Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
Jigsaw-Relationships
We played ‘Musical Friendships’ as part of our work on being a good friend. When the music stopped we had to find a friend and do something kind. We had lots of hugs, fist bumps and high fives! It made us all feel really happy!
We linked our P4C lesson to the work we have been completing in our RVE lessons- green religion and also to the mantle commission we are working on this term, about COP30.
We have been learning about the deforestation that is happening in the Amazon rainforest in preparation for the COP30 summit in November. To better understand what is going on there we quickly organised a trip considering the modes of transport required and what would be needed with us. Beforehand we considered how different groups of people might be feelings about this and then completed some ‘hot seating’ in order to have some quotes ready for our news report. We then ‘travelled’ there by plane and boat and we drew what we could see whilst in the rainforest.
Year 5 have started forest school sessions with Miss Jones. We have enjoyed den building and creating bug hotels. We used the knives safely to sharpen sticks to use as tent pegs. We are looking forward to starting fires in our sessions soon.
This afternoon, Reception and Year One enjoyed a local woodland walk. We discussed the features of the wood, how it felt and what we could hear. We compared it to the rainforest.
Year 4 and 5 had a great couple of days at Oaker wood! We enjoyed lots of different activities like rafting, low ropes, monkey climb, zip line, puzzles, toasting marshmallows, playing games around the campfire and eating chicken nuggets and chips!
In RVE, we have been talking about caring for our world and we have been busy planting sunflower seeds that we will work hard to take care of.
We had great fun completing VE Day Lego Challenge cards. We chose who we worked with and which challenge we wanted to complete. We made celebration cakes, peace gardens, spitfires, Union Jack flags and old-fashioned radios. We have shown that we have great construction skills!
We had a fabulous VE Day celebration lunch accompanied by Knighton Town Silver Band. Thank you to our wonderful kitchen staff and Knighton band members!
Today we were excited and honoured to be joined in school by ninety-nine year old War veteran Christopher Price. He answered questions asked of him by Years Two, Three and Six. Pupils learned of his experiences in the Second World War as he gave us a valuable insight as to what life was like. Diolch Christopher!