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If you are a regular visitor to St Fagans you may have noticed:

a. The big red crane

and

b. the play area has gone.

The big red crane is obviously temporary as all the building work goes on for the new and improved St Fagans, and luckily the lack of a play area is also temporary as we are BUILDING A NEW ONE! not only that we are building a new one with Nils Norman - an artist who has been working extensively around play for a number of years.

Although Nils has been on board for a good few months now (with support from Arts Council Wales and the Heritage Lottery Fund), it has taken a while for the project to get going as there is so much organising to do beforehand!

We also needed to appoint two supporting artists to work on the project with Nils which we did at the end of last year. These support artists will be helping with research as well as community engagement. We want the play are to be unique, bespoke to St Fagans, accessible to all ages and abilities, create links with the collections, is fun and is also a work of art. To do this the artists will be undertaking lots of research - looking through our archive and stores, as well as holding workshops for community groups and visitors into what kind of play area they would like to see.

They are currently at the research stage which will take a few months, Nils will then provide some drawings, we will *all* have a look at them and report back and then all going to plan the actual construction will start towards the end of this year, with a finished play area for spring next year! (don't hold me to those dates)

If you have any ideas, or if you have seen some great play areas, please let me know. This is such an exciting project which I will keep you updated on as it progresses. Next post, i'll introduce you to our supporting artists.

For more information about Nils Norman's work, visit his website

- Dyddiad cau ar gyfer cofrestru wedi'i ymestyn tan Ddydd Gwener 19 Chwefror 2016

Categori Newydd – Project Digidol Gorau!

Bob blwyddyn bydd Pwyllgor Menter Ysgolion y Dreftadaeth Gymreig yn gwahodd holl ysgolion Cymru i gymryd rhan mewn cystadlaethau projectau treftadaeth cenedlaethol.
 
Caiff y gair ‘treftadaeth’ ei ddefnyddio yn ei ystyr ehangaf – i gynnwys pobl a’u hanes cymdeithasol, crefydd, traddodiadau, diwylliant, byd gwaith, amaeth, diwydiant, cyllid, masnach, gwyddoniaeth, technoleg, celf a chwaraeon.
 
Mae manylion llawn y gystadleuaeth i’w cael yma

Categori Project Digidol Newydd! Noddir gan Gasgliad y Werin Cymru

Mae Casgliad y Werin Cymru yn wefan wych sy’n llawn ffotograffau diddorol, recordiadau sain, dogfennau, fideos a straeon ynghylch hanes a threftadaeth Cymru a’i phobl.
 
I Gystadlu yn y Categori Project Digidol:

1. Dewiswch bwnc sy’n ymwneud â ‘Threftadaeth’ er mwyn cystadlu yng Nghystadleuaeth WSHI

2. Gwnewch broject sy’n cynnwys deunydd digidol

3. Uwchlwythwch eich project ar wefan CyW

4. Gallech Ennill Gwobr i’ch ysgol!

Am fwy o fanylion ewch i wefan Casgliad y Werin Cymru Cymorth a hyfforddiant ar ddefnyddio Casgliad y Werin Cymru ar gael AM DDIM!

Cliciwch yma i ymgeisio

Rhaid gyrru eich ffurflen ymgeisio erbyn 19 Chwefror 2016. Bydd y projectau yn cael eu beirniadu rhwng 18 Ebrill a 6 Mai.

 

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda Gyfeillion y Gwanwyn, gobeithio i chi fwynhau’r gwyliau. Sut hwyl sydd ar y cennin Pedr a’r Crocysau? Cyn y Nadolig, ysgrifennodd nifer o ysgolion ata i i ddweud bod y cennin Pedr a’r bylbiau dirgel yn dechrau gwthio drwy’r pridd. Beth yw hanes eich planhigion chi? Cofiwch, wrth anfon eich data, gallwch chi ddweud pa mor dal yw eich planhigion drwy ysgrifennu mwy yn yr adran ‘sylwadau’. Mae’n gyffrous gweld y planhigion cyntaf yn ymddangos bob blwyddyn!
 
