Posted 21/11/2025
by Ben Heasman-Langley
What a wonderful week it's been in Talland.. we have had a slight sprinkle of snow! Talland and Chaipel have been combining forces whilst learning lines and songs for our upcoming Christmas production - the children are very excited!
Here's a breakdown of our week:
Maths:
Year 5 have been continuing to add and subtract decimals with different amounts of tenths and hundredths. They have also solved problems involving angles and lengths.
Year 4 have been dividing by 10 and they have now completed their first SHAPE unit.
English: Talland have completed their fabulous poems about Ade Adepitan and have now started looking at Myths and legends: Beowulf is our inspiration and we've jumped in by using some fun acting games to help us remember the story.
History: Talland have explored the life of an Anglo - Saxon, where they would have lived, social classes and how they entertained themselves.
PE: Talland have had lots of fun playing Netball with Mrs. Hillman and we've played some exciting games in dodgeball, discussing what we can do to be effective throwers and dodgers.
CONGRATULATIONS to Callum this week for passing his next round in 99 club and WELL DONE to Amelia and Lowen for being noticed for showing our school values this week.
That's all from us in Talland this week. We hope you have a great weekend and can't wait to see everyone next week.
Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
Posted 21/11/2025
by Alice Wilkie
Christmas play practice is in full swing. Please make sure you are learning your lines at home! Details about costumes will be shared next week.
Landaviddy have enjoyed beginning our new enquiry this week, 'What's new about the Stone Age?'. We started this unit by looking at timelines, putting the Stone Age into perspective. We were amazed to learn that prehistory extended for such a long period of time. In Art, we experimented with line drawing, sketching different British animals. We then looked at recreating some if the shapes and pictures from examples of cave art. In Computing, we created our own flipbooks to create our own simple animation. This was rather challenging as we couldn't get our books to flip smoothly. During PE, we have been enjoying Netball lessons with Mrs Hillman and practicing our attacking and defending skills.
In Maths, we have been working hard on the column method when adding across 10 and 100's boundaries. This has required a lot of focus, and everyone has worked so hard on this. Next week, we will be moving on to subtraction and how we subtract across place value columns.
In English, we have been writing our Stone Age narratives. We have been amazed by the language and determination all the children have demonstrated when writing. We hope to finish these off next week.
Please find below the Homework Grid for Autumn 2. If you complete any of the activities, feel free to bring in your work to share with us.
Congratulations to Sonny for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week.
We hope you have a super weekend and look forward to seeing you next week.
Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton
Posted 21/11/2025
by Anthea Hillman
Pupils in Chaipel Class visited St Ives yesterday, participating in a chocolate-making workshop linked to their Mayan Enquiry. They also explored the Tate Gallery and the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden to enrich their art learning. We are very grateful to FOPS (Friends of Polperro School) for organising the fundraising that helps to subsidise these valuable educational experiences. Our quiz last week raised nearly £500, which will allow us to purchase trikes for our younger pupils. We will also be buying styluses for iPads, using funds already raised, to support learning across all of our classes.
A huge congratulations to Zoe Maycox, one of our wonderful grandparents, who has raised an incredible £750 for our school by completing her very own triathlon! We are so grateful for her amazing effort and generosity. We have exciting plans to put this money towards something very special for our school so watch this space!
Swimming Success
Over the past two Friday assemblies, we have enjoyed celebrating the swimming achievements of Maeve, Hector and April who have each earned certificates and medals outside of school for their swimming distances. If your child has an achievement or interest they would like to share and celebrate with our school community, please let us know, and we will be delighted to include it in a future Friday assembly.
Christmas Wreath Making Workshop
Please see attached a poster for a Christmas Wreath Making Workshop on Wednesday 10th December at 6:30pm in the Village Hall. This is kindly being hosted by Megan Fletcher on behalf of FOPS (Friends of Polperro School) with all profits going to School.
Book Fair
Thank you for supporting our book fair so generously last week. It raised over £200, and we are delighted to have this much-needed extra funding to spend on new books for our pupils.
