Croeso i Flwyddyn Un

Teacher: Mrs Cotton & Miss Whyte

P.E. days - Monday - Indoor PE and Thursday - Outdoor PE

Forest School - Wednesday afternoon, alternate weeks (Wk 2)

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Class update

Spring 2025

10.3.25 - 21.3.25 

Prynhawn da, we have had a very busy and enjoyable two weeks in Dosbarth 1. We have had a very successful couple of lessons with Mrs North teaching us how to play the toot. We have learned how to play the note D. We learnt a new song to help us with this tricky note and we will continue to practice. We can now play B, A, G and D. In Commando Joes we enjoyed working as a team following rules and learning that we can’t always be successful in our missions and activities we do and that this is ok. Mission 4 completed, and all families (houses) crossed the river safely, we even made the mission harder as we were working together so well. In literacy we have been creating rhyming couplets and writing short poems, rhyming is more difficult than you think, we have been creating poems about spring and thought about places we liked to visit at spring to help us such as the countryside, woodlands and the seaside. This week we have begun looking at diary entries, another tricky concept but we have been concentrating and working so hard. During maths we have been working on measuring with non- standard units using cubes and even paperclips to measure width and height. We have been estimating before measuring and seeing whose estimate was closest. During our Country and the Community ball sessions we have continued to work together, be in teams, and practice catching and dribbling a ball. We love the warm up and cool down games and all are eager to participate. We have also been busy completing science experiments, visited forest school, listened to and discussed Welsh music and bands and celebrated red nose day! A quiet weekend welcome. Have a great weekend whatever you do. Diolch yn fawr. 

17-21.2.25 & 3-7.3.25 

Prynhawn da, we hope you had a great half term and have been enjoying the Spring sunshine.  Dosbarth 1 have had another busy two weeks in school.  We have been preparing for Eisteddfod; writing poems about Wales, handwriting our song, using clay to make our Welsh Knots and learning a Welsh dance.  Thank you for all the homework entries of decorated cakes and bunting you made during the half term.  This week we performed in our dance in Eisteddfod.  On Tuesday which was great fun.  Tuesday also saw us making, flipping and eating pancakes, which we all decided were delicious!  In maths this week we have been learning how to double numbers to 20 using dominoes, dice and numercon to support our learning – we have really impressed our teachers on our maths skills this week.  In Welsh we have started reading a book called Bwyd; Food which we have really enjoyed, and we have been learning to say which foods we like to eat and which we don’t like.  We really enjoyed our session with County in the Community this Monday as the sun was shining, and we were able to play the games and learn new skills outside.  A gentle reminder for all PE kits to be in school ready for next Monday so we can enjoy PE safely outside, thank you. We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day making mini books, designing cushions and we even enjoyed a book marathon across the school reading with every teacher. We sent our beautiful daffodils home a little earlier than planned on St Davids day as they have already bloomed with many more buds to bloom. Have a lovely weekend! 

3.2.25-14.2.25 

Prynhawn da from Dosbarth 1! We have had a very busy fortnight, as part of mental health awareness week we listened to the story ‘Tilda Tries Again’ and discussed the 5 ways to wellbeing and how we can try and help ourselves during those tricky days/hours/minutes. We used the theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ to consider, plan and set goals. We had very good discussions in our groups. In Literacy we have been retelling the myth of St Dwynwen, and have started learning about rhyme and how including adjectives can uplevel poetry, this has been quite tricky but we are determined to enter our poems into the school Eisteddfod. In maths we have been working on odd and even numbers as well as symmetry of shapes. We have been lucky to have our visitors from County in the Community teach us further skills in football as part of our health and wellbeing as well as Mrs North from Gwent Music continue to support and develop our skills on the Toots. We learnt a new song using the ‘b’ note which included 9 beats and 3 beats. We also sang a new song and slowed it down and sped it up. As part of our expressive arts we have been learning how to use watercolours and paint in the style of Welsh artists including Antony Evans. Diolch to our PTFA for a super Valentine’s disco. We hope you have a lovely weekend, spring is upon us! 

