Croeso (CROY-so) means welcome. From Monday 5 October, learners and staff across Bryncoch, Theodore Road and Velindre use croeso as our Ymadrodd yr Wythnos, our Welsh phrase of the week.

Learners use croeso when someone arrives. At the classroom door in the morning, when a visitor comes in, when a friend joins the group. Our posters show a figure with open arms, and the gesture gives every learner a way into the phrase before the word comes.

This one puts our learners in charge.

The first four phrases taught learners to respond to others. Croeso asks them to do something different. They greet, they welcome, they make someone else feel at home. That is a skill worth having in Welsh and in English.

Croeso has a second meaning. It also means you're welcome, the answer when someone says thank you. Learners will hear it both ways next week.

Since September our learners have learned bore da (good morning), prynhawn da (good afternoon), shwmae (hello), hwyl fawr (goodbye) and now croeso (welcome). Five phrases in five weeks.

How you help at home

Say croeso when your child comes through the door.
Use it when visitors arrive at your house.
Point out the word when you see it. Croeso appears on road signs, shop doors and public buildings all over Neath Port Talbot.

Ymadrodd yr Wythnos is part of our work towards the Siarter Iaith Bronze Award, which supports learners to use Welsh every day. Our Criw Cymraeg, the learner-led Welsh language group, helps promote each phrase across the school.

Croeso to everyone at Ysgol Hendrefelin.