Science Week

As part of 'Science Week' in school we have been looking at different materials, their uses and properties. our investigation was to find which material kept hot water warmest for longer. We used plastic cups covered in foil, cotton wool, bubble wrap and one left uncovered. We predicted which one would work best. We then used thermometers to measure the temperature every 5 minutes for 40 minutes. We found out that foil was the best at keeping the water warm and the cup without the cover was the coldest. The children recorded the findings on investigation sheets.

Science Week

On Monday 17th March we visited Pontypridd Museum as part of 'Science week'. We took part in a School Roadshow delivered by XL Wales. The workshop was called 'Move that Load' and is designed to cover topics in Science and design and Technology.
The children were challenged to design and make a wheeled vehicle which could move a heavy load using the construction kit K'NEX. The children worked in pairs and the session provided an opportunity for problem solving, decision making and co-operative learning.
When the variety of machines were made, they were then attached to motors and pulled to see if they worked successfully. The children had a very enjoyable time and there has been an increased interest in using K'NEX in class.

We've been looking at the Greece

Over the last 2 weeks we have been looking at Greece. The way they live, their culture, history and myths. We had a fabulous time trying traditional Greek dancing and smashing (tearing) plates. Afterwards we tried Greek food, we had pitta bread, koftas, olives, feta cheese, houmous, tzitzki dip and carrots, tomatoes. cucumber and pepper to dip with. Look at us having fun in our photos.

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