Summer 1
Prayer
Dear God,
Thank you for our physical needs being met, through having somewhere to live and enough food and drink to stay healthy.
Thank you for our feelings and emotions, and that we know when we feel happy or sad.
Thank you for our thoughts, and for the people who look after us and love us.
Please help us to know when we have hurt somebody and to be willing to say sorry to them.
Amen.
A wonderful visit to Clydach Community Garden 🌱🪴🍐🍏🥬🥕🌽🍓🌸🌻🌺
Outdoor Learning 21.5.24
Outdoor Learning Story - King Charles
Little People, Big Dreams - King Charles.
We enjoyed learning about how little Charles became heir to the throne aged just three. It was interesting to learn that he grew up loving nature and dedicating himself to helping people and the planet through environmental activism and charity work. We are very passionate about these things too!
Third person description in Welsh about Alfred Russel Wallace
Class assembly - National Numeracy Day. Did you know ... maths is everywhere! Followed by a fun game of BINGO!
Brilliant plaques made by Nathan and Daniel. Diolch! They will look amazing in our garden area.
Giving feedback to our partners so that our final hot write will be our best effort ⭐️
Wear it Green - The end of a wonderful day 💚
Wear it Green - We had the best time on Friday 💚💚💚💚
Wear it Green - Mental Health Awareness Week
Techno camp came to visit us this morning. We had a great time developing our programming skills and understanding through Scratch games and tasks.
Our outdoor learning session started with a great story, 'Steve Irwin' by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. Steve captured the hearts of people all over the world and inspired viewers to cherish and respect the planet. Inspired by this, we collected natural materials to build bug hotels.
Outdoor Learning 14.5.24
Creating a fact file on J2 Writer, about Alfred Russel Wallace
Locating countries that Alfred Russel Wallace travelled to, in an atlas and on a map of the world.
Giving our opinions on the Daily Mile to Cath from Run Wales 🏃🏽
Converting fractions to decimals
Super Stories - becoming the editor who improves a fairly dull story into a bestselling story by changing nouns, adjectives and illustrations
Making connections with Ysgol Ffwrnes - a Welsh school in Llanelli
Look at Maya’s outstanding plaque that she has made for our Glyncollen in Bloom display!!! Lots of Important messages about protecting the environment 🌏
Outdoor Learning 7/5/24
Our outdoor session started with a story in the roundhouse called The Man Who Planted Trees.
We discussed the importance of trees for the environment : provide shelter, shade and habitats; cleaning our air by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen; helps cool the planet; drink up water through the roots and reduce the impact of flooding; source of renewable fuel and so much more.
We enjoyed identifying the trees on our school grounds by observing the leaves and tracking the information in a tally cart.
We’ve also been busy recycling plastic bottles in to plant holders. And, we continue to be very busy developing our garden area by planting flowers and vegetables.
Old Testament - The Story of Elijah (respect)
Lots of great work going on during morning brain blasts 💡
Caring for our environment 🌱
We listened to 'Tidy' by Emily Gravett. It is a simple story about how we can impact on our surroundings and why caring for our environment is vital. Gorgeous, engaging and delivering a powerful message... what more does a book need to be?
Creativity Boosting - reading and discussing a range of story starters
Talk it, solve it - reasoning skills in maths
Learning maths by doing it and talking about it. Exploring, investigating, challenging, evaluating and actively constructing mathematical meaning 😀
We’ve been learning how transport affects climate change and decorating our bike in preparation for the flower competition
Lots of great work going: life cycle of an acorn; drama; mindfulness; maths
Word Sketching
Cwest Collen- weigh the objects and record your answers on Flip
Outdoor Learning 23/04/24
We started our outdoor learning session in the roundhouse. We listened to one of the Welsh Wonder stories, ‘Wallace’ by Aneirin Karadog. It’s about Wales’ most important scientist, who led an amazing life and whose discoveries changed the world. Wallace would sketch images of plants and animals, so we decided to sketch images of plants in the school grounds.
We also started to prepare our Glyncollen in Bloom area. It’s starting to take shape!
Thanks for all the kind donations we’ve received so far. Also, thank you to Wendy and Grampa Mike for helping with the area.
Developing our understanding of living things: dissecting a tulip; learning scientific vocabulary to label the parts of a flower; explaining the roles of each part
Enjoying lots of mindful activities as part of our Health & Well-being Cwest this week
Making an Earth Day Pledge
Figurative Language - our class novel is filled with rich figurative language. We’ve really enjoyed discussing this. We’ve worked together to identify and highlight these examples
Let’s Think Through Maths - creating their own scale to divide and multiply by fractions and using a ruler to measure objects in the classroom
Thank you to Matab and Ayden for talking to us all about their experience of Ramadan and Eid ul Fitr
Mawrth Mentro Mas
Outdoor story - Tisha and the Blossom
Tisha and the Blossom by Wendy Meddour is a beautiful story about taking a moment to enjoy all the little things in life. It generated an interesting discussion and prepared us for our senses walk. We were mindful of what we could see, hear, smell and feel on our walk. It was also fun identifying spring flowers on the school grounds. We found primrose, cow parsley, bluebell, forget-me-not and cuckoo flower! Working in small groups, we created some great poetry using the vocabulary we had collected on our senses walk.
Developing our understanding of ‘mass’. Estimating and weighing objects in the classroom. Discussing the importance of measuring mass in everyday life.
Locating Wales on a map and discussing it’s geography, including it’s coastline, forests, and urban areas
Painting in the style of Welsh artist, Sir Kyffin Williams
Lots of fun creating stories on Story Maker!
Mrs Bevan visited our class this morning. She talked to us about gardening and gave us plants 🌱. Diolch Mrs Bevan!
Morning Brain Blasts
Lots of great mathematical thinking and discussing going on during our ‘Let’s Think Through Maths’ lesson
Finding fractions of a whole number
Planting has started!
We wanted to practise team-building (inspired by our class story The Promise)
Planting seeds with Clydach Community Garden in the FROGS Coffee Morning
Working independently on a range of tasks
Using our power of persuasion to write letters, asking for donations of soil, seeds and flowers
We've started our new theme with the wonderful story, 'The Promise' by Nicola Davies