20.1.25-31.1.25  

Prynhawn da, we have had a lovely two weeks albeit cold and wet. In Literacy we enjoyed reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and worked towards retelling. We had the opportunity to recap the days of the week as the caterpillar went on a week's journey to becoming a beautiful butterfly. This week we have been planning and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly, we will create an explanation text using J2E on the Chromebooks which we are excited about. We enjoyed learning about Saint Dwynwen, and we made biscuits with Miss Ward, we had to follow instructions to make the biscuits weighing and measuring the ingredients accurately. We also created love spoons for our cards, talking about the different symbols and what they represent. We look forward to studying this Welsh myth in more detail over the coming weeks as we produce some writing to enter for the school Eisteddfod. We have been learning the months of the year in Italian, and we have been learning them with songs and rhymes. We have completed maths assessments as well as consolidating our knowledge of o’clock and half past, this week we have been looking at missing numbers using numicon to help us. In Health and Wellbeing, we have been identifying where our food comes from, we linked this with some familiar Welsh words. We had to decide what foods came from an animal or a plant. We understand that food has to be grown, reared or caught and are learning that food is produced and processed in different ways. As part of our indoor PE we have been learning new dance moves, we started to sequence our own moves in small groups to create a short dance and will continue to work on this next week. We loved having our teachers from County and the Community join us for outdoor PE where we began learning skills to support us with playing ball games. For ICT we have been grouping data, we began by grouping data on paper and physical form, but we have also been using the Chromebooks to group data on a branching database, thinking of questions to separate and branch the data. We have also been using the Chromebooks to complete an activity about the village of Trellech and our school we used speech to text on J2E and learnt to save work. We also used the Chromebooks to explore our village using DigiMaps, we looked at a map of Trellech and we had to find different features that we have been learning about including the church, school, tump, wishing well, and Harold’s stones. We were also lucky enough to work with Mrs Cornish doing some gardening, we planted seeds and checked on our bulbs. We hope you have a restful weekend. 

6.1.25-17.1.25  

Blwyddyn Newydd Da! Welcome back to the Spring term, the days are getting lighter, and the spring bulbs are beginning to spring up on the banks. If your snowdrop bulbs the children planted for you with Mrs Cornish has sprouted, then please do re-pot it or plant it into the ground. Our new topic is Cŵl Cymru with the focus on our nearby surroundings ‘Trysor Tryleg’ the children have been busy naming the landmarks of Trellech and building them in the block play and Lego. In Literacy the children have been re telling the story of Farmer Duck and have impressed us with their careful writing, excellent openers as well as capital letters and full stops. In Maths we have been learning the time. We have been beginning with o'clock and half past. Please do practice with us at home. We have been very lucky to welcome County in the Community into Y1 with weekly sessions of football skills, this week we worked on finding space and spatial awareness as well as marking our peers through games. During indoor PE we have been exploring world dance including learning some Bollywood and Bhangra dance moves and routines. We have been looking at a variety of paintings of churches by various artists in Wales and next week we will focus on the paintings of churches by Welsh artist Anthony Evans, we are planning to visit the church and draw and paint it in the style of Anthony Evans. As part of our digital competency, we discussed and wrote sentences to describe our favourite part of the school, we then recorded one another in video showcasing the place, we then put it in a video. We are also creating sentences about the village of Trellech online and will make a little online book. Have a lovely restful weekend. 

Autumn 2024

25.11.24-6.12.24

Prynhawn da, we have had a very busy couple of weeks in Dosbarth 1. Last week we enjoyed forest school post storm, and we really enjoyed getting muddy, some of us were building flood defences whilst others were creating dams for wildlife. In Commando Joes we had support our peers to complete an assault course whilst blindfolded, we really enjoyed working as a team, afterwards we began designing our own course in groups. In maths we have been creating repeated patterns and have begun exploring place value using the numicon to represent numbers. This week we have been considering costs of our enterprise items and discussing profit. We have been very busy rehearsing our play, ensuring we project our voice, clearly and slowly for all to hear, we have been looking at positioning on stage as well as consolidating our dance moves. We are currently working on when we come in to say our lines which is proving more challenging, one week to go.... We are looking forward to our dress dress rehearsal on Monday. We have looked at formal and informal letters in literacy and have been enjoying reading the Jolly Postman. Monday 2nd we discovered a letter in our decorated classroom from the Elf! He has been making us smile all week, did you know our elf looks for and celebrates acts of kindness! Have a lovely weekend, we look forward to sharing our performance with you next week.

