We have celebrated Outdoor Classroom day by lots of fun activities. We revisited our work of identifying the trees that grow on our school ground and explored what creatures lay underneath the dead leaves. We found slugs of different shapes and sizes and even some eggs! Can you guess what creature laid these eggs?
Did you know that you can learn Maths, Literacy and Art outside too? We have looked at symmetry, odd and even numbers, halving and doubling.
Mrs Roberts also set us different Pumpkin challenges where we learned what is inside a pumpkin, counted the seeds of a pumpkin by grouping, making pumpkin soup in the mud kitchen, describing pumpkins and measuring them. Do you think that pumpkin will float or sink in the water?
Spring Term:
The Foundation Phase class has returned back to school after online learning and it was a joy to be back in class with everyone!
Here are some photos from our Easter activities. We had to use our literacy and numeracy skills in the Easter egg hunt challenge and our thinking and creative skills in our outdoor art and science challenges. How can you tell if an egg is hard boiled or raw? Can you predict, which will roll faster down the ramp?
Summer Term
Our topic this term has been Sustainability. Have a look at our school newspaper to see what we have been up to.
FP Sports day
Scan the QR code to see photos from the day
Class Trip to Manorbier Castle
We have visited Manorbier Castle in the Spring term whilst learning about our local area. We had so much fun exploring the castle and Katie told us lots of interesting facts from the history of the castle. Did you know that Gerald of Wales was born there and that there is a secret passage to the beach!
This term, we have also enjoyed our trip to the beach where we were able to practice our mathematical skills such as measuring, balancing and number formation in the sand.
Our topic this term is Community (Cymuned) and we have been exploring places close to us and further afield. We have travelled on the train from Manorbier to Tenby and visited Tenby Lifeboat Station. Did you know that each lifeboat is named after a river? The lifeboat in Tenby is called Tamar and it is 16m long.
We loved our visit to Bluestone this term where we were able to put our physical skills into good use and develop them further. We have tested our agility, balancing, thinking skills and courage (which is our value for this term).
Saint Davids – Tyddewi
On Wednesday the 26th of October we have travelled to St. Davids as a part of a project called “On Your Doorstep” curated by Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales and hosted by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority at Oriel y Parc Gallery. This visit was aimed to inspire everyone to explore the nature, geology and archaeology that exists all around us, and to enjoy the health and well-being benefits of getting outdoors that this can bring. We have explored the exhibits in the gallery and found out that there are treasures to be found in Manorbier!!!! Archeologist Tomos talked to us about the Roman pottery that was discovered in Manorbier but did not tell us where as that is a secret! We were then involved in various hands on workshops and creative our own exhibition as a group.
St. Davids Cathedral
This has been a special place to visit and well worth the long travel on the bus. We met Janet at the cathedral that showed us around and told us so many interesting stories and facts about the cathedral. Can you remember what is so interesting about the ceiling and what is the name of David’s mum? Janet has finished our tour of the cathedral with a special prayer for our school. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Pumpkins everywhere!!!
We had so much fun using our cross-curricular skills exploring the wonders of pumpkins. We learnt a poem about a pumpkin (ask us to recite it for you at home); used our fine motor skills to make play dough pumpkins; chopped up vegetables to make a delicious pumpkin soup (ask us for the recipe) and we used tweezers to count pumpkin seeds. Can you estimate/ have a guess of how many seeds may be in one medium sized pumpkin ?(It is a 3-digit number!)
We have also read stories about pumpkins which helped us to reflect on our social skills. In our guided reading session, Stitch the Witch inspired us to experiment with potion making and writing our own spells.
Morning at Lydstep beach with Tom and Megan from Pembrokeshire National Parks. We had great fun exploring the beach trying to look for fossils and being chased by the tide.
Christmas activities
We have been using our Numeracy and Literacy skills to follow a recipe to make ginger bread biscuits, writing our letters to Santa, making Christmas wishes and using lots of glitter! We used our co-operative skills to work with the junior class on putting together a Christmas Show. We hope that you enjoy watching it.
Nadolig Llawen!
