Macbeth Agony Aunt letters

We have been writing 'Dear Mr Shakespeare' agony aunt letters based on the characters from Macbeth. We had to write letters in role as a character from the play complaining about issues that have affected their characters and then ask for Shakespeare to help solve them.

We then had to write responses in the role of William Shakespeare, hopefully resolving any difficulties.

Our views on Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by Constable

Next week we will be visiting Cardiff Museum and Gallery with Mr. Arthur's Reception class to work on a workshop called 'Nature's Cathedral'. This will be an exciting workshop which will revolve around Constable's 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' which is displayed in Cardiff Museum and Gallery until September.

We have looked at the painting in school today and pupils have used the Explain Everything app on the iPad to explain their initial feelings provoked from the work of art.

Here are four of our pupils' responses to the piece:

Antoine

Cerys

Sophie

William

Welsh Champions speak

Year 5/6 have begun our new topic Champions. We are looking at Welsh sporting champions and then shall be moving onto looking at the World Cup.

This week we have been learning about a group of Welsh champions, researching biographical details about these stars. We have then tried to take on the role of these people by speaking as them in Welsh. We used Morphobooth on the iPad to scan photographs of them and give them a voice in Welsh. Here are some of our efforts.

Y Pant Cluster Cross Country Competition - Event 2 - Tonysguborau

On Thursday 15th May, 24 pupils from Years 3-6 took part in Y Pant Cluster's second Cross Country championship held at Tonysguborau. Our squad consisted of 7 Year 5/6 Boys, 5 Year 5/6 Girls, 5 Year 3/4 Boys and 7 Year 3/4 Girls.

The event was set up as follows:

Year 3/4 Girls
Year 3/4 Boys
Year 5/6 Girls
Year 5/6 Boys

The track was quite complex and involved both field and wooded course areas. Year 5/6 pupils had three laps of the track whereas the Year 3/4 pupils had two. The Year 3/4 girls competed first. Tilly came in first out of our girls and 15^th overall. The Year 3/4 Boys competed next with Keegan coming first out of our boys and 11^th overall. Special mention must go to Joshua who recovered from quite a nasty fall yet still completed the course.

The event saw a lot more entries than the first event which made the competition even more difficult. Next was our Year 5/6 girls with Gracie finishing top out of our girls and 7^th overall. Finally, the Year 5/6 Boys stepped up to the track. It was a very competitive race with our top performer being Charles who came in 4^th.

The event was run as a team competition with the first 3 competitors from each school scoring points. The aim being for each team to score the lowest total possible e.g. first place = 1 point. If schools had 6 finishers the first 3 would be classed as part of the A team and the second 3 should be classed as the B team.

Year 5/6 Boys:
There were 36 pupils running in this race from 7 schools. If schools had 6 runners finishing the event then they qualified to have 2 teams for the team points competition. This meant that there were 10 teams overall. As we had more than 6 finishers we qualified to have an A and a B team. Our A team finished in 3rd place with a total of 26 points and our B team finished 8th with 62 points.  

The individual positions were:
Charles - 4/36
Dylan - 10/36
Edward - 12/36

William - 18/36

Tawfiq - 21/36
Onyx - 23/36
Ellis - 27/31

Year 5/6 Girls:
There were 6 teams involved in this competition and our girls picked up 5th with 56 points.

The individual positions were:
Gracie - 9/30
Eloise – 24/32

Rebecca - 25/32
Molly - 29/30

Cerys – 30/30

Year 3/4 Boys:

This was the Year 3/4 boys debut. They came in 9th out of the 9 teams.

The individual positions were:

Keegan – 11/36

Ryan – 33/36

Corum – 34/36

Iestyn – 35/36

Joshua – 36/36

Year 3/4 Girls:
Due to having 6+ finishers our school qualified to have an A and B team. Out of the 6 teams our teams finished 5th and 6th.

The individual positions were:
Tilly – 15/23

Farrah – 17/23

Cassie – 18/23

Eliza – 19/23

Freya – 21/23

Lucie – 22/23

Eleanor – 23/23

All pupils performed fantastically and everyone completed the course. Many thanks to the parents for transporting their children to the event and for cheering everyone on.

Year 5/6 Boys Team Positions                   

1st Dolau A                  13

2nd Pontyclun               22

3rd Llanharan A          26

4th Brynnau                 44

5th Tonysguboriau A   52

6th Dolau B                 55

7th Llanhari                 56

8th Llanharan B          62

9th Llantrisant           75

10th Tonysguboriau B  82

Year 5/6 Girls Team Position                     

1st Tonysguboriau A      13

2nd Dolau A                 15

3rd Pontyclun                37

4th Tonysguboriau B     51

5th Llanharan             56

6th Dolau B               60

Year 3/4 Boys Team positions                   

1st Dolau A                10

2nd Pontyclun              23

3rd Dolau B               28

4th Tonysguboriau A    36

5th Tonysguboriau B     57

6th Llantrisant              60

7th Dolau C               65

8th Brynnau              66

9th Llanharan            78

Year 3/4 Girls Team Positions                   

1st Pontyclun             13

2nd Dolau                   18

3rd Brynnau               24

4th Tonysguboriau       38

5th Llanharan A           50

6th Llanharan B            62

Schools FL Fantasy Football - Final results

With the premier league ending this past weekend our fantasy football has also reached its conclusion.

