Y GARTH Penygawsi Primary School: Just an example of a day in Y Garth.

An example of our time table.

This was Tuesday's in Y Garth.

8.55 am doors are open and everyone's in.

Independently hang up our coats, bags, put drink bottles into the class tray.

Go and play in the areas in the class for a few minutes.

9am-9.10am

Registration, the day and date of the day, 5 high frequency words and daily Helpwr Heddiw -Welsh.

Those who are needing a little extra support in Language and Mathematical development attend a 10 minute skills group session with a teacher and teaching assistant during registration to recap and review some skills.

9.10am - 10.05am

Read Write Inc and Language Development lesson.

We are split into 4 groups who then work on differentiated tasks with teachers based on their phonics and graphemes knowledge.

Each group has a new sounds session of the day, we review and recap previous sounds, write the sound and learn building and blending of words. Today was the letter 'a'

Some children are holding sentences for writing too.

There are also a carousel of activities for the children to participate in and these include handwriting formation in many different ways.

In shaving foam on tables, in sand, using paint, with dough, using whiteboards and pens, using chalk and sugar paper.

10.05am- 10.15 am

Snack time. Whilst we eat our snack and drink our milk we watch and learn nursery rhymes.

10.15am-10.30am

We have singing assembly in the hall with the whole school on a Tuesday. This varies every day. Monday its a formal assembly, Wednesday its class assembly, Thursday its a Welsh assembly and Friday its a celebration of achievement assembly at this time.

10.30am-10.40am

We have 1st break and we go out to play.

10.40am-10.55am

We practise our counting and mental maths work sitting altogether on the carpet.

Today we counted numbers to 20 by rote, played a number recognition game of numbers to20, a number song...once I caught a fish alive and matched 1:1 counting correspondence with our fingers to practise.

10.55am-11.45am

On Tuesday its thematic maths for 2 groups whilst another group has a Personal and Social education task and another group works on ICT skills, using a mouse.

11.45am -12.55 pm lunchtime.

12.55pm-1.10pm registration then Helpwr Heddiw learning.

1.10pm- 1.30pm

Guided reading groups.

Here two groups work with a teacher and teaching assistant reading while the other groups, 4 in total, work independently on activities such as completing jig saws, letter formation on white boards and in shaving foam on frisbees, reading in the class library.

During this time there is a fine motor control group being held with a teaching assistant for children to have extra support working on developing their fine motor control skills. Activities include consolidation of pencil control and hold. Using a scissors correctly, threading, using tweezers to pick up objects, putting clothes pegs on material etc.

1.30pm- 2.10pm

Theme based tasks on knowledge and understanding of the world development and independent enhanced tasks.

Two groups work with a teacher and teaching assistant whilst the other two groups work on enhanced challenges independently. These children have the support of a teaching assistant to guide and help to develop their independent learning.

This afternoon our theme based work was brought to us via a challenge from Queen Sparkle. The weather in the Kingdom of sparkle has been dreadful and Queen Sparkle doesn't know what to wear! Also something has been causing many rainbows to show lately over the kingdom of sparkle and queen sparkle wanted to know what causes them?

We learnt about types of weather and dressing appropriately for it, what weather makes a rainbow, we looked at a variety of clues for looking at appropriate texts to help us find out more weather information too.

Some of the children who were working on independent enhanced challenges decided that they were going to finish painting the characters from our Roald Dahl story last week.