Some of our pupils have been working on Celf a Chrefft entries for the Urdd Eisteddfod. Cutting, plaiting, threading and sewing skills have all been developed.
Crefft
Dathliad Dydd Gwyl Dewi at the Knighton Community Centre!
A big DIOLCH YN FAWR to the children who performed at Dathliad Dydd Gwyl Dewi at the Knighton Community Centre on Sunday 2nd of March 2025!
Canu a dawnsio bedigedig, plant! Super singing and dancing, children.
You all looked as if you enjoyed performing! Thank you to the parents for dressing the children in their very smart Welsh outfits.
Judith
Forest School
In today’s session we thought very carefully about ‘cynefin’ and our sense of belonging and some of the children decided to create a range of bug hotels for our local wildlife to seek sanctuary.
Pyjama Drama
We had a fabulous afternoon with Louise from Pyjama Dram creatind a sequel to ‘The Cat in the Hat. What do you think happened next?
World Book Day
We have had an amazing World Book Day!! We went on a Gruffalo trail hunt to find different characters that were hiding in the Quad. Then we went on a book walk on the field and role-played the story of the Gruffalo. At snack time, we had a lovely book picnic on the yard with some of the older children reading stories to us.
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!
As part of our Eisteddfod, we enjoyed a ’round robin’ of activities. Here are some of the children creating 2-d and 3d artwork using natural resources capturing our ‘cynefin’.
Mindfulness mandala drawing and creativity and some baking with Y4 and Y6- As part of our RVE work on Buddhism this half term! We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon and the biscuits were very tasty!
Goodlands and Badlands
We have worked with Sharon Ginnis (Story Teller) to create our story about ‘Good Lands and Bad Lands’
In our story there is a Good Land where everyone is happy and it is a pleasant place to live. There is also a Bad Land. A wall separates the Good Land and the Bad Land. No one from Good Land has ever been to Bad Land. Bad Land is dark with smoke billowing from it.
A resident from Bad Land came to the Good Land and explained that the smoke was from a volcano and that lots of residents of Bad Lands would need shelter. So the Good Land residents decided that they would take a vote and think of some rules that they could put in place to ensure that everyone was happy and safe.
To be continued……
Poetry Residence
We have been really fortunate to work with poet, Cheryl Moskowitz. (http://www.cherylmoskowitz.com/published-works.html)
Cheryl is a leading practitioner in the field of writing and well-being and has been working in schools for 30+ years, supporting teachers and enabling children to explore the magic of words and poetry.
Cheryl worked with us to write a cinquain about places that we find are places of sanctuary (noddfa)
Cheryl is also helping us to produce a Poetry “Zine”.
Buddhism - Creating Mandalas
In Aderyn Du we have been learning about the religion Buddhism and how Mandalas are a circular figure representing the universe in Buddhist Symbolism. We drew our own designs in class and went outside to create Mandalas using natural materials we could find in the school grounds.