Y llynedd, y dyddiad blodeuo cyfartalog ar gyfer y Crocws oedd y 7 o Fawrth a'r dyddiad blodeuo cyfartalog ar gyfer y Cennin Pedr oedd yr 16 Fawrth. Cafodd y blodau cyntaf eu hadrodd yn gynnar ym mis Chwefror, ond efallai y byddant yn ymddangos yn gynharach eleni. Gwyliwch yn ofalus, bydda nhw’n blodeuo toc! Cofiwch fesur taldra’r blodau ar y diwrnod byddan nhw’n agor. Byddwn ni wedyn yn casglu’r holl wybodaeth i roi dyddiad a thaldra cyfartalog. Bydd hyn yn ein helpu i weld patrymau, neu newidiadau dros y blynyddoedd. 

Cofiwch fod blodau yn angen golau'r haul, gwres a thwr i dyfu. Y llynedd, gwelwyd llai o law a thymheredd isaf nac yn 2014 a blodeuodd ein planhigion ychydig yn hwyrach. Sut dywydd ydych chi wedi ei weld? Ydych chi’n credu bydd y planhigion yn blodeuo yn gynt neu yn hwyrach na’r llynedd? 

Rwy’n edrych ymlaen i weld eich data yr wythnos hon! 

Rydych chi’n gwneud gwaith gwych Gyfeillion y Gwanwyn. 

Athro’r Ardd

Eich cwestiynau, fy atebion:

Prof Plant: There was a lot of news about the weather before and during the Christmas holidays. It was very interesting to read comments about how the extreme weather was affecting you. We have had a few comments about flooding from schools across the country. Thank you for sharing your stories:

Arkholme CE Primary School: A very, very wet week. Some local flooding, the playground was under water and our football match was cancelled.

St. John the Baptist Primary School: On Wednesday we didn't get out to play because of the rain and it is getting cold!

Staining C of E Voluntry Controlled Primary School: We have had local floods in Staining

Ysgol Rhys Prichard: River Bran flooded Monday and Thursday evening causing roads closed and cars rescued by the fire brigade.

Mellor Saint Mary CE Primary School: Internet down due to flooding.

St. John the Baptist Primary School: Storm Desmond made it very wet here and our pupil who lives near the Clyde had to put sandbags on the path near the river. The Clyde burst its banks near Ikea and flooded the motorway. Even though it has been quite mild this week, it was snowing in Lanark on Monday and we had hail here today - it is getting colder.

Ysgol Pentrefoelas: Cawsom lawer iawn o law dros gyfnod y Nadolig gyda llifogydd yn lleol. Tymheredd cynnes am yr adeg yma o'r flwyddyn.

Coppull Parish Primary School: On Tuesday we found a piece of ice in the rain gauge! It must have been cold!!! One day it was raining a lot and we had to bring an umbrella!!!We love doing this project and we wish you good luck on it.xxx

Prof Plant: Hi Coppull Primary, I’m glad to hear you are enjoying the project. Did you wait for the ice to melt to take your rain fall reading? Did you compare the volume of ice to the volume of water once it had melted? If so, what did you find? Ysgol Pentrefoelas also reported ice in their rain gauge: Ysgol Pentrefoelas: Bore oer a wedi rhewi Dydd Llun (dwr wedi rhewi yn y twmffat).

Stanford in the Vale Primary School: Another cold and wet week observed this week! We had a light dusting of snow Saturday morning!!!We have spotted our bulbs in the ground have started to poke through the soil...

Prof Plant: Exciting news about your plants growing Stanford in the Vale Primary! A few other schools have reported seeing their first shoots, including St Joseph’s Primary and Wormit Primary.

Stonehouse Primary School: We are doing this by ourselves now.

Prof Plant: Fantastic Stonehouse Primary, you are doing a very good job!

Shakespeare Primary School: Dear professor plant, we have had so much fun going outside during lessons. We have been running up and down the field.

