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Dates for the diary
 

Wednesday 27th April - All new football goals out for the children

Friday 29th April - 9am Tea and Toast with Mrs Haynes (Invitations have been delivered for children to attend)

2pm - Green Fingered Friday (All volunteers welcome to help with the gardening)

Monday 2nd May - School Closed for the Bank Holiday

Tuesday 3rd May - Football first Assembly

Wednesday 4th May - Steve Harris Assembly
Reception class walk to the shop

Advanced Notice
Friday 6th May - Some Year 6 pupils attending the Schoogle Magazine launch in Barry
(Those not involved will attend the second launch in July)
9.30am - PTA Annual General Meeting in School Community Room

St Athan ECO Committee 2022

Please allow me to introduce St Athan Primary’s fantastic ECO Committee.
Austin, Lilley and Harper representing year 3, Olivia, Ross and Charlie representing year 4, Lily, Emmie, Isabelle and Harry year 5 and Abigail and
Oakley year 6.
Behind the scenes St Athan ECO Committee are a dedicated group of individuals who always strive to do their best. Their roles are all very important. These are their reasons for joining.
To help animals.
To help the environment and pick up rubbish to save animals from dying.
To help the environment.
To make a better world for our children. To make sure their children aren’t in a
world of rubbish.
To try to stop pollution.
To help the environment so that the new animals and people can survive.
To learn how to stop climate change and save all the nature that is dying.
We only have one earth and I don’t want to waste it.
To help the world to be a better place and to help everybody.
To help stop climate change.
To make the planet better.
To help vegetation and pollution to grow and save the environment and
endangered species and to stop the ozone.

I am sure you will agree all of the above is very impressive, this is why St Athan
Primary School are very proud to hold their second Platinum Flag status.
Mrs Haynes has very kindly agreed for us to trial articles monthly in the
newsletter which we hope will be of interest to you and help raise environmental
issues and help us all to work together as a community.
Now that we have introduced ourselves we look forward to our first article next
month.
We hope you liked our introduction from a very proud member of ECO
Committee Mrs Nicholls.
 

Nursery
Welcome back to our Nursery classes, and an extra special welcome to our new children who are starting in the Afternoon Class.
As part of our Cultural Week of activities, please can children wear summer clothes including a sunhat and sunglasses on Thursday 5th May, so we can pretend we are going on holiday to Spain!
Children can also bring a photo of any family holiday for show and tell next week, (If anyone has been to Spain for a holiday, then a photo of this would be appreciated, however, any holiday is fine – thank you).

Reception
Reception have been exploring and learning, all about France, as part of our
cultural week in school.
We have been using Google Earth, maps, and globes to find where we live and
where France is. We have been learning to speak some French, a big thank you
to Madame Langlois for helping us. We plan to taste some French food too! We
have learnt so much already.

Year 1
Year 1 have had a busy start to our week! We have been learning all about Mexico, and comparing it to Wales. We have learnt how far away it is and what the flag looks like. We have found out about all of the different things they have, like volcanoes and earthquake drills in school as well as all of the similarities, like beautiful mountains and busy cities.
We have also enjoyed learning about famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. We have been creating our own self-portraits in the style of her.
Later in the week we are looking forward to tasting Mexican food and even making our own sombreros and maracas!

Year 2

Kia ora!
This week in Year 2 we have taken a first class flight to NEW ZEALAND!
On Monday, we started to learn all about the traditional Maori war dance called The Haka. We watched lots of cool video clips on YouTube and learnt the words and movements that go with it. We have been really enjoying practising the Haka.
We also went on a super cool fact finding mission. Lots of interesting facts about New Zealand were hidden around the playground and we had to go and with our friends to try and find them. It was really fun!

Year 3

G'day mate, Year 3 have been learning about Australia and its culture this week as part of this year's cultural week. We have learnt about Australian animals, made koala biscuits and read Aboriginal dreamtime stories.

Year 4

Buongiorno!
We have been very busy this week learning all about Italy. We have read a brochure about holidays in Rome and calculated the cost of holidays there. They were so expensive! We also did a lot of problem solving when calculating the cost of pizzas from the Domino menu. We’ve learnt all about the Italian Culture and we’re now looking forward to making our own pizzas! Mmmmmm.

Year 5

We have been working hard creating a plan of their very own Theme Park. Working out how much it will cost to create! Can they afford it?
We have also been investigating Gravity and Friction. Year 5 are lucky to have a chance to take part in Yoga sessions on a Monday. Please can the children come to school in P.E kit on a Monday for the next 2 weeks.

Year 6

Year 6 are enjoying learning all about Canada as part of Culture Week. We each
created a fact file about Canada and discovered that Ottowa is the Capitol City and that it is actually the second largest country in the world. Wow!
Canada is divided into 10 Provinces and 3 territories and we located and identified these on a map. We even researched the provincial or territorial capitals. Due to the fact it is such a large country, Canada even has 6 time zones. We had to work out the times in different areas of Canada Ice Hockey is the National Sport in Canada. We had so much fun playing unihoc.