Autumn Term

Autumn Term
Dydd Llun Monday 8.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Ymgartrefu
Theme for the week - Settling In
 What do you hope to achieve this year?
 How can you improve on last year?
 Make list of 5 things and compare it with a friend
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 9.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Ymgartrefu
Theme for the week - Settling In
What does
settling in mean
to you?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 10.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Ymgartrefu
Theme for the week - Settling In
 What do you hope to
achieve this year?
 How will you take
advantage of the
fresh start and new
opportunities?
Dydd Iau Thursday 11.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Ymgartrefu
Theme for the week - Settling In
 ‘A stitch in time saves nine’
 What do you need to do to get
yourself organised now ?
 How will this help you enjoy a
smooth start to the new year and
avoid the temptation to slip into
bad habits?
Dydd Gwener Friday 12.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Ymgartrefu
Theme for the week - Settling In
 There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling
for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
 Nelson Mandela
 What does this mean to you?
 Are you sometimes satisfied with achieving
less than you are capable of?
 What will you do to achieve your best?
Dydd Llun Monday 15.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Bod yn Bositif
Theme for the week – Being Positive
 Is this true?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday16.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Bod yn Bositif
Theme for the week – Being Positive
 You've done it before and you can do it now. See the
positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of
your frustration and turn it into positive, effective,
unstoppable determination.
 Ralph Marston
 Do you believe in yourself and your abilities?
 Do you sometimes talk yourself into NOT being able to do
something.
 How does being positive help you achieve what you want to
accomplish?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 17.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Bod yn Bositif
Theme for the week – Being Positive
• People deal too much with the negative, with what is
wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch
those things and make them bloom?
• Nhat Hanh
• Watch this clip of Steven Sutton.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27165726
• What was the impact of him being positive?
Dydd IauThursday 18.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Bod yn Bositif
Theme for the week – Being Positive
• I hated every minute of training, but I said
• “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a
champion”
• Mohammed Ali Boxer
• We all have to do things we don’t like doing. Do you give
up too easily?
Dydd Gwener Friday 19.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Bod yn Bositif
Theme for the week – Being Positive
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive
push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it'
when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
When did you last give someone you know a positive push?
Dydd Llun Monday 22.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Cyfeillgarwch
Theme for the week – Friendship
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.–
Proverbs 24:26
True or false?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 24.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Cyfeillgarwch
Theme for the week – Friendship
 An insincere and bad friend is more to be feared than a
wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but a bad
friend will wound your mind.
 Is an insincere friend a friend at all?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 24.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Cyfeillgarwch
Theme for the week – Friendship
 “The road to a friend’s house is never long”
 Danish proverb
 Why is this a true statement?
Dydd Iau Thursday 25.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Cyfeillgarwch
Theme for the week – Friendship
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the
feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an
enemy – whether he knows or not
O.A. Battista
Dydd Gwener Friday 26.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Cyfeillgarwch
Theme for the week – Friendship
 The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship,
loyalty, love – you can never have too much.
 Discuss this statement
Dydd Monday 29.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Gwneud Penderfyniadau
Theme for the week – Decision Making
 Every decision creates ripples, like a boulder dropped on a
lake. What ripples could your decisions make?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 30.9.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Gwneud Penderfyniadau
Theme for the week – Decision Making
 Attitude is a little thing that makes a
big difference.
 Do you always adopt the correct attitude for each situation
you face ?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 1.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Gwneud Penderfyniadau
Theme for the week – Decision Making
 Some decisions can be made in a second, others need to be
thought about carefully. Who can help us decide?
Dydd Iau Thursday 2.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Gwneud Penderfyniadau
Theme for the week – Decision Making
 Decisions we have to make become more difficult as we get
older. Hopefully with age comes the wisdom to make the
correct decision, however difficult that may be.
 In what way do decisions you make as you get older
become more difficult?
 How do life experiences help you to make those decisions?
Dydd Gwener Friday 3.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos-Gwneud Penderfyniadau
Theme for the week – Decision Making
 There are many influences that shape our decisions.
Remember that every decision could have a consequence.
 Who or what could affect your decisions?