MHST SPACE Programme
Please see attached a poster advertising the Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) SPACE programme for parents/carers starting in January 2026. This programme is designed for parents/carers and will help with understanding and managing emotions, it will offer practical approaches to support children and cover some coping strategies.
Have a great weekend
Anthea Hillman
Posted 20/11/2025
by Julie Peat
This week at nursery we have been learning about dinosaurs and answering our enquiry question "Are dinosaurs real?"
The children have been busy making their own dinosaur masks and have made dinosaurs using different shapes to create the body parts.
On Thursday we enjoyed making savoury dinosaur biscuits and the children practiced their mixing and rolling skills to create them.
At story time we have enjoyed the books "Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch" and the children have been using resources in the tuft tray to support their play.
We have also been learning different dinosaur names in our non fiction collection of books and read "Silly Dizzy Dinosaur".
In phonics the children have been clapping the number of beats in different words, beginning to identify simple rhyming words and they took part in an "instrument party" where they identified and played different musical instrumnerts and moved their bodies as they played them.
In maths we have been exploring repeating patterns and the children have been encouraged to create thier own. We have also been naming and ordering numbers.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Julie and Sarah
Posted 17/11/2025
by Anthea Hillman
It's been a busy week in school, filled with meaningful activities and plenty of colour! Thank you for sending your children in for a cosy day today in their PJs, spots, or bright colours. We are delighted to share that we raised £150 for Children in Need. As part of Anti-Bullying Week, pupils took part in thoughtful discussions in both assemblies and classrooms about what bullying means to us and how we can use our "Power for Good" to stand up against bullying, whether face-to-face or online. We were also very proud of the respect the children showed during the two-minute silence on Tuesday at 11am, as well as the interest and maturity they demonstrated during Rev Richard's Remembrance assembly in the afternoon.
Thank you to all the parents and carers who met with their child's teacher this week. It was a valuable opportunity to hear about the progress pupils are making, the learning they are enjoying, and the ways you can support them at home.
We are entering a very busy time of year and here are the dates of upcoming events for your diary. Further details will follow. Dates are also on our online events diary on this website.
• Christmas Gift MUFTI day - Wednesday 3rd December (see details below under Christmas Gift Room)
• Christmas Fair - Friday 5th December FOPS are currently busy organising our Christmas Fair which will be on Friday 5th December starting at 2.00 pm. We would be grateful for donations of raffle prizes, good condition toys to sell and teddies for the teddy tombola.
• Polperro Lights Switch On - Saturday 6th December The children will be making willow lanterns in school, kindly funded by the Polperro Christmas Lights Committee, for the Lantern Parade from the Village Hall (more details to follow).
• CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCES (in the school hall)
Penhallow Class Nativity Play - Tuesday 9th December at 11am and 2.00 pm.
Landaviddy Class Christmas Play - Thursday 11th December at 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm.
Talland Class and Chaipel Class Christmas Play (joint performance) - Monday 15th December at 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm.
• Christmas Jumper Day Thursday 11th December We are holding our Christmas Jumper Day in aid of the charity 'Save The Children' on Thursday 11th December. We ask for a £1.00 donation for this non-uniform day. We will provide opportunities for children to add some sparkle to a plain jumper if they do not already have a Christmas top to wear.
• Christmas Gift Room On, Wednesday 17th December, during the school morning, Santa's Workshop will be opening its doors for the children to choose a special gift or two for someone they love. Each gift will cost £2 (maximum of 2 gifts per child). Santa's helpful elves will be on hand to wrap the presents, ready to bring home at the end of the day, perfect to pop under your Christmas tree! To help make this possible, we'll be holding a Christmas Mufti Day on Wednesday 3rd December. Children can come to school in their favourite festive clothes in exchange for a donation of new or unused items (2 items if possible). Gift ideas include chocolates, toiletries, socks, notebooks or any small items you'd be happy to receive yourself. (Please no alcohol, thank you!). All profits will go to the school.
