News from class 15.

Hello everyone. Thank you parents for the house models that you helped produce over Half Term. They are fabulous and have pride of place in the class.We are still going on our welly walks every Thursday . Soon it will be time to welly walk to the local Post Office to post our letters to Father Christmas.We've had a busy three weeks after Half Term producing our Christmas cards, for the P.T.A , making Halloween biscuits and Pudsey masks.
Our Show and Tell for this week will be favourite teddy bears . Next week it will be looking at and talking about our Advent Calendars.
On December 1st we will start  decorating the class and start producing our Christmas crafts.Only 6 weeks to go Mum and Dads.
I'm sure that you would like to say get well soon to Miss Pearce. She has been absent since Half Term and the children miss her desperately. Get well soon Miss Pearce.
Keep warm and dry.
Hwyl Fawr,

Seren yr wythnos.

Post Haste,
Scott  was  our star of the week. He was awarded the special honour because he has been s ensible and grown up and is now our Head boy. Well done Scott.

Autumn leaves are falling down.

Helo  all,
Welcome back class15.
Here we all are  ready for the new term. There are still eight in the class and once againg all boys. Come on girls.We need you! Anyway we are happy to report that there are four new boys in the class. We would like to welcome Harley, Johann, Braden and Thomas.
Just a quic reminder parents that this is the schedule for the Term:
P.E. to continue on Mondays,
Library on Tuesday,
Welly walk on Thursday
Show and Tell every Friday.

As the topic for the Term is Dyma fi or All about me please send in photos of your child as a baby and if you have  any recent Holiday photos. They are needed for  class displays and will be carefully looked after.Weather permitting we will go out on a leaf kicking walk on Friday so wellies  at the ready.
More information on the topic work to follow in letter form.
Best  Wishes,
Mrs Bennell.

Welcome to our new pupils.

Hello everyone,
Another busy and exciting few weeks has gone by.The year 2 leavers are visiting their new schools now on a regular basis and getting used to their settings and new teachers.
Our four new boys have been on several visits and Harley is now staying all day once a week on his own. What a brave boy!
We are really looking forward to the sports events.Cai, Kyle, Lewis and Spencer will be competing for their houses tomorrow in the sprint, onstacle race and the egg and spoon.
Again on the Monday William, Hywel, Jago and Scott will be competing in the sprint, welly throwing and bean bag on head race.Good luck everyone.
We are also looking forward to the trips to Pontypridd park and the trips to Weston Super Mare. They'll have to take their buckets and spades with them.
Soon it will be holiday time. We hope to have a leaving party on the last day and we will need no doubt a good supply of tissues.
Have a lovely Summer everyone. Enjoy and keep safe.
From Mrs Bennell, Mrs Parsons and Miss Pearce.

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside.

Hello everyone,
Greetings from a happy but tired class 14. We can't wait for the Whitsun holidays especially as the weather is looking good.
We have beeen very busy creating our pirate ship. We are on the look out for pirate costumes, empty pop bottles to make bottles of rum(not real) and pictures of pirates. Please send in any of these if you have them.
Similarily we will be setting up a seaside cafe and a garden centre after the holidays. If you can donate any garden implements, seeds or plants we will be very grateful.
Year 2 (sorry)will have homework for the holidays. Can the other children collect postcards and holiday snaps please.
We are also looking for saeside souveniours to place on our display. Anything that you send in will be carefully looked after and returned after the holidays.
Please keep sending in a sunhat and if you can put sun cream on them before they come to school. They spend a lot of time outside and need to be protected.
We are looking forward to our school trips. The Nursery, Reception and year1 children will be all be joining the Infant Department.
After the holidays the boys will be focusing not on their work I expect but on the World Cup. We will be keeping scores and updates in class.
The boys want to send Cardiff Blues their congratulations for winning the tournament and we were all very sad when Cardiff City lost.
Keep checking the Blog for more updates.
Well done Lewis for winning Seren yr Wythnos last week. You worked really hard on your Maths test.

Welcome to the Summer,

Well, what a fun time we've had in school. We really enjoyed African week. Come and see all our lovely Art work displayed on the Wall. Your child had the opportunity to dress up as jungle animals and also to go on safari (in class)!
The African drumming was a great hit(photos also on wall and sent home at end of Term). Year 2 produced some wonderful African cave drawings instructed by our guest artist. We all enjoyed tasting exotic fruits and Mrs Decaro's class joined us to watch Lion King and sing some of the popular songs from the film.Great fun!
All the children are working hard in class especially year 2 who are getting ready to move to their new junior classes in September. They are starting visits to their new school this week.
Well done Lewis for achieving Seren yr Wythnos on Monday. This was in recognition of your effort to research on the internet about lions for Show and Tell.
Show and Tell tomorrow is anything to do with pirates. We will be reading Peter Pan and the pirates soon and are enjoying our African based story "The enormous crocodile " at present.
More news to ne posted soon but bye for now.
From; Mrs Bennell and the staff.

Welcome back to school after the Easter holidays.

