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

Welcome back everyone! I can't believe we have reached the Summer term already! 

We have been rounding off our previous enquiry in Science, by learning about the function of flowering plants and identifying each part. Can you recall what the sepal is and what is does? We even went outside and picked daisies, which we then looked closely at to see all the different parts. 

Our enquiry question for this half term is 'How does the weather affect our environment?'. Across the half term, we have a lot we plan to cover. In DT, we will be exploring cooking and nutrition, following recipes and designing our own healthy wraps. During Computing, we will be exploring emails and how these work. Geography lessons will focus on weather and how we can measure and record the changes in weather around us. We will also be developing our Team Building and Basketball skills during PE lessons this half term! 

In English, we have started a new unit on writing persuasive letters on plastic pollution. We have already learnt a lot about how plastic is destroying marine life and littering Cornish beaches. We have thought carefully about what it means to persuade and even held our own debates this week on the topic. Over the next few weeks, we will be writing letters to convince King Charles to do more to prevent the pollution of our local beaches. 

During Maths this week, both year groups have started a new unit on Mass and Capacity, with Year 2 measuring mass in grams and kilograms, and Year 3 measuring mass by reading scales with accuracy in grams.

Congratulations to George and Frankie for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week!

As the weather begins to get warmer, the pool will be open and ready for us to dive in! Please make sure you bring in your swimming costumes, towels and swim hats ready for this. 

Have a super weekend and we can't wait to see you all on Monday! 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 25.4.25

Happy Summer Term 1 everybody. We hope you had an amazing Easter break and ate your body weight in chocolate – I gave it a good go!

The children have returned in high spirits and have been eager to get learning. This term our enquiry question is: What’s pulling the strings of our world? Talland will be building a pavilion type structure in Design and Technology, continuing with their art work for the Orwell Project, air resistance and gravity in Science, the Kingdom of God in RE, using the MICRO:BITS in computing, investigating extreme weather in Geography and exploring cricket and outdoor activities in PE. Yes, it is an action packed term and I can’t wait for Talland to learn all about it!

This week:
Maths:
Year 4 have begun learning about shape and year 5 have delved into perimeter and area. 

English:
Talland have written their description for a castle independently. Next week, they will edit and improve and write it up in top copy.

Art: 
Sean (our artist) came in and showed us how to upscale a piece of art. Talland definitely have some budding artists in the making! 

PE:
This term we will have cricket on a Tuesday and Outdoor Activities on a Thursday. As the weather is about to turn nice (hopefully), the swimming pool will be ready for use. Therefore, could you please make sure that your child has their indoor/outdoor PE kits and their swimming costumes, towels, goggles and swim hats.

DT
We had lots of fun today constructing structures that are strong and sturdy with the use of sweets and cocktail sticks. Talland were learning about how to make a structure that is durable and has secure foundations.

CONGRATULATIONS to Arnie for being noticed this week for his positive attitude, enthusiasm and kindness. 

That's all from Talland class this week. We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.

Happy First Week Back!

It's been a lovely week, with Chaipel creating come amazing artwork with Sean on Wednesday. Our foci was scaling and collaboration: children working together to create an image which connected seamlessly when their art work was combined. Everyone worked extremely diligently but a shout-out to Nuala and Imogen whose work not only covered the remit but had depth, texture and perspective. Well done, girls!

We have been planning our Tudor narrative in English, bringing our protagonist to life and then deciding their fate as they race to free Anne Boleyn from her impending execution.

In Maths we have been learning about units of measure and had a really productive lesson in reading timetables today. Next week, it's shape and angles - our protractors are at the ready!!

Our new enquiry is... Is Change Inevitable?
We are looking at population change, climate change and evolution and inheritance, charting the journey of Darwin on HMS Beagle. We will look at his discoveries and see for ourselves how living things can adapt to their environment in order to survive.

Congratulations to our People of the Week: Nuala, Imogen and Sienna for demonstrating our school values and being role models for the rest of the school.

