St Mellons Church in Wales Primary School
Welcome to Class 1! Croeso i Dosbarth 1!
Teacher: Miss Clarke
LSA: Miss Evans
Communication
Contact us on class1@stmellonsprm.cardiff.sch.uk
X (Twitter) - @stmellonsprm
Our School ID: 13339
Google Classroom Code: ask your teacher
Overview of the Day
8.55 - 9.00 - Greet each other/ registration
9.10 - 9.30- Worship
9:30 - 10:15 - Maths
10.30 – 10.45 - Break
10:45-11:05 - Helpwr Heddiw
11:05– 11.55– Literacy
12:00-1:00pm - Lunch
1.00 - 1:30 - RWI (Read Write Inc)
1:30 - 1:55 - GGR - Group Guided Reading
1:30- 2:15 - Inquiry/Welsh/Health&Wellbeing/RVE
3.00 - 3.15 - Tidy up and Storytime
Important Dates for the Half Term
Link to all our key dates this term:
Snack, P.E. Day and Uniform
Snack:
Healthy snacks can be purchased from school (via ParentPay) or brought from home.
P.E.
Class 1 have P.E. on Wednesday and pupils can come wearing their P.E. kits.
Current Learning
Our context this half term is Growing up and Moving on!
use them to defeat baddies set to destroy their school. During the sequence, they write letters and emails asking for help, create wanted posters, generate character descriptions for their
invented superheroes and then create their own version of the Send for the Superhero story..
This term, our new inquiry is called 'Growing up and Moving on'. This inquiry will involve the children understanding that they are growing and changing, both in their bodies and their emotions. They will begin to recognise different feelings, likes and dislikes, and learn simple ways to manage their emotions and behaviour. Explore ideas of right and wrong, safe and unsafe choices, and how to look after themselves and others.
How can we be helpful in our next class?
How do we start growing?
How can we be generous to our new teachers?
How can I practise to get better at something?
How do animals grow?
How can we keep good friends?
How can I get to know to new teacher and classroom?
How can we eat healthy to grow strong?
What do we do when we are adults?
Could we make something healthy?
How do we make healthy food?
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CHRISTIAN QUESTIONS What is the good news that Jesus brings?
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OTHER RELIGIOUS QUESTION How does the story of Moses bring good news? Explore the life of Moses and the emotions associated with the story.
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NON-RELIGIOUS QUESTION People are different from each other: Is this good news? What makes someone special?
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Planning
Planning of the week ahead can be found on google classroom. Please contact the email above if you are having any issues logging into google classroom.
Inquiry Planning - to be uploaded.
Homework 
Every Friday homework will be sent out on google classroom. It will alternate each week one literacy and numeracy.
Please encourage children to give the homework a go as it is a great way for them to consolidate their learning from the previous week.
Homework can either be printed and brought into school complete or done online and sent back via google classroom.
Homework grid for this term:
Four Purposes
The four purposes are that all children and young people will be:
Ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.
Enterprising, creative contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work.
Ethical, informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.
Healthy, confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.
St Mellons CIW Primary School is proud to be a Rights Respecting School, which means we are a community where children's rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. This half term we will be focusing on Articles 24, 13 and 28 from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Christian Values
Our Value this half term is:
Trust
— Proverbs 3:5
Literacy
Reading takes place every day with group reading sessions and children read as individuals to an adult at least once a week. We do have visitors who like to listen to readers so book bags need to be school everyday and we aim to change the reading book at least once a week. Your child's progress in reading should continue to be developed at home though shared reading experiences with their book in their book bag and also with their own books.
Read, Write, Ink is how we teach phonics and how children learn to read.
what to teach when speed sound lessons.pdf
rwi workshop for parents jan 2025 pptx.pdf
How can I help my child to read?
Do not read the book aloud before your child reads it to you.
• Ask your child to read the sounds and words before he or she reads the story.
• When your child reads the story, ask him or her to sound out the words that he or she can’t read automatically. Don’t allow your child to struggle too much. Praise your child when he or she succeeds.
• Read back each sentence or page to keep the plot moving. (Your child’s energy is going into reading the words not the story.)
• Do not ask your child to guess the word by using the pictures.
• Do it all with patience and love!
I have also added flashcards of the high frequency words - words appear a lot and are in many books - to Google Classroom in the Homework section. If you help your child to learn these words it will make reading easy!
Meet the Teacher ...for those that missed it!
Welsh - Cymraeg and MFL - Modern Foreign Languages
The phrases this term:
Internet Safety
At St Mellon's, we promote the use of 'SMART' rules daily, as we know how important it is to stay safe online.
Please encourage your children to use these 'SMART' rules at home too.
As part of the Curriculum for Wales your child will discuss and learn how we can all stay safe online and about the dangers we may face on the internet. We get involved with national Internet Safety Day, which is held on the second Tuesday every February each year.
Pupils are taught ways to stay safe online in class and Digital Leaders have carried out whole school assemblies about internet safety. Sound advice on internet safety can be found on https://www.internetmatters.org/
Jigsaw - PSHE
Jigsaw is a whole-school approach and embodies a positive philosophy and creative teaching and learning activities to nurture children’s development as compassionate and well-rounded human beings as well as building their capacity to learn. Jigsaw is a comprehensive and completely original PSE programme for the whole primary school from ages 3-11. The Jigsaw Programme also delivers Relationships and Sexuality Education. Ensuring it meets the requirements set out in the RSE Code for Phases 1 and 2. Life cycles and human reproduction will be taught in a sensitive manner, age related in all schools in Wales. This means that all learners must receive this education. There is no right to withdraw from RSE in the new curriculum.
Jigsaw has two main aims for all children:
• To build their capacity for learning
• To equip them for life
Jigsaw brings together PSE, Relationships and Sexuality Education, emotional literacy, mindfulness, social skills and spiritual development. It is designed to support a whole school approach, with all year groups working on the same theme (Puzzle) at the same time at their own stage of learning. There are six Puzzles (half-term units of work) and each year group is taught one lesson per week. All lessons are delivered in an age- and stage-appropriate way so that they meet children’s needs.
Curriculum for Wales Relationships Sexuality Education Code
Healthy Schools
What is a Healthy School?
A Healthy School:
- Is one that promotes physical, social, emotional and mental health and helps equip pupils, staff and families with the skills and attitudes to make informed decisions about their health.
- Recognises the importance of investing in health and wellbeing to assist in the process of raising children and young people's achievement levels.
- Involves the whole school community, parents, governors, staff and pupils in improving children's health, well-being and happiness, helping them to get the most out of life.
Click here for lots of Healthy Lunchbox Ideas
Active Travel
We encourage 'Active Travel' with the travel tracker website where your child records how they travel to school each day. Badges are given out to the pupils who are the most active each month.
Please see the information below for a fantastic opportunity for you and your child! 
Picture News
Each week, on a Monday during whole school worship, pupils get a snapshot of the news via Picture News - real stories adapted for children. Pupils get an opportunity to discuss and reflect upon real life issues, see where in the world it is happening and how it relates to our lives and impacts the lives of others whilst reinforcing Christian Values. This Picture News discusses the importance of human interactions as Amazon workers were asked to return to the office after several years of working from home.
Useful links
Ask your teacher for your HWB password.
- use online Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc)
- use J2e
- post news to share with classmates on Google classroom*
- and much, much more