It's been a busy and exciting week in Penhallow!
We had a fantastic Sports Day on Wednesday. Everyone took part with enthusiasm and showed brilliant sportsmanship - well done, team!
On Friday, we enjoyed our usual swimming session, which is always lots of fun and a great way to build confidence in the water.
In English, we've completed our lighthouse stories. The children worked so hard, and the results are wonderful - full of creativity and imagination.
In Maths, Year 1 will be learning all about money next week - we're looking forward to exploring coins, notes, and how we use them. We've also been using the iPads on Friday afternoons to complete our PSHE and Computing work - the children are really enjoying using technology to support their learning. Please don't forget about our exciting up coming trip to Looe Island on Tuesday.
Have a lovely weekend!
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
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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.
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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
Hello Everyone!
We have certainly made use of the sunshine this week.
On Thursday we all enjoyed a lovely session in the pool. We then had a great time in the afternoon, being part of the opening session for the Big Green. Well done Penhallow for singing so well in front of lots of people. We are really proud of you.
In our wider curriculum lessons this week, Reception have enjoyed being outside, creating some Peter Rabbit themed nature collages, where they practiced weaving natural objects. Year 1 have done a fantastic job at completing their paintings of bluebells. They used their skills of colour mixing and sketching, to produce some great results.
In maths this week, Year 1 have been counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s. They have enjoyed learning through stories, practical activities, as well as finding patterns in number lines and number squares.
During our English lessons, Year 1 have completed writing their own story of Peter Rabbit, while Reception are becoming more independent at writing sentences. They used illustrations from the story, to come up with their own sentences.
Have a lovely long weekend everyone.
From the Penhallow team
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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
Hello Everyone,
What a lovely end to the term it has been!
We have enjoyed an Easter themed week.
On Tuesday we had an assembly from Rev Allen, where we learnt all about the reason behind our Easter celebrations.
In RE, we sequenced the Easter story, beginning with Palm Sunday, and ending with the resurrection on Easter Sunday. We learnt about why Easter is a special time for Christians.
We have also been enjoying making Easter cards as part of our art lessons.
Other learning this week has included investigating axels and making a car with working axels in our technology lesson, following up from our theatre visit last week, by writing lists of items that the Little Red Hen needed, and
our maths learning this week, has included using scales to measure and compare mass.
We wish you all a very happy Easter and a lovely break.
See you next term.
From The Penhallow Team.
Hello Everyone!
Spring is in the air, and we have been busy drawing daffodils this week. We made careful observations of different varieties of daffodils and then used oil pastels to create the different colours and shapes that we observed.
This week, we also finished our English work on Quentin Blake’s ‘Mrs Armitage on Wheels.’ Everyone has made up a story of their own, based on the original story, and Year 1 have written some amazing story sequels. We have been very proud of our results.
Both year groups have been busy learning all about length and measure this week in maths. We made and compared different lengths using play dough, measured and compared objects around the classroom, and Year one began to use standard measures to carefully measure objects.
We had a lovely end to this week, on our trip to The Theatre Royal in Plymouth. The Little Red Hen performance did not disappoint, and had the children participated well throughout the show. The children’s happy faces, showed how much they enjoyed and benefitted from the whole experience, and we are extremely proud of how well they behaved throughout the whole day.
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