Dydd Llun Monday 6.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Dinasyddiaeth
Theme for the week – Citizenship
 Freedom, equality and democracy is not the gift of gods. It
is the task of people, brave people, honest people,
determined people.
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 7.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Dinasyddiaeth
Theme for the week – Citizenship
What do you
think is happening
in this picture?
It is a refugee camp
in Darfur
As global citizens
how can we help
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 8.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Dinasyddiaeth
Theme for the week – Citizenship
 Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them
up.
 People often say this about their career. Why is it more
important in our general lives to be nice to the people we
meet, what ever their background?
Dydd Iau Thursday 9.10.14
Themau’r Wythnos- Dinasyddiaeth
Theme for the week – Citizenship
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If you want happiness for an hour take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
- Chinese proverb
 How would following this proverb make the world a better
place?
Dydd Gwener Friday 10.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos- Dinasyddiaeth
Theme for the week – Citizenship
 Be kind to each other, sympathetic, forgiving each other as
God has forgiven you through Christ.
 Ephesians 4:32
 If nations bear a grudge for something that has happened
between them in the past, will the world ever be truly at
peace?
Dydd Llun Monday 13.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Hiliaeth
Theme for the week – Racism
 No one is born hating another person because of the colour
of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must
learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be
taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human
heart than its opposite. Nelson Mandela
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 14.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Hiliaeth
Theme for the week – Racism
 Watch the attached clip.
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsZ-u9YV3c
 Whose responsibility is it to put a stop to racism? Is it
everyone’s, should it be down the governments or
organisations eg FIFA? Or should it be ignored?
 What is your opinion?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 15.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Hiliaeth
Theme for the week – Racism
Racism springs from ignorance.
Mario Balotelli
What does this quotation mean?
Dydd Iau Thursday 16.10.149
Thema’r Wythnos - Hiliaeth
Theme for the week – Racism
 “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin,
but by the sort of persons they are”.
 Martin Luther King influenced the way black people were
treated in America in the 1950s and 1960s. Is there a need for us
to follow his teachings in today’s society?
Dydd Gwener Friday 17.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Hiliaeth
Theme for the week – Racism
Why is it important to stamp out racism?
As a class make a list of 5 reaons why we should stamp out
racism.
Will this be an easy thing to achieve? Why do you think
this is?
Dydd Llun Monday 20.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfathrebu
Theme for the week – Communication
 England and America are two countries divided by a
common language. - G Bernard Shaw
English
American
Rubber
Eraser
Car bonnet
Hood
Braces (for trousers)
Suspenders
 Why does using different words for the same thing be
confusing to people?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 21.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfathrebu
Theme for the week – Communication
 In the modern world communication is so easy, email,
twitter, facebook, mobile phone and so on. We use all of
these so quickly. How often do you check what you are
posting to make sure that the right message is being sent?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 22.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfathrebu
Theme for the week – Communication
 ‘Most people on earth were born to speak a different
language than mine, and I would not understand their
words.
 But I can understand that they are people, like me, with
thoughts and hopes like mine’.
 Why is it important to learn different languages?
Dydd Iau Thursday 23.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfathrebu
Theme for the week – Communication
A little boy with a big heart:
A little boy lived next door to an old man who's wife had just
died. The boy saw the old man crying, he climbed onto his
lap and just sat there. Later, his mother asked the boy what
he had said to their neighbour. “Nothing” said the child “I
just helped him cry”
Sometimes we don’t have to say anything. The best thing to
do can be to sit quietly and hold their hand. Discuss this
statement
Dydd Gwener Friday 24.10.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfathrebu
Theme for the week – Communication
 Say what you mean, and mean what you say, but don't say it
mean!
 Can you think of examples when you would have liked to
give someone this message? Why is it an important
message?
Dydd Llun Monday 3.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfrifoldeb
Theme for the week – Responsibility
 It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge
the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
 What responsibilities do you have now? How will they
change in the future?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 4.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos - Cyfrifoldeb
Theme for the week – Responsibility
 Today, take pride in carrying out your responsibilities.
Remind yourself that one person can make a difference.
 Is that one person you?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 5.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cyfrifoldeb
Theme for the week – Responsibility
 What does this mean?
