Landaviddy

Landividdy have been enjoying the welcome arrival of the sunshine, and the extra vitamin D has certainly been working wonders in the classroom!

In English, we have been building up to our grand finale writing piece. Along the way, we have been developing key skills such as using onomatopoeia, punctuating speech correctly with speech marks, and building tension to create excitement in our writing. Using the story Traction Man as inspiration, the children have been planning and creating their own imaginative narratives. They have invented new superheroes, villains, sidekicks, and exciting settings for their stories. We have been so impressed with their creativity and the effort they have put into making their writing engaging and action-packed. We can't wait to share their final pieces! 

In Maths, we have been completing our multiplication and division unit, building our confidence with more complex calculations. This has included dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers and learning how to work with remainders. We have also been exploring scaling and thinking about how many different combinations we can create. One of our favourite activities was investigating how many ways we could make an ice cream using different flavours and toppings.

In PSHE this term, our class have been learning about the different emergency services and the important roles they play in keeping us safe. We explored who to contact in a range of situations and discussed why each service is needed. To help us understand this better, we worked with a variety of scenario cards. These included different emergencies, and in pairs we had to decide which service would be the most appropriate to help. We thought carefully about each situation and explained our reasoning to our partners. We all really enjoyed working together and feel much more confident about what to do if an emergency ever happens.

In Design and Technology, our class has been busy planning and designing a moving volcano picture. We have been learning how to use simple mechanisms to create movement in our work. We decided to use split pins to create a lever system, which will allow the lava to pop out from the volcano. We explored different ideas and practised how to join pieces together so they can move smoothly. We are looking forward to making our final pieces and watching our volcanoes erupt!

In Science, we have been exploring how friction affects movement. We learned that friction is a force that slows things down when they move across a surface. Working in small groups, we carried out an investigation to see how different surfaces create different amounts of friction. We built a ramp and released a toy car, then measured how far it travelled across a range of surfaces. We discovered that on smoother surfaces, the car travelled further because there was less friction. On rougher surfaces, the car didn't travel as far because there was more friction slowing it down. It was a fun and practical way to learn about forces, and we enjoyed working together to test our ideas and record our results.

A huge congratulations to Iylah for being Miss Bolton's Person of the Week! I was blown away by the determination, effort, and care you took to create your narrative based on Traction Man. You included all the key components that make a piece of writing exciting, including onomatopoeia, speech marks, descriptive language, and ellipsis. It is a fantastic piece of writing that you should be very proud of. Well done!

Miss Colton picked Frankie this week for how hard he is working in handwriting - fantastic!

Another well done to Finn, who was Mrs Lister's choice for Person of the Week! She has been really impressed with your determination in class last week. You also produced a fantastic piece of writing, showing how your imagination can create a marvellous read. Well done, Finn-keep it up!

This was our last week of exploring different stories and answering our enquiry question "What is your favourite book and why?"
This week we have been reading the story of  "The Gruffalo".
The children have enjoyed a themed tuft tray where they have used different natural resources to make Gruffalo crumble!
They have also created their own Gruffalo fork painting pictures.

At story time we have enjoyed reading "Wonky Donkey", "More Ketchup Please" and the rhyming book "Each Peach Pear Plum".

In phonics this week we have been playing with alliteration and exploring tongue twisters. The children have listening and talking about sounds they might hear at the beach and we have been matching initial sounds e.g. sea and sun.

In maths we have been constructing with shapes and seeing what we could make with them.
We have continued to find objects that represent nubers including those that are larger.

Today (Friday) we have dressed up in red and had crazy hair in aid of Comic Relief. The children all looked amazing and they enjoyed decorating red nose biscuits to take home. Great job!

We hope the sun is here to stay and that you can all enjoy a warm/dry weekend.

Julie and Sarah

Thank you for sending your children in today in MUFTI and with wonderfully creative crazy hair (see blogs for photos). We had a huge amount of fun in school and spent time finding out about the work of Comic Relief. At the time of writing, we have raised over £85 for Comic Relief from your generous donations.

