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Headteachers Note Many thanks to those who attended
parents evening, we had a very high uptake and the teachers said it
was lovely to see you all and have a chat even though it was online!
We have secured another grant off the Arts Council for £1000, they
are working with year 4/5 to create a graffiti wall at the back of the
school, and we can’t wait to see how it turns out. Many thanks to
our visitors this week. Nia from the Urdd for working with the pupils
on their Welsh skills and Christina and Gemma for working with the
year 4/5 and 5/6 to develop their mindfulness skills. Please can I
remind the year 6’s to bring in their forms for their visit to Llangatwg
on June 29th and finally the bus company has been concerned that
pupils are running around near the bus as it pulls up and leaves the
school at the end of the day. Could you ensure your child is well
away from the bus for their own safety. Many thanks for your
continued support and have a lovely weekend!
P Morgan
Nursery / Reception – Miss Gardiner We've had yet
another brilliant fortnight in Nursery/Reception. In
maths, we've been using dinosaur eggs to create
different patterns and we've been learning all about
capacity using words like full, half full, empty and
more and less. We've spent time learning 'The Little
Green Dinosaur' in class, we all created our very own
story maps and we can now retell the story using lots
of different actions. We have also started innovating
the story and changing some of the characters - we
found this really comical to do. Next week, we will
start using our innovations to create our very own
story - we cannot wait to do this!
Year 5/6 – Mrs Thomas We are really enjoying our
1960’s project and the presentations we have done have
been so amazing. We have really taken onboard all of My
Doyle’s oracy tips when presenting to our class. In
mathematics, we have been calculating ratio and
proportion and we have also recapped on our division
skills developing these into solving long division problems.
This week, we have been researching how different
countries around the world are coping with the plastic
pollution issue and we have also been learning about and
trying to understand the Civil Rights movement in America
and the influential people who changed the course of
history. Again, we have thoroughly enjoyed our PE
sessions with Katie from the swans and we have discussed
and worked on our Growth mindset and mindfulness to
support our mental health. Remember our EPIC 1960’s
party on Friday June 25th.
UPCOMING DATES
22nd June – Class Photos and Y6 Leavers photos 28th June – visit from the Nurse for year 5’s and year 6’s 29th June - Transition day to Llangatwg for year 6’s 12th July – Reports out Thursday 15th July – Last Day of Term Monday 6th September – Autumn Term Begins
YNYSFACH NEWS June 18, 2021
Reception/Year 1 Mrs Pickering In Reception and Year
1 we have been finding out about healthy foods and planning a
special menu. We learnt that some foods are’ treat’ foods that
can be enjoyed now and again and some foods like fruits and
vegetables can be enjoyed everyday.
In maths we have been working on addition and adding one
more more to a number. We have been singing songs to help us
remember the different number bonds to 10 and have been
using our skills to solve tricky word problems.
In literacy we have been working on the alphabet and identifying
and using capital letters at the start of sentences. It can be tricky
to always remember to use capital letters but we are getting
better at it.
We have celebrated the start of the Euro’s in Reception and Year
1 and have each taken on a team to support. Each day we check
the scores and have looked at the map to find where the
different countries are in the world.
Year 3 – Mrs D’Angeli We have had a busy fortnight in Year
3. We have been brushing up on our mental maths skills,
practising our times tables and using them effectively for TT
Rockstars. We are trying hard to improve our scores and the
time it takes. In maths we have been investigating more about
different units of time and revising analogue time. We have
also been thinking carefully about all different types of data
and answering questions about Bar graphs. It's been
challenging creating our own graphs but we have all really
persevered. We have been learning to plan and carry
out investigations in Science and used scientific symbols to
draw circuits and record results. We have made careful
predictions too on what we think might happen and why????
We have all been super, hard workers since we came back to
school after Whitsun and Mrs D' Angeli has been delighted
with the efforts made in homework... Please keep it up
Year 4/5 Mrs Thomas It has been a busy couple of weeks
in Year 4/5 full of hard work from all. In maths, we have been
learning about weight and capacity and applying our skills on this
to real life situations – we carried out a weight investigation with
items in the classroom and made smoothies, which was really
fun. In Literacy, we have written a recount about our half term
holiday and began looking at balanced argument texts. We have
continued with our topic ‘age of the princes’ by learning all
about different castles. We had lots of fun planning and carrying
out a science investigation to test what material has the most
friction. We have been busy using key sentence patterns to write
a third person profile about a real life prince. We will now plan
and write our own. It has been lovely taking part in weekly oracy
sessions with Mr Doyle to develop our speaking and listening
skills. Da iawn Year 4/5
New Curriculum
As you know, we have all been preparing for
the new curriculum. We all want our children to
be:
1. Ambitious Capable Learners. 2. Ethical Informed Citizens 3. Healthy Confident Individuals 4. Enterprising Creative Contributors.
So, staff have spent time creating child friendly
posters that show these four purposes.
Children are using these in class and have even
designed their own mascots for each of these
four purposes. Mr. Doyle, our chair of
governors, has shortlisted these designs and
pupils have voted for their favourites - we will
announce the winners in class next week. We
have also been asking everybody the same
question: What is important for a child in
Ynysfach to learn about? We have had lots of
brilliant ideas from staff, governors and
parents, so a BIG thank you for your
suggestions. Next week, we will spend time
collecting ideas from pupils too, all of these
suggestions will help build our new Ynysfach
curriculum.
We will keep you updated!
Year 2 – Miss Evans In Year 2 we have been following
the Euro's closely. We have a class sweepstake and have been
updating our score chart daily. We have continued to learn
about time in maths using o'clock, half past, quarter past and
quarter to on both analogue and digital clocks. We have also
been reading and interpreting train timetables. For our science
topic we have been finding out about how our eyes work. We
have drawn and labelled diagrams and explained how we are
able to see things. We have written book reviews on our Book
of the Term, 'Sloths Don't Run'. We innovated our own poems
based on 'The Sound Collector', based on the sounds we hear
in our houses. We have made kaleidoscopes and have enjoyed
seeing the colourful and creative results. We also had fun
perfecting our dribbling and passing skills in PE. On Friday we
had a visitor who taught us to play lots of fun Welsh games.