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Dosbarth Lime- Mrs Powell
Croeso/ Welcome
A big warm welcome to the children who will be in Dosbarth Lime this year. We hope you are all ready to work hard and ready to have lots of fun in our happy, caring class!
We look forward to working closely with parents in order to support every pupil to reach their full potential.
Please don't hesitate to contact me by email if you have any questions/concerns or positive feedback - Mrspowell@llwyncrwn.co.uk
Thank you
Mrs Powell and Mrs Riley 😊
General reminders:
Please check this page regularly for important information and updates.
P.E. day for our class is on a Wednesday. No kit is necessary.
Please clearly label all cardigans and jumpers.
The children are welcome to suitable clothing to school wear joggers/ leggings and trainers.
Reading: reading books will be sent home once a week on an allocated day for each child.
Reading at home is extremely beneficial for your child. Please read as much as possible, not just the book sent home from school. Discuss the story with your child, ask them to make predictions about the text and discuss the meaning of any new vocabulary.
Please return book and record book the next day and make comments whenever possible.
Book bags can be purchased for 50p from school.
Fruit: Children can bring a piece of fruit for snack time. Water bottles are encouraged too.
Spring Term 2025 - Pontypridd Town Detectives!! 🕵️♀️🕵️♂️
Our spring term topic will be "Pontypridd Town Detectives." Throughout this term, pupils will engage in various activities that encourage them to explore and investigate the rich history and culture of Pontypridd. They'll have the opportunity to become little detectives, uncovering interesting facts about our town and they will study Pontypridd Park too. We look forward to a fun and educational term!
Watch this space to see Dosbarth Lime’s EPIC planning ideas…….
Visit to Pontypridd Park
We marched around the bandstand playing the instruments that we made.
We found the memorial for Evan James and James James.
We investigated which force is needed for the play equipment and had fun playing with our friends.
Picnic time
Completing our work as park detectives!
Week 10
Our fabulous paintings!
Week 9
This week we have been working hard to develop our measuring, letter writing and DT skills.
Week 7
Yellow Yellow Daffodil 🌼
We looked at the strongest bridges from last week and identified what made them stronger than the other ones. We then made design alterations and made our final bridge. Fantastic enthusiasm shown by all pupils and great counting skills too! Da iawn!
Week 6
Dosbarth Lime completed a fun STEM challenge where they designed and built the strongest bridge using only one sheet of A4 paper, with the goal of holding the most coins. Before they began constructing their bridges, each student designed four different bridges, made predictions about how many coins their bridge would be able to support, which encouraged them to think critically about their designs. As they tested their bridges, they recorded the results in a table, noting the number of coins each bridge successfully held before it collapsed. This activity not only sparked their creativity but also helped them learn about engineering concepts and the importance of testing and improving their designs. Next week Dosbarth Lime will look at the most successful bridges, identify what they had in common and and use this knowledge to further develop their ideas.
Following on from Safer Internet Day, Dosbarth Lime created posters for the younger children in our school. They used Google slides and J2E to produce their informative posters and shared them with the younger children in assembly today! Look out for our posters around the school next week!
The children planned an information leaflet with a rainbow🌈 partner and wrote them independently. Great independent extended writing!
Week 5
This week we have been celebrating Children’s mental health week.
This year’s theme is ‘know more, grow more’.
Dosbarth Lime discussed what makes them happy and made a happy flower. They thought of things they could do to make them happy if they were feeling sad and they wrote their ideas on the petals.
We also discussed ways of feeling calm and explored some yoga moves too!
Mrs Powell modelled how to write an information leaflet and we used our plans to help us write our own.
We used ICT to collect data and to make a block graph to show which landmarks we liked on our trip to Pontypridd.
We celebrated Dydd Miwsig Gymru today by listening to our National Anthem and trying to join in with some of it. We are particularly interested in this as we have being learning about two important Welsh people - Evan James and James James. 🎵🎵
Some of our fabulous work on Pontypridd!
Week 4
Visit to Pontypridd
First we visited Pontypridd museum where we talked about the building of the Old Pontypridd Bridge and went out onto the museum terrace to draw the Old Bridge. We also saw various exhibitions that showcased local history and culture. After exploring the exhibits, we took part in a bridge building challenge, which was both fun and educational. It was a great way to apply what we learned and work together as a team!
