Croeso i Dosbarth Eyry!
Our teacher is Mrs Rayner.
Mrs Koscinska is the teaching assistant 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 Mr Allman 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 Eyry looks like!
To help us to do this, we would like to share some of their adventures from last year….
What an exciting, busy, and enjoyable year in Dosbarth Eryr, I can’t believe how much we have achieved during the past 10 months! The pupils have been a pleasure to teach all year and have represented themselves brilliantly inside and outside of the classroom.
Our topics this year have been based on the UN’s sustainable development goals. In the Autumn term, we focused on Goal 11 “Sustainable Cities”. As part of our transition into the new curriculum, pupils came up with several inquiry questions to research and tailor their learning based on the topic.
Alongside this topic, we worked hard to complete several extra-curricular activities as part our Children’s University project. We became “Mini Medics”, went to weekly swimming sessions, and performed amazingly at our school’s Christmas concert. We also enjoyed a fantastic school trip to DangerPoint where we learned all about staying safe in different areas inside and outside the home.
After the Christmas break, we created some amazing suspense openings. We brought these to life by using our ICT skills to add music and images to bring the suspense to life. We also began to communicate with our partner school in Scotland and sent letters to our pen pals. We also shared our learning of Spanish and Welsh within our schools.
We also moved onto our new topic, Goal 14 – Life below Water. During the topic we looked at the importance of water to humans and animals and explored the importance of water within our own local area. We also investigated the most effective way to filter water through our Forest School sessions.
During the summer term, we answered the inquiry “can we live like an Olympian?” We looked at how an Olympian’s diet is important to how they can perform and identified the roles and responsibilities of the different food groups. We were also hard at work training and preparing for our own “Olympics” organised by Cefn Community Council! We completed the #Stayonside project where we learned about what constitutes anti-social behaviour and enjoyed some football coaching.
Alongside our topics, we have worked hard to improve our maths this year, learning new topics such as coordinates, percentages, perimeter, and area whilst continuing to consolidate our main mathematical procedures. We have completed personal profiles and describes our friends in the third person in Welsh and have learned our numbers, days of the week and the weather in Spanish. Through art, we created some amazing artwork on “The Great Wave” and peace symbols around the world. We also enjoyed weekly music lesson and performed some super songs at our coffee afternoon.
Outside of the classroom, we have enjoyed visiting Ysgol Ruabon and Ysgol Dinas Bran for some early transition days. Many of the pupils have also represented the school brilliantly through sporting events such as Cross Country and football as well as an amazing choir concert with the Fron Male Voice Choir. Many of the pupils have also contributed brilliantly to the various school council positions over the year.