Football Festival

On the 22nd March we attended a football festival at Rhydyfelin playing fields. 39 of us took part in a skills carousel in the morning and friendly games in the afternoon. We all had an amazing day.

Rugby festival

On 18th March Years 5/6 attended a Rugby Festival on Treforest playing fields. We took part in a skills carousel in the morning and played friendly games in the afternoon. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

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 Botanic Gardens!

On Tuesday 24^th February years 5 and 6 visited the National Botanic Garden of Wales. We left approximately 9:00 am, for a fun day of exploring. When we arrived it was a perfect day to go and explore, the sun was shining and everyone was excited!

First we learned about fair-trade, fair-trade is a simple yet incredibly important idea - it's all about giving the people who produce the things we buy a fair price for their products.

When we finished learning about fair trade we then went into the tropical house. The tropical house had a plant that grows pineapple; the pineapple was a red colour. As it was not ready to eat yet, we know this because of the colour of the fruit.

As we strolled through the magnificent grounds we spotted an outside museum full of trees. They were not any ordinary trees, they had signs to tell us how old the trees were. One was over three hundred years old.

They had a great gift shop and we all enjoyed having a look through it and buying something to remember the trip.

After an amazing afternoon we hopped back on the bus and headed home. What an awesome day we had at the Botanical Gardens of Wales!

By Hana Malik

Our trip to the library

This week the children from Mrs Ward’s class and the children from Mr Hall’s class found themselves on a school visit to the same place. Very unusual except that the visit was to the Library a great place for all ages.

Both classes were very excited for different reasons .The children in Mrs Ward’s class were returning books from their last visit and looking for new books for our topic “Where in the World”. Mr Hall’s class were on a quest to find books of their own personal choice.

The best part of the visit was the way the children interacted with each other. Mr Hall’s children were fantastic reading stories to the younger children and talking about the books and the younger children loved listening to the story and spending time with the older children. Mr Hall’s class were also very patient as we walked back to school as some of the younger children were tired and needed encouragement up the hill back to school.

I think that all staff present were very proud of all of the children and the care and respect they showed each other. Congratulations to them all.

Penalty Shoot Out

On Thursday the 11th July, 37 children from Years 5, 5/6 and 6 took part in the Maes-y-Coed  Penalty Shootout.  We all walked up to the Maritime Astroturf.  We were split up into two groups of 18 and 19.  The first group were split into four groups. The 19 children went over to the other side of the Astroturf to take penalties against a guest goal keeper AKA Mr Hall.  The children needed to get at least 3 to get to the next round.  Lots of money was raised for our school and our local football club.  Many thanks to Barclays Bank.

Written by Annaleigh Hall and Ffion Davies