Trust Music Event On Monday, pupils from Polperro School joined other schools from the Trust for a special music event held at St Martin's Church in Liskeard. Thirteen of our older pupils performed a fantastic original song they had written about climate change, showcasing both their creativity and their commitment to an important global issue. Following the performances, all the children came together to sing alongside Luke Wallace, a world-renowned singer-songwriter from Canada who inspires positive climate action through music. It was a memorable event that brought the schools together and highlighted the importance of raising awareness about climate change. Well done to all those who represented Polperro.

FOPS Easter Discos Reminder that we will be holding Easter discos next week on Friday 27th March. Tickets are on sale in the office and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm.

Diary Dates Thursday 2nd April is the last day of the Spring term and school ends for pupils at 1:30pm.

Looking ahead to the summer term, Sports Day will be held at 10am on Tuesday 23rd June with a reserve date of Friday 26th June.

Wishing you a  sunny weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Hello Everyone,

This week in Penhallow, we have been enjoying a little bit of sunshine outside. 

We have been busy singing Spring songs and going on a walk outside, on a scavenger hunt, looking for signs of Spring.

We have been continuing with our Katie Morag and the Isle of Coll unit in English, where we have been writing character descriptions and descriptions of settings. 

In Geography, we have been comparing the Isle of Coll, with K'gari, an Island off the Eastern coast of Australia. We used the internet to find photographs, maps and videos of wildlife, as well as geographical features.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

From The Penhallow Team

This week in Year 3 has been full of fantastic learning and great enthusiasm!

In English, the children absolutely blew us away with their brilliant vocabulary choices while using onomatopoeia to create tension in exciting scenes from Traction Man. Their writing was full of wonderful sound words that really brought the action to life. Each piece was a delight to read and we were so impressed with the creativity and effort shown by everyone.

In Maths, we have been enhancing our multiplication skills to help us when multiplying and dividing a single-digit number by a two-digit number. The class has worked very hard and we are seeing some great progress, particularly with their growing confidence in their times table knowledge.

During PE, we have been enjoying cricket. The children have been practising their bowling, fielding and batting skills, and it has been lovely that the weather has been kind enough for us to play outside. There has been some excellent teamwork and great effort from everyone.

On Friday, we were lucky enough to have a special assembly with a visit from the RNLI lifeguards. The session was interactive and very interesting. The children impressed our visitors by showcasing their sea safety knowledge and asking some fantastic, thoughtful questions.

We all hope you have a restful and wonderful weekend.

Mrs Lister, Miss Bolton and Miss Colton

TALLAND'S BLOG 20.3.26

PHOTO DUMP!

Well done to Amelia for passing her next level of 99 club and congratulations to Esmai for becoming a fantastic member of Talland class - she's had a brilliant week and she has settled in to our wonderful class.

That's all from us in Talland this week - we hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

We have had a busy week in Chaipel. Our WW2 balanced argument is now complete and we have assessed our writing and all agree that we are extremely pleased with what we have produced. Next week, we will be learning about the life and times of Anne Frank, building up to writing a diary entry - from her perspective - on the day her family went into hiding.

In Maths, we have worked together to complete a SATS arithmetic paper and are very pleased with our results. We will continue to do this up to the SATS week to best prepare us. In other areas of maths, we have been investigating algebra (expression/formula/substitution) and the properties of a circle.

In our wider curriculum, we have looked into the Home Front and what the civilians did for the war effort, designed a steady hand game for DT and learnt about the difference between orthodox and progressive Jews in RE.

On Friday, we had the RNLI in to explain how to stay safe at the beach. I was overwhelmed at how much Chaipel knew and feel confident that they are beach-ready for the summer season!

That's all from me, so have a lovely weekend and HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our parent/carer consultations for Penhallow, Talland and Chaipel Classes this week. Mr Langley will be holding consultations for Talland Class next Wednesday. Miss Bolton will be holding them for Landaviddy Class on Wednesday and Friday. If you have not been able to meet with your child's teacher yet, please contact the office to arrange an appointment.

Cross Country Success The Polperro team yet again did brilliantly well in last week's final league race at Lanhydrock. Congratulations to the children who all ran well. Thank you to Mrs Turnbull and Miss Colton for their wonderful team support this season and to parents and carers for transporting our runners to each race come rain or shine (mostly rain!). An amazing effort all round from Team Polperro. Special congratulations go to Flora and Isabelle who have qualified for an Inter Area competition at Par Track on 30th March.