Dydd Iau Thursday 6.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cyfrifoldeb
Theme for the week – Responsibility
 Freedom of thought, which all truly independent thinkers
have carries with it an awesome responsibility. It means
that I can blame nobody else for what I choose to think and
believe and do.
 Do you agree with this?
Dydd Gwener Friday 7.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cyfrifoldeb
Theme for the week – Responsibility
What is meant by this quotation?
The Soldier's Cross is a representation, of a fallen soldier/marine/sailor/airman, that we display during a memorial.
Dydd Llun Monday 10.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cofio
Theme for the week – Remembrance
 The gift of memory enables us to recall the good and
the bad in our lives, and the good and the bad we have
caused for others.
 It is only because we can remember the past that we
can now use our freedom to choose?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 11.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cofio
Theme for the week – Remembrance
 There is no honourable way to kill, no gentle way to
destroy. There is nothing good in war except its end.
Anon
Why should be all, especially today, work towards war
comes to an end?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 12.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cofio
Theme for the week – Remembrance
 Look at this picture
 Bow your head for a few minutes
and think of the meaning of the
image.
 Think of all the millions of
people who have lost their lives
in order to secure our freedom.
 Are we grateful for their
sacrifice?
Dydd Iau Thursday 13.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cofio
Theme for the week – Remembrance
 Watch this clip which shows soldiers leaving a landing craft on Sword
Beach on D day. (The sound has been added later and you may want to
switch it off)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_RC-SrV-Q
 Imagine you were on that craft. How would you feel?
 Would you have had the courage to do what these men had to do
knowing that they may be killed?
 For a moment reflect on what we have to be grateful to these men for
Dydd Gwener Friday 14.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Cofio
Theme for the week – Remembrance
 Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by
man-made institutions, by the way in which man has
organised his society. What man has made, man can
change.
Frederick Moore Vinson
Dydd Llun Monday 17.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Tyfu i fynu
Theme for the week – Growing up
 Growing up happens in a heart-beat. One day you’re in
nappies, the next day you’re gone. But the memories of
childhood stay with you for the long haul.
 What are you best memories of childhood? Who do they
involve?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 18.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Tyfu i fynu
Theme for the week – Growing up
 Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover
up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next
challenge. If you’re not failing you’re not growing.
 What lessons have you learned by failing?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 19.11.14
Themau’r Wythnos – Tyfu i fynu
Theme for the week – Growing up
 Youth is a mask, it does not last, Live it long and live it fast.
 Discuss this statement in your form. Try to understand
what it means and say why you agree or disagree with it
Dydd Iau Thursday20.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Tyfu i fynu
Theme for the week – Growing up
 We do not remember days, we remember moments
Cesane Pareso
What happened yesterday? Can you remember every single
thing about it? Why do you think we remember some things
but not others?
Dydd Gwener Friday 21.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Tyfu i fynu
Theme for the week – Growing up
 If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it
meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it
may rise higher
Corrie Ten Boom
Why is this an important message to give to someone
younger than you?
Dydd Llun Monday 24.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Bwlio
Theme for the week – Bullying
 This week is anti bullying week. For the statement below
think about how this relates to bullying, and most
importantly to you!
 If you ever meet a bully don’t ask them why they don’t like
you, ask them why they don’t like themselves.
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 25.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Bwlio
Theme for the week – Bullying
 This week is anti bullying week. For the statement below
think about how this relates to bullying, and most
importantly to you!
 We must have the strength of character to find the good
points in people and not just see the things that their
enemies want us to
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 26.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Bwlio
Theme for the week – Bullying
This week is anti bullying week. For the statement below think about how this
relates to bullying, and most importantly to you!
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But words can also hurt me.
Stones and sticks break only skin,
While words are ghosts that haunt me.
Slant and curved the word-swords fall
To pierce and stick inside me.
Bats and bricks may ache my bones,
But words can mortify me
Pain from words has left its scar
On mind and heart that’s tender.
Cuts and bruises now have healed;
Its words that I remember.
Dydd Iau Thursday 27.11.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Bwlio
Theme for the week – Bullying
 This week is anti bullying week. For the statement below
think about how this relates to bullying, and most
importantly to you!
