As part of our topic, Incredible Inventions, we are exploring electricity. Today, we discussed with Amanda the electric meter and her role in monitoring our electricity in school. We then created a simple circuit!

This term, Dosbarth Mrs Curtis and Dosbarth Miss Powell have been focusing on ball skills in Health and Wellbeing. To conclude our learning, volunteers from both classes set up and led various football drills to develop core skills such as dribbling, passing, scoring and defending. We are looking forward to next week with different leaders!

Here are the leaders of this week in action…

Dosbarth Mrs Curtis and dosbarth Miss Powell have been busy gardening this week. First we had to weed the beds, before planting bulbs ready for the spring.

We are looking forward to seeing all the flowers grow.

The children had an absolutely amazing time in Llangrannog. After nearly three hours on the bus we eventually arrived at 12.30pm on Monday 18^th March. Our first day’s activities included, archery, skiing, tobogganing and go karting. After food the evening activities included: indoor sports games, a quiz and bingo. The children went back to their rooms by 10pm.

The next morning after breakfast we went for a glorious walk to the beach. Children then enjoyed some great fun on the beach, next was horse riding followed by trampolining and quad biking. Children ended the day with high ropes and wall climbing before the DISCO! And we even had the boys up dancing.

Our last day consisted of packing bags and after breakfast children enjoyed the zip wire and swimming. The children had an amazing time and made memories that will be with them for a lifetime. The children were a credit to the school.

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In December we all visited Brecon Theatre to watch Horrible Histories Terrible Tudors, the children really enjoyed this experience. The show was split into two parts with the first part strongly focusing on King Henry the VII and VIII and crime and punishment.

After the interval, children were given 3D glasses and it added a new creative dimension to the show. It looked at medicine which included 3 dimensional spiders jumping into the crowd. It then focused on the Spanish Armada and Sir Francis Drake which included cannonballs being fired into the crowd. Below are some of the children enjoying the experience.

Children enjoyed researching, designing and acting out an interview with King Henry the VIII, bringing their work to life using our own green screen in school.

Please click the letters below to watch our finished interviews.

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Possibly one of the best apps on the iPad to ignite the children’s imagination and creativity is Epic Citadel. The app is basically the setting for the computer game, Infinity Blade. A medieval kingdom, where the children can explore every inch of this fantasy world.

There are no characters, stories or plots which leaves it up to the children to create their own characters and stories. This is what I love, the children being able to interpret the kingdom in whatever way they feel. As a school, we have recently had a big focus on using picture books as a stimulus in Literacy to encourage the children to use their imagination and build on their own interpretations. Epic Citadel is a very similar idea except rather than a book, it is a computer generated kingdom. From the first moment the children explored the app they were completely enthralled by the game like structure and many felt they were playing a game despite there being no direction or story.

Before I started planning to use Epic Citadel I came across some websites from classes who have used the app before.

The literacy lessons all focused on narrative. Here is what we did as a class:

The children explored the app, they were given plenty of time to investigate and discover the world of Epic Citadel. They then generated a world cloud using the app tag cloud to make a word bank of descriptive words that could be used in future weeks.

Above are some of the word clouds the children developed.

Used the app Keynote for the children to write an opening for the setting using the Alan Peat “Imagine 3egs:” sentence. Building on from the previous lesson the children continued to write their opening using a slow writing technique, children then developed questions asking why was there no one there, as a class we decided that they had ben subject to a plague, that was transported by rats. The creative ideas were amazing and the standard of writing was excellent. They then saved some screenshots from the app and imported them into iMovie where they then narrated their openings over their pictures. We then used the app Aurasma to turn their videos into Augmented Reality Auras using their word clouds from lesson 1 as a trigger image. Please click below to watch some of the amazing iMovies they created.

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