TALLAND'S BLOG 19.12.25

And here it is - Talland's last blog for 2025! It's been a magical week kickstarting it with Talland and Chaipel's Christmas Production... WOW! What an incredible job they did! Thank you so much for helping them learn their lines and look the part! We've also had the Christmas fayre, Christmas Jumper Day, Christmas dinner and finished off with a festive movie today - it really has been wonderful! 

CONGRATULATIONS to Harley, Amelia and Benjamin this week for passing their next round in 99 club. WELL DONE to George for being noticed for an outstanding performance in the our Christmas show and fantastic work from Amber for being noticed for her brilliant learning behaviours, kind personality and for being a great member of Talland class.

That's all from us in Talland this YEAR. We wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a  HAPPY NEW YEAR. We can't wait to see you all in 2026!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

TALLAND'S BLOG 12.12.25

WOWZERS.. This term is flying by! I can't believe we only have one week to go until we can jingle off on to our Christmas Holidays! I also can't believe it's Chaipel and Talland's Christmas Production THIS MONDAY! We did our first dress rehearsal in front of a live audience today and I think it's fair to say - the children smashed it! The children of Polperro were truly captivated!

Here's a breakdown of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 and 5 have both been looking at ways to solve problems involving multiplication and division. They were also lucky enough to show off their mathematical skills in a little Maths quiz! 


English:
Talland have begun planning to write their own Legend story. They have thought of their setting, hero/heroine, villain/villainess and have decided which writing techniques they are going to focus on in each paragraph. 

History:
We looked at how Britain changed after the Vikings arrived. How they conquered many parts of Britain, even beating King Alfred in Wessex. The Danelaw arrived and many were baptised, converting to Christianity as part of a bribe from King Alfred.  How long will peace last? 

Computing:
Children worked collaboratively to create a webpage for a book review. They reviewed their favourite books, authors, summarised these stories and gave them a rating out of 5.

RE:
Linking to History, Talland looked at why Christians choose to get Baptised, what process they go through and what are the vital pieces of traditional equipment required to carry out the ceremony.   


CONGRATULATIONS to Reuben and Emma this week for passing their next round in 99 club. Also, WELL DONE to Emma this week for being noticed for her consistent and excellent attitude towards learning and her kind manner.

That's all from us in Talland this week. We hope you have a great weekend and can't wait to see everyone next week.

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

TALLAND'S BLOG 21.11.25

What a wonderful week it's been in Talland.. we have had a slight sprinkle of snow! Talland and Chaipel have been combining forces whilst learning lines and songs for our upcoming Christmas production - the children are very excited!

Here's a breakdown of our week:
Maths:
Year 5 have been continuing to add and subtract decimals with different amounts of tenths and hundredths. They have also solved problems involving angles and lengths.
Year 4 have been dividing by 10 and they have now completed their first SHAPE unit.

English: Talland have completed their fabulous poems about Ade Adepitan and have now started looking at Myths and legends: Beowulf is our inspiration and we've jumped in by using some fun acting games to help us remember the story.

History: Talland have explored the life of an Anglo - Saxon, where they would have lived, social classes and how they entertained themselves.

PE: Talland have had lots of fun playing Netball with Mrs. Hillman and we've played some exciting games in dodgeball, discussing what we can do to be effective throwers and dodgers.

CONGRATULATIONS to Callum this week for passing his next round in 99 club and WELL DONE to Amelia and Lowen for being noticed for showing our school values this week.

That's all from us in Talland this week. We hope you have a great weekend and can't wait to see everyone next week.

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

TALLAND'S BLOG 14.11.25

It's been a fun, busy and action packed week in Talland! We've had auditions, scripts have been handed out and we've had art of plenty! 

Here's a break down of our week:

Maths: 
Year 5 have moved onto decimals, where they are continuing to add and subtract. They're now investigating how that works whilst decimals are involved. They have also been calculating angles from a straight line.
Year 4 have also moved onto decimals. They have begun to recognise how decimals are linked to fractions. They have also explored different lines of symmetry.

English:
Talland have been looking at a range of poetry features and they've used these features to plan a poem for Ade Adepitan (a famous Para Olympian basketball player and TV personality). They wrote their poems independently today and they are sounding brilliant!

Art:
Talland have been using a range of crafting tools to calve their chosen animal/minibeast into soap - this was a tricky and long process. It took a tremendous amount of concentration and determination - we had some achy hands by the end. We also created animals out of wire - this was really fiddly. And, finally, today we began looking at how to created bubble writing and then cut them out... the final product will be shared on next weeks blog!

History:
We have begun looking at the end of the Roman Empire, the rise of the Anglo Saxons and the crossing of those vicious Vikings. It's really interesting - I don't know about you - but I love History!

PE:
With Mrs. Hillman, the children have been practicing passing skills within netball. With me, we have jumped into dodgeball. Children were learning how to pass and aim with accuracy... DODGE, DUCK, DIP, DIVE and DODGE!

CONGRATULATIONS to Zach this week for being noticed for his outstanding persistence with his handwriting!

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 17.10.25

Happy weekend everyone! Photo dump incoming...

Please don't forget to send your child in to school this Monday wearing clothes suitable for the woods (they probably will get mucky).

A huge well done to Flora this week for being chosen as our person of the week for her fabulous biome she created at home and brought in to share with the class... I loved the moss, the soil, the plants and the little Lego character!

We are organising a girls' football club for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 run by a football organisation. Please make sure you sign your child up as soon as possible if they are interested because if we don't have enough people, unfortunately the club will not run. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Signing off Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.  

TALLAND'S BLOG 3.10.25

What a great week it's been at Polperro. Music, sport (with some speedy mile of the day-ers) and a whole load of learning.

Let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 / 100 / 1,000 and have been identifying different triangles - why not quiz them to see if they remember what they are...

Year 5 have continued to round up to the nearest 1,000,000 and we have been experimenting with protractors.

English: The children have been planning to write their story of the Great Tree. They have thought carefully about characters and how to describe them; how to use emotive devices to persuade our tree surgeon to stop and the choice of sentence techniques to help make their writing sound descriptive, imaginative and gripping. I can't wait to read their independent attempts next week!

PE: With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing balances which involve strength, particularly within their core. In football, we have been using both the inside and outside of both feet to dribble and turn in different directions to evade defenders. 

Science: Talland class thought about which mini-beasts might reside within our local habitats and then researched one that took their particular fancy. Messy day incoming where we will go on a mini-beast hunt.

Computing: We got to create a quiz on Scratch where everyone added Sprites, an icy background and popped in instructions for the computer to follow. 

CONGRATULATIONS to Kayla for becoming our first success in 99 club this year and to Zach for being noticed for his brilliant Sportsmanship manner and his leadership skills - showing the traits of a responsible, mature and kind young man.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a lovely weekend and hope to see many of you tonight for the George Orwell Project. The children's work is up in the hall and it looks fantastic! 

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.