Our Eisteddfod

On Wednesday 1st March we had our School Eisteddfod in the top block hall and Mrs Ward 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 Handwriting & Art competitions.

This was the result of our Art Competition: -

1^st = Kayla Reeves

2^nd = Francesca Azzopardi

3^rd = Amy Gray

H/C = Jaysen Jones

H/C = Macie-Jo Parfitt

This was the result of our Handwriting Competition: -

1^st = Amy Gray

2^nd = Ivy Rees

3^rd = Kayla Reeves

H/C = Owen Couldridge

H/C Tomos Jones

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.

Chinese New Year

On Wednesday 15^th February, all the pupils in Year Four celebrated Chinese New Year.

We started the day by watching some clips of children celebrating Chinese New Year. We found out about the decorations, food, clothes, dancing and gifts.

Next, we made Chinese lanterns and decorated them. We even counted in mandarin and did some writing.

We ended the morning by singing Chinese songs and doing the actions.

In the afternoon, we ate lots of delicious Chinese food. There was plenty for everyone! We sang more songs and then went into the hall to watch a video of Chinese children doing their daily exercises in school. We tried to copy their movements. It was a lot of fun!

We would like to thank Mrs Woo for helping to organise such a fun learning experience for us.

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Llancaiach Fawr

       On Friday 13th January, our class visited Llancaiach Fawr, a manor house built in Tudor times.

       During our visit, we found out lots about the everyday life of the Tudor people in Wales. We went inside different rooms in the house. First, we visited the servant’s hall where we made our own ‘plague bags’ or ‘herb bags’ as they were sometimes called. We used some cloth, string and a selection of pleasantly scented herbs. We were allowed to take these home. In the kitchen, Kai had to pretend to be the ‘spit boy’ turning the spit. In the armoury, Danny was asked to try on some armour. It was very heavy.  

     After lunch, we took part in a writing activity where we wrote with hand cut quill pens & real ink. We concentrated well & Mrs King couldn’t believe how quiet we all were!

    Later we had chance to try on some Tudor clothes and to sit in the stocks. It’s a shame we didn’t have any rotten tomatoes to throw!!

     A good time was had by all! 

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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.