• Christmas Lunch Wednesday 17th December The Christmas lunch will be held on Wednesday 17th December this year. The menu will be on Parent Pay shortly, we will advise you when.
Have a lovely weekend.
Posted 16/11/2025
by Helen Fitzsimmons
Hello Everyone,
This week we have been getting creative in our art lessons, looking at patterns and colours in our Tinga Tinga art and creating our own animals.
In Geography we have been continuing to learn about the continents of the world and have focussed this week on Europe.
In English, we have finished our unit of work on Little Red Riding Hood, and have created our own innovated versions of the story.
Thank you to those who attended our parent/teacher consultations. It was lovely to find out more about your children, and to share their learning with you.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
from The Penhallow Team.
Posted 15/11/2025
by Emily Randle
Another busy week in Chaipel! Christmas play preparations are underway and the children have been given their scripts and song words to begin practising. We are going to perform a Polperro Primary favourite: SANTA'S ON STRIKE! Please could you support your child in learning their lines as the performance will definitely be one to remember!!
In Maths this week, Chaipel began the week with learning how to calculate using the long division method - challenging at first, but by Thursday, we were pretty good at it! We ended the week with Shape and are now beginning to confidently use a protractor. This will continue next week, along with probelm-solving using all four operations.
In English, we have completed our non-fiction, double-page spread on the relationship between the Sun, Earth and Moon and have moved onto immersing ourselves in our next unit - writing a Mayan narrative (with a twist) based on the Maya folktale, THE HERO TWINS!
In our Wider Curriculum, we have investigated the qualities for a saviour in RE, tinkered with creating a soundtrack in Computing, developed our target skills in Dodgeball and begun to learn about why we need energy in Science.
As part of Anti Bullying Week, Chaipel looked into the importance of using our 'powers for good'; we wore Odd Socks on Monday to celebrate our recognition that everyone is different and unique but equally important.
POLITE REMINDER
Next Thursday is our highly-anticipated school trip to I CAN COCOA in St Ives. We will be leaving school at 8:30am so please could you make sure that children are in school by 8:15am. We will leave St Ives at about 3pm and return to school by approximately 4:30pm.
Congratulations to Isaac and Tristan for being our People of the Week, demonstrating our school value of 'being curious' when it comes to their learning.
I have attached this half term's homework grid as well as the KIRFs and the Curriculum Spellings that need to be learnt.
Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!
Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.
Posted 14/11/2025
by Alice Wilkie
This week has flown by in Landaviddy class. Christmas play preparations have begun! All the children were given their parts and scripts on Thursday, and we practised our first rehearsal today. Please make sure you are practising your lines at home as we will be spending time rehearsing over the coming weeks. In PE, we have been enjoying building upon our ball skills in Netball with Mrs Hillman. Finally, during PSHE we have been considering responsible and irresponsible choices, particularly regarding friendships.
During English this week, we designed and described our own Stone Age character ready for our own narratives. We have started to plan our stories and can't wait to start writing these next week. In Maths this week, we have been working hard on column addition and subtraction. All the children have demonstrated excellent determination and all grown in confidence when applying this written method. Next week, we will build on this by learning how to use the method when exchanging.
Please find attached below this half term's Knowledge Web and KIRFS (this will be sent home next week).
Congratulations to Finn and Jemima for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week.
We hope you have a restful weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton
Posted 14/11/2025
by Ben Heasman-Langley
It's been a fun, busy and action packed week in Talland! We've had auditions, scripts have been handed out and we've had art of plenty!
Here's a break down of our week:
Maths:
Year 5 have moved onto decimals, where they are continuing to add and subtract. They're now investigating how that works whilst decimals are involved. They have also been calculating angles from a straight line.
Year 4 have also moved onto decimals. They have begun to recognise how decimals are linked to fractions. They have also explored different lines of symmetry.
