Well done Y6 for tackling the climbing wall and the assault course today!

Mrs Clary reports that year 6 all really enjoyed the campfire singing and games last night. Henry conquered his fear of heights and got to the top of the climbing wall this morning and they were all really good at archery. 

More photos later to include the Ultimate Assault Course!


Mrs Hillman

After a good night's sleep for everyone, Y6 have had a hearty breakfast and are getting ready for a morning of climbing and archery. 

Watch this space for photos of last night's campfire and today's activities.

Mrs Hillman

Well done year 6 for navigating the Nightline, with and without blindfolds, and enjoying dinner afterwards (keeping an eye on England with Mr Langley)!

More photos tomorrow.

Mrs Hillman

Year 6 have arrived safely at the Ultimate Adventure Centre, proudly wearing their new leavers' hoodies. After lunch they will be enjoying their first two activities: Nightline followed by Orienteering.  Pictures to follow later.

Mrs Hillman

Phew! 

It's been a hot week, but thankfully the weather cooled off just in time for our sports day on Friday. Thank you to all of those who joined us. It was a lovely end to the week.

Earlier in the week, we have all enjoyed separate swimming sessions, where some of us enjoyed being in the pool for the first time, and others began to build more confidence in the water.

During our English lessons this week, we have been reciting and learning a poem about the sea. We practiced and refined our techniques of performing, making sure that we speak clearly with expression, as well as using actions and gesture to improve our performance. We have also been expanding our vocabulary by finding adjectives to describe different nouns in the poem.

In our art area this week, we have been developing a collaborative colouring project, making collage ice lollies and mixing colours. In art, we have been continuing to learn about the artist John Dyer, and have been learning to blend our painting, to make different shades of blue for a background. We also used wax resist to create the effect of jellyfish and plants under the water.

During our RE this week, we have leant about special people in Cornwall, and we found out all about the legend of St Piran. We made links to the Cornish flag, tin mining and other Cornish traditions.

Have a lovely weekend,

From The Penhallow Team

The children have been amazing this week in the very hot weather.  Fortunately, they have been able to cool off in the pool every day.

Summer 2026 Bridge Schools Trust Parent and Carer Questionnaire Your feedback is really important to us as we work in partnership to achieve the best possible education for the children. Here is the link to the Bridge Schools Trust Parent and Carer Questionnaire which closes on Friday 10th July. Summer 2026 Bridge Schools Trust Parent and Carer Questionnaire We would really appreciate your views on the key strengths of Polperro School to celebrate, as well as areas we could develop even further for all our children. Your time in completing this questionnaire is valued and will help us continually improve, thank you!

Sports Day It was great to see so many of you at sports day this morning - thank you for coming. We were very proud of the way the children joined in, competed and supported each other (especially year 6 in their last races) and of the Year 6 leaders who ran the morning so well. 

Sports Day House Points We added up the house points from the sports day races and the final scores were Oak 62; Chestnut 74; Ash 80 and Willow 110. Congratulations Willow! This puts Willow in the lead overall for the year.

Landrake Fun Run Congratulations to our 12 pupils who represented Polperro at the Landrake Fun Run on 19 June. They all completed the race showing great determination and enthusiasm.

Guitar, Piano and Keyboard Concert On Thursday 16th July at 2:45 pm, pupils who have music lessons with Mr Grint will be performing in an end-of-year concert. Parents and carers of children who receive lessons with Mr Grint are warmly invited to attend and enjoy the performance. If you would like to come, please email the school in advance so that we can make the necessary arrangements. We look forward to seeing you there.

School Uniform We have a large selection of preloved school uniform available for a suggested donation of just £1 per item. While you might have seen a few things on the rail by the school office, there is actually much more available in a range of sizes - plenty of everything! It's a great way to save money, find what you need, and help reduce waste. Before heading to the shops, please consider taking a look. Just ask at the office for the size you need. Giving these clothes a second life helps keep perfectly good uniform out of landfill.

Have a good weekend

Anthea Hillman

TALLAND'S BLOG 26.6.26

We're hoping everyone has had a fantastic week, have enjoyed the various weather and are still enjoying the World Cup! What a fun morning - SPORTS DAY is always a treat!

