Hello Everyone!

Again, we have managed to complete another swim this week, making the most of the sunshine. We enjoyed our time in the water, and are beginning to master the art of floating, which was demonstrated to them during our recent visit from the RNLI lifeguards a few weeks ago.

During our science this week, we have been busy planting sunflower seeds. We read and followed instructions and will be looking after our plants every day. We look forward to some measuring practice soon, when they will begin to grow. We also went into the school garden and used a leaf and blossom identification's guide to find out about the trees that are growing in our school. We asked scientific questions bout plants and thought of different ways that we can sort leaves and plants.

We continued our work in English, based on the Supertato books. We have designed and made our own supertato from a….potato. We have also written some words to describe villains and heroes, and written a wanted poster for the evil pea.

In maths this week, Year 1 have completed their unit on multiplication, and have started learning about fractions by investigating halves and quarters. Reception have been investigating numbers beyond 10.

We hope you have a lovely weekend! 

From the Penhallow Team

What an exciting week with good weather again. All of our classes have had time in the pool and our brilliant Year 6 children have completed their SATS tests and enjoyed an ice-cream on the beach afterwards to celebrate. Thank you to the Smuggler’s Café for accommodating us. The vegetables are coming on in the garden and greenhouse. A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Peters for their amazing help with the garden, including the plants at the front of the school, and with our gardening club.

Sun Safety While the weather is hot, please ensure your child comes into school with a named sun hat and sun cream (at least factor 30).

Return of Ice Pop Fridays We will be selling ice pops after school at the main gate every Friday (or Thursday if it is an INSET day) until the end of term to raise extra funds for the school. Please send your child in with £1 or bring £1 along when you pick them up if you would like to buy one.

Children’s nearly new sale Please see attached details of a nearly new sale, in aid of Baby Basics Cornwall, which is being held at Lanreath Village Hall on Sunday 1st June.

Upcoming dates Next Friday is an INSET day. Half term is coming up: 26 th May – 30th May. Class photos are happening on Tuesday 10th June. Sports Day is on 25th June (10am-12) with a reserve date of 27th June. These and other diary dates can be found on the Events Diary page.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Landaviddy have had a splendid week! In PE, we have been working on our Team Building skills, thinking carefully about how we communicate to one another and show respect. We had some great fun today playing some relay games and guessing which animal we were. Well done to Frankie's team, who worked well together, showing excellent sportsmanship. 

In DT, we have been thinking carefully about nutrition and how we can keep our diet balanced. We came up with some of our own balanced diet menu's. In Geography, we looked at hot and cold climates and learnt the difference between climate and weather. 

Next week, we will be writing our persuasive letters to King Charles about plastic pollution! I can't wait to see what you write and the reasons you give! 

Please make sure you bring in your swimming kits next week, as we will hopefully be using the pool!

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

TALLAND CLASS BLOG: 9.5.25

Happy Friday everybody. We hope you have had an amazing week! 

We have crammed a lot into four days of learning AND we even got a VE Day Picnic PARTY... WINNING!

Thank you all so much for the Picnic Party. The children had an amazing time and the cakes were incredible!

Maths:
Year 5 have been looking into negative numbers and what pieces of apparatus might require negative numbers on their scale...
Year 4 have completed shape and have just begun their second decimal unit.

English:
Next week we will dive into some poetry based on nature. I'm looking forward to see how these turn out!

Geography:
Talland looked into the work of meteorologists and how they measure rain, wind direction and speed and cloud coverage.

Art:
Children continued with the Orwell Art Project. They have now coloured in their up-scaled copy, tea-stained it and crumpled it slightly to give their work a vintage finish.

PE:
Swimming was great fun as ever! Talland have some real fishes in the ranks! Most of them have shown that they can travel the full length of the pool, unaided, on both their front and back.

TIMES TABLES:
As year 4 have their Times Table Check coming up in about 4 weeks time, we have been hitting the numbers hard. Over the past 3 weeks, we have been revising the 6, 7 and 8 times tables. Talland have been fantastic. Next week, we will investigate the 9 times table. Please, please please, practice times tables with your children. The progression over the last 3 weeks has been unbelievable... with your input on top, the children will come into this feeling ready and confident. By going over their 6, 7 and 8 times tables would be fantastic!

CONGRATULATIONS to lily and Flora for earning their next badges in 99 club and well done to Zac for being noticed for his excellent manners and behaviour.

That's all from us. We hope you have an incredible weekend.

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

 

A huge thank you to all the parents and carers who joined us on the school field for our VE Day Afternoon Tea yesterday. It was wonderful to see so many families coming together in a sea of red, white and blue, to enjoy the sunshine, share cream teas, and take part in traditional games and football. A special thank you to FOPS for their hard work in organising the event, helping to make it such a lovely afternoon! We raised £181.00 for the British Legion.

Online Safety Roblox has launched new parental controls  https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/enus/articles/30428310121620-Parental-Controls-Overview which will help to keep your child safe online. Further information regarding online safety can be found on this website under the Keeping Safe tab.

