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MOD Coffee Morning - Tuesday 15th March 9.15-10.15

It is that time again where we would like to invite any family where parents are working within the Military, to a school coffee morning. It is an informal opportunity for us to share any additional information or support we offer your children during deployment.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Year 6 pupils

At the start of February an email was forwarded to all parents asking you to complete a travel survey for an Active Travel plan that Year 6 are working on. They are relying on this data to complete their enquiry. So far we have only received 11 responses. We believe that as it was an external link it may have gone into people’s spam folders.
Here is a direct link to the survey.

https://wh1.snapsurveys.com/s.asp?k=164327560204

The deadline was 18th February but we would be very grateful if you could complete the survey before year 6’s online meeting with Active Travel tomorrow morning Thursday 3rd March.

Nursery
Well done to all Nursery children who have created a fantastic display of Welsh/home school tasks, and for performing some Welsh songs in front of their parents. We enjoyed making Welsh cakes, leeks and pancakes too!

Reception
Reception have been exploring the village further and building on real life experiences, by visiting the post office to buy a stamp. We were able to use real money to buy our stamp. We had written the envelopes ourselves and then bought the stamp and posted our letters. We explored our addresses and what happens to a letter when we post it. We also talked about whose face is on a stamp.

Reception celebrated St David’s Day in style on Tuesday – March 1st. We had great fun and this linked to our class topic too.

Year 1
We had so much fun on St David’s Day yesterday. We really enjoyed playing rugby with Mr Hughes, eating Welsh cakes and bara brith with Miss Williams and making daffodils with Mrs Davies.
Llongyfarchiadau to all the children who won certificates for their lovely poems, handwriting, paintings and home school competition. The quality of entries this year were amazing! KS2 staff had a very hard time choosing who won, you all did a very good job!
This week we have also started looking more at Cymru in topic, focusing on our famous Welsh person, Roald Dahl. We have started reading ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ and we have had lots of fun trying to think of what we could convince him to eat other than children - our favourite suggestions included grown ups (as they are bigger than children), elephant stew and chocolate chip ice cream with a baby giraffe! We have to keep on reading to see if he does actually get to eat a child!
We are also really looking forward to our trip to Cardiff Castle, please can we make sure that forms and money are returned ASAP as we are going on Wednesday 9th March.

Year 2
On Monday we designed and created our own special scarecrows. It was lots of fun and we are really excited to start making real scarecrows in the next few days. Don’t worry, they won’t be too scary!
Yesterday we had the BEST day celebrating St David’s Day with our friends. We did lots of super fun activities all to do with Wales, such as making beautiful daffodils, practising our brilliant rugby, and tasting delicious welsh cakes, bara brith, special pancakes and drinking yummy milk from Welsh cows. In the afternoon we were presented with special certificates for our AMAZING symbols of Wales that we created as part of the St David’s Day home school challenge! We love St David’s Day!

Year 3
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed our carousel of activities for St David’s Day. It was lovely for Year 3 to experience a typical St David’s Day celebration, which we have all sadly missed over the last 2 years.
Yesterday we learnt about the history of the Welsh leek and why it is an emblem of Wales. We then planted leek seeds in the poly tunnel and are looking forward to taking care of the leeks over the next couple of weeks.

Year 4
Yesterday, we had great fun celebrating St David’s Day. We dressed in traditional Welsh costumes or wore our Welsh rugby jumpers. We made beautiful daffodil heart shape decorations. We had to listen carefully, follow instructions and use our cutting skills to produce these wonderful masterpieces. We had a fun filled day.

Year 5
Year 5 have again been working extremely hard in the short time we have been back. On Monday, we researched a famous Welsh person as part of our whole school Welsh topic, namely Gareth Bale. We produced some really great fact files which will go up on display.
A huge congratulations to our Eisteddfod winners and everyone who took part in home/school task! We were blown away by the amount of effort that went into them.

Year 6
Year 6 are all well rested after their action packed few days at Llangrannog before half term and have started back as a more closely knit group of friends.
This week we have begun to research information on Rhys Jenkins an ultramarathon runner who set a record in July 2020 by running the entire length of the Wales Coastal Path (870 miles) in the fastest known time of just over 20 days. We are also learning the fun Welsh song ‘Roedd Franz o wlad
Awstria’. 

We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating St David’s Day yesterday. In the morning we took part in a carousel of different activities. It was great to find out the winners in our DT, Art and Handwriting Competitions. The big moment for
Year 6 is always discovering who has been chosen as the ‘Bard’ ceremony. Mrs
Haynes had a really difficult task of reading all Year 6’s dragon poems and deciding which one was the best. Well done and ‘llongyfarchiadau’ to Oakley Burnett on being chosen as this year’s Bard. Here is the superb poem that Oakley wrote.