We have had another a very busy week in school as the children have been learning about Remembrance Day and our Eco Senedd have been coming up with a plan to reduce our use of plastic across the school. Class 5 also had a fantastic day of creative learning and drama as they learnt about evacuation and life as an evacuee.
Our learners of the week
We are very proud of our learners of the week:
For his beautiful poppy picture which he created with care and attention to detail. Wonderful work 
For her excellent problem-solving skills when finding all the pairs of numbers to make 6 
Fantastic work locating the Iron Ring of Castles and wonderful presentation 
For excellent assertive mentoring maths work ! 
For asking such thoughtful questions to the lollipop lady during her visit to the Nursery 
For excellent independent work in maths -well done! 
for excellent work on times of the day in Welsh, 
For a lovely thoughtful Remembrance prayer and poem. 
for a fantastic attitude towards all her work and an excellent play script 
All Class 5 for working so well during the drama workshop, and particularly this group of boys for their work throughout the day. da iawn!
REMEMBRANCE DAY
This week the children have been learning about Armistice and Remembrance Sunday. They have been writing prayers and poems and learning about how poppies are used to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Class 2 also visited the Llanddulas War Memorial and Class 1 developed a Remembrance Garden in their outdoor area. All the classes across the school held 2 minutes silence for a moment of prayer and reflection.
Cirle books from Class 4 and 5 
Remembrance Day in class 1 
Class 3 Poppy poems 
Class 2 visit to Llanddulas war Memorial 
Circle books about the different poppies and how we remember 
Prayer and reflection 
Class 1 Remembrance garden
During their evacuation workshop, Class 5 pupils wrote a class poem of remembrance
ECO SENEDD – NO SINGLE PLASTIC USE WEDNESDAY
Miss McIntosh has been working with our Eco Senedd Group this week to look at ways the school can reduce it’s impact on Climate change. All our classes have completed an Eco audit and identified some of the areas we need to work on.
After a litter pick on Friday morning, the Eco Senedd group identified single- use plastic as the biggest cause of litter around the school site. They also looked at the impact of plastic on wildlife and the environment and are now asking for everybody in the school community to help with a No Singe-Use Plastic Wednesday.
Starting this week we are going to look at ways we can reduce our use of plastic around the school, and we need your help! Can you help by using a re-usable drink bottle or having a no waste lunch box or snack with no plastic wrapping?
CREATIVE LEARNING – Class 5 Evacuation drama day
To support our work towards the new Curriculum for Wales, Class 5 had a creative learning and drama day last week. They worked with drama specialist Polly, and all the children came in to school dressed as evacuees!
The children had some wonderful opportunities during the day to work together and to develop their understanding of the experience of evacuees during the war. They created ‘soundscapes’ and then used freeze frame techniques to show different emotions. Thanks to Mr Lewis Jones, the children we also able to develop their IT skills to record short films of evacuation. In the afternoon they developed characters and wrote and performed a class poem for Remembrance Day.
Thank you to the parents for the fantastic support with the wonderful costumes. A special thanks to the children for the way they worked throughout the day! We were so proud of the way they all worked so well together and responded wonderfully to the opportunities to lead their own learning during the drama and film making sessions . It was definitely a very special day for us all!
Using ‘freeze frame’ to capture emotions and feelings of evacuees 
Creating characters during a ‘character carousel’ using props to develop the characters 
Filming evacuees using AdobeRush 
Working together to create ‘Hands, Feet and Faces’ films 
Polly sharing a war time diary from Betty Lavender with the children. 
Using the sound pebbles to create ‘sound scenes’ for the evacuation
ODD SOCKS DAY Monday 15th November
Next week is National Anti Bullying Week, and across the school all the children
To celebrate what makes us all unique and to mark the start of Anti Bullying Week, we are asking the children to come in to school on Monday wearing Odd Socks!
CHILDREN IN NEED DAY 2021 – Friday 19th November
This Friday we will again be celebrating Children in Need Day in school with a non -uniform day. Children are welcome to dress up in costume or wear PJs and donations can be made either online through Parent Pay, or on the day.
Thank you for all your support.
