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Thursday 9th March - Rev Street to take assembly

Spectrum Workshops for Reception, Year 2, 4 and 6
Friday 10th March - Spectrum Workshops for Reception, Year 2, 4 and 6
Wednesday 15th March and Thursday 16th March - Possible Teachers Strike Days (See below)

Advanced Notice
 

Friday 17th March - Curriculum Presentation for parents by Mrs Haynes and Mrs Davies - 9.15am

Possible Strike Days
As you will continue to hear on the news and social media, talks between teaching Unions and the Welsh Government have not been successful so far. Unfortunately, this means our school might be closed again on
Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th March. I apologise for any inconvenience caused by this action. If the strikes are cancelled, I will share arrangements with you as soon as I am able.

Spectrum Workshops
We have again invited Spectrum into our school to run their fun and highly effective workshops with a selection of
Year groups. They focus on positive relationships, emotional literacy and managing feelings. We look forward to
their visits.

St David’s Day 2023

Last Wednesday we all celebrated St David’s Day! We dressed up in traditional Welsh costumes, wore Welsh rugby and football tops or wore red for Wales. It was a fun packed day where we took part in a variety of activities, which celebrated Wales and our Welsh culture.
In the Foundation Phase we tasted yummy welsh cakes and bara brith, whilst listening to and watching the story of St David; we created a range of different welsh crafts and art; as well as have lots of fun practising our rugby skills.
In KS2 we tasted delicious welsh cakes and bara brith, whilst listening to a range of different welsh stories and legends; we took part in a super fun quiz all about Wales; we played fun Welsh games using ICT and we created brilliant St David’s day crafts.

Nursery
Nursery celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as different characters from books, looking at the whole-school storybook called "Journey," and going on a hunt for different coloured books in the Nursery garden. We also
enjoyed sharing books with children from Y3 and Y6!
This week we have immersed the children into our new Springtime topic, by observing some seeds and new living creatures that have appeared in the class, along with questioning about what might happen as they grow!! Nursery
now has tadpoles and some tiny little caterpillars... we are so excited to see what happens!
Reminder - please note, Nursery is closed on Tuesday 21st March for Parental Consultations. More information will follow with regard to appointment times.

Reception
Reception all looked wonderful in their World Book Day costumes. We spent the day looking at the story ‘Journey’ and decided where we would go on a magic carpet ride. We also created our own mini version of a magic carpet.
Today we have had the opportunity to go outside in the snow. Some of us created snowball. We were all very excited to see the snow.

Year 1
This week in year 1 we have enjoyed celebrating world book day. To celebrate we all dressed up as a character from our favourite book. We also looked at the book ‘Journey’ and created our own worlds just like the book.
Year 1 have also enjoyed beginning to look into their new topic Stories and Secrets. We began to focus on a Welsh famous author, Roald Dahl. We started to look at his famous books and the different characters within these books.

Year 2
Last Wednesday we had a brilliant time taking part in St David’s Day! We started our day by eating yummy welsh cakes and tasting bara brith, whilst watching the story of St David and singing our favourite song ‘Yma o Hyd’. Next, we practised our colouring, cutting and gluing skills to make a St
David’s day reef. Finally, we took part and showed Mr Hughes our brilliant running and rugby skills. During our rugby training, we did lots of amazing dodging and scored loads of tries.
On Monday, we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as different characters from our favourite stories. Miss Lake shared with us a picture book called ‘Journey’, it is a story about a little girl who found a magic red crayon and uses the crayon to draw whatever she wanted and go wherever she wanted. As part of the story she drew a hot air balloon, we then had to use our imagination and travel wherever we wanted using our own hot air balloons. It was very fun!

Year 3
Year 3 celebrated World Book Day on Monday by reading some storybooks to nursery and by looking at the book Journey by Aaron Becker. We discussed the methods of travel used in the story and then looked at the history of flight. From this, we then designed our own flying machines.

In the afternoon, we had Woodland Wonders. In our classroom, our frogspawn have turned into tadpoles and are munching on the pondweed. In Woodland Wonders we created the frog life cycle out of clay. We will show you our models in the coming weeks.
A huge well done to Reuben who was our Seren yr Wythnos last week, and got to take Dylan the dragon home for the weekend.

Year 4Year 4
Year 4 had fun on World Book Day. We had a get together with Reception and read fascinating stories. Snow Day! Year 4 had fun in the snow. Meet our class mascot – Mr Snowy.

Year 5
Year 5 have had a busy start to the term completing St David's Day competitions and studying 'All Things Welsh'. They were super scientists yesterday when dissecting the daffodil to identify the different parts of the plant.
As part of World Book Day they focused on the book 'Journey'. They took on the role of journalists to create their own newspaper article about a young girl who went missing after stepping through a magical door. To celebrate all the hard work, Year 5 managed to have some time in the snow and had a snowman competition!

Year 6
We enjoyed a wonderful World Book Day on Monday. We all looked amazing in our costumes. We also had some great discussions surrounding the Picture Book ‘Journey’ about a girl who was able to transport herself into a magical world. The story was a great stimulus for us to produce some fantastic creative writing. It’s been an amazing start to today developing some different skills like teamwork, resilience and collaboration by creating snowmen.