Dosbarth Hawthorn- Mrs Arnold

Summer Term 2024

Hello All! Another fresh term beckons. We hope you had a lovely Easter break. This term we will be saying Au Revoir to our old age pensioners and a big hello to our newbie! Let's make this term one to remember. 

Our topic will be The Olympics. The children will see this all over the news so we want to make it accessible for them...the younger children will be learning lots of new vocabulary related to this topic-especially verbs-running, throwing, catching, jumping. The older children will be investigating the origins of the games and Ancient Greek. 

Alongside this, we will look at France and Paris and landmarks and be learning some numbers in French and little phrases. 

Lots to pack in this term as well as our usual little trips. 

We will also have an Eisteddfod week in July as it is being held locally. More details to follow, 

Swimming has now finished for our juniors. 

PE will be on a Thursday. There will be extra sessions along the way as we do Olympic based activities with the children. 

We will also be concentrating on our outdoor area and planting and growing vegetables and flowers. 

Let's have a productive and busy half term. 

Mrs Arnold, Mrs Williams and Miss Lloyd

Spring Term 2024

Hello everyone and a big Happy New Year from us. We all hope you had a lovely Christmas and are raring to go for the new year. 

This term we are learning all about Space! Rockets to the moon, moon facts, planets, learning about astronauts, and having a great time whilst learning new language. 

Juniors have swimming every Wednesday until half term

PE is on Thursday unless Mrs Arnold says otherwise

Thanks all

September 2023

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another year in our lovely class. PE days will be on a Thursday and sometimes on a Wednesday. I will let you know in advance if there is any change. Swimming for the juniors will start in January 2024 on a Wednesday. 

Snack money is £1.50 per week. 

This term's topic is All About Me. We will be concentrating on their well-being and self-esteem and developing their independence. We will be looking at The Senses and base little experiments around this. 

We also plan to have a Spooky party by the end of half term. 

Summer Term 2023 

Hello everyone! Welcome back to school and we hope you had a lovely Easter and are raring to go for Summer. 
Our topic this term for Step Back in Time is Kings and Queens. 
This is to link in with the Kings Coronation and all the events taking place around the country. We want the children to have the language and speech to chat about things they see and the older ones will learn about the British Monarchy and our history. We are hoping to link it to castles and will visit Cardiff Castle and also The Royal Mint to see the new coins that are being made 👍🏻

Let’s have an amazing term! 
DON’T FORGET TO WEAR PE KIT TO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAYS 

_{Deaf Fest}

We had such a lovely day in Barry Sidings. We met up with all our deaf friends from around the county and also pupils that have left our class and moved onto high school.

It was just magic! It’s so important that our pupils see their deaf peers and that the younger children see deaf role models. 
man annual event we think!! 
 

British Monarchs
The children researched significant British monarchs births and deaths using the iPad. They then put them in chronological order and created a timeline. 

Spring 2023 

Happy New Year everyone. We hope you had a lovely Christmas and Santa visited! 
This term our topic is Dinosaurs. We will be looking at the names of the dinosaurs, the period that they lived and finding out facts about them. We will be visiting Cardiff Museum and take part in a Dinosaur Workshop. We will transform

our class displays into a Jurassic world. 
 

PE will resume on Wednesdays so please wear kit into school. 
 

Let’s have a great term. 
 

Mrs A, Mrs L and Mrs W 
 

 BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE WEEK 

We celebrated British Sign language week in class and school. The children showed off their sign language skills in assembly and took part in a national Sign Language Lesson online. 

September 2022

Hello everyone. A warm welcome back to school and the start of a fresh new year. I hope you all had a lovely summer and are raring to go. 
We say hello to two new members of the class- we are very happy they are here and have settled in so well already!
Our topic this term is “Yma O Hyd” which ties in with the Welsh Football anthem. There will be an emphasis on humanities so we have scheduled some trips around Cardiff Bay and Cardiff City centre to find out about landmarks and some historic buildings. More on this soon.

We will also be concentrating on Expressive Arts so this will take the form of art as well as drama and dance. 
 

PE will be on a Wednesday. You will need a kit…leggings/shorts, t shirt and trainers. 
 

Snack money is £1.50 per week. 
 

This is one of our favourite terms with so much going on…let’s make it a great one! 
 

Mrs A, Mrs W, Mrs L 

Pumpkin Soup 

We have been doing lots of work around pumpkins and decided to make Pumpkin soup. The children cut the onion and scooped out the pumpkin and we cooked it following a recipe. It was delicious. Only 3 of the children didn’t like it and the rest are the lot! 

A Creative Visitor 

As part of our Winter of Well-being, our class had a wonderful lady visit who specialises in ceramics. Lucy taught us how to work with clay and helped us to make a Monster Pinch Pot. We loved it and created some brilliant designs. Thank you Lucy. You were amazing. 

