Dosbarth Oak- Mrs Swain

End of Term Treat

Here we are again, another term over. We have had a busy and productive few months. The children have worked hard and made lovely progress with their talking and their learning. 
Mrs Spark and I were more than proud of your wonderful children during the inspection and the team loved spending time in our class.

They truly deserved our day out today. The weather was glorious and the children were just fantastic.

It is such a pleasure to be out and about with them and the photos will show you how much fun we had.

We hope you like all the Easter crafts that the children have made. Again we like to give them some time to do nice activities as a reward for all their hard work throughout the term.

HAPPY EASTER

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Spring Term 2025

Welcome back to a new term and a new year.

We have had a great first day back all the children came into class with smiles on their faces.

Our topic this term is 

ANIMAL KINGDOM

The children enjoyed naming and sorting animals today to start the topic.

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BINGO

Every Thursday we end the day with a game of Bingo.

The children love this activity and are benefiting from this by learning their numbers to 100 and developing their listening and thinking skills.

They all love the healthy competition and the excitement and anticipation of winning. 😊🏆😊

Here are the photos of the winners so far. You can see from their faces how much they enjoy playing.

WEEK 1: AJ

WEEK 2:TA

WEEK 3: EM & ES

WEEK 4: AB

LOOK OUT FOR NEXT WEEK’S WINNER! 

GROWTH MINDSET

All the children are enjoying learning about having a growth mindset.

You will see from the photos the philosophy of growth mindset and the children are embracing it wholeheartedly.

We learn about this on a Wednesday and to help the children understand this concept we are learning how to hoopla hoop and having lots of fun! 
Some children have almost mastered it but those who haven’t are trying very hard.

ALL THINGS ARE HARD BEFORE THEY ARE EASY! 

WE ARE SUPER PROUD OF ALL THE CHILDREN FOR TRYING SO HARD 

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We had the most amazing morning when we joined Mr Morgan’s class to meet some rather wonderful animals.

 These are the animals that we saw:

Marsh Mongoose

Royal Python

Monitor Lizard

Striped Skunk

and

Binturong Bearcat 

Most of the children petted or held the animals but some were not so keen.

Those who didn’t like the “hands  on” approach (me included 😳) still learned a lot about these animals. 
It was

REALLY GREAT!

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I’m sure you will love looking at the pictures!

Welcome Back

Autumn Term 2024

Happy Halloween

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Ponty Park

and

The Prince’s Café

Another lovely day was had by all! There are LOADS of photos for you to see!

What a great way to end this long half term. The children really deserved a treat.

On the bus 🚎 

Milk and Biscuits

Exploring the park 

Climbing Trees

More Exploring

Lunch

Fun times together 

Halloween Disco

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Our children had a wonderful time in the disco tonight.

Planet Earth

Here are our completed paper mache Earth models 🌎🌍🌏 complete with the seven continents.

The children have really enjoyed this work in preparation for learning about Earth in Space after half term. 

We have had a busy few weeks starting the new term.

We wanted to wait until all our class were back before putting up our class picture.

We have two new friends in the class and the children have been very kind and helped them settle into our class routines.

Autumn walk and fun activities 

Electricity 

Thursday is our science day and the children are learning all about electricity. 
Here they are sorting objects according to the source of electricity.

All the children worked hard and enjoyed this activity.

Celebrating Harvest 

The children enjoyed learning about why we celebrate harvest.

They also enjoyed making felt Happy Harvest Pumpkins

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Exploring Shapes 

The children had lots of fun exploring 2D and 3D shapes today.

Making the 3D shapes was quite tricky but the boys persevered and did a great job!

Making pictures using 2D shapes was also lots of fun and really made the children think about fitting the shapes together to make a picture.

Exploring our world and where we live

The children have enjoyed learning about Planet Earth and the continents. 
Here they are locating where we live on the world map.

My Place in the World

All the children enjoyed finding out about where they live and their community. 

Here we are making our paper mache planet

🌎 Earth 🌎 

Topic Work

As part of our topic Where I Live

The children have enjoyed learning about Planet Earth.

They really enjoyed using cubes to see how much of the Earth’s surface is covered by water and how much by land. 
Nobody got the correct answer but they enjoyed the activity and now know the correct answer.

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Outdoor Learning and PE

The children love doing yoga as part of their PE lessons.

They also enjoyed collecting the apples in the school grounds. 
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Making the most of the glorious sunshine enjoying PE lessons outside.

Sports Day

The rain 🌧️ wasn’t going to stop the children having fun 😉

Eisteddfod Celebrations

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Christopher Langley

Art

Ponty Park

We had a fabulous day in Ponty Park for our picnic. 
Our day started with the children preparing and choosing the food that they wanted on the picnic  

Here we are on the bus stop and on the bus.

