Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
We enjoyed a super Circus Skills session yesterday with Peter – great development of fine and gross motor skills, thinking and problems solving skills. Well done to all of of our resilient learners who persevered and kept trying! Da iawn!
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!
Such fun this morning developing our collaboration and physical skills through lots of great circus activities.
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……
Children have been working really hard rounding to the nearest ten this week. They have collected natural items such as sticks and they have measured them. They have then rounded their measurements to the nearest 10. We have also used number lines to support our understanding of place value.
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.’
Year 6 enjoyed a busy 3 days exploring Cardiff and some surrounding areas. We learned about some of the history of Wales, about our parliament and had some fun down on the bay too! Diolch to all of our hosts and to our Friends of School and The Blakemore Foundation who both made contributions towards our school trip.
We made a map for the mouse to follow around the deep, dark wood so that he could find his way, without getting eaten by the Gruffalo.
Protecting Yourself and Others from Scams Online
Today, the school E-safety Committee, along with Mrs Blower, led an assembly to introduce Internet Safety day. The focus is protecting yourself and others from online scams. We discussed what a scam is and what you should do if you think you are being scammed.