19th - 23rd October '09

This week our focus has been on the five senses and feelings.

In this emergent writing activity we 'wrote' down what we would like to eat from the cafe menus. (Communication skills - mark making)




In maths we have been discussing 'large' and 'small'. (Number skills - measuring)
We made large and small towers outside using the building blocks.


We made large and small towers using unifix cubes.

We sorted the compare bears into large, medium and small sets.

(Number skills - sort objects according to a given criterion)

In this Interactive Whiteboard activity we had to choose the correct size shoes for 'little', 'middle' and 'big' (ICT skills)

We had a visit from the 'Cool seas' roadshow. We were able to look at lots of different inflatable sea creatures.

We have been looking at 'feelings' pictures to show how we can feel sometimes. We made the different expressions and talked about what may make us feel that way.

(Communication skills)

We had 6 pots which contained different smells. We took turns to be blindfolded and sniff the contents of each pot. We tried to guess what the smell was. (Thinking skills)

We brought coins to lay on a picture of harvest fruits before sending to a chosen charity.




We planted cress seeds in plastic cups to make 'cress heads'. We decorated our cups with a face and took them home to watch them grow.

This week we have enjoyed playing with 'Gel Baff' in the water tray.

We made spikey hedgehogs with play dough and pasta.

We ended the half term by taking part in a 'sharing assembly' with the rest of the infants. We stood up in our groups and told everyone about some of the activities we have enjoyed this term. We ended by standing up and singing the welsh song we have been learning; 'troi ein dwylo'. (Communication skills)

Mr Roberts then presented a merit award certificate to one child from each class (see below). These two girls were awarded certificates for settling well into Nursery and always being kind to their friends, polite and helpful. Well done to both of you!

Our merit award winners:

We hope you all have a lovely half term holiday.

ECO WEEK: 12th - 16th October '09

This week has been Eco Week in school. The Early Year's focus has been on healthy eating/living

On Monday, we focused on fitness. Mr Williams from Year 6 and Mr Llewellyn from Year 5 did a 'Tumble Tots' keep fit class with Nursery and Reception.
(Communication - listen & respond)

On Monday afternoon we had a fun activity afternoon with Reception. Activities included going on the climbing frame, riding the bikes/scooters, going on the play fort, playing with bats/balls etc and relay beanbag races.

On Tuesday we talked about healthy foods. We all brought in a piece of fruit each which we peeled, chopped up and arranged into a fruit salad. We shared out the fruit salad into individual pots so that we could all taste the different healthy fruit

We used our ICT skills to program "Bee-Bot" to go to the healthy foods on the mat.

We coloured in different fruits, cut them out and stuck them into a fruit bowl. (Communication - mark making)


We completed fruit/vegetable jigsaws (Thinking skills)


We made funny fruit faces on the plasma screen (ICT skills)

We made fruit hats (Communication - mark making)

We shared a healthy picnic lunch on the Nursery yard with Reception.




We listened to a talk from Jan Williams, a health visitor, on the importance of thorough hand washing.

(Communication skills)

We rubbed a special lotion into our hands before washing them throughly with soap and water. We then put our hands under a special Ultraviolet light to see if we had left any dirt/germs left on our hands.



Thursday was 'Go Green' day. We all wore something green to school.

We had a visit and talk (Communication skills) from "Rhyscycle" who told us about the importance of recycling and not dropping litter.



We have made some outstanding outfits made from recycled materials at home with our parents. We modelled them on the catwalk stage in the main hall to the rest of the school.

Here are some pictures of us modelling our wonderful outfits:

On the left is our winner from N1 for the infant department and 2nd overall winner in the school. Well done!

On Friday afternoon we listened to a talk from Nicola and Christine from the Toothbrushing Project who told us about the importance of brushing our teeth and looking after them.