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

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Mrs Hodge and Miss Colton.

We have had a great first week back to nursery. We have enjoyed welcoming back all  of the children and have started our new enquiry question "What makes things grow?"
The children have started to plant some seeds and are looking forward to watching them grow. We have been discussing what plants need to make them grow and we look forward to seeing how big our seeds can get.

The children have been getting creative and have enjoyed doing some still life painting of a beautiful bunch of flowers. They all did such a great job!

At storytime we have been reading the story of "Jack and the beanstalk" and the children have been talking about the story and answering simple questions.
We have also read "A seed in need" and "Tilly plants a tree"

In maths we have been sorting and comparing groups of objects and ordering and writing numbers.

In phonics the children have been performing actions to songs in time with the music. They have been making different voice sounds and exploring sounds that they can make with different musical instruments.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

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.

TALLAND'S BLOG 4.4.25

What a fun last week we have had. It's been full of art, Bayeux Tapestry, sport and Easter egg hunts. We even met the Easter Bunny!

We will keep this one short and sweet. 

We hope you have an incredibly yummy Easter and have a whole lot of fun!

Well done to everyone who has represented our school this week in sport and fantastic work from Arnie, who got noticed for being a determined learner and superb learning partner!

Wishing you a lovely break! Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.

This half term has raced by. At our end of term assembly this afternoon, we shared our favourite moments from the last six weeks. The children said that they particularly liked their trips including the theatre trip, World Book Day, Funky Friday on the playground, having Nursery children in the dinner hall every day, learning to sew in year 6. Several children said they enjoyed ‘everything’ which is great to hear.

This morning, the children had a visit from the Easter Bunny who delivered Easter eggs to them on the playground. A huge thank you to FOPS for helping to organise this and the Easter discos that the children enjoyed yesterday evening. The discos raised over £250.00 for school.

House Points This term, Chestnut won an amazing 107 House Points which was the most out of all of the houses. Overall Oak are currently in the lead with 368 points followed by Ash (298), Chestnut (271) and Willow (239).

Football Success Well done to our football team who won again on Monday, 5-1 against Fourlanesend. The team played brilliantly and have now won four out of five matches. Harry scored a hat trick and Jamie scored twice.

Alternative Sports Well done to Callum, Isabelle, Flora, Amber, Emma and George who represented our school in the year 3 and year 4 Bridge Schools alternative sports day at Looe Primary where they tried out Segway, fencing, archery, dodgeball, football golf and ultimate frisbee.

Clubs After Easter, Year 6 SATS clubs and wraparound care will restart on Tuesday 22nd April. Other clubs will restart on Monday 28th April. We will notify you about which clubs we will be running when we return after the break.

Uniform If you are looking ahead to buying uniform, please remember that we have a good supply of nearly new uniform in school, including summer dresses and PE items, which is available for a donation (£1 minimum) to the school. Please ask at reception. Easter Activities Please find attached, flyers for Bikeability opportunities over Easter, P20 football and a Liskeard Bowling Club open day for families.

Diary dates Looking ahead to the summer term, three important dates for the diary are: reopening of Big Green in Polperro on the afternoon of Thursday May 1st where the children will be singing as part of a short celebration; Polperro Festival School’s Day which is on 17th June this year; and Sports Day which will be on the morning of Wednesday 25th June with a reserve date of Friday 27th June. Further details of these events will follow nearer the time.

Wishing you a wonderful Easter break.

Mrs Hillman

HAPPY EASTER!

What a lovely last week of Spring 2 it has been!

Sean has been in for another fabulous Art lesson: this time, focusing on memory, drawing with our alternative hand and then sketching an image upside down! The skills we are learning is clear to see, week by week.

On Monday, we learnt how to give CPR and put casulaties into the Recovery Position - a vital skill to have!

In DT, we have completed our coin purses. Chaipel have learnt how to stitch, sew on buttons and use backstitch to sew initials. Everyone has done an amazing job and Harry has really worked hard - going from 'Zero to Hero', thanks to his resilience and determination to succeed!

