Will we be Prefects?

Prefects:
We've written our letters to apply for the job of prefect. We posted them with care and fingers crossed we'll get an interview with Mrs Murray!!!

Visit to the Mary Rose, Historic Dockyards Portsmouth

On Monday September 9th, Class 5 set off from school bright and early on our trip to see the Mary Rose as part of our topic work about the Tudors. After a long three hour journey we arrived at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth and made our way to the brand new Mary Rose Museum.

Once inside we were warmly welcomed by the staff and immediately settled down to our first workshop called "Henry's Heroes". The children learned about the history of the ship and then had great fun dressing up in replica clothing of the ship's officers and crew while looking at and handling many replica artefacts from on board ship.

After our well deserved lunch, we went into the Mary Rose museum and again, were made to feel very welcome by everyone!

It took us ages to look around the museum because there was so much to see - about 20.000 items brought up from the wreck and of course, the amazing wreck itself! We all especially loved the glass lift between the floors of the museum where we had a fantastic view of the whole wreck and the people still working on it!

Seeing all of these amazing exhibits and with the added sound effects all around us, it was like being on board ship ourselves......a fantastic exhibition!
             To end our brilliant trip we had one last workshop.....the Gun Drill. We were taught how to clean, load and fire the cannons and were then split into teams. Each team then had to get the cannon ready, load it and safely fire it just as gun teams would have aboard the Mary Rose....it was great fun!

After all of our hard work, no trip would be complete without a visit to the shop and with everyone tired but happy we made our way back to the bus and back home to Wales.......some of us more tired than others!!

A huge thank you from Year 5 to everyone who helped make it such a great trip........the staff at the Mary Rose Museum education department, Roy the coach driver and all of our fantastic helpers - Mr.Collingridge, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Willington, Mrs. Saye and last but not least, Miss Norton.....hope you all enjoyed!

Welcome to Year 6 20013

Welcome back!

We are all happy to be in year 6  and we are looking forward to becoming prefects in a few weeks. We have written our letters to apply for the job and hope that we all get an interview with Mrs. Murray !! Next week we are going on our trip to Swansea to the WW2 Experience. We can't wait!! Keep visiting our blog for more photos and news.

Class 6 and Mrs. Edwards

Rolling Back the Years!

As part of our topic work, all of the children have been working in groups to create a book about a decade of British history.....from the '50's to the '90's. They have all been researching their era at home and in school and have found out some fascinating facts and information about the era they are studying......ask them what they have discovered about their era and they should be able to tell you a lot!
      They are now hard at work creating a group book about their chosen era and will then present their findings to the rest of the class. Here they are hard at work........

Dear Parents,

      on Tuesday 25th June Year 6 visited the LLandaff Cathedral for an educational visit.

We had some special time with the Bishop and went on a guided tour all the way up the bell tower.

The children listened to the guide explaining what precautions were taken to keep the artefacts safe throughout WW2 as well as examining photos of the bomb damage the Cathedral suffered at this time. 

 

Elected boy bishop Josh getting ready for his role!

Bishops Daizy and Josh

Pupils "posting" prayer strips

 

The magnificent bells of LLandaff Cathedral

Visit of the FireFighters

On Monday 17th June, Class 5 had a visit from the local firefighters from Cowbridge Station. They showed the class an interesting film showing how quickly fire can take hold in a bedroom......after approximately 2 minutes, the whole bedroom was destroyed! We discussed the safest things to do in a fire and how we should respond if a fire happened at home.

As the class had listened and answered the firefighter's questions so well, we went outside to see the fire engine. We looked at the special clothes worn by the firefighters, used the thermal imaging camera, looked at how all of the equipment is stored and some were even lucky enough to use the hose.....washing Mrs. Jones' car in the process!

Although the children thoroughly enjoyed looking at everything on the fire engine and had great fun, they also remembered the important rules they had learned during the morning.Class 5 really enjoyed the visit so a HUGE Pendoylan "thank you" to the fire fighters of Cowbridge Fire Station!

Class 6 Llangrannog Update 1 - Den Building and Pony Trekking

Class 6 have been staying at Llangrannog this week and have been keeping really active! They've been building dens, taking long walks, pony trekking and climbing. It must be exhausting and lots of fun.

Enjoy the photos they've sent back to school and check back for more updates over the next few days.