RNLI Beach Safety Assembly Lifeguards from the RNLI visited today to hold an assembly about how to stay safe on the beach. They enlisted the help of pupils to demonstrate how to get help if they get into trouble in the sea. They also discussed where it is and isn't safe to swim and what to do if you are caught in a riptide. Your child will have brought home a leaflet which contains the information discussed.

Comic Relief, Friday 20th March - Crazy Hair MUFTI Day This year Red Nose Day is on Friday, 20th March. The School Council would like the children to come to school in MUFTI with Crazy Hair with a minimum donation of £1 for this MUFTI day.

FOPS Easter Discos Reminder that we will be holding Easter discos on Friday 27th March. Tickets are on sale in the office and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm.

Bags for School Collection Monday 16th Reminder that these are being collected from Nursery on Monday 16th March. Please ensure Nursery have your bags before 9am.

MHST Wild Wellbeing Please see attached details of the Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) Wild Wellbeing sessions being run this Easter holidays in collaboration with Natural England, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and National Trust. These free sessions are open to children aged 5-12 to help understand and support emotional and mental wellbeing. Each session will be approximately 2 hours long. Sign up details are included in the attached poster. Sign up will close one week before the session date, or when the session reaches capacity, whichever comes first.

Wishing you a lovely weekend

Mrs Hillman

This week at nursery we have been exploring the story of "Superworm".
The children have enjoyed listening to the story and have made their own colourful worms by wrapping wool around card to create them.

They have been practicing their fine motor skills by threading cheerios onto pipecleaners to make worms and on the writing table have been practicing pencil control by following the different trails that the worm has made.

As well as the story of "Superworm", the children have enjoyed selecting other favourite books including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Hungry Caterpillar"

In phonics this week we have explored the different sounds that we can make with our voices and body.
The children have been identifying and creating different animal sounds and joined in with the song "Hoppy Poppy's Zoo" to the tune of "Old Mcdonald had a farm".

In maths the children have been naming and ordering numbers, sorting groups of objects and using these objects to represent numbers.

We have a Bags2school collection on Monday 16th March so if you hve any good quality used items such as clothes, shoes, bags or belts then please bag them up and bring them to nursery before 9am on the day.
It is Comic Relief next Friday so children in on this day are very welcome to come in wearing something red and with "crazy" hair!! A £1 donation would be appreciated.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah 

Hello Everyone,


It's been a lot of fun, learning in Penhallow this week.

Our world book day on Thursday consisted of reading with the pupils in Chaipel class, making story cubes and inventing stories, going on a book scavenger hunt, and making pancakes after reading 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes.'

We have enjoyed some Geography learning, in which we found out more about The Isle of Coll in Scotland. We have read some of the Katie Morag stories, which are set on the fictional Isle of Struay, which is actually the Isle of Coll.

In English this week, we have written diaries and letters based around the story of Grandad's Island. We also worked in pairs to edit and improve our work.

We are looking forward to meeting you for our parent consultations next week. Please book an appointment with us, if you haven't done so already.

from The Penhallow Team

World Book Day Thank you for sending your child to school dressed as their favourite character for World Book Day yesterday. We saw some of the best costumes ever and really enjoyed seeing them all during assembly.

After assembly, Landaviddy and Talland Classes shared stories and read together, while Chaipel pupils read to Penhallow pupils, which was a lovely opportunity for children to enjoy books together. Later, KS2 took part in a BBC live lesson all about reading while Penhallow Class enjoyed a range of World Book Day activities. All of these activities were designed to encourage a love of reading, which is such an important part of every child's education.

Congratulations to the winners of our paper plate competition: Penhallow: Martha (winner); Brody and Maeve (runners up) Landaviddy: Hector (winner); April and Iylah (runners up) Talland: Harley (winner); Amber and Flora (runners up) Chaipel: Lily (winner); Aria and Skye (runners up). The standard of entry was so high and it was very difficult to choose. Photos of the plates and the World Book Day costumes will be on class pages and head's blog on our website. The plates will be displayed in the library.

Enquiries for this half term Enquiry questions have been launched for this half term as follows: Penhallow: What is it like to live on an Island? Landaviddy: How can the Force be with You? Talland: How have children's lives changed? Chaipel: What was the impact of WWII on the People of Britain? As usual, photos and information about the children's learning can be found on the class pages.