Prof Plant: I’m glad you are enjoying the project Shakespeare Primary. You can learn anywhere and I hope being outside caring for the plants and studying the environment around you is helping to bring your lessons to life.

Wormit Primary School: Four of our pots have been vandalised at the weekend. We are going to ask parents to keep an eye out and ask our community policewoman to help as well.

Prof Plant: I’m sorry to hear that your pots have been vandalised Wormit Primary. Especially as I know how excited you were to see your first shoots before Christmas. I hope this won’t happen again. Your plants are very robust so hopefully they will still grow.

Stonehouse Primary School: When we came back after the holidays our water container had blown over and we think it had overflowed. A tree in our school garden has also blown over.

Prof Plant: Hi Stonehouse Primary. You must be having really windy weather if trees are being blown over! Did you think the rain gauge was overflowing because there had been a lot of rain? You could look at the MET office website to see the rainfall rate over the holidays: http://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/

The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School: When we came back after the Christmas holiday our polytunnel had blown down so the bulbs had not been protected from the weather. However, they were all fine and many of them are showing shoots. The daffodils in the bed are all showing shoots and are already bigger than those in the pots. There has been so much rain that the ground is now getting very muddy. We will have to bring our wellingtons to school so we don't get too dirty!

Prof Plant: Hi Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary. I’m sorry your polytunnel blew over, it must have been very windy! I’m glad your plants were Okay. They are very hardy and should be fine in all kinds of weather as the soil provides a warm layer protecting the bulbs from the cold. I’m glad to hear your plants have started growing. Why do you think the plants in the ground are growing quicker than the plants in pots? Keep up the good work Bulb Buddies.

Pontrhondda Primary School: Hello Professor Plant Over the Christmas holidays our class plants have been growing as well as they could be growing. The rainfall and tempriture has been ok over Christmas. How have you been over the holidays.

Prof Plant: Hi Pontrhondda Primary, I had lovely holidays thank you. I hope you did too. I’m glad to hear your bulbs are doing well. Keep up the good work!

St. Brigid's Primary School: Primary 7 were at Kilbowie this week, Primary 6 stepped up to the challenge to record this week’s results.

Prof Plant: Hi Primary 7, thank you for arranging for the weather readings to be taken while you were away. Thank you and well done to Primary 6 for recording the data! Maybe you will be taking part next year?

Dyma obeithio y cewch chi wyliau gwych a’ch bod yn edrych ymlaen at weld eich bylbiau’n tyfu yn y flwyddyn newydd!  Byddwch yn ailgychwyn ar eich cofnodi o 4 Ionawr.

Mae rhai ohonoch chi wedi rhoi gwybod i ni’n barod am flagur yn ymddangos yn eich potiau! Fel arfer, dydyn ni ddim yn cadw golwg am flagur tan fis Ionawr neu Chwefror, felly mae’r rhai yma’n gynnar iawn! Rydyn ni’n credu eu bod nhw’n ymddangos yn gynnar am ei bod yn aeaf mor fwyn. Bydd yn ddiddorol gweld a fydd ein cennin Pedr a saffrwm yn blodeuo’n gynharach nag arfer. Yn 2007 a 2008 oedd dyddiad blodeuo cyfartalog cynharaf y project hwn. Dyddiad blodeuo cyfartalog saffrwm oedd 16 Chwefror yn y ddwy flwyddyn. Dyddiad blodeuo cyfartalog y cennin Pedr oedd 14 Chwefror yn 2007 a 6 Mawrth yn 2008.

Beth ydych chi’n ei feddwl gyfeillion? Beth am daro golwg ar adroddiad 2005-2016 ar wefan Bylbiau’r Gwanwyn i weld sut mae eich data chi yn cymharu â’r blynyddoedd a fu?

Mae Ysgol Gynradd Llanharan wedi anfon lluniau atom o’u blagur cyntaf nhw. Edrychwch yn fanwl ar y lluniau i gael syniad o beth sydd i ddod!