We stood on top of the Old Bridge and completed a sign post map activity. We drew what we could see in-front, behind, left and to the right of us. We then enjoyed the sunshine and sat on the Old Bridge to eat our lunch!
After lunch, we headed into Town to find the fountain. We read the writing on the fountain, looked carefully at the shape of the fountain and the patterns on it before drawing it.
Finally we had a quick look at some of the market stalls but we sadly ran out of time!! So ..... we plan to revisit soon as we have so much left to explore!! A huge thank you to Edward’s buses for being so kind allowing us to travel free of charge and to their fabulous drivers too!
We looked at a collection of leaflets to identify their features before planning our own leaflet. We will use our plan to help us write our own leaflets next week
We looked at images of Ponty landmarks and used a drawing app to recreate them.
Completing independent rainbow challenges in our areas of provision.
Week 3
Community Litter Pick
Following their work on identifying dislikes in our local area last term, Dosbarth Lime came up with creative ways to help improve their community. Before Christmas, they designed informative posters that were displayed around Beddau to encourage local residents to take care of their surroundings. Today, they took action by organising a litter pick with the help of members from the Litter-Free Beddau and Tynant group, which not only helped clean up the area but also demonstrated their commitment to making a difference. This initiative aligns perfectly with the Core Purposes of the Curriculum for Wales, which emphasises the importance of developing responsible citizens who are actively engaged in their communities and understand the impact of their actions on the environment.
Dosbarth Lime have now posed this question as Pontypridd Town Detectives - Does Pontypridd Town have a litter, graffiti and dog poo problem like Beddau?
We will be visiting Pontypridd soon to investigate! 🔍
Da iawn Dosbarth Lime! 👏👏👏👏
🚀Launch Day!🚀
We made badges to wear when we become Pontypridd Town Detectives!
The children enjoyed showcasing their Pontypridd landmark - the models were all fantastic! 👏
We watched a video showing us Pontypridd Town and Ynysangharad Park. We found out about Evan James and James James and listened to The National Anthem.
We worked in rainbow groups to complete EPIC planning to influence what we find out about as Pontypridd Town Detective this term! 🔍🔍
This week in maths we explored odd and even numbers and completed a problem solving activity with a partner.
Autumn Term September 2024🍁
Our first day in Dosbarth Lime
Christmas Party fun!
Selling our reindeer food after school and in Christmas bingo!
We sold out of reindeer food so we had to make even more!
🎄Christmas Challenge🎄
Mrs Powell set Dosbarth Lime an exciting challenge to create reindeer food while sticking to a budget of ten pounds. The children come together to brainstorm ideas and gather materials to make their festive creations. They plan to sell the reindeer food for one pound each before and after school, aiming to raise money for their class fund. This initiative not only teaches them valuable lessons in entrepreneurship and teamwork but also adds a touch of holiday spirit to the school community and more importantly the children had lots of fun too!
Street Detectives on a mission to improve Beddau!
Following on from Dosbarth Lime identifying the negative impact people have on Beddau, they thought of ways to help. The children noticed that littering, graffiti and dog waste were becoming significant issues in Beddau, negatively affecting their community. They decided to take action by designing and creating colourful signs to educate their neighbours about the importance of keeping the area clean. These signs included friendly reminders to pick up litter and dog poo, stop graffitiing and to to take care of our parks, along with fun illustrations to catch people's attention. The children felt proud to contribute to their local environment, and they hope that their efforts will inspire others to take better care of Beddau. They plan to complete a litter pick in Beddau very soon too! Well done Dosbarth Lime!
Christmas Jumper Day
Panto fun!
Street detectives 🕵️
This week we took to the streets once again but this time to investigate some of the jobs done in our local area! We started off the week by discussing jobs that our family members do and explored what certain job titles mean.
On Thursday we visited the shops in Beddau and found out about the job of a Pharmacist, shop keeper, Beautician and Barber. We were even invited in to the Barbers and had the opportunity to ask the Barber questions about his job.
We finished our detective work with a look around Spar and then collected salad boxes and seeds from Subway to enjoy when we got home. Diolch yn fawr i Subway and Mo’s Barbers!
🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨After a week off, the children returned to school rested and ready to learn again. We started the week off by listening to the story of Guy Fawkes, discussing Bonfire night celebrations and watching clips of fireworks on the interactive whiteboard.
