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The Size of Wales workshop - Maint Cymru!

Today Year 3 & 4 were visited by Elin from The Size of Wales to deliver a workshop about rainforests and climate change. We have been working on rainforests within our mantle so a lot of the information felt familiar to us. We learnt more about the issues with the ingredient ‘palm oil’ and how our day-to-day lives can impact of the tropical rainforests. 


Did you know that tropical rainforests that equal 9 times the size of Wales are cut down every year? We can make small changes to help with this, such as buying a Fairtrade product once a week, baking at home (who knew baking could save lives?) using sustainable ingredients etc. And if you see this symbol on the products, even better! Let us know if you find one, it is apparently quite elusive!

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Eisteddfod Dydd Gŵyl Dewi

Your child’s homework over this half term holiday will be to enter one (or more) of the competitions for our Dydd Dathliad Cymraeg which will be held on Friday 4th March. Our Dydd Dathliad Cymraeg is our schools day for celebrating St. David’s Day. All entries need to be uploaded onto HWB and shared with the designated teacher. Remember the more entries you compete in, the more chance you will have of winning a prize. There will be a prize for 1st, 2nd, 3rd for each category per key stage (Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2). All entries need to be in by Tuesday 1st March.

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WILD SAVE CENTRE

This week we have finished our previous case studies to prove we are capable of the job. We have now moved on to planning our Wild Save Centre; there has been lots to think about.

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In Maths we have been working with decimal numbers and in Iaith handwriting has been a big focus!

Internet Safety Day

We enjoyed our visit from PC Ainsworth, she helped us to think about being respectful online. We made some snap dragons to take home, to facilitate conversations between pupils and parents about what children use and access online.

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Rainforests - Fforest llaw

We have been busy researching rainforests; each group chose a continent to learn about. We then used this to create information texts, and to make a salt-dough map of Earth.

In Maths we have been learning to use column division!

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Year 4 home-learning Fri 7th Jan

 

Please find below the 3 activities I would like you to complete. The documents are also in the Teams folder if you would prefer to access them from there.

Maths Fri 7th Jan

Iaith Fri 7th Jan

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Thema- Send me an email from your Hwb account, tell me about your Christmas holiday. It might be your favourite present, someone you got to spend time with, an activity you completed etc.  

You should have my email address in your system but it’s: jonest499@hwbcymru.net 

We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Monday! 

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Christmas games!

 

This week the children have worked in small groups to create their own board games based on Christmas; they were all so focussed and creative!!

We’ve also learned how to use column division this week; it’s a tricky one but they can all see how much they have improved in their understanding of the strategy already!

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Clay

We had to plan our artefacts, based on the research we have completed. Next we had to calculate how much clay each pupil could have.

“Ew, I don’t like the feeling of this clay!”

“It’s a bit like Bake Off, isn’t it?!”

“I didn’t realise we could smooth it with our hands!”

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Stop-frame animation

 

Cnoc y coed have been working towards creating a stop-frame animation about drovers. They started by creating a story board, then moulded characters out of plasticine. They are using artwork they have previously created as backgrounds for their museum exhibit.

It’s pain-staking work…you need approximately 120 photos for a 10 second film! They have also written a script for the film; we’re hoping we can merge them with the film, that might be a little optimistic- we’ll see!