Just a few weeks into the new term and Class 10 have already been very busy. We enjoyed talking about our new topic, 'Magic Moments', and planning what we are going to find out about. Discussing birthdays, weddings and special trips caused much excitement!
Our Science work for this term is now well under way and we have started to look at 'Our Bodies' and the five senses. Our 'Doctor's Surgery' role play area has been open for a week and is a big hit with a steady stream of patients! Many thanks for all the extra resources that have been sent into school to support our topic work - it has really sparked the children's interest and it is lovely to see them so enthusiastic about their learning!
Thanks also for any recycling materials that have been brought into school this week - we will be making a start on our Chinese Dragons next week in preparation for Chinese New Year celebrations beginning on the 31st January. We are all looking forward to a busy and productive term,
Kind regards,
Mrs Clark

Christmas fun!

I hope you are all aware of the children's roles in the christmas concert, if anybody is struggling with ideas for costumes please pop in and see me after school. The rehearsals are underway and coming along nicely, we are excited to present this years concert and you will receive letters about purchasing tickets soon.

It was lovely to meet you all at parents evening and please remeber that my door is always open if you were to have any concerns about your child's progress this year.

A quick reminder that all children should be reading each night and returning their books with a comment from an adult at home ready for their reading day.

Ble wyt ti'n byw?

Hi all,

 I hope you had a lovely summer!
Welcome to the Year One class. The children have settled in really well and are getting used to the new routines and classroom.

I'm sure you have all read the letter we sent out about the term ahead of us. If you have any queries please call in and see me. Our topic is 'Ble wyt ti'n byw?'  We have already started to look at our topic and describe lots of different type houses.  We have designed our own houses, using different shapes in maths.  We have set up an old style cottage n our role play, which the children are enjoying.
Can i remind you that PE day is a Thursday and that children need to bring a pair of wellies to school as we will be starting Forest School shortly.


We have a fun term ahead of us!

Bye for now!


Mrs Street and Mrs Ryan

Garndparents afternoon!

Just a quick reminder please can children bring their recyclable item of clothing they have made to school tomorrow in readiness for our Grandparents afternoon on Thursday. I hope you have asked your grandparents to come! It starts 2pm thursday, in the hall or outside if fine. There will be drinks, cakes and a raffle too!








Thanks area 3 staff

Summer term

Welcome back to a new term, I hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday. Our topic this term is Lan Y Mor/At the Seaside. We are setting up a role play travel agents in our class and brochures, information or posters that you can bring in will be a big help.

A reminder that PE is on Thursdays and all children must bring in PE kit as no child can participate in a PE lesson without their kit.

Parents information letters and topic webs to keep you up to date with you child's learning will be given out this week so please take the time to read the information as it will help you to support what is taking place in school.

Thank you for your support.

Hi Everyone,

Would like to wish you all a lovely Easter break. We have had a lovely Spring term in year one. We really enjoyed our topic on Magic Moments. Children created some fab work in their books. We had a great time in Newport Wetlands. My first visit there and it was a brill day full of fun. Children wrote some wonderful reports on their visit.

The sun has been lovely and my children have had a fun day today in the forest creating some Easter Bonnets from the natural enviroment. Our next few days will be packed with fun creating some lovely Easter craft.

I am very proud of my year one class. They are growing into mature and responsibile children. They are making great progress and I am confident to say they are already ready to enter year 2. So I am really looking forward to what the summer term will bring.

Keep posted to find out what our theme will be for next term. Enjoy the Easter break and ther sun.

Mrs Street and Mrs Ryan

Magic Moments

Hello Everyone

Happy 2012!  We are really enjoying 2012 so far and have been really busy!  We have been looking into our theme 'Magic Moments' and finding out about lots of different places in the world.  Thank you for all the Chinese resources you brought into school.  We had a super chinese day and celebrated the year of the dragon by cooking a stir fry and making a big chinese dragon for our display.  It was great fun!

We are looking at france at the moment and the children have made lots of French artefacts and have loved building the Eiffel Tower with Mrs Ryan!  We have learnt some French Phrases like bon jour and merci.  Dylan's mum is very kindly coming to talk to us about france and teach us some French songs!

I will be sending home a family tree sheet some for the children to put a photo of someone special in their family on.

We are busy getting ready for the Eisteddfod in the next fortnight singing songs and saying poems!

Bye for now!

Mrs Street and Mrs Ryan

Class update

Hi, class 10 are settling in very well and are enjoying the activities they have been undertaking so far this term.

