Another busy week in Chaipel! Christmas play preparations are underway and the children have been given their scripts and song words to begin practising. We are going to perform a Polperro Primary favourite: SANTA'S ON STRIKE! Please could you support your child in learning their lines as the performance will definitely be one to remember!!

In Maths this week, Chaipel began the week with learning how to calculate using the long division method - challenging at first, but by Thursday, we were pretty good at it! We ended the week with Shape and are now beginning to confidently use a protractor. This will continue next week, along with probelm-solving using all four operations. 

In English, we have completed our non-fiction, double-page spread on the relationship between the Sun, Earth and Moon and have moved onto immersing ourselves in our next unit - writing a Mayan narrative (with a twist) based on the Maya folktale, THE HERO TWINS! 

In our Wider Curriculum, we have investigated the qualities for a saviour in RE, tinkered with creating a soundtrack in Computing, developed our target skills in Dodgeball and begun to learn about why we need energy in Science.

As part of Anti Bullying Week, Chaipel looked into the importance of using our 'powers for good'; we wore Odd Socks on Monday to celebrate our recognition that everyone is different and unique but equally important.

POLITE REMINDER
Next Thursday is our highly-anticipated school trip to I CAN COCOA in St Ives. We will be leaving school at 8:30am so please could you make sure that children are in school by 8:15am. We will leave St Ives at about 3pm and return to school by approximately 4:30pm. 

Congratulations to Isaac and Tristan for being our People of the Week, demonstrating our school value of 'being curious' when it comes to their learning.

I have attached this half term's homework grid as well as the KIRFs and the Curriculum Spellings that need to be learnt. 

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

What a busy final week we have had! We have finally completed our art project - a study into Retro-Futurism - and everyone has done an incredible job using different mediums to create a sense of fore, middle and background. We concluded by using chalk and charcoal to create light and shade before sharing our work with our peers; the positive comments we received were amazing!

In Maths, we began by looking in to prime/square/cube numbers at the beginning of the week before delving into long multiplication on Wednesday, and after a full morning's dedication - we nailed it!

We have written most of our non-chronological report in English, however, we need to continue after half term, uplevelling our sentences and then creating a double-page spread to showcase our best piece.

Wider Curriculum
We have investigated day and night in Science - which concludes our study of the Sun, Earth and Moon - and are confident in our understanding of how these amazing space bodies work together to create life on our planet. We have created our own 'flow' in Yoga and upskilled our Football techniques. 

Congratulations to Frankie and Nuala for being our People of the Week, displaying our school values and being excellent role models.

That's all from us so have a lovely half-term break and see you all back on Monday 3rd November!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.
 

What a busy week we have had. Our Art is really coming together; we have completed our nebula and star clusters, our planet(s) and our foreground. Next week, we will put all elements together and then create a light and dark effect by using chalk and charcoal.

In Maths, we have been completing our first set of SATs papers and then going through them with our learning partners to help each other with our next steps. For English, we have been looking at the features of a non-chronological text, identifying the use of parenthesis in our sentences and uplevelling our writing using precise vocabulary which we learnt how to apply in our last piece of writing.

On Friday, we had Kim back in from Barnado's to complete our PSHE sessions on healthy relationships. The children were a credit to the school and we had some great discussions which gave everyone food for thought.

POLITE NOTICES
Remember that the Spooky Disco is on next Thursday - tickets to be purchased at Reception.

If any girls would like to sign up for our Girl's Football Club after school on a Tuesday, could you please let us know ASAP as a coach will be coming in to train them up!  

Congratulations to Thomas and Kora for being our People of the Week (demonstrating our school values) and to Frankie for achieving his 66 Club badge.

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend,

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

What an amazing week of learning we have had! We began by investigating 3D shape properties in Maths, before moving onto addition and subtraction. Everybody worked so hard to line up their columns accurately and improve on their presentation.

Carrying on the theme of presentation, in English, we have had a real push in improving our handwriting this week. We experimented with a range of pens and have begun to write up the best copy of our planet descriptions. 

In the Wider Curriculum, we were exploring foreground in Art and have sketched possible designs using a range of sketching pencil grades, deciding on the exact pencil grades we will use for our overall piece which we will start next week. We have worked on our 'flow' in Yoga and finally conducted our shadow experiment in Science, identifying that we recorded 12:55pm as our midday Sun this week. 

On Friday evening, we hosted our Orwell Exhibition, showing the incredible work of last year's Y4/5 and 6. Many ex-Y6 pupils came back to see their work and a great evening was had by all.