Having fun in the park

Last stop Tesco to buy lollies

We had a really fabulous day with our wonderful children.

We are very proud teachers and it was a pleasure to take the children out.

As usual we had people telling us how well behaved and lovely our children are which always makes us happy.

If you would like copies of the photos please write in the book and I can email them to you. Please contact me before the end of term and I’ll send them. 

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Shopping for our picnic 🧺 

As usual our wonderful children were really well behaved when we were out.

Mrs Spark and I are very proud of the children and we are really looking forward to our trip on Thursday.

Gardening Again

We planted some seeds today in class and then finished our planting in the peace garden.

All we have to do now is wait for our seeds to grow.

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Strawberries 

We notice that there were some ripe strawberries on the plant.

We picked them and ate them before the garden creatures 🐌 and birds 🦅 did.

They were sweet and delicious!

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Peace Garden

The children have worked really hard in the garden this afternoon. 
We filled two recycling bags with weeds and the garden is looking nice again. 
We have some seeds to plant sunflowers to plant but we ran out of time today.
We also had a bit of a shock when a swarm of bees descended on us. Luckily Mrs Spark noticed quickly and told us all to RUN.

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Here are some photographs of our afternoon’s work. 

We love working in the garden and thinking about our lovely friend a kind gentleman called Mr Harrington who gifted us money when he died. He was a keen gardener and it’s nice to keep our garden looking lovely in his memory 

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 Fruit

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The children have really enjoyed learning about fruit this week. 
We were very proud of them when we walked to the local shop to buy fruit on Wednesday.

Here they are enjoying strawberries 🍓 bananas 🍌 and pineapple 🍍 this morning.

The children have learned that all fruit starts as a seed then grows into a plant or tree then grows from a flower.

Diwrnod Seren a Sbarc

The children enjoyed their Welsh Cakes today and learning their colours in Welsh.

This is what they made.

Summer Term 2024

We are so happy to welcome four new friends to our class.

They have settled in really well and our class is now a busy and happy place. 

We dance a jig every morning to wake us up after our long taxi journeys to school. 
We had lots of fun on Friday we did the Locomotion dancing to Kylie all around the heart space.

We laughed a lot and had lots of 😂 fun 😂

Our lovely pupils 

Friday Assembly 

Show and Tell

We were all super proud of Esme for doing amazing talking without any help. 
Here she is telling all her friends in the infant assembly and she was very proud of herself. 
👏 Well done! 👏 

Spring Term 2024

Wind Socks

We had fun on the yard using our wind socks to see which way the wind was blowing.

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Arts and Crafts 

Look at all the lovely things that we have made in school this term.

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Weather Work

All the children have really enjoyed learning about the weather. 
We had lots of fun making rain in the classroom and the children tried really hard to learn new vocabulary.

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Rain Gauge

We made a rain gauge and put it the allotment to record the rainfall. 
We did this for three weeks.

Week 1: 4cms

Week 2: 4 cms 

Week 3: 6 cms

We are going to leave it in the allotment and see how much rain we have over the Easter holidays. 
Hopefully 🤞 not much !!!

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Recording the Weather

We recorded the weather every day in January. We learned how to read the temperature on a thermometer and also how to copy and paste weather symbols on to our weather chart. 

We also enjoyed making weather crafts

Measuring 
We enjoyed drawing around our arms and measuring them.

We had to decide which was the best ruler to use and learned all about centimetres.

Kids Cosmic Yoga

The children in the two classes had a great time together this afternoon doing yoga with Mrs Challinor and Mrs John.

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We have had a great start to the new term. All the children are working hard and are really enjoying our topic THE WEATHER.

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Here are some of the things that we have enjoyed so far this term. 

Here we are exploring the outdoors and looking at the changes that take place in our school grounds as the seasons and the weather change. 

Christmas Party Time

All the children had a lovely time in our Christmas party today.

Lots of dancing and party food. They had a great time. 
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Name Puzzles

We have enjoyed learning about our names.

We learned about the meanings of our names and made a puzzle to help us learn both our Christian and surname. 

Poppy Day Handprints 

We have reached the end of a long but happy and productive term.

Here are some of the activities your children have enjoyed doing.

🎃Halloween👻

Autumn

All About Me

Measures

We recorded our height and weight and we are going to do this again after Christmas to see how much we have grown.

  Gardening

The children really enjoyed weeding and tidying the peace garden yesterday.

It was very hot but the children worked really hard to make the garden look nice.

You can see how happy and enthusiastic they are to be working outdoors in the pictures.

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RCT Music Lessons

Jesse and Riley had a lovely time this morning when the joined the other Year 3 children to learn all about music and playing the recorder. 

Look out for more pictures next week.

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Autumn Term 2023

Welcome back to a new term. 

