
World Book Day - March 2022
Growing our Forest School!
Mrs Fielding and Miss Jones are currently completing their level 3 Forest School Practitioners Course with the aim of setting up Forest School provision within our school setting. Our forest school will be located up on the field under the canopy of our beautiful hazel, beech and birch trees. The ethos of forest schools gives learners the opportunity to develop self-esteem, build confidence, resilience and take risks in a practical, physical, natural outdoor environment. We wish to create a community that will engage in lifelong learning and a passion for our local, natural environment.
Members of our school community have been extremely helpful in enabling us to develop the forest school site by offering resources and advice. If you have any forest schools experience or have any advice that you could offer us, we would love to hear from you.
Tara Jones – jonest499@hwbcymru.net
Jess Fielding – MorrisJ313@hwbcymru.net
WILD SAVE CENTRE
This week we have finished our previous case studies to prove we are capable of the job. We have now moved on to planning our Wild Save Centre; there has been lots to think about.






In Maths we have been working with decimal numbers and in Iaith handwriting has been a big focus!
Internet Safety Day
We enjoyed our visit from PC Ainsworth, she helped us to think about being respectful online. We made some snap dragons to take home, to facilitate conversations between pupils and parents about what children use and access online.

Let there be light!
In Victorian times, electric lights started to replace candles, gas lamps and oil lamps. Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison each developed successful electric light bulbs. As a mantle of the expert task we were commissioned to build our own circuits to light a bulb!



Rainforests - Fforest llaw
Look at our beautiful symmetrical butterflies
Y6 Leavers' service 2021
The children received their bibles and enjoyed a lovely farewell service, given by Rev. Petra and John Meredith, not forgetting ‘Bob’ the snail!
Eco action plan 2020/21
Aims/Targets |
Activities & tasks |
Organisation:
Who, where, how, when |
Cost | Monitoring:
Evidence collection |
Evaluation
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Healthy Living
To increase the number of fruit/vegetable portions in lunchboxes To reduce the number of ‘high salt/sugar/fat’ items in lunchboxes
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Stickers for healthy lunchboxes based on eat-well-plate…Healthy Schools Council to promote and award.
Share photos of healthy lunchboxes on the school website to share good ideas |
Healthy Schools Council | Stickers | Posters to promote
Facebook posts Photos to celebrate
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School grounds
See action plan of Growing council |
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Global Citizenships
To learn about another culture
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Learn about another country through topic- Indian Summer
Year 1/2- links to Palestine; communicating with children in school there. Song- Rights of the Child. |
Key Stage 2- during lessons
Led by JM |
NA | Through Thema books and any other work created through topic
Emails |
Safety Internet Training for Parents / Carers
As part of Safer Internet Day on the 9th of February 2021, WISE KIDS is hosting 2 online interactive workshops which will also feature guest panellists. These workshops will explore how we assess online content and interactions, and the knowledge, digital literacy and resilience we need so we don’t get tricked online.
So come along, to learn more!·
Workshop 2 (5.30pm-6.45pm) is for adults (parents/carers/professionals) who must complete this registration form.
https://forms.gle/UH5y87o187okfmv47This workshop will be facilitated by Dr Sangeet Bhullar from WISE KIDS and will also feature guest panellist Dr Huw Davies (Lecturer in Digital Education at Edinburgh university), Mrs Josephine Farag from Cardiff High School, Mrs Julia Willis and Miss Ceri John from Cross Ash Primary, Mrs Becki Bawler from Risca Comprehensive School, Ms Sian Northey from the Parent Network, Mr Dayle Luce from Cardiff Youth Service and Ms Parven Kaur from Kids n Clicks.