Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
We enjoyed a super Circus Skills session yesterday with Peter – great development of fine and gross motor skills, thinking and problems solving skills. Well done to all of of our resilient learners who persevered and kept trying! Da iawn!
We celebrated International Mother Tongue Day by joining other schools in Powys for a Live event retelling the story of ‘Aharsi: The Bengal Tiger’. Pupils enjoyed listening and joining in with the story and developing their language skills. They listened carefully and were able to answer lots of questions about the story. Da iawn Pawb!
We have worked with Sharon Ginnis (Story Teller) to create our story about ‘Good Lands and Bad Lands’
In our story there is a Good Land where everyone is happy and it is a pleasant place to live. There is also a Bad Land. A wall separates the Good Land and the Bad Land. No one from Good Land has ever been to Bad Land. Bad Land is dark with smoke billowing from it.
A resident from Bad Land came to the Good Land and explained that the smoke was from a volcano and that lots of residents of Bad Lands would need shelter. So the Good Land residents decided that they would take a vote and think of some rules that they could put in place to ensure that everyone was happy and safe.
To be continued……
Children have been working really hard rounding to the nearest ten this week. They have collected natural items such as sticks and they have measured them. They have then rounded their measurements to the nearest 10. We have also used number lines to support our understanding of place value.
We have been really fortunate to work with poet, Cheryl Moskowitz. (http://www.cherylmoskowitz.com/published-works.html)
Cheryl is a leading practitioner in the field of writing and well-being and has been working in schools for 30+ years, supporting teachers and enabling children to explore the magic of words and poetry.
Cheryl worked with us to write a cinquain about places that we find are places of sanctuary (noddfa)
Cheryl is also helping us to produce a Poetry “Zine”.
Here are some of the Year 2 entries for the National Red Card Health & Well-being Competition. All of the children have worked really hard on their entries. Pob lwc Pawb!
We had a super Forest School session yesterday. Pupils were invited to build shelters and they really developed their problem solving and team building skills. Da iawn Pawb!
In Pyjama Drama we listened to the story of ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and then we acted parts of the story. After the session we enjoyed some parachute games.
During Assembly on Monday we celebrated being appraised as a School of Sanctuary. Members of the appraisal team commented “It was such a pleasure to spend time with your pupils and hear about their learning. They are an absolute credit to you and clearly demonstrate what a warm and welcoming place Knighton School is”. They also added “Pupil voice in school is clearly very well embedded through your variety of councils and they feel empowered to make changes.” We are all very proud.
We have had a fabulous Forest School session today focusing on team building. Da iawn Pawb!
