Ysgol Gynradd Llanmartin
Llanmartin Primary School
Respect, Nurture, Inspire
Dosbarth Chepstow
Croeso i Dosbarth Chepstow 2024-2025
Here is some information about Miss Green so that you can get to know her a little better.
Week 6
What a fabulous week, our week started with our Humanities trip to St Fagans, and we were such super listeners. We helped Beti Bwt to wash, dry and press the clothes for Monday wash day. We enjoyed looking around the cottages as we searched for household items from the past that we had learnt about in school. We found the iron, an iron kettle, a washboard and the dolly and tubs we used in our washday workshop. We finished our day with some wellbeing time in the park! We further enjoyed some Easter fun to end the week.
Week 5
This week we enjoyed learning all about Eid. We dressed up in new Eid clothes, created moon and star craft and listened to stories about this celebration. In Humanities we have been exploring Wales on a larger scale. Looking at Pembrokeshire and Skomer island which is home to lots of Puffins. In Expressive arts we have been creating our own artwork in the style of various Welsh artists who have captured these birds, who are now known as a symbol of Wales.
Week 4 - Spring has sprung!
This week we had a lovely visit from Gwent wildlife trust They helped us to search for minibeasts in our outdoor area. We were surprised how many insects are out and about already. We worked well in pairs to mark off what we had found on our sheets, and we managed to catch a butterfly to look at. We made sure to release it back into nature afterwards.
Week 3 - Science week!
Our inquiry question for this week was based around forces. Our question was “I wonder if objects can move on their own?” We used a variety of resources in the classroom to identify the different ways we could move objects. We have enjoyed a carousel of activities exploring push and pull forces in everyday activities. We ended the week investigating speed. We asked the question; I wonder which car will move the fastest? Our investigation allowed us to experiment with ramps and help to identify motion and speed. We found out that the higher we built the ramp the faster the car went.
Spring Term 2 Week 2
What a busy week, this week we shared our learning with our parents/families. Miss Green was so impressed with our very first assembly. We worked hard on our welsh sentences and our songs. We even showed our parents some of our Welsh games back in the classroom. We love seeing our families in school.
Spring Term Week 1
We have had a fabulous first week back in school. We started our new Jigsaw theme "Healthy me". We started off with moving our bodies. We continued to develop our cutting skills on Tuesday as we read the story Mr Wolf's pancakes, and we create pancake faces chopping up our fruit to make these healthier. In maths we used money to make different amounts, and we delved into homes in the past in more detail comparing similarities and differences and ways of life. We explored many artefacts found in homes a long time ago and we made predictions about what these were.
Week 7- Welsh week Wythnos Cymraeg
What a fabulous week we have had celebrating Wythnos Cymraeg! We have been busy learning about performance poetry, we made up a collaborative poem about the Welsh dragon. We made some Welsh cawl using leeks and potatoes we tried really hard to use the knives to chop and cut with control. We finished off our Eisteddfod art and Eisteddfod celebrations! We enjoyed some welsh cakes and llaeth (Milk) for snack.
Week 6
In outdoor learning this week we looked at what types of homes a bird would need. We used natural materials to make nests for the birds and thought about what they would need. In literacy we have continued learning the Welsh phrase Dw i’n byw yn .. and we enjoyed using google maps to look at our houses. In our digital learning this week we learnt about the importance of staying safe when online as part of Internet safety day we listened to a story about Digi duck. We ended the week exploring the provision to celebrate valentine's day and working on our handwriting and art in preparation for the Eisteddfod competitions.
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Week 5
We had another busy week in Dosbarth Chepstow, we made bird feeders to feed the birds in outdoor learning. We started to practise our Welsh dialogue for the Eisteddfod, and we have started to look at Pointillism as our technique for our artist focus. We used this to decorate our favourite garden/woodland bird!
Week 4
This week we have been learning all about Chinese new year and the different animals. We were able to create our own fact file about Chinese new year. In maths we have been learning about using ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd,) We have been using the animals to race and explore the different positions and we listened to the story “The great race”. We have been working hard on our fine motor skills cutting straight lines and using the scissors correctly to make our Chinese new year lanterns and practising witing our names by sending Chinese new year cards to our friends.