We looked back on our half term Wider Curriculum learning, writing about all that we have learnt about the Tudors. It's amazing what we have found out about them and everyone agreed that it has been a really interesting enquiry.

The Easter Bunny made an appearance today, as the whole school took part in an Easter Eggstravaganza Hunt!

That's all from me so have a WONDERFUL, RELAXING EASTER BREAK!

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Mrs Hodge and Miss Colton.

Our last week before the Easter holidays has been filled with lots of Easter fun. The children have enjoyed making Easter chick baskets filled with some Easter treats and we have been talking about what we do at Easter.
On Thursday the children enjoyed trying hot cross buns for snack and today (Friday) have made yummy chocolate nests.

A big well done to Teddy and Tiffany for winning the decorate an Easter Egg competition which we held. All of the entries were amazing and Mrs Hillman had a difficult desicion in choosing the winners!

We also say goodbye to Jade this week who has been volunteering with us on Monday and Friday mornings since September. We wish her all the best for the future.

We now have two weeks Easter holiday to enjoy and hopefully it will be a sunny one.
We hope you all have an amazing time and we look forward to welcoming the children back from Tuesday 22nd April.

Julie and Sarah

Hoppy Easter!

We've had a lovely end to the Spring Term in Landaviddy Class. In Science, we looked at the life cycle of flowering plants and continued making observations on our bean plants - we can't believe how much some of them have grown! Today, I had a look at the plant we were keeping in the cupboard and watering (see picture), so it has had no sunlight. Look at how different it is to our ones growing in the cloakroom! I will continue to water it at home over easter, so it will be interesting to see how it might change. 

In Computing, we demonstrated how a website worked. Can you recall what happens when a user puts in a request? We played a lovely game for April fools day in French - poisson d'avril!
In Art, we created collages of plants and flowers, by using the paper we prepared last week with different textures and patterns. The results were beautiful!

Today, we were lucky to have a visit from the Easter Bunny! What fun we have had! 

Please continue to practise your times tables, KIRFS and read when you can over the holidays! 

We hope you have a wonderful easter holidays and look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 22nd April. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

What a busy week we have had in Landaviddy! Some our bean seeds have began to sprout small green shoots. This has been very exciting and we are all very eager to see how our plants change this week. Unfortunately, some of our seeds haven't shown signs of germination yet, which has got us wondering why. We are looking forward to bringing home our plants next week.

In Science, we have been discovering why roots are important and what their function is. Can you remember why plants need roots? In History, we have been exploring how technology has changed how we write; from typewriters to tablets. During Art this week, we created our own collage paper using different textures and patterns. Next week, we will be using these to create a flower collage. In Computing, we have continued learning about networks and created network maps to show how files move across a network.

Year 2 have started to measure in centimetres this week, recognising where they must start when using a ruler and developing their reasoning skills. Year 3 have continued to work hard on fractions, plotting these on number lines. 

English this week, has primarily focussed on writing up our own Jack and the Beanstalk stories, using our best handwriting. Our hope is to compile all our stories into a book which we will pass on to Penhallow to read. We have really been taking our time and thinking carefully about how we can be the best writers. Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Reuben and Finn for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. 

Next week is our last week before the Easter holidays, and will continue to be busy no doubt! 

We hope you have a lovely weekend full of sunshine and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

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.

This has been a busy week full of trips. On Wednesday, our Planet Protectors Club went to the recycling plant in Bodmin to research what happens to all of our recycling and why it is important to recycle. They will be sharing what they found out with the rest of the school in an assembly shortly. Year 5 visited Liskeard Fire Station to learn all about safety on the railways; online; on the roads; on the beach and when using electricity. They also tried their hand at choking prevention and CPR. This morning Penhallow and Landaviddy Classes had a really enjoyable trip to see ‘Little Red Hen’ at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth.

