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Jubilee Picnic
On the 27th May, to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee, we are asking all children to dress up in Red, White and Blue. We will have a lovely picnic outdoors from 1.30pm. Nursery will have their picnics during the usual session time. (Weather permitting) with games and fun. Food is provided by the school and the PTA.

Attendance
Please can I remind all parents that the monitoring of attendance is now back to pre-covid arrangements and so it is essential that your child attends school as much as possible. If your child is unwell please contact the school office for us to register the absence accordingly. School begins at 8.50am and so please ensure your child is in the school playground by 8.45 each morning to avoid lateness as this is also registered.
We would really appreciate your support in this matter.

Eco
In Eco we have noticed an increase of litter in our school grounds and on fields next to school. So we have to stop dropping litter. We are asking you for your HELP!! We have bins in our school for a reason so please make sure you use them! Many thanks from the Eco Committee
Article by Year 5

Nursery & Reception
Don’t forget to send in your trip letter by Friday 20th May, with £10 deposit, if you
intend to join us on our trip to Mountain View Ranch in Caerphilly. This trip is
taking place on Thursday 30th June. Final pricing for the trip will be confirmed
once we know our numbers. Thank you

Reception will be opening a fruit stall for snack for Year 1 and 2 on Thursday 26th
May. If children in Year 1 and 2 bring 10p into school, they can visit the shop to
buy some extra snack.

Nursery
Last week in Nursery, we listened to Animal stories, sang animal songs, played
animal games, and thought about what animal we would like to make in Nursery.
The children also decided how they would like to make their chosen animal. We
hope we see some animals on our Summer Trip!
This week, we started to make our chosen animals using cooking ingredients!

Reception
This week in Reception we continue to learn all about money and coins as part of our project Shop ‘til You Drop! We have been exploring our problem solving skills and we have been completing money challenges and playing coin games. We have also been completing challenges linked to our weekly class book, The Shopping Basket.

Year 1
Ahoy there matey’s!
This week has seen Year 1 start our Pirate Problems topic. On Monday morning we received a message in a bottle from Pirate Pete asking for our help to find out who has taken his treasure, where it is and how we can get it back? We have got lots of problems we need to solve, and when we have completed the tasks we are
given a clue. If we are able to find the answers we will get to share what’s in the treasure chest! We have a lot of problems coming our way but we know that if maths is the problem, thinking is the answer and that the only way to catch a pirate is to think like one!
Some of the problems we had to solve so far are how to get a group of us at a time off the pirate ship and onto the deserted island using only 3 stepping stones, how many parrots can we fit on 3 ships and how many
coconuts in the trees. But our biggest problem of the week is who has stolen Pirate Pete’s treasure? We know that it is a female who works in the Foundation Phase of St Athan Primary School. We are narrowing it down and as soon as we have figured out who has taken it, we can start to work out where is it!
On Tuesday had a virtual workshop from Swansea Waterfront Museum, learning all about Welsh pirate Barti Ddu. We saw what kind of outfits they would have worn both on and off the ship, learnt about their tactics to stop other ships (so that they wouldn’t sink the treasure!) and surprisingly found out that spices were the most expensive treasure they could find!

Year 2
This week in Year 2, we have been solving lots of tricky Maths problems. We
have been using the chrome books to find out the different combinations of
coins we could use to pay for items. We learnt that there are lots of different
ways to make the same number and that there is no 1 correct way. We have also been finding lots of different ways in how we could travel to the ice cream shop by walking in the same number of steps. We found lots of different combinations and ways in which we could travel.

Year 3

Year 3 have spent the week creating prototypes for their maths board games. They then presented their board game design to the class. We can’t wait to show you our finished maths board games next week.

Year 4

Money, money, money.... Year 4 have been calculating amounts of various items and working out change from £5 and £10.
Our Cricket Skills are progressing week by week and Rees gives us fun packed lessons. In PE, we’ve been developing our skills when completing the circuits.

Year 5

Year 5 has had a busy week, we have designed our own P.E lesson thinking about exercises we can do in 1 minute. We used stopwatches to time each other.
We also have to think really hard in our maths to solve a problem with alien legs!

Year 6

We have had a brilliant few days in year 6 as we have gained a deeper insight into the world of business and enterprise. First we researched different entrepreneurs like; Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bill Gates etc to find out how they made their millions (or billions in many cases!) and we discovered that they all have the same mentality; don’t be afraid to take risks, think outside the box, mistakes are what make you better and stronger and have a positive mindset.
We were split into 5 different groups and had the challenge of ‘Making £5 grow’.
Yesterday we held a ‘Chewy Tuesday’ as each group competed against each other to create a food product to sell in order to make as much profit as possible. We had to research the cheapest costs and consider our advertising. It was really insightful learning about all the different things we had to consider before we sold our product.