Winter pictures

Although we haven't had any snow in Pontyclun yet this year the children still enjoyed painting their own snowman pictures.  When they were dry they added detail with pastels.  

RNLI SOS day

Avast me hearties!! On Friday we dressed up to raise money for RNLI SOS day. Thank you to everyone who brought in a donation. We raised £50  which we will be sending to this worthy charity that the children have been learning about this term. We enjoyed lots of pirate activities including learning how to speak like a real pirate!

To find out a little more visit the RNLI website for children  www.rnli.org/shorething

Winter Walk

After cancelling twice due to the rainy weather we finally got to go on our winter woodland walk.

We wrapped up warm with hats, coats, gloves and scarves.

It was a good job we wore our wellies there was lots of mud about!

We crossed over the bridge. The river was flowing very fast.

We enjoyed running up and down the hills. We noticed a lot more leaves on 

the ground than when we went on our autumn walk and most of the trees were bare.

Some horses came to see what we were up to.

A class photo before the big walk back to school.  What a fun time we had! 

Floating and sinking

Mr Grinling the lighthouse keeper wrote to us to ask for our help. He needed a new boat but he was not  sure what material would be the best to use. We decided that a boat should float so we carried out an investigation to find materials that would float in water and materials that would sink. 

We recorded our results in a table.

Observational drawings of boats

We have been finding out about different types of boats. We made a collection of toy boats and looked at them carefully from different angles. We noticed what we saw was not the same. Very carefully we drew only what we could see.

RNLI

To start off our topic Tim from the RNLI came to school to talk to us about the fabulous work of the RNLI. We listened really carefully and asked lots of questions to find out more.  Miss Davies even got to try on the  RNLI rescue uniform. 

After that we got to dress up ourselves and pretend we were doing our own rescues from our amazing lifeboat station role play.

Welcome back!

Welcome back and Happy New Year!  This half term, our topic is ‘Land Ahoy!  The main focus of the topic is design and technology and teaches the children about the properties of different materials, simple forces, and water safety.  During this topic the children will learn:

·         About forces (push, pull, floating and sinking);

·         About the properties of different materials;

·         How to conduct a fair test;

·         About water transport through the ages and across the world;

·         How to use a range of sources to find information;

·         How to write and retell narrative stories.

During literacy lessons we will also be covering:

Spelling patterns

·         ss/zz

·         ck

·         y at the end

·         wh

·         ay

·         ea

Grammar

·         alphabetical order;

·         adjectives;

·         verbs;

·         conjugating verbs;

·         past tense;

·         doubling rule;

·         future tense.

During Maths lessons we will be covering:

·         Recognising zero; reading numbers to 100 in words and figures;

·         Counting objects by grouping in 10’s;

·         Understanding and using ordinal numbers;

·         Ordering numbers to 20 and beyond;

·         Comparing capacities and measuring using non-standard units;

·         Comparing weights and measuring using non-standard units;

·         Describing position and movement;

For further advice or guidance on how to support your child’s learning at home please speak to any member of staff.   Thank you for your continued support.             

Mrs Vaughan & Miss Davies                    

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