A few reminders:
PE is on Thursdays so can all children please bring kit.
Can all children please record and make comments in reading records so that I can monitor progress being made with reading at home.
Please ensure your child has wellies in school for outdoor activities.
Thanks!!!

We are setting up a materials investigation table in the classroom so any objects from home made of wood, metal, glass or plastic that you don't mind being handled would be much appreciated. These objects will be returned at the end of term.

It would be beneficial to your child if you could continue practsing letter and number formation at home.

Looking forward to our Harvest celebrations next week and thank you all for your support with the Ty Hafan sponsorship.

Welcome back!!!

Hi all,

It's lovely to be back at school after being off having my baby.  Glad you haven't forgotten me!

It's been a busy week so far settling into the new class.  I hope you all received the topic web and information to parents letter so you know what we are up to this term.  We would be grateful for anything for our role play and also junk for modelling.

Don't forget PE kits on Thursday and try and get dress yourself each morning as practice!

Enjoy your weekend

Mrs Street

Just a quick note to say a big thank you for all the lovely cards and gifts we recieved last week. It was very kind of you all.

I can't believe we are already saying goodbye to our Reception class. They've been a lovely class and we are going to miss them very much.

Have a fantastic summer and we look forward to seeing you around school in September.

Love,
Mrs Morris, Miss Williams and Mrs Ryan x

Hello,

As usual we've been very busy in class 11. At the moment we are practising for our sports day inbetween all the rain! We've got our fingers crossed for lots of sunshine next Thursday.

We had a fantastic day last Tuesday at Noah's Ark. The children loved it and did some super work about their favourite things. Top of the list was the giraffe who kicked the zebra and then stuck his tongue out! They also enjoyed the very bumpy tractor ride (despite getting soaked) and watching the tiger at feeding time.

Thank you to everyone who was out bird watching over the half term. The children have painted some lovely pictures of the birds they spotted using watercolours.

Another thank you to those who have sent in plants. We have planted them and are now watching them grow. The children picked our lettuce a couple of weeks ago and made litttle salad bowls for their snack. We are still waiting for the carrots to get bigger so we can pull them up.

I look forward to seeing you all at the school fete tomorrow.

Mrs Morris

Hello,
The children have settled back into school well after the Easter holidays. I enjoyed listening to all the exciting news they had to tell!
We started the new term with a change. Instead of the children coming into class and sitting down for the register they now come in and self register and then, with a couple of friends, choose a game from the 'wellbeing box'. The games all involve sharing and taking turns and the children seem to love playing them.
We have started our new topic 'In my little garden' by reading the book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. The children have painted some wonderful fruit for our display. We've been finding 1 more/1 less and adding sets of fruits together. We've been learning the days of the week and talking about what we do on different days.
The children are enjoying playing in our campsite outside. They've been sleeping in tents, cooking sausages on the BBQ and buying goodies from the campsite shop!
Unfortunatly, due to the weather, we didn't manage to get to the garden centre on Friday. Hopefully the weather will brighten up soon and we'll take a walk down to the Woodland Walk garden centre to look at the plants.
Look out for your information sheets this week which will tell you about what we're doing in Reception this term.
Mrs Morris

Hi,

We had a wonderful time on our trip to Bryngarw Country Park on Wednesday. Weren't we lucky with the weather? The park rangers commented on how well behaved the children were - well done! During the morning the rangers took us on a walk through the fields and woods looking for minibeasts. We were tired after our long walk so were glad to sit down for a picnic before the children had a great time in the park (with a very big slide!)
'I liked looking at the ducks in the pond.' Sophie
'We went to the park. I liked the tyre swings the best.' Isabelle
'I went on the big slide.' Amelia
'We had to pick up pine cones like the squirrels.' Lewis
'The squirrels ate them. They ate them like an apple and left the middle.' Logan
'We had to go across the bridges quietly so we didn't wake the trolls.' Seren G
'The man caught a toad to show us.' Iwan

 I've enjoyed looking at all the lovely Easter bonnets that have come in today. The children have obviously enjoyed making them and are very proud of their bonnets. Remember if you haven't made one yet our Grandparents Easter Celebration is on Tuesday so they need to be in Monday.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine.
See you Monday,
Mrs Morris

Hi,
Just a couple of notices.
The Easter fayre is being held on Wednesday 30th March straight after school. The children can come in non school uniform but can they please bring a mothers day gift as a forfeit.
We've had a couple of items of clothing getting muddled up on PE days recently and jumpers going missing. Can you please make sure your child's name is on all their clothes to make it easier for us to ensure that they bring their own things home.
It was great to see everyone last week at the parent/teacher meetings.
I hope you all enjoy the long weekend. See you Tuesday.
Mrs Morris

