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Reminder – School starts at 8.50am, please ensure your children are in school for this time. Many thanks

Nursery
Our Nursery classes had an ‘Immersion day’ this week to introduce our new topic – ‘Home Sweet Home’. Lots of fun was had whilst exploring and playing with house themed resources and activities.
Please could all Nursery children bring in a photo of their house and family for show and tell by Friday 28th January. Thank you

Reception
Reception have been using globes and maps to see where we belong, as part of our St Athan explorers topic.

Year 1
Year 1 have been working so hard this week. We have been looking at the locations of castles in Wales and what the parts of the castles are called. We had a go at coding to make a knight guard a castle by moving back and forth between pillars. We have also been doing a lot of measuring to help us building our castles. We now know what parts of a knights armour is called and are looking
forward to making our own knight and designing our own coat of arms later in the week.

Year 2
This week in Year 2 we started our new topic “Fun on the Farm!” On Monday we had lots of fun going on an animal hunt around the playground.
We had to find different farm animals and crack the secret code! Yesterday we worked in pairs and we recorded everything we knew/know? About life on a farm. Mr Hughes said we were very knowledgeable! We then told Mr Hughes what we would like to learn about and what fun activities we would like to do about farms!
This morning we have been designing our own scary scarecrows for our classroom door!

Year 3
Year 3 explored the Woodland Habitat yesterday and identified invertebrates. We recorded what we found and today we are recording the results as a bar graph. We loved exploring outside in our woodland area.

Year 4
We have been navigating our way around St Athan village, using Google maps. We found the shops, chemist, doctor’s surgery and some of us found our houses.

Year 5
Year 5 have had a really fun week exploring St Athan past and present! We’ve explored the villages surrounding us, located differences within the village using 100 year old maps and have created a collaborative Google slide containing what we want to find out about. Mrs Harris also kicked off our new Welsh topic this week called “teledu” - we were super impressed with her pronunciation and
can’t wait to show off our new vocabulary to Mr Maurer next week!

Year 6
Year 6 enjoyed a productive art lesson with Miss Coles, our student teacher, as they created a piece of artwork in the style of ‘Lois Mailou’. Well done Year 6 excellent work. It was a sad day on Thursday when we said goodbye to Miss Coles who had been with us for 12 weeks.
This week has been busy so far as we participated in a fantastic ‘African Drumming’ session on Monday. All the children showed great skill in beating different rhythms on their djembe drum. On Monday we also had the chance to relax in our first Yoga session with Leanne. We learnt how yoga can help our well-
being and we practised a few more moves.