Year 6 Gallery Opening

We all really enjoyed our Gallery topic and it culminated in the fantastic opening of Pendoylan's first art gallery, "Gallery6". We invited our parents, governors, staff and all the school to view our work and they all attended our grand opening to view our paintings, pastel and collage work, as well as looking at our "Under Milkwood" corner featuring work inspired by Dylan Thomas and Peter Blake.

We all dressed as artists for the day and of course we couldn't open our Gallery without having refreshments! We all made cakes inspired by the artists we had studied. We had Monet's, Water lily Swirl cupcakes, Budding Picassos and Seurat's Pointy cakes. They were our edible masterpieces. 
                                                   Lovely!

 

Oh la la! Where did you get that hair?

Cooking is such fun!

Here's some we made earlier!

Artists at work!

The girls have it all under control.

Budding Picasso cupcakes mmmmm........

 

 

A big thanks to Mrs Skelly and Mrs Rhys for helping in the evening and Mrs Skelly and Mrs Baker for helping with the baking. xx

 

It all started with a visit to the National Museum of Wales. Here we are in the Dylan Thomas gallery.

 

We visited the Welsh Landscape Gallery and the Impressionist Gallery. It was truly inspiring.

 

A former pupil of the school, Miss Olivia Tutton has just graduated in Fine Arts and she brought her work in to show us and she also came in to help us set up our gallery too. Thanks Olivia we loved your work!

 

"Gallery 6" is ready and waiting!

 

 

Under Milkwood

 

Our Abstract portraits in pastel and collage.

Paintings inspired by Kyffin Williams

 

Our guests have arrived. They look happy!

Many thanks to all of our visitors. We really enjoyed sharing our work with you and thanks again to all our helpers. We really appreciate all you do! x

Year 6 Mr Grinch Steals Christmas

We dressed up, acted ,sang and danced and put on a fantastic show with all of our friends in the Juniors. We performed to a packed house, we were excited and a bit nervous too, but everyone agreed that we performed brilliantly. It was great fun!

 Our superb story tellers, Rhys and Molly.

 Rhys and Molly with the magnificent Mr Grinch otherwise known as Max.

Our rocking reindeers!

Who is that "Sister"in blue?

A not so miserable Mr Grinch!

Beautiful fairies.

 

We cant wait for the next performance in the Summer.

Special Visit

Last week we were very lucky in Class 5 to be visited by a crew of firefighters from Cowbridge Fire Station. They came to our class to speak about fire safety and fire prevention.

We watched a video about how quickly and easily fire can start and spread and were able to ask the firefighters loads of questions!

Following the talk we were lucky enough to go to the staff car park to look at the fire engine .....

......and have a go at holding the fire hose! We had great fun trying to get everyone as wet as possible and really enjoyed it.....although Mrs. Jones was sad that we didn't get around to washing her car!

We would all like to say a huge "diolch yn fawr" to the firefighters who came to visit us. We had a great time and we all learned some VERY important lessons.

Hockey Coaching

Although we have now finished our topic on "Champions" in Class 5, we are still continuing with some of our sports coaching. We have been very lucky to have a registered hockey coach, Judith, visiting us each week to coach the children.

The children have all been learning lots of the skills needed to play a hockey match - passing, dribbling and tackling.

All of the children have had great fun learning these new skills and we would all like to thank Judith for her great training sessions with us. 

"Diolch Judith!"

Dydd Santes Dwynwen

In Class 5 we enjoyed making our Dwynwen day cards on Friday ready for St Dwynwen's Day on January 25th.

We hope you all liked your cards and had a happy and peaceful St Dwynwen's Day!

"Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus i chi gyd!"

Football Coaching

On Monday 13th January, as part of our topic "Champions", we began a Cardiff City football coaching course in Class 5. Our coach is Luke and we have been having great fun over the past few weeks learning different skills with him.

Our course of training sessions is due to run for a few more weeks yet and we all hope we are going to greatly improve our footballing skills during that time. We would like to say a huge thank you to Luke as we have been having great fun during his sessions with us.

Busy,busy,busy!

We've had a very busy and enjoyable start to the Spring Term in Class 5 and to our topic of "Champions".
              We kicked off our topic in style.....not by going on a trip this time, but by having some very special visitors to our class. On Monday 13th of January, we were visited by

 Mr. Andrew Walker, the chief medical officer of Scarlets Rugby to talk about healthy eating and fitness. Even though we were extremely pleased to welcome Mr Walker, the children were even more excited when they realised he had brought a VERY special visitor with him.....the Scarlets and Wales centre, Jonathan Davies.

Both Andrew and Jonathan gave an interesting and informative talk to the class and we all had a great morning with them in Class 5. We would like to say a huge thanks to them both for giving up their time to come to our class and help us start our topic in style...."diolch yn fawr iawn!"