Here's a snapshot of what we've been learning:

Maths:
Year 5 have been rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, to one decimal place and to two decimal places - we have had to really think about place value and the the rounding rule - 'if the last digit is 5 or more, raise the score. 4 or less, let it rest.

Year 4 have completed their unit on time and are now moving on to position and movement. Why not quiz your child on time.

English:
We have moved on to our final piece of descriptive writing for the year and we are going SCI - FI! Children have created their own planets and have started thinking about what is on it? We have been inspired by Avatar so some great clips have been shown for inspiration.

PE:
I think it is fair to say that Sports Day was a roaring success and the children conducted themselves brilliantly showing excellent sportsmanship and competitiveness . Due to the glorious weather, Talland have managed 2 sessions in the pool this week where they worked on their front crawl and backstroke, alongside a range of different floating methods. Hopefully, if the weather continues, we will hop in the pool a couple of times next week so please make sure your child has the appropriate kit.

History:
This week, we concentrated on smuggling, why people decided to smuggle and thought about, what turned out to be quite a challenging question - 'were smugglers heroes or criminals?' TRIP INCOMING!

COMPUTING: 
We became animators this week. Children created flipbooks and thaumatrope through drawings and then filmed themselves flicking through the pages or spinning their thaumatropes to show off their animation - they looked super cool!

CELEBRATIONS:
Congratulations George, Rory, Amber and Lowen for earning their next badge in 99 club. Well done to Renley for showcasing excellent work in English!

That's all from us - we hope you have a wonderful weekend and can't wait to seeing everyone next week.

Signing off, Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

We have had a full-on week, this week. We began with an art afternoon with Sean where we were ink printing abstract, bird's eye landscape views onto card. These will become part of an Art Exhibition which we will hold at the Summer Fayre on Friday 17th July.

In English, we have created our fictional outlaws and used Tinkercad to design their hideouts. We will be writing up our character profiles before the end of term as next week's Residential is top priority for us now! In History, we have learnt about the signing of the Magna Carta and how its abolishment led to some heinous punishments during the Tudor and Stuart periods. What a gruesome time to be alive! We are looking into Cornwall as a spiritual place in RE, linking local myths and legends with areas of interest to people of faith.

We were invited to Looe Community School on Wednesday afternoon as part of a wider community project. We created our own bespoke ceramic fish - alongside pupils from some of our cluster schools - which will eventually be mounted to make one impressive display in the heart of Looe for everyone to appreciate, hopefully, for many years to come. 

We had our Sports Day on Friday and it was a huge success. The Year 6 made us all extremely proud with how well they organised and help to run the events; however, it was the camaraderie in their 600m races at the end that made many adults shed a tear! What a lovely kind, caring bunch of Y6s we have!

Congratulations to our People of the Week, Frankie and Isaac for demonstrating our school values and being role models to others.

And finally...
Remember it's our Residential on Wednesday! Please make sure that children arrive in non-uniform ready for the off at 10am. Any last-minute queries, please email me!

That's all from us, so have a lovely weekend.
Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

It has been a busy week here at nursery. On Monday the children enjoyed a visit in the afternoon from Peter Heywood. He is part of a project called "United By The Sea" and the children enjoyed making ceramic fish with him which will be displayed in Looe. They created patterns using a wide range of materials and then used fish shaped cutters to create the shapes. Fun was had by all!

The children took part in sports day today (Friday) and all did super running in their races.

We have finished our arts and crafts related to holidays this week and will soon be exploring a new enquiry question.

At story time this week we have read books including "What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside".

In phonics the children have been trying hard to blend sounds together to make short words and have been suggesting words that complete different rhymes, well done.

We hope you all enjoy a lovely weekend.

Julie and Sarah

Landaviddy 

In Maths this week, we began our new topic of Statistics. We revisited bar graphs and explored how to interpret and analyse data presented in a variety of formats. This has helped us develop our understanding of how data can be organised and represented.

In English this week, we have continued exploring The Cobbler and the Dragon. We have been developing our sentence-writing skills by using a wide range of nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to make our writing more detailed and engaging. We have also been collecting lots of exciting 'wow' words and phrases, which we can use to make our writing more vivid, imaginative, and interesting for the reader.

