Dosbarth Mrs Edwards
Ysgol Golwg Y Cwm
Blwyddyn 2 & 3
Teacher: Mrs Edwards
Classroom Assistants: Mrs Bateman & Mrs Bufton
Information
Daily Routine
*School starts at 8:50am*
Breakfast Club is available for children every morning between 8:00 am and 8:30am. £1 per day.
The children are sent to class from breakfast club.
The children are welcomed into class by the staff every morning. The children are expected to put their things into the cloakroom and onto the lunch trolley independently and then sit on the carpet ready for the register at 8:50am.
In the event of your child being absent from school, please telephone the school on 01639 846070 to inform us.
*Break time 10:40am – 11am*
Children to bring in a healthy snack – cheese, fruit or yoghurt.
*Lunchtime 12:15pm – 1:15pm*
Blwyddyn 2 – lunch and then playtime.
Blwyddyn 3 – playtime and then lunch.
*Home time 3:15pm*
PLEASE LABEL ALL CLOTHING AND ALL ITEMS BELONGING TO YOUR CHILD
Weekly Information
Monday/Dydd Llun
*Spelling Test
*Clwb Garddio (Blwyddyn 2)
*Choir (Blwyddyn 3)
Tuesday/Dydd Mawrth
*Swimming – Spring Term (2nd Half)
*Clwb Cymraeg (Blwyddyn 2)
*Clwb Pel-droed (Blwyddyn 3)
Wednesday/Dydd Mercher
*Spelling Homework
*Amser Detectif Dysgu – Independent Learning time
Thurday/Dydd Iau
*Forest Schools – Mrs Brenchley
*Clwb Pel-rwyd (Blwyddyn 3)
Friday/Dydd Gwener
*PE – appropriate kit and trainers needed
*Seren yr Wythnos/Siaradwr yr Wythnos
*Amser Aur
*Nurture
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Whole School Topics 2024-2025
Autumn – Big Wide World
Spring – Differences
Summer – Healthy Me
Dysgu Gyda’n Gilydd – At the beginning of each topic the children are encouraged to share ideas about what it is they would like to learn and these ideas are incorporated into the planning process to ensure learning is relevant and also engaging for children.
Reading
Children will bring their reading books home every Friday and they must be returned every Monday.
Reading is very important as I am sure you are aware. Therefore, as we do in school, please practise with your child at home and comment in the yellow communication book.
An assortment of reading materials will only enhance your child’s enjoyment of reading as well as develop their reading skills.
All the children have access to Giglets.
Spelling
The words are put onto Spell Blast on HWB and the children are encouraged to use this to practise. The children will have a spelling test every Monday.
Maths
The children have an RMEasimaths username and password. Please encourage them to do this at home as it will all benefit their learning and the questions set on the programme cover the whole range of Mathematics.
Topic
Children will occasionally be asked to complete a Topic task at home and this is only to assist them in their work in class.
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I hope you find this parent information helpful. If you require any further information in regards to your child’s education in my class please feel free to message me on seesaw or ring the school to speak to me.
As partners in your child’s education I believe it is very important that we work together to give your child the best education possible.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs Edwards
Autumn Term 2024
Dydd Shwmae
Rainforest Dioramas
The children have been learning about the layers of the rainforest and planned and designed their own diorama using a range of materials for different purposes. They worked superbly as a group with effective communication and teamwork.
The Best Part of Me
As part of World Mental Health Day, we reflected on what we love about ourselves and discussed how important this was, especially for our self-esteem.
World Mental Health Day
During circle time, we read the feel-o-saurus and discussed the different feelings in English and Welsh. We explored how thoughts and feelings can impact us and what strategies we use to help us cope such as getting fresh air, exercise, listening to music, journaling, colouring and using fidget tools. So that’s exactly what we did!
Detectif Dysgu
During Detectif Dysgu, it has been wonderful to see the children leading their own learning in whichever direction they choose whilst captivating the attention of their peers and encouraging a lovely ethos of supporting and inspiring one another.
Circus Skills
The children have had so much fun learning circus skills this term. They have been resilient, confident and creative learning new skills and constantly adapting what they do to improve.
