We missed out on our Christmas party at the end of last year. To make up for it we had a New Years party today.
The children have played lots of party games and Father Christmas had left some presents for the children as well.
Author Archives: Jill Lingard
Spring bulb planting
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis and dosbarth Miss Powell have been busy gardening this week. First we had to weed the beds, before planting bulbs ready for the spring.
We are looking forward to seeing all the flowers grow.
Draw with Rob
For our art lesson this week, dosbarth Mrs Curtis introduced dosbarth Miss Powell to “Draw with Rob”. We followed Rob Biddulph’s step by step video of how to draw a stegosaurus called ‘Gregosaurus’.
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis, then picked another animal to draw.
Gwaith anhygoel pawb.
Hay Festival
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis had a fantastic day at Hay Festival. We saw three authors, talk about their new books, then had the opportunity to meet them and get books signed.
First we saw Onjail Q Rauf, talk about her new book: The lion above the door.
Next we saw Rob Biddulph and his book Peanut Jones and the illustrated city. We all joined in with a draw with rob session, having a go at drawing Doodle the dog.
The last author we saw, was Emma Carroll talk about her new book: The week at world’s end.
Lego WeDo
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis have been using the Lego WeDo sets and app, to make Milo the Science Rover. We then added a motion sensor, that will be used to detect the presence of a corpse flower in the Indonesian rainforest.
Once our Science Rovers were built, we used the Lego WeDo app to program the rovers to stop and sound an alarm when it found the corpse flower.
Synnu
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis and dosbarth Miss Powell have been looking at Henri Rousseau, and his painting; Tiger in a tropical storm (Surprised).
We have been using this painting as inspiration, to produce our own ‘Synnu’ art work.
They all look amazing!
Da iawn bawb
Size of Wales workshop
On Friday dosbarth Mrs Curtis and dosbarth Miss Powell took part in a rainforest workshop from Size of Wales. Size of Wales is a Welsh charity with a mission to sustain an area of tropical forest twice the size of Wales.
During our workshop we looked at the issues of deforestation, climate change and what we can do to help.
Chester Zoo
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis and dosbarth Miss Powell had a fantastic day out at Chester Zoo. Both classes took part in a Rainforest workshop, looking at how animals adapt to their habitats, deforestation and what we can do to protect the rainforest.
We saw lots of animals that we have been learning about in school from the Amazon and the Indonesian Rainforest.
Mathematics
Dosbarth Mrs Curtis have been working out how much carbon is absorbed by the trees in the school field.
First the children measured the circumference of a tree about 1.5m from the ground.
We then used information from ‘Just one tree’ to work out the trees dry weight value in kg.
The carbon stored in the tree is half the dry weight, after dividing the weight by two we had the amount of carbon absorbed by that tree.
Vegetables Boxes
Thank you to everyone that bought vegetable boxes from dosbarth Mrs Curtis and dosbarth Miss Powell. The children enjoyed pulling up all the vegetables and seeing how big they had grown.
The money from the sale of the boxes is going to be used to buy bulbs and other gardening items.
