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Autumn 2021
Our topic this term is...
'Moon Zoom'
Our topic this term is...
'Moon Zoom'
World Space Week 2021!
We have had a brilliant week in Dosbarth Melyn celebrating #WorldSpaceWeek
We have been busy learning about our place in space and the planets in our solar system. We wrote our own Mnemonics to help us remember the order of the planets from the sun and we also created 3D planets using the paper mache technique. We also learnt about the Constellations and made our own using sticks and marshmallows.
Finally, on Friday we celebrated the end of #WorldSpaceWeek by dressing up as pilots, astronauts, mathematicians and scientists!
We have had a brilliant week in Dosbarth Melyn celebrating #WorldSpaceWeek
We have been busy learning about our place in space and the planets in our solar system. We wrote our own Mnemonics to help us remember the order of the planets from the sun and we also created 3D planets using the paper mache technique. We also learnt about the Constellations and made our own using sticks and marshmallows.
Finally, on Friday we celebrated the end of #WorldSpaceWeek by dressing up as pilots, astronauts, mathematicians and scientists!
Space Ship landing!
Dosbarth Melyn were blown away after watching video footage of a Spaceship crashing and also landing on their playground! The children have been collecting 'samples' from the 'crash site' and will be investigating further by asking staff members and key witnesses if they saw anything strange happening on Tuesday morning!
Dosbarth Melyn were blown away after watching video footage of a Spaceship crashing and also landing on their playground! The children have been collecting 'samples' from the 'crash site' and will be investigating further by asking staff members and key witnesses if they saw anything strange happening on Tuesday morning!
Investigating a Crime Scene!
On Tuesday morning Dosbarth Melyn came into school and noticed some strange objects lying around the playground....The scene was soon cordoned off and the children began investigating the different materials and objects that they could see. Keep your eyes peeled to find out more information as our investigation continues!
On Tuesday morning Dosbarth Melyn came into school and noticed some strange objects lying around the playground....The scene was soon cordoned off and the children began investigating the different materials and objects that they could see. Keep your eyes peeled to find out more information as our investigation continues!
Baking Bread
As part of our RE lesson, Dosbarth Melyn have been busy baking bread and writing simple recipes. Last week we listened to the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 and our pupil voice request was to make bread. So on Monday morning we weighed and mixed our ingredients and let our bread prove. In the afternoon we baked the 4 loaves and taste tested the bread at the end of the day. Our bread was a success!
As part of our RE lesson, Dosbarth Melyn have been busy baking bread and writing simple recipes. Last week we listened to the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 and our pupil voice request was to make bread. So on Monday morning we weighed and mixed our ingredients and let our bread prove. In the afternoon we baked the 4 loaves and taste tested the bread at the end of the day. Our bread was a success!
Live Space Walk!
Dosbarth Melyn were thrilled to watch a live Space Walk from the International Space Station! We are also looking forward to celebrating #WorldSpaceWeek next week!
Dosbarth Melyn were thrilled to watch a live Space Walk from the International Space Station! We are also looking forward to celebrating #WorldSpaceWeek next week!
Mathematics and Numeracy Progress
I am so pleased with Dosbarth Melyn’s place value skills! We are focusing on building numbers using different resources to show the value of each digit. Keep it up bawb!
I am so pleased with Dosbarth Melyn’s place value skills! We are focusing on building numbers using different resources to show the value of each digit. Keep it up bawb!
Meeting a Pilot!
On Tuesday 21st September, Dosbarth Melyn were visited by Tomas Roberts who is a trained pilot! We had a brilliant afternoon listening to Tomas talk about his experiences of flying and how he became a pilot.
We also listened to Tomas' presentation where he taught us about the different parts of a plane, how planes takes off and land and also about how the weather and birds can effect flights! We were also lucky enough to 'look inside' the cockpit where we saw all of the extremely important controls that are used to fly the plane. We learnt a lot of new information and Tomas was able to answer all of our exciting questions!
Diolch yn fawr Tomas! :)
On Tuesday 21st September, Dosbarth Melyn were visited by Tomas Roberts who is a trained pilot! We had a brilliant afternoon listening to Tomas talk about his experiences of flying and how he became a pilot.
