Cerien (Rowan)
Croeso i Dosbarth Cerien
Welcome to Dosbarth Cerien
We are a class of 31 wonderful children who love learning!
Our class teachers are Miss Dando and Miss Wilsher.
Miss Dando teaches us on Mondays and Tuesdays and
Miss Wilsher teaches us on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
We are very lucky to have Miss Taylor to help us with our learning.
This term our context for learning is 'Scrumdiddlyumptious'
We have some big questions to answer:
How does what we eat affect us?
How can we encourage others to eat healthily?
Why is it important to promote the use of locally grown food?
Like always, keep your eyes peeled on our web page to see what we get up to. We've got lots of exciting things in store for the children.
Our PE days are Mondays and Fridays, please make sure your child wears their PE kit to school on those days.
We have lots of fun things planned for this term so keep checking our page to see what we get up to! :)
Curriculum News Spring- Scrumdiddlyumptious
Curriculum News Spring 2025
Curriculum News 2024
Keeping fit and healthy and developing our coordination and accuracy.
We have been using our photography skills to turn our artwork into posters to persuade you to eat healthy, delicious fruits!
Scrumdiddlyumptious Pizzas
Comic Relief
We have been exploring Article 24 through measuring and conserving water and drawing healthy fruits!
Our trip to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. We took part in a gallery workshop and explored lots of different landscapes and portraits. We then enjoyed exploring the museum.
We were set the challenge of creating our own collagraphs to represent Welsh landscapes for St David's Day. Here we are cutting, sticking, arranging and printing. We are very proud of our Eisteddfod winners.
Happy St David's Day! We have been editing our photographs again and developing our directing and drawing skills!
We have been using our digital photography skills to turn ourselves into magical, mysterious fairies.
Our football skills are improving!
We have been using clocks and games to learn to tell the time.
We have been painting in the style of Kyffin Williams using tone and texture. Can you spot Gelert and any familiar Welsh landscapes?
We love our new context for learning and have loved hearing new Myths and Legends. Check out our photos from our drama session linked to the Lady of the Lake.
Problem solving and reasoning- What should Bertie Bee take on holiday and why?
Welsh dancing: Jac y Do.
We worked as a team to bake shortbread cookies to sell at our Winter Fayre.
Mrs Sandford came to show us some of her Roman pottery.
We took part in a 'Diversity and Me' workshop led by Big Foot.
Making up our own Roman soldier group dances.
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Happy Diwali from Dosbarth Cerien. We made Ganesh decorations with bright colours and patterns.
Coding a Beebot to find and repair blockages with Dwr Cymru.
We had a workshop from Techno Camps and followed instructions to make a robot jump.
Joining other schools in a Jambori was lots of fun. We joined in with singing lots of songs in Welsh.
We have been playing games to develop our spoken Welsh.
Daily Welsh
We have been using tesserae and our knowledge of symmetry and patterns to become mosaic masters!
We used our Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths skills to collaborate to make and test the strength of bridges.
Testing our bridges
In maths we have been comparing measurements using our number knowledge.
We have been learning about Ganesh and made our own elephant masks.
PE-developing our balance and flexibility in gymnastics.
In Geography we have been finding continents, countries and cities. We linked this to our context by finding where the Romans came from.
Sponsored Bounce!
We had lots of fun at Caerleon. We explored the Roman Baths, amphitheatre, museum and barrack room.
We have enjoyed asking questions to find out about life in the Roman times. We participated in workshops and have been weaving and investigating mosaics.
Maths-We have been setting ourselves targets to develop our number knowledge and learn our times tables. We have also been exploring and making patterns as part of Mosaic Masters.
Literacy. We have been talking, reading and writing to get to know our friends and teachers.
Developing our fine motor skills. We have been threading, building and making jewellery, which has been lots of fun!
Exploring digital photography. We learnt how to take clear portraits and edited them, making sure we saved them so they didn't get lost!
Our first day in Year 3!
Last year's fun 2023-2024
Our last day in Year 3
Magical Mysterious Wales Curriculum News
Autumn Curriculum News 2023
Cardiff Blues Rugby session
Forces Fitness session
Animal Zone UK Visit
Using our knowledge of predators to create a branching key. We used our scientific vocabulary to sort animals and turned it into a game!
Developing our Welsh language skills through games and talking partners.
Coding predators to hunt their prey.
Express Yourself Day: 26th April 2024
Should Zoos exist? This is the big question we have been discussing in Dosbarth Cerien.
We enjoyed reading 'The Lion Inside' by Rachel Bright. We developed our oracy skills through drama! We love hotseating characters and role playing different situations.
We listened to a podcast called 'Audiomoves at the Zoo'. We really enjoyed listening to the lion episode and moving like a lion.
We had a visit from Dogs Trust and we learnt how to stay safe around dogs.
We have been finding out where our food comes from and how many air miles it takes for different fruits to reach us.
We have been busy developing our outdoor area through planting seeds, bulbs and plants.
We have been making Scrumdidlyumptious Smoothies and turning our photos into adverts!
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Tree planting in College Road Park
We collected data on our favourite fruits and vegetables and then made pictograms and bar charts.
We have been exploring capacity and finding out what 2l looks like. We poured and measured water to see how many cups we need to drink a day to stay healthy and hydrated!
