Croeso i Dosbarth Wiwer!
In Dosbarth Wiwer our teacher is Mrs Brophy.
Miss Scandariato and Mrs Jones also work in our classroom.
We share our class information as well as lots of the things that our class have been learning about using Seesaw. Should you need a link to your child’s Seesaw account please contact the school office or speak to Mrs Brophy at the end of the school day.
Teaching and learning in our school changes each year according to the needs of the children in our classes however we would still like to give you an insight into what a year in Dosbarth Wiwer looks like!
To help us to do this, we would like to share some of the adventures we plan to go on this year….
A Year in Dosbarth Wiwer
On that first day, the children wait eagerly to start their next journey. We open the gate and smiling faces greet us. They wave goodbye to Mums and Dads and they become Reception children, eager and ready to learn. That eagerness and love of learning, continues all year. I say it all the time but our children ‘ really do love learning’ and they take everything in and show enthusiasm is everything we do.
The children will settle into their new class and soon picked up the new routines and rules. We start the year with our ‘No Outsiders’ topic. Through this we learn that everyone is welcome in our school and we all have our similarities and differences. We start our phonics and reading scheme ‘Monster Phonics’. We enjoy learning our sounds with the monsters and the colour codes have really help us with our reading.
We will start ‘Drawing Club’. Our drawing, writing skills and imagination will develop. We especially love the video clips of the old tv programmes- showing Mrs Brophy age.
As half term was draws in, we enjoy stories about witches and enjoyed writing and making potions. We discuss Bonfire Night safety and use adjectives to describe fireworks. We enjoy Fireman Sam in our small world area. We plan for an Autumn trip to Erddig to explore the woods.
After our half term break, we are quickly into practicing the Christmas Concert. We spend lots of time learning the songs and the lines. We have a wonderful few weeks leading up to Christmas. We may visit the Reindeer Farm.
After Christmas we start our topic ‘Lost and Found’. We enjoy finding out all about penguins and the South Pole. We develop lots of scientific skills when investigating melting, floating and sinking and waterproof materials. We enjoy designing and making our own boat to carry the penguin to the South Pole. We realis we need to use materials that floated and were waterproof.
We enjoy celebrating Santes Dwynwen Day. We listen to the famous Welsh story, rescue Maelon from the frozen ice block, and make cards.
After half term our topic is ‘Wales’. We celebrate St David’s Day and enjoy learning about Welsh castles. We draw castles and learn all about the parts of a castle.
We kick start the Summer Term with our inquiry about dragons, which leads to us finding out about all sorts of eggs. We share some wonderful books about dragons and learn some descriptive vocabulary. We use adjectives and similes to describe the dragons in the books and this helps us describe our own dragons. We draw and paint our dragons and make a video using Adobe Spark. We take a picture of our artwork, insert it into the video and then record our voice over it.
We continue with the Summer term learning about living things. We may visit the farm and we will learn about minibeast. We have a very busy year in Reception. This year they have become readers, writers, scientists, artists, mathematicians and explorers. They make some new friends and, old friendships grow stronger.