 While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to
choose the consequences of our actions.
Dydd Friday 28.11.14
Themau’r Wythnos – Bwlio
Theme for the week – Bullying
 This week is anti bullying week. For the statement below
think about how this relates to bullying, and most
importantly to you!
 There may be times when we are powerless to prevent
injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to
protest.
Dydd Llun Monday 1.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Stereoteipio
Theme for the week – Stereotyping
 Never judge a book by its cover
 The images below are the same book The covers are all different
but the inside is still the same. How does that relate to us?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 2.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Stereoteipio
Theme for the week – Stereotyping
 To stereotype someone is to judge, label or categorise them
according to their religion, sex, skin colour, accent…the list
goes on.
 How have you been stereotyped?
 How did it feel?
 How and why do you stereotype others?
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 3.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Stereoteipio
Theme for the week – Stereotyping
 Q. Why was the blonde so pleased when she finished her
jigsaw puzzle in only 6 months?
 A. Because on the box it said from 2-4 years
 Is this joke funny? Why? Why not?
Dydd IauThursday 4.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Stereoteipio
Theme for the week – Stereotyping
 Bobby is 21, black and lives in Brixton, London. He is being
interviewed by senior police officers at a police station near his
home. Why?
 There could be many reasons. He could have witnessed a crime
or he could be having a job interview. What was your first
response? Was it stereotyping?
Dydd Gwener Friday 5.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Stereoteipio
Theme for the week – Stereotyping
 Whenever two people meet there are really six people
present.
 There is each man as he sees himself
 Each as the other person sees him
 And each man as he really is
William James
Discuss this statement.
Dydd Llun Monday 8.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Targedau
Theme for the week - Targets
 For every obstacle there is a
 What are the obstacles to you reaching your targets?
 How will you overcome your obstacles?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 9.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Targedau
Theme for the week - Targets
 Some people dream of achieving their targets – while
others wake up and work hard at them
 What do you dream about?
 Do you think your dreams are any different to young people
in other parts of the world?
 Will young people in other parts of the world feel that they
will achieve more by working hard than some people in
the westernised world
Dydd Mercher Wednesday 10.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Targedau
Theme for the week - Targets
 Success is a journey, not a destination. Review your targets
regularly.
 Think of a journey you have been on
 How did you get to your destinations?
 What other ways could you have reached that destination?
 What are the implications of this?
Dydd Iau Thursday 11.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Targedau
Theme for the week – Targets
 What does this quotation mean?
Dydd Gwener Friday 12.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Targedau
Theme for the week - Targets
 To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and
confidence.
 Mark Twain
 Why does Mark Twain consider you need both of these
qualities?
Dydd Llun Monday 15.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Y Nadolig
Theme for the week – Christmas
CHRISTMAS by Sir John Betjeman 1906 – 84
verse 2
The Holly in the windy hedge
And around the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
The altar, font and arch and pew,
So that the villagers can say
‘The church looks nice on Christmas Day.’
Do we have an idealised view of what Christmas
looks like?
Dydd Mawrth Tuesday 16.12.15
Thema’r Wythnos – Y Nadolig
Theme for the week – Christmas
 Christmas begins in the heart of God. It is
completed only when it reaches the heart of man
Unknown
What is the true message of Christmas?
Dydd Mawrth Wednesday 17.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Y Nadolig
Theme for the week – Christmas
 Christmas is the one time of year when people of all
religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. (!)
BART SIMPSON:
 What was Bart trying to say in this statement. Is it true?
Dydd Iau Thursday 18.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Y Nadolig
Theme for the week – Christmas
 Christmas is a festival of light and light is a symbol of hope.
Help us to give light and hope to those around us.
 Why do so many religions have a festival of light at this
time of the year?
Dydd Gwener Friday 19.12.14
Thema’r Wythnos – Y Nadolig
Theme for the week – Christmas
 Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.
To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is
to have the real spirit of Christmas.
 CALVIN COOLIDGE: 30th President of the United States of America
 Is your state of mind about peace and goodwill or what
presents will be under the tree on Christmas morning?