Class 11 have had a lovely couple of weeks and we've been making the most of this nice weather we've been having. The children have enjoyed working and playing outside, especially in the pirate ship!
The children have worked hard to prepare our planting beds. They had to pull out all the weeds and turn the soil ready to plant our seeds. We're hoping to have some delicious carrots and lettuce by the summer!
Sophie's mum kindly bought us in some frogspawn which the children have been watching very carefully. We now have lots of tadpoles and if you look through a magnifying glass you can see their legs are growing. We can't wait for them to turn into frogs!
The childen learnt a lot about christenings last week during our school RE week and particularly enjoyed the trip to church to take part in our own chrstening. Rev. Parkinson taught us lots about christenings and Tia and Charlie made excellent Godparents to Ava Ruby! The children also wrote invitations, made christening cards and stained glass windows.
Enjoy your weekend and I look forward to seeing you all next week for teacher/parents meetings.
Mrs Morris

I just wanted to say a big WELL DONE to all of class 11, who did such a fantastic job in the Eisteddfod on Friday. They listened really well to all the different songs and poems that were performed by the rest of the school. They were all very brave standing on the stage to sing 'Hicori Dicori Doc' and to recite 'Dyma Mami' especially the children who did it all by themselves!

Thank you also for the brilliant welsh souvenirs that the children made. They enjoyed showing these to the class and explaining how they made them. They are now on display around the school for everyone to admire!

This week we are going to be learning about christenings. If your child has any photos, cards etc. of their christening or a christening they have been to we would love to see them.

Many thanks,
Mrs. Morris

Hello,

Well, it's the end of another busy half term and I know the children are looking forward to a well deserved break. We've had a lovely couple of weeks and have enjoyed reading the book 'Where's my teddy?' which is full of rhyming words! The children were very clever, trying to think of their own.

Our toy shop has been very popular and the children have enjoyed being the shop keeper, writing tags and selling the toys to the customers. We've been trying to find the right coins to pay for the toys.

In preparation for the Eisteddfod next half term we've been learning a welsh song and poem which I'm sure your child would love to sing to you for a bit of extra practise!

I hope you all have a lovely half term and enjoy making your welsh souvenirs.

See you soon,
Mrs Morris

Hello,

The children have settled back into school well this term and we've had great fun beginning our topic 'Toys and Bears'. We've been reading the book 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' which the children have loved. We've turned our role play area into a bear cave and the children have been having fun dressing up as the bear or searching for him using their torches and binoculars! They have made puppets and have been very clever retelling the story. We even went on a bear hunt this week and got very messy following a map through the forest, the river and lots of mud until we discovered a bear hiding in the cave! The children wrote about their adventures when we returned.

We have also been looking at new and old bears. We have been looking at the similarities and differences and drawing pictures of the bears. Thank you for any bears that have been sent in.

The children have been very clever and have started to learn some of the names of 3D shapes. They enjoyed painting with them, finding out which ones they could roll and which ones they couldn't.

I'm very pleased with how well the children are doing with their reading folders. Please remember to return these on your child's reading day and also their bag by Thursday so that we can send home any work. Also please remember to send your child's P.E. kit on a Monday.

Many thanks,
Mrs Morris

Merry Christmas!

What an end to the term! I can't believe how much snow we've had today. I hope you are all enjoying yourselves, building snowmen and throwing snowballs! Have fun!

We've had a lovely last couple of weeks of term and I'm sure you'll all agree that the children did brilliantly in their concert. We are very proud of them all. Thank you again parents for the costumes you sent in and for helping your children with their words.

Another big thank you for all our lovely Christmas presents. It was really kind of you.

What a shame we didn't see all of you this week, but I hope those of you that have been off poorly are feeling much better now.

Finally, but most importantly, have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR! We look forward to seeing you all in January.

Mrs Morris, Miss Williams and Mrs Ryan

Well, what a busy couple of weeks we've been having in Reception! The children have been working really hard on their Christmas concert. I'm sure Mums and Dads can't wait to watch it! Thank you for all the costumes we've had in so far, we're looking forward to trying them out tomorrow!

We're starting to feel very Christmassy now, especially with all this snow! Thank you for the empty jars that have been sent in which the children have decorated and turned into Christmas tea light holders. They have also been busy making Christmas cards, hats, tree decorations and writing letters to Father Christmas. Our classroom is looking lovely!

I looking forward to seeing you all at the concert next week.

Mrs Morris