Week 3
This week in Outdoor learning we made ice ornaments to hang onto the tree in our forest school area. We learnt how water can freeze back to a solid and we wrote instructions of how to make ice. We compared similarities and differences between 2D and 3D shapes in maths. We also enjoyed building with these and seeing if they could roll. We celebrated St Dwynwen's day and created our own love spoons and song to help us remember the story.
Week 2 Science week!
This week we have been mini scientists, using our interests of ice. We were given a challenge to see how we could melt the ice the fastest. We were able to use our observation and predictions skills and explain what we had found out. In Outdoor learning we were lucky for Gwent wildlife trust to come in and work with us! we learnt about the different types of birds on the school grounds. We loved searching for these using telescopes and marking themes collecting our data.
Week 1
What a wonderful start to the week here in Dosbarth Chepstow we started off with our Jigsaw session learning about challenges and identifying our new goals for the year ahead. we have been learning how to use positional language for directing each other on a large and small scale. We have also used this when participating in Gymnastics in which we have been exploring basic shapes: star, tuck and straight shapes and at the end we created our own shapes, we were very creative. we were very fascinated by the ice this week, so we have read a story about Jack Frost and have used this in our Literacy work instead using our predicting skills, oracy skills and mark making skills. We loved collecting the ice and we wanted to find out why it didn’t stay in Miss Green’s hand.
Welcome to Autumn 2 we started off by learning about special events, we have learnt about Diwal, Bonfire night, and Remembrance day. We used natural materials to create Rangoli patterns and enjoyed experimenting with sources of light in the dark tent. We did some lovely observational drawings of poppies.
We have been very busy preparing four our Enterprise week. We walked to our local shop to buy our ingredients to make biscuits to sell at our frost fayre. We have been following instructions, measuring and decorating our Christmas biscuits in which we voted for to make. These were a huge success we even sold out on the day.
In our literacy sessions we looked at and used describing words as we tasted our biscuits to advertise and sell them.
Here we are in week 6 and we have had a very busy week we had our first performance in our Christmas play. We had our Christmas dinner and watched a Christmas film. We continued our learning about light and discovered it helps us to be able to see. We also enjoyed making shadow puppets and Christingles.
We have continued exploring special events in week 2. We celebrated antibullying week and children in need. We wore odd socks and our pyjama's or spots. We have been working on our designing skills, designing our own socks using our pattern knowledge and creating our own Pudsey bear which also moves as part of our science and technology work.
In week 3 we have been busy using our Welsh to collect data about our friends asking them their favourite colour. We enjoyed a bug hunt as part of our outdoor learning, and we started to identify the changes of the variety of bugs about as it gets colder. We have also been learning the types of weather in Welsh and we were really lucky this week to be able to experience snow outside.
This half term we will learn through our theme of Cynefin “Being, Belonging and Becoming”. We will be learning about being part of a community. We will learn that we have a school community and a local community including being a part of Wales. We will be finding out all about being ourselves and becoming ambitious and capable learners.
We started our school year learning about being us! We painted our own portrait and learnt about our features and our body parts. We went on a body part hunt using our check list! We have really been enjoying the school lunches and have settled well into school life.
We have loved our literacy story of 'Goldilocks and the three bears!' here in Dosbarth Chepstow. Goldilocks snuck into our classroom! she broke our stool and left porridge everywhere! She did send us a present to make up for it and we enjoyed making and tasting porridge. We looked at recipes and ingredients too!
We have been exploring our senses a part of being us. Here we used our listening and our sense of hearing to follow instructions in PE. We listened to different objects and learnt how to make predictions, and we went on an outdoor listening walk to find out what we could hear outdoors.
We have had a fabulous end to our Autumn 1 term. We have been learning about becoming ambitious learners. We have been taking responsibility and growing our own cress. We also enjoyed eating this by making rice cake faces.
We ended with learning about Belonging. We discussed where we live, our favourite places in our local community and we looked at symbols on maps.
We celebrated Shwmae day and learnt about the importance of speaking Welsh in Wales. We worked together to create a collaborative piece of art using our nature collections from our outdoor learning.