Following on from this we found out about why fireworks are also being used this week by many Hindu people and about Diwali- the festival of light and based our literacy, numeracy, creative and outdoor lessons on this. 🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔🪔
We planned, re drafted and performed our Bonfire and Diwali poems!
Mrs Powell modelled how to use ‘3 in a bed’ to write a poem. We then created and performed a group poem before planning and writing our own poem!
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We learned a special Diwali Dance
Outdoor learning - we collected natural materials to use to create Rangoli patterns.
We wrote an acrostic poem together, rehearsed it and performed it.
After Mrs Powell modelled how to write an acrostic poem, we created a class poem and then worked with a partner to write our own version. Great work Dosbarth Lime!
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A huge well done to these children who volunteered to speak in assembly on Friday. They told everyone about Doctor Phillip Moore moving to North Wales from Barbados and the obstacles that he had to overcome. They talked about his great achievement of winning an award in the Eisteddfod for learning to speak Welsh in order to converse with his patients in their first language.
We sequenced the pictures from Jack and the beanstalk , thought about which time connectives would be most appropriate for each part of the story and then used this to support our recount writing.
🔍We were street detectives again this week - looking for things that we like and dislike in Beddau.
🏴🏴Diwrnod ShwmaeSumae🏴🏴 As part of Dydd Shwmae 🏴 some children from Year 6 came over to show Dosbarth Lime how to play some fun Welsh games on the IPads.
We used the I pads in our Humanities lesson to look at pictures of Beddau landmarks and then created our own images using a drawing app.
This week in maths we have been developing our understanding of place value and using tens and ones to represent numbers to 100.
Well done to Dosbarth Lime for taking Harvester assembly today. I’m very proud of how well they spoke and everyone loved their singing and signing of ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’.
This week we have been learning about asking and answering questions. We had fun taking part in a hot seating activity where someone took on the role of the Giant and the others asked the Giant questions.
Our morning activities - learning begins the minute we enter the class in the morning! Great independence shown by all!
Dosbarth Lime detectives gathered evidence by taking to the streets again and also looking at photographs of the houses in Beddau to answer the question ‘What type of houses are in Beddau?’. The street detectives noticed that some houses stand on their own, some are joined to another house, some don’t have an upstairs. The detectives were introduced to new vocabulary - bungalow, detached house, semi detached and terraced - and then looked at photographs and labelled them with the correct words. Great investigating 🕵️🔎🔍
We worked in our group to compare the characters in our story Jack and the Beanstalk. We used the vocabulary that we thought of to write a character description about the giant.
‘Literature fires imagination and inspires creativity’ ..... Today we listened to the traditional tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and took part in a fun drama session acting out different parts of the story with a partner.
This week we spent time becoming familiar with the routines, expectations and resources in our continuous provision. We are looking forward to completing our independent 🌈 challenges next week.
🚀🚀 Launch Day 🚀🚀
Today we launched our topic - Beddau Street Detectives! 🕵️ 🏡
We started off our day by listening to this lovely story - In Every House On Every Street. We discussed how our homes are far more than just ‘bricks and mortar’ and thought about why our homes are so special to us all.
Mrs Powell cast a spell on us to turn us into street detectives! 🕵️ We looked at the photographs of our homes and our streets and thought about the questions ‘what do we notice?’ ‘what is the same?’ and ‘what is different? ‘
The detectives headed out into the community to see what things they could find and to look for anything in particular that interested them!
Back at base, the detectives discussed what they had identified on their walk around Beddau and completed EPIC planning in class. The children were very interested and suggested lots of ideas for the term ahead! Ardderchog Dosbarth Lime!
Topic Launch Day - Monday 9th September 🕵️♂️🕵️♂️🏘️
We had a great day today meeting our new teacher and exploring our new class.
Summer Term 2024.
Today we launched our new topic ...
Pirate Party - delicious pirate themed food and fun Pirate Party games! 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Walk the plank, Pirate target 🎯 and cannon ball fun!
Pirate Dancing
Pick a Pirate, Captain says and Garland rely!
The rain didn’t stop our sport's day fun - we had a fab time indoors!
Party information for tomorrow
Parc Play fun!
We are enterprising and creative in Dosbarth Lime! Look at our amazing Eisteddfod artwork that can be purchased for just £1 - please send in £1 this week!
