Welcome back!  This term our topic is ’Magic Moments’.  We will be thinking about the ways in which they have developed since their birth and the special times they have experienced already.  We will be investigating our senses and identifying similarities and differences between themselves and others.  Our role-play areas will include a Snowden café/ Welsh souvenir shop and a medical health check area.  If you have any resources that we may borrow then please send them in.  If you have any expertise in the areas please come and share your information.

Reading will continue as last Half Term.  Would you please write down the exact page numbers you read with the children so we can follow this on in school.  Please send in books on the allocated reading day, even if you have not listened to your child read during the week.  We will be looking at comprehension skills this term please remember to ask your children questions about they have read to ensure understanding.

Numeracy - Practise adding and taking away, doubling and halving, handle coins and talk about how much change should be given.  Children always have difficulty with telling the time so please help your child to develop this skill. 

P.E. will be on a Monday this term.  Pupils wear a plain white T-shirt, black plain shorts and plimsolls or bare feet as we will be working in the hall on dance activities.  Show and tell sessions will take place on a Friday.  Each group will take turns each week.  17/1/14—grwp glas, 24/1/14—grwp gwyrdd, 31/1/14 grwp melyn.  We will then start the rota again with grwp coch.

 

 

 

Macmillan Sponsored Walk

I would just like to say a huge thank you to all of you for your generous donations to our Macmillan event.  Mrs Utting-Lawson and I were overwhelmed by your support.  Please look out for photographs of the children completing their walk.  We will let you know how much we have raised as soon as all the money has been collected in. 
Mrs Jones

Welcome to class 8 (year 2).  This term our topic is ‘Our Wonderful World of Colour’.  As part of our history topic we will be looking at how schools have changed and comparing them to how our school is today.  We will be investigating routes in and around the school, how different materials look and feel and finding out about colour and light.  The pupils will be exploring colour mixing and drawing themselves and some artefacts.  We will be asking you to contribute to our colour table by sending in some colour items for the children to explore.

 

Suggested ways in which you can support literacy and numeracy:

Your child will bring home a reading book and will be given a reading day. Please ensure you listen to child read their book during the week and please make a comment and a record of pages read in the record books.  Please remember to ask questions about the book to ensure your child understands what they are reading.

We will be working hard to improve handwriting in school.  Please encourage your child to practise writing as much as possible.

Numeracy - encourage your child to identify numbers, count on and back in 1s and 10s.  Order numbers to 100.  Practise simple addition and subtraction sums.  Talk about days of the week, months of the year and the seasons.  When you go shopping let them help you look for the correct coins. 

Other information:

P.E. will be on a Monday this term.  Pupils wear a plain white T-shirt, black plain shorts and plimsolls or bare feet as we will be working in the hall.

Show and tell sessions will take place on a Friday.  Each group will take turns each week.  Please ensure pupils only bring items in on their group’s day.

Wellies - some of you have already sent in wellies, if you have not please send them in as soon as possible.

If you have any expertise in any of our subjects or artefacts you think may help us in our studies please come and see us!

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me! Diolch yn fawr.

Mrs K. Jones and Mrs Porter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer term already!!!!!

Welcome back to school everybody - and here we are making the most of our last term in the infants - and getting ready for the Juniors! Yeah!
We are already preparing for two exciting events- Dylan's turbo challenge next week - and a visit to the local dentist a week later.....the children have decided on a dentist role play in the class as part of our healthy living studies.....Evan Gale has decided he wants to be a dentist when he grows up - so is excited about  finding out all about the job!!!
"all things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small!" is our theme- so we are looking forward to growing lots in the golden garden, and of course finding out lots about animals of all kinds. The children have all brought suggestions for our summer trip - we will look at them shortly - and vote for our favourite idea!
Don't forget to write a message on the blog telling me your ideas- what would YOU like to learn about this term? What activities would YOU like to do? Mmmmmm????
Hwyl fawr!
Mrs Decaro

Blowing in the wind!

What a fabulous display of wind chimes, windmills and wind socks in the golden garden and our shelter! Diolch yn fawr everybody- they look great!
Mrs Decaro

Bwrw eira_hwre!!!!!!

I hope you are all having fun in the snow....and taking care , of course!
Did you all make a snowman or another snow sculpture? What about making snow angels, tobogganing or trudging through the snow? I went for a looooong walk yesterday (all wrapped up) and saw some really great snowmen on my travels....... I can't wait to hear all about your snowy adventures and see some photographs next week. Don't forget to notice the temperature!

Hwyl fawr!
Mrs Decaro

Blwyddyn Newydd dda!

Hello everybody! I hope you all had a good Christmas and are now settled back to school. I am sorry I couldn't be with you this week but I will be back on Monday - and don't forget I will be able to hear every single thing now- so watch out!
I hear you have already started on our new topic - Let's explore- weather and toys! I am looking forward to hearing about your ideas for the role play - Mrs Hargreaves said you had lots! Also - I hope you all brought in your favourite toy on Thursday - I wonder which one was the most popular? Hmmmmm......
Don't forget to cover your writing book this weekend - be as creative as you like! I am looking forward to seeing what you choose to write about when you visit the writing table...
Look out for the weather forecast this weekend  - they say it might snow....brrrr- I wonder what the temperature will be then?
See you Monday!
Hwyl fawr!
Mrs Decaro

St fagans here we come....!

