Dosbarth Collen 2023/24

Shwmae and croeso to Dosbarth Collen’s webpage! We are an amazing class of 30 year 5 and 6  pupils and our class teacher this year is Mr Knight. We are also very lucky to have support from the wonderful Miss Caroline. Please check this page regularly for any important information or dates! 
 

Jo Cox Foundation Cricket Tournament

Selected members of Dosbarth Collen and Llwyfen competed at the inaugural Jo Cox Foundation cricket tournament at Sophia Garden’s we had an amazing time showing off our cricket skills!

Curriculum News!

This half term our context for learning is called “Stargazers" this will focus upon the final frontier, space! Join our learning journey as we Navigate beyond the Sun, the magnificent, blazing star at the centre of our Solar System. Investigate the eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Take a look at the Moon, a celestial body that orbits Earth. Compare the different phases of the moon and lunar cycle. Discover and learn about the contributions of "hidden figures" and famous scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei. Explore the 88 constellations in the sky and the meanings behind them. Then it's time to get messy, we are going to investigate gravity...

Storey Arms

Members of Year 6 accompanied Mr Knight and Mrs Dawe to the Storey Arms in the Brecon Beacons. Over the three days we tackled activities and challenges such as:

Caving,

Gorge Walking,

Kayaking,

String Trails,

Blind tunnel walk.

Enjoy the pictures!!

Dog Safety visit with Claire from Dogs Trust

Claire from Dogs Trust came to visit us today to teach us all about how to safely approach, communicate and interact with both dogs we do and do not know! We also investigated the ABCS of dog safety!

Our Trip to Big Pit 

Mining Timelines!
Dosbarth Collen identified and chronologically ordered important events in Welsh mining history! We used our numeracy and collaboration skills to complete this challenging task!  

Transport Police Visit

South Wales Transport Police visited Years 5 and 6 to help us learn a range of strategies to help us stay safe near and around level crossings, platforms and footpaths! We know now that we can stay rail safe! 

Macmillan Coffee Morning 

Some of our fantastic Year 5 and 6 pupils helped our staff team deliver a fantastic coffee morning in support of Macmillan! In total we raised over £500!

Football kit launch!
Members of our Year 5 and 6 classes launched our new girl’s football team kit in our celebration assembly this Friday!

Introducing our new Place2Be buddies!
Each year members of our Year 6 classes have the opportunity to become a Place2Be buddies. They have to take up responsibilities such as: helping direct their peers to places of support, working with Miss Thomas to deliver sessions with classes and helping run Place2Be events!

Last year’s fun!

Welcome to Collen 2022-23!

It's a new, exciting year. Mrs Sandford is your teacher and the lovely Miss Caroline joins us. Let's have some fun!

PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please wear your kit to school. Don't forget to bring a water bottle and to wear warm clothing for when we go outside.

To follow our learning journey, check out our curriculum news!

This half term our context for learning is called "I Like to Move it! Pupils will learn about how humans have travelled over time and why, with reference to Patagonia and why their famillies live in this area, what effect human migration has on the world and will consider what would happen if aliens were to come to the Gabalfa area.

DT - Balloon Car Challenge!

This week, Mrs Prescott and Mrs Sandford set year 5 and 6 a design technology challenge. They had to use a range of skills including sawing, measuring and problem solving to create a balloon powered vehicle! Here are some of the highlights!

British Sign Language and Life Saving.

Today we took part in two amazing workshops! First, we worked with Del to learn some of the basics of British Sign Language. We even took part in a performance of “stand by me”. Then we learnt some very important life saving skills. We even got to practice how to administer CPR!

Storey Arms 2023
 

Our Year 6 learners, pushed themselves to the absolute limit whilst at the Storey Arms! They took part in lots of outdoor activities such as caving, gorge walking and perhaps most importantly a range team building exercises!

A Child's War End of Context Celebration!

Our fantastic pupils put on a show to remember for our parents and guardians to celebrate our learning throughout the context of "A Child's War". We performed some songs and even got our parents and carers to practise some Charleston moves!

Microbit Mayhem!

Our year 5 and 6 learners have been developing their coding skills by programming Microbits! We have completed a range of projects including: making fitbits, creating animations and even creating our own pet hamsters!