Eisteddfod - lots of fun learning a Welsh folk dance. 💃 🕺
Eisteddfod day kicked off with a fantastic poem recital by these stars!
Problem solving fun - finding different routes and using directional language.
Our pointillism art work in the style of Welsh artist William Wilkins. 🖼️🎨
Today we had a wonderful day at Barry Island! We planned our visit in class yesterday by discussing possible activities we could do on the beach. We agreed we wanted to ‘lend a hand’ by doing a litter pick as we have been learning the impact of litter on the ocean. We wanted to do some Andy Goldworthy inspired beach art, have a picnic and play on the beach too! We had an amazing day and the weather was kind to us too! 😎😎😎😎
Beach clean up.
Andy Goldworthy inspired beach art 🖼️
Picnic time.
Playing on the beach with our friends.
Ice cream treat 🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦
We looked at a map of Barry Island in preparation for our trip on Tuesday. We identified human and physical features and compared Barry Island to Beddau.
We completed a plastic use diary at home and discussed ways of reducing the amount of single use plastic that we use.
We looked at artwork by Welsh artist William Wilkins and created seaside pictures using Pointillism.
⭐️Rescheduled Parents’ Meetings.⭐️
I will be meeting with parents on Monday 10th June and Tuesday 11th June. Your appointment day and time will remain the same as the original appointment you booked. If you are unable to attend, please let me know and I will try to accommodate you on a different time.
Many thanks
Mrs Powell
Dosbarth Lime listened to the story ‘Luke’s Beach Day’ and started to learn some of the yoga moves introduced in the story. We talked about how we felt after doing Yoga and everyone agreed it was a great way to relax and have fun! 🧘🧘♀️🧘♂️
We have been learning to add multiples of ten and consolidated our learning by playing a target game in our areas of provision!
A big well done to the children who took assembly today all about the importance of friendship. You spoke confidently and recited the friendship poem well too! Da iawn!
Last week we created a permanent sea creature picture using some of Andy Goldworthy's techniques. We found out that Andy Goldworthy preferred making moveable art outdoors and that he leaves his work for others to find so today we did the same in school. We hope some of the Junior children found our creations and felt happy when they saw our artwork!
We found out about the artist Andy Goldworthy and looked at examples of his land based art. We discussed the art elements that he uses in his work such as line, pattern, shape and then discussed the way he uses layering, filling and photography too. We then went outside to collect natural materials and created our own Andy Golworthy inspired land based art!
Identifying the features of instructions and setting our success criteria ready for when we write our own instructions next week.
Look at our Marine Biologists finding out about Starfish this week!
We used atlases, globes and maps to find out the names of the five oceans of the world.
We used non - fiction books to research the name of some creatures that live in the sea!
What a fun launch day we had today to introduce our new topic! We started the day by listening to the story Lucy and Tom visit the seaside and looked at images of the seaside on the interactive board. We then learned a seaside song, listened to some relaxing seaside music, contributed our ideas as part of our EPIC planning and ended the day with a refreshing ice pop just like we’d have at the beach! 🏖️ 🏖️
Learning a sea creature song and performing it!🐠🐳🐬
Looking at images and listening to relaxing seaside sounds.
We shared our ideas as part of our EPIC planning for the term. Researching sea creatures, reading pirate stories and making treasure maps seemed to be very popular!
We enjoyed an ice pop to end our launch day!
Spring Term 2024
🔎Today we investigated which material would be the best to use for a coat to keep Paddington dry. We planned our investigation, made predictions and interpreted our results.
Our finished product - we hope our mums liked their gift as much as we liked making it!
More ‘loose part’ fun - great team work girls!👍
We looked at a map of London and used grid referencing to locate famous landmarks. Great map work Dosbarth Lime! Da iawn!
📚📚World Book Day!📚📚
We started off the day by listening to Mrs Powell read ‘Paddington Goes to Hospital’.
📚📚We visited the school Library to pick a book to take back to class to read.📚📚
We told our partner about our favourite story and wrote a book review about it.
Making marmalade - we looked different recipes, planned what we needed to do and talked about the risks and what we needed to do to keep safe.
Dosbarth Lime enjoy working independently in our areas of provision to complete weekly tasks. This week we have written diaries , used Google earth to explore the city of London and used money to pay for items. We also used loose parts to create Paddington Bear and made London landmarks out of play dough. What a fun week we’ve had!
