On the beach

Before we went to the beach we looked at photo's of the area that we were going to visit. The photo's were taken over a hundred years ago.

We decided to try and look at what had and hadn't changed. The bay view hotel hadn't changed and the wall along the front was the original wall. We think we stood where the old train station had been. Now the cars are where the track used to be. On the beach there is now a playground which the children enjoyed!

There weren't many people on the beach today but we think that is because there aren't any toilets and people travel to the gower. Paking can be a problem in the area as well, it is easy to park at some of the beaches on the Gower. We looked at the old bridge and it looked very sad and not attractive for people to come to the area. We would like a new bridge to make it easy and safe for children to cross the road. We need good clean toilet facilities and beach shops and cafe's for families. Somewhere to buy buckets and spades, ice creams and kites etc. We were impressed that the beach was nice and clean with not much litter and even saw someone cleaning the beach. The area has so much potential to be used to bring people to the beach, we feel that it wouldn't take much to change it into an area like Mumbles

Video of Playground

Here is a video of the school playground taken by the Family Learning group a few weeks ago.

Rained off!

Even though the rain prevented us from going to the beach as planned we learnt a lot on the PDA and viewed videos and pictures from last session.
We learnt how to copy pictures into word so we were able to write a little text.
We also wrote a letter to the Council about the dog mess in the area. We looked up on the internet what the laws were about dogs in the area and we may email Environmental Health next week.

Out & About

We started the session with a recap of what we had done before half term. We then went outside in the playground, first of all without the children, and looked at what we liked and didn't like about the playground. We liked the flowers and the play area. We didn't like the rocks or the sand but the children loved them!Without the children we practiced taking photo's and video and then taught them how to record.
We ventured outside the school and found an engraved stone about the school when it was enlarged.

We walked around looking at the junior playground, the children liked the junior playground but we thought it was small.