We loved sharing our Expressive Arts learning journey with our families, singing Welsh songs, playing the Pbuzz, performing Welsh dances and showing off our artwork. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
We used our photography and digital skills to turn ourselves into magical woodland fairies!
We had a visit from Ruth and her dog Luna. We talked about being safe around dogs and also asked Ruth about being a dog owner. We really enjoyed seeing Luna.
We have been looking at Welsh artists Kyffin Williams and Jackie Shackson. We painted Cantre'r Gwaelod using tone and texture.
Developing our knowledge of time!
Our Gelert freeze frames and action shots
Mosaic Masters: we have been developing our Art and Design Technology skills to create collaborative Mosaics.
We developed so many skills when making mosaics: Language, Science and Technology, Expressive Art and Maths and Numeracy. We had a safety talk before we used the hammer to break up tiles to make tesserae. We also wore goggle to protect our eyes. We then worked collaboratively to make our mosaics: planning carefully where we would much each piece and securing the tesserae with child friendly grout. We worked as a team!
We have been practising our food preparation skills by making pizzas.
Insect Day: to raise awareness about the importance of insects and how they impact our life.
We are so proud of our class mates who took part in Gabalfa's Got Talent. Joel, Ella and Isabella, you did a bendigedig job!
We took part in a Carbon Monoxide workshop. It was great fun!
We learnt all about Carbon Monoxide and how it can affect our bodies. It is a harmful gas that you cannot see, smell, taste, hear or touch.
We located Wales and Italy on a map. We then found countries that are important to us and our families.
We talked about countries that are important to us and our families. We found out that the following countries are important to us because we have lived there or our families have lived there:
Albania, England, Poland, Yemen, Pakistan, Somaliland, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia and the USA.
We worked collaboratively to build Roman bridges.
We really loved the building challenges. Look at what we have built with Lego!
Mrs Sandford came to show us her grandfather's Roman pottery finds from the Roman Fort Nidum in Neath.
We had a fantastic trip to Caerleon!
We took part in a Feasts and Slavery workshop and learnt lots of new things.
Miss Massocchi has been teaching us how to play a pBuzz!
Last Year's Fun 2022-2023:
Spring Term Curriculum News
BBC Now: Ten Pieces at St.David's Hall
We had a fantastic trip to see BBC Now: Ten Pieces in St.David's Hall, Cardiff. Our day started with a walk along the river to Hayley Park for a play and a picnic. Then we had a brisk walk to Llandaff Train Station where we caught the train into the City Centre. For some of us, it was our first time on a train. What a wonderful time we had.
Year 5 came to teach us how to program micro bits.
Year 5 came to teach us how to program a micro bit. We used simple algorithms and followed instructions to control a physical device. We then used the micro bit as a die to play Enfysau ac Ysgolion (rainbows and ladders). We developed our Welsh Language skills by counting in Welsh and saying our colours in Welsh.
" We were ambitious and capable in this lesson because we were setting ourselves a challenge." Finley
" We used our Welsh skills by saying the colours and numbers in Welsh when playing the game." Leah
" It was really nice working with the Year 5 pupils." Oscar
Coronation Celebrations
Our Tesco Trip
Our trip to The Senedd
Our Trip to the National Museum Cardiff and the Cardiff Story Museum
We had a visit from Elizabeth McGlasson, a Detectorist. She showed us all of her treasure; including Roman coins and broaches.
We really enjoyed Elizabeth's visit! It was amazing to see all of her historical finds, especially the Roman ones! She showed us an Iron Age coin that was nearly 3,000 years old. She also showed us a coin from Queen Victoria's reign, medieval coins and a casket key. We learnt so much about History through these artefacts. We were detectives and asked lots of questions to find out more about the objects. We even got to find our own Roman coins in sand :)
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Our visit to Llandaff North Hub for a Myths and Legends story and treasure hunt
Autumn Curriculum News- Gods and Gladiators
Dosbarth Cerien
Mental Health Awareness Day - October 10th 2022 #helloyellow
On Mental Health Day (10th October 2022), we took a lovely walk down the Taff Trail to look at trees and soak in Autumn! We enjoyed the fresh air and looking at different types of trees.
Our trip to the Roman Legion Museum in Caerleon!
We had the best day at the National Roman Legion Museum in Caerleon. We explored the Roman Baths, the Ampitheatre, Barracks and the Museum. We got to try on armour and pretend to be Roman Legionaries; we even got to do some drills and march! It was so much fun and we learnt a lot!
Pizza making!
We really enjoyed making Pizzas. Before we made pizzas we did a class survey to see which Pizza topping was the most popular, it was Cheese and Tomato! We developed our chopping, cutting, grating, scooping and spreading skills. We also looked at Fractions of pizzas and used Numicon to help us. WE LOVED IT!
Gymnastics!
We went to Year 2's outdoor area to pick the Pumpkins we had grown. We planted them when we were in Year 2 so we were amazed to see them fully grown!
This week we have enjoyed making Aquaducts and Roman Fortresses using Lego.
We have had an amazing start to the school year. We have been to Llandaff North Hyb on two different occasions. We went there for Roald Dahl Day! It was great fun.
We have been practising our photography skills. We used Pic Collage to edit the photos we took. Here are the results:
Home Learning Links
The links below will take you to some of our learning platforms!
https://hwb.gov.wales/
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/gabalfa
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/
http://www.pobble365.com/
