Dosbarth Pine - Mr Powell 2025 - 2026

Croeso i Dosbarth Pine!                                                                 

Welcome back to school after a lovely summer break! We hope that our class page will provide you with a window to what we are doing in school. Now let's find out about what we will be learning about this term...

Theme: Explore!

Topic title: Breaking Down Barriers: Building a World of Inclusion​!

This half term we will be learning...

Maths and Numeracy-  Place Value, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division as well as Fractions.

Language, Literacy and Communication (LLC)- We will be looking at diary and lettering writing as well as non-chronlogical(information text) reports. Our SPaG sessions which will support the different genres of wrting, as well as using Curriculum Visions for our weekly spelling lists. 

Science and Technology- The Human Body: Keeping healthy and how the circulatory system works.

Humnaities- We will be taking a closer look at the time in Britain following World War 2 and the Windrush era. 

Expressive Arts- We will be creating artwork based our sunset pictures, linking things to our class book 'The Windrush Child'. We will also be using the Charanga music scheme. 

Health & Well-being and PE-  Health related fitness in our PE lessons and Jigsaw (PSHE scheme of work).

ICT-  We will develop our ICT and Digital Competency Framework (DCF) skills through engaging activities focused on safe internet use, basic coding, and digital content creation. The children will also continue to learn how to collaborate online effectively, enhance their problem-solving abilities, and use technology such as AI responsibly in everyday tasks. 

Welsh- Manylion Personol.

Helpful information about our class:

Reading - Aim to read and have your reading records signed at least 3 times each week.

Spellings-  Spelling lists will be focused on over a two week period. New lists will be given out on a Monday, with a small weekly test each Wednesday.

PE – Our  PE lessons are on a Thursday afternoon, so the children can come to school dressed wearing the correct PE kit. 

Diolch yn fawr! 

Mr. Powell, Mrs. Gregory and Miss. Gibson