After a fierce battle at the top, the crown as Llanharan Primary School's first ever Fantasy Football Champion was taken by Barry Small, Tilly's dad. He edged out Mr Griffiths by 5 points. The leading pupil was Tilly Russell who finished in 7th.

It was an enjoyable competition which lent itself to many opportunities to use mathematics using real world data. By the end 72 people joined our league. There were 13 entries from friends and family, 7 members of staff and 52 pupils.

The final table was:

Pos	Team Name	Manager Name	Points
1	SAS + 9 = Champions!	Barry Small (Tilly's Dad)	1344
2	One Two Watch	Mr Griffiths	1339
3	Mimi's Minions	Mimi Russell	1338
4	Mr Roberts's XI	Mr Roberts	1257
5	Year 3 4 Wanderers	Mr Clement	1255
6	Where's my defence??	Taffy Ayoub	1244
7	Tilly's Silly Billy's	Tilly Russell	1242
8	Eleri's Eleven	Eleri Roberts	1234
9	Freya Utd	Freya Harris	1168
10	Molly's Monsters	Molly Harris	1140
11	L D Humfryz town	leigh humphrey	1120
12	Jade a jenius	Jade Shears	1096
13	MousTash	Natasha Batacan	1091
14	charlies champions	charlie wilkinson	1090
15	Bunny All Stars	chelsey jones	1081
16	TJS DRAGONS	TJ Ayoub	1065
17	The Payne Train!	Mr Payne	1055
18	Malea stroud	Malea Stroud	1053
19	cs team	Catherine Sargent	1050
20	athletic dragons	Morgan Howe	1048
21	MY.........FUN........TEAM :P	cerys mckechnie	1045
22	Reception All Stars	Mr Arthur	1027
23	BPUnited	Mrs Price	974
24	Katie is the best	Katie Scarrott	960
25	EPWEABP and..........	Eloise Walters	956
26	Crazy leah	Leah Horton	938
27	King of football	Dylan Ballinger	934
28	Caitlin's team	Caitlin Farnham	933
29	VampMaya's Victorious Team	Maya Batacan	924
30	Gethin's epic team	Gethin Jones	908
31	Madi's marvellous team	Madison Jones	882
32	GG's team	Gracie Green	874
33	Ben D Gedig	Mrs Jones	858
34	Team Jeff!	Jeff Batacan	844
35	The Joshua's	Joshua Farnham	836
36	TAthletic	Mrs Dunford	834
37	Chloe's reds	Chloe Taylor	828
38	The best team in the world	Dylan Ayoub	823
39	CTB FC	Callum Bowden	797
40	Minecraft man	onyx thorne	735
41	Danielle's awesome team	Danielle Williams	711
42	Snowphie	Sophie Bowden	695
43	Williams winners	william anthony	678
44	The Winners!	Rebecca Dacey-Bamford	677
45	EEVEE X	Antoine Durham	674
46	mr mostachio	ben duggan	671
47	Ipi	Aiden Lock	661
48	Charlie's Dad	paul wilkinson	614
49	Megans Monkeys!	Megan Batacan	592
50	Ellis spurs	Ellis Stroud	592
51	Nikolis best team	Nikolai L	564
52	Harribo City	Miss Harry	531
53	Edward's excellent team!	Edward Anthony	504
54	Ultimate defence	Jared Williams	495
55	Lewis United	Cassie Lewis	435
56	The Jackson 11	ryan O Neil	430
57	Morgan`s Team	melissa morgan	422
58	Dog power! WOOF!	Izzy Doggy	394
59	Team k	Karina Roberts	393
60	The Pewpie`s	Kaiden Davies	382
61	The Hibbitts Whites	ellie White	377
62	SUPER Sammys big wamies	Samuel Mifsud	358
63	jack the mighty king	Jack Batacan	355
64	Iestyn`s Super Team	Iestyn William	345
65	Baylis`s Rock	Eliza Bayliss	345
66	Soopre Durhams	Lucie Durham	339
67	rocking amie	amie lewis	318
68	The Mean Green Machine	Farrah Green	316
69	Cam Cam CIty	Cameron Armstrong	293
70	Bethan`s Masketiers	Bethan Edgar	280
71	Corum Rovers	Corum Battersby	278
72	jenna's funny white's	jenna white	167

Congratulations to Barry Small and thank you to Mr Griffiths for setting up this league and we hope you can join us again next year.