Welcome to Dosbarth Dwynwen
*Important – Letter from Mrs Edwards 16th July 2020 – Please read*
*Welsh Government Announcement* *09/07/2020*
Please see below a message from Mrs Edwards:
Dear Parents/Carers,
Kirsty Williams has just announced the next phase for whole school opening in September. We will be planning for this in the coming days and ask for your patience while we do this. In the meantime, please avoid contacting the school to ask questions about September. We will contact you as soon as we have finished our plans. Thank you for your support and patience.
Mrs Edwards
*New work 29/06/2020*
From this week we will be exploring our learning through the theme of ‘Sport’. This term we would have been doing lots of outdoor learning as well as holding our school sports day – we thought that we could do this as part of our home online learning! Below is the challenge grid with tasks for you to complete; we will also add some more maths activities over the next three weeks – have fun!
The heart power point instructions
Investigating what effect different activities have on our heart rate
Design & Technology Create-a-New-Mascot
Paralympics reading and comprehension
Year-4-fractions-of-money-problems-activity-sheet
*New work 15/6/2020*
This week we will be exploring literacy through a theme. The theme will be ‘Dream Island’ All the information you need is in the document below. Have fun.
Try these subtraction activities. Remember when subtracting in columns, the larger number goes on top, don’t forget to knock on next door if you need to!
word problems
colour by number mixed operation
08/06/2020
*Important* Please read the message below from Mrs Edwards:
Dear Parent/Carer
Last week Kirsty Williams the Welsh Government Education Minister instructed Schools to open for check in sessions. This will begin the week of 29th June. We are currently planning what this will look like for your child/children ensuring that the priority is, as far as we possibly can, the safety of our pupils, their families and staff. Our plan is to offer your child/children one session a week between now and school closing the week beginning 20th July.
Please let your Class Teacher know as soon as possible if you are planning, or not planning, to send your child back to School for these check in sessions. Please be aware that responses from Parents/Carers will determine the size of each group and so we would appreciate it if once you have given your answer then this does not change, as this would affect our numbers, groups and staffing. Please let us know what your intention is , at the latest by the end of this week, Friday 12th June.
Best Wishes
Mrs E Edwards
*New work W/B 01/06/2020*
To start this Half Term we are going to be using the theme of superheros to help us with some of our work. Check out the Home learning grid for some of the great work we have planned for you.
Home Learning Challenge Grid Superheros
Maths
Lets practice our measuring and ruler skills
Now why don’t you try something a little harder.
Measuring bigger items chilli2
Measuring bigger items chilli3
Why don’t you try out this practical activity on estimating and measuring
Or carry out this tally challenge and create a bar chart.
English
Try completing the A-Z Challenge with all the words, names, groups and characters that you can think of related to superheros.
This next one is not superhero related but will help you with bossy verbs when writing instructions.
Who are your real life superheros?
Research a superhero of your choice gather as many facts about them as you can.
Study the picture in the next piece of work, can you use it to help you answer the questions.
Write a story about a superhero using the comic book template:
You can also use these resources for story-writing inspiration:
Science
Take a look at these fun science activities. (please only do these experiments with adult supervision)
Art
Draw your own superhero, what will they look like? What will their costume be? Does it relate to their special powers?
Make a stop motion animation or use iMovie to create a story.
Make a headquarters fit for a superhero!
W/B 18/5/2020
Science
Here are some activities related to the wildlife in our area. Take a look outside your window, what can you see? Do birds visit your garden? Look at the activities:
Art
Try some of these activities. Take some pictures and send to your teacher!
Wellbeing
Keep your mind and body healthy with these activities:
Healthy Eating Divided Plate Sorting Activity
Finding the Food Group Activity Sheets
Literacy
Maths
Bus Stop Method Division Power Point
Inverse Operations Division and Multiplication
Geography
Use these pictures to describe a rainforest scene.
Here is a powerpoint and an activity about dedorestation and its affects on the rainforest.
The Amazon Rainforest comprehension
Independent Challenge; Do some internet research and make a fact file about your favourite rainforest animal.
See below some colouring sheets of rainforest animals
13/05/20 *PLEASE READ AND COMPLETE*
Survey from the Childrens Commissioner for Wales.(please note previous survey was a trial)
People who can make a difference to your life want to hear from you about how life has been over the last few weeks. Sally Holland, the Children’s Commissioner, is one of those people.
She wants to know about any worries you have, how you’ve been spending your time, and also about the things that have made you happy.
Sally has been working with the Welsh Government, to make sure that they hear and listen to what you have to say. Sally wants to make sure they are doing their best for all children and young people in Wales. It will also help them to make sure that they are giving you the information and support you need to feel as happy as possible during this time and afterwards.
The survey should take you around 15 minutes.
