So proud of you!

Da iawn dosbarth 8 - and all the infants for a fabulous carol concert! I was so proud of you all and I'm sure your parents were too....one more performance tomorrow.....
Nadolig Llawen to you all! Enjoy the season's celebrations and a well earned break!

Christmas puppets

Our puppet project is well underway! Each child has now designed their Christmas puppet and are in the process  of making them....some have brought in bits and bobs from home - Sydney has brough in some of her dog's hair  ready for her Arthur Christmas elf puppet.....!!!
We all loved the trip to Bethel Baptist Church, Pontyclun. We enjoyed the puppets, cooking mince pies, Christmas craft, stories and puzzles. The children sang well at the end - our hosts commented at the quality of the singing. We are all working hard  preparing for the infant carol service - learning our lines and singing our hearts out!

Calling all grandparents!

Class 8 and 9 are looking forward to entertaining their grandparents next Thursday afternoon at 2pm. They will be treated to a programme of singing   harvest songs, jokes from our ty hafan event and other surprises! There will be a raffle and refreshments available..... Come and watch your grandchildren perform!
I was quite amazed with the dancing in the PTA disco last Thursday - Keiran Jones and Henry Jackson deserve a special mention - ardderchog!
Mrs Decaro

Victorian Day!

What a great day! Diolch yn fawr to all for entering into the spirit  of the day. The children were excellent - we all had a fun day and learnt so much. The first part of the day was very focused, we had lessons as Victorian children  with rows of desks facing the front. We were all in role - and had a visit from an inspector and  the local gentry. Our snack was bread and cheese. In the afternoon we all joined in activities of our choice, planned by the children - indoors we made Welsh cakes, peg dolls, cup and balls, observational drawings, role play and outdoors played marbles, skipping. clapping games, hoop bowling and the favourite - duck, duck goose. A very memorable day indeed! Thank you parents for providing the costumes! Have a great half term!
Hwyl!
Mrs Decaro
PS -don't forget to leave me a message!

A busy week ahead!

I hope you are all looking forward to this week - busy, busy, busy!
It's our Harvest celebration on Tuesday, of course - and I am so glad that class 8 is in fine voice - you sing so well, especially the "Paint box" song and "Salad Ffrwythau".
Of course - Victorian school day on Thursday - hope you all have your costumes ready! That should be fun and a great learning experience.
We must all complete  our autumn art and poems too!
We'll be ready for our half term break after all that!
Hwyl!
Mrs Decaro
P.S Da iawn Henry for winning seren yr wythnos - he is working hard to write neatly!

Voices for Ty Hafan

Well done all of you for being so enthusiastic about our Voices for Ty Hafan event. The jokes were so good that we are going to collect them all in a class joke book . there are lots of empty pages left - so keep them coming! Also we discovered we have a wonderful voice in our class - Miah Jenkins - well done Miah for singing in front of the whole school! She was awarded seren yr wythnos for being so brave. Diolch yn fawr Mrs Parfitt for helping us to type out our jokes. We all know now how to change the font.....so exciting...!
Don't forget to think about our Victorian day a week next Thursday - hmmmm, thinking caps on....
from Mrs Decaro
PS - class 8 is great, don't you think? Please leave messages for me on the blog! Diolch yn fawr!

St Fagans visit

We had a great time on Monday in St Fagans, especially in Ysgol Maestir. We were able to see at first hand all we had spotted in photographs and books. We spotted all sorts- slates, inkwells, coal fire, back straightener, Bible, cane and the Welsh Not. We also played on the yard with skipping ropes and cup and balls. Diolch yn fawr iawn to all our helpers for coming with us.

What a great week!

We've been busy busy busy in class 8 - each afternoon a different group went to do Forest School activities with the Support staff team.  each group learnt the "sticky elbows" trick then went and built a giant bird's nest . They then pretended to be birds and sat in the nest! We had herons, falcons, woodpeckers and seagulls! Diolch yn fawr goes to the forest school team for taking us. We can't wait for our turn to come around again!
Don't forget our trip to St Fagans on Monday - coat with a hood and a packed lunch please! We are really excited to go to the old school and have thought of a million questions to ask!
Da iawn Jared Dickson - our first Seren yr Wythnos winner for fabulous maths work. We have enjoyed meeting some new characters in our maths lessons this week - the Pobble who has no toes (he counts in ones) and Bisky Bat (counts in tens) and Midgard the dragon (helps us organise ourselves when we are counting a large amount) . I believe it's the Blue Baboon next week - just in time for our blue investigation table . I hope you have been thinking about an unusual item you can bring in....
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Decaro

Croeso - class eight is great!

Helo bawb!
What a lovely start to a school year - everyone full of ideas on how to make class eight great - ranging from being kind to all, always tidying up after ourselves to speaking Welsh as much as we can! Bendigedig! I hope you have all received the letter outlining our plans for this year!
Don't forget to send in wellies this week - it is our turn to take part in Forest school activities - a diffferent group every afternoon. also - PE day is Wednesday.
We have already started to set up our Optician Role play corner - and have decided together on its name - Eye Spy (diolch Hallie for that suggestion!)
Here's to a great year!
Mrs Decaro and Mrs Porter

Happy holidays!

What a great year we've had in class 7 - lots of fun and a lot of hard work too.
 Have a great holiday everyone - and diolch yn fawr for all your kind gifts and messages!
hwyl fawr!
Mrs Decaro
x

Our trip to Noah's ark zoo

What a fabulous trip - in spite of the weather - quotes from the children - "best trip ever"   "thank you for bringing us here" " it's awesome here! " "never been so close to a lion"..........good choice of venue....all the children want to go back with their parents- recommended to all!
Mrs Decaro

Gardening and fair tests!