We also listened to Tomas' presentation where he taught us about the different parts of a plane, how planes takes off and land and also about how the weather and birds can effect flights! We were also lucky enough to 'look inside' the cockpit where we saw all of the extremely important controls that are used to fly the plane. We learnt a lot of new information and Tomas was able to answer all of our exciting questions!
Diolch yn fawr Tomas! :)
Explorer Dome Experience
On Wednesday 15th September, the mobile Planetarium company Explorer Dome visited our school and we had a fantastic time watching a space show!
We had a fantastic time listening to the story of the Earth, moon and stars, we learnt about why the sun moves across the sky, we looked out for the different phases of the moon and discovered how to spot the pictures and stories in the stars!
On Wednesday 15th September, the mobile Planetarium company Explorer Dome visited our school and we had a fantastic time watching a space show!
We had a fantastic time listening to the story of the Earth, moon and stars, we learnt about why the sun moves across the sky, we looked out for the different phases of the moon and discovered how to spot the pictures and stories in the stars!
WELCOME BACk!
Welcome back to all of the children who were in Dosbarth Melyn last year, and a big welcome to all of our new starters! We have had a busy few days settling into the classroom and I am very pleased with how well all of the children have adapted to their new routines!
Da iawn Dosbarth Melyn!
Da iawn Dosbarth Melyn!
Our Summer 2021 topic is...
growing things!
Talk 4 Writing 'Innovation' Stage
Working collaboratively to create new word banks for a story we have been learning over the last two weeks! Some fantastic vocabulary has been used to kick start our #innovation phase! Da iawn Dosbarth Melyn!
Amser Tric a Chlic!
Dosbarth Melyn have enjoyed developing their Welsh language skills over the last few weeks using the Tric a Chlic resources! We are becoming confident Welsh speakers and readers!
Dosbarth Melyn have enjoyed developing their Welsh language skills over the last few weeks using the Tric a Chlic resources! We are becoming confident Welsh speakers and readers!
Celebrating World Math Day 2021
Developing our understanding of fractions today in celebration of
Healthy, confident individuals!
We have enjoyed developing our throwing, catching, dribbling and skipping skills today!
We have enjoyed developing our throwing, catching, dribbling and skipping skills today!
Where do Beans grow best?
We have been working together to read instructions ready for this week’s science investigation! We want to know ‘Where do Beans grow best?’
Is it outside? In the window? Or in a dark cupboard?
Our findings and conclusions are pending......
Growing Things!
We love spending time in our Gardening Patch! We have been busy weeding and turning over the soil to plant our new seeds!
Times Tables
Learning our Times Tables through Arrays! Dosbarth Melyn have been working hard today to make Arrays to represent different multiplications. Da iawn bawb!
Learning our Times Tables through Arrays! Dosbarth Melyn have been working hard today to make Arrays to represent different multiplications. Da iawn bawb!
Dividing
We have been learning to divide amounts by #SharingEqually this week! The children have become more confident each day and are beginning to notice the link between multiplication and division! Da Iawn Dosbarth Melyn!
We have been learning to divide amounts by #SharingEqually this week! The children have become more confident each day and are beginning to notice the link between multiplication and division! Da Iawn Dosbarth Melyn!
Gardening!
What a fabulous day in the sunshine! Dosbarth Melyn have been immersing themselves in our new #GrowingThings topic! They weeded and turned over the soil in their gardening patch, planted some seeds and discussed what else they would like to grow!
What a fabulous day in the sunshine! Dosbarth Melyn have been immersing themselves in our new #GrowingThings topic! They weeded and turned over the soil in their gardening patch, planted some seeds and discussed what else they would like to grow!
Tidying our planting patch
Dosbarth Melyn have been weeding the planters this afternoon to kick start our new #GrowingThings topic. We have got some brilliant ideas for our #pupilvoice ...
watch this space! #growing #planting
Dosbarth Melyn have been weeding the planters this afternoon to kick start our new #GrowingThings topic. We have got some brilliant ideas for our #pupilvoice ...
watch this space! #growing #planting
Caffi Cymraeg!
Dosbarth Melyn enjoying completing the final step of our mini #Welsh project.
Over the past few weeks, we have been planning our #CaffiCymraeg by making signs, decorative bunting and most importantly, designing an extra special menu!
The children have thoroughly enjoyed accessing our new area and developing their Welsh skills.
World Book Day 2021
Dosbarth Melyn looking fabulous for our joint #WorldBookDay and #RedNoseDay celebrations!