We have had a busy week and were really happy to welcome three lovely new friends to our class as well as our new Speech & Language Therapist Miss Michael.

Please could you ensure you send your child's book and bag to school every day as it is an important means of communication. The children like me to write in the books and share good news when they have had a good day in school.

PE is on a Wednesday afternoon. Please could you send your child to school in suitable clothing such as joggers and trainers on that day.  

You can contact me through the home to school book or by email  mrsswain@llwyncrwn.co.uk. If you have any questions, worries or concerns please do not hesitate to send me a message.

Week 1 

It has been a very hot week but we managed to get out to water the plants in the peace garden and had a shock to see how tall our sunflowers had grown.

The children enjoyed watering the flowers and I hope that they will be as enthusiastic next week when we go to do the weeding!

Another afternoon of hard work in the Peace Garden 🪴 

The Peace Garden 

Yesterday we started working on our school peace garden. Our dear friend Mr Harrington generously gifted us money in his will so we decided to spend it making the peace garden look beautiful in his memory.

The children got stuck in weeding and replanting. Mrs Challinor and I were very proud of them for their hard work and enthusiasm. 

Den Making

We had lots of fun yesterday building dens with our friends in Mrs Heaven’s class.

There was some lovely team work and problem solving but also lots of fun!

St Fagans

Beti Bwt

Summer Term 2023

Welcome back to a new term.

The whole school topic is

Step Back in Time .

Our class will be focussing our learning on a lovely story book called PEEPO which looks at the world through a child’s eyes and is based around the time of the Second World War.

  Following this we will be studying The Titanic. This is a great topic and when I have done it in the past the children have thoroughly enjoyed all the activities and learning.

As ever the children will be supported and encouraged to contribute to the content and the teaching by stating what they already know and what they want to explore further.   

As you can see we have welcomed two new friends to our class and we are loving having a noisy and busy classroom as more children join us.

The Peace Garden

We were very lucky to be gifted with a large sum of money from our wonderful friend Mr Harrington after he sadly died last autumn.

We decided to spend the money on making the school peace garden look nice and be a special place to sit and enjoy our beautiful school grounds. 
This is what we have bought so far and we are looking forward to getting our hands dirty in the summer term.

Easter Crafts

Once again under the expert guidance of our wonderful Mrs Challinor the children have made some lovely Easter crafts.

They are very clever children and enjoy every second of making things.

Our trip to Cardiff

We had a lovely day out in Cardiff yesterday. We had a look around the museum and then went for lunch in Pillars restaurant.

As ever the children were amazing and an absolute pleasure to take out.

You will see from the photos that a lovely day was had by all and was a lovely way to end the term. 

Mother's Day

Once again the children have really enjoyed making some beautiful crafts for their Mams. 

Valentine’s Day

Once again Mrs Challinor helped us make some lovely Valentine’s cards and crafts. 

Welcome Back

Spring Term 2023

Welcome back to a new year and a new term.

We didn't have the best start due to one of our boys having chicken pox and then SNOW!

Fingers crossed there will be no more disruptions and we can just get on with learning.

Our topic this term is STEM-tastic and the focus of our learning will be

CLOTHES- making the most of materials

We started off the term by reflecting on 2022 and thinking about what we want from 2023. This is a really tricky thing to do but we were SO proud of the boys and how they responded to the activities.  

​​​​​​​They really tried hard to think about the questions and here is some of the lovely work that they did.

Well Done boys! You made us very proud teachers.

The Smartest Giant in Town

We are using this book as part of our topic and decided to make a display about the story.

We had to decide which of the boys would be the best to draw around to make a picture of George.

Zac and Riley were too tall! Dylan was too small but Harri was just right. 
Mrs Challinor is very clever and helps us do lovely things. Keep a lookout for the finished George. 

Our New Rug

We were very excited today when we got our lovely new rug.

It is bright and colourful and makes our classroom look lovely.

We all helped to make our classroom and rug look nice. Riley helped with the hoovering but unfortunately I didn’t take a photo. Sorry Riley! 

Wear RED for Wales and Velindre

The children have been very busy working hard to make red flowers to sell to raise money for a special charity.

We are making them in to fridge magnets. We all had a great time making them and will be selling them in school tomorrow.

Music Lessons

The children have been very lucky to have had the opportunity to take part in some taster sessions to encourage them to take up a musical instrument in school.

They have been truly amazing and have made us very proud every week with their enthusiasm to sing, learn about music and lay the violin.

Take a look at what they have learned so far.

We started our topic by BRAINSTORMING all we know about clothes to help us decide together what we want to learn.

We did a quiz about clothes and had lots of fun reading clues to work out which item of clothing was being described.

This led us nicely into our topic and motivated the children to think about what they want to learn over the next few weeks.

