Penclawdd Primary

🌟 Proud moment for Penclawdd Primary! 🌟 Featured in Estyn’s national report on Teaching the Curriculum for Wales as an example of effective practice ❤️🖤🙌 Mentions on pp. 21 + 35–36 estyn.gov.wales/improvement-re… #PencPride #TeamPenc #Estyn #CurriculumForWales

#PencStarfish How does changing the distance between the light source and our puppet affect the size of the shadow formed? First, design our puppets, then investigate and finally end with a Mexican inspired light puppet show! #Penc6 #PencSCI #PencEXP #PencECC #PencACL

We are using all our skills in PE this week - coding skills by following an algorithm to make sure our dance is a repeated sequence, number formation in our endurance ‘garden’ and listening to instructions in our Welsh game! Da iawn! #PencHWB #PencLLC #PencSCI #PencACL

‘I am a robot…help me to build something please…’ (I hope you all read that in your best robotic voice!). We have been learning about algorithms and simple sets of instructions. We have programmed our friends! We are also asking for information by asking questions. #PencDCF

Happy learners…an active environment driven by the children’s desires. We love these smiley faces! #PencACL

We have been analysing data and we are trying to find out what is the happiest day of the week in the Flamingo class (@antanddec inspired by ‘Saturday Night Takeaway!’).Of course we are asking in Welsh -we will keep you posted! What day do you think it will be? #PencDCF #PencSCI

We are days away from our chicks hopefully hatching and Will from ‘Will’s Farm’ came to give us a talk and show how the chick is developing…watch this space! Mrs D is very excited to be a ‘chick Mum!’ #PencSCI #PencACL

Happy St Patricks Day from Penclawdd Primary! We were entertained by our very own Queen of Ireland - Mrs Thomas - and her ‘Ceili School of Dance’ - bucket loads of talent and as you can hear a whole heap of joy during this jig! #PencEIC #StPatricks2026

🌼 Happy Mother’s Day from PPS! 🌼 Today we celebrate all the amazing mums, nans, carers, step‑mums and mother‑figures who support, guide and inspire our children every day. 💛 We’re also thinking of those who find today difficult. Thank you for everything you do. 💐💖 #Penccomm

BSW is well under way in #PencPeng! We have met Marc from Technocamps who showed us how to programme robots!! We’ve also been learning about what materials sink and float and making beautiful perfume potions for our mums for Mothers Day! #PencSCI

#Pencpeng had a blissful morning for World Book Day! We arrived all comfy and cosy in our pjs with our favourite book and we snuggled up to read them together! #PencLLC

What book would you like us to read? We are trying to read a variety of stories today…we are reading the blurb then voting. #WorldBookDay2026 #WorldBookDay #PencFlamingos

World Book Day…cosy vibes for us and making reading FUN! We have built some dens, snuggled with friends and we are also voting for our favourite stories of the day. #WorldBookDay2026 #WorldBookDay #PencFlamingos

#PencStarfish We thoroughly enjoyed our landscape painting session with @paintalonglady We learnt lots of techniques to utilise when using acrylic paint and Three Cliffs looked amazing! #Penc6 #PencHCI #PencExp

#PencStarfish We had a great day celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week. We were really pleased with the mural designed by our Health and Well-Being Minister. ‘This Is My Place’ - reminding everyone that we all belong in our fabulous school! #Penc6 #PencHWB #PencHCI

#PencStarfish Would you rather…Espanol neu Cymraeg? Muchas Gracias @Gowerton2011 We loved our Spanish workshop and can’t wait for the next one #Penc6 #PencLLC #PencTransition

#PencStarfish Diolch @Gowerton2011 The best morning writing a fable with the fabulous Welsh storyteller and author Daniel Morden. We made an excellent start on our stories and can’t wait to edit and redraft so that they are ready to be published #Penc6 #PencLLC #PencTransition

#PencStarfish Would you rather … Portraits or Landscapes? We thoroughly enjoyed learning about the artist Frida Kahlo whilst considering the answer to this question . Lots of new techniques learnt too #Penc6 #PencEXP

#PencStarfish Would you rather … Cawl neu Mexican bean burgers? We love using our kitchen to follow tasty recipes and learn new techniques. Looking forward to designing our own Mexican/Welsh inspired fusion food later in the term! #Penc6 #PencSCI

#PencStarfish Would you rather…Pice ar y maen neu Torrejas? Loving our new topic - Would you rather…? #Penc6 #PencSCI

#Pencpeng have had another super morning celebrating Dydd Mwysig Cymru ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 We played musical chairs today some fabulous Welsh tunes, practised our twmpath dance and sang our little hearts out! We are super proud to be Welsh! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