Mae llawer o flodau’r gwanwyn wedi bod yn ymddangos yn gynnar eleni. Dyma luniau rhai ohonynt yn ardal Caerdydd. Os welwch chi unrhyw flodau cynnar, rhowch wybod i mi yn yr adran sylwadau wrth nodi eich data ar ôl y gwyliau. Gwell fyth, tynnwch luniau a gofynnwch i’ch athro eu hanfon ataf ar Twitter neu mewn e-bost!

Nadolig llawen iawn i chi, a blwyddyn newydd dda,

Athro’r Ardd a Babi Bwlb

Eich cwestiynau, fy atebion:

Ysgol Deganwy: Do we round up or down with rainfall totals greater than 20?

Professor Plant: That’s a great question Ysgol Deganwy. You round the rainfall reading up or down depending on which reading it is closest to. If the reading is less than halfway between two marks (say 2mm and 3mm) then you round down, if the readings are halfway or higher (so in this example 1.5mm or over) you round up! Here’s a fun clip on BBC Bitesize to help illustrate estimating and rounding numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zgnyr82 Keep up the good work Bulb Buddies!

Dasfen Primary School: Where doesn't seem to be an option to input 0.1mm etc, please advise as to how I am supposed to input this data. Thank you.

Professor Plant: Hi Dasfen Primary, in this instance you would round down to 0mm. Ysgol Deganwy asked a similar question above!

Law Primary School: It snowed a little today at lunchtime.

Professor Plant: Fantastic Law Primary School. I hope you enjoyed the snow. Elsewhere the weather has been warmer than usual and spring flowers have started growing!

Ysgol Rhys Prichard: It was very windy over the weekend and on Thursday night. Some of the plant labels blew off so we had to staple them on to the pots.

Professor Plant: Good thinking Ysgol Rhys Pritchard, stapling your labels to your pots is a great idea. I hope the weather has calmed down for you now!

Abbey Primary School: Friday 13th November is a local holiday. I have used figure from BBC weather website as I couldn't send no record.

Professor Plant: Great work Abbey Primary School. Apologies that the ‘no record’ button wasn’t working, it should be working again now.

Carnbroe Primary School: Look at how much rain we had on Thursday evening. We had our parents evening on Thursday night and had climb a fence as part of the main entrance was flooded!

Professor Plant: Wow Carnbroe Primary, there must have been a lot of rain! Castlepark Primary also commented that they were surprised by how much rain they had.

Saint Anthony's Primary School: M and me found it interesting seeing how the rain gauge after storm Abigail.

Professor Plant: Hi Saint Anthony’s, I was interested to see your rain readings after the storm. Other schools reported heavy rain fall for this week, including Silverdale St. John's CE School: ‘Another wet week - we certainly don't need to water our bulbs!’ and Drumpark Primary ASN School: ‘We had lots of rain and wind at the end of the week from Storm Abigail.’ And Shakespeare Primary School: ‘Dear Professor Plant, We got absolutely soaked on Friday. It rained nonstop! We are loving the project though.’

Bent Primary School: Sorry we were at a residential trip for 3 days and although we asked the weather to be recorded , we do not think their results are accurate enough to add to the data.

Professor Plant: Not to worry Bent Primary School, thank you for trying to arrange for the data to be collected but you did the right thing by entering ‘no record’ if the readings weren’t accurate. Keep up the good work!

Teacher: On Thursday we needed to keep our plants in because of the strong winds and rain also because the storm [Abigail] was going to blow them away or make them fall over.

Professor Plant: Hi there, well done for looking out for your bulbs. We do ask that the pots are kept outside to ensure a fair experiment, but you did the right thing by taking them inside until the storm passed. It’s always best to keep them in a cool area as a warm room could affect the results. Keep up the good work Bulb Buddies.

Calderwood Primary School: We have had such stormy weather this week with really high winds. It is also to be very cold over the weekend. We hope that our bulbs outside will be ok. We have been taking good care of our bulbs in the class.

