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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.

Nursery

Nursery enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day, and visiting the library in the village too!

Reception
Reception have been working hard on their sounds today. Reception have also celebrated World Book Day by reading Are Dragons real, we also painted dragons. 

Year 1
Year 1 really enjoyed World Book Day last week! We finished the story of ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ and thankfully he didn’t get to eat any children. We even had a go at doing some yoga to a story.
This week we have been practising ball control in PE. It was tricky to move them around without dropping them!
We have been working really hard with counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s in maths this week. We have been using 100 squares to help us see the patterns.
We have also found out about King March’s Secret this week whilst reading a Welsh Myth. We were able to retell the story in our own words.
We are really excited about going to Cardiff Castle on our trip. It will be lovely to see all the things we have learnt about in real life!

Year 2
Last week in Year 2, we made our very own life-size scarecrows. As a team, we had to stuff an old pair of trousers, a jumper and pillow case full of straw. We tied the end of the legs and arms to stop the straw from falling out. We then used the stuffed pillow case as the scarecrows head. We are so happy with our amazing scarecrows!
The next day we all dressed up as a famous book character and celebrated World Book Day. We did lots of fun and exciting challenges in Year 2 such as designing a front cover for our very own adventure and took part in a World Book Day Quiz. It was so much fun.
On Monday we went on a fact hunt around the playground to find out all about Welsh Taekwondo Gold Medallist, Jade Jones. We found out that Jade Jones’ nickname is the “headhunter” because she likes to kick her opponents in the head. 

Year 3

Year 3 did a fabulous job at painting Barry Island in the style of Rhiannon Roberts. During our PE lessons this week we have learnt a Welsh folk dance. It was tricky keeping in time with the music, but Mrs Hickey said we all did a wonderful job!

Year 4
“It’s Not Unusual” for Year 4’s to be concentrating and working so hard, as we research the life of a great Welsh Legend – Sir Tom Jones! We’ve been learning all about Snowdon in our lessons today. Did you know Mount Snowdon is 1,085 metres above sea level? It’s the highest mountain in Wales. We also read the story of Prince Llewellyn and his beloved dog Gelert. It was such a good story but a very sad one.

Year 5

Year 5 are becoming directors, camera crew actors and voice over actors as we are creating an advert on St Athan we started the week with a walk around the Village to take photos. We can't wait to see how our video adverts look!

Year 6

Year 6 really enjoyed ‘World Book Day’ on Thursday 3rd and we really enjoyed dressing up. We listened to a spine tingling story in the school library called ‘The Matchstick Man’ by the Welsh author Ruth Morgan. It was a spooky tale that ended on a bit of a cliffhanger and had us guessing what would happen next. We were challenged to retell the story in small groups. It was also interesting to read the Welsh ’Legend of Cantre’r Gwaelod’ about a whole Welsh Kingdom that disappeared in a flood. We looked at images from the story and listened to background music on Giglets to predict what the story was about before we started reading. We have started learning about how the coastline can
change over time and we discovered that there were two significant landslides in Nefyn, North Wales. We even recreated a landslide in class.