Autumn Term 2013

Welcome to another new academic year. Our topic for this term is ‘The Scream Machine’. We will be looking at the science behind roller coasters and the forces that drive them. Our author focus is Robert Swindells and his book, Room 13. Can’t wait to start this new year with all of the changes that have been going on at the school during the holidays… including one or two in our own classroom!

Mini Wimbledon

We held our own mini Wimbledon on the Junior Yard today (05/07/13). All of the Year 5's played each other with games opponents being drawn at random. After a grueling competition it came down to a final between Ben and Charlie with the latter winning 5-3. The Year 6's then had their competition with a final between Cory and Jordan Wa, with Jordan taking the title.

Here's some action from some of our games:

Welsh Sport Heroes - Drawings

We have been having a poll via our class Twitter feed @lps140club to find our followers favourite Welsh Sporting heroes. The top 12 will then be displayed on the panels outside our Key Stage 2 classrooms. We received many votes with a final top 12 as follows:
1. Tanni Grey-Thompson - 31
2. Gareth Edwards - 27
3. Joe Calzaghe - 24
4. John Charles - 21
5. Ryan Giggs - 21
6. Colin Jackson - 20
7. David Roberts - 19
8. Nicole Cooke - 12
9. Gareth Thomas - 9
10. Jade Jones - 8
11. Lynn Davies - 8
12. Shane Williams - 8

Our class have been drawing the sporting heroes and the best will be chosen for our wall of fame.
Here's a selection of some of them.

Show Racism the Red Card Newspapers

Here are a selection of our newspaper reports from our trip to Taffs Well FC for a Show Racism the Red Card workshop.

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Sports Day 2013

We held our sports day this afternoon with the weather holding off to allow us to complete the event. There were events ranging from obstacle courses, sprints, standing jumps, javelin, sprints and marathon. The overall winners were Ty Gwyn.

Squash Wales visit

Two coaches from Squash Wales visited the school this morning to hold a squash workshop with our juniors. They brought along two mobile squash net walls and gave a brief explanation of the sport. The pupils were then allowed to have a go at the sport. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed these sessions.

Here's some video action of our session:

Alternate chapters to Morris Gleitzman's Toad Away

We have been writing an alternative chapter to Morris Gleitzman's 'Toad Away'. The pupils needed to come up with their own animal characters. We then chose the chapter where Goliath had to be rescued from a supermarket after launching an assault on human pizzas... They then had to choose their own scenarios and plan their own chapter.

Here are our efforts:

PORFFOR:
Chloe
Jack
Jordan Wa
Maya
Rosie
Shani

GWYRDD:
Ben
Cerys
Charles
Jordan Wh
Sophie
Tawfiq

OREN:
Antoine
Cory
Jared
Jay
Mikey
Rebecca

GLAS:
Catherine
Chelsey
Gethin
Onyx
William

MELYN:
Edward
Emily
Joshua