Croeso i Dosbarth Glas!

Welcome to Dosbarth Glas! We are a mixed Year 2/3 class and are looking forward to welcoming you this academic year.

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Please use the QR code provided to sign up. This will be our main way of keeping you up to date with what is happening in Dosbarth Glas.

I will use Seesaw to share:

• Important class notices and reminders
• Photos and little snippets from our week
• Celebrations and special achievements
• Pictures of the children celebrating their successes

Daily Routines

The school doors open at 8:40 and the bell sounds for school to start at 8:50am.

Breakfast Club is available for children every morning between 8:00 am and 8:30am. The children are sent to class from breakfast club.

The children are welcomed into class by Mrs Edwards where they will begin registration.

Children will have snack and milk at 10:30 and go out on to the yard for playtime at 10:40 – 11am.

Lunchtime is from 12:15 – 13:15.

Home time is at 3:15pm where children will be dismissed by a member of staff. All year 2 children must be collected by a known adult. If someone different is collecting your child, please let the school office know at your earliest convenience.

In the event of your child being absent from school, please telephone the office on 01639 846070 to inform us.

Personal details

If there are any changes to your personal details such as your home address, telephone number or circumstances, please inform us as soon as possible. We ask that you also ensure that your child’s personal information is up to date such as medical information and preferences regarding your child’s photo being shared.

Timetable

Monday – Spellings and homework due in, Readers

Tuesday – Forest school, Readers, Time to talk

Wednesday – Spelling homework given out, Readers

Thursday – Readers, Miss Mills to teach PM.

Friday – P.E (cricket), Nurture, Sparkling Students, Golden Time, Readers

Homework

The children are given new spellings to learn at home every Wednesday which correspond with their phonics taught that week through Read, Write, Inc. The children will complete their spelling activity when they return to school the following Monday to help them build their confidence and improve their spelling.

I will also set regular activities on Giglets to give the children opportunities to practise their reading and comprehension skills at home.

The children are also encouraged to regularly access RMEasimaths and TTRockstars to practise their maths skills and develop their confidence with times tables.

A little bit of regular practice at home can make a spectacular difference to the children’s confidence and progress!

 

Reading

As I’m sure you’re aware, reading is incredibly important and plays a huge part in your child’s learning and development. We kindly ask that you try to listen to your child read as often as you can. Even just 5 minutes a day can make a real difference. It is also really beneficial for children to be read to by an adult. Sharing a story together helps develop vocabulary, comprehension, imagination and a love of books.

Your child will bring home a reading book and reading record, which we kindly ask you to complete when you have listened to them read.

We also encourage children to read anything and everything! Reading doesn’t always have to be a storybook. Magazines, comics, recipe books, instructions, newspapers and even signs can all provide valuable opportunities to practise reading.

Snacks

As part of our healthy school initiative, children are encouraged to bring cheese, fruit or yoghurt, grapes will need to be cut in half. Please can you ensure your child brings a labelled drink bottle with them every day to remain hydrated.

Uniform

Please ensure all uniform and your child’s belongings are clearly labelled with their name.

Equipment

The school provides all of the relevant stationary and equipment needed for the school day. Therefore, stationary or similar items, toys and games from home are not to come to class to avoid any disruptions. There is plenty here for the children to play with.

Topics for 2026- 2027

Autumn – Big, Wide World

Spring – Differences

Summer – Healthy Me

Here at Golwg Y Cwm, we believe that every child matters and we want your child to be happy coming to school and to enjoy their time with us. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact myself. Whilst we are more than happy to talk to you at any time, mornings are particularly busy. Unless the matter cannot wait, please let me know if you need to see me and I will be available for you at the end of the school day or alternatively we can arrange a phone call at an appropriate time.

I hope you have found this information helpful.

Diolch,

Mrs Edwards

SPRING TERM 2023

Fit Fortnight: Week 2 – 22/05/23

This week we experienced Dance, Gymnastics, Football and Rounders! We also had an added treat and went to our local skatepark :)

         

      

Fit fortnight: Week 1 – 15/05/23

We have had loads of fun experiencing different sports! Karate, Boxing, Tennis and Rugby!

           

       

World Daily Mile – 27/4/23

We all enjoyed running 8 laps of the car park today (Approximately 1 mile).

Prince of Wales Band – 19/03/23

We had the pleasure of listening and chatting to the Prince of Wales band today. We then had a go at playing in class!

Parents open day – 23/03/23

I hope you all enjoyed looking at the children’s work today. Was great to catchup and chat about what we have been doing!

Comic Relief – 17/03/23

For comic relief, we have been learning sign language! We now know basic greetings and farewells. We are currently learning a song with sign and are doing brilliant!

World book day – 03/03/23

Today we joined in a national lesson by using giglets. We all enjoyed the book and sang the song out loud!

St.David’s Day – 01/03/23

We have had a great week! On St.David’s day we completed some cooperative colouring for the class wall, we also had lots of Welsh themed activities.

Kindness day – 17/02/23

We have raised lots of money for the local community and have donated food to the schools food bank. We also had a lot of fun playing with lovely toys our friends brought in!

Charanga – 09/02/23

We have been bought new instruments! We are learning how to use them and so far so good although we now know it takes a lot of puff..

Creating – 08/02/23

We have made our creations from used recycling ready to complete instructional writing next week!

We’ve been busy! ~ 03/02/23

We have planned and designed our recycling project. Now we are ready to create next week. We can’t wait!

Fire safety ~ 16/01/23

We welcomed the local fire safety officer to our class today. We discussed all things safety and who to call in an emergency.

AUTUMN TERM 2022

Christmas trip 15/12/22

A magical time was had by all travelling on the train to meet Santa, Mrs Claus, the elves and snowmen.

Christmas concert – 13/12/22

A huge well done to all of the children in the infants who participated in the show. They have worked so hard this term and shown so much resilience to learn the songs, dances and their speaking parts which they performed with amazing expression and confidence. Ardderchog!

Congratulations – Christmas Card Designer 01/12/22

Big congratulations to Ellie who designed a fabulous Christmas card which has been chosen by Yr Ysgol to be distributed out to residents. We’re so proud!

Diwali 25/10/22

This week, year 2 have been Ethical Informed Citizens learning all about Diwali including beliefs and traditions. The children have learnt the story about Rama and Sita and written fantastic recounts. They have also created beautiful and colourful Rangoli patterns on the yard.

Football first 17/10/22

A fantastic time was had by all today. The children also had a go at rolling in the zorbs.

Dydd Shwmae 14/10/22

The children have worn red, green and white to celebrate being Welsh and enjoyed listening to welsh songs in class. They have practiced the names of colours in Welsh and also incorporated this into our Cymraeg ar dy dafod goal of asking ‘ga i bensil glas os gwelwch yn dda?’

Dydd Jambori! 22/09/22

The children had a fantastic time at the Welfare hall dancing and singing along to Welsh songs.

Our World 20/09/22

As part of our Dysgu Gyda’n Gilydd the children asked to learn about the continents and oceans of our World and find out where Wales was. We learnt the continent song and used globes and atlases to create our paper marche planet Earth.

Circus Skills 13/09/22

The children had an amazing time during our circus skills session learning an abundance of skills from balancing and juggling. We saw teamwork, perseverance, confidence building and a positive impact on the children’s self-esteem! A great time had by all! #healthyconfidentindividuals