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ATTENDANCE

Headteachers Note

Thanks for all the understanding this week. We know it is a great

worry for parents but I can ensure you the safety of the children

in school is our main priority.

Nursery and Reception children and staff in Miss Gardiner’s class

will be able to return to school on Friday October 23rd. They have

been asked to self-isolate, only as a precaution.

I know parents have been questioning the use of face masks in

school on social media. The staff and school have followed all

the official guidelines and rules by the Welsh Government.

Please remember, as I have said all week, if you have questions please ring the school and I will try my best to answer them. Writing on social media sites does not help answer your questions it just creates issues for parents. We are not on Facebook so unless I hear off you, I will presume there are no issues. Have a great weekend

P Morgan

Nursery / Reception – Miss Gardiner

Work is being put on the Nursery/Reception

Google classroom. It will be updated regularly

while pupils are off. Thank you to the parents

and pupils that have already been doing

activities

UPCOMING DATES

Monday 26th – Friday 30th October

Half Term

Friday October 23rd Friends Of Ynysfach – Dress down day and Pumpkin competition

Friday 13th November Flu Vaccination Reception – Year 6

YNYSFACH NEWS October 16, 2020

Nursery/Reception – 94.4%

Reception/Year 1 – 97.1%

Year 2 – 99.3%

Year 3 – 92.8%

Year 4/5 –96.6%

Year 5/6 – 88.3%

Whole School Attendance –94.7%

Best Class Attendance – Year 2

Our target attendance is 95%

Well done Year 1 on the best attendance this week. Please

remember the importance of attending school regularly.

Your child’s target is over 95%, if you fall below this you will

receive a text to inform you.

Reception/Year 1 Mrs Pickering In Reception/ Yr1

we have been finding out about the Great Barrier Reef and have made top trump cards for the different turtles, fish, sea snakes and crabs etc. that live there. Did you know that the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on earth and astronauts can see it from space? In maths we have been finding one more and one less and we have made story maps and mountains of The Enormous Turnip. For our science topic we have been leaning about and naming parts of the body. Last Wednesday we enjoyed our first welly walk. The children were amazing and we made leaf kebabs. On Thursday we celebrated Diwrnod Shwmae. The children took charge of their learning that day, and decided which tasks they would like to do. Everyone looked lovely in their red, white and

green clothes.

Year 3 – Mrs D’Angeli What a busy fortnight! Firstly we enjoyed deciding on our tasks for

our 'Shwmae Day' celebrations. Our flag designs were awesome and

we put so much effort into them.

Our Osprey visits have been brilliant, we have learnt many new rugby

skills and it keeps us so fit.

In math’s we have concentrated on finding missing numbers in

addition sums, adding several numbers and using digit cards to make

our own sums. We have also used our 2x tables to answer questions

and work out amounts of money.

In Literacy we have worked hard on extending sentences, identifying

and sorting adjectives and to use them in our independent writing to

make it more interesting. In welsh we have planned our first language

journey and we are revising vocabulary and sentence patterns so we

can include them in our own first person profile in the next few

weeks. Conversation and drillio tasks will really help us so much.

We have listened to songs sung by Luciano Pavarotti such as 'Nessun

Dorma'. We have compared his opera music to other welsh opera

singers such as Paul Potts from Port Talbot. We have worked so

hard in year 3. Da iawn!

Year 4/5 Mrs Thomas We have had another busy couple

of weeks in Year 4/5. In Literacy we have been learning all

about haiku poems and finding out the important rules we need

to remember in order to write our own next week. In maths we

have been dividing by 10 and using a variety of methods to

complete addition sums. The children are really enjoying our

‘India’ topic and are always so eager to learn new facts. We

have identified India on a map of the world as well as labelling a

map of India using a key to identify the capital city, cities, rivers

and locating the oceans and countries that surround India. We

have also created fact files using chrome books to show the

population, currency and languages spoken in India. We started

our Science topic of ‘Materials’ and carried out an investigation

to test a variety of materials for hardness, flexibility,

transparency, permeability and magnetism. Again, well done to

all the children who have been putting in such a brilliant effort

with learning log tasks on Google Classroom, I thoroughly enjoy

seeing what they have done

Year 5/6 – Mrs Thomas

In English we have been looking at the features of a

non-chronological report and using them to create our

own report. We have researched animals from the

amazon rain forest and found amazing facts, to use in

our own reports. Did you know sloths can swim 3 times

faster than they can move and humpback whales can

grow up to 19 meters long! In mathematics we have

been working hard on TT Rockstars this week to

improve our knowledge of our times tables and we

have been using these skills to complete grid method

multiplication. We are really enjoying our Brazil topic

and have completed PowerPoints comparing Brazil and

Wales. I have also seen amazing work on the Google

classroom – well done and thank you so much for your

support. I will be popping up a reading challenge for

Half Term so good luck!

Pupils Voice

Hi all, we would like to introduce the Criw Cymraeg. In

Year 2 we have Maizy and Cameron, in Year 3 Harriet and

Ava, in Year 4 we have Dakota and Morgan, in Year 5

Cayla and Harry and finally in Year 6 we have Leon and

Gwen. So far we have celebrated Shwmae day by wearing

red, white and green as well as doing Welsh based

activities such as playing rugby, learning about the Lions

tours, researching famous Welsh people and designing

new flags and Welsh costumes. We really enjoyed the day

and we are looking forward to the year ahead. Thank you

for your support.

Year 2 – Miss Evans In Year 2 we have been focusing on

number work, finding 1 more and 1 less, and 10 more and 10 less. We

have been partitioning 2 digit numbers and knowing the place value

of both digits. We have also looked at patterns in numbers when

counting in tens, fives and twos. In language work we have been

concentrating on letter formation, writing sentences with capital

letters, full stops and sitting our letters on the line. We have this

week created our group innovations for the story Senorita Gordita,

and can't wait to write out stories next week. We have found out

about the flag of Mexico and know the story of the Aztecs finding

their home in what is now Mexico City. We have each designed our

own Sombreros and coloured in the flag of Mexico. We celebrated

Diwrnod Shwmae day by colouring pictures of the welsh dragon and

daffodils. We practised speaking in welsh by using our talking feet,

introducing Beth wyt ti'n hoffi? and Beth wyt ti ddim yn hoffi? Thank

you to everyone who has posted work, videos and photos on the

Google Classroom. Well done all.