Croeso i Flwyddyn Chwech

Teacher: Miss Tucker

P.E. days - Wednesday (swimming until 2.10.24) and Friday (please come to school in P.E. kit)

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

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Class update

Spring 2025

10.3.25 - 21.3.25 

Prynhawn da, over the last two weeks, our Dosbarth 6 have been both excited and enriched as they engage in a variety of subjects that foster creativity, critical thinking, and well-being. In Forest School, the children have been inspired by the artwork of Andy Goldsworthy, creating their own nature-inspired pieces that celebrate the beauty of the outdoors. In mathematics, they are diving into the world of ratios, enhancing their problem-solving skills through practical applications. In literacy, students are exploring different writing forms, including diary entries that reflect their personal experiences and persuasive texts aimed at influencing their audience. Our focus on health and well-being continues as we discuss the importance of sleep and its significant impact on physical and mental health. In P.E., we've kicked off a new football unit, where teamwork and coordination take centre stage. Finally, in science, we are advancing our understanding of databases while learning the scientific names of bones that are fundamental to the human body. 

17-21.2.25 & 3-7.3.25 

Prynhawn da, I hope you enjoyed your well-deserved break over the half term. Over the past two weeks, Dosbarth 6 has been busy with lots of exciting and creative activities! We started by working on a free verse poem about Cantre'r Gwaelod for the Eisteddfod, where the children showcased their poetic skills and imagination. Alongside this, the class has been creating beautiful artwork, transferring images from A4 to A3 with great attention to detail. We also focused on perfecting our handwriting, with the children producing their very best versions of the Welsh National Anthem. As part of our ongoing topic, "Myths and Legends," we’ve begun exploring diary entries, starting with the story of the Welsh Dragon and bringing it to life through writing. In addition, we had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day! The children completed a series of fun activities related to literature, from designing their own merchandise for their favourite book to creating their perfect library. We’ve also started our new topic in science all about the skeletal system, bones, and their functions. The children have shown great interest in learning about how our bones support and protect us, and we're excited to explore this fascinating subject in more depth. It’s been a wonderful couple of weeks filled with creativity, learning, and a love of reading! 

3.2.25-14.2.25 

Prynhawn da! Over the past two weeks, Dosbarth 6 have been busy with a variety of exciting activities! We have began by writing character descriptions and are now moving on to creating a playscript. We have also started preparations for the Eisteddfod, where the children have been completing beautiful artwork, learning a song, and producing their best handwriting of the Welsh National Anthem. In maths, we’ve continued exploring fractions, learning how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide them, as well as converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. In P.E., the class has been perfecting their cricket skills, especially their excellent batting techniques! It’s been a productive and fun couple of weeks! 

20.1.25-31.1.25  

Prynhawn da, In Dosbarth 6, we've been on an exciting adventure through the world of Epic Poetry, delving into the creation of heroes and their epic quests. Our writing skills have been growing as we explore how to enhance our stories with figurative language, preparing for next week when we'll start crafting our own Epic Poems. Alongside this, we’ve been learning about the formation of land features and how it’s shaped Wales and its culture. Using the tale of Cantre'r Gwaelod, we created a sound map and experimented with creating sounds that reflect its elements. In P.E., we’ve been bringing the story of Cantre'r Gwaelod to life through dance, blending music and movement to express this legendary tale. 

6.1.25-17.1.25  

Blwyddyn Newydd Da! Welcome back! We’ve had an exciting start to the new term in Dosbarth 6, with lots of engaging learning already underway. Our new topic, Myths and Legends, has kicked off with a focus on the Welsh legend of Cantre’r Gwaelod. We've explored the history and music surrounding the story and even begun to bring it to life through creative dance. The next step in our journey is to write our own versions of the myth, adding imaginative twists and details to enhance the narrative. In maths, we've revisited key concepts such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and have now moved on to tackling the addition of positive and negative numbers. We have the pleasure of starting the first of four cricket sessions delivered by Cricket Wales. It’s been a fantastic start, and we can’t wait to continue our adventures in learning over the coming weeks! 

Autumn 2024

25.11.24-6.12.24

It’s been a wonderful two weeks in Dosbarth 6! We have been diving into some exciting topics, including exploring newspapers and learning about the effects of Storm Burt, using journalistic language and reported speech to create an authentic piece of writing. The children showed their artistic talents as they completed their beautiful canvas portraits of their loved ones. In maths, we’ve been delving into cubes and cuboids, using 3D nets to create some incredible sculptures that sparked creativity and teamwork. We also completed our ICT work by developing a story through photography, using angles, light, and photo editing to showcase our skills— the results were incredible! At forest school, we explored our natural environment and took a closer look at the fascinating creatures around us. We’ve also started creating our Christmas Enterprise creations, and we can’t wait for you to see them! It’s hard to believe there are only two weeks left of this term—it’s flying by! Enjoy your weekend.

