Transition.

Pupils will be spending

the week with their new

class teacher from

Monday 9th July.

Reports will also be given

to the pupils to bring

home on this day.

Dear Parent/carer,

Thank you to all parents for the wonderful support and

encouragement that you gave to all of our pupils on Sports Day.

Thank you also to the staff for making sure that the day was well

organised with plenty of events for the pupils to enjoy.

Following a meeting with Heidi Mortimer and other

community members we have decided to move our WW1 project to

September when the school will be involved in a presentation in the

community hall followed by a beacon lighting ceremony in

November.

Mrs. M Teague (Headteacher)

Meithrinfa: Dougie Watkins & Hayley

Tamplin

Dosbarth 1: Harley Bamford & Ellie May

Scott

Dosbarth 2: Abi Stephenson & Cian Walsh

Dosbarth 3: Mike Grey & Leo Davies

Dosbarth 4: The Whole Class

Dosbarth 5: Kira Davies & Jo Girling

Monday 18th June 2018

IMPORTANT DIARY DATES

Tuesday 19th June: Year 5 transition day to Llangatwg.

Wednesday 20th June: PTA film night.

Friday 29th June: PTA Coffee morning.

Tuesday 3rd July: Year 6 Crucial Crew day in Margam.

Friday 6th July: Nursery trip to Play Quarter.

Thursday 12th July: Year 6 Transition Day to Llangatwg.

Monday 16th July: Attendance Trip to Play King.

Wednesday 18th July: PTA summer party. 1pm for

pupils in reception to Y6 in school.

Wednesday 18th July: 5:30 Year 6 Prom.

Friday 20th July 9:30 Leaver’s assembly.

Nursery:

Class 1:

Meithrinfa: Jacob Charlton

Dosbarth 1: Madison Griffiths

Dosbarth 2: Sam Buckley

Dosbarth 3: Evie Flew

Dosbarth 4: Lucy Jones

Dosbarth 5: Tristan Willcox

HEAD TEACHERS’ AWARD

Goes to

Rhys Hawkes

For his superb attitude when

supporting and encouraging

the nursery pupils on

Sports Day.

Da iawn Rhys!

Tel: 750224 Outgoing only: 750988

Monday July 2nd 3:20 – 5:30.

All pupils’ books will be placed in the hall for

you to share and enjoy the wonderful work

which they have been working hard on all year.

Come and take a look!

Nursery – Mrs Dawn Jones

We had a great time on Friday 8th for our nursery sports

morning; the children enjoyed all the activities and once again

they were all fantastically behaved. A big thanks to playgroup

staff and our year 6 children for helping with the event; the

year 6 saved me from a lot of running!!

We have started putting together our nursery show; all children

have been given their parts and I will be providing most

costumes. If you are uncertain of your child’s nursery rhyme

character then please ask at the end of nursery session. Our

show will be on Wednesday 18th

July and the graduation for the

older nursery (reception in September) will follow the show.

During Read Write Inc. sessions we have been learning the “x”

sound and we have been using numicon pieces to make to 4 in

maths.

Class 1 – Mrs. Catherine Thomas

The children all thoroughly enjoyed their annual sport's day.

Thank you for all your support. The pupil's created a map of the

route they took to the field. Reception drew their route onto a

map while Year 1 drew their own maps and wrote a recount of

how they got there.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been gearing up to the

start of The World Cup. The pupils have been participating in

many activities such as penalty shoot outs, how many 'keepy

uppys' can you do? How far can you kick a ball? Reception were

comparing furthest and nearest while Year 1 measured their

results using non-standard units. The children have also been

writing player profiles and creating posters to advertise The

World Cup. We have been finding out which countries have won

The World Cup since it began. Children created their own tally

charts before transferring their data into graphing packages on

the HWB.

Class 2 – Mrs Donna Davies Another very busy fortnight with our topic ‘Wriggle and Crawl’! We

have investigated and observed ‘what lives in a tree?’ using a large

white sheet and taking turns to gently shake one of the trees in our

school garden. We found many leaves, twigs, flowers, buds and petals.

Also, we found a Harvestman spider, small red spider, caterpillar and

gnat. Freya found a bright green caterpillar and together with her

friends made a nice home for it. Jac found a baby grasshopper. We have

continued to learn about mini-beast life cycles and the children have

confidently shared their homework projects with their friends. In

language, we have started to create a ‘guidebook’ for looking after

mini-beasts. So far, we have brain-stormed ideas for suitable titles and

chosen our favourite and listed equipment needed when looking for

and caring for mini-beasts, which we did in alphabetical order. In Welsh

we drew a mini-beast garden and wrote about where the mini-beasts

were, using prepositions, such as in, on, under, in front of, behind,

above. We have been learning about the past and sorting items ‘past

and present’ in Venn diagrams. We enjoyed sorting ‘Human and

Natural’ features of different places. We went on a ‘Sound Walk’

around our school, recording the sounds we heard. We sorted materials

and looked at different sources of light, both natural and man-made.

We enjoyed looking at different images, creating dance movements and

musical compositions in groups.

Class 4 – Mr. Darren Richards

Well we have been busy these last few weeks and

can't believe the summer holidays are just a few

weeks away. In literacy, we have been looking at

persuasive writing. The children are going to

advertise a holiday to the country they have chosen

in the world cup sweepstakes. In numeracy we are

looking at shapes, focussing on symmetry which the

children are enjoying. In topic the children are

getting ready to design a leaflet for their music

festival. Time is flying by so let’s keeping working

hard and end the year on a high!

Class 3 – Mrs. Abigail Williams

Over the last few weeks the children have

been busy completing their maths tasks

on time. In language they have enjoyed

writing their own stories based on the

poem The Jabberwocky. We have also

been researching facts about countries

that produce Fair Trade goods.

Everyone enjoyed the world cup activity

day which included class activities, penalty

shootouts and of course cake and biscuit

stalls.

Class 5 – Mrs. Gaynor Johnson

We have certainly been hard at work since half term writing

up our storyboards and stories of Blodeuwedd, the girl

made of flowers from the famous welsh legends of the

Mabinogion. In Maths we have been working in groups to

investigate co-ordinates in the first and four quadrants,

translations and rotations of shapes and properties of 3D

shapes. We have continued our Hwb presentations on the

Day of the Dead and some of us have begun

investigating the cost of travelling to Mexico City with a

budget of £1,000! We have also used our numeracy skills in

working out problems about the World cup as well as

practicing our ball skills for the Penalty shoot out!! Well

done all for Sports day. I enjoyed the team spirit and was

impressed with the budding athletes! 😊