We have been planting peas and beans in our classroom - and were excited when they were ready to be planted out in the golden garden before the holidays....I wonder how tall they will be when we return?
We were curious to find out if seeds would grow without water- we didn't think so, but they did!  Another group tried to see if seeds would grow without soil- and found that cotton wool did just as well! Of course we made sure it was a fair test and only changed one thing each time!

Summer Term fun! Hwyl tymor yr haf!

What a brilliant start to this summer term. We went on yet another amazing trip to Pencoed Garden Centre- thank you Mrs Simmonds- and were able to gather lots of ideas for developing our own garden centre in the area - and of course in readiness for looking after our vegetable patch in the golden garden. Any gardeners out there willing to help us?
We have had a great helper this week - Alex Railton on work experience from Brigend College- we have loved having you with us, Alex- and we hope you can come again!- Diolch yn fawr!
Book day was lots of fun - the costumes were wonderful - and we had lots of good discussions about our favourite books.....
diolch yn fawr!
Mrs Decaro

Watch out for the crocodile!

Hwre! What a fab few days-it was good to see the sun! Everyone has been working very hard this week - a mixture of preparing for Easter and working on our "Enormous Crocodile " theme.....If you venture into the library in area 2 you will glimpse an enormous crocodile lurking on the wall - made by Keira -Paige, Dylan, Llewelyn and Natalie - notice all the excellent descriptions all around him.....Back in the class we are writing another episode - Clever trick number five.....I think we have some budding Roald Dahls in our midst! The crocodile puppet and suit are favourites too....
Da iawn Aimee, Harrison and Dina  for winning seren yr wythnos awards these last few weeks.
We are looking forward to our trip to Techniquest on Wednesday - hope the sun shines for us for us to eat our picnics outdoors!
We are lucky to have Miss Hawkins as a support staff student on Mondays and Tuesdays- also Mrs Fraser as a Friday volunteer - we are looking forward to trying new crafts with her after Easter!
Da bo'ch chi!
Mrs Decaro

Easter Fayre

Don't forget the Easter Fayre next Wednesday- 3:30 (so there's no mini music club....) It's non-uniform day - and the forfeit  is - an Easter Egg for the Easter Egg stall!!

Busy busy busy!!!!!

What a busy half term...the time is flying by! The Eisteddfod went very well- da iawn all of you who performed excellently on the stage - bendigedig! Da iawn too for being a very appreciative audience- I was very proud of you!
Cailtlin and Ffion went to the urdd District Eisteddfod - and came back with first and second prizes in the welsh learner's competition for year 2- da iawn yn wir! Caitlin now will go on to represent Llantrisant in the County round held at the Pavilion,  Porthcawl on April 1st - go Caitlin!
Last week it was RE week - and our class concentrated mostly on preparing for and celebrating a Hindu Wedding. Ryan was chosen as the groom - and we were the groom's family. We learnt so much- don't forget to look at our class book on open evenings!
On Friday was the chairing ceremony - our class danced the traditional flower dance to greet the bard- and did it very well.
Now we have started our mini-topic of Africa - the children are eager to find out lots...
Mrs Decaro

Dydd Gwyl Dewi!

Hope you're all looking forward to our St David's day celebrations! Have you been practising your poem and song? I hope so! Well done Fion Williams and Caitlin Lockett for being picked to take part in the district Urdd Eisteddfod! Pob lwc to you both competing in Llanhari on March 9th.....
I can't wait to see your Welsh pennants flying high in the hall and the area this week!
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!
Mrs Decaro

Space show

We all had a great time on Thursday when we were visited by Mark and Jon . They presented lots of information about space and the planets in a fun way! We loved the raps!
We continue to study the weather - and in music we have been composing storm music with Miss Heulin. We also went outdoors to see how we could make music in the outside environment - and came up with some innovative ideas - drumming on an upside down plant pot, tapping the metal fence, jumping on the gravel.....
Da iawn Keira-Paige Price for winning seren yr wythnos last week - and Ffion Harris this week! Lots of you are trying very hard at everything at the moment - and so enthusiastic!

Seren yr wythnos

Well done Abigail Hann, our seren yr wythnos. She has suddenly discovered she loves maths and has been heard this week to be asking for "more maths" especially money activities! Da iawn Abigail!
We have had a full week again this week with Miss Heulin, our PGCE student bringing lots of new ideas to the classroom. Exciting times!

Seren yr wythnos

Llongyfarchiadau Alex Morgan - this week's seren yr wythnos. Alex has been totally enthusiastic about everything this week - and has already brought in his completed homework - what a great poem! Last week's winner was Maisie Dineen - her fabulous artwork is on display on the classroom wall- bendigedig! Another highlight this week was Josie Bennett in the role play corner pretending to be Sian Lloyd! Go Josie!

Blwyddyn Newydd dda!

What a busy first week! we started our theme of "Sut mae'r tywydd?" with lots of work to do with snow! We are looking forward to putting up our snow display , planned by the children, this week. We will also be  setting up our class role play - our weather station - where we will be studying and recording the weather every day - including finding out the temperature and later on, measuring the rainfall  and noticing the wind! Also - a section of the role play corner will be a television studio, where we will practise giving a weather forecast report! Don't forget to  have a look to see if you have any items we could use in our role play corner as outlined in the parents letter....diolch yn fawr!
Homework tasks will start again this week ....I know the children can't wait!

hwyl fawr!
Mrs Decaro nd Miss Hewlin