Chirk: Autumn potions
Reception have been very busy in the mud kitchen adding different ingredients to their potions and adding how many altogether. They used herbs from our sensory garden to make them smell and taste delicious! : end

Reception have been very busy in the mud kitchen adding different ingredients to their potions and adding how many altogether. They used herbs from our sensory garden to make them smell and taste delicious! : end
This week we are looking at part-whole models and how we can make them practically! ➕✏️ We’ve investigated how the parts make a total that we call one whole. We have began to discuss how we can write number sentences to give totals before we move on to addition later this term.
Please find attached our newsletter for October 2025 Kind regards Mrs Beth Rolls Oct-25-newsletter.pdf
The School Council has been chosen by their peers. They will be working with our parent governor, Lyndsey, to give all our children a platform to express their views and be involved in decisions that affect them, fostering leadership, responsibility, and teamwork, while also improving the school’s learning environment by providing input on school life, … Read more
Here in Dosbarth Caerdydd, we have been working on group projects independently! Our projects involve lots of cross-curricular elements, and we can’t wait to show you the final results!
We had a visitor this morning. First experience music from Wrexham came in to do a music workshop with us. We had a go at playing PBuzz instruments. We joined in with some songs and looked at the composer John Williams. We will be doing one of these workshops every term! 🎺
This week in forest school we’ve been making Bog Monster’s to save the witch from the story Room On The Broom 🧙♀️🪄✨
This week we have been looking at how parts make a whole and that when we add our parts together we can make a total. We used or characters from Room On The Broom to make parts and wholes which we will continue to extend this week into writing number sentences using part whole models.
It has been all about Autumn 🍂. The children have setup a shop selling apples and pears. They have enjoyed weighing the apples to see which ones were heavier. We have been making apple pies and crumbles in the sand and scooping them out of the water 💧 and moving the pine cones with the trucks. 🛻 We have been leaf rubbing and apple printing in the creativearea 🍁
Parents Evenings for Reception to Year 6 are taking place on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th October and on Monday 12th only for Nursery class. You can book your 10 minute slot by following the link below:- Parents’ Evenings Booking – Ysgol Maes-y-Llan (maesyllan-pri.wrexham.sch.uk)