We have had a great Autumn term 🤩
A giant screen in our classroom acts as both a white-board and also a computer screen. This allows us to “meet” people and have all sorts of virtual learning experiences. In early September, ‘Make Some Noise’ from Wrexham Music Cooperative joined us via the big screen to give us a virtual concert. We had great fun dancing and singing along to some favourite tunes!


Our big screen was in use again a week later when Wrexham midfield footballer Lili Jones joined us. Lili is only 19, so not that much older than us, and it was great to hear about her experiences, playing with Everton Under 16, Wales Under 17 and then Wrexham Under 19 before going on to a senior career at Wrexham. It was also very interesting to hear about the things she enjoys to do when she’s not playing football!
The music concert at the start of term inspired us to harness our inner Mozart by learning to play an instrument. The Glockenspiel is a keyboard percussion instrument, with metal keys for different notes, like a tiny piano. To play the notes you tap the keys with a mallet as if you were playing a drum. It produces a clear, bell-like sound and was used in Mozart’s “Magic Flute” for the character of the bird catcher.

Glockenspiel keys are usually made of Aluminum or Steel, which ties in nicely with the local industry in our Cynefin. Brymbo Steelworks operated from 1796 – 1990 only 9 miles from school as the crow flies. We were lucky enough to take part in a workshop by Fiona and Gill from Stori Brymbo, finding out all about the original ironworks and sharing the information with our families.




The beautiful designs which can be created out of wrought iron led us to think about designs and shapes and how small shapes can join together to make something bigger. Mr Hibbert helped us investigate what 3D shapes we can make using a great resource called Polyhedrons. We made cubes from squares, tetrahedrons from triangles, and carried on making bigger and bigger shapes!


Our experiments with polyhedrons made us curious about scientific experiments, and we turned into mini Geologists, (complete with mini lab-coats!) learning about rocks and the various ways we can find out more about their properties.





Sometimes, when you study rocks, you find fossils. These are rare examples where organisms are buried in sediment and their skeleton is replaced by minerals, forming a rock replica of the original bone. We imagined a scenario where a Paeleontologist called Mary Anning was searching for fossils. Will from Technocamps helped us turn this scenario into a computer game using “Scratch”


The story of Mary Anning using her torch to find fossils made us wonder about other stories and other sources of light. Professional lighting technicians use big lights to create wonderful effects for shows on TV and stage. We discovered that it takes a huge number of people doing very specialist jobs to make spectacular shows such as those put on by The Royal Ballet, where stories are told through movement and dance.
Then, at the end of November, we took our learning outside. The cold, wet weather was perfect for investigating the way water moves through rocks and how dirty water can be naturally filtered.


What a busy term! I wonder what we will be doing after Christmas….?