ATTENDANCE

Headteachers Note

Our first term is over and it has been a very busy one!

Thank you to all the pupils and parents that made our pumpkin

carving competition a great success. They looked amazing in the

dark after the disco. Thanks to Councillor Dean Lewis for judging

the competition and to the friends of Ynysfach for organising

everything and providing prizes. I put loads of pictures on twitter

last night for all to see and the winners are listed on the right.

A huge goodbye and good luck to Amy and Joseph Mogford who

are leaving us today. I know they will be great in their new school

in Sennybridge.

Also good luck to Mrs Thomas in Year 4 who leaves us for a while

today, to go on maternity leave. We wish her all the best coping

with sleepless nights!

Thank you to everyone for their well wishes and congratulations,

as I was made permanent head of Ynysfach earlier this week.

They were much appreciated. As I said in my interview I am so

proud to work here with such amazing children, supportive

governors and parents and a brilliant staff.

Have a lovely break and see you on Monday 4th November.

P. Morgan

Head teacher

Nursery Reception – Miss Gardiner. We have

thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Funny Bones' this fortnight to assist

our learning. We have been learning and the body, using our funky

fingers to build a skeleton and answering the question 'beth sy'n

bod?' We have also read the information book 'How Are You

Feeling?' to help us learn about our feelings and the different

ways of managing them. We have written a feelings poem,

created dances to show our different moods and sequenced how

we feel throughout the day. We have been busy planning for our

EPIC Friday too. We are excited to carve pumpkins, colour

skeletons, make spiders and listen to spooky tunes.

PUMPKIN COMPETITION WINNERS

NUR - GRASON MORGAN

REC – POPPY-HAF WILLIAMS

YR1 – GEORGIA BAYLISS

YR2 - NATHAN WILLIAMS

YR3 – HARLEY PRICE-COLLARD

YR4 – AMELIA COSLETT

YR5 – ROZIN GUNGOR

YR 6 – OLIVIA SMITH & EMMA WILLIAMS

SPECIAL AWARD- MASON CARPENTER

YNYSFACH NEWS October 25, 2019

Reception – 92.2%

Year 1 – 96.6%

Year 2 – 93.1%

Year 3 – 96.7%

Year 4 –95.1 %

Year 5 – 92.3%

Year 6 – 96.5%

Whole School Attendance –94.9%

Best Class Attendance – Year 3

Our target attendance is 95%

Well done Year 1 on the best attendance this week. Please

remember the importance of attending school regularly.

Your child’s target is over 95%, if you fall below this you will

receive a text to inform you.

Year 1 – Mrs Pickering

Unfortunately Mrs. Pickering is not in school she’s ill

with Tonsillitis.

Year 3 – Mrs D’Angeli What a busy couple of weeks in Year

3! We have practised lots of oracy skills in welsh and used this

knowledge to plan our writing using extended sentences. In

numeracy we have been adding and subtracting multiples of 10,

some of us are making some very quick calculations indeed and

this has helped us complete our morning math’s starter tasks.

We can also use and understand signs that mean more than and

less than and used them to compare numbers, quantities and

money totals. Lots if us get quite excited when we complete next

step tasks in our math’s work and like completing extra

challenges too. In literacy we highlighted all the different

features in our own instructions and followed our own success

critetia carefully to complete our own set of instructions. We

have used our Own ideas to have a spooky Halloween Epic Friday

and we can’t wait to make halloween paintings, puppets, bunting

and spooky cakes... have a wonderful half term Year 3.

Year 4 Mrs Thomas It has been a busy few weeks in the Year 4

classroom and a great half term of hard work – Da iawn pawb! In

Literacy we wrote our own story innovations and designed a book cover

for it. We have also learned about acrostic poetry, completing shared

writing of an acrostic poem as well as writing our own on the theme of

‘Halloween’. In Math’s we have completed lots of addition and

subtractions sums, learned some facts about length, such as, the unit of

measurement we use and also measured items in centimeters. We have

also begun finding out about the properties of 3D shapes, which we will

continue after half term. We are all really enjoying our topic ‘Body

Beautiful’. We have been exploring the variety of organs inside our body,

we have found out the names and their function. We have also

investigated how exercise affects our heart rate. We predicted our heart

rate would be faster if we took part in lots of exercise. We have shown

our impressive welsh Oracy skills, by extending our answers when talking

about ourselves and writing great first person profiles. Our new teacher,

Miss Rogers, came in to class this week to see us. She is very excited to

be joining us after half term. Keep up the good behaviour and hard work

Year 4 – Mrs. Thomas will be watching Have a great half term!

Year 6 – Mrs Thomas We have had a very busy

couple of weeks. We have been down the Liberty Stadium

for a behind the scenes tour. It was great seeing the

difference between the home and away changing rooms

and also having opportunity to try on all the Ospreys

jerseys. We have also been coding in the Sony Centre in

Pencoed and again had a tour of the factory. In class, we

have been detectives this week solving the mystery of the

'Murder in the jigsaw shop' by answering the math’s

puzzles. It was great fun and we used lots of math’s skills

such as finding fraction and percentages of amounts and

equivalent measurements. Have a great half term and

keep safe.

Pupils Voice

Year 2 – Miss Evans This week we had a fantastic time in

St Fagans! Everyone loved the day and learned a lot about

schools in the past and shopping in Victorian times. The

children were really well behaved. On our return to school we

all wrote a recount about the visit, where they were able to

recall some of the features and include them in our writing.

We have been working on finding 1 more and 1 less, 10 more

and 10 less and partitioning 2 digit numbers. We have also

been using the past tense in Welsh to record our recount

orally. We have been discussing different types of foods and

have been able to categorize them. We have also collected

data on our favourite foods and graphed this data in a block

graph.

Miss LeMasurier Year 5 Year 5 have been working hard over the past two weeks. In maths, we have been learning to compare, simplify and find the equivalent fractions. We have also been looking at selecting the correct operation when given problems. In English, we have been learning to vary our sentences by including fronted adverbials, paragraph our writing and plan to write our stories. We have been working hard to make our stories interesting, following a character on an adventure and to include accurately punctuated speech. In Topic work, we have been learning how to read maps and to compare Resolven ‘Then and Now’, we have also shown this through our drama and art work. In Welsh, we have continued to work on our first person profiles, last week we wrote about ourselves and this week we wrote from the perspective of Aneurin Bevan. We researched facts about the NHS and how, and why, it was created. We round off the half term by making Halloween decorations and cakes as chosen by Year 5 for their EPIC Friday!