Ysgol Cefnllys

Learning today to shape tomorrow

Dysgu Heddiw Er Mwyn Llunio Yfory

Dosbarth Helygen - Mrs Smith

Croeso i Dosbarth

Helygen!

Spring Term 2025

Please scroll down to see some of our work from this term!

Our ‘Big Idea’ for this term is

‘Let’s Explore!’

To launch our new topic, we discussed and shared our ideas and sorted them into the six areas of learning.

Here is our shared planning:

Some of our fantastic topic covers!

We used laptops to create mind maps of our ideas linked to our topic ‘Let’s Explore!’

To begin our topic, we set up an experiment to find out which substance would melt ice the fastest out of:

salt
sugar
baking soda
sand

Predicting...

Results...

We discovered that salt was the fastest substance to melt the ice, whilst sugar was the slowest.

Conclusions...

Daily Temperatures

We have also set up a weekly challenge where we measure the classroom temperature each morning and afternoon, and then calculate the mean average every Friday!

Average Weekly Temperatures in Dosbarth Helygen

Antarctica Non Chronological Reports

Non Chronological Reports about Antarctica

Our Work on the Titanic

Our focus over the last few weeks has been on the Titanic. Here is some of the great work we have produced!

Titanic Timelines

Our Stop Motion Animation Project!

First we worked in pairs to design and create our own air dry clay models of the Titanic and icebergs. We also painted a night sky background.

Next, we used the iPads to carefully record our animations and then edited them using iMovie!

Our Stop Motion Animations about the Titanic!

Titanic Stop Motion Animation

Autumn Term 2024

Our ‘Big Idea’ for this term is

‘Long, Long Ago!’

As a class, we discussed our ideas for the topic and what we would like to learn throughout the term. Then we sorted them into the six areas of learning.

Here is our shared planning wall!

Here are some of our topic front covers!

Our Work This Term

We have been very busy this term learning about World War Two. Here is some of the fantastic work we have produced!

Adolf Hitler Biographies

Hitler Portraits

‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ Descriptive Writing and Artwork

Spotlight Remembrance Week

Our Autumn term spotlight week was all about Remembrance Day. As part of our learning, we wrote WW2 free verse poetry and created some beautiful artwork.