More independent learning in provision - junk modelling, drawing landmarks, making a bear habitat and afternoon tea in Buckingham Palace!
Dydd Gwyl Dewi 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Dosbarth Lime followed step by step instruction to draw ‘Y Ddraig Goch’ - excellent effort by all!
We have introduced a new area ‘loose parts’ into our continuous provision. This area will encourage children to explore and investigate whilst being creative and imaginative in their play. Here are some of the wonderful creations made in Dosbarth Lime so far this week.
We have been learning about money and solving money problems.
More fabulous Landmarks!
A huge well done to all of the pupils in Dosbarth Lime who made a London landmark. The children were so excited to present their home task to the class today and spoke well to explain the design and make process. Da iawn Dosbarth Lime!
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week Dosbarth Lime discussed the meaning of mental health and how we can manage some of our emotions. We identified things that are important to us and how doing these things makes us feel happy.
On Dydd Miwsig Cymru, Dosbarth Lime were taught some songs by the Criw Cymraeg and then performed them in small groups to the class. Ardderchog! 🏴🏴
Home Task.
The children are really enjoying out topic about Paddington Bear and have already learned about Peru, Paddington’s habitat and the type of Bear he is. Ask them to tell you what they already know!
After half term we will be exploring London in more detail.
Home task – Please make a 3D model of a London landmark – not Big Ben please.
For example: The Shard, London Eye, The Gherkin, Buckingham Palace, The Monument, Tower Bridge etc.
Please make sure that your child is involved in making their model as they will be presenting their model to the class and talking about how they made it.
Please can all models be brought to school by Monday 19th February as the children will be presenting their models sometime that week.
Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Powell.
🍯🍯Today we interviewed Mrs Barnes to find out about the honey that she sells. We found out about the bees that she keeps and asked questions about the containers, utensils and labels that she uses. This was such an informative session which will now help us to plan our marmalade making sessions. Diolch yn fawr Mrs Barnes - we can’t wait to taste your honey 🍯 next week! 🍯🍯
BSL lesson 3 - today we learned how to convey our feelings using sign language. Kathryn was very impressed with how good we were at remembering so many signs! 👍😊
🇪🇸🇪🇸 Today we have been learning how to ask and answer Como estas? in Spanish ready to converse with Paddington in his native language. 🇪🇸🇪🇸
Let’s explore Paddington in our enhanced provision - his life in Peru was very different to his new life in London!
Today we tasted the yummy marmalade that Paddington gave us! We worked in our groups to find out who liked it and then displayed this data in a bar chart! 📊
Our class Paddington 🧸 had fun staying with these lucky members of our class over the last few weeks. They were keen to share their adventures with the class and spoke with confidence. We will find out on Monday what Paddington has been up to over the weekend.... we hope he’s been good!
This week we researched Spectacled bears, found out about their habitat, wrote a fact file and painted them too! 🎨🖌️🖼️
BSL Lesson 2
Another amazing session today - the children are so engaged during these sessions!
BSL Lesson 2
Today we received our first BSL lesson! We were introduced to basic colours and animals and by the end of the session we could say which ones we liked and disliked. We all thoroughly enjoyed and can’t wait for next week’s lesson!
Launch Day - Let’s explore Paddington!
Dosbarth Lime received a very special delivery today - their very own Paddington Bear!
EPIC Planning
We worked with a partner to discuss and plan what we would like to find out about Paddington. We came up with lots of great ideas!
We had fun in our Christmas party - delicious party food and fabulous festive fun!
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Christmas Party - Tuesday 19th
Please provide a plate of party food and a drink for your child, both clearly labelled with your child’s name.
The party food will be instead of lunch.
Children can wear party clothes to school/ Christmas jumpers.
Many thanks
Mrs Powell
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Year 2 visited CF38 church this morning to take part in ‘Christmas Wrapped Up’. The children learned about the real meaning of Christmas, made Christmas cards and bookmarks and baked delicious mince pies too!
Dosbarth Lime enjoyed working with local crafter Mrs Gillard today to make Christmas cards for their parents. A big thank you to Mrs Gillard for giving up her time to work with the children and for providing all of the materials needed for the card making session. The children thoroughly enjoyed and made impressive Christmas cards! 🎅
🎅We enjoyed our Christmas dinner!🎅🎅
Reindeer run fun!
