Many thanks to Katie for working with us to teach us ‘Jacob’s Memory Garden’ song.
Jacob’s Memory Garden
Our Meadow/Ein Gweirglodd
We have created a meadow as a class. We drew minibeasts that would live in the meadow and thought about the different habitats within the meadow. We are a team of conservationists, that have been asked to find out about and take care of the minibeasts in the meadow.
Visit from PC Viv
Pc Viv came in to talk to us about keeping safe and good friendships. This was very interesting and we learnt a lot.
Pentabus project
We are working with Andrew, from Pentabus, on a project which has been part-funded by the Knighton and District Refugee Support Group.
We started by considering how all of our experiences are different.
Study an image
After our training with Tim Taylor we tried a new way to move into our mantle. We studied an image then tried to imagine the thoughts of the people in it. Our pupils showed such empathy and understanding.
”We need to move up to make room for more people”
”Where are the rest of my family?”
”I’m scared”
”What if we drown?”
Mini beast Hunt\ Helfa Bwystfilod Bach
We have been on a minibeast hunt on the school grounds. We used our observation skills and found insects and spiders living in the grass and around our trees.
Rainbow Fish\Pysgoden Enfys
In RE we listened to the story of ‘The Rainbow Fish.’ We talked about how we could be peace makers, through sharing and our kindness.
Project Afon _ River Project
Today, the Year 5s in Barcud Coch took a very wet walk to the River Teme- near the Offa’s Dyke Centre. Sarah and Toni were delivering sessions as part of the Celebrating the Teme project.
We found all sorts of creatures, so many more than we expected to! It made us think twice about throwing stones into the river…as fun as that is!
Planting seeds with Tom
We have thoroughly enjoyed planting seeds with Tom. We learnt about how we can look after them to make sure they grow.
Mantle of the Expert training!
We were visited by Tim Taylor who delivers training for Mantle of the Expert, which is the pedagogical approach we use to deliver our curriculum. The staff enjoyed our session as much as the pupils.
Tim stepped into the role of someone who works in the local Welsh government, proposing to build a plot of 500 houses on the outskirts of Knighton. Pupils took on the role of an environmental protection team and they used their learning from this term to put forward their opinions and asked challenging questions.
Tim was really impressed with their contributions, concerns were raised appropriately and they were well-considered.