Dosbarth Coch have had an amazing time exploring the pumpkins from Farmer Sian! After reading The Roll-Away Pumpkin, we decided to carry out our own pumpkin experiment. First, we made predictions about which pumpkin would roll the best and which type of ramp would make it go the fastest. Using our oracy skills, we discussed why the bumpy pumpkins didn’t roll as smoothly as the round ones. It was such a fun and exciting learning experience in our outdoor classroom!

Next, we carefully cut open one of the small pumpkins to take a closer look at the seeds inside. We placed it in a jar with soil and made predictions about what might happen over time. The jar is now sitting on our windowsill, and we are so excited to watch and see what happens next!

A Special Visit from Farmer Sian

We were very lucky to welcome farmer Sian to our school this week! As a former pupil of ARW, she brought along some of her amazing pumpkins for us to explore. Farmer Sian shared fascinating stories about her hard work—from sowing the pumpkin seeds and hand-weeding the fields to explaining how pumpkins grow on vines from flowers right on the ground. It was truly inspiring and gave us a wonderful insight into farming. We can’t wait to discover even more about pumpkins in the days ahead!

Dosbarth Coch enjoyed a wonderful sensory walk around our school grounds, exploring the sights, sounds, and textures of Autumn all around us. Using their senses, they listened carefully, observed closely, and described what they could hear, see, and feel. Along the way, they collected a variety of Autumn treasures and had a great time sorting the leaves by size. 

Harvest Soup Fun with the Little Red Hen!

We were  so excited to receive a special parcel from the Little Red Hen, filled with everything we needed to create our very own Harvest Soup! Everyone pitched in to help make the soup, just like farmers work together to grow the food we enjoy every day.

We learned about how much effort and time it takes to grow vegetables—it's not as easy as it looks! After all the hard work, we tasted our delicious soup and held a fun vote to see if everyone liked it. We had mixed reviews, but lots of happy faces. 

Dosbarth Indigo's Tudor Food Hunt!

We went outside for an orienteering challenge and used a map of our school to hunt for picture clues. Each time we found one, there was a riddle to solve that told us something about Tudor food.  It was fun running around, finding clues and discovering tasty (and not so tasty!) Tudor facts.

We’ve begun our Tudor topic with curiosity and enthusiasm in Dosbarth Indigo.

We loved our trip to Raglan Castle, exploring the history around us and learning all about Henry Tudor! We have enjoyed creating our very own Tudor portraits. What an exciting beginning to our new topic!

We’ve had a brilliant start to Year 5 in Dosbarth Indigo!
On Values Day, we explored the idea of courage and thought about times when we can be brave. We worked together to make a colourful display based on a Bible story (David and Goliath) and we’re really proud of what we created as a team. 

A wonderful day altogether for our Leavers 2025, last ever ARW trip ….

Dosbarth Aur Careers Fair a pyrnhawn Gemau Cymraeg

Prynhawn da gyda’n teulu a ffrindiau!

Dosbarth Fioled

Year 5 had a wonderful morning visiting the local care home, where they spent time getting to know the residents. The children loved sharing something special to them and hearing the residents’ stories in return. It was a heartwarming experience filled with laughter, curiosity, and meaningful conversations. They learned so much about one another and truly enjoyed the connection. We’re already looking forward to our next visit next week!

Dosbarth Aur

Planning our Careers Fair and an afternoon of Welsh games with our families

SHINE is a very important charity to one of our families. They increase awareness of spina bifida and hydrocephalus. We loved going yellow for SHINE today :)

Learning happens in many different ways - iRock bands, you were amazing! 

Dosbarth Melyn

We enjoyed a visit from beekeeper Matt who came to talk to us about bees in preparation for when we build our bee hotels 🐝

Dosbarth Aur

After completing their orienteering task, following their residential trip to Weymouth, the children decided to create their own websites about Chesil Beach … it is amazing how much we have learnt and how it has linked to our WWII topic. 
Today we spent time presenting our websites to each other and then evaluating them using the s2s that we created as a whole class. 
 

Dosbarth Chwech

Summer Art Project has started with help from Mrs Penna 

We will be creating our own Lino printing artwork in the style of Andy Warhol. 
To complete this project, skills used will include: photography, sketching, colouring, water painting, digital pop art and all while using a variety of tools and equipment to execute our final Lino printing designs.

Our final painted WWII clay medals with chosen ribbons … final touches have brought them to life.

Celebrations for VE Day 

Dosbarth Chwech - Outdoor Learning.

Orienteering using mapping and compass skills

Year 6 Residential - Osmington Bay 

A truly wonderful week with glorious weather - Our children did themselves, their families and our school proud!

One of our very clever Year 6 parents wrote about the children’s experiences beautifully … to paraphrase their words ….

“We overcame fears, learnt new skills, coped on our own and even coped overnight. We played in the sand, on the beach and in the sea, feeling safe and free. We learnt how to sail, kayak, climb and problem solve. How grateful we are for the experiences and memories made”

These photos are a tiny snap shot of these brilliant children and their amazing memories that they made with their friends.

