We have been looking at healthy eating this week. We started by looking at the Eatwell plate and what we should be having lots of in our diets, and what we should only be having a little bit of. Later in the week we tried lots of different healthy foods in order to come up with some ideas of what healthy food to make next week.
We have been looking at story telling this week. The children had to find a story at home and practice reading it with expression. On Friday the children read out their stories. We had stories about witches, Greeks and zombies! Great expression used and really captivated the audience. This week we have been looking at George's Marvellous Medicine for World Book Day. We have been looking at the characters from the story and looking at Grandmas perspective on the story. On World Book Day, we worked collaboratively with Dosbarth Gwyn to complete a carousel of activities. In Dorbarth Porffor's classroom we designed our own Book Day tokens on the laptops. We also made our own marvellous Medicine out of soap, petrol, lipstick and aftershave! Some of us thought it tasted delicious, others weren't too sure! We had lots of fun and felt inspired to read more of Roald Dahl's stories. We were asked by Mr Dacey to create a canvas for St. David's day. We looked at Welsh artists and really liked the style of Kerry Darlington so decided to use her work for inspiration. We really liked her work 'The Gift Tree' so decided to make our own trees about Wales. We first created different styles of trees and then thought about what Wales meant to us and included these things in our trees. Children from year 6 took part in a netball tournament this week in Tylorstown Sports Centre. Despite we hadn't done a lot of training, the children really enjoyed playing and showed plenty of skill. The children were great ambassadors for the school and showed great teamwork. We had a great time on our trip to Llancaiach Fawr this week. We learnt so much about life in the Tudor times and loved meeting the characters around the house. The children asked some fantastic questions and we all had a great time.
12 children from year 3 and 4 attended an athletics festival in Tonyrefail Sports Centre this week. It was a fun event where the children took part in different events such as sprints, javelin and jumping. The children did really well and were great ambassadors for the school.
We have been learning about Tudor medicine. there were plenty of cures back then but most would do more harm than good! If you had no money you would go to a herb wife who's cures included covering your head in cow manure or throwing a cat over your house to cure the plague. Monks would research diseases and pray for you. Apothecaries would make herbs and potions to heal you. The surgeon was only for the rich and they would cut you open, often wearing plague masks filled with strong smelling herbs. We looked at all of these and had great fun finding out the strange cures they came up with.
This week the Playground pals gave a whole school assembly to explain what they have been doing. The children decided on what they wanted to do and what to say. They came up with a Powerpoint with all of their work from their Junior Achievement Award to play in the background. The children told everyone about how they became Playground Pals and the different games that they play. They came up with a role play to help show this and used a rap at the end!
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January 2016
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