More Cross-Country Success
The Polperro team yet again did brilliantly well in last week’s Landrake Inter Schools Cross Country Race. Congratulations to the children who all completed their races, with or without shoes. Thank you to Mrs Turnbull for her wonderful team support this season and for running alongside the children too, and to parents and carers for transporting our runners to each race come rain or shine. An amazing effort all round from Team Polperro. A huge well done too to Flora who came a magnificent 34th in the Cornwall Cross Country Finals on Tuesday.

Clubs Please note that there are no clubs next week because of the football match, the disco and staff training.

Drop off and pick up Polite reminder when you are picking up and dropping off, please do not park or wait on the zigzag lines outside school. This is likely to result in drivers receiving penalty notices (a £75 fine). Cars are still blocking this area causing problems for children crossing the road.

FOPS Easter Discos Reminder that Easter Discos for the children on Thursday, 3rd April. 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.


The last day of term is next Friday 4th April and school will finish at 1:30pm. On Friday morning we will have a visit from the Easter Bunny. Monday 21st April is a bank holiday, therefore the first day of the Spring term for the children will be Tuesday, 22nd April.

Have a good weekend

Mrs Hillman

TALLAND'S BLOG 28.3.25

We hope you have had a fantastic week! Children in Talland have been brilliant. They have worked so hard and we've had such a great but busy week! 

Maths:
Year 4 have been learning all about different types of charts and thinking about how to read and use the data on them.
Year 5 have come to the end of their unit in decimals and percentages where they have been learning how they all link to each other.

English:
We have been using similes, personification and descriptive language to create settings. It's ben fun using AI to generate their ideas.


PE:
We've had some intense games of rounders this week where we've used lots of different rackets and balls to get some distance with their strikes. Home runs were pouring in! 

Art: 
Sean, our artist was in again and we continued our scrap books where we drew leaves and shaded them using different sized circles...they look amazing!

PSHE:
Children learned about what to do if they found a casualty that needed some assistance. We practiced rolling them into the recovery position and used 'Anne doll's' to talk to them and demonstrate resuscitation.  

CONGRATULATIONS to all the runners from last week. We heard that they performed superbly on an extremely harsh course. Well done to Zac for being noticed this week for his tremendous effort throughout and for being an incredible learning partner... such a helpful, polite and hard working young man!

That's all from us. We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Signing off Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.

Another week has flown by and we have been learning so much.

ENGLISH
We have been creating our protagonist for our Tudor adventure narratives, researching and designing appropriate title, dress and appearance. We will write a character profile next week, prior to planning our epic rescue of Anne Boleyn from the Tower of London.

MATHS
Year 5s have been learning about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages whilst Year 6s are learning about equations and formulas in Algebra.

WIDER CURRICULUM
We have been learning abour emergency first aide in PSHE. We are beginning to understand the Recovery Position and we will move on to learning CPR next week. In Art, we have been learning about line and texture, using circles to create dark and light. In History, we investigated the differences between poor and wealthy life at home and after comparing the lives of two children, we selected one and wrote a diary entry, outlining a typical day in their life.

Congratulations to Isaac and Elsie for demonstrating our school values as Person of the Week. 

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Mrs Hodge and Miss Colton.

It has been a busy week at nursery. We have been finishing all of our learning on farming, food and where our food comes from in preparation for lots of Easter craft and fun next week.
The children have been busy scooping and mixing and cooking up a storm in the mud kitchen. We have had everything from salads to casseroles and soups!!
On the tuft tray the children have been harvesting vegetables and couting how many carrots and sprouts they had collected and used lots of great language such as crunchy carrots.

At story time we have enjoyed stories such as "The great chicken mystery" and we have been singing "Old Mcdonald had a farm" encouraging the children to create the different animal sounds.

In phonics the children have enjoyed making up silly rhyming sounds which they did whilst rowing to the tune of "Row, Row your boat". They have been looking for initial sounds in the sand tray outside and have played different instruments.