In Art this week, we have been creating some amazing prints using a relief printing technique. First, we carefully attached card shapes associated with the sun onto a larger piece of card to create our printing blocks. We then designed a vibrant 'hot' background using layers of red, orange, and yellow tissue paper. Once our backgrounds were complete, we rolled black ink over our printing blocks and printed the designs onto the colourful backgrounds. The final pieces looked incredibly effective, with the bold black prints standing out beautifully against the warm colours. Next week, we will be exploring repeating patterns and creating our own patterned designs.

In Design and Technology this week, we have continued exploring the importing and exporting of food in the UK and around the world. We investigated a variety of fruits and vegetables and learned about which produce can be grown in the UK during different seasons of the year. This helped us to develop our understanding of seasonal foods, where our food comes from, and why some foods need to be imported from other countries.

We have certainly made the most of our swimming pool this week! With the exceptionally hot weather, the children thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to cool off and have fun in the water. Swimming provided a refreshing break from the heat and was a wonderful way to stay active while enjoying the sunshine. We feel incredibly fortunate to have access to our own swimming pool, and it has been greatly appreciated by everyone this week.

Sports Day was a huge success, and we would like to thank everyone who came along to support the children. We were certainly lucky to enjoy the best weather of the week! A huge well done to all of the children for their enthusiasm, determination, and fantastic effort throughout the day. They showed great sportsmanship, encouraged one another, and should be very proud of their achievements.

Landaviddy 

This week in Maths, Year 3 have been developing their understanding of time. We have been learning how to calculate and read start and end times, using our knowledge of hours and minutes to work out when events begin and finish. We have also explored durations, measuring time in hours, minutes and seconds. The children enjoyed discussing how long different everyday activities might take. We estimated and compared the length of tasks such as:

• Taking a bath
• Walking home from school
• Decorating a house
• Brushing our teeth
• Watching a television programme

We used our reasoning skills to decide whether activities would take seconds, minutes or hours and explained our thinking to our partners. We hae now completed 'time' and will move onto statistics next week. 

This week in English, we began our exciting new topic: Myths and Legends. We started by reading and exploring The Cobbler and the Dragon and created a detailed story map to help us remember the key events and characters. This helped us to understand the structure of the story and retell it in our own words. We have also been focusing on building exciting sentences by using nouns, adjectives and adverbs. The children worked hard to identify these word classes in sentences and discuss how they make writing more interesting for the reader. Throughout the week, we discovered lots of new vocabulary and practiced sorting words into the correct groups. We enjoyed becoming 'word detectives', spotting nouns, adjectives and adverbs in our reading and explaining how they add detail and meaning to a sentence.

This week in Science, we have been learning all about the human skeleton. We started by identifying and naming some of the major bones in our bodies. We discovered lots of fascinating facts, including which bone is the longest (the femur in your leg) and which is the smallest (the stirrup bone in your ear). The children enjoyed labelling a skeleton and learning where different bones are found. We also discussed the important jobs that our skeleton does. We learned that our skeleton helps to support our bodies, protect our vital organs, and work with our muscles to help us move. To prepare for our next investigation, we measured the length of our arms and legs. Next week, we will use these measurements to investigate whether people with longer arms can throw further and whether people with longer legs can jump the furthest. The children have already begun making predictions and are excited to test their ideas.

Finally, the children thoroughly enjoyed their time at the Polperro Festival. It was wonderful to see their hard work and dedication come together in such a special event. A huge well done to the whole class for performing with such confidence. You spoke clearly, represented our school brilliantly, and sang your song beautifully. We were incredibly proud of the enthusiasm, teamwork and maturity you showed throughout the festival.

Thank you to all the families who supported the children and helped make the experience such a memorable one. It is an achievement that the children should be very proud of!

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Festival on Tuesday. Thank you for coming along and helping to make it such a special occasion. The children were absolutely fantastic: confident, entertaining and full of enthusiasm. They sang beautifully and we are incredibly proud of each and every one of them.

Sports Day, Tuesday 23rd June Sports Day will take place on Tuesday morning from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school on the day. The forecast is for sunny weather, so please make sure your child comes to school with sunscreen, a sun hat and a water bottle. We look forward to seeing you there! Please enter the school via the field gate. Chairs will be available for spectators. To help the event run smoothly, we kindly ask that all spectators remain seated throughout the event and do not cross the track to see their child. This can be upsetting for children whose parents are unable to attend and it also makes it more difficult for our Year 6 pupils, who help to organise and run the races. Thank you for your cooperation and support.

