Little Dragons Den

Conwy: Houses Of Parliament Expressive Arts

As we begin to finish looking at how and why we celebrate Bonfire Night, the children have been creating firework paintings over the Houses of Parliament!  The children created their own silhouettes using their own knowledge of the Gunpowder Plot and after building the Houses of Parliament in our construction area. They then used forks to … Read more

Penrhyn: Maths Mastery

This week we have been working hard on mastering addition and subtraction using the column method. There have been some amazing Eureka moments, and we have some little teachers in our midst!

Conwy: Bonfire Night Expressive Arts

Firework Craft 🎆🎇 This half term, the children are looking at developing their expressive art skills. They will be learning skills across the curriculum linking to our new topic of celebrations.  Earlier this week we created rocket fireworks after learning all about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot to understand why we celebrate bonfire night … Read more

Criccieth: PE Circuits

This term in PE we have been working on following instructions and building stamina. We have completed different circuits and played some games along the way. 

Caerdydd: Project Based Learning

Today we are presenting our group projects to each other! We have been working independently over the last half term on cross-curricular projects within our ‘Monster Hunters’ topic. Projects included opportunities for all Areas of Learning and Experience, including research, story writing, digital animation, art, news reporting, as well as important life skills such as … Read more

Penrhyn: A busy week of Viking and dragon creativity and collaboration!

We have had such a busy time, this week, designing and creating Viking longboats out of recycled materials. We also tested them to see whether our goals of being water-resistant, able to keep afloat as well as keeping Viking treasure safe, were successful! Our reflection time was fantastic!

Caerdydd: Library Visit

This afternoon, Dosbarth Caerdydd visited the local library. We signed up for library cards and chose new books to borrow.

Conwy: Expressive Arts Craft

Room on the broom frog paper plate craft! The children designed their own frogs all with different expressions, focusing on our frog character from our class story. 🐸 We think they look fabulous, don’t you?! 

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

Conwy: Part Whole Models Practical Maths

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.