In maths we have been exploring shape and position. The children have explored the maths table with interest talking and using words such as on top, above, below, beside, next to. They have been sorting and matching shapes and colour blocks.

We have one more week to go before the Easter holidays, just a reminder that nursery finishes at 1.30pm on Friday 4th April.

Have a great weekend
The Nursery Team

We have continued our enquiry 'Can you always see things grow?', by making observations of our beans for this week and learning about the parts of flowering plants. We then planted our beans in pots of soil, with the hope that these will give our beans the nutrients they need to grow and stay healthy. In History, we became detectives, using photographic evidence to determine how technology has changed in the last 60 years. Next week, we will look at how changes in technology has influenced how we write. We discovered what a network is, as part of Computing, and identified the different components that make up our school network. In French, we have been learning Little Red Riding Hood, which has been so much fun!

Landaviddy have been working hard this week on their English writing. We have continued to write up our stories, ensuring we are punctuating speech accurately and using exciting adjectives. Next week, we will finish editing and write up our final neat copies.

In Maths, Year 2 have concluded their unit on Multiplication & Division and are now eager to begin exploring Length & Height. Year 3 have continued working hard on Fractions, exploring how to order and compare unit fractions, as well as using fractions to measure scales. 

Congratulations to Oliver for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week and a big well done to Esme for achieving her 22 Club! 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Another week has flown by and so has the learning.

Most of us have completed our Anne Boleyn diary entries, using colloquial language and the subjunctive verb form. The diaries are amazing and I very much look forward to reading them.

MATHS
Y5s have begun to understand percentages, finding their fraction equivalences and their relationship with tenths and hundredths. They will progress to decimals next week. Y6s have been immersing themselves in algebraic formulas, function machines and expressions. 

In DT, our sewing skills have progressed to sewing buttons, mastering the back stitch and using the stitch to create our initials. Next week, we will begin to design our coin purses. Our skills in rounders progressed to fielding techniques and we enjoyed another art session with Sean - drawing butterflies - and using shading to give the picture an 'antique-effect'. 

Our greenhouse is all prepped ready for the Summer. We have been up there today getting the seeds ready for germinating. We have beans, chives, carrots, strawberries, peas, lettuce, cucumber just to name but a few! Thanks to FOPS, we will be ordering a fruit cage to help us grow raspberries and gooseberries in the next few weeks. Very exciting times!

Below, I have the KIRFS for this half term and the homework grid. Please feel free to work on anything over the Easter half term - I know that it is late attaching these.

Anyway, that's all from us so have a lovely weekend.

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Mrs Hodge and Miss Colton.

TALLAND'S BLOG 21.3.25

We hope you have all had a great week. It's been another busy one for us! Some brilliant art pieces have been created, where the children have been adding to an artist scrap book. They have found different methods to create a butterfly and then make it look old by screwing up the corners and adding different tones... they look amazing!

Maths:
Year 4 have completed their unit on fractions and will begin the unit of statistics next week (looking at graphs and charts).
Year 5 are ploughing their way through decimals where they are now becoming confident at recognising tenths, hundredths and thousandths. They can also order them in either ascending or descending order.


English
Talland have written their Diary Entries up in best copy. They're sounding amazing. They have used so much emotive vocabulary to really make you feel like you were a soldier during the Battles of 1066. Next week, we will stain them with tea bags to give them the ancient, mediaeval feel.

PE
Children have been practicing their gymnastic skills in the hall and learning how to bowl in rounders on the field. They're becoming efficient at throwing and catching in a range of styles.

RE
We continued looking at the Holy Week. We now know why there is Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We also enjoyed a little sing and a dance which is always good fun!

CONGRATULATIONS to Callum for being recognised by adults this week. His writing has improved so much this year. He should be very proud of himself. 

GOOD LUCK to our cross country runners today. We hope you enjoy yourselves!

That's is it from Talland this week. We hope you have a marvelous weekend and we can't wait to see you on Monday.

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.