Owls Class

Croseo i/Welcome to Dosbarth Tylluanod/Owls Class

Year 3/4

Miss Mills (Monday - Wednesday)

Mrs Owens (Wednesday - Friday)

Miss Derrick (TA)

General information

Outdoor learning

Our outdoor learning sessions will take place on Monday afternoons. Please ensure your child is dressed appropriately in warm clothing and a coat on chilly, wet days.

Snack

Please provide your child with a healthy snack and a drink or they may purchase a snack for 30p an item from our healthy eating snack shop.

School Dinners

School dinners are free for all Year 3 and 4 pupils as part of the universal free school meals provision.

PE Clothing

Our P.E sessions will be taking place on Tuesdays. The children will need to come into school wearing joggers/leggings, t-shirts, hoodies (if cold) and trainers.

PE sessions may take place outdoors so please ensure they are warm.

Homework and Reading Books

We will be sending home reading books each week on a Friday. Please can you add your own comments in return to let me know how your child is getting on with their reading at home. Please return your child’s reading folder by Tuesday the following week.

In addition to their reading books your child will come home with weekly spellings and mathematics and numeracy challenges.

Class inquiry - Summer Term

What is your favourite tale from Wales?

This term we will be exploring Welsh culture and identity. What is a myth? What is a legend? Explore these questions and more learning about the magic and mystery of Wales. Children will explore: • the difference between a myth and a legend • traditional Welsh myths and legends• how to write a myth or legend

In the Myths and Legends project, children will receive a visit from a professional storyteller who will tell them about the fascinating legend of the giant Rhitta Gawr bringing the story to life through performance.

They’ll explore the key features of myths and legends and investigate the Arthurian tales of the Welsh flag’s red dragon. The legends of fearsome giants, crafty lake monsters and mischievous fairies will also be introduced to them.

They’ll stomp like giants, use clay to model monsters or dragon eyes and take fairy photographs. They’ll listen to Welsh triple harp tunes, learn to dance and create films of Welsh myths and legends including Y Afanc and The Golden Harp.

Louby Lou Workshop - Rhitta Gawr

Louby Lou Storytelling visited to work with us to perform in a dance and drama workshop for the Welsh myth, Rhitta Gawr.

Expressive Arts - Painting

Rhitta Gawr

Rhitta Gawr is a story about a famous Welsh giant and took place based in Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa)

We considered how moods are communicated in the creative works of different artists.

Snowdon in the style of contemporary artist, Sam Martin or painted by the traditional artist, J Turner.

Numeracy across the curriculum

What is your favourite tale from Wales?

As part of our data collecting, we were able to choose how to collect and display our data. Some chose a pictogram, whilst others chose bar charts or block graphs. A few of us chose to use j2data.

Expressive Arts - clay

We used a range of tools to create a dragon eye using clay.

Some of us chose to make a rainbow dragon, whilst others chose a fire, water or ice dragon.

Literacy across the Curriculum

The story of The Red and White Dragons

We wrote instructions about how to make a clay dragon eye.

Literacy Across the Curriculum

We wrote a newspaper report about the Welsh myth, The Red Dragon.

Expressive Arts - Film and Digital Media

Yr Afanc

We used the Stop Motion App to create a film about the Welsh myth, Yr Afanc.

Expressive Arts - Film and Digital Media

Yr Afanc

We chose to use j2animate to create a film about the Welsh myth, Yr Afanc.

Class Inquiry - Spring Term

This term we will be investigating “What makes a good leader?” to broaden children's viewpoints about how decisions are made currently which impact their lives and the lives of others in Wales and the wider world and explore how decisions were made in the past.

Techniquest

Owls class had an amazing time during their visit to Techniquest whilst learning during our Science and Technology inquiry.

Technocamps

Owls class had a wonderful time learning about coding with Rhys from Technocamps.

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