It was another fun week in Penhallow this week where in Geography we explored what a messy map was and considered what the classroom and school looked like from a Bird's Eye View. We enjoyed working in groups to make our own.

In maths Reception have been exploring sharing and grouping. Year 1s are enjoying their fractions topic by looking at what is meant by half and quarter.

PE has encouraged us to improve our ball control skills whilst dribbling and our inside PE sessions have been all about balancing, breathing and travelling in different ways. We have really enjoyed our Yoga sessions this term.

We have continued investigating bugs for our enquiry question, Is it a Bug's Life? We have all now learnt new facts about our chosen minibeasts and written up our fact files.
We are enjoying our new text, What the Ladybird Heard and will be continuing exciting activities all about this text in our English next week.

Well done to Penhallow's People of the Week this week! Martha and Casey were chosen for showing excellent examples of our school values this week. 

Well done also to Dexter, Finn, Theo and Evie G for achieving their next badges in 99 club this week.

As always, please try to keep up with your amazing efforts in your reading and pop onto twinklGO! for any extra activities, especially in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check that is coming up for the Year 1s in June.

Remember our PE days are on Wednesday and Friday, it is important that children have their PE kit in school to ensure they can join in with the activities. The weather is looking good for this week so perhaps we'll have our first dip in the pool for 2024! Please make sure labelled swimming kits (with hats) are in school too.

We hope that you enjoy a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday for our shorter week before the half term Whitsun holiday.

Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Miss Colton, Miss Cullingford and Miss Hodge.

MORE Y6 POST-SATS PHOTOS!

Tie-dye-tastic!

It's been another busy week in Chaipel. Firstly, I want to say how incredibly proud I am of our Y6s. They were amazing this week, supporting each other through their SATs and were ambassadors of our Bridge School Values! Thank you parents and carers for supporing us and bringing them into school extra early for their bacon baps and a natter. It really helped! We celebrated in style after the last test, a lovely ice-cream from Noah's dad's cafe at Talland and then off to the beach. We did say to 'paddle only' but...

In Art, we made tie-dye swatches at the beginning of the week and evaluated the outcomes such as: colour scheme, technique and application of the dye. We then decided on which technique and colour scheme we would like then created our own T-shirts. They are currently hanging out to dry in my garden and they look amazing! Can you spot which one is yours?

On Friday, the Mayor of Polperro came in to annouce the winners of the Polperro Festival programme cover competition. Congratulations to DAISY for winning 3rd place, VERITY for 2nd place and MAX B for his 1st place entry for Chaipel class!

In other areas of the curriculum, Chaipel have been learning about classification, moving on from animals this week to plants for our final week this half term. Y5s had Music with Mrs Butlin, whilst the Y6s were down at Talland beach, practising for our upcoming Polperro Fesitval in June.

REMINDERS
Next week is only a 4-day week, finishing on Thursday for pupils.
The swimming pool is ready so please make sure you have your swimming kit in every day as we intend to make the most of it. Each pupil must have swimming kit, towel and a swim cap. Please see the secretary if you do not have a swim cap.

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

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

Well done to our wonderful year 6 pupils who have been excellent this week in their attitude towards their SATS.  They had a well-deserved celebration on the beach after sitting their last paper. Thank you to the Smugglers Cafe for the warm welcome and ice-creams!

Parent Questionnaire The Trust parent questionnaire is open now and will close at 4pm on Thursday 23rd May. We would love to have your views as your feedback is really important to us to achieve the best possible education for the children. Please click on this link to complete it: Parent and Carer Questionnaire – Summer 2024

Polperro Festival Programme Cover Competition Earlier this term, the children each designed a cover for this year’s Polperro Festival Programme. The standard of design was fantastic which made choosing winners a difficult task. Congratulations to all of our winners, who were presented with certificates by the Mayor and Mayoress of Polperro. All of the designs will be displayed at the festival on Big Green during festival week. The overall winning design, by Henry, will appear on the programme. Well done Henry!

MSHT (Mental Health in Schools Team) Parent Workshops Please see attached details of the East-Cornwall Parent Workshops which will be held over the next few months. These are free, one-off, one hour long, online workshops with Mental Health Practitioners.



Upcoming dates Half term is coming up: 24th May – 2nd June. Class photos are happening on 3rd June. The school will be performing at the Polperro School Festival Day on Big Green this year on Tuesday 18th 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 lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Another busy week for Landaviddy Class! 

We have been keen Scientist's this week, designing and conducting an experiment to discover whether all magnets are the same strength. We couldn't believe how many paper clips were attracted to each magnet! In History, we started to created fact file posters about Sir Francis Drake, following our visit to the National Maritime Museum last week. On Thursday, we had a wonderful whole school Music session run by Mrs Butlin. We can't wait to share with you the songs we have been learning at the Polperro Festival in June. In Art, we explored the work of Coco Chanel and produced our own collaged hats, using images of Coco Chanel's fashion designs. In PE, we worked in groups to recreate different maps using various equipment, which was lots of fun!

We have been focussing hard this week on writing up our final neat copies of our biographies. All the children have done such a brilliant job, and we are blown away by their hard work and writing. Well done everyone!