 We used Lego WeDo 2.0 to build and program our robot so that it moved.

What was it like to be alive during World War 2 ?

Dosbarth Collen went to The Royal Welsh Regimental Museum in Brecon to find out .

Welcoming King Charles III to Llandaff!

Years 5 and 6 accompanied Mrs Jenkins, Miss Caroline and Mr Knight to Llandaff to welcome King Charles III as part of his coronation tour!

Follow our curriculum news to find about our learning journey for this half term!

Last year's fun

SUMMER TERM 2022

Are you NEWSWISE?

We've started a project with The Guardian newspaper called Newswise. We are on the lookout for fake news and what makes the news newsworthy. So far we've found out about the roles different people have in journalism such as the picture editors, the sub editors and the reporters. We've held our first news desk briefing and we are looking forward to our first news workshop next Monday. 

Spring term 2022

It's been a very busy start to the term. As well as our circuit training, we've been improving our rugby skills.

Boulders trip.

written by Dosbarth Collen( team Spiderman)

We have had an awesome time at Boulders. We all behaved perfectly. Some of us faced our fears and we are proud because some of us made it to the top .It felt like we were climbing a mountain, especially on the difficult wall. It was easy going up but hard going down but we still managed it. We had to listen really carefully otherwise we wouldn't know what to do . We had to collaborate on the ropes ( belay) to help others get to the top and also trust each other when we were leaning back to come down the wall. We found out about different climbing techniques such as bouldering,  rope climbing and ladder work. Most importantly, we had lots of fun.

CC Brampton visit.

Today we had a visit from the author of Charlie Robonik . C.C. Brampton lives in Cardiff and we enjoyed hearing about how he plans and writes his stories.

Dydd Gwyl Dewi

Llongyfarchiadau to the winners of our art and poetry competitions .

Larry came to work with us again. We composed a song about the rivers of  Wales. We also used the instruments to compose a soundscape about the River Taff AND we got to play the ukuleles .

Welcome to Dosbarth Collen 2021/22

We are a class of 28 amazing Year 5 and 6s. Mrs Sandford is our teacher. Miss Ayres supports our learning.

Our PE day is Friday Please wear your kit to school on that day.

Black History Month
This Morning we did Drama with the company Bigfoot Arts.

We learnt about lots of Black figures such as, Mary Prince, Paul Stephenson, and Lilian Badar.

We also did freezeframes where we had to recreate a scene from Black History Month.

Everyone extremely enjoyed it.

Written By Erin Cooper

Investigating organs.

So, what better way to start our science topic than to actually have a look at a real heart, liver and kidneys! We didn't realise that a liver weighed so much or that a heart was actually a muscle.

Our Victorian day. 

From getting caned, trilling and bowing  to our teachers. Reading from our primers and learning the 4Rs. Doing some tables drill and writing on slates and with ink pens. Today we have really discovered what it was like to be a Victorian school child. Would you have liked to go to school in Victorian times ?

Autumn term 2021 - Children of the Revolution 

Who were the Victorians? How have their ideas influenced and shaped society today?

We will explore these questions and more in this project about Queen Victoria, Victorian families and the movers and shakers of the Victorian era.

In this project, we are going to find out about:
• the historical importance of Queen Victoria
• daily life in Victorian times what was school like? What was life like for rich and poor children ?
• innovators and pioneers of social, scientific and cultural change

Remember we have Home Learning available!

Hwb/Google Classroom - hwbcymru.net

Bug Club - read your allocated books and answer the questions carefully.

Abacus - improve your maths skills by completing your allocated games.

Purplemash - improve a range of skills by completing the 2Dos set and/ or free choice from all the amazing learning experiences.

SplashLearn  - online maths activities

Pobble - visit the website and respond to the image like we have done in school.

Youtube - Gabalfa Primary has lots of tutorial videos for maths, check them out!

BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons  

There are daily English and Maths lessons/activities plus an additional 'topic' based lesson e.g. Egyptians, Solar System. Each lesson contains a video/videos and activities. 

The 'topic' based activities might give you some ideas for our future topics in class.