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⭐  Stars of the week ⭐ ⭐  Sêr yr Wythnos ⭐

Mrs Clawson's Seren - Jayden D Meithrin AM - Maria B Meithrin PM -  Leon JDosbarth Glas -  Ralph R Dosbarth Melyn - Amelia BDosbarth Oren - Levi M Dosbarth Gwyrdd -  Harry WDosbarth St. Davids -  Eloise VDosbarth Tregaron - Thomas WDosbarth Lampeter - Alfie TDosbarth Hebron -  Nathaniel LDosbarth Efail Isaf - Russell GDosbarth Ewenny - Thomas H Dosbarth Narberth - Ruby M

Da iawn i chi gyd! Mwynhewch eich penwythnos 

Well done to you all! Enjoy your

weekend 

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School Opening Many thanks for everyone who has completed the registration survey,notifying us as to whether you child / children will be attending thecheck-in sessions running from 29th June. If you have yet to complete it,please do so by 6pm this evening: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEEUL54O9uN3eqMGeskUMDszRt0OzIu08pBkwJ5M8vSQLmVQ/viewform?usp=sf_link We are delighted that the majority of children will be checking in withtheir teachers, however equally support our families who have madethe decision not to send their children back to school over the comingweeks. There is no right or wrong, it really is what is best for you as afamily. Home learning will be continuing and some of our teachers willbe trialling additional platforms to improve the learning experience, thatmay be needed in the autumn term. It has been good to speak with parents who have had some queriesabout our arrangements and equally has been lovely to receive somany messages of support and thanks, during what has a been adifficult time for everyone.

Pebble GardenWe are going to open a pebble garden  on both sites. Please painta 'Lockdown' pebble/stone and add to the Pebble Gardenoutside the main entrance at Foundation Phase. Pleaseremember social distancing when you visit the garden.

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Dosbarth Efail Isaf

Dosbarth Narberth

Dosbarth Tregaron Dosbarth OrenAnother great week of learning in Efail Isaf.We started the week thinking about whatbuilds a strong friendship. We havediscussed symmetry and found examples ofit in the world around us and we’ve carriedout an investigation into how water movesthrough capillary action. We’ve writtendetailed instructions on how clouds areformed and finally we have begun to findout about the Iroquois tribe and theirincredible way of life. It was lovely to chatwith you all this week and hear what youhave been up to and it was an added bonusto see some of you in person when youcame to school to collect your belongings.Have a lovely weekend.

Narberth have continued to work so hardthis week and have impressed me onceagain with their array of talents! We havewritten information pages about ourfavourite hobbies, completed a Welshreading comprehension, interpreted data inline graphs and completed a scienceinvestigation that really got our heartsbeating! We also spent a day reflecting uponthe highs and lows of our time in Year 6 andremembering the fun that we have had. Ithas been fantastic to see the effort thateveryone has given to their home learningand to share in the extra activities that weare doing with our families. Well doneeveryone on a fabulous week of work.

Dosbarth LampeterA big thank you for all your efforts again this week. In Lampeter westarted off the week by planning an oracy presentation on ourexperiences during lockdown. They all had great personal details inthem and I am looking forward to watching the videos on Monday. Thehighlight of the week for me was seeing your wonderful photographs ofthe things that make you happy – they all definitely made me smile! Asalways you raise your game and enjoy completing work on our topic‘Misty Mountains’ – now you are all experts on how mountains areformed! Finally we ended the week by carrying out aninvestigation on Forces. We found out which material was best for a toycar to travel the furthest  - your predictions and explanations werebrilliant. You were all super scientists!

Dosbarth Oren have been very busyagain this week. We have enjoyedcomparing height and measuring objectsfrom around the house. It has been solovely to see your enthusiasm for our“Moon Zoom” challenge this week. Thechildren worked really hard to researchpictures of the moon and foundinteresting facts and information aboutthe very first moon landing. If you findout any more interesting facts pleaseremember to add them to your Seesaw.Keep up the great work next weekDosbarth Oren. Mr Thomas

As well as talented artists, we also havesome very skilled fishermen in Tregaron!Check out the size of the amazing fishColton caught with his dad last week!  Itwas a 19lb 30z thornback ray –it’s huge!Well done Colton! We’ve also had somelovely photos submitted this week forour ‘Wellbeing Wednesday PhotoChallenge’. The children have beenasked to submit a photo that is specialto them and makes them smile. We’reaiming to get all 23 photos on ourslideshow by next week, so keep themcoming in Tregaron!