FOPS Summer Fair and Children's Art Exhibition - Friday 17th July at 2pm FOPS are busily organising this year's Summer Fair which will include an exhibition of the children's art project which they are currently working on with local artist Sean Hewitt. Thursday 9th July will be a MUFTI day where we will be asking for donations of an item matching your child's house team colour to create hampers for raffle prizes. Children can wear their own clothes and this could include wearing their house colour. Please see attached posters for suggestions of what to send in for your child's colour on the day.

This is a very busy half term with more exciting events coming up including trips for some of our classes and the Year 6 residential trip to the Ultimate Adventure Centre in North Devon at the beginning of July. We also have our transition morning on Monday 6th July when the children will spend time in their new classes. These and other important dates are on our events diary on this website.

Have a great weekend.

Anthea Hillman

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for your support at the Polperro Festival on Tuesday. We thought that the children did incredibly well to show you their learning in the form of paintings, songs and speaking. They did a fantastic job at speaking and singing in front of a large audience and we are all extremely proud of them. We were told about a number of comments from the audience, who had said how well the younger children in particular, had performed. Well done Penhallow!

This week, we have also been busy practicing for sports day, writing stories and programing beebots.

Reception have been learning all about position and direction in maths, and have enjoyed using programmable toys and technology to give precise instructions. 

In RE this week, we have been comparing 3 different religions and have found differences and similarities in their special places and places of worship.

During our science lesson this week, after drawing skeletons of different animals, we have compared and sorted animals and their offspring. We watched diffrent video clips of the life cycle of different animals and choose different ways to sort the types of offspring that animals have.

We look forward to seeing you at our sports day next week.

Have a lovely weekend,

From The Penhallow Team

TALLAND'S BLOG

We're hoping everyone has had a brilliant week, are enjoying the World Cup and had a grand old time at Polperro Festival! I was so proud of all of the children during our performance - they absolutely smashed it!

Here's a snapshot of what we've been learning:

Maths:
Year 5 have been ordering and comparing decimals - they needed to realise which place value has the greatest value and then become a number detective from there. 

Year 4 have been telling the time and solving problems around time.
English:
You would have seen our English in all its glory at Polperro Festival - quite the theatre group we have here in Talland!

PE:
We have become athletes this week in preparation for Sports Day next week. Children have been working on speed techniques to help them fly down the track. Hopefully the weather will be nice enough next week for us to get into the swimming pool.

History:
We have begun investigating the history of Polperro and one of its historical smugglers - Willy Wilcox. I can't wait to find out more about this legendary smuggler.

SCIENCE:
We delved into space this week, investigating what wonders orbit our solar system and beyond - why not ask your child some cool facts they learnt today...

CELEBRATIONS:
Congratulations George and Kayla for earning their next badge in 99 club. Well done to Emma for being noticed for her kindness and helpfulness - what a superstar!

That's all from us - we hope you have a wonderful weekend and can't wait to seeing everyone next week.

Signing off, Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

This week we are talking about holidays and answering our enquiry question "Does everyone go on holiday?"
The children have been talking about places they have been on holiday and how they got there. We have looked at the globe of the world and have been identifying different countries.
In arts and craft they have made a paper plate camper van and a water melon fan to keep cool with.

At story time we have read books including "Stone Boy and the Girl" and "What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside".

In phonics this week we have been talking about magical creatures. The children have been matching objects to initial sounds in the game "Pixie Party", blending sounds into short words in a game of "I Spy" and have been creating different voices for different characters that they saw.

In maths we have explored shapes, have been naming them and making arrangements.

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

Julie and Sarah

What a week we have had! The Polperro Festival was a HUGE success and Chaipel absolutely nailed our performance. Everyone spoke clearly and confidently, with a hint of humour, and the audience responded extremely positively. All our hard word paid off and a good time was had by all.

In English, we are looking at character profiles, in line with our enquiry into Crime and Punishment, and have studied the profiles of some formidable characters: Sebastian Merriweather (alias The Jester's Shadow), Captain Elara Thorn (alias Thorn the Bold) and Jack Sheppard, the notorious London Thief. We will be creating our own outlaw, next week, and planning our non-fiction write-up.

