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Nursery Information

On St David’s Day (Tuesday March 1st) Nursery are hoping to perform some of the Welsh songs for parents in the Nursery playground at 11.15am and 2.45pm before they go home. This is weather permitting! Please can parents arrive at Nursery 5 minutes before these times so we can start promptly. Thank you

For your information, we are taking the classes on a walk into the village to hunt for buildings whilst also culminating in a visit to St Athan Library.
Afternoon Nursery are doing this on Thursday 3rd March, whilst Morning Nursery are doing it on Tuesday 8th March.
Tuesday March 1st is St David’s Day, and children can dress up in National costumes if they wish, for a Welsh themed activity day.

Don’t forget to do the Welsh themed home/school task during half term ie make a picture, model or collage of a building in Wales. Please bring in for Show and Tell by Friday 4th March. Thank you

Reception
Reception have had another busy week. We have been learning about coins and money and we will be visiting the Post Office tomorrow (re-arranged). We also celebrated St Valentine’s Day by writing Kindness messages to our friends.

Year 1

Year 1 have had another busy week this week! We have finished building our amazing castles that we designed at the beginning of last week and have been using them to play in our construction area.
We have also been thinking about St David’s Day - doing our own Castle acrostic poems, and writing out a lovely poem for our handwriting competition. We have really been making sure our handwriting is the best it can be and Miss Williams and Mrs Bowring are so pleased with us!
In maths this week we have been counting on and adding from bigger numbers by 1 - 5. We played a lovely game where we had to add the numbers and match the robots to the right number.
We also had our last balancing lesson in PE where we put on our own tightrope performance and gave feedback to our friends.

Year 2

This week in Year 2 our focus has turned to St David’s Day and to the Red Dragon of Wales. We have been learning all about why Wales has a big red dragon on its flag and why the background is green and white.
As part of our St David’s Day competitions, we have been super busy painting and
drawing the mighty Red Dragon of Wales. We are all so happy with how our paintings and drawings have turned out, they look amazing!
This morning we have been writing a simile poem to describe the Red Dragon. We came up with lots of brilliant similes to describe it. Here are a few of our similes:
“The Red Dragon is as red as oozing blood.”
“The Red Dragon is as red as hot bubbling lava.”
“The Red Dragon has teeth as sharp as shattered glass.”

Year 3

Year 3 are enjoying painting their sketches in the style of Rhiannon Roberts.

Year 4

Yesterday, Year 4 travelled back in time to the year 1891. We all dressed as Victorian School Children, as we walked quietly into our classroom. Our room was transformed into a Victorian School Room – no sight of any technology at all! We had a blackboard, we had to write with chalk on our “chalk boards”. On entry to our classroom, we had a hand inspection, before we sat at our desks.
We had a very strict teacher for the day, who insisted on silence and reminded us that “Children should only speak, when spoken to”. Poor behaviour or lack of concentration resulted in us wearing the Dunce’s hat or even (pretending) to have the cane. We weren’t allowed to speak Welsh at all during the day, but some of us forgot and had to wear the Welsh Not!

We concentrated on the 3 R’s. We had great fun chanting our tables, reading poetry aloud as a class, handwriting and we made another thaumatrope. It was an exciting, fun way to learn all about life in the past and we’ve understood in greater depth, what it would have been like for a Victorian school child. A great day, we all want to do it again

Year 5

Year 5 are continuing to work extremely hard and are seriously impressing Mrs Harris with their literacy skills. Not only have they been practising their persuasive skills by advertising St Athan as “the best place in the world to live”, but they’ve also worked hard on improving their comprehension skills by using words from the text to support their answers. We have also started descriptive writing about the Red Dragon in readiness for our Eisteddfod competitions.
In Numeracy we have continued our work on negative numbers by looking at temperatures and reading calendars. Our new focus this week is problem solving and word problems - we’re smashing it!!