Today Dosbarth Miss Powell explored the question, ”How do boats float?”. We had a lot of fun designing, creating and reflecting as we explored the forces buoyancy and gravity.

Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have all been very excited today when opening their Christmas letters they have received back from Santa. Not long to go now…. ho ho ho! 

Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have been learning about the Christmas Story and have worked hard to sequence this to create Christmas Story crowns.

As part of our learning on dinosaurs, Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have been busy making their own fossils, dinosaur bones and taking role as a palaeontologist. We have also been learning about Mary Anning and worked in groups to create some great fact sheets on her through our research. 

Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have moved onto learning about dinosaurs as part of our topic and have had great fun using our imagination and creative skills outdoors. Using natural materials we found on our welly walk and some we already had in class, we created our very own dinosaurs. All dinosaurs looked different and were super! We then used these to develop our descriptive writing where the learners came up with some excellent descriptions of their dinosaurs.

Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne have been learning about forces and have carried out a range of experiments to explore these. The learners made predictions in which they then reflected upon after carrying out the experiments. There was some great thinking going on. Bendigedig Dosbarth Miss Burgoyne!

Dosbarth Miss Powell had a brilliant morning yesterday. As our class text, we are reading ”The River Singers” by Tom Moorhouse. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to ask the author questions that we had.

He left us with some great advice for our future careers,

”Do what you love!”.

Over the last week we have been looking at making profit and then the banking process after. The learners in Dosbarth Mrs Smith worked out the profit from each bottle of apple juice and then used their multiplication skills to work out the total profit. We then counted the money we raised on all the stalls last Friday and looked at how we would bank this money. To deepen our understanding Mrs Dinsdale talked us through this process.

Dosbarth Miss Powell were thrilled to count and calculate the profit that we made on our stall at the Christmas Fate! Some excellent discussions were had to consider our profit.

How much should we have been paid for our time?!

A fabulous evening at our Christmas Fair on Friday, hosted by Friends of Radnor Valley School. Thank you all so much for supporting us! Learners demonstrated innovation and independence in creating and running their stalls.