11.11.24-22.11.24

Prynhawn da we have had a wonderful two weeks in Dosbarth 6. We started the week delving in to poem ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ by Wilfred Owen. We have used spoken poetry techniques to bring it to life. After this we moved on to adapting and created our own poetry. They were wonderful. Following from this we are starting to investigate letter writing. We had the pleasure of inviting Jacqueline Wilison into our classroom through a virtual webinar. We thoroughly appreciated this experience; it was incredible to meet such an established author.

In expressive arts, we started and finished painting our loved ones. The children were emersed in the experience and they thoroughly enjoyed painting on canvas.  We had a visit from The Principality Building Society to learn all about bank accounts and budgeting. It was refreshing to see the enthusiasm from all the children. Last Wednesday we were invited to visit Monmouth Haberdashers to experience several captivating science experiments, it was an unforgettable experience. Have a lovely weekend.

21.10.24-8.11.24 

Prynhawn da, I hope you all had a wonderful, well-deserved week off. A new half a term, a fresh start. Before half term we had a fun filled week learning all about symmetry and rotational symmetry in maths. In Literacy we continued developing our stories, exploring different sentence structures whilst touching on similes and metaphors from our previous learning. Our next step is it write our stories. I can’t wait to see how they turn out.  In science, we explored the separation of matter. We conducted an experiment to investigate different separation techniques. We have continued with our photography topic by exploring angles and light and how they impact photographs. To keep fit and healthy, we have been participating in circuit training with Mrs Fawsitt.  As Young Sports Leaders, we have continued to develop our knowledge of leading. Focusing on the importance of rules. We had fun teaching our games to other groups in the class. In Welsh we have been developing our language patterns by learning to respond to Dw I'n gallu... (I can...) Dw i ddim yn gallu... (I can’t). We added verbs to the end and practiced in small groups. We played ‘bounce’ to enhance learning. We enjoyed bouncing the questions to each other. Have a lovely weekend.  

23.9.24-4.10.24 

Prynhawn da It’s been a wonderful week in dosbarth 6. We’ve been delving deeper into our book ‘Letter for the King’ and started to write our description of the spooky forest. We have produced some superb similes and metaphors to enhance our writing. After we write our first draft, we will be using Immersive Reader to check our work. It’s a great tool to enhance reading and comprehension. In forest school, we enjoyed a very wet walk and started our observational drawings of physical objects. We used our previous learning of different pencil techniques to enhance these drawings. In numeracy, we have been consolidating our knowledge of place value and how we use place value as a basis for mathematics. To secure our understanding from previous lessons, we have started a 10-minute flash task at the start of each maths lesson. The children have demonstrated their understanding of previous lessons during this task, and I am immensely proud of their dedication and concentration. In humanities, we have continued our learning about physical and human objects and have explored the Victorian Era, comparing it to our resources. We had fun combining expressive arts and maths to explore tessellation. We investigated if all quadrilaterals tesselate and produced our own tessellation artwork which we will continue next week. Finally, this week was our last swimming lesson. You should all be very proud of yourself; I am very proud of you. Diolch for another ffantastig week. Miss Tucker 

2.9.24-20.9.24 

Welcome back children to new beginnings in Dosbath 6. We have had a wonderful first three weeks. It has been a pleasure getting to know everyone. We are already developing positive relationships inside and outside of class. It is already shining through in many aspects of your learning. Congratulations to our new Ambassadors, House Captions and Ministers. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed, you make us all very proud.  This terms topic is Ble rwyt ti’n byw? Where do you live? Our class focus is Medieval Trellech where we will be looking at the current geographical features of Trellech and then stepping back in time to investigate what Trellech may have looked like during medieval times. We stated our topic by walking around the village with Dosbarth 5, identifying human and physical geographical features, noting their location and purpose. In literacy, we are reading the novel ‘The Letter for the King’ which is centred around a medieval Kingdom. To kick this off, the children all chose drama to retell the story. They have been enthusiastic and have taken on board the challenge. This has allowed them to express their personalities and show off their acting and directing skills. In addition to this, they used their senses explore a wide range of interesting vocabulary which will be used to create their own descriptive text about a spooky forest.  We have been lucky to start swimming lessons. All the children have thoroughly enjoyed their time and have already shown vast improvements in confidence and ability. We have had an exciting start to PE this year. They have been modernising a traditional Welsh dance (Jac Y Do). Thank you, Miss Fawsitt the children have loved adding their own twists to a traditional dance. Finally, we have been exploring observational drawings in forest school. I have noticed many children have greatly benefited from learning in an outdoor environment. We are looking forward the weeks ahead. Thank you for making my start to the term a wonderful experience. You deserve a lovely weekend for all your hard work. Thank you for being you.