Cardiff Castle

Yesterday we visited Cardiff Castle as part of our topic for this term - Long ago and far away.  We met a nice man called Dyfed who was a storyteller. Our task was to make a modern version of Little Red Riding Hood. We gave her a golden motorbike to ride on, dressed her in yellow and the wolf drove around in a car. Our voices were recorded retelling the story and Dyfed is going to be putting it on a CD for us. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and thought the storytelling was amazing.

Next we looked at the Birds of Prey they have in the castle grounds. There was an Eagle owl called Hector, he was huge and a Little owl called Mr G who was very cute. We saw Daisy the barn owl fly towards the keeper but when we approached she didn't want to fly anymore so the keeper brought Hector the Eagle owl out for us to see.  He was magnificent flying, he flew very low to the ground and we could hardly hear his wings!

Inside the castle we saw highly decorated rooms, one for the men and one for the women. They used a lot of gold leaf to decorate the walls and ceilings and the walls told us the seasons of the year, the times of the day as well as the days of the week all in picture form. In the sitting room we looked at old toys and books and compared them to ours. Along the walls were pictures from different fairy tales, they looked magical. We entered the library and saw a lot of big thick books unlike ours in class. It was definately a library for grown ups!

We had an amazing time in the castle!

Braces Bread

Braces Bread visited our school to show the children how bread is made and distributed to the shops.  The children dressed up as bakers and had a go at making their own bread and had a lot of fun with the dough. Braces kindly gave every child a loaf of bread and an activity pack to take home with them.