| | Change of venue |
| Please note as of Wednesday 3rd December - the school will return to Western Leisure Centre - days and times stay the same. |
 | Four Nations and UKTA Awards night. Saturday 22nd November Maesycymmer |
| Ely school had no less than 5 members in the Welsh team for the Four Nations this year, Luke Wakley III, Neville Thompson II, Wayne Brooks I, tom Harris I and Conah Prosser I. The team preformed well on the night but had to settle for joint third place with Ireland, Scotland taking silver and England wining the Four Nations. On the same night Conah Prosser received overall 13-17 UKTA competitor award and Master Taylor was presented with the UKTA Overall school 2008 award after Ely amassed a staggering 239 points (the next team were Didcot with 163 points). |
 | UK Open, Saturday 1st November Fenton Manor Stoke-on-Trent |
| 15 Ely students made the relatively short trip to Stoke for the UK open this year, everyone performed well on the day and at the end of the day they had amassed 10 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze between them with Conah Prosser winning the 13-17 overall dan award. At the end of the day the school finished on 56 points which was enough to secure second place behind Burbage Academy. Well done to everyone who competed. |
 | Grand Prix VI stage III, Sunday 26th October Eastern Leisure Centre |
| 10 Ely students competed this weekend at the last stage of this years GP and they all did brilliantly picking up 4 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze between them all. Well done to everyone especially Liam Vallance who picked up gold and silver in his first ever competition. |
 | Welsh Open Saturday 4th October - NIAC Cardiff |
| Congratulations to everyone who attended the Welsh this weekend, 21 of you put in some great displays and fought well once again showing Ely school deserves the high reputation that it has - 16 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze and the overall black belt 13-17 by Conah Prosser totalling 73 points between you - This meant Ely tallied 75 points and retained the Welsh championships title this year - well done to you all. |
| Colour belt grading 1st October - congratulations |
 | Kieron Barry, Jamie Dare, Daniel Neale and Leighton Prosser promoted to 3rd Kup |  |  | Jake Ward promoted to 6th Kup |  |  | Phil Davis, Brandon Brooks and Hannah Donovan promoted to 7th Kup | |  | Lee Parsons, Chris Parsons, Carli Parsons, Liam Vallance and Adam Jones promoted to 9th Kup |  |
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 | VIII Junior and III Veteran World Championships - Tashkent Uzbekistan |
| Congratulations to Lauren Robson, on picking up a bronze medal at the VIII Junior world Championships in Tashkent for her sparring, also well done to Gareth Francis, Conah Prosser and Lanny James who all competed well. For pictures click here and here. |
 | Promotion announcement- Sunday 7th September |
Congratulations to Ryan Davis who becomes Ely Schools latest Black Belt after his promotion to I dan with Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha IX in Scotland - well done and about time Ry!. | Mr Ryan Davis |  |
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 | London Open - Sunday 13th July, Guildford Spectrum |
| Well done to the eight students who competed in the London Open, 6 gold. 3 silver and 4 bronze between them all and 28 points gathered. Congratulations. |
 | Scottish Open - Saturday 21st June, Kelvin Halls Glasgow |
| Congratulations to the nine school students who travelled to Scotland for the Open. They all performed excellently and competed well to win 9 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze between them and help Ely School finish 4th overall on the day matching last years result. |
 | XXIII Senior & XIII Junior European Championships - Porec, Croatia |
Congratulations to all the students who represented Wales in the recent championships. With three new individual medal winners coming back to the school it was a great tournament for the whole squad and plenty of experience gained. | Tom Harris I | Bronze | Senior male I dan patterns | | Conah Prosser I | Bronze | Junior male I dan patterns | | Lauren Robson I | Silver | Junior female sparing +70kg |
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| Colour belt grading 21st May - congratulations |
 | Sarah Jones, Amy Jones, Thomas Jenkins and Daniel Jenkins promoted to 4th Kup | | | Joseph Powell, Lewis Brooks and Demi Brooks promoted to 5th Kup | | | Jake Ward promoted to 7th Kup | | | Phil Davis, Kyle Jones, Brandon Brooks, Hannah Donovan and Adam Donovan promoted to 8th Kup | |
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 | Grand Prix VI stage II - Sunday 20th April, Eastern Leisure Centre |
| 15 Ely students entered the second Grand Prix of 2008 and all did very well performing brilliantly and coming away with 8 gold, 7silver and 10 bronze between them all and leaving lots of them in contention for the overalls in the final stage. |
 | Bag packing fund raiser- Saturday 12th April 13:30-17:00 |
| Well done to everyone who turned out to help fund raise and to Sharon Matthews for all her hard work organising the event, £522 was raised for the school on the day and you can all be proud of your efforts. |
 | English Open - Saturday 15th March, K2 Crawley |
| 16 Ely schools members made the trip to Crawley for the English Open this year, being current English Open champions everyone was ready to work hard the emulate last years success and they all did themselves proud with some great displays of Taekwon-Do and a lot of hard work being put in by all, 16 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze being the final count for medals won giving the school 69 points which in the end was enough to retain the English title beating out RTA Didcot on 59 points. more |
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