English:
Talland have been looking at a range of poetry features and they've used these features to plan a poem for Ade Adepitan (a famous Para Olympian basketball player and TV personality). They wrote their poems independently today and they are sounding brilliant!
Art:
Talland have been using a range of crafting tools to calve their chosen animal/minibeast into soap - this was a tricky and long process. It took a tremendous amount of concentration and determination - we had some achy hands by the end. We also created animals out of wire - this was really fiddly. And, finally, today we began looking at how to created bubble writing and then cut them out... the final product will be shared on next weeks blog!
History:
We have begun looking at the end of the Roman Empire, the rise of the Anglo Saxons and the crossing of those vicious Vikings. It's really interesting - I don't know about you - but I love History!
PE:
With Mrs. Hillman, the children have been practicing passing skills within netball. With me, we have jumped into dodgeball. Children were learning how to pass and aim with accuracy... DODGE, DUCK, DIP, DIVE and DODGE!
CONGRATULATIONS to Zach this week for being noticed for his outstanding persistence with his handwriting!
That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a brilliant weekend!
Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
Posted 11/11/2025
by Julie Peat
It has been a busy week as we have continued to explore colour by mixing paints and making predictions about what colours could be created. The chilren achieved this through hand painting, mixing in zip lock bags and creating a large painting college to go on the book arch.
The children have also named and arranged shapes and created shape wreaths to hang up.
On Tuesday we marked Remembrance by decorating biscuits to look like poppies and we celebrated Children in Need today by dressing in pyjamas, spotty or bright coloured clothes. The children all looked great and we thank you for your kind donations.
This week at story time, we have enjoyed books such as "Simon's Sock" and "H is for Happysaurus".
In phonics, we have been listening to and recognising sounds in the story of "The Gingerbread Man", copying body percussion and actions in songs and copying patterns of sounds in a game of "Piggy Percussion".
In maths we have continued to explore number by counting and naming different numbers in addition to ordering them.
Have a great weekend
Julie and Sarah
Posted 07/11/2025
by Alice Wilkie
It has been wonderful to welcome the children back in to school this week. We have been finishing off our previous enquiry 'Who rules the animal kingdom?' and enjoyed working on our songs for the Christmas play!
In English, we have started our new unit based on the story 'Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura. So far we have engaged in some great book discussion, worked in groups to role play scenes from the story and started rehearsing the story map.
In Maths, we have followed on from last half term with Addition and Subtraction. We've been using number lines to add and subtract 1s and 10s across 10 and 100 boundaries. All the children have used their growth mindset's to tackle a range of questions this week, which has been great to see.
Congratulations to Iylah and Amelia for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week.
Polite Reminders
Parent Consultations will be taking place on Monday and Wednesday next week.
Scholastic Book Fair - This will be held at 3:15pm in school next week in Chaipel Class on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and in the hall on Wednesday. Well done to Amelia who won a £5 book fair voucher for being Landaviddy's most improved reader.
Anti-Bullying Week 2025 will take place next week, with the theme: Power for Good. The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 10th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.
Children in Need, MUFTI Day Friday 14th November - Please send your child in wearing spotty clothes, pyjamas or anything colourful on the day. A donation of £2 or more to Children in Need will be collected in class. We also have a supply of "Pudsey Ears" for the School Council to sell. These cost £2.50 with all profits going to Children in Need.
We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you next week.
Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton
Posted 07/11/2025
by Anthea Hillman
The children have been so busy this week; starting their enquiries and beginning their rehearsals for the Christmas performances. Next week will be even busier!
Poppies and Remembrance
We will be having a Remembrance assembly on Tuesday 11th November next week with Rev Richard.
Year 6 volunteers have been doing a great job selling poppies at playtimes. If your child would like to buy a poppy to raise funds for the British Legion, please send your child in with cash. A minimum donation of 50p per paper poppy would be welcome. Plastic poppies and bracelets are also available for £1.
Clubs After school Football Club for girls will now start after Christmas.
Parent Consultations NEXT WEEK
Thank you for signing up for parent consultations next week. There will be no clubs next week, however wraparound care will continue as usual.
