Croeso i Dosbarth Ceiriog
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” Helen Hayes
Meet the staff
Mr. Wyeth
Miss. Parr
Croeso cynnes nôl i wefan Dosbarth Ceiriog!
I’m Mr. Wyeth, the Year 2 and 3 class teacher, and I’m looking forward to an exciting year of learning ahead.
Our class ethos is built on the Sant Dunawd Learning Super Powers – helping our learners to collaborate, reflect, persevere, stay curious and show resilience.
The children’s learning and wellbeing are supported brilliantly by Miss Parr. Every Tuesday, the class takes part in Forest School, led by Mrs. Johnson, where they explore and build their connection with the natural world.
Our INSPIRE Inquiries
This half term, Dosbarth Ceiriog will become a team of young engineers as we take on an exciting challenge: designing and improving our own flying machines!
We’ll begin by exploring what makes things fly, investigating forces such as air resistance, lift and gravity. Through hands-on experiments, we’ll test different materials and discover how their properties affect performance. Using this knowledge, we will design, build and refine our own flying models.
Our classroom will be full of curiosity, creativity and problem-solving as we test our ideas, make improvements and learn from what doesn’t work as well as what does. Just like real engineers, we’ll keep logbooks to record our designs, results and thinking as our ideas develop over time.
Along the way, we’ll be developing our skills in measuring, recording and interpreting data, as well as explaining our thinking clearly using scientific and technical vocabulary. We’ll also be using Welsh to share our ideas and discuss our learning.
At the end of the inquiry, we will host our very own Air Show, where learners will showcase their designs, demonstrate how they work and explain how they improved them through testing and adaptation.
We can’t wait to see where our ideas take us! 🚀
Homework
At Ysgol Sant Dunawd, we believe in a little and often and that practice makes progress! The children have weekly spellings to practise on Spelling Shed (to complete at least 5 games) and weekly times tables practice on Times Tables Rock Stars (at least 10 minutes). We also encourage the children to read a few pages of their reading book each night, aloud to an adult (they can also read on Oxford Owl). Please click on ‘Useful Links’ for all links to the websites mentioned above.
Our previous INSPIRE Inquiries
Dosbarth Ceiriog 2023 – 2024
Did you know…?
The class name Ceiriog means ‘happy-go-lucky, friendly and is also the name of a river‘. The River Ceiriog is an 18 miles long river in north east Wales. It is a tributary of the River Dee.