This week at nursery we have been continuing to explore farms and where our food comes from.
The children have been busy creating collage carrots and handprint corn on the cob. We have been talking about different foods that can be grown and about what foods the children enjoy to eat.

At storytime we have been reading books such as "Farmer duck" and "Vegetable glue" and in phonics the children have been playing "I spy" where they have had to identify different animals from their initial sound. They have also been using their bodies to create different movements of animals and making and matching sounds as well as beginning to match rhyming words together.

It has been a busy week:
On Tuesday we had pancake day. The children had pancakes with different fruit toppings for snack and we played pancake races outside.
On Wednesday we celebrated ST Piran's day. The children made flags to take home and there was the option for pasties for school dinner.
On Thursday it was World Book Day. The children came in dressed up as their favourite book character. They all looked amazing and we had a great day of sharing our favourite stories and making footprint book marks.

We have introduced "Travis the T-Rex" to the children this week. Travis will be taking it in turns to go home with the children and is looking forward to many exciting adventures. Children are encouraged to draw a picture in the book and any pictures can be emailed to Julie.

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday

The Nursery Team














































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Hello Everyone!

We have really enjoyed our first week of our enquiry question; 'Can I travel by dinosaur?' 

In English we have learnt the story 'Gigantosaurus' by Jonny Duddle. We have been using adjectives to describe dinosaurs, using different verbs to explain how dinosaurs move, and using actions to retell the story as a group.

During our maths lessons, Reception have been learning about capacity, while Year 1 have been finding out more about place value. We have been using tens frames, bead strings and tens and ones to represent different 2 digit numbers.

Year 1 have been finding out about the countries and Capital cities in the UK, during their Geography lessons. This week, we focussed on London. Some children were keen to tell us all about trips to London that they have been on. We found out about some famous London landmarks and then located them on a map.

Reception have created a wonderful land for dinosaurs to explore, and they were inspired to add more details and to act out stories in this land, after reading 'Tom and the Dinosaurs' during our daily story time at the end of every day.

I look forward to seeing you next week at our Parent/Teacher meetings.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow Team

• This half term has already got off to a good start with our new enquiries launched as follows:

Penhallow Class: Can I Travel by Dinosaur? Landaviddy Class: Can you Always See Things Grow? Talland Class: How did England Change After the Norman Conquest?
Chaipel Class: What was Life Like in Tudor England?
As usual, information about the children’s learning will be on the class blogs.

World Book Day, Thursday 6th March
• There is still time to send in entries for our World Book Day Extreme Reading Competition.   Please email your child’s entry (secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk) or bring in a photo by Monday 3rd March.  We are really looking forward to seeing who in school has such a passion for reading that they have to do it anywhere and everywhere! Staff will be entering too and there will be a prize (for children) for the winning pictures. See below for example photographs.
• Book Sale - On World Book Day, there will be a range of second-hand children’s books for sale at break time for just 20p each. Any profit will go towards buying new books for class libraries. Please send you child in with cash on the day if they would like to buy a book.
• Dress as your Favourite Book Character - On World Book Day your child can come to school dressed as a favourite character from any book.

Orwell Project Dr Alison Smith, Temperate Rainforest Project Manager, Cornwall Wildlife Trust came to speak to Talland and Chaipel Classes this week about the Temperate Rainforest she is managing just 10 minutes away from school. The children learned about the rare species of which can be found there, such as the Floury Dog Lichen (see photo) and how the Cornwall Wildlife Trust will be managing the rainforest over the next 50 years. Poet, Sally Crabtree came in the following day to write poems with the children using the language they had learned. These two workshops are part of the science, art and writing project we are running with the Orwell Society, which we will be sharing with parents/carers and Orwell Society members later this year at their annual conference which will be held in Polperro.

Fantastic Footballers Congratulations again to our wonderful football team who played against St Germans on Tuesday and won 4-3. The team played very well and really deserved their win.

Cross Country Success Congratulations to Flora and Jamie who have been selected to take part at the Cornwall School Games county schools primary cross-country final on 25th March.

Parent Consultations Reminder that parent consultations are taking place next week. Thank you everyone for signing up.