Christmas craft has began!
Years 1 and 2 were amazing in their Christmas Concert Gnome Alone!
This week we read the traditional story ‘Sleeping Beauty’, sequenced the story and used a story map to retell the story orally in our group.
🎄🎄Home task 🎄🎄
Our Christmas tree theme this year is ‘Wishing you an eggcellent Christmas’.
Please could all pupils make a decoration for our Christmas tree made from an egg box/blown egg for our school Christmas tree. Please send it into school next week. Many thanks.
We have been working hard to solve problems in our numeracy sessions this week!
Getting active in our numeracy lesson - counting is fun!
Thank you all for your donations today!
Ordering numbers.
We had a visit from the Fire Service!
We read the story ‘Where the poppies now grow’ and made our own poppy to wear on Remembrance Day.
🍂☘️Outdoor Learning Week!🍁🍃
We explored the school grounds and collected natural materials to use in our creative lesson.
We looked at a variety of images of fireworks on the interactive board and discussed the sound, colour and shape each one made. We worked in small groups to collect vocabulary ready for our poetry session. Then we used natural materials to create our own firework images. Can you spot a rocket, sparkler and bonfire?
Today Mrs Powell modelled how to use ‘3 in a bed’ to write a Firework poem. We worked in small groups to create our own and performed it to the class. Tomorrow we will work on re drafting our poems to make them even better!
Performing our poems for the class😊
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We have been learning about data handling this week. We collected data in a tally chart and displayed it as a simple bar chart. Today we used JIT5 on the laptops to collect and display data about our favourite fruit.🍒🍓🍇🍎
We had a fantastic day visiting Cardiff Castle! We learned about how the castle has changed and explored the castle house. We took part in a workshop learning about knights and their armour and weapons. 🗡️👑🏰
⭐️⭐️A huge well done to Dosbarth Lime who spoke confidently in their Harvest assembly this morning. I am very proud of you all! ⭐️⭐️
We sang and signed a song as part of our Harvest celebrations.
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Diwrnod Shwmae - we learned the Diwrnod Shwmae song and sang it throughout the day. We made posters to encourage people to speak Welsh in different places. Can you ....siarad Gymraeg yn y caffi neu yn y parc?
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We looked at Paul Klee’s artwork ‘Senecio’ and created our own portrait using chalk and pastels.
We have been using non - fiction books to research about Castle life. We explored how to use a content page and index to locate specific information. Great independent research skills, Da iawn pawb!
We identified different materials in our classroom, sorted them and explored their properties.
Sequencing Jack and the Beanstalk and retelling the story in our groups.
A busy week…..
We completed EPIC planning in class and decided that we would like to find out more about where we live. Yesterday we started exploring our local area by going on a walk around Beddau identifying the different types of houses and buildings in our area.
Music time🥁🎵🎺🪇 We listened to a piece of music and identified the long and short sounds. We composed our own piece of music using long and short sounds and sang it to our friends.
Exploring colour mixing and identifying warm and cold colours in preparation for our portraits next week! 🎨🖌️🖼️
Launch Day - This is me!
We launched our topic today by telling our friends all the things that make us unique. We shared a special/ important object with our class too to help them find out more about us. Da iawn Dosbarth Lime - super speaking and listening!
We looked at some split face portraits and created our own.
Launch Day - Monday 11th September
Our whole school topic this term is 'This is me'.
We will be launching our new topic on Monday in class by completing a marvellous me activity. Please could all children bring something that is special/ important to them to school on Monday to show the class. This will encourage the children to talk about themselves and recognise themselves as a unique individual. It will also enable the children to learn more about their new friends and teachers.
Many thanks
Mrs Powell
First day in Dosbarth Lime - exploring, sharing and taking turns with our friends.
We looked at a painting by the Welsh artist William Wilkins. We found out about the technique he used called pointillism and then experimented with a variety of materials to find out which would be the best to use for Pointillism.
Some of our class took assembly today and shared the very important message about plastic pollution. They spoke about their trip to Barry Island and the litter pick that they did. They also shared some of the fabulous acrostic poems they have written. Da iawn Dosbarth Lime!
We read the story ‘Luke’s beach day’ and explored the yoga poses in the story. 🧘♂️🧘♀️
What a fab lesson we had trying out athletics!
High frequency words - we will continue to learn how to spell these words this term. Please help your child to learn these at home too.