Dosbarth Aur

We have spent time researching and learning about WWII and following VE Day we decided that we wanted to design our own medals for the soldiers that fought during these times. 
Today we have been making our designs come to life using clay, thinking about the best tools to use to include the detail we required.

We have been so excited and patient watching our caterpillars 🐛 go through the process of becoming butterflies 🦋. After letting them get strong over a couple of days, it was time to release them. We were so happy to see them fly away and find a new home 🦋. 

Dosbarth Melyn had a great trip to the Bristol Zoo Project to find out about their conservation work with endangered animals. Now we are ready to think about the power that we have to ‘make a change’ to help look after our planet. 

Dosbarth Melyn have been finding out about castles, Caldicot Castle and our local area. Lots of teamwork, discussion and questioning. We even followed instructions to make ‘peasant bread’ ~ it wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be!

Dosbarth Fioled. 
This week, the children had a fantastic time during their outdoor learning task, where they explored ideas connected to the 4 Compass Points of Life. They focused on the North (their dream job), East (what matters most to them), South (what they’ll need to reach their dreams), and West (a moment when they showed bravery). As part of the activity, the children learned how to use a compass and worked together to follow clues around the school, leading them to each station. It was a fun and engaging way for the children to reflect on their personal goals and values while building teamwork and navigation skills.

Blwyddyn Pump. 
What an insightful afternoon! A big thank you to our guest, Angela, for showing us that everyone has a voice and there are countless ways to express it. We also loved wrapping up our spring river topic with a thoughtful discussion on pollution

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Dosbarth Aur

Summer: Week 1

This week Rev Tim joined Year 6 to discuss Eucharist and Jesus’ resurrection, with a focus on the big question:

What difference does the resurrection make for Christians? 
 

Knowing that Jesus died for us to live life to its fullest, we then spent time outside thinking and discussing our dreams and goals (RSE).

Spending time meditating and developing our own spiritual development - calming our minds and focusing on what we are grateful for. 
 

Finally, we discussed global issues and how everyone’s goals and dreams are different and how we can respect different views, feelings and lifestyles. 

Such lovely weather to be outside and enjoy these times and discussions together 🌞 

Blwyddyn Chwech WWII Debate:

Should Rose Blanche have gone back to the concentration camp? 
 

Following our work on WWII and the story of Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti and Ian McEwan, 

we took our learning outside and had our whole class debate, on whether Rose should have gone back to the concentration camp or not and why? 
 

The children had spent time writing their for/against suggestions using P.E.E. (point, evidence, explain) and effectively delivered this when debating as partners, small groups and a whole class. 
 

To say it was a heated debate, in the glorious sunshine was an understatement- many pupils had strong viewpoints, ideas and supporting evidence! 
 

Dosbarth Coch had a busy week in the lead up to half term! Easter crafts, learning about the Easter Story and taking their phonics session outside on their CVC word egg hunt! 🌞🐣💕 

Here are some pictures for you to enjoy! Pasg Hapus Pawb! 

Ising Pop Workshop i Blywddyn chwech heddiw!

New songs and actions learnt for our Year Six leavers 🎵🎤🕺🎶

This half term, Year 4 have been visited by lots of our family members. They have been talking to us about their jobs and career paths; we have been so inspired. Here is just a few of our visitors so far ...

What a lovely afternoon for Dosbarth Coch! We invited our families to help start planting ARW’s forest of the future 🌳 we had so much fun exploring, planting and playing in the sun ☀️ 

Finding the leaf families and making their homes was super exciting for everyone too! 🌱🌿🌱

The old man from our story "The Enormous Leek" left us lots of seeds to plant. Here we are planting our very own leeks! Next, we will be planting carrots; it has been so much fun taking our learning outside in the sun  Hapus iawn!

CAREERS WEEK

YEAR 6

This week we have started thinking about our own skills and strengths: Discussing what we are good at!

We have discussed further education, apprenticeship's and work experience.

Our first career researched was that of a teacher, where we learnt about problem solving, resilience, transferable skills etc 

We would very much like to invite our parents in to talk about their journey into the world of work and look forward to exploring different careers.

We have also had a visit from HMRC, who taught us about Tax and why taxes are so important. Thank you to Hazel and Elizabeth from HMRC for their time today.

Year 6 Spring Bulb Planting continues …

Our daffodil and crocus plants have been loving the sunshine as much as us!

Some of our plants have had as much as 5cm growth over half term 🌞🌦️

St. David’s Day Celebrations 

Year 6 

CONGRATULATIONSto our School Bard: Phoebe 

Handwriting: Sosban Fach 

1st Theo

2nd Phoebe

3rd Alexandria

Best Effort: Keelan

Creative Writing: The Legend Branwen 

1st Phoebe

2nd Evan

3rd Amber

Art Competition: In the style of Andrew Macara ( Winter Hill )

1st Sum-Yee 

2nd Joshua 

3rd Rose

Fantastic character profiles for Lilly and Billie the school tortoise by Elodie (Rcp) and Felix (Y3).