Spring Term 2024
World Book Day
The children all look lovely in their comfortable clothes and their costumes for World Book Day. They have been sharing their favourite books with each other, designing a book cover and doing a character description of their favourite character.
The BFG
Our class story is The BFG. The children are thoroughly enjoying listening to the story and learning all the new language of The BFG.
The display outside class is our creative writing that we have been doing based on the story of The BFG. If you walk passed, have a read!
Food Tasting
This week, we have been busy tasting Welsh foods. We had fun making and tasting Welsh cakes with Miss Sharon, we tasted bara brith with some lovely butter spread on top and to finish the week off, we tasted Welsh cheese accompanied with toast.
Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus
St David’s Day Craft
The children worked hard during their half term holiday to create a flag that represents Wales. The winner will be announced in our St David’s Day assembly on March 1st. Pob lwc!
Dydd Crempog
Pancake day was during half term this year so the children in Dosbarth Glas made pancakes in school a few days early. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning how to make pancakes. They measured the ingredients accurately, mixed them all together and they even had a go at tossing the pancakes. The best bit was choosing their topping/s and finally eating them. The children also wrote an acrostic poem about pancake day and enjoyed learning about pancake day traditions in different countries.
Dydd Santes Dwynwen
The children were very creative with their cards for Saint Dwynwen’s Day. Da iawn pawb!
Autumn Term 2023
Father Christmas came to visit!
We were very lucky and had a visit from Father Christmas to our school.
Christmas Concert
Blwyddyn 2 & 3 worked really hard practising for this year’s Christmas concert. They did really well to learn all their lines and all the different songs. How fantastic you all looked in your costumes!
Cinio Nadolig
We all enjoyed our Christmas dinner and we’ve been busy in class making hats especially for our dinner.
Christmas Jumper Day
Brecon Mountain Railway
Blwyddyn 2 had a great time visiting Santa at Brecon Mountain Railway.
Urdd Jambori
We all enjoyed our morning at Ysgol Maesydderwen for the Urdd Jambori . We were there with other primary schools in the cluster. We learned some new Welsh songs and we also got to do some dancing with Mr Urdd. We had lots of fun!
Children in Need 2023
For Children in Need this year, we came to school in our pyjamas. We were all very comfortable in our pyjamas and we enjoyed eating our cakes too!
Remembrance Day 2023
The children have created a lovely display outside our class. They created poppy wreaths for Remembrance Day using their hands and they all completed a piece of work on the computer to show what they had learned about Remembrance Day.
Parents Open Day
The children really enjoyed sharing their work with their parents and family members. It was lovely to welcome so many people into our school.
The Colour Monster
The children really enjoyed the story of The Colour Monster. We discussed all the different feelings in the story and we also discussed all the colours related to the feelings in the story. We completed our work on The Colour Monster by creating our own colour monsters and using speech bubbles, we wrote in the first person about our colour monster. Our beautiful work has made a lovely display in our class.
Welly Walk
Unfortunately Mrs Brenchley hasn’t been in this week so we decided to get our wellies on and get out and explore. We love learning in the outdoors!
Supermovers
Learning our multiplication tables is really important and we use supermovers to help us. Dancing to a song whilst learning the tables. Fun, fun, fun!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4
Music Workshop
Topic – All About Me
When we did our topic planning at the beginning of the term lots of us wanted to find out what’s inside our bodies and what our organs and bones are called. Before Miss taught us anything we had to show Miss what we already knew and we worked in groups to label the body and we shared this with the rest of the class and so we were learning from each other.
SPRING TERM 2023
Fit Fortnight: Week 2 – 22/05/23
This week we experienced Dance, Gymnastics, Football and Rounders! We also had an added treat and went to our local skatepark :)
Fit fortnight: Week 1 – 15/05/23
We have had loads of fun experiencing different sports! Karate, Boxing, Tennis and Rugby!
World Daily Mile – 27/4/23
We all enjoyed running 8 laps of the car park today (Approximately 1 mile).
