Home/School Task

You should all have received a letter with details of our Home/School Task this week.

Choose a children's bucket to decorate and plant with a flower or shrub. You can be as imaginative as you want. We will be displaying the buckets in our Outdoor Area and Golden Garden.

The completed buckets should be sent to school on Friday 11th June.

Have lots of fun with your children designing the buckets.

After the holiday we will be gearing up for Sports Day. Please send in a pair of daps or trainers that can be used on the field when we are practising. If possible send in a pair that can be left in school during the week and sent home on a Friday.

Hope you all have a fab holiday!

Enjoy!

Mrs Burton-Little

"Shiver me timbers!"

Class 10 have really enjoyed learning all about Pirates this week.

We have made Pirate hats and old maps. We have been on a treasure hunt and we have role played on the Pirate Ship. We have enjoyed some interesting stories such as 'A New Home for a Pirate' and 'Mungo and the Picture Book Pirates'. We have written about being a Pirate and drawn and painted Pirate portraits. We painted colourful parrots using our hand prints. It has certainly been a busy week!

Well done to Emily for finding out about Pirates on the computer! Thank you Sydney, Martha and Elin for all the Pirate dressing up clothes and treasure you have brought to school!

After half term we will be learning about the seaside in preparation for our trip to Weston and the Aquarium.

Look out next week for a new home/ school task for the half term holidays.

Thank you for all your support

Mrs Burton-Little

Pirates!

We are about to begin a mini topic on Pirates. We will be learning about some of the traditions of Pirates, reading some lovely stories including 'A New Home for a Pirate', role playing on our Pirate ship and making lots of exciting Pirate essentials such as hats, money bags, maps, parrots and of course treasure.

To make the most of the learning experiences the topic lends itself to I would be grateful for any dressing up costumes, old costume jewellery, Pirate storybooks or songs on CD or tape.

I would like the children to begin finding out about Pirates over the weekend. Use books or the internet, perhaps visit the library and then bring any information into school next week. It may be a picture of a pirate or a Pirate ship or a few lines describing what they do and the things associated with Pirates.

Enjoy finding out with your child!

Kindest regards

Mrs Burton-Little

Africa Week!

We have had a very busy time in school since returning from the Easter holidays. Africa week has been a great success thanks to Mrs Decaro and Mrs Dobbins who have organised some excellent events for the children to experience. We have been to an African Drumming class and listened to an African Storyteller. In class we are making African animal masks and African Jewellery. We have created collages of an African mud hut. We have used our library to find out all about animals from Africa. Did you know that an elephant can weigh as much as 7 cars? Cory found this out for us! Ask your child about our story Handa's Surprise, can they retell the story to you? We had great fun tasting the fruits from the story. We liked the mango, tangerines and passion fruit but the avacado didn't go down quite so well!

Next week we will be concentrating on 'Growing Things'. We are already growing Potatoes in our Golden Garden with help from Mrs Honey. Class 10, 9 and 8 are competeing to grow the biggest potatoe and to see who can harvest the most potatoes. We will be planting shrubs in our new planters, growing cress, planting beanstalks and hunting for minibeasts. If you would like to donate any shrubs, seeds or compost to our garden please do, we are always grateful for anything we can use in school.

You will receive a topic web and information sheet this week with details of the summer term. We are looking for holiday clothes, suitcases, bedding etc. for our Hotel Role play and anything linked to the seaside which the children can sell in our Beachside souvenir shop.

I would like every child to bring a smooth pebble into school so that they can decorate them later in the term.

Thank you all for helping us make the changes to entering and leaving our Area so smooth. The children in Class 10 are very grown up now!

Mrs Burton-Little

Thank you all!

Thank you all so much for attending our Coffee Afternoon yesterday and for the effort you all put into making such fabulous bonnets! I am sure you will agree that the children performed beautifully.

Thanks to all the staff who helped organise the event, to Martha's Mum for making such delicious cakes and Oliver's Mum for selling raffle tickets. We have raised over £100 which will be used to enhance our outdoor area.

If you would like to order an Easter class photograph go to the school foyer to place your order and pay by Friday.

Our patchwork, which was on display in the hall, is another big success and a good example of everyone working together!

The holidays are almost upon us and I'm sure everybody is ready for a good rest! When we get back to school on Tuesday 13th April we will be studying a mini topic on Africa for two weeks, so if you come across anything which will be useful please bring to school!

Enjoy the holiday and all the chocolate eggs!

Mrs Burton-Little

Newport Wetlands!

We had a great time at Newport Wetlands today. We all took part in bird watching, pond dipping and a minibeast hunt, luckily the rain held off until lunchtime. The whole class were very well behaved and a credit to Maesybryn.

Thankyou to everyone who came along to the Easter Fair yesterday!

Don't forget to bring your Easter Bonnets to school on Monday and Mums and Dads come along to our Coffee Afternoon at 3pm on Wednesday!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mrs Burton-Little

Happy Mother's Day

Class 10 wish all our Mum's a very happy Mother's Day! We've been busy putting the finishing touches to our cards and gifts this week. All the children are very proud of their efforts and can't wait to give you their special presents on Sunday.

We've already started working on our Easter songs and poems ready for our Coffee afternoon on Wednesday 24th March at 3.00pm. You are all welcome to join us for a little performance and an Easter bonnet parade. We will be selling refreshments, including cakes baked by the children along with raffle tickets and hope to raise some money for our Outdoor Area with a view to having some safety flooring installed. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Don't forget to work on our Home/School Task. I can't wait to see your Easter bonnets when you bring them to school on Monday 22nd March. Some children will be going to the local Older People's Residential Home to show their bonnets and sing a song.

You have probably noticed some of the changes already made to our Outdoor Area. The children are really enjoying all the new experiences, particularly the Pizza Parlour which is located in our new shed. We hope to continue developing the space over the coming months.

Enjoy the sunshine!

Mrs Burton-Little