Book Fair (Scholastic) This will be held at 3:15pm in school next week in Chaipel Class on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and in the hall on Wednesday. Please come and have a look at what is on offer next week. For every book bought, you help to earn free books for our school. The children had a look at the wonderful selection today and the most improved reader in each class was awarded a voucher to spend at the Book Fair. Well done to Nuala, Charlie-Ray, Amelia and Hudson.
Anti-Bullying Week 2025 will take place next week, with the theme: Power for Good. The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 10th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. Odd Socks are all about fun and laughter, but more importantly they deliver a message of individuality, acceptance and tolerance. We will be joining in with Odd Socks Day. All the children need to do is wear odd socks on Monday please.
Children in Need, MUFTI Day Friday 14th November For our Children in Need MUFTI fundraiser day on Friday 14th November, please send your child in wearing spotty clothes, pyjamas or anything colourful on the day. A donation of £2 or more to Children in Need will be collected in class. We also have a supply of "Pudsey Ears" for the School Council to sell. These cost £2.50 with all profits going to Children in Need.
FOPS Fundraising Quiz Night Join us for a fun-filled Quiz Night at school on Friday 14th November. The event is open to parents, carers, and friends of the school. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start. Form a team of 4-6 people and test your knowledge while supporting our fundraising efforts. Tickets are £5 per person and are available from the school office. See the attached poster for more details. We hope to see you there!
A huge thank you to FOPS for organising the school discos before half term. They raised £248.55 which will go towards resources for school including trikes for Penhallow Class.
Open Morning We are holding an Open Morning on Wednesday, 12th November 2025, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. This event is for families who are looking for a Primary School place for their child starting in September 2026. Please see the attached flyer for more details and feel free to share this information with anyone who may be interested.
Have a great weekend.
A Hillman
Posted 07/11/2025
by Helen Fitzsimmons
Hello Everyone,
This week in Penhallow, we have immersed ourselves in the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We have been singing songs, which retell each part of the story, drawing story maps, and describing characters. Reception have had some amazing discussions which have sparked their imagination, and we are really proud of the way in which they have
been creative in their ideas about the story.
In Geography this week we have been learning about the continents of the world. We sang a song, to help us to recall the names of the continents, and completed a jigsaw to place them on a map.
Art this week, has consisted of comparing art work and using colours from Tingatinga art. We also followed instructions to draw a tortoise in the style of this art work.
We look forward to seeing you next week for our parent/teacher consultations. Please call the school office, or catch us at the end of the day, if you haven't already booked.
Have a lovely weekend.
From The Penhallow Team
Posted 06/11/2025
by Julie Peat
It was lovely to see the children back after the half term break and we have been busy diving into our enquiry question "How does colour make us feel?"
In addition to this we are exploring different shapes with the children.
This week the children have been busy exploring colour and as it was bonfire night on Wednesday they made some glittery, glue firework pictures to hang in nursery.
They have enjoyed our bonfire themed tuft tray and have created breadstick sparklers to take home and eat.
At story time we enjoyed the books "Sparks in the Sky" and have been exploring the story of "The Colour Monster". The children have been encouraged to talk about the book and how the different colours made them feel as well as discussing what makes them happy, sad or scared.
In phonics this week the children enjoyed playing a game of "I Spy" and tried hard to listen to the sounds at the beginning of the words. We clapped the number of syllables in different words and used our voices to create different noises and sounds.
In maths, we are naming and ordering numbers 1-3 and beyond and have been comparing amounts.
We hope you all have a great weekend and see you on Monday.
Julie and Sarah
Posted 27/10/2025
by Helen Fitzsimmons
Hello Everyone,
This half term has come to an end, with pumpkins, outside exploring and some amazing writing.
In English this week, Reception have been focusing on the story 'Pumpkin Soup'. They have been handling a range of different pumpkins, using adjectives to describe their texture, appearance and smell. They have used their gross, fine motor and artistic skills to hollow out, paint and print with these pumpkins.