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Dosbarth St. Davids

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Dosbarth Melyn

During this period, we understand that children are spending more time online,whether that is for entertainment, to stay in touch with friends and family or tosupport their home learning. There are clearly many benefits to stayingconnected, however, increased time spent online may also increase the risk ofencountering online safety issues. We understand that as a parent or carer youmay have concerns about this. To support you in keeping your children safeonline, Welsh Government has produced some guidance which will help you toquickly navigate the online safety guidance and education resources available andaccess the information and advice you need. This includes practical tips on how toset up age-appropriate parental controls on devices and guidance on specificonline issues. https://hwb.gov.wales/zones/online-safety/repository/tree?sort=created&language=en&tags=Parents%20and%20carers&nodeId=cee03314-3bb8-4317-8e2b-5fd4ecc683a3

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We are impressed with the amount of effortfrom St.David’s this week, so much fantasticlearning going on in your homes. We haveparticularly enjoyed hearing about all of thethings that make you smile, it has been lovelyto see pictures of lots of your smiling faces, weare missing you all! Fantastic Topic work thisweek and a great effort made in creating yourown Mountains at home! Mrs Bond and MrsWilliams are so proud of you, keep up thegood work!

Dosbarth Melyn have been reading and learningabout Jack and his Beanstalk this week . We havebeen measuring beanstalks , describing Jack andthe Giant and retelling the story. We even madesome beanstalks out of books that  we haveread during our time at home !

From July 1st, SIMS Parent App will be our new communication tool, replacingSchoop. SIMS Parent App will enable a far more extensive communication toolbetween school and home. End of year reports will be sent to you via this platformat the end of term, attendance information will be available to you, teachers will beable to send direct messages and reminders to you, home learning and extracurricular timetables will be available, all on the one app. If you have not already registered for the SIMS Parent App /Parentlite app whichwas sent out at the beginning of the year then you will have received recently ane-mail from Capita SIMS re- inviting you to join SIMS Online Services. Please follow the link and use your registered email to login, you will need youremail password as well. Any problems, please contact us via the school emailaddress.

Dosbarth Ewenny

This week was really exciting because we had our first ever ‘live’ meeting onMicrosoft Teams! The children used their Hwb accounts to log into our meetingon Tuesday afternoon; we spent time talking about our experiences in lockdown, discussing the Parable of the Good Samaritan and getting to know thefeatures of ‘Teams’. It was great to see everyone for the first time since Marchand we look forward to our meeting next week. Also this week, we have beendeveloping our Welsh writing skills and looking at data handling in Maths. Ihope everyone is looking after themselves and will hopefully see you all soon.Take care. Mr Moruzzi

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Meithrin Dosbarth Glas

Dosbarth Hebron

Excellent work Dosbarth Glas! You have reallyimpressed us with your home learning thisweek. You’ve told us the story of Jack and theBeanstalk, put on your dancing shoes to ‘I’mStill Standing’ and shown us how to orderfrom longest to shortest. You confirmed thatJack is definitely shorter than the Giant! Weloved your descriptions of both Jack and theGiant and were really impressed with theadjectives you used. We were also amazedwith how many Welsh animal names younew. Fantastic! Miss O’Dare & Mrs Morgan x

We are delighted that many familieshave taken advantage of our loanscheme - borrowing chrome books andiPads, making the children's remotelearning more accessible to you as afamily. We have repurposed a numberof laptops over the last week, and nowhave several more available for families.If an additional device would help youas a family, please email school with thedetails.

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Dosbarth GwyrddDosbarth Gwyrdd have been travelling tomany different places through their readingbooks, some have read fact books about RosaParks and others finding out whetheradventure camps are better than Forestcamps also others have read about theadventures of a dancing pig.  One of the mostfavourite activities of the week was measuringobjects around the home and familymembers.  Your estimation skills have beenamazing !    It has been a pleasure to see thevariety of ways you have presented yourresearch on the moon landing, you should allbe incredibly proud of the effort and time youare giving to all of the tasks.  Thank youGwyrdd for the amazing work, videos andhandwriting that you are producing.

We have had a very busy andexciting week in Meithrin. Westarted the week with story ofThe Very Hungry Caterpillarand have watched theprogress of our caterpillars asthey get bigger and bigger! Wedid some problem solving andhad to work out how manyfruits the The HungryCaterpillar ate altogether,some fantastic methods wereused to work out the answer.Gwaith Da!! The children alsosorted healthy and unhealthyfood, did a daily food diary andan Oracy challenge telling us allabout their favourite foods!

Another week of brilliant home learning!We've first developed skills in our new RETopic - Building Bridges before looking atsome of the finer details of maths. Your workon symmetry was fantastic! As the weekprogressed we explored some practicalscience with an awesome investigation intowater. We transferred the water from one cupto another without touching them! Wow!Finally we learned how to make clouds andwrote some excellently imaginativeinstructions! Another great week - I am proudof you all!!

As a Thrive Approach school, we wouldlike to bring your attention to the Thrive-online Parent Toolkit which is nowavailable for all parents to access free. https://www.thriveapproach.com/who-we-work-with/parents-carers/ The toolkit provides hints and tips forlooking after yourselves, carefullyselected age-appropriate strategies andactivities for you to try with your childrenat home and information explaining thedifferent, age-related stages of a child'ssocial and emotional development. Please share with us any activities youcarry out with your children, we'd love tosee them.