Our gardeners have been busy today planting the seedlings we’ve grown from last year’s seeds. Hopefully we’ll have some flowers in a few weeks to attract the bees 🐝
#ethicalinformedcitizens

We’ve been busy planning re-telling the story of Sulwe this week. Lots of writing about how Sulwe felt at the beginning, middle and end of the story. We can’t wait to re-tell the story next week!✍🏻❤️ #empathy EmpathyLabUK

Congratulations to Lennon for achieving his 10 metre swimming badge this week. 🏊🏻 A fantastic achievement! #proud

We empathised with Sulwe using our red hat thinking skills & put ourselves in her shoes. We used our Voice 21 oracy charters to work in trios, take turns, summarise and feedback. We listed emotional vocabulary to use in our story writing Voice 21 Oracy EmpathyLabUK Welsh Government Education

Year 1 have been inspired by Annemarie Anang ‘I AM NEFERTITI’ out now! and her fabulous #empathy text ‘I am Nefertiti’ to make music at home too. Lovely to see siblings joining the band! 🎶🎸🥁🪇 #ExpressiveArts EmpathyLabUK

A big well done to all learners who auditioned for Pembroke Dock’s Got Talent in 1KC. You were all amazing! We can’t wait for the final!! #Talent

Well done to all our semi finalists of Pembroke Dock's Got Talent in Miss McGrath's class, you were amazing!
Michele Thomas

Some fantastic acrostic poems in year one this week! We then typed up our work onto hwb
#ourrighttoaname
Michele Thomas

After our #empathy work on ‘I am Nefertiti’ on our right to a name Yr1 have explored their names to create acrostic poems. Yesterday we wrote the first draft and polished them, today we started to type up our final drafts on J2e EmpathyLabUK Annemarie Anang ‘I AM NEFERTITI’ out now!

Children have loved choosing their level of challenge using a new game from spelling attack! Spellamadoodle was great fun!
Michele Thomas #spellingattack

Year 1 PDCS Annemarie Anang ‘I AM NEFERTITI’ out now! EmpathyLabUK I continue to be awed by the students of PDCS. Such skill in empathy, sharing perspectives, and writing so beautifully! ✨

Yr1 have been using their perspective taking #empathy skills to write Nefertiti’s diary entry. They put themselves in her shoes and imagined how she felt when her teacher didn’t call her by her proper name. Look at these fantastic pieces of writing! Annemarie Anang ‘I AM NEFERTITI’ out now! EmpathyLabUK

During our #Paths session today we
used our red Thinking Hat for emotions, to discuss feelings of anger and frustration.
#healthyconfidentindividuals

Congratulations to Maddie for gaining a Blue Peter sports badge for her sporting efforts in her football team. Maddie wore it with pride today! Well done! #BluePeter #Proud

Today we took inspiration from Annemarie Anang ‘I AM NEFERTITI’ out now!’s book I am Nefertiti, we started up a band! We had instruments from all over the World such as a Kalimba from Africa,a rain stick from Chile, panpipes from Peru & an Ocarina from China! We have been #enterprisingcreativecontributors

Congratulations to Otto, Albie and Dougie who won these medals at a BJJ competition at the weekend. A fantastic achievement, we’re very proud of you!🏅 #Proud

Today we used our #empathy skills and put ourselves in Nefertiti’s shoes to begin writing diary entries from her perspective 📝 We started with hot seating which allowed us to connect and understand her emotions, thoughts and experiences ❤️Annemarie Anang ‘I AM NEFERTITI’ out now! EmpathyLabUK

Year 1 have enjoyed learning how to subtract using different strategies. They have used a ten grid, a number line and whole part models to solve the subtraction problems.
#ambitiouscapablelearners

Lots of fantastic Easter homework has been uploaded to Hwb - craft, exploring shapes and some Easter cooking too!😋 #GwaithCartref

What amazing scientists we have in year one! We spent the morning exploring how sound is made and making predictions! Looking forward to writing up our conclusions tomorrow!
Michele Thomas
#STEM