Following on from marmalade making, we wanted to find out more about how the heat was transferred from the cooker to the marmalade to make it change. We carried out an investigation to help us understand that some materials are conductors of heat and others are insulators.
Dosbarth Lime had a wonderful crafty afternoon creating cards for someone special with Mrs Gillard. Mrs Gillard told the children all about her love of card making and helped them to produce beautiful cards of their own. Diolch Mrs Gillard for giving up your time to work with our class.
How amazing are these London landmarks! Well done Dosbarth Lime - you spoke in detail explaining how you made your home task!
We tasted the yummy marmalade that we made and collected data in a tally chart to show how many children liked it!
Our fabulous finished paintings of Old Pontypridd Bridge in the style of Christopher Langley. Ardderchog.
Following on from our discovery of the Mabinogi story stones in Ponty Park, we listened to the story 'Happily Ever After', acted the story out and created a story plan ready to help us write the story from one branch of the Mabinogi. The children have enjoyed listening to this very old Welsh fairy tale and will share some of their story writing when it's finished. 🏴
We have been studying the artwork of Welsh artist Christopher Langley. We looked closely at his painting of Pontypridd Bridge and created our own paintings. 🖌️🖼️🎨
We played the instruments we made to Yma o hyd. 🏴🏴
Outdoor Learning Week - we identified and compared some of the different trees in our school grounds, looked closely at their leaves and collected a variety of leaves to use in our Expressive Arts session. Back in class we sorted the leaves and took leaf rubbings using wax crayons in preparation for making a Christmas decoration.... Watch this space! 🎄🎄
Anti bullying week - we discussed the meaning of bullying and discussed who we can 'reach out' to if we get bullied. We learnt an anti - bullying pledge and made helping hands to display in class.
Some of our fabulous firework poems!
This week we have been storytellers! We planned an alternative middle and end to Jack and the Beanstalk, told the story to a partner and wrote the new version of the story. Fantastic work Dosbarth Lime!
This week we have been shape detectives! We recapped on the names of 3D shapes, identified and grouped 3D shapes in our environment and explored the properties of each shape. We had fun using 3D shapes to build models with too. Gwaith ardderchog!
On Tuesday we visited Ponty Park to explore one of the great places that is 'on our doorstep'. We followed a map to explore the main human and physical features of the park, identified things we liked and disliked around the park and saw how people can have a positive and negative impact on this beautiful place. The children were so excited to discover some of the Mabinogi story rocks around the park and enjoyed taking a rubbing of picture on the special story stones. After lunch the children played in the fabulous park and identified which pieces of play equipment needed a force to make them move. Before we knew it it was time to catch the service bus back to school but on our way to the bus station we had one last treat - a quick chat with some police officers and a photograph with them too!
We talked about the potential risks we could face on our trip to Ponty Park and thought of what we could do to help us keep safe.
We evaluated our finished product - we wrote what we liked about our instrument and we identified how we could improve it. We are looking forward to playing our instruments in the Bandstand next week!
Today we followed our designs to make our musical instruments. We used a variety of techniques to join the materials we needed together and we had fun playing with our finished product! Gwaith ardderchog, Dosbarth Lime!
Today Dosbarth Lime worked hard designing the instrument they would like to make to play in the Bandstand at Ynysangharad Park.
Dosbarth Lime explored a range of instruments to help them decide on which type of instrument they would like to make.
Following on from our E. P. I. C planning, this afternoon we investigated the different types of houses 'on our doorstep'. We wanted to find out which type of house is the most popular on Llantrisant Road. Dosbarth Lime collected data in a tally chart and will be presenting and interpreting the data they collected in lessons tomorrow. .
This week we have been learning about computational thinking, the importance of doing certain things in the correct order and about directions. There was lots of hands on learning and fun... Here's a snap shot of what we've been up to.
We explored the features of recount writing and peer assessed our partner when they told us about an event that had happened using ordering words.
Exploring the language we needed ready for our coding activities - forwards, backwards, right turn, left turn.
Working collaboratively to programme the Beebot to move from start to the Cup and debugging until successful.
Coding fun!
Creating our own sign post maps.
Exploring place value - tens and ones.
Today we used Google earth to look at the route we took when we explored what was on our doorstep. We used a map of Beddau to identify human and physical features and to help us describe our route to a friend before drawing our own maps. 🗺️
What a busy day we've had in Dosbarth Lime today! We started the day with a drama session in the hall exploring the main characters in our book this week 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Then back in class we worked with a partner to popcorn adjectives to describe the characters and wrote a character description. In continuous provision, we designed and built the Giant's castle, phoned the characters in the story and took on the role as the Giant's guards. Lots of fun learning!
Launch Day 2022
Today we launched our topic 'Yma o Hyd'. We dressed in Welsh colours, tasted Welsh food, listened to Welsh music and researched Welsh landmarks that are 'on our doorstep'.
We welcomed Sabrina from Steele Dance Studio in the afternoon who taught us a fun dance to Welsh music and we then took part in an EPIC planning session.
We went on a walk around Beddau to identify the features that are 'on our doorstep'. This is the first time for us to leave the school premises and I must say the children were amazing! We will now do EPIC planning on our launch day to decide on what we would like to learn more about.
OUR CLASS Needs - we discussed what we needed from each other to create a happy, supportive learning environment. We voted for the needs that we thought were the most important to us to create Dosbarth Lime's class charter. Love, a listening ear, respect, friendship and safety were top of our list.
Today we played Welsh language games to help us learn how to ask and answer simple questions about where we live. Dosbarth Lime spoke confidently and clearly and even taught our class cuddly toys to speak Welsh! Gwaith ardderchog!
LAUNCH DAY – Thursday 15th September
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Our whole school topic this term is Yma o Hyd. Dosbarth Lime will be learning about our wonderful country Wales and some of the fabulous things ‘on our doorstep’.
Please send your child to school dressed in Welsh colours or wearing a Welsh costume/football/rugby top on Thursday to launch our topic.
Many Thanks
♻️Today's lessons were all about single use plastic. The children were asked to complete a chart at home over the last week to show the amount of single use plastic they used each day. They returned their charts to school this morning and used the charts in our Maths lesson today to interpret the data they collected. Dosbarth Lime were shocked how much we had used in just 7 days!! They worked collaboratively to think about simple changes they could make to reduce the amount of single use plastic being used by us. Da iawn Dosbarth Lime, gwaith ardderchog!! ♻️
Our fabulous display!
Dosbarth Lime investigated how the choices we make impact on others and our environment. They used ICT and books to research how dropping litter and using too much plastic is harming our environment. They made posters to show what they found out and they are going to share their work in assembly next week.
🌿🌿Outdoor Learning Week 🌿🌿
Completing our Fire Engines - we attached the axle and the wheels and tested them in the hall to see if they moved.
After designing their engine, the children began the making process. They worked so well together and were fully engaged in the task, discussing what they were doing and making further design decisions along the way. Ardderchog Dosbarth Lime!!
Dosbarth Lime watched the clip from Paddington Bear where he uses the tooth brush to clean his ears, drinks the mouthwash and floods the bathroom!! They agreed he wasn't a naughty bear, just a bear that isn't used to doing the things we do. They decided they could help Paddington by writing clear instructions for him to follow so he knows how to clean his teeth and take a bath correctly.
Look at this fab written work evaluating the London Landmark they made. Gwych!
After the children explored what makes a vehicle move they were introduced to the vocabulary wheels, axles and chassis.
They worked in small groups to think carefully about the suitable materials for wheels, axles and to make a chassis.
These are some of the ideas they came up with.....
The children investigated a chassis with fixed axles and movable wheels first and worked with a partner to try and create their own. They then took their creations to the hall to test how well it moved and discussed ways of improving their creation.
After making improvements to chassis 1, we looked at a different process with fixed wheels and a rotating axle. The children tested out chassis 2.evaluated the effectiveness of it and made improvements to it too! Gwaith ardderchog!
I wonder what they will get up to next week.....
😊Spreading the kindness 😊
We have completed lots of activities this week about the importance of being kind and choosing our words carefully.
We have been learning to sing the one kind word song and thought of ways to spread the kindness around our class, school and local community.
Dosbarth Lime thought it would be a great idea to spread the kindness to random people in Beddau by decorating a stone, writing a positive message on it and then hiding them in our community.
The children were so excited this afternoon when they hid their stones. Fingers crossed the stones will be found and a photo will get to sent to our class via email.
We will hopefully have a good response over the weekend!
😊Spreading kindness around our community. 😊