Prince of Wales Band – 19/03/23
We had the pleasure of listening and chatting to the Prince of Wales band today. We then had a go at playing in class! 😊
Parents open day – 23/03/23
I hope you all enjoyed looking at the children’s work today. Was great to catchup and chat about what we have been doing!😊
Comic Relief – 17/03/23
For comic relief, we have been learning sign language! We now know basic greetings and farewells. We are currently learning a song with sign and are doing brilliant!
World book day – 03/03/23
Today we joined in a national lesson by using giglets. We all enjoyed the book and sang the song out loud!
St.David’s Day – 01/03/23
We have had a great week! On St.David’s day we completed some cooperative colouring for the class wall, we also had lots of Welsh themed activities.
Kindness day – 17/02/23
We have raised lots of money for the local community and have donated food to the schools food bank. We also had a lot of fun playing with lovely toys our friends brought in!
Charanga – 09/02/23
We have been bought new instruments! We are learning how to use them and so far so good although we now know it takes a lot of puff..
Creating – 08/02/23
We have made our creations from used recycling ready to complete instructional writing next week!
We’ve been busy! ~ 03/02/23
We have planned and designed our recycling project. Now we are ready to create next week. We can’t wait!
Fire safety ~ 16/01/23
We welcomed the local fire safety officer to our class today. We discussed all things safety and who to call in an emergency.
AUTUMN TERM 2022
Christmas trip 15/12/22
A magical time was had by all travelling on the train to meet Santa, Mrs Claus, the elves and snowmen.
Christmas concert – 13/12/22
A huge well done to all of the children in the infants who participated in the show. They have worked so hard this term and shown so much resilience to learn the songs, dances and their speaking parts which they performed with amazing expression and confidence. Ardderchog!
Congratulations – Christmas Card Designer 01/12/22
Big congratulations to Ellie who designed a fabulous Christmas card which has been chosen by Yr Ysgol to be distributed out to residents. We’re so proud!
Diwali 25/10/22
This week, year 2 have been Ethical Informed Citizens learning all about Diwali including beliefs and traditions. The children have learnt the story about Rama and Sita and written fantastic recounts. They have also created beautiful and colourful Rangoli patterns on the yard.
Football first 17/10/22
A fantastic time was had by all today. The children also had a go at rolling in the zorbs.
Dydd Shwmae 14/10/22
The children have worn red, green and white to celebrate being Welsh and enjoyed listening to welsh songs in class. They have practiced the names of colours in Welsh and also incorporated this into our Cymraeg ar dy dafod goal of asking ‘ga i bensil glas os gwelwch yn dda?’
Dydd Jambori! 22/09/22
The children had a fantastic time at the Welfare hall dancing and singing along to Welsh songs.
Our World 20/09/22
As part of our Dysgu Gyda’n Gilydd the children asked to learn about the continents and oceans of our World and find out where Wales was. We learnt the continent song and used globes and atlases to create our paper marche planet Earth.
Circus Skills 13/09/22
The children had an amazing time during our circus skills session learning an abundance of skills from balancing and juggling. We saw teamwork, perseverance, confidence building and a positive impact on the children’s self-esteem! A great time had by all! #healthyconfidentindividuals
Visit from PC Skyrme
PC Skyrme visited the class to talk about the different Emergency services available and the very important number to call if needed! The children discussed different scenarios to determine if they needed the help of an Emergency service.
Sports day 17/06/22
A fabulous morning sprinting, balancing and manoeuvring our way through the obstacle course. Lots of effort, perseverance, fun and great sportsmanship! Year 2 is brimming with athletes! Da iawn pawb
Rugby 16/05/22
The children enjoyed a session of rugby with Mr Bounds today learning new ball skills and ending with a game of dragons and dungeons!
Fit Fortnight 13.06.22
The children designed their own healthy minibeast and were supported by staff to prepare their fruit and vegetables safely.
Football 10/06/22
Big thank you to the coaches from Ystradgynlais RFC for coming to teach the children some excellent passing and shooting skills. The children absolutely loved the game of football at the end!
Fit fortnight 10/06/22
The children had a fantastic time whizzing around on their bikes and scooters!
Yoga 7/06/22
The children had a very peaceful session of Yoga today exploring different body poses whilst concentrating on inhaling and exhaling. Namaste.
Celebrating the Jubilee! 27/05/22
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