Communication:

Schoop - the school ID is 17699

Twitter - @StDavidsCiWPrm https://twitter.com/StDavidsCiWPrm  or #stdavidsciwRhymney

Email: year1 @stdavidsprm.cardiff.sch.uk

Google classroom code: kpdl2xy

    

13th April – Return to School - Christian Value Day

14th April - Celebrating World Autism Day

22nd April - World Earth Day

1st May - INSET Day

4th May – Bank Holiday

5th May - Buddhism Day

11th - 15th May – Christian Aid Week

18th - 22nd May - Walk to School Week

22nd May –Year 1 & 2 Class Worship- 9:15

 22nd May –End of term

 

25th May – 31st May 2026 – Half Term

 

1st June – Return to School

3rd June - Nursery Sports Day - Morning Nursery at 9:30am and Afternoon Nursery at 1:30pm

5th June – Sports Day

10th June - Reserve Nursery Sports Day - Morning Nursery at 9:30am and Afternoon Nursery at 1:30pm

12th June – Reserve Sports Day

15th - 19th June - World Refugee Week

16th June - Class Photographs

19th June - Rags to Riches collection

22nd June - World Music Day

3rd July – Reports out to parents Summer Fayre 1-3pm

13th July - Transition week

17th July - Last day of term

20th July – INSET day school closed for pupils

 

 

Healthy Snack 

Snack Money and School Lunches Snack money for the next half term is £14, or weekly it costs £2. Please can all snack money be paid for in advance via ParentPay. If you choose to purchase school snack, the payment must be made before the end of the day on the Friday before the next commencing week. Where snack is not paid for in advance, please can you provide your child with their own healthy snack.

PE

P.E will be held every Wednesday afternoon.  Children should wear black shorts or black jogging bottoms, house colour or white t-shirt and trainers (ideally Velcro fastening). Please can all uniform (including PE kits) and items brought in from home (eg. water bottles and lunch boxes) be clearly labelled with the child's name and year group.

Reading
Please bring your book bag to school every day, containing your reading book, sound sheets or key words.

Uniform
We encourage the children to become more independent in Year 1 and take care of their own belongings. Please ensure that all items of clothing are clearly labelled with your child's name. Please ensure children wear their uniform every day, apart from PE day.

Hot Weather
Please apply sun cream before school and provide your child with a hat and a large bottle of water.

 

A voyage of discovery across the open seas.

This term, our learning will set sail on A Voyage of Discovery Across the Open Seas, where we will dive into the fascinating world of pirates. The children will take part in Pirate School, learning how pirates behaved, talked, dressed, and even the songs they sang. Throughout the term, we will explore what life was like for pirates, including the clothes they wore, the food they ate, and the activities they enjoyed.

Our adventures will take us across the seas as we investigate different ways of travelling by boat. The children will explore how boats float and move, carrying out simple scientific inquiries to test their ideas. Along the way, we will discover the incredible animals that live in the deep sea and learn how we can help protect these wonderful creatures.

Next stop… Land Ahoy!
We will research different countries that pirates might have visited, comparing their climates, cultures, and traditions with our own here in Wales. This will include exploring temperature, rainfall, and what living things need to grow. As part of this, the children will learn about growing vegetables on board a ship to help pirates stay healthy on their long journeys.

During our travels, the children will write postcards and letters home, sharing their adventures just like real explorers. All of these rich experiences will build towards the children writing their very own exciting pirate adventure story at the end of the term.

Please see below for more information on our learning this term:

LLC – Post cards/ Letter Writing/ Character Description/ Story Writing

STEM – Living and Non- Living Things/ Growing/ Movement

Expressive Arts – Sea Shanty/ Pirate Portraits/ Drama

RVE - Trust 

Maths and Numeracy – Measurement (temperature)/ Movement (directions)/ Doubling and Halving

Health & Wellbeing - Healthy Eating

Keep up to date on all our exciting activities on Twitter

See below for Medium Term Planning for our Autumn Term Topic.

Weekly planning will be available on Google classroom. 

Pupil voice is very important to us at St David's. Here are some of our questions from this term:

-Are all pirates bad or are some good?

-Did they always bury treasure?

-What did pirates eat?

-Where did pirates sleep?

-Did pirates have rules?

-What did pirates ships look like?

-Where did they go on their ships?

-How did pirates find their way across the sea?

-How do pirates protect themselves?

-Who are the famous pirates?

-Where did they live?

-What would my pirate name be?

 

Each week, children will be asked to complete either a piece of numeracy or literacy based homework which will alternate from week to week. There will also be a termly homework grid based on our topic. Children may do as many homework tasks as they like over the course of the term. 

 

Children are allowed to complete their homework in whichever format they wish to choose. E.g hwb, PowerPoint, on paper, videos etc. 

 

The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:

• Ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.
• Enterprising, creative contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work.
• Ethical, informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.
• Healthy, confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.

This half term our Christian value is: Trust 

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart" Proverbs 3:5-6

There are many ways you can explore respect at home. Please find the PDF below for family activities.

Read Write Inc is taught daily (Monday- Friday) across PS1 & 2. Children are grouped according to their current ability. In each session we focus on identifying and learning Read Write Inc sounds; reading green and red words; and spelling green words. Groupings are assessed every half term. 