JANUARY 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately, due to this new variant, we are back to class bubbles and staying together at all times. No integration will be taking place until further notice. Don't worry...you know we will make it fun and happy despite the ongoing Covid situation.

Please can I ask that you keep your child at home if they display any of the symptoms of Covid. I will be ringing if I feel they are unwell and they will need to be picked up. This ensures that the class remains open...if myself and Mrs Williams and Miss Lloyd catch it, we will be back to online learning. Let's keep each other as safe as possible during this difficult time. Thanks.

This term we will be looking at FLIGHT/GRAVITY. This topic will have a heavy Science and technology base. Not only will we be looking at aeroplanes/helicopters etc but also broaden to flight in animals, history of flight and moving on to gravity  and doing experiments and tests around this topic. 

Monday 10th January will be a science immersion day and we will be carrying out activities to ease the children into the topic. If they would like to dress up as mad scientists, they are very welcome!

Let's start this year with a bang!

Signing Santa 

Thanks to Kathryn for letting the class know about the fantastic signing Santa In Caerphilly. The children loved it. 😍

Autumn 2 

November 2021

Welcome back everyone! Great to see all the children back in class. It's the countdown to Christmas now!

Snack for the term is £10.50 or £1.50 per week. 

Harry Potter Banquet Friday 26th November

Swimming and PE are the same days as last half term for the juniors. 

Toasting Marshmallows 

We had a great time toasting marshmallows. A big thanks to Mrs Akers for allowing us to use her fire pit as the barbecue we had just wouldn’t light! Outdoor learning in the sunshine is the best

          Autumn Term 

Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful summer and are raring to go!! We have seven weeks until half term and this terms topic will be “Magic”. We will be reading books with a magical theme, concocting potions and spells and celebrating their magical selves! 
 

Junior PE days 

Year 6… Thursdays Swimming Thursdays

Year 4… Mondays Swimming Fridays

Snack is back so please send in your snack money. if you haven’t paid for the term, it’s £1.50 every Friday. 
 

Lets have a happy and exciting Autumn Term. 
 

Summer Term

A huge welcome back to everyone!!!

It is so good to get back to some kind of normal and we hope this term will see the end of isolating and lockdowns!

This term our topic is Under the Sea. We will be asking the children what they would like to learn about and it will probably be sea creatures, habitats and pirates! Anything that you see that is related to this topic, draw your child's attention to it. 

We are hoping to go on some trips in the second half of this term. We want to study Rock pools in Ogmore and obviously go to Barry! 

The children constructed a pirate ship using natural materials. They worked so well as a group. 

Outdoor Fun 

We had a great time making family faces out of natural materials. We are so lucky to have the beautiful school grounds and an abundance of plants and trees. It makes outdoor learning so much fun. 

Spring Term 2021

Hello everyone. Not the start of the year that we wanted but I know we shall get through it together! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and Santa came!

Our theme this term is Fantasy. We will try and cover certain aspects of it but we can't wait to get back into the classroom! 

Let's get the children's imaginations running wild. I want to encourage the older children to read Harry Potter so if you have a copy, get reading! 

I will stay in contact via email, What's App and we will have weekly HELLO sessions on Google Meet. 

Stay safe everyone and fingers crossed that we will be back in class very soon!!

Autumn Term 2020

It is so so good to be back in class and to see all the children. I know it will be different and there will be new procedures that we have to get used to but I'm sure we will cope. 

The Autumn term's topic will be Rainbows! We think this is very fitting under the circumstances. So this term it will be colourful, all about well-being and we shall have fun! 

We welcome our new member of the class, Mila-Rey who is 4. She has fitted in so well already.

As part of our well-being week, the children have been doing lots of work on friendship and what makes a good friend. Here they are completing a group activity on "The Perfect Friend Recipe"

Kadinsky

We have been looking at the artist Wassily Kadinsky. He was the first artist that stopped painting portraits of inanimate objects. Instead, he started painting what he heard and how he felt. The children completed their own Kadinsky circles.

The Beauty of our class

Our children all look after each other....as they do in every class at Llwyncrwn. But our class is very special as the older children look out for the younger ones. Here's Autumn looking after our new little girl. We have a big age range but it brings a big load of love too. 

SUMMER TERM 2020

Hello everyone!

Well, this is a very strange blurb I am about to write for our Summer term activities. With lockdown continuing, I need to remind you how much I am missing you all. I am messaging everyday (my need really!) and checking in on all of you and I think you are all superstars! 

I hope the weather continues to be good and I want you all to get outside and look at nature. You've all been given the gift of time, so use it wisely (social distancing of course!) 

I'm waiting for my letters to land on my mat every morning and then I shall write back. Letter writing and drawing pictures is a really good way to make writing real and to also document this time. We can look back on these letters in years to come. 

I have everything crossed that we will be returning in some way to our lovely classroom before July. This will be Jasmine's last term in Primary and it can't end like this, can it?? 8 years together!

I miss you all. Stay safe and if you need me, I'm here