Art - Colour Mixing

Over the past two weeks we've been looking at the work of Welsh artist George Chapman. In his oil painting

'Y Traffordd' (The Motorway) we've looked carefully at the colour scheme and tried to create parts of his painting with our own colour mixing.

We've used many skills including communicating information and with our talking partners we've asked many questions to each other e.g How can we make the different colours? What do we need to mix?

This is some of us at work today. We will post some more pictures of our finished work.

Geographical Features

J1 have been looking at direction as part of our topic, Ble wyt ti'n byw?- where are the shops and playing fields from our school? We used our communication skills-listening to others and their ideas. We used chalk

to draw the direction of each feature in Pontyclun.

Some groups wrote notes

for discussion.

All groups worked really hard and co-operated well.
Well done everyone!

Today J2 took a walk around the village to identify some features of Pontyclun. We used our maths skills to sort them into human and physical features of the locality. We didn't find many natural features close to the school except for the school and rugby fields. The river was too faraway for today's trip.

The railway station was quiet today although the 10.30am train arrived on time! We spent some time looking at the train times for the week. Good job Thomas Hart was there or Mrs.Morris would have missed the train as she was looking at Saturday's timetable!! Mrs.Coles told us that she remembered a time when there was a railway yard behind the station in Pontyclun.

Another important amenity for the residents of Pontyclun and their pets.

The Police Office inside the Community Centre.

Many of us were practising our IT skills and took all these camera shots ourselves.

The zebra crossing is an extremely important feature of the village we agreed, especially when a huge lorry thundered past us.

The library which is in our school yard is very important to us. Mrs.Edwards and the rest of the staff are always pleased to see us. They are a great resource. Many of J2 thought it was important to be near the school to help us to read and learn about the world.

Toby read the memorial stone that told us the WI planted trees around the War Memorial to commemorate the Queen's Coronation.

We will be out and about again looking at features and how they may have changed over time.
If you have any photos that you think would be interest to us we'd love to see them. We promise to take great care of them.

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Our Visit to Techniquest

Here are some pictures of our fun day at techniquest. We worked on all the different stations using our thinking and communication skills. We had lots of fun working together and discovering the answers.

Rocks and Soils Treasure Hunt

This morning we have been outside on a treasure hunt looking for clues about rocks and soils. We looked all around the school, the clues were everywhere. We worked with our talking partner and we had to work as a team to find the answers. By Emilia and Tori J1. Here are some pictures and this is what we said:

Maisie: "We had to work as a team and help each other."

Callum : "We had great fun. we had to think and use the book to find the answers".

Euan " We had some exercise running around trying to find the clues".

Tori " It was a great challenge looking for all the clues."

Rock Test Challenge

Last week we did the Rock Test Challenge. We wanted to see if some rocks were hard and others soft. We also wanted to test if the rocks were permeable. We had great fun learning and found some interesting results.

Here are some more photos of our soil investigation. We discovered that sandy soil drained the quickest.

Soil Investigation

Today we have been investigating which soil drained the quickest.We used top soil, sandy soil and we discussed the effect of clay soil. We measured in ml the amount of water that came through the funnel. Here are some of our pictures.