Welcome Back 

Autumn Term 2022

Here we are, a smaller class than usual but ready to work as hard as ever and face new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm.

This term the focus of our learning will be on Wales learning about our language, culture and heritage. 

Much of our learning will be through Traditional Tales and I am sure the children will enjoy this approach.

The children will be doing PE on Wednesday afternoons so please could you dress your child in joggers and trainers as part of their school uniform on this day.

PLANTING DAFFODILS

We had a great time planting daffodils.

We learned why the daffodil is special to Wales and new vocabulary about planting and growing daffodils.

You can see we had lots of fun in the pictures.

Sleep Tight

Mr Harrington

We were all very sad to hear that our lovely friend Mr Harrington died peacefully in his sleep at the end of October.

We were very lucky to have had the opportunity to send him cards and letters over the past two years.

It all started when Lockdown stopped him celebrating his 90th birthday, so following an appeal by his daughter Liz, who wanted to make his day special, we started our friendship with him.

I truly believe that all the children who have written to Mr Harrington over he years will always remember him, I certainly will.

We send his family a big Welsh cwtch and lots of love at this sad time.

We decided that we would plant a pot of daffodils in his memory and place it in the peace garden. We look forward to seeing the flowers in the spring and remembering a lovely gentleman who enriched our children's lives.

HALLOWEEN CRAFTS

We enjoyed making Halloween crafts and made lovely pumpkin wreaths using our apple printing from the apples we picked in school.

We are very lucky to have Mrs Challinor to teach us and help us make such lovely things.

Here are the finished crafts.

HALLOWEEN FUN

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We had a lovely party on Friday to say goodbye to our fabulous friend Corbyn who has left our class to go to his new school.

We will miss him but wish him lots of luck. We have lots of happy memories.

Autumn Walk in Ponty Park

ICT

Every Friday morning the children enjoy working on the Chromebooks. 

We use a computer programme that generates a picture and then the children do their POPAT work, writing about the picture and spelling words as independently as possible.

They also enjoy doing maths games and have become very confident at accessing some fun activities.

You can log on at home at any time and help your child enjoy these activities.

The websites are:

hwb.gov.wales

www.ictgames.com

SENSES

We have enjoyed learning about our senses. Here is some of the work that we have done so far.

We drew our faces and labelled the senses. 

Mr Potato Head

We really enjoyed cutting and sticking with Mrs Challinor to make a Mr Potato Head to learn about our senses.

My Place in the World

We looked on the world map and did our best to find Wales.

We have enjoyed learning about our place in the world.

We looked on Google Maps to find our houses and we learned our addresses. 
We also tried hard to learn new words about places such as village, town and city and know the differences between the three.

Happy Birthday 

Mr Harrington 

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Once again our lovely children have enjoyed doing something thoughtful to make a special elderly gentleman happy.

It’s been two years since we first sent Mr Harrington cards to make his 90th birthday memorable because a celebration wasn’t allowed due to Covid.

We are always very proud of the children for the effort and care they put into making the cards. 
We love being in contact with Mr Harrington and his family and the children know that they are making an elderly gentleman happy.

Here are the lovely cards that they made this year.

What a Lovely Welcome Back

Mrs Challinor and I had a lovely surprise this week.

These kind and thoughtful pupils brought us a hamper of goodies to thank us for helping them with their talking.

We were overwhelmed by their kindness so we decided to share the cakes with the children.

We want to say a HUGE thank you for thinking about us it was a very special thing to do and we really appreciate your kind words and gesture.

 BIG MATHS

The boys worked really hard this morning to master partitioning of numbers and start some very tricky number work in BIG MATHS.

I was very proud of how hard they all worked. It was new and tricky but they all tried really hard and did really well.

Well done boys I am very proud of you.

Speech Therapy

Look at Zac and Mr Frusicanti, they had fun doing speech therapy while the others did maths.

Well done Zac you tried really hard today! Good boy.  

Look at this amazing courgette plant that Dylan and his mum have nurtured. You definitely have green fingers! 🌱🌱🌱

Making Butter from Cream

We had lots of fun this afternoon attempting to make butter from cream.

I have done this many times with success however after two hours of shaking the cream and lots of effort and laughter from the children we finally gave up.

It was a little bit disappointing but as you can see from the photographs the children enjoyed the process even though it didn’t work. 
Our classroom was very hot so we have decided that maybe we should wait and try again in September.

I’m sure you will agree from the photos that the children really did enjoy learning about how butter is made even if on this occasion we didn’t manage it 🙄

As you can see we had a bit of a bad start when I poured the cream without replacing the bottom of the container 🤦🏻‍♀️.

The videos will show you that we had lots of fun 😊.

Aberavon Beach

We had a lovely day out with our fabulous children today.

As usual they were amazing, playing beautifully together and simply having lots of fun.

