Festive Fun!

What a busy week we have had. First we enjoyed the Pantomime, Peter Pan on Monday. The children really enjoyed their Christmas Party on Wednesday. Jonno the Magician was amazing and very funny too.

 

 

On Thursday Class 4 made Rudolph Truffles.

 

 

Merry Christmas. See You in January 2014 when our new topic will be 'The Big Wide World!

Children in Need

A big well done to everybody in Class 4 for joining in the fun today and raising much needed money for Children in Need. A big thank you to all parents too, for your support which is much appreciated. 

Our visit to Pontyclun Fire Station

We all enjoyed our trip to the fire station today. First we were told a story about Tanni who played with matches and accidentally caused a fire. Luckily it all ended well as nobody got hurt. We learned about how to keep safe.

Then we went all got to try on a firefighters helmet. We were really surprised at how heavy it was.

Then we all went in to the fire engine. The steps were really high!,

Finally it was time to go home. A big thank you to Pontyclun fire station. We all really enjoyed our trip and learned how to keep safe.

Class 4 Enjoy Fairy Tale Party

On Friday all of Class 4 enjoyed celebrating the wedding of Prince Charming and Cinderella with a Fairy Tale Themed Day and Party. First of all we did a survey to find out which fairy tale was Class 4's favourite. We found out that Jack and the Beanstalk was the favourite. Next we evaluated the wedding invitations we had designed and made for Prince Charming. Finally we finished with a class party. We enjoyed playing Pass the Parcel , Pin the Tail on the (Shrek's) Donkey and did lots of dancing.

Our autumn walk

Class 4 made the most of the lovely Autumn weather last week. We all enjoyed walking around the school grounds looking for signs that Autumn was here. We collected lots of apples from the Nature Reserve and used them to print repeating patterns back in class.

A Busy Few Weeks!!

Year 2 have had a very busy start to the Autumn Term.

To begin our topic 'Pop Up', we had a visit from a local Author and Story Teller who told the children how he gets inspired to write stories. He even wrote a brand new story just for us!

We have been reading, acting out and discussing lots of Fairy and Traditional Tales. On Friday we even had a letter from Prince Charming! He has asked Class 4 to design and make some really special Wedding Invitations for his wedding to Cinderella, so Class 4 are going to be really busy up to half term carrying out his request!!

We have decided to hold our own 'Ball' in class to help Prince Charming and Cinderella celebrate their wedding. Details will be posted ASAP!!

The end of the school year!

A big 'thank you' for all the gifts that you sent in the last week of term. We have had a very busy and fun year and am sure all of Class 4 will do very well in their next classes! Have a fantastic summer holiday!

Making welsh cakes!

This week we have been learning about weighing and measuring using ingredients to make delicious welsh cakes. Next week, we will be selling our welsh cakes to the rest of the school! 

We had lots of fun making them!

Fantastic Sports Day!

What a fantastic sports day on a glorious sunny Friday. Well done to everyone who took part in the Year 3 and Year 4 events and congratulations to all of the winners! A big 'Well done'  to Ty Llewellyn! 

Making pizza!

As part of our 'Global Gourmet' study, this week we have made pizzas! We chose what toppings we wanted to prepare and ate them once cooked.Delcious! 

We have also learned about keeping our teeth clean and healthy and explored what a balanced diet should consist of.

Here we are creating and eating our Italian pizzas! 

Book week!

We've had a great book week! 

Well done to everyone who had made an excellent effort at dressing up as their favourite book character on Friday!

Our activities included making a list of which characters we should invite to our book party and why, writing book reviews and we also explored our school library! 

Braces bread visit!

Braces bread came to visit us this week. We found out what ingredients make bread and the process of bread making from growing wheat to buying our bread in a shop. It was really interesting!
Here are our two bread making volunteers that helped create the dough in class. Lovely hair net colour choices Kelly-Ann and Kian!

Our 100th Birthday!

