Spring Term 2025

February 2025

Prehistoric Pottery

Today, we started to learn about prehistoric pottery and comparing it to what we use today. The children looked closely at Bell Beaker pots and designed their own pots inspired by this style. They are looking forward to bringing their designs to life in a few weeks! 🏺✏️👏🏼

Valentine’s Day Presentation

The children have started creating presentations to showcase their understanding of how Valentine’s Day is celebrated throughout the world.

Differences lettering

Our topic this term is “differences” and the children made lovely lettering celebrating diversity for our display!

BAME

This afternoon, we learnt some important information about enslavement and the British Empire’s involvement. The children were shocked to learn about this history and created mind maps sharing what they had learnt.

Particles

As part of our Science topic, we looked at the particles in Solids, Liquids and Gases. The children worked together in groups to showcase how particles behave and interact in the three states of matter.

Solids

Liquids

Gases

Children’s Mental Health Week

Today, we joined the Picture News Children’s Mental Health Week online lesson. We listened to the importance of looking after our minds and how to deal with big emotions.

Problem Solving

The children completed subtraction problem solving games today. It was great to see them applying their knowledge to fun tasks like this!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 

The children have used their understanding of the book and their imagination to design their own chocolate factories. Very imaginative work here!

January 2025

Friendship Cards

The children have spent the morning making lovely, thoughtful friendship cards for Community Dreams Ystradgynlais.

Hockey Festival

The children in Year 4 attended a Hockey Festival in Maesydderwen hosted by Hockey Wales. They had a fantastic morning learning different hockey skills by playing various games. Diolch!

Swimming Diary

For PE this term, we will be going swimming. We are going to be keeping a swimming diary of our goals, achievements and what they do during each lesson.

Autumn Term 2024

December 2024

Special visitor…

Cinema

Today, the children visited Brynamman Cinema to watch Moana 2. They had the best time!

Film day!

After their hard work in the Christmas Concert, the children had a well-earnt film day in class. Joio!

Christmas Concert

Da iawn plant! Well done to all the children for taking part in the Christmas Concert – Cinderella Rockerfella!

End of Year Calendars

Chocolate bar making!

A very busy day for us in Dosbarth 3/4! The children have completed lots of chocolate themed activities – they especially loved making their chocolate bars! They’ll be taking these home wrapped in their personally-made wrappers.

November 2024

Letter writing

The children spent the morning writing letters to either Santa or their parents.

Fun in the snow!

Chocolate bar design

The children are designing their own chocolate bars based on our class novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They are very excited to make these in a few weeks!

Children in Need

Our very generous parents donated cakes for our class to enjoy this afternoon. It was a lovely afternoon to mark Children in Need.

Remembrance Day Assembly

Remembrance Day

We have made lovely Remembrance Day plaques which will be on display in school. They are absolutely fantastic – the children put a lot of effort and thought into them. Super proud of them all!

Adobe Express

Today, we attended an online lesson which introduced the children to Adobe Express. They were able to create posters using different media based on Remembrance Day. Bendigedig!

Hockey

For PE this term, we will be doing Hockey. Today, we started by learning how to hold the hockey stick and how to do a push pass.

Recycling sort 

The children spent the afternoon sorting items into different recycling bins. We are thinking about how we can help the planet now and in the future! Da iawn plant.

October 2024

Oil spill clean up

There were mini oil spills today in class and the children worked together to try to clean up the water, animals and feathers. It wasn’t an easy task but they were able to work together and problem solve. We discussed the kinds of people that do these tasks in real life and what their jobs look like. Da iawn!

Data

More independent learning this week! The children completed lots of activities around African animals including some art, poetry, and data work. Bendigedig!

Diwrnod Shwmae Su’mae

We spent the day using lots of Welsh in the classroom and saying “Shwmae!” whenever we could. Da iawn plant.

