On Monday 14^th March our class visited Pontypridd Museum to take part in a K’NEX Challenge.

The task was to work in small groups to build a bridge using K’NEX.

Our challenge was to make our bridge strong enough to hold a weight of 330 grams.

Every group in the class managed to do the challenge! Some of the groups even managed to build a bridge that could hold over 1500 grams!

During these tasks we used lots of Design Technology skills.

The following pictures show us building and testing our bridges.

World Book Day

On Friday 18^th March we celebrated World Book Day. We dressed up as a character from a book or a film. We had lots of fun.

Look at our lovely photos!

We have been cooking!!!

Last Wednesday Richard from Cooking Together Wales took a cookery workshop with years 3 and 4.
He taught us how to hold knives correctly, how to cut food safely using the bridge and claw techniques. We listened very carefully to what he had to say as we were junior chefs for the time we were cooking.  During our session we made Rainbow Couscous and Berry Cheesecake pots all are very healthy and ideal for lunchboxes.  We used our new knife skills to cut cherry tomaoes, cucumber and pepper in small pieces, watched dehydrated couscous 'come alive' when hot water was added to it. We all had specific jobs to do: 2 people to juice the lemon, 1 or 2 people to 'fluff' up the couscous, 1 person to add the pepper and 1 person to add the sweetcorn. We combined all of these ingredients plus the vegetables we chopped up and mixed it all together. The smell was amazing! We shared it out between us and then cleaned our table with antibacterial spray. Next we made the berry cheesecake pots, we layered oats, frozen mixed fruit, cheescake mix (fat free/low fat youghurt, low fat cream cheese, honey, sweetener and vanilla essence) then topped it with oats and a piece of fruit. We really wanted to eat these straight away but we had to go back to class. We had an amazing time as you can see from our photos!

China

During the last two weeks we have had Chinese visitors to the school. They have been showing the children throughout the school various chinese activities.  We took part in Tai Chi, we had a lot of fun and used many muscles in our bodies that wouldn't normally be used in everyday activities. Look at our photos below.

Eisteddfod

On Tuesday 1st March we had our School Eisteddfod in the top block hall and Mrs Jarrold was in charge. We sang lots of welsh songs & recited poems in welsh.  

Our class performed the song ‘Aderyn Melyn’ on stage in our houses – Crwys, Gwyndaf & Trefin. We also recited the poem ‘Sbwriel’ & put in some actions.  
We also took part in Handwriting & Art competitions.

This was the result of our Art Competition: -
1st = Francesca Azzopardi
2nd = Roxy Richards
3rd = Lucy Burges
H/C = Brooke Willis
H/C = Daisy Hyde

This was the result of our Handwriting Competition: -
1st = Daisy Hyde
2nd = Crystal Clarke
3rd = Lucy Davies
H/C = Mason Rowley
H/C Roxy Richards
When the total scores were added together, Crwys were the winners.
We all had a lovely day.
Our photographs show the competition winners & our houses Crwys, Gwyndaf & Trefin.

Our visit to Cardiff & the Principality Stadium

On Thursday 28th January we visited the Principality Stadium in Cardiff as part of our 'Wonderful Wales topic.' We had a really enjoyable tour of the stadium which used to be called the Millennium Stadium.

  First of all, we went into the 'Press Room' which was named after Ray Gravell. We all had our photo taken before going into the home and away changing rooms. In the home changing rooms, we saw some of the welsh rugby jerseys hanging up. In the away changing rooms we saw some tops belonging to the welsh football players. A few of the names we recognized were Gareth Bale, Aaron Ramsey and Joe Ledley.

  Afterwards we walked through the tunnel the players run out from. Music was playing loudly as if it were a match day.

  Later on we were able to sit in the best seats in the stadium. These were made of leather and were very comfortable. This is where members of the Royal Family sit and very special guests. Frankie Azzopardi sat in Princess Kate’s seat, Shay Brunnock sat in Prince William’s seat and Lucy Davies sat in the seat the Queen uses when she visits the stadium!

  We learned that birds of prey are used to stop other birds nesting in the roof. The main type of bird used is the Harris Hawk.

 Our tour guide said that we asked sensible questions and we were very well behaved.

  We also had a bus tour around the centre of Cardiff before going to Cardiff Bay. We passed lots of different buildings, like the Museum, the BBC Studios and the church where Roald Dahl was christened. We even saw a statue of Boudicca! Before our tour ended we noticed a primary school that looked very different from our school – it had lots and lots of grass and an upstairs!

We learned lots from this trip and we all had a lovely time!