Ysgol Golwg Y Cwm

Blwyddyn 2 & 3

Teacher: Mrs Griffiths

Classroom Assistants: Miss Sharon & Mrs Bateman

Information

Daily Routine

*School starts at 8:50am*

Breakfast Club is available for children every morning between 8:00 am and 8:30am. £1 per day.

The children are sent to class from breakfast club.

The children are welcomed into class by the staff every morning. The children are expected to put their things into the cloakroom and onto the lunch trolley independently and then sit on the carpet ready for the register at 8:50am.

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

*Break time 10:40am – 11am*

Children to bring in a healthy snack – cheese, fruit or yoghurt.

*Lunchtime 12:15pm – 1:15pm*

Blwyddyn 2 – lunch and then playtime.

Blwyddyn 3 – playtime and then lunch.

*Home time 3:15pm*

The children will be dismissed at 3:15pm.

PLEASE LABEL ALL CLOTHING AND ALL ITEMS BELONGING TO YOUR CHILD

Weekly Information

Monday/Dydd Llun

*Spelling Test

Tuesday/Dydd Mawrth

*Swimming – Spring Term (2nd Half)

*Clwb Cymraeg (Blwyddyn 2)

Wednesday/Dydd Mercher

*PE – PE kit and trainers to be worn

Thurday/Dydd Iau

*Forest Schools – Mrs Brenchley

*Spelling Homework

*Clwb Pel-droed (Blwyddyn 3)

Friday/Dydd Gwener

*Seren yr Wythnos/Siaradwr yr Wythnos

*Weekly Reflections – Happy Time

*Amser Aur

*Nurture

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Whole School Topics 2023-2024

Autumn – All About Me

Spring – Cymru a’r Byd

Summer – Beneath My Feet

At the beginning of each topic the children are encouraged to share ideas about what it is they would like to learn and these ideas are incorporated into the planning process to ensure learning is relevant and also engaging for children.

Reading

Children will bring their reading books home every Friday and they must be returned every Monday.

Reading is very important as I am sure you are aware. Therefore, as we do in school, please practise with your child at home, it will all benefit.

An assortment of reading materials will only enhance your child’s enjoyment of reading as well as develop their reading skills.

All the children have access to Giglets.

Spelling

The words are put onto Spell Blast on HWB every Thursday and the children are encouraged to use this in school and at home on a daily basis. The children will have a spelling test every Monday.

Maths

The children have an Easi Maths username and password, which they can use at home. Please encourage them to do this at home as it will all benefit their learning and the questions set on the programme cover the whole range of Mathematics.

Topic

Children will occasionally be asked to complete a Topic task at home and this is only to assist them in their work in class.

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I hope you find this parent information helpful. If you require any further information in regards to your child’s education in my class please feel free to message me on seesaw or ring the school to speak to me.

As partners in your child’s education I believe it is very important that we work together to give your child the best education possible.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs Griffiths

Spring Term 2024

World Book Day

The children all look lovely in their comfortable clothes and their costumes for World Book Day. They have been sharing their favourite books with each other, designing a book cover and doing a character description of their favourite character.

The BFG

Our class story is The BFG. The children are thoroughly enjoying listening to the story and learning all the new language of The BFG.

The display outside class is our creative writing that we have been doing based on the story of The BFG. If you walk passed, have a read!

Food Tasting

This week, we have been busy tasting Welsh foods. We had fun making and tasting Welsh cakes with Miss Sharon, we tasted bara brith with some lovely butter spread on top and to finish the week off, we tasted Welsh cheese accompanied with toast.

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus

St David’s Day Craft

The children worked hard during their half term holiday to create a flag that represents Wales. The winner will be announced in our St David’s Day assembly on March 1st. Pob lwc!

Dydd Crempog

Pancake day was during half term this year so the children in Dosbarth Glas made pancakes in school a few days early. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning how to make pancakes. They measured the ingredients accurately, mixed them all together and they even had a go at tossing the pancakes. The best bit was choosing their topping/s and finally eating them. The children also wrote an acrostic poem about pancake day and enjoyed learning about pancake day traditions in different countries.

Dydd Santes Dwynwen

The children were very creative with their cards for Saint Dwynwen’s Day. Da iawn pawb!

Autumn Term 2023

Father Christmas came to visit!

We were very lucky and had a visit from Father Christmas to our school.

Christmas Concert

Blwyddyn 2 & 3 worked really hard practising for this year’s Christmas concert. They did really well to learn all their lines and all the different songs. How fantastic you all looked in your costumes!

Cinio Nadolig

We all enjoyed our Christmas dinner and we’ve been busy in class making hats especially for our dinner.

Christmas Jumper Day

Brecon Mountain Railway

Blwyddyn 2 had a great time visiting Santa at Brecon Mountain Railway.

Urdd Jambori

We all enjoyed our morning at Ysgol Maesydderwen for the Urdd Jambori . We were there with other primary schools in the cluster. We learned some new Welsh songs and we also got to do some dancing with Mr Urdd. We had lots of fun!

Children in Need 2023

For Children in Need this year, we came to school in our pyjamas. We were all very comfortable in our pyjamas and we enjoyed eating our cakes too!

Remembrance Day 2023

The children have created a lovely display outside our class. They created poppy wreaths for Remembrance Day using their hands and they all completed a piece of work on the computer to show what they had learned about Remembrance Day.

Parents Open Day

The children really enjoyed sharing their work with their parents and family members. It was lovely to welcome so many people into our school.

The Colour Monster

The children really enjoyed the story of The Colour Monster. We discussed all the different feelings in the story and we also discussed all the colours related to the feelings in the story. We completed our work on The Colour Monster by creating our own colour monsters and using speech bubbles, we wrote in the first person about our colour monster. Our beautiful work has made a lovely display in our class.

Welly Walk

Unfortunately Mrs Brenchley hasn’t been in this week so we decided to get our wellies on and get out and explore. We love learning in the outdoors!

Supermovers

Learning our multiplication tables is really important and we use supermovers to help us. Dancing to a song whilst learning the tables. Fun, fun, fun!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4

Music Workshop

Topic – All About Me

When we did our topic planning at the beginning of the term lots of us wanted to find out what’s inside our bodies and what our organs and bones are called. Before Miss taught us anything we had to show Miss what we already knew and we worked in groups to label the body and we shared this with the rest of the class and so we were learning from each other.