Black History Month

The children joined in to a webinar on Black History Month hosted by Picture News. They were able to hear stories from women around the UK and understand their background. This event started some really important conversations!

Coordinates 

Lots of independent work this afternoon! While small groups worked with me to plot coordinates on a world map, other children worked independently to develop their knowledge of our topic “Big Wide World”. Da iawn!

September 2024

Self-portraits

During their first week in Dosbarth Melyn, the children created self-portraits using their inner and outer selves. We were very impressed with their art skills and learnt so much about each child!

Dodgeball 

The children showed their competitive sides today in PE!

Circus Skills

The children absolutely loved practising their circus skills – they showed great resilience and enjoyed the challenge of trying something new!

Animal sunset artwork

After learning about Africa’s “Big Five”, the children created animal silhouette paintings using a mixture of paint and card. They were really pleased with how their artwork turned out!

Summer Term 2024

May 2024

Craig y Nos

As part of our topic, we visited Craig y Nos to take part in activities focused on rivers. The children enjoyed making observations, collecting data, and thinking about how they were going to use this information in the future. Thank you to Eleri who organised the day. Diolch!

FIT FORTNIGHT

For the next two weeks, the children will take part in a variety of activities including yoga, rounders, walking, football, rugby, clubbercise, jujitsu, and sports day!

Rounders

Year 3/4 really enjoyed playing rounders – their competitive sides were on show this afternoon!

April 2024

Feet Bones

As we start our new topic, Beneath My Feet, the children were interested to find out what bones are actually in their feet. Here they are investigating and labelling the bones found in feet.

Eid Party

To celebrate Eid, we held a class party with food and music. We were spoilt by our parents who kindly donated food for us to enjoy throughout the day. The children had such a fun time and were able to try lots of new food. Diolch!

UEFA EURO 2025 qualifying game – Cymru v Kosovo

The children had a great time supporting the Welsh women’s team in their second Euro qualifying game. They were so proud of the 6-0 win!

Spring Term 2024

March 2024

Happy Easter!

Pasg Hapus!

Ramadan Scavenger Hunt

The children were so excited to find out more information about Ramadan with a scavenger hunt. They worked well in pairs to find the correct answers to the questions.

World Book Day

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

February 2024

Bird Feeders

After exploring different birds found in Wales, the children decided to design and create bird feeders. Bendigedig!

Celf a Chreft Eisteddfod Ysgol

This year, the children in Dosbarth Melyn were asked to create a collage of something Welsh. It could have been a local place, a Welsh symbol, or anything to do with Wales. Here are all the fantastic entries we had. Bendigedig plant!

Symbols of Wales, Syria and the Philippines

Lots of independent work today in Dosbarth Melyn! The children were tasked with translating Welsh, Syrian and Filipino symbols from English to Welsh, creating a piece of art on a symbol from these countries, complete a Welsh word search – and more!

Gymnastics

For PE this term, the children were excited to start gymnastics. During the first session, they practiced different jumping and landing sequences.

Types of Rocks

The children became scientists this morning! They were looking at different rock samples to write about their properties and what makes them different or the same.

Games

For PE today, the children played some competitive games on the 3G pitch. As you can see, they thoroughly enjoyed!

Swimming

The children were very excited for their last swimming session. They have learnt so much over the last four weeks!

January 2024

Welsh Fact Files

The children have worked very hard to create a Welsh fact file all about themselves using sentence patterns they had learnt in the autumn term.

Kyffin Williams Landscape Sketching

The children have been sketching Welsh landscapes inspired by Kyffin-Williams work. They will add pastel colours to their work later this week.

Autumn Term 2023

December 2023

Christmas Class Party!

A Visit from Santa

Year 3/4 had a very special visitor in school today…

Cinema Trip

For our Christmas trip, we went to the cinema to watch the new ‘Wonka’ film. The children thoroughly enjoyed both the film and the ice cream.

