Lots of lovely homework

The children brought in fantastic homework that they had done at home last week. They all enjoyed finding out facts and research on a castle of their choice. Here are some pictures of the children sharing their learning. They love swapping books and reading other children's research.

We are building a castle!

The children in Year 3 have been designing their own castle. They are going to build their own junk
model castles in groups next week. They have decided what materials they will need, and we are asking for your help. 

If you have any cardboard, cereal boxes, cardboard rolls (kitchen roll rolls), Pringles tins, yogurt pots, newspaper etc please can your child bring them in by Monday. We would be very grateful! Thank you!

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See our new reading corner!!

As our topic is ' Castles and Dragons' this term, we wanted a castle for our reading corner! We have lots of topic related books and love going in there to read!!

New Year, New Topic!

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we would like to wish you a Happy New Year!

As you know we had a very busy half term before Christmas. We went on two trips relating to our topic ‘Flight Engineers’. The first to the National Waterfront Museum and the second to RAF St Athan. The children had lots of fun and learnt lots about flight and aeroplanes.

The children created lots of lovely flying toys and loved making them.

We then had a busy run up to Christmas with the Christmas Concert and a trip to the Pantomime. Busy, Busy!

Now we are all rested and ready for a new topic.

Our topic this Term is ‘Castles and Dragons’.

This term our topic has a history focus and teaches children about aspects of the middle ages of Welsh history between 1063 and 1283, a time that is generally known as Medieval Times. In this topic the children will learn about the important aspects of Welsh history including the Welsh Princes of the time and the four provinces of Gwynedd, Powys, Deheubarth and Morgannwg. They will learn about castles, homes and lives of people during this time.

At the heart of this project children read, write and re-tell myths and create their own stories in the same style. Children will learn additional skills in presenting and recounting historical information.

In the Innovate Stage children play the role of villagers to plan, prepare and present a case for lower taxes to a Welsh Prince of a local castle.

If you have any books or objects relating to this topic please bring them in, as we can display them in our Reading Castles Thank you.