This half term, Dosbarth Rhymney will be continuing to develop their reading and writing skills and blending sounds.

This half term we will be focussing on:

-Two more than/ Two less than a number.

-Partitioning teen numbers into tens and units.

-Investigating halving and making the connection between doubles and halves.

-Counting forwards and backwards in 5's and 10's.

-Exploring 100 squares in different families.

-Grouping numbers.

-Number problems (missing number sentences/ true or false)

 

As with writing, forming numbers correctly is extremely important. Above are some short rhymes which will help your child remember the correct number formation in a fun way!

The children will have opportunities to speak Welsh daily in school. We encourage the children to ask and answer questions using our 'Helper Heddiw'. 

This term we will be focusing on:

Q- "Beth wyt ti'n hoffi?"

A- "Dw i'n hoffi____________"/ "Dw i ddim yn hoffi________"

 

Q- Beth wyt ti'n gwisgo?/ Beth ydy e gwisgo?

A- "Dw i'n gwisgo______ achos_____ mae hi'n heulog." "Mae pirate yn gwisgo_________"

 

We also have a weekly Welsh phrase of the week. Please see these below to support your child further at home:

New one to be added soon

 

Learn Welsh Games - https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames

S4C Education - https://www.s4c.cymru/en/education/tag/36/primary/

As part of International Languages, Dosbarth Rhymney are learning French. We will learn greetings, colours, numbers and animals.

Colours

 

 

 

www.languagenut.com

Languagenut is a wonderful online tool where children can access resources to support the development of their new language (French). Each child will have their own log in details where they can gain points for activities completed. 

At St David's we promote the use of 'SMART' rules daily, as we know how important it is to stay safe online.

Please encourage your children to use these 'SMART' rules at home too. 

For more information about supporting your child with using the internet safely, please click on the following link:

https://hwb.gov.wales/zones/online-safety/key-information/primary-learners/

 

The Curriculum for Wales is now statutory requirement since September 2022 for all schools in Wales. It has a key role to play in helping children and young people navigate the world safely. Welsh Government wants education to help our children to develop as healthy, confident individuals, ready for the next chapter in their life after school. Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) encompasses the knowledge, skills, dispositions and values that will empower learners to:

• support their health and well-being
• develop healthy, safe and fulfilling relationships of all kinds, including those with family and friends, and in time, romantic and sexual relationships
• navigate and make sense of how relationships, sex, gender and sexuality shape their own and other people’s identities and lives
• understand and support their rights and those of others to enjoy equitable, safe, healthy and fulfilling relationships throughout their lives.

Children will earn a point for their class for bringing in a piece of fresh fruit or vegetable for snack. These points will be added up each week and the class with the most points will be rewarded with extra playtime at the end of the week. Children can also earn an extra 5 points by bringing in a healthy lunchbox or eating all of their healthy school lunch, and stickers will be given out by Year 6 monitors. Please help to support us in our campaign to encourage children to eat healthily in school. 

Please ensure that your child has a labelled bottle in school daily, containing water only. We have fresh drinking water fountains, where the children can refill their bottles. 

Please - NO sweets, chocolate and sugary drinks in lunchboxes and nothing that contains NUTS due to some children having severe allergic reactions. Thank you.

As a school we have created a list of 101 experiences we believe all children should have the opportunity to explore. These are linked to the 4 purposes of the Curriculum for Wales. Once you have completed an experience, send a photo to year1@stdavidsprm.cardiff.sch.uk who will upload the experience to Seesaw. When you collect 5 of more experiences from each purpose you will be celebrated in our VIP assembly. Happy exploring!

     

 

As a school we are working hard to reduce our carbon footprint as part of our Eco schools awards. We record how we travel to school each day and gain badges and awards every month if we have met our target. Help us to travel safer and greener by walking, cycling or scooting to school! You could always park and stride or catch a bus.

Please support our mission by encouraging your child to travel sustainably to school or use our Park & Stride arrangement and park at Pentwyn Leisure Centre.

St David's CIW Primary School is proud to be a Rights Respecting School, which means we are a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted.

This term we will be focusing on Articles  24, 25, 27 and 33-36  from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

 

During our worship time on Mondays, we have been learning about current news, topics and events. Then we have been exploring the key questions linked to these further in class. Here are some of the questions we have been discussing!

When discussing the Picture News, we have been challenging ourselves to use new, ambitious vocabulary to describe our feelings and opinions.

 

After school clubs run on a Tuesday afternoon 3:30-4:30.

Our current club for Dosbarth Rhymney is Lego run by Mrs Maunder.

All clubs will run for a term and will change every term. If your child would like to take part in our after school club or be added to the waiting list please send an e-mail to clubs@stdavidsprm.cardiff.sch.uk

 

By clicking below, you can access a range of resources to continue learning at home.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/- Great online games for curriculum areas

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn - BBC Bitesize

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html - Lots of online games linked to different areas of the curriculum

https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames - Online Welsh games

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/ - Corbett Maths - 5-a-day Challenges

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ - White Rose Maths - Reasoning Challenges

hwb.gov.wales - collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales by the Welsh Government

https://www.purplemash.com - award winning cross curricular website for  primary school children. It enables children to explore and enhance their knowledge in a fun and creative way -  contact Mrs Krizman for log-ins.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk - Ebooks following the Oxford Reading Tree Scheme. 

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