We had an absolutely fantastic time celebrating our centenary! We really enjoyed dressing up in our Edwardian clothes and in particular wearing the 'Welsh not'. We remembered all the school/class rules and engaged in our times tables, Bible studies and handwriting too.
The street party was also really great! A day to always remember!!
Please check out our photos in our gallery!

P.S. A big 'Thank You' to the parents who came in to class to discuss their Llanhari Primary School experiences!

Centenaty Celebration!

We can't believe it! Our school is celebrating it's 100th birthday!

It was 100 years ago this April that the 'tin school' was built and to celebrate our centenary, we are learning about our school - how it has changed and how lessons have changed throughout the last 100 years!
We firstly discovered that our very first classroom was originally in 'The Bear Inn' and we located the exact room in which the children were taught!
Mr Francis has visited our class telling us wonderful stories about our amazing school and the different types of lessons that went on.
We have written questionnaires to ask our family members about their experiences as past pupils of the school and Mrs Thomas (Amelia's mum) and Mrs Sharp (Gethin's mum) will be coming into school next week to talk to our class about their experiences and to answer any questions we might have!

We are really looking forward to next Friday where we will be dressed in Edwardian clothes, being taught Edwardian lessons, having a very special assembly, having a special street party and taking part in old playground games!

Pasg Hapus!

Another fun-filled week of Easter activities!
The decorated eggs were eggcellent! Congratulations to Kelly-Ann for winning our class competition and to and Bradley  who was runner up!
We really enjoyed watching the Infant Easter Hat  Parade and had lots fun rolling our eggs for egg pacing!
Pasg Hapus i bawb!


The winning entry!

Red Nose Day 2013!

What a 'Fun Friday' we had this week!
We all had either 'mad' hair, wore silly hats or red noses in order to raise as much money as we can for 'Comic Relief'.
We also told jokes. Here are some of our favourites!

"Why did the lady put a trumpet in the fridge?"
" So that she could play cool music!"

"Knock, knock,"
"Who's there?"
"Little old man,"
"Little old man who?"
"Little old man who can't reach the doorbell!"

"What did one snowman say to the other snowman?"
"Can you smell carrots?"

"Two crisps walked past a bus stop. A bus pulled by and asked if they would like a lift. They replied 'No thanks, we're Walkers!"


We definitely did 'Something Funny For Money!'

Wythnos Cymreag!

We have had a very busy 'Welsh Week'!
From drawing our leeks and daffodils and using watercolours to paint them to learning our welsh Eisteddfod poem and song.
We have researched and designed posters of welsh attractions and have learnt about who St.David was and why we celebrate St.David's Day.
We read a welsh language book based on St.David's Day and have created some funky folk dances too!

Da iawn pawb!!

To infinity and beyond!

We've had an 'Out of this World'  experience this week when we all created aliens in class! Having listened to the music from 'War of the Worlds' we drew our aliens, labelling how they looked and identified their characteristics.We then described our aliens using similes. Here are some examples:-

Rhys - "His hair is like a hedgehog in a ball!"

Bradley - " His skin is like a bumpy road."

Gethin - "His body is as round as a circle."

Ashley "His teeth are as red as blood!"

Olivia - "He moves like melting ice-cream."

Kelly-Ann - "His feet are like bricks from a house."

Amber - "His legs are wobbly like jelly."

We painted our aliens and all wrote a newspaper report based on our alien encounter! These reports are so good, they will be on display in our classroom! Well done everybody!

Happy New Year!

 A very warm welcome back to school! I hope you enjoyed the Christmas holidays and have recharged your batteries for a very busy Spring Term! This term our topic is 'Tomorrow's  World', where we will be researching and imagining what life might be like in the future!

This week we have been busy studying 'Time' in Maths and creating animal records in preparation for creating a class database. We have also been evaluating last term's targets and writing our new targets for this term. 

What a treat! Class 4 have also been lucky enough to be selected to work with the Cardiff City Football project!  Make sure you remember your trainers every Wednesday!