Can you remember the Welsh words for:
Father Christmas – Siôn Corn
Christmas Tree – Coeden Nadolig
Star – Seren
Snow – Eira
Da iawn!
We had different visitors coming to see us this term.
Fireman Lee told us a story about Sbarc the dragon and taught us how to stay safe. DO NOT TOUCH, TELL! Do you remember the phone number that you can call in case of an emergency? Who knows their home address?
Chris – our local National Parks ranger came to show us what creatures have been captured on the outdoor camera which we have put on the field before the school fire. We were all amazed how many animals we were able to see. Most of them came out at night which means that they are nocturnal. Which one was your favourite? Beth ydy dy hoff anifail?
Welcome back Esther! Croeso nôl Esther!
We were all so excited to see our friend Esther return back to school after her treatment at the hospital! We celebrated by having a party and sharing all of our news. What a happy day!! Diwrnod Bendigedig!
As part of our Global Learning this term, we have been exploring the Polar Regions. We have looked at the differences and similarities of the North and South Pole. We learnt about how different the environment is and how to write an animal fact file. We enjoyed our blubber experiment where we measured the time difference between our hand being in an icy water and then covering our hand in lard (representing the blubber) and putting it in the icy water again. Ask as what happened! Gofynnwch i ni Beth ddigwyddodd!
We love being creative! Using our literacy skills, we have been able to follow instructions and make some clay pots. We can’t wait for them to dry so that we can paint them.
This term, we went on a trip to Carew Castle where we were able to step back in time and explore what life would have been like in the 15th century. We met Sir Rhys and Lady Evie and learned about horrible histories. After the trip we used Talk 4 Writing to tell you all about our day. Have a look and listen!
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Ehedydd 2023/24
Croeso nol bawb! Welcome back everyone! Well done to Naomi for growing her cucumbers over the summer holidays from our seeds! It tasted delicious too! Bendigedig Naomi! Have you been growing anything in your garden?
Mae’r dosbarth Ehedydd wedi bod yn brysur iawn ymarfer sgiliau rhyfedd wythnos yma. The Skylarks class has been busy practicing their number skills this week.
We are so excited about taking Deio the dragon home! He went home with Mrs Roberts first to Pembroke Dock and met her dog Nala. Pwy sy nesa? Who is next? #Deio’sadventures #AnturiaethiauDeio
Dosbarth Ehedydd has been learning about the Welsh artist Gwen John. We have enjoyed exploring different art techniques and we look forward to our trip to the Art Gallery next week! #expressivearts #GwenJohn #cwricwlwmCymraeg
We went on a class trip to Tenby Musem and Art Gallery this week. We were able to see the artwork of Gwen and Augustus John. We loved having playtime on the beach and enjoyed eating our ice creams! What a fantastic day! Diwrnod gwych! #TenbyArtGallery #GwenJohn
Diwrmod Shwmae!!!
Entrepreneurship
In the last week of term we had a go at making our honey soap and honey cupcakes and selling them at Manorbier Castle. We have managed to sell them all and made a profit of £38!! Amazing work! #entrepreneurship
We were able to use our numeracy skills as well as literacy skills while following the recipes. We have one more honey item to make and sell before we can decide what to spend our money on.
Diversity
This term, Skylarks class has been exploring diversity by looking at Chinese culture. We have tasted and reviewed Chinese food, practiced our fine motor skills using chopsticks, making origami dragons and painting numbers in calligraphy. This year is the year of the dragon and we were able to compare the Chinese culture to our Welsh culture. Watch out for our dragon stories!
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus bawb! Happy Saint Davids Day everyone! We had a lovely day celebrating our patron of Wales today. We have been learning about St. David’s life by completing a Kahoot, being inspired by Rhiannon Roberts to create our own artwork, dancing to the Welsh Whisperer, singing Lawr ar lan y mor and eating Picau ar y Maen and Cawl.
We have enjoyed our Easter activities this week. We have started with reading the Easter story and entering an Easter egg competitions with Seren and Sbarc. We have used our numeracy skills to measure the distances in our egg rolling challenge and worked as a team in the Easter egg hunt activity. We have created amazing patterns on our Easter egg cards. Pasg Hapus bawb! Happy Easter everyone!
