Festive Fun

We had a fabulous time in our Christmas Party with Miss Davies'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.

Religious Education Week

For RE week we have been looking at the Jewish Festival of Sukkot. We listened to the story of Sukkot where the Jewish people were slaves in Egypt, they followed Moses away from Egypt to the Red Sea where they ended up in a desert.  They made huts for shelter using palm leaves for the roof.  Now the Jewish people eat, play and sleep in their Sukkah for 7 days during October as a reminder of their past.  We made our own Sukkah from card, lego and blocks. We also made our own Thankyou Prayers using ICT.

Mmmmm Crumble

We have been looking at Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as our topic for the week.  We have looked at lots of apples to find out which one we preferred.  We tried Gala, Golden Delicious, Cripps and Granny Smiths apples, thankfully none of them made us fall asleep.  We made a tally chart and found that the most popular apples in the class were the Gala apples followed closely by the Granny Smiths.  We then looked at an apple we could not eat without cooking.  It was a Bramley apple, Mrs Davies cooked the Bramley apples and we made a crumble topping.  We used flour, butter and sugar and rubbed it all together and put our crumble topping on to the cooked apples.  It was then cooked in the oven and we tasted it.  Some of us didn't like it but lots of us did and we had seconds. It was a lot of fun to make and eat.

Our trip to the castles

AUTUMN TERM 2013

We visited Castell Coch and Caerphilly Castle as part of our topic for the term. We chose these two castles as it was good for the children to see the differences between a fairy castle and an authentic one. We were surprised to learn that the leaning tower in Caerphilly Castle leans more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa! We were keen to learn about different facts of the castles and enjoyed looking at the siege engines and how they worked.  We didn't like the dungeons because they were cold, wet and dark! Take a look at our photos below.

Assistant photographer Ffion Evans's photos

Our visit to Dan yr Ogof Caves

On the 6th June we visited Dan yr Ogof caves. We walked through the caves which were dark and scary at times and saw lots of stalactites and stalagmites.  We pointed out the ones we saw on the internet and especially liked the piece of bacon!  The caves were wet in places and we couldn't believe the amount of water that was coming down.  When we came out of the caves we ate our lunch and then went to the farm.  We saw lots of Llamas, they must have been very hot because they were very woolly! Below are some photographs that Mrs Davies took and her assistant photographer Tomi Frankland.

Mrs Davies's Photos

Tomi Frankland's Photos

Life size dinosaur!

We have been looking at dinosaurs for our fortnightly topic.  The children have found out many interesting facts and have brought in fantastic books to look at. We have compared different dinosaurs and created our own.  We measured out a T-Rex in our hall using metre sticks and rulers.  We were shocked at how big he was.  We went into the yard to measure out and draw the T-Rex with chalk.  We used metre sticks to measure his body and used coloured spots to mark them.  We used rulers to measure out his teeth.  The T-Rex is 12metres long from the head to tail, his head is 1 1/2 metres long, he is 6 metres tall with 23cm teeth.
We stood inside T-Rex's tummy to see how many children he could eat, there was plenty of room so we asked the children in Year 1 to come in and there was still room, T-Rex ate 56 of us! We lay down inside his tummy and he was too full so some of the children had to lie down by his mouth ready for his next meal.
Mrs Jarrold said he could be painted in gloss paint so we could play on him for a little longer because the rain would wash the chalk away so Mrs Davies, Mrs Dyas and Mrs Carroll painted him after we went home.

Bristol Zoo

We had a fantastic day out at Bristol Zoo!  We saw lots of dinosaurs there too!  We saw the Gorillas having a snooze, the Lion cubs having a play and the Meercats were digging away.  The Penguins were grooming themselves and the Seals were swimming around. We took lots of photos for you to see including being eaten by a set of Shark's teeth! We became half Gorilla and took a ride in a Kangaroos pouch!

Our Assistant Photographer on the day was Tomi Frankland who took some amazing photos as you can see here.

Pirate Party

The children had a fantastic day filled with pirate activities in the morning and in the afternoon there were pirate games, dancing and a pirate feast!

Science Week - Materials

We looked at different materials and sorted them into natural and man-made.  We investigated which materials would float or sink. Nobody predicted all of them correctly but Oliver Needs only guessed one wrong.

Science Week - Cheese

We made our own cheese by investigating the separation of milk using an acid.  We added lemon juice to milk and watched it curdle. Then we put it in a mold and let it drain.  Then we took it out of the mould and had made Ricotta Cheese.  We enjoyed eating it on crackers.

Science Week - Moving Vehicles

We designed and made moving vehicles using a variety of materials.  We worked individually or in pairs.  We had a race to see which vehicle went the furthest.  Daniel Hearn's car won the race.