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
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