Dosbarth Melyn looking fabulous for our joint #WorldBookDay and #RedNoseDay celebrations!
Missing Posters
Dosbarth Melyn have been thinking about how posters have different purposes, so today we made #missing posters with bold titles and key information! The children also developed their own success criteria to follow independently. Da iawn bawb! #literacygenre #informationtexts
Dosbarth Melyn have been thinking about how posters have different purposes, so today we made #missing posters with bold titles and key information! The children also developed their own success criteria to follow independently. Da iawn bawb! #literacygenre #informationtexts
Virtual Eisteddfod 2021
Dosbarth Melyn looking very smart ready for our virtual Eisteddfod on Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant! What a brilliant day we had!
Dosbarth Melyn looking very smart ready for our virtual Eisteddfod on Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant! What a brilliant day we had!
Winners of the Eisteddfod art and handwriting competition in Dosbarth Melyn!
Just look at these delicious entries from our whole school virtual 'Bake Off' competition!
What brilliant Welsh themed entries from all the children in Dosbarth Melyn!.
What brilliant Welsh themed entries from all the children in Dosbarth Melyn!.
Home Learning Superstars!
More super examples of work from pupils in Dosbarth Melyn!
During our Teams meeting, the children collected data by asking their peers what their favourite insects were.
They then displayed their results in a Pictogram on J2Easy and typed up questions for Miss Williams to answer about their work!
Ardderchog bawb! :)
More super examples of work from pupils in Dosbarth Melyn!
During our Teams meeting, the children collected data by asking their peers what their favourite insects were.
They then displayed their results in a Pictogram on J2Easy and typed up questions for Miss Williams to answer about their work!
Ardderchog bawb! :)
Autumn 2020
Our new topic this term is....
Land Ahoy!
Each week our class page will be updated to show you all of the lovely things we have been learning throughout the week! Please find a copy of our midterm planning below.
More pirate artwork has been completed for our #LandAhoy! topic!
Dosbarth Melyn have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes this week! We are becoming more confident when identifying shapes and their properties.
Beautiful #Diwali work by pupils in Dosbarth Melyn today.
How stunning are these Rangoli patterns?
Bendigedig bawb!
How stunning are these Rangoli patterns?
Bendigedig bawb!
It was lovely to see all of the children dressed in their Pajamas on Friday to celebrate Children in Need! During the morning, we joined in with Joe Wick's '24 hour PE challenge'... the Pudsey Bear hops were definitely our favourite!
Dosbarth Melyn have been learning about the symbols for ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ this week! They are extremely confident when comparing the value of numbers... how impressive! Well done bawb!
Dosbarth Melyn spend some time developing their collaborative skills this morning! Their job was to find all of the rhyming words in the pirate poem. A brilliant start to our poetry genre!
Dosbarth Melyn are enjoying learning about #BonfireNight today! We have listened to the story of Guy Fawkes, written acrostic poems, painted pictures and spent time building symmetrical rockets!
Dosbarth Melyn’s COOL time activities were a great success today! We are focusing on becoming more independent learners by ‘Continuing Our Own Learning’ #independentlearners
Some examples of the brilliant #placevalue work taking place in Dosbarth Melyn today. We are busy exploring and making new links to help us consolidate our understanding of numbers.
Creating pirate maps by plotting co-ordinates on a graph... the end results were fantastic! The maps were both colourful and eye-catching! Da iawn pawb!
Great number ordering from these Year 2 pupils this morning.
We have been focusing on place value in order to consolidate our understanding of numbers to 100!
We have been focusing on place value in order to consolidate our understanding of numbers to 100!
Another Pupil Voice activity! The children have been designing pirate flags to kick start our new topic! How brilliant are these!
Dosbarth Melyn were asked what activities they wanted to do in relation to our new topic so today we made compasses in the craft area!
Each compass looks very different as there were no instructions given on how to make them!
Each compass looks very different as there were no instructions given on how to make them!
Some brilliant number work taking place in Dosbarth Melyn this week! We have been focusing on recognising numbers to 20, 50 and 100, looking closely at place value to help us order numbers, sorting odd and even numbers and last by not least.... practising our number formation!
PREVIOUS YEAR GROUP ARCHIVES:
Dosbarth Melyn have been extremely busy in the forest lighting fires as a part of their 'Fire Safety'!
