Pets

We have been learning about pets and how to care for them. We have enjoyed having some special visitors to school to help us learn about looking after different animals. We loved seeing Rohan's guinea pigs and bearded dragon [many thanks to Mrs Tarr for bringing them to visit us and telling us so much about them]. Mrs Ward brought in Mo and Merv two tortoises and we looked after them all day. Take a look at our learning. We now know how to take care of pets.

Over the past few weeks we have been finding out about Pontypridd. For our homework we chose places we would like to visit on Welly Wednesdays’. So far we have visited the Old Bridge, Historical Centre, the Fountain, Ynysangharad Park and found the statues of Evan James and James James in the Park.

I think our favourite place was the playground in the park. Look at some of the photographs we have taken of places we visited and the fun we had in the playground.

Here are some videos of us having fun.

We met an author

We went to the library to visit a special person. His name is Mark Dorey and he is an author. We loved reading his book “Can we walk to the moon?” We found out about how the story came about and he read the book to us. We were also lucky to hear about another one of his books ”Polly and the Magic Bubbles” it was very exciting and he kindly gave us some magic bubbles of our own to take home. One day we are hoping to write our own book just like Mark!

PC Rob

PC Rob came to visit us. He told us about his job and all the special clothes he wears. Some of us tried on his handcuffs and they were too big for us. We also tried on his different police hats. We told him when we see him in town we will say hello and give him a wave. We liked being police constables. Look at us in PC Rob’s hats.

Chinese New Year Videos

Chinese New Year

The Lower Foundation Phase children came to our Chinese feast. We had to prepare lots of things just like Chinese people do. We helped to clean, organise and decorate the hall. We made our own menus of things we would like to eat, we made Chinese dragons and made music to dance our dragons to through the playground. Lilly even challenged Mrs Ward to make a dragon so she had to make a big dragon and got the children to help her decorate it. We also made special drums and Chinese red envelopes with chocolate money in them.

We learnt a lot about how Chinese New Year is celebrated and had a delicious feast provided for us by The Oriental Buffet.  Many many thanks to Mr and Mrs Zhang for preparing such lovely food and helping us to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Our trip to the library

This week the children from Mrs Ward’s class and the children from Mr Hall’s class found themselves on a school visit to the same place. Very unusual except that the visit was to the Library a great place for all ages.

Both classes were very excited for different reasons .The children in Mrs Ward’s class were returning books from their last visit and looking for new books for our topic “Where in the World”. Mr Hall’s class were on a quest to find books of their own personal choice.

The best part of the visit was the way the children interacted with each other. Mr Hall’s children were fantastic reading stories to the younger children and talking about the books and the younger children loved listening to the story and spending time with the older children. Mr Hall’s class were also very patient as we walked back to school as some of the younger children were tired and needed encouragement up the hill back to school.

I think that all staff present were very proud of all of the children and the care and respect they showed each other. Congratulations to them all.