TALLAND'S BLOG 10.10.25

This term is flying by! Another end to another great week! Good luck to all of the Cross Country Runners'. We hope you enjoyed yourselves!

Here's a break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have completed PLACE VALUE and have just begun ADDITION and SUBTRACTION where they have started by adding 10 / 100 / 1,000 to numbers. They have also explored quadrilaterals.
Year 5 have also begun ADDITION and SUBTRACTION where we have looked at regrouping numbers whilst using column method. They have also continued using protractors where they are measuring degrees up 180.

English: 
Talland have independently completed their narrative, assessed which writing techniques they have used and are now writing them up using their neatest handwriting. Reading them was a real delight!

PE:
Yoga and football have of course continued and we are beginning to see some real progression in Talland's agility, balance, coordination and control.

Geography:
We had a double dose of Geography this week to get us ready for our trip to the Eden Project next week. We investigated Brazil's regions, found out about its climate and realised where most Rainforests are found.

Computing:
Talland made a fun maths game on Scratch this afternoon where different codes and variables were used - a good times table knowledge was also useful for this activity!

CONGRATULATIONS to Kayla for achieving her next badge in 99 club and a massive WELL DONE to George and Anya for getting noticed this week for their kindness and eagerness to learn. 

We are going to Eden on Wednesday for our class trip (which I'm so excited for) and letter incoming in the attachments for some more fun to be had on Monday 20th October 2025! 

That's all from us in Talland class. We hope you have a splendid weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

 

TALLAND'S BLOG 26.9.25

It's been a sport-tastic week this week. Well done to all of the children for getting involved so enthusiastically with National Fitness Day. Muscles were being used that haven't been used before, energy filled the air and sportsmanship was at an all time high!

Apart from sport, let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been ordering and comparing numbers to 10,000 and comparing angles.
Year 5 have been rounding to the nearest, 10/ 100/ 1,000/ 10,000/ 100,000 and estimating angles.


English:
Talland have continued to WOW me with some more spectacular descriptive writing based around a Rainforest. The language and writing techniques that are being used are brilliant!

PE:
With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing different yoga flows. When I came to watch, the balance, core strength and focus were great! In football, Talland have continued to think about spatial awareness, dribbling and passing with the side of their foot.

Geography:
We explored features of a  Brazilian Rainforest - quite different to features found in the United Kingdom!

RE: 
Talland thought about how Christians live their lives, who sets a good example for them and what Christians do to make their God proud.

Computing:
We got to tinker on a program called Scratch, where children wrote scripts for their sprites (characters) to follow. They changed their sprites, changed the background and made their characters rotate.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
 

TALLAND'S BLOG 19.9.25

Happy weekend everyone! We hope you have had a lovely week and are all set for a breezy but fun weekend! 

We've had a great week in Talland... busy, active and creative! Here's a brief breakdown of the week:

Maths:
Year 4 have continued to look at Place Value, investigating numbers that are 10/ 100/ 1,000 times more than or less than a number. and putting numbers to 1,000 on to a number line. 
Year 5 have also continued their work with place value. They have been partitioning numbers to 1,000,000 and investigating different ways to partition these rather large numbers. 
On a Friday, both year groups are learning shape. We have been exploring the different types of angles...why not ask your child which angles they can remember...

English:
I have been WOWED by the creativity that Talland are showing when it comes to writing. They have been working hard to inspect sentences and come up with fun and descriptive ways to improve sentences... their sentences are fantastic!  

RE: 
We created posters about how wonderful our world is and what we can do to protect it. Why not ask your child how we can keep our world healthy...

PE:
Talland have been working on their core strength during yoga sessions with Mrs. Hillman, demonstrating a range of strong and agile balances. With me, we had lots of enjoyable mini football matches where children demonstrated their dribbling skills, spatial awareness, team spirit and good sportsmanship.

Geography:
Talland got to work with the atlases today, where we probed features of South-East and South- West England. We analysed keys, telling us where cities, towns, rivers and counties are. We also explored where the highest and lowest points of our country are... do you know which country in the United Kingdom has the highest point? 

CONGRATULATIONS to Anya and Archie for being nominated as our school councilors', a huge well done to Jamie for being chosen as our PE representative in the School Council and fantastic work from Lily this week for being noticed for a her excellent work ethic, learning behaviours and effort.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a great weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
 

TALLAND'S BLOG 12.9.25

WELCOME TO TALLAND EVERYBODY! What a lovely first full week we have had. It's been brilliant getting to know all of the children - they are a fantastic group! 

We've kick started off with our enquiry question for this term: The fall of the rainforest: Who cares? Here's a little break down of what our week has consisted of:

Maths:
Both year groups have delved into place value and are getting a good understanding of which digit represents the ones, tens, hundreds... all the way to 1,000,000 (for year 5). We also look at shape on a Friday and today we were exploring clockwise and anticlockwise turns. Why not quiz your child on how many 90 degree turns you can make in a full turn. 

English:
We have begun with a dilemma story involving a great Kapok tree in the rainforest. A man has been ordered to chop it down but the animals and creatures residing in this great tree try using persuasive devices to try and make the man change his mind. Which was your child's favourite animal in the story?

Geography:
Here, we looked at which different animals live in the rainforest, which animals are in danger of extinction and we looked at the different layers of the rainforest and which layer these animals lived.

RE:
We looked at the creation story. Talland had to retell the story of what God created on each day through a story map.

Art:
Today, we had lots of fun exploring different techniques to make a 2-D shape appear 3-D. Talland used chalks to help with this effect! Everyone then signed their name (like a true artist), followed up by transforming our classroom into an art gallery. We walked around the class looking and studying everyone's art work and spoke about which ones we liked and for which reasons.  

PE:
With Mrs. Hillman, Talland had a relaxing time stretching and bending during yoga and with me, we played football where we practiced our dribbling skills.
PE is on Tuesday and Wednesday so could PE kits be available for these days please.

A busy and fulfilling week!

CONGRATULATIONS last week to Kayla and Amelia for beginning their journey at Polperro School and in Talland class in such a positive way. They are a real atribute to our class! For this week, well done to Nevaeh and Heidi for being noticed as Talland's children of the week. They have begun their school year as real role models. They should be extremely proud of themselves. Keep up the great work!

That's all from us this week. We hope you have and amazing weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.