Winter

Spring Term 2026

Four Purposes

World Book Day

The children had a great time dressing up as thei favourite characters from a book. They had a shared reading session with some key stage two childen. They also had a book scavenger hunt around the school.

Language, Literacy & Communication

Ieithoedd, Llythrennedd a Chyfathrebu

The Owl Babies

Following on from the story the children drew pictures of their own Owls and labelled their features. First we did some research as a class about nocturnal animals. The children sorted animals that were nocturnal and those that are not. The children also drew their own story maps trying to reacall the main parts of the story.

Measuring Height

Working in small groups the children decided who was the tallest and who was the shortest and put themselves in size order. They wrote in their books who the tallest was and what position they were in size.

Wally the Walrus

This is a story about a Walrus that floats on an iceberg all the way from his home to Wales. On his journey he spots lots of rubbish in the sea. The children created their own posters to encourage people to stop littering our beaches and take their rubbish home with them.

Maths & Numeracy

Mathemateg a Rhifedd

Sorting

The children sorted animals that were nocturnal and those that were not.

Ordering

The children cut out pictures of the Owl babies and ordered them in size from smallest to largest.

RSPB big schools garden bird watch.

The children have been out bird watching daily. They are making tally charts of the different types of birds that they have seen.

Cutting out snowflakes

The children cut out their own snowflakes. We looked at the symmetrical patterns that they made.

Measuring height

The children worked in small groups to measure their height. They put themselves in size order helping each other out. They identified who the tallest and shortest were in the group.

Exploring with 3D shapes.

The children were playing and exploring with the shapes to find out what shapes stacked and rolled.

Mass

The children have been exploring mass. They used a balance scales and collected items from around the classroom to find out which was heaviest and which was lightest.

Capacity

The children filled different sized containers with cubes to find out which had the biggest or smallest capacity. They enjoyed counting the cubes.

Humanities

Y Dyniaethau

Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions.

Ice experiment

On a wintry walk one of the children noticed the salt that had been put down on the icy paths and questioned why?....

So we sprinkled ice on to some string and put it in to ice to observe what happens

Science & Technology

Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg

Ice Experiments

The children hammered and picked at the ice to find out what had been frozen in the cold weather.

Looking for Ice

The children enjoyed looking for ice and frost on a cold wintry morning.

Inside they enjoyed playing with the animals that live in the snow.

RSPB Big Schools Bird Watch

The children took part in the Big Schools Bird Watch. Each day they walked around the school grounds and made a tally chart of the birds they saw. They decided they would like to encourage more birds to the grounds so they made bird feeders and hung them up in different parts of the school.