Basketball Skills

Year 5 and 6 took part in a basketball skills session in readiness for a tournament in two weeks time.  The session was run by Dragon Sports in Hawthorn Leisure Centre and the children had a fabulous time. The skills that they learnt will help them immensely in the tournament.

Paul Robeson Writing Exhibition

We recently took part in a writing workshop in school with Patrick Jones. We had a lot of very helpful advice on writing poems. We visited a writing exhibition for Paul Robeson and learnt a lot of new ways of writing. It was a very informative couple of days which has given us inspiration when we are writing our own stories and poems.

OUR TRIP TO THE HISTORICAL CENTRE

We went to the Historical Centre with the whole class to do some activities. When we finally got to the Historical Centre a lady told us that we were going to be creating our own mini beast, we went on an app called BookCreator. We firstly created a cover for our book about our mini beasts. After changing the colour of the background and adding a title we drew a picture of what we wanted out mini beast to look like (using the iPad’s). We had to label the body parts on our mini beasts to show what everything was. Afterwards we created our mini beasts with K'nex but we only had four bendy K'nex for wings, body, head or anything else. When we had finished creating our mini beasts we videoed us explaining about our mini beasts and what they eat and do. We then broke our mini beasts apart and put everything away and then gathered on the carpet and talked about our mini beasts then went back to school.

Mia Harris

Our Day Out To The Botanical Gardens

On Tuesday the 24^th of February years 5/6 took an adventurous visit to the Botanical gardens of Wales. There were beautiful flowers and plants from all over the world, such as coffee beans , fair trade bananas and pineapples all from Columbia. We strolled around looking at some of the spell-bound attractions. After a wonderful morning of exploring we were taken to a little hut above a lake, and a teacher (called Claire) talked to us about fair trade. The fair trade sign is a man waving his hand. Fair trade is a foundation set up in 1992 for farmers to get a fair price for their goods. Fair trade also helps people work them self out of poverty. Fair trade also helps people that work for other people in factory’s and plantations. Without Fair trade families would find it hard to work themselves out of poverty, to send their children to school to educate them for a better chance of survival. We also learnt that the farmers would probably only get a few pence a day (not even enough to live.) Claire took us to the rain forest (green house) and showed us lots of different plants and fruits such as pineapples and a banana tree. As we strolled through, Miss Woods glasses steamed up as if we were in the Amazon. Then it was time to go so we met up with Mr Hall and then unfortunately the bus came and we had to go back home to Maesycoed.