Mrs Hillman
head@polperroprimary.co.uk
This half term has raced by. At our end of term assembly to day we shared our favourite moments from the last 6 weeks which included World Book Day, Maths and English, our new playground leader games and ‘everything’ from several children. We also said a very sad farewell to Mr H who has been a wonderful TA here for the last three years and who has been connected with the school for even longer than that. I am sure you will join me in wishing him all the best for the future.
After assembly the children had a visit from the Easter Bunny in the hall. Thank you to FOPS for helping to organise this.
Football Success
Well done to our football team who showed great sportsmanship during their match on Tuesday, winning 2-0 against St Germans.
FOPS quiz fundraiser
Another thank you to FOPS for running the very successful quiz last Friday which raised over £400 for school. It was great to see so many of you there.
Reminder that there is still time to by a copy of our joke book containing all of the jokes the children bought in for our Comic Relief competition. Books are available from the office and cost £1 which will go to Comic Relief. Please send your child in with £1 if you would like a copy.
Uniform
If you are looking ahead to buying uniform, please remember that we have a good supply of nearly new uniform in school which is available for a donation (£1 minimum) to the school. Please ask at reception.
Diary dates
Looking ahead to the summer term, two important dates for the diary are Polperro Festival School’s Day which is on 18th June this year and Sports Day which will be on the morning of Tuesday 25th June with a reserve date of Thursday 27th June. Hopefully it will have stopped raining by then! Further details of both events will follow nearer the time.
Wishing you a wonderful Easter break. We look forward to seeing the children back in school on Monday 15th April.
Mrs Hillman
In addition to the wonderful learning that has been taking place, This has been a great week for sport and fundraising at Polperro.
Cross-Country
The Polperro team did brilliantly well in last week’s Landrake Inter Schools Cross Country
Race; one of the muddiest races ever. Congratulations to the children who all completed
their races, with or without shoes, and to Zac’s dad and Max S’s dad who dared to run
alongside. Thank you to Mrs Turnbull for her team support this season and for running
alongside the children too, and to parents and carers for transporting our runners to each
race come rain or shine. An amazing effort all round from Team Polperro.
Our School Joke Book
Miss Gibbings has created a wonderful joke book containing all of the
jokes the children bought in for our Comic Relief competition. Books are
available from the office and cost £1 which will go to Comic Relief. Please
send your child in with £1 if you would like a copy.
Fundraising for Marie-Curie
Well done to our year 6s who have raised an amazing £692.05 For Marie-Curie by walking
the distance from Talland Beach to Looe around our playground. Jack and Rosie have been
writing an article about the event which will be published shortly on the Trust website as a
Bridge Story.
Easter Activities
The Easter break is fast approaching. Below are some activities you may want to do with
your child/ren. Further information is attached to this blog.
• Easter Time2Move Holiday Programme
This programme aims to support families during
the school holidays to ensure children have access to fun activities, healthy food and
physical activity and to address those particular challenges for some families because
of increased costs such as food, childcare and reduced income. It brings together
providers across Cornwall who put on a wide range of diverse activities that are fully
funded for those eligible for benefits related to free school meals but available to all
children aged 5 to 16.
• Cycling Courses
• Looe Land Train
Please remember that next week, the last day of term is Thursday and school will end at 1:30pm.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Hillman
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Another busy and exciting week has just flown past.
On Monday in a special assembly we launched our School Houses: Ash, Oak, Willow and Chestnut, names chosen by the School Council. House Points are given to the children when they demonstrate our school values: Curious, Creative, Excellent, Responsible, Determined and Enthusiastic and pupils can see how many points their house has by looking at our House Point Tracker in the corridor by the library. Well done to our first Captains and Vice-Captains who have been chosen because they consistently demonstrate our values (Rosie, Verity, Everly, Ava, Leo, Jamie, Finn and Hugh) and to everyone who has won a House Point this week.
It has been a busy week for our football team who played on Monday and Tuesday this week. They won against Fourlanesend School on Monday and showed great spirit when they played against Pelynt School on Tuesday.
Year 5 and 6 had an amazing afternoon on Thursday at the Junior Life-Skills roadshow where they met organisations who will help them learn skills to improve their safety. They learned CPR, how to remain safe online, at the beach and on the railway and learned more about public transport and electrical safety.
Thank you for sending your children in today in MUFTI. We had a huge amount of fun in school today listening to jokes and finding out about the work of Comic Relief. We have raised over £150 for Comic Relief from your generous donations.
Parenting Workshops April – August 2024
Please find attached the latest programme of free parenting workshops being run by Cornwall Council, Together for Families.
