Miss Abdi came back for a visit! She talked to us about being a Muslim.
AOLE Language Literacy and Communication. Darllen yn gymraeg.
Refugee Week 2024
Refugee Week 2024 we explored what makes a home and how we can make people feel at home. We are a School of Sanctuary.
AOLE Mathematics and Numeracy. Exploring fractions. Re using party plates.
Gemau Gymraeg
CTK Sports Day 2024
Sports Day 2024 Year 3 flat race.
Sports Day year 3 flat races
Sports Day 2024 Flat Race.
Sports Day 2024 flat race.
Sports Day 2024 races
AOLE Humanities. Rocks, Relics and Rumbles. Tsunami research.
First Holy Communion Party Day.
Volcano explosions. Investigating chemical reactions.
AOLE Science and Technology CTK Science Week 2024 Making model volcanoes.
AOLE Science and Technology CTK Science Week 2024 Snap Circuits
AOLE Science and Technology Spakle Lab visit. Looking for slow and fast reactions.
AOLE Science and Technology Spakle Lab visit. Looking for slow and fast reactions.
AOLE Science and Technology Spakle Lab visit. Looking for slow and fast reactions.
AOLE Science and Technology Techniquest visit. Looking for slow and fast reactions. Learning about extreme weather and going to the shop.
AOLE Expressive Arts. Lead Creative Project week 5. Presentation to our families.
AOLE Expressive Arts. Lead Creative Project week 5. Rehearsal day.
AOLE Humanities researching Mary Anning. We have brought books from home to share with our friends.
AOLE Expressive Arts. Lead Creative Project working with musician Will and mime artist Dominika. We performed our songs, searched for the lost keys to the story box and made wind chimes from the keys.
AOLE Science and technology. Mini beast research and drawing.
World Earth Day 2024
AOLE Expressive Arts. Lead Creative week 2 and 3 games, songs and observational drawing.
AOLE Expressive Arts. Lead Creative Project week 1 Mini beast hunt, dance, mapping, meditation, poem
Forest School Easter Art. We looked for interesting textures and shapes to add to our Easter Egg collage. Using natural materials, looking at the different shades of green and adding texture. Outdoor Learning. AOLE Expressive Arts
Cutting cardboard, working with string to create a board we can weave interesting materials into, tying knots.
Congratulations to our Year 3 winner of the digital photography competition 🙌🏼
Making our ‘pop up’ Easter card. ‘He is Risen!’
Year 3 led the whole school reflection on the Resurrection story. We started in darkness, waiting together. Our families dames to join us and see the good news. ‘He is Risen’.
World Book Day 2024
World Book Day 2024 Dressed as our favourite characters, reading favourite books, a book swap lucky dip. AOLE Language Literacy and Communication.
Whole School assembly to hear about our Lent projects and Live Simply awards. We are supporting women in the Birth Partner Project with our baby item donations and this is meeting one of the targets of our CAFOD Live Simply award. It is also acting out our mission as a School of Sanctuary. Thank you to Mrs Stubly for coming to talk to us about how we are helping the new mums in need.
Living our school mission to serve others. Our Big Lent Walk to raise money for CAFOD
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus
Eisteddfod St. David’s Day
Eisteddfod AOLE Language Literacy and Communication sharing our talents and enjoying our Cynefin
AOLE Science and Technology - Signs of spring. 🐥 A visit from the chicks that hatched in our Reception class. We saw how their feathers are beginning to grow and change from fluffy to feathery. They were very strong and lively when we tried to hold them and made lots of noise.
Chick visit.
AOLE Science and Technology taking part in a live lesson on Hwb with Dom Traynor from Adobe. We were learning how to use Adobe Express to make a fact flag about St. David. Friends from year 5 came to help us.
AOLE Expressive Arts some examples of our chalk pastel work to illustrate the storm in our class Talk for Writing story a Welsh Myth ‘Daughters of the Sea’.
AOLE Expressive Arts, Llanguage Literacy and Communication. Bigfoot Arts Drama Workshop a Welsh Legend Culhwch and Olwen.
AOLE Health & Well being: on Safer Internet Day we learned about safe passwords with PC Rhys
AOLE Language Literacy and Communication. Year 3 won the Tocyn Iath competition this week. Da iawn. 2nd February 2024
AOLE STEM. Our friends from year 5 came to show us how to use the Adobe suite on Hwb to create posters showing the rules for living in God’s kingdom. They helped us log in and get started.
AOLE STEM using digital media to create poster showing rules for God’s Kingdom on Earth.
AOLE Humanities. Educational visit to the Roman Legionary Museum at Caerleon. Amphitheater, Barracks and a visit to the medic. 30th January 2024
Big Schools’ Birdwatch 19th January 2024
We said good bye and good luck to our student teacher Miss Abdi. 26th January 2024
AOLE Mathematics and Numeracy, Science and Technology. Stop Motion times tables. 26th January 2024
Heavy work together at Forest School collaborating to make dens. 12th January 2024
Forest School, lifting, moving, rolling, discussing, busy, heavy work.
Advent 2023. Whole School Advent Mass, weekly liturgy to light the Advent candles, craft activities to create characters from the Christmas story.
Angels of Peace artwork inspired by Janet Stever AOLE Expressive Arts. We retold the Christmas story in pictures in sections of the Angel's skirts.
Wow tracker badges being presented to us by our Eco Team. December 2023
Whittling sticks that we collected in our outdoor learning session to make stick characters from the Christmas story. AOLE Expressive Arts
Show and Tell. December 2023. Our friend shared information about their pets and favourite animals.
Advent Mass 2023
Year 3 Christmas performance retelling the story of the Journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus Christ.
Outdoor Learning at Forest School December 2023. Collecting sticks, whittling and sharing hot chocolate.
Whole School visit to the theatre to see ‘Santa’s Wish’. December 2023
World Children’s Day. Our Rights group led an assembly.
Maths - times table tennis.
Forest School planning session with our Creative Lead Practitioner Cat. Meditation, planting and reflecting on the creatures that share our school environment.
Year 4 came to share their end of topic presentations with us. They have been learning about the Blue Abyss.
STEM comparing the human skeleton to the skeleton of a predator.
Criw Cymraeg came to give us our new Welsh bag. This will be taken home each week so Dewi Ddraig can join in with the activities we do at home. We will write about our adventures in the special book.
Climate Week Live Webinar - day 4
Climate Week 2023 Eco Schools Wales live lesson 1. What is climate change? How do we know about global warming?
Climate Week live lesson.
Anti Bullying Week 2023
Forest School 10th November 2023. Leaf art making poppies.
Leaf Art
Voting for our Senedd groups in UK Parliament week.
Discussing which Senedd group we would like to vote for. AOLE Language Literacy and Communication
Look who won the ‘Biggest Acorn’ competition in our Outdoor Art university group. Congratulations. Enjoy your prize.
Show Racism the Red Card - Wear Red Day 23 year 3 joined the online assembly and created posters to share the important messages with their families.
Wear Red Day 23
Black History Month. Year 3 have studied the paintings of Alma Thomas a black artist, created fact files about her life and tried to paint in her style.
Black History Month. We studied the work of Jean Michel Basquiat a black artist and tried to create a work in pastels influenced by his style.
Black History Month. Year 3 chose an inspirational person that we have learned about to create a fact file on. Betty Campbell, Shirley Bassey, Alma Thomas, Jean Michel Basquiat.
AOLE Science and Technology. Creating food chains, using new science vocabulary as we sort and order predator, prey, consumers, producers, decomposes, apex predators.
AOLE STEM and Health and Well being. Year 3 first educational visit of the year to Newport Wetlands. We took part in an RSPB workshop and walked to the light house to see the mud flats.