Christmas Biscuits

The children spent the day baking Christmas themed biscuits. They were able to follow a recipe and take some yummy treats home at the end of the day!

Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas Concert

The children are ready for this year’s Christmas Concert, Children of the World. Da iawn plant!

The elf visits Dosbarth Melyn

Frosty has arrived!

Our classroom elf, Frosty, has arrived! The children and I are very excited to see what he gets up to during his stay.

November 2023

Jambori

Dosbarth Melyn had lots of fun at the Jambori! Lots of Welsh singing and dancing.

Making Graphs on J2Data

The children created tally graphs last week when collecting data on their favourite fruits. They have used this data to create bar graphs on J2data and answer questions based on their graphs.

Children in Need

Joyo! Thank you everyone for the cupcake donations. Diolch!

Remembrance Day 

The children have been talking about Remembrance Day and have created some lovely paragraphs explaining the importance of the day.

October 2023

Halloween Art

To end the term, the children have been creating some Halloween-themed art. They enjoyed using the paints to create a colourful background for their stencils.

Paragraph Writing

This term, Dosbarth Melyn have worked really hard on creating paragraphs using new and exciting vocabulary. Here, the children are using connectives to add detail to their writing. Da iawn plant!

Measuring Height

The children have measured their heights in order to collect data for our classroom spreadsheet. They worked hard to use the rulers to measure using centimetres.

Topic

For topic, we looked at the different types of teeth. The children were able to label the different teeth in the mouth and write about their functions. Gwaith bendigedig!

TTRockstars

The children are working so hard in TTRockstars at the moment! This week, they have focused on the 2, 5, and 10 times tables. Da iawn plant!

Movement Break

In the middle of a topic lesson, we had a quick movement break!

September 2023

Jeni Jiraff

Our Welsh mascot, Jeni Jiraff, has started to spend time with the children on the weekends. I look forward to reading what they get up to together!

Problem Solving

For problem solving this week, the children were tasked with working out the shortest route from one point to the other using key vocabulary (anti-clockwise, clockwise, forward, etc). They worked really well and came up with lots of different ways to solve the problem.

Science

The children started their Science topic, Living Things, by discussing what the term “habitat” means and researching different plants and animals that can be found in various water-based habitats.

Summer Term 2023

April 2023

Look at the lovely Easter bonnet Elsie has made! Beautiful!

Happy Easter everyone!

Spring Term 2023

March 2023

Litter Picking

We have been litter picking around the school. Wow! What a lot of litter we found!!!

Making Bread

We have been making bread and eating it – it was delicious!

World Book Day – We all dressed up as our favourite characters from our favourite books!

Dydd Dewi Sant

Mr Geraint Roberts came into school to tell us the story of St David . He brought lots of musical instruments with him, including a beautiful Welsh harp. We really enjoyed listening to the story, which was set to music, and learning some Welsh songs!

February 2023

We have been working with the boys and girls in Dosbarth 5/6 using Lego Spike. We have been making Lego models move by creating codes on an iPad.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

January 2023

We were so lucky today – the guys from Techno Camps came to school to work with us. We learnt how to make a Lego robot move using coding, and we also learnt how to crack codes and reveal messages!

AUTUMN TERM 2022

December 2022

We had a very special visitor in the classroom today, Santa! We also had a great time at our Christmas party with lots of lovely party food and pop to drink. Happy Christmas to everyone!

November 2022

Goals galore! We have been practising our goal scoring skills today!

October 2022

Golwg Y Cwm have been so luck to have Mr Peter Duncan coming into school to show us some circus skills. He came to every class, and we were able to practise with all the circus equipment in the hall.

September 2022

The children were so excited to take part in the Welsh Jamboree in the Welfare Hall. We had so much fun singing and dancing with Siani Sionc and Mr Urdd!

Summer Term 2022

Fit Fortnight – 6th – 17th June 2022

During Fit Fortnight Dosbarth 3/4 really enjoyed making dens from natural materials for a bear!