Bodringallt+Primary+School

Bodringallt Primary School

Bodringallt Primary is situated at the heart of the Rhondda Fawr in Ystrad. Ystrad is typical of the mining villages that developed in the South Wales Valleys following the discovery of coal in the mid 19th century. We are a small school with 4 classes, 3 mainstream, 81 pupils from 3-11years + one SEBD unit with 8 pupils. Each class took a different approach to the Village Trail Project [|Bodringallt Pri Village Trail - Planning Overview.doc] and covered many skills while working on the project [|Village Trail - Possible Skills Coverage.doc]


 * Click on the links below to look at the work our classes have been doing for the project**.


 * History of Ystrad** - []


 * Class 1** - Querch the Quirk wanted to see what we did in our classroom and around the school so we took Quirch round our classroom to see where everything is. Then we went out into the hall and around the school and spoke to some of the people who work there. [|Class 1 Classroom etc.swf] and [|our school powerpoint -compressed.pps] Qwerch wanted to see what was outside our school so we went for a walk to the park [|Walk to park powerpoint -compressed.pps]


 * Class 1** - Querch wanted to visit the church so we went on a visit to our local church, St Stephen's to find out what was there. First we had to look very carefully at the church and then we had to draw it [|Drawing the Church.wmv]Then we went inside the church where Father Peter told us all about the special things that are in the church. He told us about the pulpit [|Pulpit.bik], the altar [|Altar.bik] and the font [|Font.bik](//see below for RAD Tools download to run bik files//)


 * Class 2** - We looked around our school and village, took part in some surveys and interviewed some staff and pupils in the school.[|Class 2. A Village Trail.pps]. Come and have a look at the shops, businesses and homes in our village [|Class 2 photostory.wmv]


 * Class 3** - We looked at the history of Ystrad [|Ystrad History.wmv]


 * Class 4** - We looked around our school and village and found out lots of things. This is what we did The Village Trail Class 4 [|The Village Trail Class 4 - compressed.pps]

__**Organisation**__ Class 1 - N/R/Y1 & 2 Class 2 - Y2/3/4 Class 3 - Y5/6 Class 4 - SEBD Class

__**What We Used**__ Microsoft PowerPoint, Publisher, Word & Excel 2Createastory Photostory Easyspeak microphones Digital cameras Flip video camera

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