Welcome to Dosbarth Clwyd

Year 2/3

Staff: Miss Hughes & Mrs Hooson

Dear Parents,

Welcome to the Dosbarth Clwyd class page. Here you will find information, upcoming dates and lots of photographs of what we get up to.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to ring the school office to book an appointment, send a message using our class Seesaw or, alternatively, we are always available via email: Hughesm704@hwbcymru.net

Thank you for your continued support. 

Kind regards,

Miss Hughes

Important  dates for Dosbarth Clwyd:

SUMMER TERM

28/04/25 - School opens

28/05/24 - 04/05/25 - Wales Outdoor Learning Week

05/05/25 - May Bank Holiday

06/05/25 - Governing Body Meeting

06/05/25 - 09/05/25 - Redrow Graduates carrying out outdoor improvements

23/05/25 - Sports Day & last day of half term

02/06/25 - School opens

10/06/25 - Governing Body meeting

13/06/25 - Teacher Training Day - SCHOOL CLOSED

01/07/25 - World Joke Day

07/07/25 - 11/06/25 - Sychdyn's Got Talent Week

11/07/25 - End of Year Reports sent home

18/07/25 - Last Day of Summer Term - Happy Summer Holidays!

General Class Information

Our P.E day is a Thursday afternoon - children will need to arrive to school in our school P.E skit please.

Outdoor Learning is on a Friday afternoon - children will need to arrive in warm, suitable clothing with a waterproof coat and change of footwear/wellies. 

Our current topic is 'The Skies Above My Eyes'. Our learning journey will see the children becoming expert astronauts, scientists and explorers. They will deepen their understanding of space, science, geography and storytelling while using real-life maths and problem solving skills. Drama and teamwork will drive the adventure, helping every child to develop confidence, creativity and resilience as they prepare for the greatest journey - the journey to Planet X!

Daily/weekly information will be shared via the Seesaw platform. If you require a new log in QR code, please just ask the class teachers. 

OUR LEARNING JOURNEY IN DOSBARTH CLWYD - SCROLL AND SEE WHAT WE GET UP TO 

26/03/25

In maths, we had a blast creating our own ‘angle eaters’ to hunt for right angles in shapes!

21/03/25

Dosbarth Clwyd have been busy researching the River Nile and have produced some amazing writing! Da iawn pawb!

20/03/25

Dosbarth Clwyd stepped into the shoes of Howard Carter and his team, uncovering the steps to Tutankhamun’s tomb!

19/03/25

Dosbarth Clwyd has been diving into Ancient Egypt! They’ve designed stunning headdresses using mixed media - drawing, oil pastels, and photography. Fit for a pharaoh, these creations bring ancient fashion to life!

14/03/25

Today’s launch of Times Table Rockstars was a huge success! Dosbarth Clwyd were absolute superstars, rocking their times tables in style and dressing up as rockstars! Amazing energy and enthusiasm - da iawn pawb!

06/03/2025

World Book Day! 

22/02/25

Eisteddfod 2025. Ardderchog Dosbarth Clwyd!

14.02.25

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Dosbarth Clwyd have been spreading love to children and staff with lots of positive messages.

13/02/25

Dosbarth Clwyd spent the morning making arrays and bringing Egyptian Cinderella to life with some fun role-playing! Da iawn!

07/02/25

Some fabulous creations during our ‘Over To You’ time! From a football pitch to a Minecraft build of the Titanic - da iawn ti Dosbarth Clwyd!

31/01/25

Mantle of the Expert! Today, Howard Carter paid Dosbarth Clwyd a visit to share the incredible story of discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb! We then stepped into the shoes of archaeologists, deciphering ancient hieroglyphics!

31/01/25

Pyjama party in Dosbarth Clwyd for filling up our Ready, Respectful and Safe jar!

17/01/25

We love Outdoor Learning in Dosbarth Clwyd! Today, we got creative with nature and made something special using only natural materials. Hands-on learning at its best!

16/01/25

We had so much fun measuring in m, cm and mm!

17/12/24

Incredible atmospheric artwork! We had so much fun creating these and can’t wait to turn them into 2025 calendars. Year 2/3 - you’re absolute superstars!

04/12/24

Dosbarth Clwyd are feeling very Christmassy!

28/11/24

Dosbarth Clwyd have been busy crafting reindeer hot chocolate cones for our Christmas Fair!

22/11/24

Dosbarth Clwyd have been busy researching natural disasters and turning their findings into amazing Adobe Spark webpages. Fantastic work everyone!

14/11/24

Dosbarth Clwyd honoured Remembrance Day by creating thoughtful acrostic poems and designing beautiful poppy art.

11/11/24

Our Outdoor Rainbow Challenge has been to build a drainage system to transport water. All children showed outstanding teamwork and resilience to complete the task and didn’t give up even when it was proving difficult! Superstar effort pawb!

09/11/24

Dosbarth Clwyd have been busy creating Firework Safety posters. Mr. Hamilton judged them but found it too hard to pick a top three because they were all spectacular!

09/11/24

This week, we explored Earth’s structure by modelling the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust with playdough, discussing each layer’s characteristics and practicing new vocabulary.

25/10/24

Dosbarth Clwyd blew me away with their creativity when creating leaf art this afternoon.

