A fantastic amount was raised for Children In Need 2021… £1,857.00!!!

We had a huge response from all the families who supported their children to do a sponsored ramble in Forest School and also contributions given for biscuits to be decorated Pudsey style!  All children were engaged, responsive and excited to be involved but most importantly had fun participating in these activities!

On the day children had the option to dress up in something that makes you happy or in Pudsey clothes. Again, a massive thanks to all parents and especially the children who have made these days magical, special and possible.

Thank you for your continued support.

We have been unable to take any school trips this year due to the pandemic, but in Year 6 we recently had the opportunity to visit the town’s World Heritage Centre via a virtual tour!  We dressed up in Victorian-era clothing and were able to explore the World Heritage Centre, as well as a 300-year-old classroom.

Along the way there were also interactive quizzes to take part in, which tested our knowledge about Blaenavon’s history.

After a very shaky start, we are finally well on the way to developing our second Forest School site!  Last year we were awarded a grant from Bron Afon Housing Association to fund an outdoor shelter and other materials needed to create an area for outdoor learning. 

Our children all have sessions outside, but our current area can be overused, and our small shelter doesn’t keep everyone dry so this was an ideal opportunity to enable us to get out more often, with shelter. However, we hit a major snag!  The lockdowns and school closures due to Covid 19 put our plans on hold and it was going to cost a lot more than first thought.

This term Year 6 have been learning about World War 2, and we recently became evacuees for the day.  We got to experience what life could have been like for an evacuee during the war.

We arrived at school dressed head to toe in evacuee clothes, including our identity cards and gas mask bags with our name tags on them. Then we were lined up ready to be picked by our foster familys just like children would have been in WW2.

Mrs Coombs and Mrs Roberts both walked along the lines where the children were standing looking for the smartest and cleanest children to take home (this was how children were chosen in World War 2). I was lucky enough to be  one of the children chosen by Mrs Roberts and Freya was picked by Mrs Coombs.

Dosbarth Coch, Dosbarth Gwyrdd and Dosbarth Glas have had a ‘ROARSOME TIME’ this week with Dinosaur Day! The pupils across the three reception classes have discussed the things they would like to learn about over the next few weeks and one of common themes was DINOSAURS!

We started off the topic with a fun and dynamic, Dinosaur Day!  The pupils looked fantastic dressed up as dinosaurs, palaeontologists or in coloured clothing to represent a dinosaur of their choice. When the pupils arrived in their classrooms they discovered HUGE footprints on the classroom floor. This created a discussion about what they were, who had been in the classroom and why.

The children realised that part of the class was sectioned off and a dinosaur egg had been left in amongst a nest of twigs and branches.  The children continued to use their oracy skills to come up with questions about the egg such as what was inside it?  How did it get there?  Who did it belong to?

We are really excited to tell everyone about the exciting things we have been doing to celebrate Easter!

This week we have been completing all things Easter! We started the week by looking at money and paying for items. We looked at all the different coins we could use to pay with, such as 1p, 2p, 5p and even pound coins! We got to choose items that we wanted from the shop in maths and then used our coins to pay for them. We were so good at paying for items we decided to pay for Easter eggs.

We had a very creative week and made lots of Easter craft items! After learning about the Easter story, we made an Easter basket with pictures we coloured in from the story. We talked about what happened in the story and used our story map to retell it. We have used our knowledge of 2d shapes to make bunnies and chicks as well as developing our cutting skills.

Wow! Another excellent response by all children and staff, and a huge thank you to parents for their continued support in all school activities.  Things were a little different for us this year, but we all managed to accommodate the situation safely and effectively, and had plenty of fun along the way!

The whole school participated in a Zumba dance class with Mr Cornes via google classroom, and we hosted a BHVC’s Got Talent Contest event in individual classes, as well as red nose spoon races and sharing jokes.

Both children and staff dressed up in red today to celebrate and raise money for Comic Relief. We started the day off with a photoshoot and then the fun began. There was lots of fun and laughter on this special day which was appropriate to the theme of the charity.

The favourite activity was making an edible red nose using red icing, sprinkles and a biscuit. The children couldn’t resist licking their fingers after making their nose and were really patient waiting until they could eat it !!

Everyone drew a picture of themselves using red felts and gave themselves a red nose. We had a treasure hunt looking for red items around the class and even did this at lunchtime – finding a few children with a red babybel in their lunchbox.

Croeso!  There was plenty happening on this very special day in Nursery.  The children greeted each other in welsh, we asked questions – Sut wyt ti? Sut Mae’r tywydd?, and we sang some simple welsh songs.

The activities on offer today were daffodil painting, making flags, making Cawl in the playdoh, shape game to create a love spoon and castle building in the block area.  To add to this experience most children dressed up in Welsh costumes. Our two dragons were well behaved and didn’t breathe fire at all.

Nursery children were very excited to show staff the fantastic costumes they were wearing, however they weren’t all happy to see that Mrs Crew had disappeared and a Spinosaurus was greeting them at the door!!  Once they got over the shock they were all keen to sit on the carpet to listen to the Dinosaur Roar story read by a dinosaur, which ended with a dinosaur stomp dance.

Each child was able to talk about the character they had come as and the name of the story. As we have a single bed in the book corner, many children were keen to listen to stories read by the characters. Mummy bear read Goldilocks and the three bears at least 5 times to different children.