Festive Fun

We had a fabulous time in our Christmas Party with Mrs Dyas's class and Mrs Sheppeard's class playing games and dancing. We then went to refuel ourselves with lovely party food and use all of our energy afterwards playing more games in the middle block hall. Take a look at us all having lots of Christmas fun in our photos.

Royal Letters

As part of our R.E. week the children in Year One learnt all about Baptisms and the christening of Prince George. As part of our topic, we sent congratulation cards to Prince George and his family to celebrate his birth and his Christening. We went on a walk to the post box to post our letters to Buckingham Palace. We were astounded when every child received a sealed envelope from Buckingham Palace with a picture of the royal baby to thank us for the kind cards we had created. Miss Davies and Mrs Sheppeard were also very excited to receive thank you letters. 

PC Rob Thomas

On Thursday 28^th November, the children in Miss Davies’s class were lucky enough to have a special visit from PC Rob Thomas. The children loved learning all about the work of the police and how they keep us safe. 

Anti bullying week

As part of the National Anti Bullying Week, Miss Davies’s class made friendship potions and spells. We helped Miss Davies’s friend ‘Sid’ to become a better friend and be kind to his friends. The children wrote a friendship recipe and created a bottle of this magical potion to take home. We all now know how to be a fantastic friend!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Miss Davies’s class have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We re-enacted the story, filmed it on our iPad and watched it back on our interactive white board. We tasted some yummy apple crumble which we made with Mrs Duncan and we made spoon characters from the story with Miss Davies. It was great! 

 

Mmmm Crumble

We have been looking at Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and as part of the story has a poisonous apple we thought it would be nice to make an apple crumble that wouldn't make us fall asleep.  We looked at the type of apples we were going to use and then we made our crumble topping.  We used flour, butter and sugar and rubbed it together so it was crumbly.  We put it on top of our cooked apples and cooked it in the oven.  It was very tasty and we didn't fall asleep.

AUTUMN TERM 2013

Our trip to the castles

We had a fabulous day visiting Castell Coch and Caerphilly Castle. We loved the decorative rooms in Castell Coch and we enjoyed being a Prince or Princess for the day. We held the leaning tower in Caerphilly in case it fell down. It was a little scary. Take a look at or photos below.

Dan-yr-ogof Caves

We had a wonderful time in Dan-yr-ogof caves.  We crept through the caves, it was very dark in one of them.  We saw lots of different shapes and lots of water.  The Bone cave was very scary but we were brave.  We all felt very hungry after our walk and had a picnic next to some massive dinosaurs. We enjoyed visiting the farm, there were lots of llamas enjoying the sunshine.  We finished our visit with a visit to the shop and enjoyed scrumptious ice-cream. 

Dinosaur Activities

Our fortnightly topic is on dinosaurs. We have had plenty of fun looking and comparing dinosaurs.  We have been busy with lots of dinosaur activities.  We counted cubes and made dinosaurs from them, drew lots of pen drawings of our favourite dinosaur and we made mind maps with lots of dinosaur facts.

Using a ruler!

We did lots of measuring with a ruler in our books to see how long the lines were then we continued our measuring outside.  We measured lots of things including bricks and leaves. We had lots of fun.

Mini Beast Hunt

Before we went on our mini beast hunt we discussed what mini beasts are and their identifying features. We went on a mini beast hunt around the school grounds and in the park.  We took magnifying glasses and pots and collected some mini beasts.  We brought them back into school where we compared and discussed them.  We then set them free in our garden.

Pirate Party

The children had a fabulous day being pirates. They did lots of pirate activities in the morning followed by pirate games, pirate dancing and a pirate feast in the afternoon.

Bristol Zoo

We had a fabulous day out in Bristol Zoo.  The parrots enjoyed being fed by us as much as we enjoyed feeding them! We were a little scared at times when we saw some of the dinosaurs but they were brilliant to watch. The seal talk was interesting and it was nice to see the seal doing tricks.

Science

We investigated the best way to clean copper coins and it was with ketchup.  It was a messy experiment but we had lots of fun.





Our challenge was to make a bridge strong enough to hold dinosaurs but we could only use paper and masking tape.  It was tricky but we did it!



We also explored "Lively Liquids".  We put half a raisin into a glass of fizzy lemonade and watch the raisin rise (the bubbles made it go up).  Then we put vegetable oil and water in a bottle, added food colouring and an Alka Selzer.  Lots of tiny bubbles attached themselves to the coloured water and went up and down as the bubbles popped.