14/10/24

Our school rules are to be ‘Ready, Respectful and Safe’, and Miss Hughes pops a token into our jar every time she spots us making super choices. After filling up our jar in record speed, we chose to celebrate with a film afternoon!

08/10/24

PROUD TEACHER ALERT!!

Dosbarth Clwyd have worked exceptionally hard to innovate the story ‘Dear Zoo’. Instead of writing to the zoo, they have written to Palaeontologists asking for them to send us a dinosaur!

07/10/24

Dosbarth Clwyd have been experimenting with monoprint to create their own fossil art! Da iawn ti pawb!

16.09.24

🌈 This afternoon, Miss Hughes introduced us to our Rainbow Challenges! We have 7 challenges to complete in order to fill our rainbows! We were so excited to get started! 

16.09.24

In our Maths lesson, we have been learning about how we can represent 100 in different ways. We used counters, numicon and blocks to represent lots of different numbers and some of us even stretched our thinking by representing numbers to 1,000! Superstar effort and very happy children! 

13.09.24

To start off our new topic, we have been busy digging in our school grounds to see what we can find beneath our feet! 

'This has been my favourite outdoor learning lesson EVER!'  

13.09.24

We have been enjoying spending time in our independent areas! Miss Hughes has been working on creating different areas around our classroom and we love giving her ideas of what else to add to our learning environment! 

11.09.24 - Pupil Voice

We have been busy generating questions/ideas for our new topic. Miss Hughes was very impressed with our questions! 

05.09.2024 - The Street Beneath Our Feet

Our first class topic will be based on the book 'The Street Beneath Our Feet'. We were so excited to explore this book in more detail this afternoon and we already have lots of questions that we can't wait to be answered in the upcoming weeks! 

14.09.23

Year 3/4 became nature detectives today and used their observation skills to identify the trees in our natural environment based on their leaves.

21.09.23

Year 3/4 are having a ball diving into our topic of Place Value! We love having practical elements in our Maths lessons, especially when using Uno and Match Attax cards!

22.09.23

We based our Outdoor Learning session around ‘The Lost Words’ this week. Here are just some of the amazing blackout poems created by Year 3/4.

25.09.23

Year 3 loved their first music lesson with Theatr Clwyd! Blossoming Cornet players in the making!

27.09.23

For Wellbeing Wednesday, we decided to take part in some Harry Potter Yoga!

29.09.23

We had the BEST day learning with Mr Underwood! We designed vehicles fit for Polar Exploration, tested our perseverance with lots of challenges and ended the day roasting marshmallows!

04.10.23

Year 3/4 have begun reading ‘The Last Bear’ by Hannah Gold and we are already hooked! Over the past few days, we’ve been busy creating our own Bear Island maps with Mrs Underwood. The final pieces are super impressive! We 'tweeted' some examples and even had a response back from Hannah Gold herself! You can find this here: https://twitter.com/MissMHughes_/status/1709624503016325381 

05.10.23

We are very proud of our Year 4 Rugby SUPERSTARS. 7 games played, won 5, drew 1 and lost 1. Lots of new skills learnt and confidence gained

05.10.23

For this first term, our Outdoor Learning theme is centred around immersing ourselves in nature. For this weeks task, we have been busy creating nature collages; looking closely at colours, patterns and lines. 

18.10.23

We have been developing our understanding of negative numbers using numicon!

19.10.23

After learning more about the impacts of Plastic Pollution through research and reading of 'The Last Bear', Dosbarth Clwyd wrote their own rhyming poems. They then used Canva to create their own digital copy. 

19.10.23

Inspired by ‘The Varmints’ by Helen Ward, Dosbarth Clwyd spent the afternoon dissecting flowers to identify their key parts. This will lead on to future action planning around how to bring more wildlife to our school grounds.

06.11.23

The Last Bear has been leaving us feeling very inspired to make a positive difference. To start, we decided to create a piece of Whole class artwork designed to show the impact of litter on arctic animals. 

08.11.23

As part of our Polar Explorer mantle, Year 3 and 4 took part in an Arctic Training Programme, designed to test our agility, strength and determination. We all passed... we're going to the Arctic! 

10.11.23

Inspired by Help Picture and the Poppy Legion, our Dosbarth Clwyd superstars have redesigned the remembrance poppy. We focused our attention on the plastic-free aspect, alongside what the different colours represent. 

17.11.23

As part of our 'Leaf' theme week, Dosbarth Clwyd created their own natural artwork inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. 

21.11.23

As part of our Polar Explorer mantle, we have been investigating the insulating effects of blubber. 

23.11.23

We have been applying our area and perimeter skills to design Arctic base camps as part of our Polar Explorer mantle.

15.12.23

Matilda The Sychdyn Musical!

19.12.23

Amazing atmospheric artwork inspired by Jen Aranyi. 

We LOVED creating these with Mrs Underwood and can’t wait to transform them into 2024 calendars. Year 3/4 - you are superstars!

10.01.24

The first lesson of our Archaeology topic and we’re hooked! In role, we uncovered archaeological discoveries that helped us to learn more about our local past.

11.01.24

After conducting our own archaeological dig of the school grounds, we analysed and organised our findings using a database.