SJ Maples 5SJM

Teaching Year 4 in Llandaff, Cardiff. Team Lead. Keeper of Barnaby Bear.

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4SJM have been hitting the headlines this morning in their literacy lesson. Watch out for these up and coming journalists! 📰

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4SJM have been playing a range of health and well-being games, learning about fire safety, friendship skills, healthy eating and much more!

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What a fantastic start to Year 4! 4SJM have been thinking about how to stay safe online, writing about their perfect summer day and creating their own stop motion animation based on diving giraffes! 🦒 🦒 🦒

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Thank you so much to all the wonderful children and parents of 5SJM for your very kind and generous gifts. Wishing you all a wonderful and safe summer holiday. SJM xxx

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What a great start to our day with a live lesson with @DiscoverDwr @EcoSchoolsWales we learned a lot about ‘Marvellous Minibeasts’ Diolch yn fawr. 🦋🪳🦎

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@BethCol62953319 Some great costumes and very random props today including a jar of mayonnaise! 😂

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It’s all happening in Year 5, move over Hollywood we are filming our own summer blockbuster!

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Literacy, numeracy, IT, Expressive Arts and more were all used to create some great presentations at the end of the week. 🐝

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Last week Year 5 planned their own work with the aim of applying as many of the skills that they have learnt this year. Their work was centred on bees and the environment. 🐝 🐝 🐝

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Year 5 have been working on developing their own podcasts this week.

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We were lucky with the weather!

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It’s Tennis season, but first some team work in successfully putting up some tennis nets!

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We tried so hard to design the perfect space capsule to protect our astronauts but sadly many eggs were broken in the process of testing!

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In Science this week, we have been making it ‘rain’ inside the class!

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Our children in Year 5 have been hugely successful in their cycling proficiency this week. Well done everyone.

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We found over 25 species of wildlife in our school environment including four species of slug!

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It’s been a busy week or two and here are some of the highlights… using quadrants to complete some biodiversity fieldwork.

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Our last ‘Open Your Eyes’ event of the year with Network Rail. Our task is to design a new viaduct for Afon Taf. We have previous experience of bridge designing! @CdfCommitment #cwre

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@LewryLaura @llandaffcity @christianaid @MrLumbyPrimary Absolutely love this girls! ❤️

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Over the half term the girls completed their Jelly Welly Walk to raise money for Christian Aid. They walked 1km with Jelly in their wellies! It was very sticky but they raised £130! @llandaffcity @christianaid @MrLumbyPrimary @sjmaples