I hope you all had a lovely half term holiday! Perhaps lots of you enjoyed hallowe'en and bonfire night celebrations. I hope you all kept safe!
Now we are moving on in our theme of "Ble wyt ti'n byw?"  to think about how homes have changed over the years. I hope you have thought of some questions to ask ready for our visit to St Fagans on Wednesday......I want to know how did people manage before there was electricty? ......I can't wait to visit the old houses......Don't forget  a packed lunch, a coat with a hood and your investigating brains........

Bring in your (clean) junk!

Please can you bring in suitable items to make doll's houses, complete with furniture! Hunt for shoe boxes, fabric remnants and bits and bobs.....You will be working in small groups to plan and make a doll's house that can be used as a play item for the nursery! Bring them in next week please! Diolch yn fawr!
I heard I missed an amazing lesson today - composing music to go with The Hairy Scary castle song....You were so imaginative, Miss Clack, our student is going to set up a composing corner in our area......!
Our work on the Jewish festival Sukkot  was very interesting - I hope you told your parents all about it!
looking forward to Harvest festival next week!

hwyl!

Mrs Decaro and  Mrs Porter

A busy start!

What a busy first few weeks in class 8. We have all settled well, including our new member of the class - Rhys Morgan - croeso Rhys! Our topic "Ble wyt ti'n byw?" is well under way and children are coming up with their own ideas regarding what they would like to learn. I hope you all received our newsletter outlining how you can support your child's learning at home. The children are enjoying various literacy activities based around the Winnie the Witch books - and peruaded me to set up a Winnie role play in the classroom - great fun. We have been writing our own magic spells - diolch Jack for your unique spell book - or smell book as you've called it! We all went to forest school this week - please remember to bring in wellies if you have not already done so! And a reminder - PE day is Monday! hwyl am y tro! Mrs Decaro and Mrs Porter

Happy New School Year!

Croeso nol i'r ysgol! Welcome back to school! I can't wait to meet my new class tomorrow and hear all their holiday news! Hopefully they will be full of good ideas of how we can make class eight great this year! Onward and Upward!
Hwyl fawr!
 Mrs Decaro

Happy holidays!

What a lovely end to a fantastic year! Well done to  classes 8 and 9 who worked hard to raise money for the RNLI following their very informative trip! A massive £150 was raised!!!!!Bendigedig! Diolch yn fawr to the parents who came to help organise the stalls. I am really going to miss you next year, you have been a great class, we've had lots of fun together -

highlights this term?

• our Top of the Pops item in the 40th celebrations- Henry as Jimmy Saville, Jake Perrett and the dancing boys with Tiger Feet, the girls as Pan's People, The New Seekers played by Martha, Farah, Luke J,Kieran and Tomos....
• our Porthcawl study and trip - the awesome acrostic poems and fundraising!
• the boys determined to learn to skip......especially Luke Jones...
• lots of you confident to use joined up writing in your daily work...
• acting out seaside holiday scenes of 1900,
• puppet conversations in Welsh,
• making striped lollipops,
• division in Maths ...
• designing and making our vehicles.......

well done everybody - and good luck in the Juniors! Da iawn!
Mrs Decaro and Mrs Porter

No stripes for us this time! better luck next time!

Yeah! We made succesful striped lollipops!

mmm, blasus! Miah enjoys her striped lollipop...

Mrs Rees, our friendly local travel agent.

An audience with Peter Rabbit aka Farah !

here we are on world book day!

Busy busy busy!

Is it really half term already? Our theme is well under way, our travel agent well used. We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Rees - a real live travel agent- who told us all about her work and modelled how to use our role play. Diolch yn fawr Mrs Rees!We have a lot of budding travel agents in our class this year - the conversations overheard are enthralling! It is worth coming over to read the customer feedback comments left on our wall ! Don't forget your homework task -  to interview an adult about their favourite holiday- I am looking forward to reading your interviews.
We were excited to receive   a letter from Nellie of Abertwt asking us to help her to make  a striped lollipop for her ice cream parlour.....We worked hard trying to  think through this task....and many of us succeeded! We ate our lollipops this morning - and evaluated our efforts - all thinking of ways of how to improve our lollipops if we made them again.
The queen came to visit us last Friday apparently....(I was in Llangrannog with Year 6 so I missed her) and enjoyed our marching music and parading organised by Mrs Maunder....great fun!
Have a lovely half term- hope the sun stays shining!
Pob hwyl
from Mrs Decaro and team.

Ar lan y mor!

Hello all! Hope you all had a great Easter Holiday.....and can't wait for Tuesday to start  our new topic - AR LAN Y MOR (on the seashore). Mrs Utting Lawson and I have already visited Porthcawl and been inspired as to some possible activities - and of course we want  to know what you children would like to learn and do too...Don't forget we are getting ready for Year 3 this term ...!
Happy Summer term to us all!