Cwtch Un
Class teachers: Miss Carrington and Mrs Davies (Wednesdays)
Teaching assistant: Mrs Lawrence
Celebrating My Work
Year 1 and 2 Party Invite
Year 1 and 2 mix up morning. We learnt to compare temperature in Cardiff and the Amazon Rainforest with Mrs Vaughan. We practised coding using BeeBots and hwb with Miss Carrington.
We have been learning about compassion and the importance of ‘Refugee Week’
Learning animals in Spanish with Mrs Ewins!
We have been learning to tell the time to the hour and half past.
Thanks to Mrs Hartfield who came to teach us about pollination.
We enjoyed some outdoor learning with Mrs Hartfield and Mrs Maylia.
We had a visit from PC Rhys, who spoke to us about how to stay safe when playing outside of school.
Our trip to Newport Wetlands!
Bug hunting to collect data to create tally charts and pictograms.
More pictures from our coronation celebrations!
Coronation Celebrations
Making arrays to help build our understanding of multiplication.
Trip to Newport Wetlands - Tuesday 16th May 2023.
Coronation Celebration Friday 5th May 2023
We have been investigating making halves of an object.
Families Learning Together - Summer Term 2023
Happy Easter!
We have been learning about ‘Urban Landscapes’ in expressive arts. We explored how to create texture using different materials such as salt, cling film and tissue paper to create the background of our final design. Our charcoal castle is inspired by the work of Dorian Spencer Davies, a local Welsh landscape artist. We love how our final pieces turned out!
Invite to our 'Medieval Banquet'.
In Progression Step 2 this term we are focusing on humanities and expressive arts.
As part of our topic we will be writing poetry, creating multimedia presentations, performing dance and designing our coat of arms. There is a great focus on castles and life long, long ago.
As part of our topic we will look at urban landscapes. In numeracy, we will be learning about number, measurement, fractions, position and measurement. We will consolidate this through our Big Maths.
Eisteddfod activities such as recitals, handwriting, poetry, art and singing will also be covered this half term. We will also send home an activity linked to the topic and this will be judged for our Eisteddfod.
In PE lessons we will be creating dances including Welsh dance for the Eisteddfod. Later in the term, we will be developing our teamwork and ball skills. Our PE day is Thursday. Please make sure your child is wearing a suitable kit.
We will continue to develop our understanding of our values:
Respect
Aspiration
Teamwork
Equity.
If you arrive before 8:20am please wait in the playground where your teacher or an adult from the class will come and collect your child. If you arrive after this time an adult will be ready to collect your child from you as you pass through the gates. Please do not linger in this area, the staff will supervise the children when they are taking off their coats and coming into the classroom.
We had an exciting medieval workshop this week.
Snow Day at Bishop Childs.
World Book Day 2023!
Some extra photos from the day we met a knight!
We had a great day celebrating St David’s Day and the Eisteddfod.
Eisteddfod Home Learning Competition 2023
Practising our Welsh Dancing in PE for the Eisteddfod.
We worked hard to finish our Coat of Arms this week, we are so proud of our work!
We have been working independently in our Big Maths sessions.
This half term in Expressive Arts we have been designing our own Coat of Arms. This week we made our final design using clay.
Practising our addition skills by working as a team to score on the target.
We have been investigating how far we can shoot the arrows. We measured using meter sticks.
We have been writing poems about castles, we are creating our own ebooks and designing our coat of arms.
We love our new topic - Long, long ago. We enjoy exploring the topic through all areas of learning.
Winter Bird Watch - We made apple bird feeders.
Cardiff Castle Visit
We met a knight and he told us all about his work, his armour and his weapons.
Families Learning Together Course - Fun With Maths
Cardiff Castle Trip - Wednesday 18th January 2023.
Autumn 2 Homework
Homework has been set on the children's Seesaw account.
Your child will also be given a printed copy of the maths and literacy tasks.
Please read the top of each slide so that you know when each task is to be completed.
HOMEWORK
How to log into Bug Club.
Half Term Homework
Autumn 1 - Homework
Dear Parent / Carer,
Homework will be going out on Seesaw. There are two pages for each week.
One page is based on your child's literacy work in class and the other is based on the mathematics we are completing over this half tern
I have included lots of practical activities for your child to do, such as play games, matching, ordering and spelling. The hard copies are to accompany the homework on seesaw, the resources can be used to support your child with the mathematics activities.There are some links to spelling and phonic games as well as some mathematics games.
If you need any further support or guidance with this, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Bug Club books and phonics activities will also be shared with you on a regular basis.
Thank you
Mrs Davies
We refer to the four purposes in our lessons.
Here are our four purpose characters.
Christmas jumper and craft day!
We were very resilient building our own igloos and it was worth it in the end!
Making our own Christingles.
Children in need 2022.
We had a very exciting visit from the Cwtch Chwech 'Faith and Values' Committee. They taught us about the festival of Diwali and helped us create our own rangoli patterns on the playground!
In PE we have been doing Yoga as part of our Health and Wellbeing topic. We had lots of fun trying out different poses and learning how yoga is important for our mental health.
Creating our final portraits in the style of 'Cubism' by Picasso.
21st October - Show racism the red card day.
Teaching each other games to support our important value of 'teamwork' - lots of fun playing charades with Mrs Lawrence.
Exploring our gardening area and having fun in our farm shop.
Creating our own colour wheels by mixing primary colours to investigate how secondary colours are made.
Having fun using Dance Mat Typing to learn important typing skills and finishing our day with some mindfulness.
Using natural resources to create faces and 2D shapes to make the Queens head!
Working hard at practising our capital letters.
Here we are having great fun keeping ourselves fit and healthy on the bikes.
We love eating our healthy snacks outside in the fine weather.
Trip Letter - Techniquest
We have been busy during our first few days in Cwtch Un.
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