Have a good weekend.
Mrs Hillman
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Thank you so much for sending your children in on World Book Day in their amazing costumes or PJs. We were overwhelmed by the response to our ‘Wooden Spoon Challenge’ competition and so pleased with the wonderful ideas and level of detail. Rev Richard judged the entries after our St Piran’s Day assembly on Monday and again on Tuesday as there were so many to consider! Well done to the winners (Daisy, Kora, Amber and April and Maevis) who will each receive a book (kindly funded by FOPS). Congratulations also to the runners up.
Cross Country
Congratulations to our cross-country team who ran brilliantly at last week’s race at Liskeard. Our runners are getting faster and faster each time and always show great sportsmanship, especially in the mud last week. Our early finishing boys waited to cheer on their friends at the end of the race and well done to Flora who completed the course carrying her friend’s shoe which had been lost in the mud.
FOPS Quiz
Please see attached flyer for details of the FOPS (Friends of Polperro School) Quiz which we are holding on Friday 22nd March to raise funds for the school. Tickets are on sale in the office. We hope to see you there.
Comic Relief
This year Red Nose Day is on Friday, 15th March. The School Council would like the children to come to school in MUFTI with a minimum donation of £2 for this MUFTI day. School Council would also like children to bring in their favourite joke as part of a competition they are organising. Details to follow.
Parent Consultations
Reminder that parent consultations are taking place the week of the 18th March. There is still time to sign up by calling the school if you have not already done so.
Emergency Lockdown Procedure
We held an emergency lockdown procedure drill today and the children responded very well. Lockdown procedures are important and would be used in response to an internal or external incident which could be a threat to the safety of staff and children in the school such as: 1. A reported incident, disturbance in the local community 2. An intruder on the site 3. A warning being received regarding a local risk of air pollution (smoke plume, gas cloud etc.) 4. A major fire in the vicinity of the school 5. The close proximity of a dangerous dog. We practice this drill yearly and fire drills termly.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Hillman
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This half term has already got off to a good start
with years 5 and 6 years having a virtual meeting with some French children who attend
primary School in Ors in Northern France. The children sang a song together about what
makes them happy - the same things such as football and pets! They then asked each other
questions. Y5 and Y6 found out that the French children start school at 8:30 and stay till
4pm but are only in school for 4 days a week. They don't wear uniform, have a one-and-ahalf-hour lunch break and 4 courses for lunch, and learn English every day.
Our new enquiries have been launched:
Chaipel: How does North America compare to Europe?
Talland: How have our lives been changed by the Victorians?
Landaviddy: How can the force be with you?
Penhallow: What happens in Spring?
World Book Day
It has been great to hear that many of the children have already turned their wooden spoon
into their favourite book character for our World Book Day competition. We have spare
spoons in school if needed.
School Council has asked that on World Book Day (7th March) children come dressed as their
spoon (ie their favourite character) or in PJs with a teddy and their favourite book.
Looe Mini Miler Looe Mini Miler, a fun run, takes place at 10am
(Registration 9am-9.40am) on Sunday 25th February. The race which is organised by the
Looe Pioneers is suitable for children aged 4 and above. Details are on the attached flyer,
please note there are no entries on the day.
Menu Change 5th March
To celebrate St Piran’s day on Tuesday 5th March there will be a special menu, please see
menu attached and log in to Parentpay to make your child’s selection by Monday 26th
February.
Parent Consultations
Parent consultations will be held week of 18th March either in person or on TEAMS. We will
email you next week with information regarding times and dates when your child’s teacher
will be available and how to book an appointment.
WeAreMusic (WAM)
Pupils from year 3 to year 6 are welcome to attend the WAM music ensemble, led by Mrs
Butlin at Looe Community Academy (Music Department) on Tuesdays 4:15-5pm. The first
four sessions are free then it is £3 per week. Please contact Mrs Butlin direct on
sbutlin@cmst.co.uk if your child is interested.
Have a good weekend.
Mrs Hillman
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Bonjour!
This morning years 5 and 6 had a virtual meeting with children in northern France who attend primary School in Ors. The children sang a song together about what makes them happy - the same things such as football and pets! They then asked each other questions. Y5 and Y6 found out that the French children start school at 8:30 and stay till 4pm but are only in school for 4 days a week. They don't wear uniform, have a one and a half hour lunch break and 4 courses for lunch, and learn English every day.
We have made the connection with the school through Sally Crabtree and the Poetry Plane Project which involved years 5 and 6 and children from France writing poems about WW1. Their final poems will be written on paper containing poppy, cornflower and forget-me-not seeds and in July the poems will be flown to France and dropped from a plane in Northern France.
