Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
Today Year One discussed physical contact and we created our own special ways to greet our friends. We both had to feel comfortable with the contact. There were lots of high fives and fist bumps!
Mr Meredith visited us this morning and shared a lovely story called ‘Tom the Lion’. This story taught us about how to be a kind friend, how to use and share our helping hands and what makes a good friend. Mr Meredith was very impressed with how well we listen to one another and help each other out throughout the day.
This morning Mr Meredith visited our class to share a lovely story of learning, friendship and kindness. We discussed what we enjoyed learning, how we can can be kind and what makes a good friend.
Today it was our turn to work with Cheryl. We thought about who we are, what makes us us. Then we explored cinquain poems and the rules around them. We worked together to write a class cinquain about Refuge.
Finally we explored the idea of sanctuary…how we offer it when someone needs refuge.
We celebrated International Mother Tongue Day by joining other schools in Powys for a Live event retelling the story of ‘Aharsi: The Bengal Tiger’. Pupils enjoyed listening and joining in with the story and developing their language skills. They listened carefully and were able to answer lots of questions about the story. Da iawn Pawb!
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”.
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of working with poet Cheryl. We thought about ‘Sanctuary’ and what that means to both humans and animals. We then went on to thought shower chosen animals, from ladybirds to wolves. Cheryl then went on to put our ideas into a wonderful poem, ‘Not that Different From You and Me.’
Here are some of the Year 2 entries for the National Red Card Health & Well-being Competition. All of the children have worked really hard on their entries. Pob lwc Pawb!
We learnt about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated. We created these snakes, as it is the ‘Year of the Snake’.
Year 6 studied a scene depicting a very busy every-day scene. They had to look for rights being enjoyed, being requested and being denied. We later looked through all of the human rights and had to choose some to diamond rank. Our concluding thoughts were that the type of life someone has lived will affect which human rights they consider to be the most important. They also queried whether soldiers were free… .