Coronavirus and Me – Nation-wide survey for children and young people in Wales
Wrexham music coop has been working hard to create an online music resource for all Wrexham pupils. This will be in the form of a secured website and will feature a changing weekly timetable of musical activities with a focus on fun and wellbeing.
Many of the videos have been made by Wrexham tutors and we have some guests appearing such as the trial video where we feature Ed Holden, aka Mr Phormula the well-known welsh beatboxer, who is familiar to some of the children as they have taken part in workshops run by him. The link is:
*Please scroll down to the bottom of the page for new work week beginning 04/05*
Don’t forget to join google classroom for more resources with the code:-
bgrrld4 (You may need to type this code in while in a private browser window.)
Home-School Learning Spring/Summer 2020:
Home learning Challenges Planning
Dosbarth Dwynwen-Glyndwr Home Learning
The document below, should provide ideas about what we would be learning in school and some useful resources to support your work.
It is important that all children are still able to access high quality resources and are aware of how they can continue their education whether at school or at home…
All pupils in Wales have access to the fantastic resources on HWB . 
After Logging in find the Just2Easy icon from the menu, for a wide range of resources, including: j2office, j2data, j2code and j2blast…
Use the comprehensive list of this terms words to keep on top of your Spelling
Also find below a list of useful document you may wish to use.
READING
Here are two links to some fantastic online reading libraries.
Maths
number-square-jigsaws-activity-sheets_ver_5
times-table-1x-to-12x-display-poster-_ver_1
multiplication-square-12-by-12-blank-number-square_ver_1
Literacy
why-do-we-celebrate-easter-powerpoint
easter-egg-mindfulness-colouring-pages
Science
Geography
Differentiated Rainforest Layers Activity Sheet
Lesson Presentation Layers of the Rainforest
Rainforest Word Search Black and White
Rainforests Writing Frames Colour-Editable
Welsh
Body-Parts-Labelling-Activity-Cymraeg
welsh-national-anthem-poster-_ver_1
mat-geiriau-dillad-mat-geiriau-welsh-cymraeg_ver_1
Other activities
Minecraft for education sign in step by step.
Minecraft installation instruction
Why not try to make your own rainforest?
New Distance Learning activities starting 20/04/20
Maths
Continue to practice your times table.
Have a go at some of these Reasoning questions
Practice your money skills with this Check your change activity
Have a go at practicing your rounding skills:
The Nearest 100 Activity Sheet
The Nearest 1000 Activity Sheet
Nearest 10, 100, 1000 Word Problems Activity Sheet
Practice your place value skills with these activities:
Literacy
Diary Writing – Write a diary entry about a day you have spent since school closed.
Information Texts – Write a fact file about an animal that you would find in the rainforest. Try writing one using the example frame below and then try making a video (if you have access to iMovie etc) or PowerPoint.
Spellings
Year 3
Year 4
Geography
Learn more about the rainforest by reading through these PowerPoints yourself: then have a go at some of the activities.
Rainforest-Information-Powerpoint.
Plants-of-the-rainforest-powerpoint.
layers-of-the-rainforest-powerpoint
Activities:
Animals-in-the-layers-of-the-amazon-rainforest-read-and-draw-activity
layers-of-the-rainforest-cut-and-stick-activity
Tropical-rainforests-world-map-activity-sheets
Watch Deadly 60 – series 4 – Borneo on iplayer.
You could
-make a list of 5-10 interesting facts from the programme
-write a list of some of the animals Steve Backshall talks about
-write information about palm oil/palm oil plantations and why it is threatening the forests and animals.
If you are feeling crafty then have a go at designing and creating a rainforest in a box.
Science
Lesson Presentation Grouping Living Things
Art
New Distance learning activities beginning 04/05/2020
Home Learning Challenge Grid Fairtrade
Literacy:
Fair Trade Reading Comprehension
Maths:
Science
With looking at Fair trade we will be looking at plants (some year 4’s may remember this)
Take a look what a plant needs by reading through the PowerPoints then have a go at the activities (Don’t have to print sheets out, have a go at writing in you Learning log)
Activity 1
Parts-of-a-plant-activity-sheet
Activity 2
The-lifecycle-of-a-flowering-plant-powerpoint
Activity 3
Types-of-seed-dispersal-powerpoint
Challenge Resources
Fun Art Resources
Draw With Rob!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBpgrJijMpk_pyp9uTbxLdg
Draw your favourite Disney Characters
Contact us
Your Teacher’s email is HeathA9@hwbcymru.net, Phel-JoneE@hwbcymru.net or HughesG209@hwbcymru.net
Please use this between 8.45 and 4.15.
Kirsty Williams, the Welsh Education Secretary, would like to know your opinions on remote learning. Please complete the survey in the link below to help the Government plan the next steps for learning at home.