The children will be writing to each other as a next step in this wonderful friendship between the two schools.
This half term has flown by. We have crammed a lot into a short half term including work
around children’s mental health and internet safety this week. In our end of half term assembly on Thursday morning it
was lovely to share the children’s thoughts on their ‘best bits’ of the half term which
included the fire engine visit to Penhallow Class, car making in Landaviddy Class and writing
biographies, especially about footballers, in Talland Class.
Rev Richard visited us to talk about Shrove Tuesday in assembly. The children are going to encourage him to give up crisps for Lent.
Our Y6 children were invited to Looe Community Academy to learn all about coding on
Tuesday and Chaipel Class visited Bodmin Keep yesterday to support their learning about
World War 2. The staff there described our pupils as ‘fantastic ambassadors for the school
and they should all be very proud!’. Well done Chaipel Class!
World Book Day Competition
This year, World Book Day is on 7th March and we will be consulting School Council regarding
what the children would like to wear on the day. Meanwhile, our school competition this
year is ‘The Wooden Spoon Challenge’ which your child may wish to do over half term. We
are asking children to turn a wooden spoon into a book character for World Book Day and
will be sending them home with a spoon and details (attached). There will be prizes for each
class.
Have a wonderful half term break. We look forward very much to
seeing everyone back in school on Monday 19th February.
Mrs Hillman
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Another busy week at school has included two special visitors to Chaipel Class to help with
their learning about World War Two. Rev Richard shared his family’s intriguing WW2 stories
and Ava’s dad shared some fascinating items from WW2. In today’s assembly, Penhallow
Class sang ‘In 1666, The Great Fire of London’ to everyone. They learned this as part of their
enquiry about what happened in London a long time ago. More information regarding your
child’s week at school can be found on their class blogs.
Dropping off in the morning
Please ensure that your child arrives in plenty of time before the gate closes at 8:45 in the
morning. The start of the school day is very important for children as this sets the scene for
them and they miss out on important messages and learning if they are late.
Supporting your child with maths
Thank you to those of you who have completed our short maths questionnaire (attached)
regarding how you feel about supporting your child with maths at home. If you have not
done so, it would be really helpful for us if you could fill this in and return it by email to
secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk
Safer Internet Day 2024
Safer Internet Day 2024 takes place next Tuesday with celebrations and learning based
around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and
navigating change online’.
Safer Internet Day is a great opportunity to focus on online safety with your child, whatever
their age. The UK Safer Internet Centre has created a range of pages to help you talk about
these issues and ideas with your child, no matter how much time you have and in an age-appropriate way https://saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day2024/parents-and-carers
The NSPCC also offers valuable advice to help you learn about staying safe online as a family
here: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
Children’s Mental Health Week
Next week we will be taking part in Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme this year is
‘My Voice Matters’. My Voice Matters is about empowering children and young people by
providing them with the tools they need to express themselves. This year, we want to
empower children of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to work together to create a
positive change for their mental health and wellbeing. Our aim is for Children’s Mental
Health Week, we want all children and young people to be able to say – and believe - “My
Voice Matters.” As parents and carers, you play an important role in your child’s mental
health. There are free resources here which you may wish to look at beforehand.
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/families/
Menu Change 8th February
On Thursday next week there will be a special menu for National Pizza day, please see menu
attached and log in to Parentpay to make your child’s selection for this day.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Hillman
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Highlights of a very busy week have included an exciting visit from Looe Fire Station to Penhallow Class as part of their learning about the great Fire of London; Rev Richard's assembly which reminded us of helping each other to keep trying with our plans and resolutions for 2024 and our cross country runners' successes.
Cross-Country
Congratulations to our cross-country team who ran brilliantly at last week’s race at
Cotehele. Well done also to the children who visited Looe Community Academy this week
for a cross-country race (see photo). Their behaviour was exemplary and we are very proud of them.
Looe Mini Miler
Please find attached details of the Looe Mini Miler, a fun run which takes place at 10am on Sunday
25th February. The race which is organised by the Looe Pioneers is suitable for children aged 4 and
above, please note entries must be made online before race day.
Supporting your child with maths
Please find attached a very short questionnaire regarding how you feel about supporting
your child with maths at home. It would be really helpful for us if you could fill this in and
return it by email to secretary@polperropriary.co.uk Do please let us know if you require a
paper copy.
Arbor
Reminder that if any of your contact details have changed such as address, emails or phone numbers,
please update them on Arbor.
Upcoming dates
Reminder that Friday 9th February is an INSET day and half term is 12-16 February.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.
Mrs Hillman
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