That's all from us this week  so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary 

Another busy week has flown by in Chaipel. We have had Sian - the charity's vice president - in from Plymouth and Devon Cancer Trust to collect the monies that we raised for them in July. She was amazed to collect a 'cheque' for £451.45! The children collectively ran/biked/scooted a marathon around the school grounds and thoroughly enjoyed raising the money for such a worthy charity.

In Maths, we have been learning about decimal place value and on our Friday Shape lesson, revisiting the properties of a 2D shape. For English, we are writing up our 'newly discovered planet' description, using some incredible vivid sensory detail and figurative language. Tristan has really done himself proud - especially with...
AS THE MOON'S DIVINE BEAM FLOODS THE MOUNTAIN, THE STARS RAPIDLY GET THEIR SPOTLIGHT - wow Tristan, very atmospheric!

In our Wider Curriculum, we have been creating space nubulas and star clusters in art, experimenting with creating background. Next week, we will move onto the foreground and then design and develop ideas for our final piece. It was National Fitness Day on Wednesday and we took part in a series of activities designed to improve our fitness. We have all written an activity pledge which will hopefully devlop our fitness levels further. In Computing, we have been on a web quest, identifying websites which offer reliable content and those which are not completely trustworthy!

We explored the origin of chocolate in PSHE, comparing our lives to the life of a Ghanaian child on a cocoa plantation. It was very insightful and shows just what we take for granted. In Science, we researched what makes Earth the perfect planet to live on. Ask us what the Goldilocks zone is within our solar system!

CONGRATULATIONS to Imogen and Skye for being our People of the Week, displaying our school values and being excellent role models to their peers. 

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

MISS RANDLE AND MRS CLARY

Chaipel have really made progress in their writing this week, immersing themselves in how to write setting descriptions effectively using precise vocabulary, vivid sensory detail and figurative language. This afternoon, they have designed their 'newly discovered' planet with which they will combine their new learning to write a description which will evoke mood and create a sense of atmosphere.

In Maths, we have been comparing, ordering and rounding numbers. We will bring in decimals next week before moving onto addition and subtraction.

For our Wider Curriculum, we have been mixing colours to create tonal swatches, practising using a range of mediums to design the look and texture of their 'newly discovered planet. Next week, we will be looking at creating the background, producing nebulas and star clusters. In PE, Mrs Hillman has taught a range of yoga poses and I was lucky enough to see them put the poses together as a 'flow'. In PSHE, we have thinking about our hopes and dreams and what kind of world we want to live in and in French phonics, Chaipel have been learning the alphabet, how French primary school systems work and how different they are from English schools.

POLITE NOTICE
Don't forget it is National Fitness Day AND Meet The Teacher on Wednesday 24th. Children can come into school wearing warm PE clothes. Parents, the Meet The Teacher session begins at 2:45pm.

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend,

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

Chaipel have had a busy first full week of the year! We have been investigating our Solar System - as our enquiry is 'WHAT MAKES EARTH THE PERFECT PLANET TO LIVE ON?' -  and have come up with some funny rhymes to remember the order of the planets by. 

HOUSE CAPTAINS:
Polperro's new captains and vice captains have been elected.
OAK: Thomas (C) 
ASH: Nuala (C) Lily (VC)
CHESTNUT: Joey (C) Isaac (VC)
WILLOW: Aria (C) Henry (VC)
Congratulations to you all - I am sure that you will do your team proud!

MATHS:
It's all about Place Value at the moment and we have been investigating numbers up to 10,000,000! Next week, we will be ordering, comparing and rounding numbers up to 8-digits.

ENGLISH
Our focus is on descriptive writing and Chaipel have been learning how to grow sentences using vivid sensory detail (touch, sight, movement, light/dark and cold/warm) and figurative language (personification, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia and hyperbole). We will be creating our own undiscovered planet and then writing a atmospheric setting description over the next couple of weeks.

WIDER CURRICULUM:
We have been lucky to have Kim come in from Barnado's this week to talk about healthy relationships as part of our PSHE this term. 
In RE, we have been revisiting the Creation story and will move onto comparing religion with science (learning about the BIG BANG) and debating whether science and religion compliment or conflict with each other.

IMPORTANT INFO:
I have attached the Knowledge Web, KIRFS and Homework grid for this half term. As always, keep on reading daily and practising those timestables that you are a bit rusty on.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary