Our trip to the Miner's Museum.

We had a fantastic trip to the Miner's Museum! Everyone enjoyed exploring the mine, learning about mining in the Victorian Era and dressing up too! We learned about Victorian life, in particular what it would have been like to be a child at this time. The children all decided that they would much prefer to go to school!! Here are some of the highlights of he trip.

Happy New Year!

A very 'Happy New Year!' to you all! 

This week we took part in our innovate project based on our 'Light and Sound' topic. In groups of 4 we discussed what light and sound object we would like to create for our class sensory area. There were some fantastic ideas. Some children made light pictures, other's a shadow theatre and shiny shakers. Two groups recorded calming music by using specific instruments! By Friday, most groups had presented their  creations to the rest of the class. Well done everybody! We shall now use our sensory area next week!

Christmas 2014!

A very warm welcome back to school! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas holiday and I would like to thank everyone for their generous Christmas gifts. Due to a technical hitch, I was unable to publish photos from just before the Christmas holidays where we enjoyed a very successful Christmas Concert, a lively Christmas party and  a range of practical science activities provided by Techniquest. 

Here are some of the photos capturing our enjoyment at the end of last term!

Children in Need!

Many thanks to all the children for their kind donations for Children in Need. You all looked fantastic in your costumes! Super moves on the dance floor too! 

Reduce, reuse, recycle!!

This week we had visitors to discuss and address being 'Eco'. We started off with a quiz about how long it takes for different materials to decompose and we were shocked with the answers. We will definitely try to remember the 5 'R's- Refuse, Reuse, Reduce, Repair and Recycle!

Our trip to Techniquest.

As part of our 'Travel Agents' topic, we visited Techniquest as a place of interest for visitors to Cardiff last Tuesday. Whilst there we had a lot of scientific fun, hands on activities and we watched a show based on 'Light' which was very illuminating!! This show will be used as a starting point to next terms topic 'Sensoria'. Well done everybody for your excellent behaviour in Techniquest. We hope you all had a great time!

Plant Art

This week the children enjoyed collecting a variety of natural materials from the school grounds. Then they worked in a group and used what they had gathered to create some very interesting and effective

 Plant Art!