In our pyjamas raising money for Children in Need.

Electricity!!

Yesterday we visited Pontypridd museum for a hands on activity session on electricity. We looked at how electricity is conducted through different materials including ourselves. There were circuits, plasma balls, static electricity, Jacobs ladder even making a frogs legs move!
We had an amazing time and the museum is open to the public if you want to go and see it.

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Good and Bad

As part of our topic on Environment we looked at good and bad features around the local area. We took lots of photos of good things but we also found a few bad things too. We are going to look at the photos in class and see if we can solutions to the bad features.

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Poetry Day!!

To celebrate National Poetry Day, Treorchy library invited us to join them and local poet Sion Tomos Owen  for a day of creating poems.
We took the train from Pontypridd to Treorchy all paid for by Arriva Trains Wales. We really enjoyed our journey as some of us have never been on a train before. We were very excited to be going with our friends too!
When we arrived at the library we met Sion Tomos Owen and he helped us write our own poems using our journey on the train! 
We wrote almost 100 poems between us!! We would like to thank Arriva Trains, staff at Treorchy library and Sion Tomos Owen for a truly wonderful day.

See our photos below of our train journey, library and visit to the local park.

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Outdoor Learning Fortnight

We’ve certainly had a busy two weeks! We visited West Midlands Safari Park, Pontypridd Park & Lido, Barry Sidings Danylan Field & the park next to our school!

We did lots of outdoor activities with a Science focus. We worked collaboratively in groups to solve different challenges. We used lots of different skills and had lots of fun too.

Please look at our photos showing our the different challenges.

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Summer Science

Our topic theis term is Summer Science. We have been investigating how our heart rate changes when we do different forms of exercise. We measured our heart rate when we were resting, then again after doing different exercises.  We chose our own activities like running, hopping, press-ups, skipping and squats.  We used the results to create a graph on Microsoft Excel.  We also drew our own graphs.

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Cricket Finale!

After a fabulous 4 weeks learning cricket skills with Mr Aubrey from Cricket Wales we ended with a fabulous afternoon in Pontypridd Rugby ground putting our skills to the test. We had an amazing time with Mr Aubrey and a few of us have taken cricket up as a sport. Thank you Mr Aubrey!!

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Cricket

We started 'Cricket Skills' yesterday. We developed our throwing, catching and batting skills with good team spirit being encouraged. The sun was shining and we had lots of fun. We are looking forward to our next cricket session with Mr Aubrey in two weeks time.

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Attendance!

We won this terms attendance with 97%. Well done everyone!!!!

Eisteddfod 2018

On Friday 9th 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 Fi yw plentyn yn gorau yn y byd on stage in our houses  Crwys, Gwyndaf & Trefin. We also recited the poem Sbwriel’ using expression and some actions. 
We also took part in Writing, Art & Handwriting competitions.

This was the result of our Writing Competition: -
1st = Caitlin Evans
2nd = Ryan Bond
3rd (joint) = Ffion Hughes & Tom Munday
H/C = Cerys Llewellyn  and Darcy Olden

This was the result of our Art Competition: -
1st = Conrad Phillips
2nd = Tom Munday
3rd = Christopher Hertzsch
H/C = Caitlyn Jones, Ben Gallagher-Boyce and Marley Asare

This was the result of our Handwriting Competition: -
1st = Tom Munday
2nd = Ffion Hughes 
3rd = Dexter Roberts
H/C = Lili Hughes, Emily Mills and Marley Asare

Special mention to Christopher Hertzsch for beautiful decoration of handwriting.

When the total scores were added together, Crwys were the winners.
Our photographs show the competition winners & our houses Crwys, Gwyndaf & Trefin.

Eisteddfod Story Writing Winners

Eisteddfod Art Winners

Eisteddfod Handwriting Winners

We are Crwys

We are Gwyndaf

We are Trefin 

PC Dean

We had a visit from PC Dean to talk about friend of foe? We worked in groups on scenarios that could or do happen. We discussed as a group what we would do and if the person in the scenario was a friend or foe. Some of the scenarios we were surprised at the outcome and it has made us more aware of people in the wider community.
Here are some photos of our day.

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Glamorgan Sausages

Today we had a go at making Glamorgan Sausages. These are a Welsh vegetarian sausage made with leeks, cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley, egg and mustard. We chopped, grated and blitzed our ingredients and then shaped our sausages. We really enjoyed making them.

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Below is the recipe if you would like to try them at home.

World Book Day

Today we celebrated Work Book Day. We dressed up as characters from books we enjoy reading. Take a look at our photos below.

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Our PE Lesson

Everyone was excited in P.E. today because we used the large apparatus. We enjoyed thinking of different ways to travel and holding a variety of balances. Well done Ryan who managed to climb to the top of the ropes.

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Having a great time at the Royal Mint

Today we went to the Royal Mint and had a lovely time. We found out how our coins are made and even designed and made our own coin badge. We were amazed how many coins are made a week and that the Royal Mint makes coins for countries all over the world. We held discs of the 2012 Olympic Medals and found that they were really heavy.
Take a look at our photos....

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Celtic Soup

As part of our topic on the Celts we made a Celtic soup. We looked at the vegetables that were available in their time and peeled and chopped a selection of them. We used carrots, parsnips, onions and herbs. To thicken the soup we added lentils which were available in the Celtic times. Mrs Davies cooked the soup for us and we all tried it. Some of us enjoyed it and some of us were not to sure about it. Please have a look at our photos.

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