Mrs Challinor and I are always so proud of them all when we go out.

The photos are a clear indication of why we enjoy our little school trips. 
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Iechyd Da

We have enjoyed this topic this term learning how to keep ourselves fit and healthy.

Here are some of our ideas and the things we wanted to learn about.

Our shopping trip to Tesco

Here we are shopping for fruit in Tesco so that we can draw and taste the fruit in the class.

We also looked at vegetables, meat and dairy to complete the work that we did in class sorting and categorising the different foods that we eat.

Back in school we enjoyed drawing and then tasting the fruit we bought.

Here is some of the work that we have done when learning about fruit

Planting
Look at how big our plants have grown.

We are going to look after them at home now.

Planting Seeds

We enjoyed planting tomatoes 🍅 carrots🥕 and courgette seeds to grow in the classroom. We planted half a tomato in the soil and bought seeds to plant carrots in a bottle and courgettes. We have also saved some apple 🍎 seeds and watermelon 🍉 seeds to plant and grow over the next few weeks. 

We are pleased with how much they have grown 🪴.
 

Look how much they have grown over the past few weeks.

Some are much bigger than others! All the plants are looking healthy.

We have also planted some flowers. They are just starting to grow💐.

Here are the seeds that we are going to plant soon.

They are apple 🍎 and watermelon 🍉. 

Summer Term

Welcome Back

The summer term is here and the children are all ready for a fun term celebrating the Queen's Jubilee 

and learning about ways that we can stay fit and healthy through our topic

Iechyd Da- Good Health

We were sad to say goodbye to Mason and Thomas at the end of last term. They have been in our class for a long time and we really miss them.

However, it is lovely that they pop their heads around the door more than once every day just to say hello. 

We all wish them well in their new class with Mrs Heaven and Mrs John where they have settled in nicely.

We have also welcomed a new pupil in our class called Zac, he has settled in well, is enjoying the company of all the children and working hard.

Here is some of our work so far.

Jubilee Party Invitations

Singing Hands

Song of the week 

Singing Hands

Here we are again doing our song of the week and learning more makaton words.

MOTHER’S DAY CRAFTS

Once again Mrs Challinor has helped the children make lovely gifts. 
I’m sure everyone was happy today with the  gifts and appreciated all the hard work that the children put in to making things.

Their enthusiasm is commendable and everything is made with love.

SINGING HANDS

Here we are doing our song of the week and learning Makaton.

We do it every day so by Friday we are usually quite good.

Monster Pinch Pots

We had a lovely morning with Lucy making our pinch pots. We can’t wait to paint them.

Thank you Mrs Charles for this lovely activity we really enjoyed every minute.

PLANET EARTH

We have really enjoyed learning all about our planet before we learn about the other planets in the solar system.

We started by learning about land and water and then moved on to time and how the world rotating or spinning gives us day and night.

We then learned about the Earth's revolution giving us the seasons. There were  lots of new words to learn but the children tried really hard and enjoyed the work.

Making a papier mache globe was a fun activity and the children tried really hard to learn about the continents.

This is some of the work that we have done over the past few weeks on Planet Earth.

PAPIER MACHE GLOBES

ROTATION AND REVOLUTION 

WE WORK HARD EVERY DAY

Here is some of the work that we have done.

World Book Day

We enjoyed reading traditional tales today and did a quiz to see how much we know about these stories.

We knew a lot and the children had a lovely time joining in with me when I was reading them.

Here are some pictures of our day. 

Welsh Folk Dancing

we had lots of fun!

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus

We have had a lovely day celebrating St David's Day today.

We have worked hard and enjoyed crafting with Mrs Challinor and also independently.

Take a look at the things we have done.

Leeks

We learned why we wear a leek on St David's day and made one for ourselves.

We also made daffodil wreaths.

We had lots of cutting out to do but the results are fabulous 🌼

Here are our Welsh ladies.

Children's Mental Health Week 2022

We had a great week talking about our physical and mental health which go hand in hand to make us function and feel happy in our world.

The children already know lots about positive and negative emotions and know how they can help and be helped when they need it in order to stay safe and happy.

This week's activities just brought everything together and we had some fun when learning and thinking about ours and other's mental health.

Take a look at some of the work that the children have done as well as lots of talking and thinking. As usual they have all been fantastic and a great week was had by all.

This is a really lovely story and as I was on a training course Mrs Challinor and Mrs James were the ones who enabled the children to do this beautiful work.

It is clear that the children thought hard about what they wanted to write and the work is SUPER!

Support Balloons

This was another lovely activity, the children listened really well and followed the instruction on the video that was paused throughout to ensure they understood the purpose of the task and to make it meaningful.

We all have a Growth Mindset

For a number of years we have taught the children about having a growth mindset. We continually support and encourage the children to try their best at all times.

