Croeso i Dosbarth Sycamore
Welcome to Dosbarth Sycamore's class page. In Dosbarth Sycamore, Miss Parry is our class Teacher and we have the wonderful Miss Roach as our classroom Teaching Assistant. We are very lucky to have Miss Jones teaching Forest School on Wednesday afternoons, providing the pupils with fantastic opportunities for learning outside the classroom.
General Information
Forest School: Dosbarth Sycamore will have Forest School every Wednesday morning with Miss Jones. Children will need their Forest School kit every Wednesday. Children will need need warm outdoor clothes and shoes that they don't mind getting wet and muddy.
P.E.: Dosbarth Sycamore will have P.E. every Tuesday morning. This half term, we will focus on hockey. Children will need to wear a plain white t-shirt, black shorts or jogging bottoms and trainers/pumps for P.E.
Book bags: The children will be expected to return their book bags to school every Friday so reading books can be changed regularly. It would be really helpful if you could write a little note each week in their reading record to let us know how they've got on.
Current Areas of Learning
Here, you can find out information about current topics and units. Make sure you check out our school's Twitter page (@alexcptweets) to keep up to date with the latest pictures from our class and the rest of school.
Autumn 1 - Dyma Fi
This half term, our project is Dyma Fi (This is me), where we will be celebrating our individuality. Through English and Welsh, we will be creating personal profiles about ourselves and others, exploring appearance, hobbies, families, and future aspirations, while also developing Welsh speaking skills. In Expressive Arts, we’ll take inspiration from local murals and street art in Wrexham, as well as the colourful work of artists such as Maya Hayuk, Kashink, and Keith Haring. We will experiment with graffiti, shape, colour, and pattern to express our own identity, and will also explore global cultural traditions such as masks and face painting.
Homework
Here you will find our Homework grids which will usually be posted every second Friday of a fresh half term. There are 6 activities in total all differentiated so please choose which activities you think are most appropriate for your child and complete at least 3. You can submit Homework via Seesaw, Twitter or bring it into school. All children should be able to upload to Seesaw from home but if you have any trouble with this, contact the class teacher via Seesaw. We expect the children to be sending home via their own accounts and not through parent's messages as it encourages independence and ICT skills.
Helping @ Home
Reading
It is so important the children continue to read at home as much as possible, either by themselves or to an adult. Books can be brought home from school, borrowed from the library or be your own but please encourage your child to try a variety of genres and authors. All children have a Reading Diary. The children or yourselves need to complete the diary when they read.
Spelling
There will be one piece of spelling homework a week and this will be sent out on a Wednesday. The spellings will be shared in class and posted on the children's Seesaw. Children will be tested on those spellings the following Wednesday. Please can you encourage your children to learn their spelling words as it will help them when completing their independent writing and help to improve the quality of their work.
Maths
All children have a login for Times Table Rockstars (TTRS). Accessing this at home is very important as we don’t often have the time in school to spend practicing our times table skills, but we do need to apply them daily. If anyone has any problems accessing TTRS, please let me know and I can sort this out straight away.
Children also have logins/access to the following learning platforms (see links below). All logins have been sent home with your child. Encourage your child to be as proactive as possible at home. Please click on the links below to take you directly to the websites: