Kerbcraft

During October and November, 2 very nice ladies from Kerbcraft, Road Safety have been coming in to school to teach us how to cross our very busy roads safely. They have been teaching us to stand behind the kerb, how to find a safe place to cross and how to cross the road safely between parked cars. We still have a lot to learn in the next few weeks.



Cardiff Castle

On Thursday 17^th September we visited Cardiff Castle as part of our topic work entitled Long ago and Far Away. We saw the Birds of Prey as we walked around the castle grounds. After we ate our lunch the keeper brought out the barn owl and Eagle owl for some exercise and we were able to sit and watch them fly very close to us!

On our tour of the castle we saw many rooms including the nursery, library and banqueting room where not so long ago Barack Obama, the Queen and other important people sat to eat a meal. Some people even have their wedding breakfast in there! All the rooms were brightly decorated and our guide told us all about the pictures and animals painted on the walls.

Finally we had a storytelling session with a man called Dyfed. We made our own version of Cinderella and he recorded our voices and will be putting it onto a CD and sending it to us in the near future.

As it was such sunny day we ate our lunch outside on the picnic benches. The whole day was great fun!

Photos to follow

Braces Bread

Braces Bread visited our school to show the children how bread is made and distributed to the shops.  The children dressed up as bakers and had a go at making their own bread and had a lot of fun with the dough. Braces kindly gave every child a loaf of bread and an activity pack to take home with them.

Missed Photos!

Here are some photos from the Easter Parade.

PC Rob Thomas

PC Rob Thomas visited us yesterday to discuss how important it is that we do the right thing when we find things in the street or the park.

We talked about what we would do if we found a purse or a phone and we would need to give it to an adult and phone 101. The police would then come and pick it up.

If we saw tablets or medicines in the park or on the street we should put them in the bin because little children might think they are sweets.

PC Rob told us about how dangerous needles are and that we must NOT touch them. We must tell an adult to phone the police on 101 or phone the council because they are the only people who can pick the needles up to take them away.

We learnt lots of safe things to do with PC Rob!

PC Rob

PC Rob regularly comes into school to talk to us about his role in the community.  We always enjoy listening and asking him lots of questions

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As part of our Mad Maths topic we walked around Maesycoed taking photographs of all the different shapes we could spot in our environment.  We noticed all the different types of road signs that we have in the locality and all the shapes that are in buildings all around us.

Science Week

During Science Week we visited the Historical Centre to take part in a K'nex workshop.  We made books about minibeasts on the iPads and made our minibeasts out of K'nex.  Our books included labelled diagrams, fun facts and a video about how to make a minibeast.  We had great fun!