Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
Children in year 2 have been enjoying using the boomwhackers. Boomwhackers can improve cognitive skills such as focus, concentration, and memory. Keeping track of different notes, patterns, and melodies strengthens the childrens mental agility and enhances their overall cognitive abilities. They are also really good fun and sounded great!
Well done to all the children who chose to create Autumn silhouettes during their Fun Club session.
Here are some of the children enjoying their Kerbcraft sessions with Powys Road Safety. Many thanks to Sue Davies and Emma Darling for volunteering.
Children in Year 2 have been busy creating Autumn inspired artwork in Fun Club. They used a range of Autumn colours to create a background before cutting a black silhouette over the background.
Kerbcraft teaches children ages 5-7 how to be safer pedestrians by taking them onto real roads and showing them how the right decision-making and behaviour can really help them to keep safe when crossing the road.
This week the children have been choosing safe places and routes to cross the road. Rob Griffiths who coordinates the Kerbcraft scheme was really impressed by how well the children were able to recognise dangers and hazards and identify alternative crossing places.
We have been estimating and counting a number of objects up to 100. We estimated and counted the number of wellies in the welly rack. We grouped some of our items in 2’s and 10’s to help us count accurately.
Year 2 and 3 have really ‘stepped’ in to their Mantle of the Expert commission this term where they have been commissioned to be a team of engineers and researchers. They have found inspiration from the story ‘The boy who harnessed the wind’ which follows the story of William who built a wind turbine using scrap materials to create electricity. The children have been making lists of materials that they will need to complete their engineering role and thinking of interesting questions that they would like to ask William about his invention. If you work in engineering or renewable energy sector, we would really love to hear from you.
Today we read ‘The Rainbow Serpent’ which is an Aboriginal Dreamtime story. After discussing the story, we worked in groups to complete our activities. Some children decided to develop their AI skills by using Adobe to generate a illustration of the rainbow serpent; some learners listened to some didgeridoo rhythms and then looked at some images of different didgeridoos before creating their own. We also created our own dance based on the movements that the animals in the story make.
As part of our community-based art project, we worked with Ciara and Izzy from Old School Arts to create a mural of birds flying over Knighton. Every learner in the school was involved in the project, from painting the mural to creating their own bird. This project followed our work from Refugee Week and the theme of ‘Community as a Superpower’ and that together we are strong, creative and make things happen.
Children in Years 2, 3, and 4 were absolutely fantastic in their recent performance of ‘This is your Life’. The performance was about the life and works or author Dr Seuss. As part of their mantle of the expert commission for this term, they had the task of writing and performing three plays based on stories written by Dr Seuss. Year 2 wrote their version of ‘The Cat in the Hat’, year 3 wrote their play about ‘The Lorax’ and year 3 pupils created their version of ‘Horton Hears a Who’. Da iawn Pawb!