11.11.24-22.11.24

Prynhawn da, we have had a lovely, albeit cold few days this week. The children have been busy subtracting and adding in maths within 30, completing fact families and completing repeating patterns. In literacy they have been writing letters to the blue fish as part of the learning using the text ‘The Rainbow Fish’. They know that a letter requires a date, address, a sign on and off such as dear and from. Da iawn pawb. Mrs Cornish joined us this week and helped us plant bulbs and seeds, we can’t wait to watch them grow. Last week saw us complete the Pudsey run for Children in Need, we ran the daily mile numerous times with Dosbarth 6 ac Dosbarth 2. We learnt about Armistice day and the meaning of poppies, we created a poppy using natural materials during outdoor learning. In Welsh we have been learning about likes and dislikes, we created a tally chart. Ask us ‘Wyt ti’n hoffi...?’ Have a lovely weekend.

21.10.24-8.11.24 

Prynhawn da and welcome back to Autumn term 2. We ended the term with a wonderful Halloween themed disco with thanks to our fantastic PTFA, we danced and laughed and enjoyed time with our friends. In literacy we completed our recipe using time openers and then we made apple crumble following the instructions step by step. We measured the ingredients, peeled, chopped and took turn to stir before it was time to put it in the oven to cook. Once it was ready we all enjoyed a portion with our milk. It was delicious! All the classes were envious of the smell of the crumble cooking. We enjoyed our forest school session with Reception, it was finally not raining for the first time, and we managed to stay dry, we made patterns to celebrate Divali. It was nice to work with children in Reception. In maths we were working on describing and making whole and half turns using positional language, they enjoyed a variety of activities. As part of our RVE we learnt the story of Rama and Sita and made salt dough Diwali lamps to celebrate Diwali. The salt dough didn’t dry over the half term, so instead of painting and decorating them this week we used clay to re mould and create our diva lamps... take 2! In literacy this week we have been talking about fireworks and bonfires, the children planned and wrote a firework poem using onomatopoeia. They really enjoyed using onomatopoeia words. E.g. bang, pop, whizz. They also wrote their own bonfire night recipes using bossy verbs. We hope you have a lovely weekend. 

23.9.24-4.10.24 

Prynhawn da, we have had a great fortnight in Y1, it has been a little wet and windy but we have made the best of it. We enjoyed a very wet walk to and from forest school, where we were creating portraits in the mud using natural resources. Some of us found an interesting ditch full of mud which we had fun making into a road and a bridge. In literacy we have been preparing and writing sentences about our new book ‘The three little pigs’ we are confident with using openers and connectives now including first, then, next, after, finally, and we even use because, and, so. We have been creating some harvest art to decorate the church on Friday and we have also drawn self-portraits independently. In maths we have been working on number bonds to 10, and extending to number bonds to 20. Most of us can now use + and = independently, we are working hard on our number formation and keeping our numbers in the squares. We are so grown up! In health and wellbeing we discussed our rights and responsibilities as a member of the class, we had a really good discussion with lots of thoughtful comments. We considered how we know that we belong and how it feels to belong. Quite difficult concepts when you are 5. We will move on with thinking about how we learn best as individuals and how we can help others to learn. In PE we have been working on our ball skills, using our feet and now this week using our arms and attempting the underarm throw... watch out!! A huge diolch to those of you that came to see our Harvest service at the church, we really enjoyed singing our song ‘Conkers’. Have a lovely weekend. 

2.9.24-20.9.24 

Wow! What a fantastic first few weeks back after summer term, the children have settled well and continued with their learning journey. This terms topic is Ble rwyt ti’n byw? Where do you live? With our class topic ‘Street detectives’. The children have enjoyed telling us about their house and have drawn it too. Diolch to those who have sent in a picture for our display. As part of our health and wellbeing learning the children have been describing where they feel special and safe, and their homes have featured a lot. We have enjoyed gardening with Mrs Cornish and the team, harvesting vegetables to sell and really enjoyed our sunny walk to forest school last week where we recalled the rules and created patterns in the mud, some of us even showed an understanding of composition by created a face to help us with our portrait work as part of our expressive arts. We have been working hard in RWI, recalling the sounds and reading new books. In literacy we have been retelling the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, through story maps, discussion and shared writing. In PE we have been working on our ball skills stopping the ball with the inside of our foot and the ball of our foot and moving on to passing the ball (harder than it sounds...) In maths we have completed our Big Maths assessments, and we all worked really hard, we have been estimating to 20 and beyond. We all enjoyed creating an animal mask for the Usk show as well as our handwriting entries, perhaps we have a winning entry amongst us. We hope you have a lovely weekend.