MHST Parent/Carer Workshops There is still time to sign up for the MHST Parent/Carer Workshops which are set to run from June 2025. These are 5 session online workshops with our Mental Health Practitioners. These are open to everybody; people do not need to have a mental health need to join. You can sign yourselves up using these links: Anxiety and worries - https://forms.office.com/e/0qRnKmCw1i
Behaviour as Communication - Parent Support - https://forms.office.com/e/BvhDpYUcQa 

Penhaligon’s Friends Please find attached information regarding a fundraiser for Penhaligon’s Friends who help make a difference to the lives of bereaved children, young people and families throughout Cornwall.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Hillman

At nursery this week we have started to explore insects and are looking at our enquiry question "Are insects important?"
The children have been looking at lifecycles and what happens to caterpillars and they made some beautiful butterflies with the paint. They have been using language heard in the story of the "Hungry Caterpillar" such as cocoon.
They have made fingerprint ladybirds in the art area.

As well as "The Hungry Caterpillar",  the children have explored and have been learning different facts about insects in a range of books.

In phonics, we have been talking about the garden centre. The children have been naming and sorting different gardening items in a game of "What's in the basket?" and have assigned different instrumental sounds to different flowers.

In the maths area we have been sorting and comparing a range of objects and the children have been counitng how many in different sets.

On Thursday we celebrated the anniversary of VE Day. We enjoyed a morning snack with different foods including strawberries and cucumber sandwiches! and the children made a commemorative plate to take home.

We look forward to more fun next week.
Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

Hello Everyone!

We have certainly made use of the sunshine this week.

On Thursday we all enjoyed a lovely session in the pool. We then had a great time in the afternoon, being part of the opening session for the Big Green. Well done Penhallow for singing so well in front of lots of people. We are really proud of you.

In our wider curriculum lessons this week, Reception have enjoyed being outside, creating some Peter Rabbit themed nature collages, where they practiced weaving natural objects. Year 1 have done a fantastic job at completing their paintings of bluebells. They used their skills of colour mixing and sketching, to produce some great results.

In maths this week, Year 1 have been counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s. They have enjoyed learning through stories, practical activities, as well as finding patterns in number lines and number squares.

During our English lessons, Year 1 have completed writing their own story of Peter Rabbit, while Reception are becoming more independent at writing sentences. They used illustrations from the story, to come up with their own sentences. 

Have a lovely long weekend everyone.

From the Penhallow team

What a week Landaviddy class have had! We managed to get into the pool this week, which was lots of fun! Please make sure you are bringing in your swimming kits, so we can continue to take advantage of the pool throughout the warm weather. 

This week, we have enjoyed participating in the Big Green opening on Thursday! Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to watch our singing. We loved joining the village for something so special. During Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we have been learning about food groups in DT, sorting different foods and recognising what helps to make a balanced diet. Can you remember how many glasses of water we should have in a day? 

In Maths, both year groups have continued to explore mass and capacity. Year 2 have been measuring in grams and kilograms, and Year 3 have been adding and subtracting mass, as well as measuring capacity and volume. We will be finishing off this unit next week.

In English, we have been conducting research about plastic pollution and mind-mapped our ideas for ways we can help to stop this on Cornwall's beaches. We started to plan our persuasive letters today, which we will be writing and sending to King Charles! Yes, we have his address! We are excited to finish off planning and begin writing these letters next week.

Congratulations to Theo and Hector for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week.

Please find below this half terms KIRFS and Homework Grid. 

We hope you have a lovely bank holiday weekend and look forward to seeing you back in school on Tuesday.

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Thank you for sending your children in with their swimming kits this week. Every class had the chance of a swim in the lovely weather. Please send your child’s swimming kit in every week from now on and we will continue their swimming lessons when the weather is nice enough.

Opening of Big Green It was lovely to see so many of you at the opening of Big Green yesterday to enjoy the children singing and watch our oldest and youngest pupils cutting the ribbon. Well done to Martha and Sienna for doing a brilliant job!

Football Congratulations to our football team who played brilliantly in the semi-final of the Shield Cup against Sir Robert Geffery’s School on Monday. It was a very close match. At full time the score was 2-2, however in the last 40 seconds the other team scored. The team has had a great season so far and is still in contention to win the league. Watch this space to see how they get on.

VE Day, Afternoon Tea Reminder that this Thursday 8th of May 2:30pm - 3:30pm we will be holding an afternoon Tea Party in school to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE day. Please join us on the school field (entry via the field gate) and bring a rug or chairs for you and your children. We will be serving cream teas, cakes, tea, coffee and squash and ice-cream for the children or you are very welcome to bring your own. If you are not able to come, please send a small afternoon snack in for your child to enjoy or some money to purchase an ice-cream (£1). Children, staff and parents/carers are invited to wear red, white and blue on the day.  Year 6 parents please note that there will be no SATS club after school on Thursday 8th May, however there will be a final SATS club session instead at lunchtime on Friday 9th May. There will also be no gardening club on this day.

