Autumn A: Healthy Me	Autumn B: Celebrations
Spring A: Story Explorers	Spring B: In the Garden
Summer A: A long time ago	Summer B: Far far away

Summer Term B:

On Thursday 27th June we were lucky enough to have a visit from North Wales Police Dog Unit. Take a look at the article below to see the photographs that we took during the visit.

We are looking forward to starting our new topic. Thankyou for all the wonderful artefacts/objects that have been sent in linked to Africa and Spain.

Summer Term A:

A big congratulations to Morgan! Star of the half term for working so hard. It is also close competition at the moment to be the first person to reach 20 stars. I'm sure a few of you will do it next half term!

We have really enjoyed our 'Victorian topic' and will be returning to it next half term when we go on a trip to Greenfield heritage site. ( More information to follow with dates after half term.) Next week we are going to begin to think about our new topic Far, Far away
( focus on Botswana, Spain and Wales.) See this week's learning log task for links with the new topic.

We've had fun in the roleplay this week...



We are becoming more independent working in the class areas and choosing activities linked to the topic. We are using a range of thinking skills strategies to record our ideas.

I have been so impressed with the Victorian shoeboxes!  We researched Victorian bedrooms in school and designed our rooms. Then we used our designs to make our shoebox for our learning log task. On Friday we did a 2 star and a wish on our partners shoebox. Look at the gallery at the bottom of the page for more examples.

Week 13th May: Remember your Victorian shoebox's are to be returned on Friday. I'm really impressed with some of the boxes which have been completed so far!
 
Star of the Week: May 10th: Efa: Well done for always working so hard!

May 3rd: Take a look at some of our Victorian topic photo's. See gallery below!

We used a talking tub with our topic questions. Then we displayed our questions on a board in class.


We also created a 'Wow' word wall to improve our writing. All the words we could think of rather than use 'old.'



22nd April: This week we got a suprise package from the past. We got some letters from Victorian times which we are going to reply too.

8th April
Welcome back after the Easter holidays. It has been great hearing all your holiday news this week. You've certainly all been busy!

Class news: We were really sad to see Emma leave at the end of term but we wish her well in her new school!

A big welcome to Anais and Sophie, our new pupils this term!

Also a big 'Well done' to Iwan, our Star of the term for last term. Awarded for his hard work and great attitude.

Well done also to Cora for being the first person in the class to reach 10 stars.

Thankyou for the sponsor forms we have received back so far. We will be carrying out the sponsored 'nature hunt' at the end of the week.

Next week we will be starting our new topic 'The Victorians.' We will send more information our regarding this topic soon.



Spring Term B:This week we have celebrated World book week and have had some interesting visitors into class.

On Thursday we had The North Wales academy under 21's to listen to us read and on Friday Year 4RR came to share books with us and listen to us read.

Morgan reading with Juan!

Reading with the rugby players was fun!
 

Have a look at some more pictures of World book day activities in the gallery below.

The next Year 2 'Pop in' is changed fromThursday 14th March to Tuesday 12th. Sorry for any inconvenience for the change of date but a course date has been rearranged and Mrs Roberts and Miss Butterly are not in school Thursday afternoon.

Finally we have won the tocyn iaith competition with 34! This means a trip up to the top yard and the adventure playground on Thursday! Well done 2ER! Let's win again next week!!!

1st March: Winning colour group with the most stars: Grwp oren

Star of the week 1st March: Viet- a fantastic attitude towards your work!

March 1st: We celebrated St David's day with the Eisteddfod. Thankyou for the wonderful entries for all the competitions.
Art competition: 1st prize winner Elin!
Design a welsh flag competition: 1st prize Carlos
Baking competition: 1st prize Olivia M
Winning colour group for singing: 'Grwp glas'

Da iawn ti! Please check the photo gallery above the articles at the bottom of this page for Eisteddfod pictures.

18th February: We have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have also been practising for the Eisteddfod in our colour groups. See this week's learning log task for the words to our Eisteddfod song. Also don't forget your baking and craft entries on Friday 1st March.

Star of the Week Friday 22nd February: Omar: Well done for a great Chinese year story board and for always listening carefully! Look below for our past Stars!!

Winning group with 67 stars: Grwp glas!

  2ER will really miss Kayleigh! Good luck in your new school and thankyou for our last day treats!


Spring B: Our new topic is 'In the garden.' We will be developing our garden area this term! Let's hope that we get some nice weather so we can start to get out a bit more and do some planting! Anything you can donate for the garden area would be much appreciated.

Spring A: This term our topic is 'Story Explorers' and we have been having lots of fun looking at Superheroes and Fairy stories.   See the superhero folder below to read about what we've been up to and to look at the pictures.

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Each week we are choosing a Star of the week:
Fri 25th January: Jazmine - Excellent listening skills and always tries her best! Well done!
Fri 1st February:Morgan - Has impressed everyone with his work this week!  2 great pieces of writing! Well done.
Friday 8th February:Kayleigh! You always work hard and you have made me smile lots in your last week at Pen Y Bryn!
Friday 22nd February: Omar
Friday 1st March: Viet

We also collect group stars each week. Our weekly winners are:
Friday 25th January: Grwp Coch (Red group)
Friday 1st February:Grwp Coch (Red group)
Friday 8th February: Grwp glas (blue group)
Friday 22nd February: Brwp glas ( blue group)
Friday 1st March: Grwp Oren (orange group)
 

We are also in competition with all the other classes for Tocyn Iaiths.

Every morning we are practising our welsh using our Helpwr Heddiw board and Siart Tywydd.  We are teaching Mrs Williams too!  Ask your child to tell you what the weather is like in welsh.

Please also check the article'Learning log tasks' as we will be updating the new task every Friday!