We have been cooking!

Yesterday Richard Shaw from Cooking Together taught us very important knife skills, how we should hold knives, the correct way to hold food for cutting and the importance of respecting a knife. We made Banana Crumble Bites and Tortilla Toasties. We had a lot of fun and the food tasted fabulous!

 



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Knex workshop

On the day we celebrated World Book Day we took part in a Knex workshop in the Historical Centre in town.  We wore our costurmes to school and then walked through town wearing them. We looked so funny as a class. We had a lot of fun with the Knex making bridges strong enough to hold shopping! Look how fab we look in our costumes.

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