We have written biographies to celebrate Black History month.
Black History Month
Diwrnod Siwmper Nadolig!
Da iawn Pawb! You all look fantastic in your Christmas jumpers raising money for the Welsh Air Ambulance!
Human Rights Day – Article 2
Article 2 – All children have these rights, no matter who they are or what they look like.
We listened to the story ‘It’s ok to be different’, and discussed why it is ok to be different. Here are some of the children’s contributions;
“We have different colour skin and that is ok.”
“You might want to speak in a different language.”
“It doesn’t matter where you live. You can live in different places and still be friends.”
“My mummy has curly hair and I don’t, and that is ok.”
“Teasing is not kind, because children will feel sad if you tease them.”
“My mummy is different to me because she has dark hair and I have light hair.”
After our discussion, we played a game of ‘switch places if you ……’ where the children swapped places with another child if they answered yes to the question/statement.
Human Rights Day
For Human Rights Day, we found out that the world’s food is NOT divided equally and that we all have the right to food, clothing, a safe home. (Article 27).
After World War 2, countries around the world joijned together to form the United Nations to protect individuals and to ensure that people in the world have better living conditions. Representatives from 193 countries form the United Nations. The UN created 30 rights that people are entitled to. Children are entitled to additional rights.
We discussed some of the rights that we are entitled to and we decided to look at Article 27.
According to the World Health Organisation, a third of the people in the world are well fed, or even eat too much, but two thirds of the people in the world are not getting enough food to eat. In Wales 29% of people don’t have enough to eat.
We decided to represent this figure practically by inviting 1/3 of our class to dine on a feast and 2/3 of the class to have a plate of rice.
“I hated having the rice, I was still hungry and it didn’t taste of anything”
“I didn’t have any food, luckily my friend shared his rice with me”
“I was so lucky to have a feast”
“I felt guilty eating my feast thinking about the people that didn’t have enough to eat”
We then thought of things that we could do to help….
“give to a food bank”
“ask supermarkets to give food”
“share food with other countries”
“give to charity and they can send money to people to help them”
“teach people how to be farmers and give them seeds to grow food”
“send equipment and tools to help people grow food”
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RVE Cwestiwn Mawr
We looked at various Christmas related items such as the nativity scene, the bible, chocolate, a Christmas tree, a candle, a charity envelope, Santa, a star and a stocking. We had to answer ‘What matters most at Christmas time?’
“Jesus”
“because he was born on Christmas day”
“the bible because it has stories about Jesus”
“the star because it led the wise men to Bethlehem”
“the candle because Jesus is the ;light of the world”
“stockings because Santa needs to put presents in something”
“the Christmas tree because that’s where Santa leaves presents”
“the chocolate advent calendar because it is the countdown to Christmas”
“I think the charity envelope because the money you give will buy food for other people”
We Will Remember – Remembrance Day
In November, we Remember!
We made our very own Poppy display by using finger painting.
Remembrance
Big Questions with Mr Meredith (Diocesan Director of Education) RVE 07/11/24
We worked with Mr Meredith, looking at a piece of art work by Romola Parish, called ‘Wilderness’
We discussed how the image made us feel and then tried to answer the following questions:-
Where are you standing in relation to the picture? Are you in it, or an observer, watching what is going on?
Which do you relate to- the bird or the sheep? Can you think why you feel more like one, or less like the other?
Measuring Bryny!!
As part of our mantle, we decided to pick some possible plots to build our rollercoaster on and decided that Bryny would be the most suitable because it was flat, big and had a car park near by. We then went over to Bryny and measured the area and perimeter using trundle wheels and drones to help measure accurately.
Open the book!
We enjoyed a very interesting performance from open the book retelling the story of Noah’s Ark!
