'Shine' came into Dosbarth Arian to discuss self-esteem. They engaged with a few different activities and really enjoyed the self-esteem games. 

Dosbarth Arian and Dosbarth Gwyn wanted to enter the 'Show racism the red' Cardiff City FC competition. In order to win and receive some fantastic prizes, we needed to create either a poem, poster, short story or artwork that promoted equality, diversity and friendship, whilst also saying no to racism. Theses are some of the beautiful work that was produced. The children loved working collaboratively. 

Our class book links in nicely with our topic this term. 'Diary of a young naturalist' is a book based on the life of Dara, as a young, autistic boy living in Ireland. He finds a way to connect with the world through nature and discusses the challenges he faces. 

Just by looking at the front cover of our class book, we used inference and deduction to depict what we thought about the book. We looked at the illustrations, title and the name of the author. We came up with some fantastic ideas. 

We came up with a variety of structured sentences that we formed from using inference when analysing the front cover. 

A very important aspect of our class story is the fact that the author and main character, has autism. We had a class discussion about what we believed autism was.  We learnt a lot from one another, paticularly from the children in our class that are neurodiverse and/or children who had siblings that were neurodiverse. 

In groups, we discussed what we thought the words diverse and dynamic mean. We came up with some fantastic ideas! We used envoying around the different tables in the class to pinch one idea, from each table, and gave an idea to each table, before feeding back as a class.