Parent Consultations Reminder We will be holding parent consultations next week for Penhallow, Talland and Chaipel Classes and the week commencing 16th March for Landaviddy Class. If you have not already signed up, please call the office to arrange an appointment either in person, on TEAMS or by phone.

Fantastic Footballers Well done to our football team, who played against Bishop Cornish on Wednesday. They performed brilliantly against an older side, showing great determination and teamwork throughout the game. The team scored two fantastic goals and were unlucky not to add another after hitting the post. Although the final score was 4-2 to Bishop Cornish, the result does not reflect how competitive and closely contested the match was.

FOPS Fundraising Quiz Night Join us for a fun-filled Quiz Night at school on Friday 13th March. The event is open to parents, carers, and friends of the school. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start. Form a team of 4-6 people and test your knowledge while supporting our fundraising efforts. Tickets are £5 per person and are available from the school office. See the attached poster for more details. We hope to see you there!

FOPS Easter Discos We will be holding Easter discos on Friday 27th March. Tickets are on sale in the office and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will be from 3:15 - 4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (Years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30 - 6:00pm.

Comic Relief, Friday 20th March - Crazy Hair Day This year Red Nose Day is on Friday, 20th March. The School Council would like the children to come to school in MUFTI with Crazy Hair with a minimum donation of £1 for this MUFTI day.

Support for a Pupil We would like to share that one of our Year 6 pupils has been in hospital for some time. This has been a very challenging period for the family, and we are keeping them very much in our thoughts. A GoFundMe page has been set up with further details about how we can offer support during this difficult time. If you are able to help, any contribution would be greatly appreciated. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-my-goddaughters-road-to-recovery We are sure you will join us in sending your very best wishes the family.

Enjoy a (hopefully) sunny weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Landaviddy

Another great week in Landaviddy Class! We are now two weeks into our enquiry question "How Can the Force be With You?", and the children have continued to show lots of enthusiasm for their learning.

This week we also enjoyed the excitement of World Book Day. Although it is my first time celebrating it at this school, I was really impressed by the amount of thought and effort that went into many of the costumes. It was wonderful to see the children's creativity and their love of reading.

In English, we have been delving deeper into the adventures of Traction Man from the books by Mini Grey. The children created their own character descriptions, thinking carefully about Traction Man's personality and heroic qualities. We also introduced another story, Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey. The class enjoyed using role play to retell the story before creating story maps to help them remember the sequence of events. We have started to compare the two stories and will continue exploring their similarities and differences next week.

In Maths, we have been continuing to explore multiplication and division. The children have worked incredibly hard this week to apply their knowledge to more complex problem-solving questions, and it has been wonderful to see their confidence growing.

In PSHE, we explored how the amount of calories our bodies take in can affect us. We also looked closely at food labels, particularly focusing on how many grams of sugar are found in some common unhealthy snacks. The children were surprised to discover just how much sugar can be in everyday foods!

In Design and Technology, we have been learning about mechanisms, specifically levers, pulleys and gears. The children identified the differences between each one and discussed how they are used in the real world. We are very excited to begin designing and making our own lever mechanisms to create a pop-up volcano picture over the next couple of weeks.

In Geography, we have been learning about volcanoes and how they are formed. The class labelled the different parts of the Earth and described each of the layers, developing a better understanding of what happens beneath the surface of our planet.

A huge congratulations to Alfie for staying on task and trying hard in all of his lessons this week. It has been impressive to see how well he has managed distractions.

Another well done to Evie, who blew me away with the fantastic vocabulary she used in her Traction Man character description.

A big congratulations to Iylah and Brody for achieving their 99 Club badge this week - a fantastic effort! Well done to everyone for another brilliant week of learning. We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Miss Bolton & Miss Colton

TALLAND'S CLASS 6.3.26

Another fun and entertaining week here in Talland class.. World book day was brilliant and the children's costumes were fantastic!  

Here's a breakdown of our week:

Maths:
Year 5 have been ordering and comparing fractions along with finding out how to find the are of a compound shape.

Year 4 have completed their unit on multiplication and division and have just began their fractions unit. They have also continued to convert between kilometers and meters.

English: 
Ove the next couple of weeks, we will be writing a news report about Oliver Twist. This week, we have immersed ourselves with newspaper reports and pulled out the features included to create a successful article.