Year 1 and 2 have completed their English unit, based on 'The Day the crayons quit' and Year 2 in particular, should be extremely proud of their final piece of work, which was a letter that included so many key features such as paragraphs. Well done everyone!
In science this week, we enjoyed learning about food chains. Year 1 made paper chains to show the order of the consumers and producers, while Year 2 drew and wrote explanations to order them. We explored the outside area, for examples of what we had learned.
We hope you have a lovely half term, and look forward to seeing you after a week's break.
From The Penhallow Team
Posted 24/10/2025
by Alice Wilkie
Happy Half Term!
We've had a fabulous final week in Landaviddy.
In English, we have been working hard to finish producing our neat copies of our Dartmoor Zoo recounts, using our best handwriting. I have been so impressed with the children's focus and determination to complete these. Well done everyone!
In Maths, we explored adding 1s across a 10s boundary, which required lots of perseverance, but we were up for the challenge. We are looking forward to continue developing our adding and subtracting knowledge next half term.
As part of our enquiry, 'Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?' we learnt about food chains in Science and created our sock puppets in DT, which was lots of fun. We experimented with different methods of joining, with some of us using glue, cellotape and choosing to sew in order to attach elements of our designs (see our pictures below).
Congratulations to Frankie for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week and a big well done to Hector and Tommy for achieving their 99 club badges.
We hope you have a restful half term and a horrifying Halloween! We look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 3rd November.
Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton
Posted 23/10/2025
by Anthea Hillman
It's hard to believe the first half term of the school year is almost over. In this morning's assembly, the children took a moment to look back on their half term and share some of their "best bits." Their highlights included learning short division, making new friends, and exciting trips to Dartmoor Zoo, the Eden Project, and Penhallow Woods. Others mentioned discovering new books, taking part in cross-country races, or simply enjoying "everything!" It was wonderful to hear them speak with such excitement and positivity about all they've experienced and achieved so far.
House Points Our house captains have totalled the house points for this half term. House Points are awarded to children who demonstrate our school values: Curious, Creative, Excellent, Responsible, Determined, and Enthusiastic. This half term, our focus has been on being Responsible. Congratulations to Oak, who are currently in the lead with 45 points, followed by Willow with 38 points, Ash with 37 points, and Chestnut with 35 points.
Coming up next half term..
• Clubs will restart on the week commencing 3rd November.
Monday: After School Running Club (Mrs Turnbull and Miss Bowden) years 3-6; Lunchtime Mindfulness Colouring Club (Mrs Wilkie) for all year groups.
Tuesday: Lunchtime Construction Club (Mrs Lister) for Reception, Y1, Y2; After School Girls Football Club for years 3-6 (start date tbc).
Thursday: Lunchtime Choir (Mrs Butlin) for years 3-6; After School Football Club (Mr Langley) for years 3-6; After School Gardening Club Mrs Fitzsimmons and Ms Randle for years 1-6. Please note that once children have signed up to a club, they are expected to attend every session.
• Parent Consultations - week of 10th November. Thank you for signing up for parent consultations. These are straight after half term. There will be no clubs the week of the 10th November, however wraparound care will continue as usual.
• Anti-Bullying Week 2025 will take place from 10th to 14th November, with the theme: Power for Good. The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 10th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. Odd Socks are all about fun and laughter, but more importantly they deliver a message of individuality, acceptance and tolerance. We will be joining in with Odd Socks Day. All the children need to do is wear odd socks on Monday 10th please.
• Children in Need, MUFTI Day Friday 14th November For our Children in Need MUFTI fundraiser day on Friday 14th November, please send your child in wearing spotty clothes, pyjamas or anything colourful on the day. A donation of £2 or more to Children in Need will be collected in class. We also have a supply of "Pudsey Ears" for the School Council to sell after half term. These cost £2.50 with all profits going to Children in Need.
