A lovely morning spent exploring the Blorenge. We are now headed back to school after a superb 2.5 days. Diolch to all! #Gilwern26 #memoriesmade

Day 2 - rounders and silent disco 💃🏽🕺🏻🪩🤫

Day 2 - Climbing 🧗‍♀️🧗

Day 2 - Canoeing 🛶🛶

Day 2 - Caving! 🔦

We are up and ready for a day full of activities!

We are up and ready for a day full of activities!

More updates over on Seesaw! We are enjoying some evening activities before we settle down for a good night’s sleep! Nos da, pawb 😴

Day 1 climbing and tower building! 🧗‍♀️

Day 1 caving! 🔦

Day 1 Canoeing! 🛶 An eventful afternoon 😂

This is 6GP in our well-being workshop learning about the importance of being active, by trying out this brain break!

We had a wonderful workshop with Gemma and Faye from the inreach team at Cahms all about the 5 ways to well-being!

During Healthy Living Fortnight, 6GP have been learning to play Boules! We loved the chance to try something new and test our aim.

🗣️This week, 6MF enjoyed a wonderful session with Connor Allen focussed around their upcoming transition to high school. Connor helped the children to develop their very own ‘Blank Canvas’🖌️ We were inspired by Connor’s creativity and passion! #SAPSACL #SAPSHCI

🫀🥼What a fascinating morning we had in 6MF today! It was so great to see the children connecting and applying their body of knowledge on the heart in the most authentic context! 🫀🥼 #SAPSHCI #SAPSST #SAPSACL

➗🍫6MF explored the Mode, Mean, Median and Range using smarties! ➗🍫 #SAPSMN

🖥️🫀6MF spent the morning collating more information about the heart. They were able to connect their initial body of knowledge to organise their own knowledge ahead of creating their explanation text.🫀🖥️ #SAPSHCI #SAPSST #SAPSDCF

A lovely afternoon practising our throwing, catching and batting skills in rounders. 6GP are VERY competitive!!

6GP had an afternoon of practising our javelin skills in the sunshine ☀️

They were a hit!

We spent the morning cooking traditional Slovakian dumplings! We loved learning about how to create our own dough, roll it out and cut, fill and crimp our dumplings!

Another successful drop!🪂🐣🥚

One of the first egg drops- a success as this choccy egg stayed intact! 🥚🪂

Did you know that the parachute was invented by a Slovakian man named Stefan Banic, during WW1? Inspired by this, 6GP are designing and creating their own parachutes this afternoon. Stay tuned for the Easter egg drop this afternoon! 👀

💥6GP have reached a very exciting stage in our DT Automata project!💥 After being given a design brief and sketching some initial designs, we learned about cam mechanisms. Today we built prototypes to test the movement of our mechanisms. LOTS of problem solving/resilience was needed! #SAPSSTEM

Today in 6GP, we started to explore coding through Scratch. Half of us explored using devices, whilst the rest of us played ‘Human Scratch’. We used the coding blocks to direct our ‘sprite’ and quickly learned that an algorithm needs to be precise, or it can quickly go wrong!

🧑‍💻💻 6MF celebrated #SaferInternetDay by completing a number of activities from the bingo board! What a lovely opportunity to celebrate technology whilst also being aware of the risks of AI🧑‍💻💻 #SAPSST #SAPSECT #SAPSEIC

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 6MF have been using 3rd person sentence patterns to describe their creatures yn Gymraeg… A game of ‘slapfwrdd’ to revise vocabulary is always a winner in this class! Gwaith da pawb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #SAPSLLC

No, we are not asleep… 6GP were enjoying our Friday afternoon Yoga session. What a relaxing way end our week ❤️

A fantastic session with Animal Encounters! 6TG were fully engaged and inspired—an excellent way to bring learning to life. 🐢📚

🐾🐍🦎Animal Encounters🦥🦫🦨 6MF were fascinated by the incredible animals they saw in our workshop today. What a fantastic opportunity to connect and apply the huge body of knowledge we have been building around animal adaptations. #SAPSACL #SAPSST

Wow! What an amazing time Year 6 had today! We met so many amazing animals with Animal Encounters!

6GP explored the work of Henri Rousseau today. They chose how they would respond his work ‘Surprised. Tiger in a tropical storm.’

We loved the lecture theatre!

6GP had a great day at Cardiff University today! We explored architecture, computer science and music ⭐

Just some of our new skills… 😎 #SAPSEA #SAPSHCI

We also had the BEST time learning to DJ with Dean from Gwent Music @beattechnique.bsky.social Such a treat to be able to learn a completely new skill - and something every child in 6GP loved! 🎧🎶 Diolch Miss Price for organising this! #SAPSEA

We also played Slapfwrdd to help us practise spelling these words #SAPSLLC

6GP have been revising our body parts ahead of our upcoming 3rd person descriptions in Welsh! #SAPSLLC

Year 6 had a visit from Cardiff University earlier this week… We learnt lots about what university is and the exciting things to do there. We were shocked to find out you can even get a degree in ‘Surf Science’ !🌊🏄‍♀️ It’s made us even more excited about our trip to the university very soon!

Introducing our new topic… 6MF spent the afternoon being curious about creation across a number of exciting activities! 🐒🐸🦆🦊🐟🐞🐥🐼🐠🦍

We loved our final rugby session with Ashley! We have learnt so much 🌟

Before Christmas these learners enjoyed time together with some treats. They spent their well-earned dojos on hot chocolate with some pals ❤️

🎄Christmas Dinner Day🎄 Diolch to everybody who made this lovely lunch time possible! We are definitely feeling festive in 6MF!

We loved watching Cinderella at the Panto today! A huge diolch again to @mrsjogiles.bsky.social

6MF have been retrieving information on Evacuation during WW2 🌎🗺️🛤️ It has encouraged us to explore ‘The Phoney War’ further - we were fascinated! #SAPSACL #SAPSHCI #SAPSH

🏰Cardiff Castle🏰 6MF took part in a workshop with an Air Raid Warden who transported us all the way back to 1939. We then explored the public Anderson shelter and climbed all the way to the top of the keep! What an exciting and interesting day 🌎🪖🏰 #WorldAtWar #SAPSEIC #SAPSH #SAPSACL

6MF collaborated and applied their measuring skills to find the distance between WW2 concentration camps. 🗺️ We used our new skill of scale factor to answer questions based on our findings! 📏 #SAPSMN #SAPSEIC

6MF marked the start of Anti-Bullying Week 2025 by wearing their odd socks! 🧦🗣️❌ #SAPSHCI #PowerofGood #ABW25