Dosbarth Melyn have been busy designing posters and making leaflets about water pollution! #worldsbiggestlesson #globalgoals #lifebelowwater #pupilvoice
Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all Dosbarth Melyn staff.
Our Ugly Bug Ball
- What a super Ugly Bug Ball we had in Dosbarth Melyn!
- Thankyou all so much for the effort that went into masks and costumes. The children looked fantastic! Mrs Spear brought in baby Chloe dressed as a ladybird to join in the fun.
Quiz -Quiz- Trade!
We have been enjoying, learning our new game Quiz-Quiz-Trade!
We take it in turns to ask each other a question. Then we trade our card and find another person to pair up with.
We have been learning and reinforcing double numbers and number bonds to 10.
We take it in turns to ask each other a question. Then we trade our card and find another person to pair up with.
We have been learning and reinforcing double numbers and number bonds to 10.
Nearly Wild!!
The Nearly Wild Show came to Llantrisant Primary this week! We had a fantastic time learning about rabbits, spiders, mice, lizards and hedgehogs! We met a chinchilla called 'Bonkers' and a terrapin called 'Vincent.'
There was a tarantula called 'Fluffy' and we held a corn snake called 'Poppy'.
There was a tarantula called 'Fluffy' and we held a corn snake called 'Poppy'.
A visit from the fire service
We had a visit from the Pontyclun Fire Service recently. They came to tell us how to stay safe at home and that we should never play with matches.
We had a story, then the firemen challenged Mrs Cushion to get dressed into the Fire fighters kit as quickly as she could!
It was really funny!!!
We had a story, then the firemen challenged Mrs Cushion to get dressed into the Fire fighters kit as quickly as she could!
It was really funny!!!
our class camera trap
We have set put our camera trap in the school woods to take pictures of the creatures that visit our woods.
Take a look at the our daytime and nocturnal animals that we caught on the trap.
We are all superheroes in dosbarth melyn.
We had a super superhero day on Friday. We looked great and you would not believe how much healthy food we ate at snack time!!
Science is so much fun!
What a fantastic S.T.E.M week we had in Dosbarth Melyn! We have been learning about bees and pollination, minibeasts, bubbles, melting and cooking and we have made slime!
Thankyou to all the parents who visited our class on Thursday- and thanks also for finding and holding mini-beasts!
Thankyou to all the parents who visited our class on Thursday- and thanks also for finding and holding mini-beasts!
take a look at our map sticks
We have be learning about how the indigenous people from north america made maps sticks of their journeys. They documented the routes they took by picking up remainders of the things they saw along their journey. They then attached the items to a their sticks.
We made our own map sticks as we took a journey around our school. We wrapped leaves, differnt coloured wools, sticks, reeds, and flowers which represented the differnt locations as we went on our journey. We then used our sticks to help us discribed our journey to the rest of the class.
We made our own map sticks as we took a journey around our school. We wrapped leaves, differnt coloured wools, sticks, reeds, and flowers which represented the differnt locations as we went on our journey. We then used our sticks to help us discribed our journey to the rest of the class.
fantastic news we helped raise £220 for comic relief.
Thank you everyone!
World book day
We had a fantstic time on World Book Day. The whole class read the story of Little Red Riding Hood and we dressed in red to celebrate! Dosbarth Melyn decided to act out the story in little groups. The children wrote their own scripts - watch their fantastic acting!!
Eisteddfod
What an exciting Eisteddfod we had this year. Dosbarth Melyn (full of confidence after their brilliant class assembly!) sang 'Aderyn Melyn' wearing beautiful hats they made themselves.
Di iawn bawb!
The class took part in a handwritting and art competion. Here is a pitcure of our class winner.
Di iawn bawb!
The class took part in a handwritting and art competion. Here is a pitcure of our class winner.
The class took part in a handwritting and art competion. Here is a pitcure of our class winner.
Spring Term
Our new topic this term is 'Commumnity Explorers' we had a great walk around Llantrisant village exploring lots of little cobbled streets and walk ways. There are lots of very old bulidings in the village, we talked about them and their purpose. Here are some of our photographs.
The 'Make Your House' homework has been a huge success, many thanks to everyone who's helped. The houses look fantastic! You will be able to see them all when we do our assembly on Friday 17th Februray.