Some of our favourites are:

"If you believe you can then you will."

"I can train my brain to do it."

"Don't give up until you are proud"

"Mistakes help you learn"

​​​​​​​"I can't do it YET but with effort I will" 

​​​​​​​Here are some videos of the children dancing to some videos that promote this concept.

As you can see they REALLY enjoyed taking part.

My favourite video is the yoga poses. Well done kids we are super proud of everything that you have done this week. 

We had a lovely day on Friday, we all wore clothes to school that made us feel happy.

All the children talked beautifully about the clothes they were wearing and their reasons for doing so.

To finish of the week we also made WORRY DOLLS. Some of the children made a doll that was themselves and some made their friends.

They understood that they could share their worries with their doll to help them feel better.

As usual Mrs Challinor made this activity quick and easy for the children to do but the results are fantastic.

These are fabulous, the children loved making them and later on they helped them do their work.

FINALLY each child chose a growth mindset quote that they liked.

Here they are in their special clothes with their worry doll.

What a lovely week we all had! I am sure that all the children now know that it is ok to feel down sometimes and that there is always someone to help them.

They know that they have adults close by that they can trust and confide in.

They also know and understand that 

"A problem shared is a problem halved" and as a class they are very kind, caring and supportive to each other.

What a fabulous week we have had. I hope you have enjoyed looking at the photographs of your wonderful children who make us happy every day.

Spring Term

January 2022

The children have really enjoyed this story as an introduction to our topic.

​​​​​​​Here is some of the work that they have completed one the past few weeks. 

Welcome Back

Christmas comes and goes and it is always nice to come back to school and settle down to work and routine once again.

We have had a lovely start to the new year and new term.

We have welcomed two new friends to our class. They have settled in well and it feels like they have been with us forever. Well done Alfie and Harri it is hard to come into a new class but you have done well.

Our topic this term is

Let's Explore: Earth in Space

The children have really embraced the topic so far. We have done lots of talking and thinking about what they know and I'm sure they will enjoy finding out and learning lots more.

We will begin by exploring our planet first before exploring the rest of the solar system.

As always Mrs Challinor has some lovely ideas for craft work relating to the theme and for other special days and celebrations this term.

Feel free to explore the topic at home with your children, I am sure they will enjoy learning at home as well as in school.

Christmas is Coming!!!

Today we have started preparing for our Christmas video. We had lots of fun doing the video last year and I am sure the children will work just as hard this year. 

I hope they've not given anything away and you'll have a lovely treat when you watch it!

We love showing everyone just how hard working the children are and the effort they put into performing is commendable.

​​​​​​​SO..... watch this space for this year's Christmas video from our class.

This is Me Crafts

We are so lucky to have Mrs Challinor in our class. She has lovely ideas and we always have a great time doing craft activities.

We used different materials to write our names and they are really pretty!

Our Harvest Celebrations

Here we are with our collection of food that we brought in to give to Beddau Angels.

They will kindly distribute the food in the community. 

Harvest Art and Craft

Here are some of the lovely Harvest crafts we have made during our celebration.

Mrs Challinor has fabulous ideas and we always make lovely things with her.

Harvest Wreaths

Here is another lovely craft idea that Mrs Challinor had to help us learn about Harvest and why we celebrate.

We really enjoyed making these. We had to do lots of cutting and sticking. painting and glueing but we  have a lovely display in the classroom to remember why we celebrate at this time of the year.

Our THANKFUL Wheels

When we were learning about Harvest and being thankful for our food we thought about other things that we are thankful for in our lives.

Fruit and Vegetable Printing

We had lots of fun getting a little bit messy printing and making pictures using fruit and vegetables as part of our Harvest celebration.

Harvest Work

We had lots of fun doing all the art and craft activities but we also enjoyed the language and maths activities relating to Harvest. 

Here is some of the work that we have done over the past two weeks.

We did lots of work on the stories 

The Little Red Hen

and 

The Enormous Turnip

Happy Birthday

Mr Harrington

I can't believe it's been a whole year since we first sent our lovely friend birthday cards for his special birthday.

We have enjoyed staying in touch throughout the year and making him birthday cards again a year later.

​​​​​​​I am so proud of the children's enthusiasm when making cards for someone they have never met but know by doing what they are doing they are making someone happy.  

Here are some pictures of us making the cards and going to the post office to send them.  

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Dosbarth Oak

Croeso nol

Welcome back

At the end of the summer term we had to say goodbye to two of our friends but we can now welcome two new friends to our class.

They have both settled in well and feel happy and confident in our class.

Unfortunately we've not had the best start to the term with two of our families catching Covid but hopefully from this week we will all be back at school and ready to work hard.

