Our Visit to Cardiff Castle

We visited Cardiff Castle to train to become knights.

We learnt lots of things about the Castle long ago and looked at the old rooms.

We had fun and ate our lunch. Then we met Sir Devlin and he trained us to be knights .We are proud to say that we all passed the test and are qualified knights ready to slay dragons.

Our trip to Mountain View

We had a wonderful time in Mountain View where we saw lots of fairies and their homes in the trees, we met the Gruffalo and his friends as well as seeing the animals.  The weather wasn't very nice but it didn't stop us having lots and lots of fun!

Exploring shops

The children in Reception class wanted to change their construction site into a shop so we went to explore Pontypridd Market.

We found the fruit and vegetable stall and used the shopping lists we had written to buy fruit.

We have been busy exploring our favourite fruits, comparing and drawing the inside and outside of fruits and tasting lots of different fruits. Take a look at some of the things we have been doing.

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.