Dosbarth Willow- Miss Hughes

Useful Info:

P.E. - Thursday.

Please bring or wear appropriate sports kit to school on a Thursday (black/navy joggers/leggings/shorts and a white T shirt).  Our lessons will be outside when the weather permits, so please ensure your child is wearing trainers. 

Home Reading

Pupils are encouraged to take reading books home daily to read to a parent or guardian. Regular reading improves vocabulary and language skills, helps to improve concentration and also teaches children about the world around them. Please take 5 mins to listen to your child read whenever you can. It really will make a difference

Queries or Concerns

Please contact me on my email address misshughes@llwyncrwn.co.uk should you have any queries or concerns you need to discuss.

Thank you.

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   Class of 2024-2025

  😀 Dyma Ni! 😀

Spring Term

Tymor Y Gwanwyn.

Calon Lan

This term, our topic is Calon Lan, where we’ll be learning about body organs and their functions, especially focusing on the heart and circulatory system. We’ll be finding out how to keep our hearts happy with cardiovascular exercise and healthy food and learning how smoking and other harmful substances damage the body. 

Easter Class Assembly

We enjoyed leading the special Easter assembly. We retold the Easter story, introduced the Easter hymns and talked about Easter traditions in various countries across the world. 

CCFC

⚽️We had a great first football session with CCFC. ⚽️

A huge thank you to members from St John’s Ambulance who came to teach us some valuable life saving skills. ❤️

World Book Day 

Well done everybody who brought in a book for our class book swap to celebrate World Book Day. 

A big Diolch Yn Fawr to members of the South Wales Fire Service for your interesting and informative talk about fire safety and prevention. 

Can you feel the rhythm? Oh yeh! 🪘🥁

We are really enjoying exploring rhythm and pulse through our African drumming lessons. 
This week we learnt all about call and response rhythms, then worked in pairs / small groups to compose and perform our own versions. 

Small Group Presentations

We worked in pairs / small groups to research, create presentations and share the information with the rest of the class about our chosen body organ. 

Coding With Technocamps

We really enjoyed our visit from Rhys, who taught us how to code a quiz game about the human body. Diolch yn fawr. 😀

Diwrnod Coch, Gwyn a Gwyrdd 2025. 
We had a lot of hwyl playing the Welsh games that the Criw Cymraeg had organised for us on Diwrnod Coch, Gwyn a Gwyrdd. 

Measuring bones and halving to create half sized skeletons! 

Measuring Temperature. 

Miss Hughes’s Maths group practiced reading thermometers by investigating different temperatures inside and outside the school building. 

Autumn Term 2024

This term, our topic is “A Child’s War”,

where we’ll be learning about the significant events of the Second World War and also about what it was like being a child in wartime Wales. 
What was it like to be an evacuee? Why was food rationed? What was The Blitz? Why were some parts of Wales more vulnerable to bombing than others?

Through a series of historical enquiries and studying various primary and secondary historical sources, we will learn about the ups and downs of life in Wales and Britain from 1939-1945.

Designing, Making and Testing Anderson Shelters. 

We were set a task of designing, making and testing an Anderson Shelter that would be bombproof, sturdy and waterproof. We decided on a set of success criteria and worked in small groups to create our shelters. 

Christmas Panto Trip

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to The Coliseum in Aberdare to see Aladdin. A fun and entertaining afternoon. 😀😀

Outdoor learning, team work and problem solving. Constructing 3D shapes out of natural materials. 

More Fizzy Fun! 
Mixing materials - Mentos Volcano Fair Testing. 

Which variable would we change?
Which variables would stay the same?
What would we measure? 
We learnt that the more Mentos that were entered into the coke, the higher the eruption height. 
 

Autumn Photography

We captured autumnal images in our school grounds, focusing on close ups of tonal shades and form. We then edited our images to enhance the vibrancy of Autumn. We will use our photographs to inspire poetry writing. 

   Fizzy Fun! Baking Soda and Vinegar-Balloon Experiment. 
After learning about the properties of solids, liquids and gases, we did a group investigation to see what happened when we mixed materials and added baking soda to vinegar. We learnt that the two reacted together to form a gas called carbon dioxide. This gas inflated our balloons sealed onto a bottle top! 

A Child’s War Launch Day Autumn 2024 

We had a great day doing a variety of activities to learn more about WW2. We learned about the importance of the Spitfire plane, then made our own 3D models. We also did some army training and completed fitness challenges, finishing the day off with learning some popular WW2 songs. 

Thank you Daisy for bringing in some WW2 artefacts belonging to your family. We had a great class discussion about the objects. Diolch yn fawr! 

Investigating Artefacts from The Rhondda Heritage Centre. 

We sketched and investigated lots of WW2 artefacts from The Rhondda Heritage Centre. We learnt a lot about children’s toys from the 1940s, how people were alerted to an air raid and also what a German incendiary bomb looked like! We all agreed that the gas masks were very uncomfortable to wear!