In History, we had delved into Anglo-Saxon and Tudor crime and punishments, investigating the drawing up of the Magna Carta and the infamous Trials by Ordeal. We all agree that we are thankful that these punishments are no longer law and that idle gossiping is no longer a crime!

Congratulations to our People of The Week: Frankie, Skye, Kora and Everly. Their solo performances down at the Festival were fabulous and it took a lot of courage and determination to get up on stage and own it the way they did. 

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

The children have been working really hard this week on their performance for the Polperro Festival, and we cannot wait to share their production with you. They are incredibly proud of what they have achieved, and we look forward to showcasing all their hard work.

In Maths, we have been continuing our learning about time. We have been practicing reading the time on a digital clock, understanding the difference between a.m. and p.m., and exploring units of time including years, months, days, and hours. They have also been exploring volume with Mrs Lister and enjoyed getting outside experimenting with different sizes of jugs and containers. The children have worked hard to develop their understanding and have enjoyed taking part in a range of practical activities to support their learning.

In Geography, we have been exploring foods from around the world and learning about what can be grown in different countries based on their climates. We also put our map-reading skills to the test by using an atlas to locate different places around the world. This was quite a tricky challenge, but the children showed great determination and really enjoyed the activity.

A huge congratulations Dexter and Brody for being awarded Pupil of the Week! Dexter has been fantastic in our practice productions and has joined in with the singing perfectly! Brody has won this week for his enthusiasm for life! He is always making myself and Miss Colton laugh and is a real asset to the class!

A big congratulations to Alfie, Amelia, Tommy and Theo for achieving your 99 club badge this week - a fantastic effort. Well done everyone!

Miss Bolton & Miss Colton

Hello Everyone,

This week, we have been using our enquiry question, which is all about Cornwall, and why it is special, in different aspects of learning.

In art, we studied some paintings by John Dyer, who has painted some bright and vibrant images of Cornwall. We picked out our favourite images within these paintings, and recorded them in our art books.

Our RE lesson this week, was all about special and sacred places in Cornwall. We discussed places that are special to us and the reasons that they make them special. We then looked at different places in Cornwall such as beaches, Truro cathedral, and St Michael's Mount, and discussed why they might be special to different people.

In English we have continued to use texts by the local author Ellie Jackson. This week we used Nelson's Dangerous Dive as well as Duffy's Lucky Escape. We have been writing descriptions and speech bubbles to help us to understand the story from the perspective of the animals in each story.

We hope you enjoy the sunshine this weekend.

From The Penhallow Team

Another busy week has flown by, including a fascinating UK Parliament outreach visit where Years 4, 5 and 6 learned more about the workings of the UK Parliament. Across the school, children have been enthusiastically rehearsing for next week's festival. It has been a real pleasure to hear the sound of singing and music filling the school and to catch snippets of their performances as I have moved around the school.

Polperro Festival School's Day is next Tuesday 16th June from 11am-2:45pm. Please send your child in with a packed lunch, drink, filled water bottle, sun hat and sun cream, and a raincoat because who knows what the weather will be doing! Please note that the timings below are approximate.
11.00 - 11:15 - Welcome and singing (whole school)
11.15 - 11:40 - African Drumming/Ukulele (children from Y4, Y5, Y6)
11.40 - 11:50 - Choir 11:50 - 12.00 - Young musicians/performers
12.00 - 13:00 - Lunch (12.30 - 13.00 Magician Performance for the children)
13:00 - 13:15 - Solo Singers
13.15 - 13.30 - Penhallow Class performance
13.30 - 13.45 - Landaviddy Class performance
13.45 - 14.05 - Talland Class performance
14.05 - 14.25 - Chaipel Class performance
14.25 - 14.45 - Singing finale

Children may be collected from their teacher following the final singing session. Children not collected from Big Green will walk up to Polperro School in time for 3.15 pick-up.

Wear Yellow Day Thank you so much for sending your children in today wearing yellow to help raise awareness and support the work of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. We raised a total of £125 which will go towards supporting the charity's vital work.

Bridge School Games Week The children will all be competing in the 5th annual Bridge Schools Games next week so please ensure that their PE kit is in as they will be taking part in different World Cup Football-themed challenges across the week. Polperro were the champions in 2022 and runners up in 2024 so are looking forward to competing again this year against the other 14 schools in the academy trust.

We look forward to seeing you at the festival next week.

Mrs Hillman