Croeso i Dosbarth Gwennol!
Our teacher is Mrs Halley
Miss Davies and Mrs Brown 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 Rayner 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 Gwennol looks like!
To help us to do this, we would like to share some of their adventures from last year….
We started our year with our topic of No Outsiders. We started this by reading a book called ‘Wonder’. We looked at all the characters in the book and thought about what makes us all special and unique. We then created pop art pictures of ourselves in the style of Andy Warhol. We also created bunting made from our hands where we wrote everything about us that made us special.??
We then focused on the book ‘The New Girl’ which was all about someone starting in a new school from Japan. We thought about how that would feel and thought about the type of classroom we wanted and how we would welcome someone new.?We decided we wanted to be a kind classroom. We created a kind classroom display with a range of origami flowers inspired by origami which the character created in the book. After this we created our own Haiku’s about being a kind classroom.??
Then we began our overall inquiry this year which was all about ‘The Future We Want’. We started this during global goals week where we looked at everyone’s rights in the world and found out what the global goals were. Once we had learnt that we created our own future of what we wanted to see. We brainstormed what we needed in our future for all the global goals and everyone’s human rights to be met. We then created our own world using shoeboxes in groups to create the future that we want.??
We then moved onto the climate action global goal. We set out to explore what climate change actually is and why it’s happening. We discussed the impact climate change is having on our local environment and we decided we wanted to find out more to see how we could help. We calculated our own carbon footprint and then created our own pledges on how we would help to tackle climate change. To help gain a better understanding of climate change we read the book ‘The Last Bear’. We learnt how Bear had ended up on Bear Island and why he was the only bear left on the island. We explored reasons why the ice caps were melting and considered ways in which this can be prevented from happening in the future.
Towards Christmas we got busy crafting to make items for the Christmas fayre.?After this we enjoyed preparing for our concert in the church. For our performance we recited a poem and sang some songs.
We then went on to complete our next inquiry of ‘What makes Wales special?’. We started with our overnight trip to Glan Llyn which was great fun. The children were all fantastic and a credit to our school. We enjoyed canoeing where we learnt we all have a lot of perseverance to the rain. We had a go at archery, lighting a flint and steel, toasted marshmallows on a fire, played bingo and enjoyed a movie with our snacks. The children all showed such resilience, confidence and all supported each other. It was a pleasure to see.?
Next, we focused our inquiry on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) by listening to the story of Big Rhita which is how they say Yr Wyddfa was formed. We all retold this story and then created our fantasy tale. We located Yr Wyddfa on maps using co-ordinates and compass points. We read a newspaper article about the dangers of climbing Snowdon unprepared, so we decided we wanted to create a video to inform people of how to climb Yr Wyddfa safely. We thought about what we needed to find out and started researching. We used all this information we found out to create our videos with advice and information for the public.??
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We are currently completing our final inquiry ‘What did the Romans do for us?’. We have found out all about who they were, when they came to Britain and how they changed Britain forever and what it would look like today if they never invaded. We are also looking forward to completing a project designing our own Roman catapults.??
Throughout the year we have participated in lots of different days/events. We have enjoyed World Book Day, the Eisteddfod and Sports Day just to name a few. Towards the end of the year, we also welcomed our families into school to show them all of our wonderful work. We were so pleased that they were just as proud of our work as we are.
We have had a fantastic year that really has flown by!