In Maths, Year 2 have been looking at recognising and findings halves and quarters. Year 3 have been identifying fractions on a number line, which had been a challenge. However, everyone was determined to try their best. 

Remember, please make sure you are reading your coloured book at home and bringing it in to school everyday with your reading record. Year 2 also have their phonics minibooks, relating to the phoneme/grapheme we are focussing on for that week.

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Cullingford

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 17.5.24

A busy week for Talland!

A huge thank you to all of Talland for being so respectful to the Year 6's during SATS week. Their behaviour was fantastic! Also, well done to the Year 6's - great effort with all of the tests this week! A nice relaxing weekend is definitely needed!

Maths: 
Year 4's have just finished their unit on decimals - they will have their end of unit assessment on Monday.
Year 5's are working their way through decimals still. They've been looking at adding and subtracting decimals. Onto decimal sequences next week.

English:
Talland have been working hard at finding features of a persuasive text. Now we know what persuasive writing entails (apologies for some really persuasive birthday wish list letters coming your way), we will be planning and writing a letter to Cornwall Council - We want recycling bins!

Geography: 
We've had the atlases out and have been discovering where different countries are in North and South America! It looks like such an amazing place to visit! Fun fact: Did you know that there are different time zones in America because it is SO BIG!

Art:
Talland have just finished their mood board for the final art piece they will be creating next week. I'm really excited to see the final product. Thank you to everyone who has sent some photos in - they're great!

That's it from us. We hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Mrs. Hodge. 

This week we have been exploring all things dinosaur related with our question "Where did the dinosaurs go?"
The children have been hand painting and decorating different dinosaur pictures. We have a few dinosaur experts at nursery and they have been teaching us all of the different names of the dinosaurs. Everyone's favourite appeared to be the T-Rex!!
The children had a go at bubble blowing painting this week and enjoyed watching all of the paint move around the paper as they blew through the straws.

At story time we have enjoyed listening to the story of "Aliens love dinopants" and have enjoyed reading and moving our bodies to the story "1,2,3, do the dinosaur". In phonics, the chldren have been matching different objects to their initial sounds, counting syllables in words at the garden centre and comparing sounds that instruments make.

In maths, we have been stacking and counting bricks and writing and recording our findings from this and we have been ordering numbers 1-5.

Just a reminder that next Friday 24th May is an INSET day so nursery will be closed to the children and then it will be half term from the 27th-31st May.

Have a lovely weekend and see you next week.

Julie and Sarah

I was lucky enough to go with Landaviddy Class on their trip to the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth on Thursday where as part of their current enquiry ‘Could you be an Explorer?’ they learned all about Tudor explorers and made their own model Tudor boats to sail across the pool there. Several members of the public commented on how polite and well behaved the children were. It was a pleasure to be with them.

Talland Class went to Morwellham Quay, visiting the mine, the Victorian cottages and learning about how life was in a school in Victorian times. This builds on their learning from last half term’s enquiry ‘How have our lives been changed by the Victorians?’  Photos from both trips are on this week’s class blogs.

The pool water has been tested and the pool is good to go from next Tuesday. Please send your child in with their swimming kit next week – thank you to those of you who have already done this - and let’s hope the good weather holds.

Normal Magic Please find attached a poster which explains how to access this free service if you have concerns for your child’s mental health.

Social Media Safeguarding Concerns With children spending more and more time online it is important that parents and carers understand the risks associated with social media platforms. Please find attached to this blog, a poster which highlights social media safeguarding concerns.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs Hillman

It has been a beautiful sunny week and we took every opportunity we could to take our learning outside in Penhallow this week!

In Maths, Reception are investigating shapes and exploring their properties. Year 1 have now completed their multiplication and division unit where we have been learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We finished the unit considering how we can count more easily by grouping and sharing into equal groups. There are opportunities to practise this learning on TwinlGO! Learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s is an important first step in multiplication, so any practice at home will help the children to succeed throughout their learning journey! (In 99 club too).

In English, we are preparing to write our final version of our fact file about minibeasts! We have learned so many amazing things about Ladybirds, Earthworms and Caterpillars! We move onto a lovely story next week where the children will explore writing speech and adding speech to a well known story about ladybirds!

PE has been super fun where we continue to learn all sorts of ball skills an Year 1s have learned the important role of a fielder and how to stop the ball and get it back quickly. We have also enjoyed getting into lots of different Yoga poses! The Reception children have learned about different rolls in Gymnastics.

We enjoyed a minibeast hunt on Tuesday where we discovered lots of different minibeasts. We learned that minibeasts are invertebrates and we now know that we can classify an insect by the number of legs it has, the children were surprised to learn that a spider is not an insect as it has more than six legs.

Well done to our 'People of the Week' this week who have shown excellent examples of our school values. Tommy, Lowen and Amelia. Well done!

Enjoy a lovely weekend and try to take any opportunity you can to enjoy one of your books, remember there are now three to pick from in your book bag! We thoroughly enjoyed a story under the den cover on Friday, I wonder where if you could find a favourite spot to read your favourite story. 

See you on Monday for another fantastic week!

Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Miss Colton, Mrs Cullingford and Miss Hodge.