We are a class of 29 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 two fantastic teaching assistants who help us with our learning, they are Mrs Evans and Mrs Davies.
This term our topic is 'Scrumdiddlyumptious'
We have some big questions to answer:
How does what we eat affect us?
How can we encourage others to eat healthily?
Our PE days are Tuesdays 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! :)
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!
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
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:
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