A Trip to the Post Office

It's been almost a year since we first send birthday cards to our lovely friend Mr Harrington.

We have a beautiful sunflower in the peace garden grown from the seeds that he kindly sent us.

We made him a card and sent him some photos of the sunflower.

We really enjoy going out and about for little walks in Beddau.

Dosbarth Oak

September 2020

OUR HAPPY CLASS

Here we are

DOSBARTH OAK

planting an oak tree that Mrs Challinor grew from a tiny acorn.

The Titanic 

The children have really enjoyed learning about the Titanic.

Mrs Challinor allowed the children to design and make their own Titanic and they were VERY enthusiastic.

Look at these amazing ocean liners.

We are very proud of how hard the children work.

We hope you have room for them.

International Week

2021

We have had a lovely time learning about France, Italy and Spain.

When we learned about France we painted Monet’s Waterlillies and made a lillypad.

We enjoyed making the Leaning Tower of Pisa when we learned about Italy.

We enjoyed making International Week T-shirts.

Passports

The Peace Garden 

Our lovely friend Mr Harrington sent us some seeds. We took some home but planted others in the school Peace Garden. 
Dosbarth Elder have worked hard to make the garden look nice and we have given them a helping hand.
 

We like making cards and keeping in touch with Mr Harrington. 
I am sure that he enjoys receiving cards as much as the children enjoy making them.

We are very proud of them and their enthusiasm to keep in touch with such a lovely gentleman.

St Fagans

We had a lovely day out today saying goodbye to our fabulous friends Billy and Benjamin.

The weather was glorious and the children were amazing! They make us proud every day and when we are "out and about" they NEVER let us down.

This trip has been a long time coming! It did feel a little strange being on the minibus again but you will see from the photos we had a really lovely day.​​​​​​

 After such a hard year of being unable to leave school, Billy and Benjamin will have been able to make some very happy memories  today and we wish them lots of luck in their new schools.

Come back and visit us and always stay in touch. We will miss you very much. 

Planting Seeds

Here we are planting seeds sent to us by our lovely friend Mr John Harrington.

A few months ago we were very lucky to have the opportunity to make a lovely gentleman happy on his special 90th birthday in lockdown.

We have stayed in touch and last week after seeing our pictures he very kindly sent us some seeds to plant.

We decided to make the most of the warm weather go outside to plant the seeds. Here we are in our school peace garden.

We really enjoyed ourselves and here are the pictures.

Thank you Mr Harrington it was very kind of you to think of us and we love staying in touch with you.

Here we are planting the seeds

NEW YEAR LOCKDOWN

It is such a shame that we were not able to return to school after Christmas but we have to stay at home to stay safe.

As with the spring and summer lockdown you are all making me so proud and happy because of all the hard work that you are doing.

I would like to give a huge THANK YOU to all the parents for everything you have done and are continuing to do, to support your children with school at home.

Google Classroom and Google Meet is something new. I know not all of you have the confidence to use it and that is fine but for those who do use it you have learned very quickly and are doing really well with IT.

Seeing photos and videos of you and the work that you have done really makes my day. Please continue to send them until we can be in school together again.

The most important thing to say is please stay at home and stay safe so that we can all be together again. 

Here are some of the photos that you have sent me over the last few weeks. If I have missed any I am sorry but if you want to send me more I can put them on here at any time.

You are the BEST children ever and I am the LUCKIEST teacher ever.

I can't wait until we are back together in school but until then keep up the good work you are doing BRILLIANTLY!

WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER

Don't forget this saying-

Let your smile change the world but don't let the world change your smile.

xxx

Anti-Bullying Week

I was pleased to be sent this lovely work that the children have done with Mr Morgan and Mrs Challinor while I'm at home self isolating.

I am always very proud of the effort that they put into the activities and work set. 

​​​​​​​WELL DONE to you all, your work is lovely and you send a good message out to everyone about being kind to each other!

As we always say

It's NICE to be NICE!

Outdoor Learning Day

We had a lovely day today enjoying some autumn sunshine and looking for our class tree.

We also collected leaves to make hedgehog pictures which will be displayed on here when they are done.

We didn't find our tree today but we are not going to stop looking!

Here are some photos of our little activity this morning.

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Well-being Week

It's the last week of a long but happy and productive term. Our new children have settled in really well and we are now a big happy school family as opposed to a medium sized happy school family.

We had some fabulous discussions today to find out what the children understood about well-being and they were amazing. 

Here is a photo of their ideas. I will post more throughout the week. I'm sure it is going to be a good one to end the first half of the autumn term. 

Nine Children Doing Something Nice

When we heard that a lovely gentleman was going to be 90 in October and due to the nasty virus he wouldn't be able to celebrate with his family and friends we decided that we should try and make this big and special birthday EXTRA special.

