Welcome back to school!

We trust that you all had a happy christmas and may I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year from all the staff from ddosbarth ellifant!

A new term and a new topic. Our topic for the spring term is called 'A Spaceman Came Travelling'. The children will meet an alien (the soft, stuffed, cuddly type!) who wants to learn all about life on planet earth aswell as teaching us some space facts. As the topic progresses we will be looking at 'The Gruffalo's Child', one of the children's favourite books that will help teach the alien all about the season of Winter. We will be building rockets, completing 'alien' experiments, learning about the moon landing, designing and creating aliens as well as teaching our visitor all about life and the culture of Wales...and maybe more depending on where the children wish to take the the topic. Can't wait for the children to meet the alien tomorrow!

A few reminders to bring in PE kits (clearly labelled with children's names), sensible winter/rain proof coats and wellies, £5 snack money for this half term.

As always if you have any questions. queries or concerns please do not hesitate to come and see me.

PS Talk homework will be posted on Friday.

whoops-a-daisy angel

Christmas is coming and ddosbarth teigr and ellifant are rehearsing for our christmas concert"whoops-a-dasiy angel".DONT FORGET

TO BUY YOUR TICKETS!

Christmas comes early to Dosbarth Eliffant

We have been working really hard to design our Chnstmas cards and we are so proud of the results! We  hope that lots of mummys and daddys will buy them to give to our family and friends. We are also excited about our trip to go and see Santa at the Rhondda Heritage Park. Ho Ho Ho... Christmas comes earlier every year!

Elephants settle in

Welcome to Dosbarth Eliffant! We have all settled into our new class and written our new class chant.
'The Happy elephants have come to stay
At Ffynnon Taf to work and play
We care and share all through the day
Helping each other in every way!'
When we are together, we remember to care and share. to be happy and kind and to work together. Most importantly, elephants never forget to try their best! Elephant promise!

New Friends!!!!!!

This week we have had six new children in our class and the bigger girls and boys have worked extremley hard at making them feel welcome and being good friends with them.

Royal Wedding

We looked at the royal wedding that happened when out mums were little. Princess Diana and Prince Charles got married a long time ago (in 1981). We lookoed at  how people would have watched it on television with no remote control and had street parties to celebrate. We also re-created the royal carriage that the prince and princess travelled in. Don't we look majestic!

The Queen of Hearts made some tarts....

For the past two weeks, all our learning has been based around the nursery rhyme 'The Queen of Hearts'.  The children have been developing their vocabulary by using 'WOW' words in our speaking and writing activities. We made 'splendid, divine, magnificent and luscious jam tarts' and the poor queen suffered an 'emergency' in her castle when her tarts burned and caused a fire. What a disaster! The children loved role playing calling the fire brigade to save the palace.We have also been giving each other compliments as we want 'kind hearts' just like the queen herself!

We are taking a change of direction this week as we will be looking at a royal wedding 'When Mum was a little girl' (Prince Charles and Lady Diana). If you have any souvenirs of the date e,g, tea towels, spoons, mugs etc that you would be willing for the children to look at (nothing too valuable), then please let me know. I would particularly like photographs of street parties that took part around the date as we will be arranging our own street party in school to celebrate Prince William and Kate's wedding later on in the term. It would also be nice if parents would come and talk about their memories of Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding to develop the children's listening and speaking skills. If you can help our with any of the above then please let me know.