Science:
We planned an investigation to find out which liquids will run down a slope the fasted: Ketchup, water, cooking oil or honey?

PE:
Talland have had lots of fun with Mrs. Hillman on the brand new gymnastics equipment and with me, we have been learning how to bowl - we have some naturals!

CONGRATULATIONS to Reuben, Renley, Archie, Max and Amelia this week for passing their next round in 99 club and well done to Flora for show excellent determination during lesson time and for showing a real maturity within her work ethic.

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

We have had a wonderful week full of exploring books. We have been exploring the story of "Rainbow Fish" and the children have enjoyed creating colourful collage fish and painted fish pictures alongside this.
This Thursday saw us celebrate World Book Day in addition to St Piran's Day. The children came into nursery all dressed up as their favourite book characters and looked great!
They made some St Piran's flag bookmarks, enjoyed a cream tea for their morning snack and we enjoyed reading the story books that the children brought in from home throughout the day.

In phonics this week we have been using our voices to create animal sounds, clapping to a beat and the children have played a game called "Fishing in the Arctic" where they have had to find and match objects with the same initial sound.

In maths we have been exploring numbers and finding objects to represent these numbers.

Have a wonderful weekend 

Julie and Sarah

Planting for the future

Welcome back!

The first week of term is already underway. Building on last year's Orwell Project, our Year 5 and 6 pupils, together with our Planet Protector group, visited the temperate rainforest just ten minutes from school to take part in a special tree-planting session. They were the very first group of pupils to plant trees as part of this exciting initiative, which will see more than 20,000 trees planted to help restore and regenerate the temperate rainforest. A fantastic start to the term and a wonderful way for our pupils to make a real difference to their local environment.

Parent Consultations We will be holding parent consultations the week commencing 9th March for Penhallow, Talland and Chaipel Classes and the week commencing 16th March for Landaviddy Class. Please see separate letter attached for dates and details of how to sign up.

Clubs will resume next week as follows: Monday: After School Running Club (Miss Bowden and Miss Bolton) for years 3-6. Tuesday: Lunchtime Construction Club (Mrs Lister) Reception/Y1/Y2; After school Girls' Football (Y3-6); Thursday: Lunchtime Choir Mrs Butlin (Y2-6) After school Art Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) Reception/Y1/Y2 ; After school Football Club Mr Langley (Y3-Y6). We had hoped to restart Gardening Club this half term; however, unfortunately the greenhouse did not withstand the recent storms and we are currently awaiting a replacement. We are now aiming to have this popular club up and running again after the Easter break.

If your child would like to join any of the clubs available for their year group and has not already signed up, please let us know by email or telephone. Please note that once children have signed up to a club, they are expected to attend every week unless they are absent from school or we have received written parental permission for them not to attend. This applies to both lunchtime and after-school clubs.  

World Book Day, Thursday 5th March 2026 Please find attached a £1 digital book token for your child to spend on a free book for World Book Day. Reminder that on World Book Day children should come in dressed as their favourite book character. We have already had some super entries for "decorate a paper plate" competition where the children are asked to decorate a paper plate following the theme or character of a book. Reminder that the deadline for entries is Monday 2nd March and winners will be announced on World Book Day (Thursday 5th March).

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Another lovely week has flown by and we are truely immersed in our enquiry into WW2. We have been learning about the Battle of Britain and what the phrase 'to win' actually means and at what cost this win was to the British people.

We took our new learning and have written a balanced argument about to the term 'winning' in English, questioning whether Britain 'won' the Battle of Britain. Next week we will edit, improve and write up our argument in best copy. In Maths, we have begun to interpret formula in algebra and have revisited measurements of length, mass and capacity. 

As well as our investgation into the Battle of Britain, our wider curriculum comprised of learning about the functionality and form of a range of toys in DT. We will be creating our own steady hand game in the coming weeks. The weather has been kind (at last) so we have been improving our tennis skills in PE and in RE we have investigated, drawn and labelled the Jewish Torah scrolls; this will lead to the significance of and treatment towards the Jewish community during WW2.

World Book Day was on Thursday and we had some lovely costumes! Well done to Lily for winning the Book Plate competition - the prize beiing to select a book of your choice! We tuned into the BBC's LIVE lesson and read to the younger children in Penhallow. It was a lovely day!

