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Lateness to school
Please can I remind you that school starts at 8.50am. We are continuing to have late arrivals each day. Today we had twelve pupils arrive after 9am and six arrive after 9.15am. This often results in difficulties for pupils settling and also teaching time is lost. Please make every effort to ensure your children are in school in time.
We very much appreciate your support in this matter.

Nursery
Following on from last week’s Home Sweet Home Immersion Day, Nursery children began to work on the houses they decided to make. Nursery also celebrated the Welsh Valentine’s Day – St Dwynwen’s Day, by making hearts to give to whoever lives in their home. Don’t forget to bring in photos of your house and family as soon as possible. Thank you

Reception
Reception had a great tour of the village on the mini-bus. We saw lots of different things and were truly St Athan Explorers.

Year 1
This week we have been finding out more about castles and the roles of the medieval people living in them. We have created our own coat of arms thinking about how we want to be seen by others, made our very own spilt pin knight and applied for jobs within the castle. The most popular job was watchman, we all wanted to keep a look out to make sure the castle was safe! We all took our job
roles seriously thinking about the skills we would need and reflected on what a day doing that job would look like through writing a diary entry.

Year 2
This week in Year 2 we have been finding out what our favourite farm animals are. On Monday we had to go around each of our friends and ask them to vote on their favourite. We then used the votes to create a bar graph and pictogram using Purple Mash. We found out that a horse was the most popular farm animal and that a pig was the least favourite farm animal.

Year 3
Year 3 have been amazing at sorting regular and irregular 2d shapes this week in Maths.

Year 4
This week, in our PE lessons, we’ve been further developing our skills. In groups, we had to co-operate, listen carefully to each other’s ideas and devise our own circuit, using a variety of PE apparatus.

Year 5
Year 5 have had a great week learning about converting measurements and finding fractions of an amount. We’ve also spent a lot of time writing our own stories focusing on including extended sentences, varied punctuation and a dilemma that needed solving. Mr Maurer was super impressed with our Welsh pronunciation and said Mrs Harris was a better teacher than him! Llongyfarchiadau!

Year 6
This has been another busy week. We are working hard at recognising and calculating equivalent fractions in a variety of ways. Creating equivalent fractions using chocolate is always a bonus. We learnt how to focus and control our breathing a little more in our yoga session and we all felt relaxed yet energised at the end. On Tuesday 10 children from our class visited Rhws Primary to launch our second ‘Schoogle’ project which will be all about ‘Community’! We had a great time working with another school. On Tuesday we also took part in a world record breaking attempt as part of the Urdd’s Centenary celebrations. We practised singing ‘Hei Mr Urdd’ and recorded it. Then we uploaded what we had
done to Twitter as part of the largest number of people singing the same song uploaded to Twitter in one hour. The previous record was 250, the Urdd and its members uploaded 1176 and we helped make that possible.