What another busy week! I am sure you want to pass on your thanks to the staff who have taken children on the residentials over the last two weeks. Thanks also to Mr Lloyd and the team who look after the farm, we had an inspection this week and there were lots of complimentary comments. Apologies about the problems with the parents evening booking system, hopefully they are now resolved. I am looking forward to seeing you all in the Easter Bingo next week!
It has been a busy and exciting week in Dosbarth Alwen as we explored our topic “New Life" further. We have been learning all about sunflowers and how plants grow. The children planted their own sunflower seeds and have been taking great care of them. We also got creative by painting sunflowers, making them with playdough, and using tissue paper to create bright and beautiful sunflower art. Our Reception children worked hard drawing and labelling their own sunflowers, learning the new vocabulary for the different parts of a plant. Meanwhile, Nursery had lots of fun building their own sunflowers by gluing and sticking the different parts together. We celebrated Mother’s Day by making special cards and planting sunflowers for our mums. The children also created lovely portraits of their mummy's, which were full of character and smiles! In maths, Reception have been continuing to build their addition skills, showing. We also enjoyed a nature walk taking notice of new life - flowers, bees, worms, flies 🐝🪱🌸
This week in Dosbarth Padarn we have been learning all about money. We have learnt the names of each coin and used them in our role play garden centre to buy different items. We have also wrote instructions to make a jam sandwich learning about time connectives in our writing. In Uderskole we have been planting and made a child friendly cleaning spray. We have been practicing our assembly for next week and can’t wait for you all to come and see it next Friday 20th March at 9:30am
In dosbarth Tegid this week we have been busy learning across the curriculum. In science, we explored the different parts of a flower and learned about what each part does. The children then enjoyed planting their own flowers and are excited to watch them grow over the coming weeks. The children will be taking their sunflowers home today and we would love to see how they grow. Please place them somewhere with plenty of sunlight and remember to water them regularly. If your sunflower begins to grow at home, feel free to send in pictures for us to share in class! In maths, we finished our work on bar graphs. The children worked hard to interpret and create their own graphs, using the information to answer questions and compare results. In LLC, we have completed gathering our facts and organising them under subheadings. Everyone has worked carefully to sort their findings and get everything ready for writing our final piece next week.
In PE, the children explored movement and sequencing by acting out different life cycles. They used their bodies to represent the stages of growth, thinking carefully about how to move and link their actions together.
'What's beneath our feet?'
Dosbarth Brenig have taken their keen interest in earth worms further. We got a wriggle on using our data to develop maths skills in creating digital graphs and drawing our own. We'll be taking our learning further over the next week as we plot higher concentrations of worms on our school site on a map. We are wondering what else is on our school site?
Dosbarth Gwynant have had a wonderful week! Our class were very excited to spend three days at PGL Winmarleigh Hall in Preston, where we took part in many adventurous activities. The children took part in activities such as abseiling, archery, zip wire and many more! Myself, Miss Moutford and Mrs Moyden were extremely proud of the bravery, resilience and enthusiasm the children demonstrated this week. There were many fears tackled and plenty of funny moments! The remaining members of our class worked super hard on a survival themed project with Mrs Hughes and blew us away by presenting it to us on Thursday. They did a super job! Year 5 ended a busy week with another AoLE day at St David's High School! What a lovely week we have had🤩
Can Cook Well Fed
After our cooking programme with a group of parents last term, we were asked to hold a food collection programme afterward. Great news it open to all our parents now! Each meal comes as fresh produce for you to cook. It is amazing, fresh, healthy food and all locally sourced. Follow the instructions on how to place your orders. If you've any questions have a chat with Mr Lloyd.
Dates for the diary
18/3 - Easter BINGO. 20/3 - Padarn class assembly. We invite parents and families to join us for 9:30. 25-26/3 - Parents evening, booking necessary through the link sent on Dojo. 27/3 - Close for Easter. 13/4 - Back to school! 29/4 - Play training sessions for Bl 5.