MHST Parent/Carer Workshops Please see attached details of MHST Parent/Carer Workshops which are set to run from June 2025. These consist of 5 online workshop sessions with our Mental Health Practitioners. These are open to everybody; people do not need to have a mental health need to join. You can sign yourselves up with the links or QR codes within the posters (attached) or using these links:
Anxiety and worries - https://forms.office.com/e/0qRnKmCw1i
Behaviour as Communication - Parent Support - https://forms.office.com/e/BvhDpYUcQa

Attendance Thank you for continuing to ensure that your children attend school as often as possible. Below is a list of term dates and INSET dates for next year which I hope will help you plan ahead and organise holidays out of term time so that we can continue to avoid the requirement to issue penalty notices.

Autumn Term 4th September – 19th December 2025
Wednesday 3rd September INSET day
Autumn Term begins Thursday 4th September 2025
Friday 24th October INSET day
Half Term Holiday 27th October – 31st October 2025
Friday 19th December 13:30 finish
Christmas Holiday 22nd December 2025 – 2nd January 2026

Spring Term 6th January – 2nd April 2026
Monday 5th January INSET day
Spring Term begins Tuesday 6th January 2026
Friday 13th February INSET day
Half Term Holiday 16th February – 20th February 2026
Thursday 2nd April 13:30 finish
Easter Holiday 3rd April – 17th April 2026

Summer Term 20th April – 22nd July 2026
Summer Term begins Monday 20th April 2026
Early May Bank Holiday 4th May 2026
Friday 22nd May INSET day
Half Term Holiday 25th May – 29th May 2026
Friday 5th June INSET day
Wednesday 22nd July 13:30 finish
Thursday 23rd July INSET day

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend. We look forward to seeing the children back in school on Tuesday 6th May.

Mrs Hillman

Creative Chaipelers

It has been a lovely week in Chaipel, this week.

Sean came in to continue with our Orwell art project. We focused on space and depth before moving onto 'drawing with colour'. Joel's art was incredible and Martha really worked hard to blend her colours to create a lifelike impression.

The fine weather meant that our pool was ready and we wasted no time in getting in! We have some fine swimmers in Chaipel and are eager to develop their skills so please ensure that swimming kits are in every day so that we can make the most of the weeks we have left.

In Computing, we have been investigating the history of computers, learning about the incredible impact Bletchley Park had on our victory in WWII. We played a rather 'nostalgic' game of Frogger (one of the first arcade games, first launched in 1981) before researching an influential person in computing history, creating a presentation of our findings.

It's all about shape in maths: we have been estimating, drawing, calculating and finding missing angles. I can confidently say that Chaipel are mastering the art of using a protractor! We are well into our Tudor narrative in English, which we will continue next week.

Congratulations to our Person of the Week, Max S, who is an excellent example of a positive peer Learning Partner. 

That's all from me, so enjoy the extended weekend and see you all next Tuesday!

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

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 2.5.25

Another end to another great week! We hope you have enjoyed the sunshine!

I was so proud of the children yesterday. I thought they performed brilliantly during the opening of Big Green. They made themselves and Polperro look fantastic!

Maths:
Year 4 have been continuing to learn all about shape. Why not ask your child to tell you some facts about different shapes...
Year 5 have completed their unit on area and perimeter. You could quiz them on how to find out the perimeter and area of a shape...


Art:
Sean was back and the children continued to upscale there 'nature' drawings. This time they added colour through a range of techniques.

Design and Technology:
Talland created their design for the pavilion, which they will begin to build next week.

Geography:
We looked at different crops and where they might grow on our planet. The children then found facts out about these countries and which environment different crops thrived in to grow. 

CONGRATULATIONS to Zac and Arnie for earning their next badge in 99 club and well done to Archie for being noticed for his excellent enthusiasm at school. 

We hope you have a super bank holiday weekend!

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

This week at nursery we have continued with our planting and growing of seeds. The children have been busy planting sunflower seeds and have been planting grass seed to go with their decorated houses in order to make their own gardens.
They have used different materials such as wool to make flowers and also made some from paper plates.
The children have had lots of opportunity this week to practice thier cutting skills. In the tuft tray, they have been snipping leaves and have been cutting by following a line on their paper plate flowers.

In story time this week we have enjoyed the books "Tilly plants a tree" and have been looking at non fiction books such as "Grow it, eat it".

In phonics the children have been at the cafe and have taken part in cafe bingo. They have been breaking words down into syllables when talking about what they eat for breakfast and have been joining in actions to different songs such as "I'm a little trapot".

In maths, we have been identify numbers from sight and writing/ making marks that represent numbers.

We now have a long weekend ahead of us as it is bank holiday on Monday, so we hope you all have a lovely one and look forward to seeing you all back from Tuesday.

Julie and Sarah

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.