Hello Everyone!

What a fantastic week!

We began on Monday, by meeting the children who will be in Reception in September.

On Tuesday we had a wonderful trip to Looe Island. On the island, we spotted seals, Canadian geese, cormorants, and several species of butterflies. We took time to stop at several points and look at the amazing views. We finished on the beach, where we ate lunch and created some art work in the sand, and on paper. When returning to Looe, we found out all about the different equipment and boats that are used by the RNLI, and also visited the Guildhall Museum to find out about what Looe and Polperro was like hundreds of years ago.

Throughout the rest of the week, we have been busy writing poems about caves, inventing our own islands, and singing songs about the sea.

Thank you so much, to those of you who joined us on Tuesday. It was lovely to have you with us.

From The Penhallow Team

Hello everyone!

It’s been a very sporty week in Penhallow this week. We managed a swimming session on Wednesday, The Bridge School Games on Thursday, and a sports day practice on Friday.

For The Bridge School Games, we competed in 5 different events, and recorded our scores, which will be compared with other bridge schools. We competed in events such as throwing, catching, balancing and collecting tennis balls. All events were tennis themed and we had great fun.

We have also been busy this week, writing a recount, based our experiences at The Polperro Festival. We were so proud of the children. First of all, for exemplary behaviour whilst watching the other performances, but most of all for performing so well in front of an audience. Some children stood in for others at the last minute, and we all worked as a team to do the best we could. Well done Penhallow! We hope you enjoyed it.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

Hello Everyone,

As you can see from the picture, we have been continuing to enjoy our ‘Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ stories. This week we have been writing postcards and descriptions of settings. We have also painted a lighthouse for our role play area, and used a paint program on the iPads to draw the story setting.

As part of our enquiry question; ‘What does Cornwall mean to me?’ we have been comparing modern lifeboats with the lifeboat that Grace Darling used in her rescue. Look out for a letter next week, which will give details of a class trip on 1st July,  to Looe island.

Well done to our Year one children, who completed their phonics test this week. They all showed such perseverance and a positive attitude and we are really proud. Well done everyone!

This week, we also welcome Mrs Bates, who will be helping us every morning in Penhallow, while Miss Cullingford is away on maternity leave.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

Hello Everyone!

A short but busy week to begin this final half term.

We have launched our enquiry question: ‘What does Cornwall mean to me?’ 

In English, we have been writing descriptions of lighthouses, sequencing stories and writing descriptions of characters, all based around the stories of ‘The lighthouse keeper’s lunch’ and ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s breakfast.’ We will continue with these stories next week.

In maths, reception have been busy learning about repeating patterns, and 3D shapes. Year 1 have been enjoying learning about position and direction. We have even used some interesting dance moves as a part of our maths lessons.

We have all been busy learning an ocean themed poem and a song for The Polperrro Festival and we also have some lovely writing to show you.

As well as this, in history, we have been learning about a lighthouse keeper’s daughter called Grace Darling, who bravely rescued people during a storm in her rowing boat. 

Have a lovely weekend!

from The Penhallow team

Hello!

A lovely week, to finish off this half term.

Again, we were able to enjoy another swimming session this week. We practiced floating, blowing bubbles with our faces in the water, and trying to get as far as we could, without our feet touching the ground.

This week, we also finished off our English unit, based around Julia Donaldson’s ‘Superworm’. Year 1 have written their own stories, but have come up with their own storyline themselves. Reception have written some lovely sentences to describe villains and heroes in the story.

In maths, Reception have been practicing doubles, while Year 1 have enjoyed learning about finding halves and quarters.

We enjoyed a sunny Geography lesson outside, where we were able to identify human and physical features of the school garden.

We also managed to squeeze in an RE lesson, where we used the story of ‘The Lion and the Mouse’ to find out about how we are all special in different ways. 

We wish you a happy half term week, and look forward to seeing you soon, for the final half term of the school year.

From The Penhallow Team

Hello Everyone!

Again, we have managed to complete another swim this week, making the most of the sunshine. We enjoyed our time in the water, and are beginning to master the art of floating, which was demonstrated to them during our recent visit from the RNLI lifeguards a few weeks ago.

During our science this week, we have been busy planting sunflower seeds. We read and followed instructions and will be looking after our plants every day. We look forward to some measuring practice soon, when they will begin to grow. We also went into the school garden and used a leaf and blossom identification's guide to find out about the trees that are growing in our school. We asked scientific questions bout plants and thought of different ways that we can sort leaves and plants.

We continued our work in English, based on the Supertato books. We have designed and made our own supertato from a….potato. We have also written some words to describe villains and heroes, and written a wanted poster for the evil pea.

In maths this week, Year 1 have completed their unit on multiplication, and have started learning about fractions by investigating halves and quarters. Reception have been investigating numbers beyond 10.

We hope you have a lovely weekend! 

From the Penhallow Team

Welcome to the Summer Term!

We have had a lovely start to the new term, exploring our enquiry question: ‘How does your garden grow?’

In science we learnt about the process of pollination. We watched some short video clips which showed how pollination occurs and Year 1 children drew a comic strip to explain the process themselves. We enjoyed examining parts of flowers, including the parts where the pollen is taken from.

Our English learning this week, has been based around the story of Peter Rabbit. We familiarised ourselves with the story and wrote a character description of Peter. We re-told the story verbally, and drew a story map of the events.

Our art lesson this week, involved studying bluebells and sketching different parts of the flowers. The children excelled themselves with some extremely careful observational sketches. We then used watercolours to practice mixing the right colours and shades.

We have also been enjoying practicing songs which will be performed at ‘The Big Green’ and we look forward to seeing you next Thursday afternoon if you are able to be there.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow Team