We thought it would be nice if we all made him a birthday card to open on his special day.

We did some research and did a GOOGLE search to look at some 90th birthday card designs. We all chose one that we liked and made a card for Mr Harrington.

It was a mini project for us and one that we really enjoyed. I was overwhelmed by the children's enthusiasm to make an elderly gentleman happy. I am so proud of your lovely children for showing so much empathy and kindness during these unusual times when nobody can celebrate and enjoy family time together. 

Here are the photos of the process from planning to posting.

Working hard on the designs

The Cards

I am so proud of the effort that all the children put into making these lovely cards I am sure as parents you are too.

Due to COVID and to keep the children safe I decided that it was best that I go to my local Post Office to buy the stamps. Unfortunately I forgot my mask. It was a good job my husband was with me and gave me his hankie to keep me safe! 

Here we are on our way to the local Post

Office in Beddau to post the cards.

The children were very excited to post their cards to the lovely Mr Harrington.

You may have noticed that our lovely friend Mason isn't in the photographs. Unfortunately he has to self isolate for 14 days but he finished his card at home then he and his Mam posted the card from his home village. 

Happy 90th Birthday 

Mr Harrington.

Have a great day!

With very best wishes from 

All the children and staff in the Speech & Language Class

Seren Yr Wythnos

Here he is, our first star of the week and what a star he is! He is the youngest in our class and is trying so hard with his all of work. However he has been given this award for trying SO hard with his talking. Well done Corbyn you really are a star. 

Welcome Back

Autumn Term 2020

Well we have had a lovely start to the new term. We were very lucky to be reunited as a class at the end of the summer term and settle back into the new routines of a very unusual school life.

We give a warm welcome to our new friends who have joined our class. They have all settled really well and our class is now busy and full energy and enthusiasm to learn.

We are basing our learning on the topic

What Matters To Me

The children have embraced the work and we have some lovely work in books and some excellent craft work ready to be displayed in our classroom. 

Look out for some pictures in the near future of the activities that we have got planned.

We are trying to make school as 'normal' as possible in these very unusual times, sticking to routines but above all ensuring that the children stay safe. They are excellent at following the rules and never need reminding about distance and sanitising. Mrs Challinor and I are very proud of them all!

Use the home school books as much as you need to contact us but you can also use email and I will reply as soon as I can.

We are all looking forward to a healthy and happy term and so far the children are showing us that they are willing and ready to learn.

Watch this space for pictures of our activities.

With best wishes 

Mrs Swain & Mrs Challinor

I am very excited to be saying

WELCOME....

To all my lovely children.

It's been a long time coming and I cant wait to be reunited with you all.

See you in the morning.

Outdoor Learning Day

What a fab photo of Harley-Joe and his brother enjoying the outdoors today, it looks like they had lots of fun. Thank you for sending the photo and taking part in exploring and enjoying being outdoors today.

This is a lovely photo of Mason happily exploring the outdoors today. We are very lucky to live in a valley surrounded by beautiful mountains that let us experience the wonders of nature on our doorsteps. Thank you to Mason and his mam for taking part in the special activity today.

Here are some lovely pictures of Thomas enjoying being outdoors today. He really has been exploring nature. Good boy Thomas and thank you Mrs Longley for doing such lovely things with Thomas.

Half Term Holiday Is Almost Here

Thank you all so much for the video that you sent us last week. It was fantastic and even though we don't need reminding, it showed us how wonderful and special you all are!!

Thank you again for everything you have done over the past 8 weeks. Your help and support is greatly appreciated every day.

Have a great week and don't forget to close your home school on Friday afternoon and enjoy chilling with your lovely children. You all deserve a holiday so make sure to have a break and have fun!!

Hopefully we'll all be back together soon but in the meantime please take care and stay safe.

With best wishes from us all in the Speech & Language Class

xxx

Home Learning and Staying Safe

Summer Term 2020

I know it is a very difficult time for everyone but I want to say that I am so proud of all my children and very appreciative of all the hard work that you as parents are putting into teaching and helping your child learn at home.

It's really lovely to have so much contact with you be it emails, videos, photographs or post. It would be so much nicer to be in school but for the time being we will have to do our best and continue working hard together to ensure the children thrive as best they can. 

As we didn't finish our mini topic on the Titanic maybe you could help your child do some simple research and look at some of the resources on Youtube and Twinkl. We have looked at some and the children really enjoyed learning the facts about the ship through videos and powerpoints. I always put "for children" after every search which will ensure the materials are child friendly and easy for them to understand and enjoy.

Stay in touch, stay safe and stay happy. I found a lovely quote last week which said

"Let your smile change the world

BUT

don't let the world change your smile"

There will be an end to this and we will get back to school eventually but until then we have to make the most of the situation. Sending you all my very best wishes in these uncertain times.