*This video is NOT published on youtube. It has been uploaded privately in the format of an unlisted video purely to create a URL link to be able to share via the website, due to the video length.
Results of Year 4’s Alfred Russel Wallace Competition
During the Autumn term Year 4 were invited to attended a production of The Butterfly Hunter produced by Theatr Na Nog. Following this excellent production Year 4 took part in a competition based around the life and adventures of Alfred Russel Wallace. A total of 53 schools watched the production of The Butterfly Hunter and in February 2020 Cwmafan School was shortlisted as one of the final three competition entries.
As a result of this Year 4 were invited to an awards ceremony in Swansea’s Waterfront Museum. Sadly due to the current situation this had to be cancelled indefinitely which was disappointing for both staff and pupils. However the show must go on and Theatr Na Nog have produced an online award ceremony to announce the results. Good luck to all the finalists and watch the video to see the results of all the children’s hard work.
To watch the award ceremony including the three finalists follow the link below: (this includes a shortened version of our competition entry)
To see our competition entry in full click the link below:
Alfred Wallace Competition Entry FULL
To read about all the hard work we’ve done click the link below:
NPT inclusion services help for parents
NPT Inclusion Service is offering a telephone consultation helpline, which may help support you and your child at home during this time.
Please see NPT website or inclusion services Facebook page. Click on the links below.
Stay happy, stay safe.
NPT Education Inclusion Service Facebook
NPT has a Facebook page, ‘NPT Education Inclusion Service’ (previously ASD Facebook page). We are posting various resources to support our pupils, schools & families.
It includes several booklets that have been put together by Inclusion Service, Early Years & EP Service.
Please have a look.
New FREE Speech Language and Communication Portal
NEW FREE SLCN Parent Portal
The Parent Portal is now open. It is being refreshed weekly with new content so it’s worth revisiting regularly. A ‘What’s New?’ section has been added to the homepage so that you can see at a glance what has been added. These have been added this week:
*Spring Trios games
https://speechandlanguage.info/resources/perch/parents/springtriosgame.pdf
This is an activity to help with rhyme and initial sounds. It needs to be downloaded and
printed off
- The latest digital issue of the Link magazine
- An introductory blog article for parents called ‘what is speech and language?’ Further blogs and podcasts will be added
There are some lovely speech resources on the Parent Portal for Speech Link which you can do online, under ‘Activities’ and ‘Interactive Games’. There are five different levels:
- Pirate Island Helps listen for single sounds
- Circus Helps identify sounds in simple words
- Haunted House Helps discriminate between socially unfamiliar words
- Racing Helps identify sounds at the beginning
- Submarine Helps identify sounds at beginning and ends of words
The site can be found at https://speechandlanguage.info/parents
RWI Resources – School Closure information
For the attention of parents and guardians during this time of school closures.
Below is information that we have been sent from the Read Write Inc. team in regards to accessing resources at home. This is being continually updated, so please bare with us as the resources are being constantly updated.
We will be offering a range of free support so that children can continue their Read Write Inc. learning journey away from the classroom during these uncertain times. This will include a ‘phonics spine’ of 72 free e-books matched to Read Write Inc. levels, along with 62 Speed Sounds practice sheets, parent information booklets and 8 Speedy Green Word Slideshows. These free resources will all be added to the Read Write Inc. page on Oxford Owl for Home over the coming weeks, and we’ll continue to update you as they become available.
Ruth Miskin Training will also be removing the ‘shelf’ from the School Portal, so subscribing schools can access all films for teachers’ CPD, they will also have FAQs for parents, a guidance document for resources and books to send home, plus regular storytelling films of well-loved stories will be uploaded to the Ruth Miskin Training YouTube channel.
What’s available now? Take a look at Oxford Owl for Home where we now have 14 free Read Write Inc. ebooks (click on the ‘eBooks’ link underneath ‘Read Write Inc. Phonics Guide for Parents’), plus lots of guidance for parents and carers: www.oxfordowl.co.uk/read-write-inc-home
Parent videos on pronouncing the sounds, how to sound-blend, read diagraphs, read stretchy sounds etc are also available on this page.
You can find out more about the support we are offering to schools here: https://global.oup.com/education/support-learning-anywhere/?region=uk
Free School meal letter for parents
Please follow the link below in order to find out the appropriate information in regards to free school meals during this time of school closure.
