Cerien (Rowan)
Croeso i Dosbarth Cerien
Welcome to Dosbarth Cerien
We are a class of 26 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 'Gods and Gladiators'
We have some big questions to answer:
Who were the Romans?
How did they influence how we live in Wales?
What proof is there now that the Romans came to Wales?
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 2024
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.
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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
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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:
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BBC Now: Ten Pieces at St.David's Hall