Hello everyone, It was great to see everyyone looking fit and well after the holidays. A special welcome back to J ago who had been unwell prior to the holidays.
We can't believe how much the willow trees have grown outside our classrooms. We will be going through the tunnells this week and taking lots of photos to charter the growth. The children had so much fun on the yard on Tuesday with the playground paintings. We can't wait to have our building painted . Any ideas parents on what can be painted on the walls?
On the Friday before Half Term William was awarded Seren yr Wythnos. This was given to him because he had made lots of effort to join in all class activities. Well done William. Thankyou everyone for singing and listening well in the Easter Assembly also. We have a lovely photo of William with the Easter bunny in the Nursery. Lewis also had a fab time in the Easter Infant P.T.A. party. He loves magic and magicians.
We have an exciting Half Term ahead of us. Lewis, Spencer, Cai and Kyle will be visiting their new schools . Watch out Year 2 there will be rgular homework this term also.
Our topics for this term will be travel, the seaside and gardens. If you have any photos, artefacts or books on these themes please send into school. They will be carefully looked after and returned at the end of Term. Watch out parents for our Captain Hook pirate ship. Show and tell to start next week. The first will be on Africa. We can't wait to make our African masks and we are reading the story of The Lion King.
Keep in touch on the blog. By the way we had a lovely Easter party on the Friday before Half Term. It was also Mrs Parson's birthday. She celebrated in style in Las Vegas(during the holidays!).
See you soon from Mrs Bennell.

Spring is here.

Hello everyone,
We are so glad to see the nice, warm Spring weather. We will be having lots of welly walks this Spring Term hopefully. Everyone is well and working hard in class. Congratulations to Cai for having Seren yr wythnos last Friday. This was given because he learnt the Eisteddfod song and represented his house which is Dowlais.Lewis was reserve for Dowlais for the year 2 poem;Fy nheulu a fi.
Well done to all the class for sitting in the Hall last Monday for what was a long but very enjoyable Eisteddfod. Cai opened the Eisteddfod with his rendition of Mynd ar y ceffyl and was awarded second place.
Happy Birthday William for last Saturday. He is now four and we had a lovely party in clas. Thankyou Mrs Cowley for the lovely chocolate birthday cake.
Did you know that we have a model in our class? He models clothes for Tommy Hillfigger no less. The mystery model is Spencer McCracken who did some catwalk modelling in Hamlins over the weekend in London.Watch out for him in Vogue and Hello magazine(in the future).
This week's Seren yr wythnos will go to Scott for listening and joining in the Eisteddfod last Monday. Well done Scott. We can't wait to do our fitness routines tomorrow with the Infant Department. We're helping to raise money for the N.S.P.C.C.
Please help by sponsering your child.
That is all for now . Thankyou and bye.
From Mrs Bennell, Mrs Parsons and Miss Pearce.

Happy Holidays.

Hello everyone,
Hope you're having a good holiday.I really hope that your sweeethearts liked their Valentine cards and that the chocolates arrived in one piece.You didn't eat the Valentine chocolate Hywel did you?We even sent a Valentine card to our friends in Mbali. Hope they liked it. We donated our very old parachute to the school accompanied by a parachute games book. I'm sure that they'll have lots of fun with it. Mr Roberts has promised us a new replacement parachute!
We missed you on Friday Spencer. Hope the card, chocolate and reading books got to you in good time.Hope everything was ok at the dentist.
Scott and Kyle are now having reading books for the weekend. Keep up the good work Cai by practicing your reading at home over the holidays.
Lewis Roberts had our Seren yr Wythnos last Friday. It was awarded to him because he has been a good friend to all ,particularly taking care of Spencer when he was a littl low. Well done Lewis.
Don't forget boys to practice your Eisteddfod songs. Year 2 are singing;Mynd ar y ceffyl and Reception need to practice Ble mae bawdyn?
We still have a week to practice on return to school. The Art paintings look impressive in the foyer and the winners will be notified in due course.Nursery and Reception painted Welsh dragons and Year 2 boys sketched Castell Coch. They are really cool!
Anyway take care and see you after the holidays. From Mrs Bennell.

News from class 14.

Hello everyone,
We have been very busy in class this week. Come and see our lovely paintings of snowmen. How are the bird seed cake feeders going? Have you seen any birds feeding yet? If you do please take a photo and send into class. We have been watching Barnaby Bear on dvd telling us to reuse, reduce and recycle. We are trying hard to follow this as our theme is "Our Precious World".
We really enjoyed dressing up in red, black and yellow tops to create an Ugandan flag. We are busy collecting games, rubbers and pencil sharpeners for our friends in the school inMbale Uganda. We will be makinga special Valentine card for them and sending our class photo .Bon Voyage to Mrs Decaro and Mrs Dobbins. We hope you have plenty of room in your cases for all the gifts.
Last Friday Spencer had SerenYr Wythnos for trying to work on his own for most of the week. Well done Spencer. This Friday Kyle will be having that honour. He has tried his very best to learn his initial sounds and deserves the honour of Seren Yr Wythnos. Well done Kyle.
Lewis has joined the local Beavers in Crownhill. He says it's fab. Spencer has also joined the Music club on a Thursday after school.
We will be celebrating the Chinese New Year in school next week.It is the year of the tiger.We will be tasting Chinese foods and we have made lanterns.
William has been away ill for two days. We hope that he gets better soon. It's been very quiet in class without him.
We can't wait to watch the Cinderella pantomime tomorrow. We hope that the wicked stepmother isn't too scary.Poor Cinders.
Take care all and have a lovely weekend.
From Mrs Bennell , Mrs Parsons and Miss Pearce.

Cooking in class 14

We hope that you enjoyed your snowmen chocolate logs.Spencer's Mum said that it was the best chocolate log ever.
Don't forget to send in your snowmen photographs.
Library will start tomorrow. All the books are in school.
We will be sending home the bird cake tomorrow. Please place somewhere safe in your garden/back yard(away from the cats).If you get any bird visitors please take photos and send to school.

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda from class 14.
We have a new boy in the class. His name is Jago and he is three years old.

Mrs Bennell

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