On Friday two children(One from Dosbarth Glas and one from Dosbarth Aur) represented the school and went to the Welsh Historical Schools Initiative Awards at the Millennium Stadium Cardiff. We are very pleased to announce that we won the Admiral PLC award of £700. The project was undertaken by Dosbarth Glas and Dosbarth Aur in conjunction with Bryn Primary School. The children used ICT to research and investigate the history of Llanelli, especially the Llanelli Railway Riots of 1910 which they compared to the Tonypandy Riots of 1910. Well done to all for your hard work and also to Bryn Primary School who also won £700.
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We had a very exciting day with a visit from Rhodri Morgan, former First Minister. Mr Morgan came to look at the ICT work we had been doing and asked us lots of questions about what we did. He He loved the iPads and talked a lot about the art work we were doing. He was very generous and brought us two lovely tomato plants from his garden, thank you Mr Morgan !
Well I think our class has turned into Hogwarts as we have a class full of maths wizards today! Lots of problem solving going on as we were working on multiplication and division, looking at how division is the reverse operation to multiplication. Lots of fantastic work - move over Issac Newton Dosbarth Glas are on their way!
This week we all have been trying very hard to come to school every day and we were delighted that we had the highest attendance in the school. We had a brilliant golden time using the DS games and it is lovely to have CEDRIC back in the class.
Today Miss was not in school, instead she was attending the inaugural National Digital Learning Awards at Cardiff City Stadium. We had been shortlisted for the 'Best learning and teaching Digital Content 3-11 years' category for all the work we had been doing with Year 6 and the children of Bryn Primary School. There was a high standard of entries and we are delighted to announce that we won our category. Congratulations to all the children at Cwmclydach and Bryn Primary School who contributed to the work that we undertook.
We have been very busy today working on our literacy work. We have been looking at adverbs today identifying them in sentences and looking at the difference between a verb and adverb. We worked really hard and identified lots of adverbs. We had lots of fun making miss show us lots of adverbs! This afternoon we looked at the Keynote app on the iPad. We have been using BookCreator to organise our thoughts and information and miss wanted us to look at Keynote and see what we thought. On the whole the class decided that they preferred Keynote because you could have better designs but we decided you could you BookCreator or Keynote for different tasks. Now we will have to decide which to use for the different tasks we are set.
Today we have been very busy. Miss came back from her last week on her Welsh sabbatical and kept talking to us in Welsh. We looked at a fantastic picture reading comprehension in literacy and had to look to see what we could see, what the picture showed us and what questions we had about the picture. We had to concentrate to make sure we didn't miss anything. Here is our picture. In mathematics today we had to investigate subtraction patterns. Some of us worked had to work out subtraction problems with money. At least all this practice will mean we will get the money right in the school shop. We cannot wait until tomorrow as we have lots of fun science experiments to do!
Dosbarth Glas has been tweeting for quite a while now, but how can we see all the brilliant things we have been doing easily? Well along came 'Twitario'. This allows users of twitter to make a diary of the entries. Have a look at our 'diary'. Well done to Emelia who came second in the Foundation Phase section of the Rotary Club Art Competition. Her picture had to show a celebration and she decided to create a collage about a wedding. There were lots of flowers and bells, a church and of course a bride and groom!
(Photograph to follow) Well we have had a great day today. Miss Howells is busy this week on the last week of her Welsh sabbatical but she is making sure we work hard but also have lots of fun in the process. Today we were working on our poetry ideas. We were writing about what we would find in a witches pocket and came up with lots of WOW words to describe what could be in their pocket. In mathematics today we worked on volume. He had great fun finding different containers and learning all the new mathematical vocabulary we needed.
In the afternoon, Mrs Griffiths was busy helping some of year 6 and year 2 to video while the rest of us looked at the moon. Did you know that... We all know there was a man on the moon, but did you know that there is one who stayed there? Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, a Geological Surveyor, who educated the Apollo mission astronauts about craters, never made it into space himself, but it had always been one of his dreams. He was rejected as an astronaut because of medical problems. After he died, his ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on January 6, 1999, which was crashed into a crater on the moon on July 31, 1999. The mission was to discover if there was water on the moon at the time, but it also served to fulfill Dr Shoemaker's last wish. When Neil Armstrong took that first historical step and said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" it would not have occurred to anyone that the step he took in the dust of the moon was there to stay. It will be there for millions of years because there is no wind on the moon. That is, assuming the downdraft from the Command Module upon takeoff back into space didn't destroy the print. Buzz Aldrin reportedly saw the American flag, much further away, blow over during launch. Nevertheless, any footprints made by the famous astronauts undisturbed by takeoff are, in fact, there to stay. When Alan Sheppard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball and drove it 2,400 feet, nearly one half a mile. In a survey conducted in 1988, 13% of those surveyed believed that the moon is made of cheese. The multi layer space suits worn by the astronauts to the moon weighed 180 pounds on earth, but thirty pounds on the moon due to the lower gravity.
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