CONGRATULATIONS to our People of the Week - Thomas and         Everly - for demonstrating our school values this week.

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

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

We've had a lovely first week back. We began with launching our long-awaited enquiry into the impact of WW2 on the people of Britain. We completed a pre-assessment Kahoot quiz and then have spent this week investigating the events leading up to the start of the war and the significance of the Battle of Britain, listening to primary oral sources from the veterans of the RAF. It was so inspiring to hear of their dedication and spirit - as they never referred to themselves as brave: they were just doing their duty to King and country.

We are linking English with our enquiry, writing a balanced argument about whether Britain actually 'won' the Battle of Britain. We have investigated the 'pros' and 'cons' of the battle and took part in a class debate, putting our points of view across and building on and challenging the opinions of others.

In Maths, we have been finishing off our fractions, decimals and percentages unit. We are really confident now and are looking forward to a week of algebra next week! 

We ended the week with a visit to Muchlarnick, where we were the first children to plant the first fifty trees which will make up the newly-formed temperate rainforest. This links in with the George Orwell project we were lucky to be part of a couple of years ago. We had 'press coverage' there and Aria, Nuala, Immy and Tristan spoke very eloquently when asked to give their account of their experience.

CONGRATULATIONS to our People of the Week: Lily, Chilali and Leo who demonstrated our school values and are true role models to their peers.

I have attached the Homework Grid and KIRFs for this half term. Carry on with the SATS books and remember the SATS clubs are Tuesday (pm), Wednesday (lunchtime) and Thursday (am).

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

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

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TALLAND'S BLOG 27.2.26

WELCOME BACK EVERYBODY.. we hope you had a lovely week! Talland have jumped straight back into action with a packed week full of learning.

Here's a breakdown of our week:

Maths:
Year 5 have begun their fractions unit where they have been finding equivalent fractions.

Year 4 have been dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers and converting units of measure (meters - kilometers, and millimeters - centimeters).


English:
Talland have written their instructions up in top copy and they are looking fabulous! We've also started our new writing (newspaper report) where the children have had a go at writing their own newspaper report without any  teaching input - some interesting outcomes.

History:
"How have children's lives been changed?" is our new enquiry question for this half term, so we have been investigating the continuity and the changes in children's lives since 1066. It was quite captivating realising some of the differences and similarities between then and now.

PE:
We've got Gymnastics on a Tuesday and Cricket on a Wednesday this term and the children have already been showing off their skills.

CONGRATULATIONS to Tarran, Max and Renley this week for passing their next round in 99 club and well done to Emma and Reuben for being noticed this week for showing our school values through determination and creativity.

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.

It has been wonderful to join Landaviddy Class as their teacher. They have made me feel really welcome and I am looking forward to getting to know each and every one of them.

We have launched our new enquiry question: How Can the Force be With You?  The children are already excited to find out all about volcanoes in geography and forces in science.

In PSHE we have looked at how exercise affects our bodies and the children have set themselves a fitness challenge which we will look at over the half term.

In English, we are getting to know the Traction Man stories.  This week have enjoyed drama where the children acted out the story of Traction Man. 

In Maths, we have been looking at the 2, 4 and 8 times table, applying our knowledge of multiplication and division.

Congratulations to Sonny for being my first Person of the Week for being very welcoming and consistently being on task. And a big well done to April and Ella for achieving their 99 club badge this week.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Bolton, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

Welcome Back!

We hope you had a wonderful and restful half term, we've enjoyed hearing what you have been up to. It is lovely to see everyone back and hearing about some of the adventures you have had!

This half term, our enquiry question is: What is it like to live on an island?

We are going to become island explorers as we discover what makes an island special and how it is different from other places. We will be finding out: What an island is and how it is surrounded by water What the weather might be like on different islands. How people can travel on and off an island. What plants and animals might live there We will explore islands around the world, learn about island life, and imagine what it would be like if we lived on our very own island.

There will be lots of exciting activities, creative projects and fun challenges along the way. We've started the week by reading maps and creating our own, using descriptive vocabulary to write a postcard and using money in maths (watch out we may book ourselves a holiday!)  We are looking forward to a fantastic half term of learning together.