Mathletics

Children in Year 4, 5 and 6 have made a brilliant start to Mathletics. Mathletics is a fantastic online Maths resource which sets tasks and provides help for children's learning in Maths. Some of the classes and children have even managed to make it on to the Hall of fame. Well done!!!

locating local amenities on a map

Today Y4C continued their learning on amenities in the local area by finding amenities on a map. We used google maps & street view to locate the amenities and then matched it to our map. We also made up our own keys.

New After School Clubs

Judo











And ICT Club

Playground Singing and Dancing from Year 2

Caerphilly Castle

On Wednesday 3rd November, Y3M went on a trip to Caerphilly Castle as part of their Knights and Castles topic. They we met by Lord Boudiever de Clare, who showed them round the castle. They went into the Great Hall and dressed up. Some of the children dressed as royalty, others were better off servants who lived in the castle and the others were servants from the villages outside the castle walls (they were the poorest and wore sack cloth!)
The children played the game of hunting the lamb and explored the castle rooms, which were used in a recent episode of the TV programme Merlin.
The children also saw some of the engines of war such as a giant cross bow or ballista, a huge catapault called a mangonel and a small one called a trebuchet.
Some of the children bought swords and other things from the shop. It was a fantastic day despite the rain!

Kealan and Natalia celebrate the start of a new topic in Year 2

St Fagans

Today Y4C enjoyed a trip to St Fagans National History Museum, as part of their 'No place like home' project. Here we looked at many different homes and houses such as Farmhouses, a tollhouse, a bakehouse, a row of iron workers' houses, a pigsty, bee shelters, prefab bungalows, a celtic village and an eco home/house of the future.

We also visited an 1880's shop, a 13Th century church and many other original buildings moved from various parts of Wales and re-erected to show how people lived throughout the past centuries.