• Book Fair (Scholastic) This will be held in school on the week of the 10th November. When our Scholastic Book Fair arrives, you'll be able to browse over 200 of the books children really want to read, from award-winners and new releases to beloved favourites and bestsellers, all at amazing prices. Plus, for every book bought, you help to earn free books for our school.
• FOPS Fundraising Quiz Night Join us for a fun-filled Quiz Night at school on Friday 14th November. The event is open to parents, carers, and friends of the school. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start. Form a team of 4-6 people and test your knowledge while supporting our fundraising efforts. Tickets are £5 per person and are available from the school office. See the attached poster for more details. We hope to see you there!
Friday 24th October, is an INSET day. We wish you all a lovely half-term break and look forward to seeing everyone back in school from 8:30am on Monday 3rd November.
Thank you for your support this half term.
Mrs Hillman
Posted 23/10/2025
by Emily Randle
What a busy final week we have had! We have finally completed our art project - a study into Retro-Futurism - and everyone has done an incredible job using different mediums to create a sense of fore, middle and background. We concluded by using chalk and charcoal to create light and shade before sharing our work with our peers; the positive comments we received were amazing!
In Maths, we began by looking in to prime/square/cube numbers at the beginning of the week before delving into long multiplication on Wednesday, and after a full morning's dedication - we nailed it!
We have written most of our non-chronological report in English, however, we need to continue after half term, uplevelling our sentences and then creating a double-page spread to showcase our best piece.
Wider Curriculum
We have investigated day and night in Science - which concludes our study of the Sun, Earth and Moon - and are confident in our understanding of how these amazing space bodies work together to create life on our planet. We have created our own 'flow' in Yoga and upskilled our Football techniques.
Congratulations to Frankie and Nuala for being our People of the Week, displaying our school values and being excellent role models.
That's all from us so have a lovely half-term break and see you all back on Monday 3rd November!
Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.
Posted 22/10/2025
by Julie Peat
We have reached the end of this half term and have finished learning all about autumn and what happens in autumn.
The children have taken their craft activities home and were looking forward to sharing their artwork with family.
Today (Thursday) we carried out some halloween activities. The children decorated pumpkins and we had a spooky snack of ghost bananas and orange pumpkins. The chilsren were invited to come dressed up and they looked great!
The children enjoyed reading the story "Room on the Broom" and we talked about what happened in the story with the children making comments about the book and talking about their favourite parts.
In maths we have enjoyed exploring the stories "The Three Billy Goat's Gruff" where the children had to make a bridge for them to cross and count how many sticks it took to build. "We also looked at "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", focusing on the numbers of items and objects within the story.
It is INSET day tomorrow and then half term so we hope you have a lovely week and we look forward to welcoming you all back from Monday 3rd November.
See you soon
Julie and Sarah
Posted 18/10/2025
by Helen Fitzsimmons
Hello Everyone,
Another busy week in Penhallow has included making bread, working as a team to build large structures during play, and some drama work during English lessons.
Reception have finished their English work, all about The Little Red Hen, and thoroughly enjoyed following instructions to make, bake and eat their own bread. It smelled delicious.
Year 1 and 2 have been learning all about letter writing, as well as writing from the perspective of a different character. We have read 'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Oliver Jeffers and there were some fantastic responses from the children about the different characters and how the story shows us how the characters feel.
In science this week, we learnt all about sorting and classifying different animals based on their characteristics. We played games and practically sorted toy animals, as well as using venn diagrams and classification keys to sort animals.
We enjoyed being outside again this week. This time, during an RE lesson, where we found objects that were mentioned in the Christian story of creation, such as trees, flowers, and living creatures.
Have a lovely weekend,
from The Penhallow Team
Creative
We are bold and innovative in our approach to find new solutions to the challenges we face.
Curious
We are inspired by the awe and wonder of the world.
Responsible
We take responsibility for our actions in an environment of mutual respect.
Enthusiastic
We are passionate about learning.
Excellent
We are the best we can be.
Determined
We overcome all barriers to reach our potential, developing a capacity to improve further.
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