Professor Plant: Thank you for taking such good care of your bulbs Calderwood Primary. Remember that all your bulbs in pots should be kept outside in a sheltered area. If some are inside and some are outside you can compare the flowering dates to see if those inside or outside flower first. If this is the case then please only enter flowering dates to the Museum website for the plants being kept outside. Keep up the good work bulb buddies!

Betws Primary School: A stormy week, we are hoping our plants are not too soggy! St. Paul's Primary School: Another very wet start to the week! We wonder if the extra rain will affect how the bulbs grow later! Are they drowning?

Professor Plant: Not to worry Betws and St Paul’s Primary, the bulbs like the rain and will be fine. The holes at the bottom of the pot allow excess water to drain away. If it is raining a lot and the soil is moist then there is no need to water the plants. The amount of rain does affect the development of the plants, they develop later in years with less rain and less sunlight hours. Why not have a look at the report 2005-2015 on the Spring Bulbs website and compare your readings so far this year to the average readings for last year? Do you think your flowers will appear earlier or later this year?
 

East Fulton Primary School: Thank you for the super seeds and certificate - it is now up on our Science wall!

Professor Plant: Hi East Fulton Primary. The seeds and certificate were provided by the Edina Trust – I’m glad you liked them! I’m sure the Edina Trust would love a photo of your science wall! Keep up the good work Bulb Buddies!

Ladywell Primary School: We have still yet to experience the flowering of our plants and hope we get to see them soon.

Professor Plant: Hi Ladywell Primary you have a little while to wait yet! Your plants should flower between February and March. Well done for looking after them so well. Keep up the good work!

Mae’r flwyddyn yn dod i ben a dw i’n adlewyrchu ar ddwy ran o fy ngwaith sy’n gorffen fuan. Mae @DyddiadurKate (1915) yn gorffen yn mis yma, a fy ngwaith ar Chynllun Addysg Y Rhyfel Byd yn Cyntaf dod i ben yn Mawrth 2016.

Mae Cynllun Addysg y Rhyfel Byd yn brosiect rhwng Amgueddfa Cymru a’r Llyfrgell Genedlaethol, sy’n cynhyrchu adnoddau ar gyfer ysgolion. Ni'n defnyddio deunyddiau o gasgliadau’r ddau sefydliad i greu adnoddau dysgu digidol am Gymru yn ystod y Rhyfel. Trwy’r flwyddyn, gweithiais gyda chydweithwyr o’r curaduron i’r archif i ddewis y deunyddiau gorau i fynd gyda phob thema yn y cynllun. Y themâu y gweithiais arnynt yw ‘Bywyd ar Ffrynt y Gorllewin’, ‘Meddygaeth’, ‘Cymru ar draws y Byd’ a ‘Straeon Personol’.

Ar y prosiect @DyddiadurKate, dwi’n casglu'r ystadegau o Twitter a ‘di creu dau flog, un ar recriwtio yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf ac un ar alcohol a dirwest. Trwy’r flwyddyn mwynheais y gweithgareddau dyddiol ar y blogiau gahanol gan y curaduron a’r archif, oedd yn rhoi mwy o wybodaeth am y prosiect.

Yn Hydref ces y cyfle i ddod â’r ddau brosiect at ei gilydd, yn yr adnodd ‘Straeon Personol’. Mae’r adnodd yn edrych ar bobl dros Gymru yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf ac effaith y rhyfel arnyn nhw. Roedd stori Kate Ellis yn rhoi cyferbyniad i straeon milwyr a nyrsus, i ddangos bywyd sifiliad. Un peth sy’n ddiddorol imi yw fod pobl yn ymladd yn y rhyfel, ac ar yr un pryd, roedd llawer o’r gweithgareddau dyddiol Kate yn cario ‘mlaen heb lawer yn newid.

Dyw’r adnoddau ‘Straeon Personal’ a 'Cymru ar Draws y Byd' ddim ar yr HWB eto, ond mae llawer o’r adnoddau arall lan nawr. Dilynwch y linc i HWB i ddefnyddio’r adnoddau am ddim.