Clubs Clubs will continue on the week commencing 10th March. If your child is already signed up, they should continue to come. Please contact the office if your child would like to attend and they are not already signed up.
Monday: After School Football Club (Mr Langley) for years 3, 4,5 and 6
Tuesday: Lunchtime ECO Club (Miss Randle) for years 3 to 6, some places by invitation; After school Alternative Sports Club (Mrs Hillman) for years 3-6
Wednesday: Lunchtime Mindfulness and Art Club (Mrs Wilkie) for years 2 to 6
Thursday: Lunchtime Music and Singing Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) for years R, 1 and 2
Friday: After School Running Club (Miss Bowden and Mrs Turnbull) for years 3-6. This club is open to anyone who likes running however it will not run when the Cross-Country League races are on – next races 7th March and 21st March. Pupils do not have to race in these events.

SATS club for Year 6 These drop-in sessions will run on Tuesday mornings from 8am (Miss Randle); Wednesday Lunchtimes (Mrs Hillman) from 12:30; and Thursdays afterschool (Miss Randle) until 4:15pm.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Welcome back Landaviddy class! We have had a great start to the second half of the Spring Term! 

We have been concluding our previous enquiry 'What is Light?' by conducting a bee hunt in the school garden, as part of our Geography fieldwork. During PSHE this week, Year 2 collaborated to design and create their 'dream bird' and Year 3 worked together to design a garden for someone who faced a challenge. The results were fantastic, and of course very colourful! 

In PE, we have started Striking and Fielding and Gymnastics which has already proven to be lots of fun! Today in Gymnastics, we explored a range of different shapes using our body. We concluded our enquiry question by completing a Kahoot quiz, which is always popular and recording down everything we have learnt last half term. Well done everyone! Next week, we will be launching our new enquiry 'Can you always see things grow!'. 

In Maths, Year 2 have worked hard completing multiplication sentences and making arrays. I was impressed with the confidence shown by everyone! Year 3 have been learning about all this measurement - comparing lengths in metres (m), centimetres (cm) and millimetres (mm). 

In English, we have been learning the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, with the intention of eventually writing our own imaginary world narratives. So far, we have been using actions to support our recall of the story and participated in a hot seating task, where we asked and answered questions as if we were the Giant or Jack from the story. We have created story mountains to record the key events of the story and learnt how to punctuate contractions.

Congratulations to Amelia for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week! And a big well done to Finn for achieving this 44 club badge! 

We hope you have a superb weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday! 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Talland's Blog 28.2.25

Happy Spring 2 everyone! We hope you had a fabulous break and are feeling fresh for the new term!

It has been a great start back and it has been lovely seeing everybody! Talland are full of energy and have already had an action packed week!

Maths: 
Year 5 have been looking at multiplying fractions by a whole number and calculating the fraction of a quantity. Why not try them out on this brain teaser... What is 1/4 of 20? If they know the answer to that, ask them what 3/4 of 20 is...
Year 4 have just began their fraction unit and have been recognising what a whole is when looking at a fraction. 


English:
Everyone has now completed a fantastic top copy of the life cycle of a turtle. They will be very excited to show them off to you next week, I'm sure! We were also extremely fortunate to have a poem specialist and author come in where  the children were highly creative and even got to eat their own poems...YUM!

Art:
The children completed the screen print art this week. They have turned out brilliantly! Lots of mess equals lots of fun (apparently)!

PE:
This term Talland will be working on rounders and gymnastics. They've shown off their roly-poly's and some children made excellent coaches!

That's all from us this week. We hope you have a fantastic weekend and can't wait to see you on Monday!

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

It has been a very busy week in Chaipel, this week.

We had poet and childrens book author Sally Crabtree in to teach us how to compose and write cinquains (a five-line stanza) along the theme of nature. We began by selecting words to create a short piece of poetry, popped them onto a biscuit and then literally ATE OUR WORDS! We had a lovely afternoon and Sally was great.

We have been learning about the demise of Anne Boleyn in English, taking notes about her life and learning some typical Tudor phrases. We will then use these to write a series of diary entries - through the eyes of the then Queen Anne - leading up to her execution on May 19th 1536.

In Maths, Y6s have been learning all they need to know about working with decimals whilst the Y5s have been finding a fraction of  an amount and multiplying and dividing fractions with integers.

We have launched our exciting enquiry into Tudor England, where we will be comparing the lives of the poor and rich as well as their places in society. We will be learning a range of sewing techniques in DT, building up to creating a Tudor coin purse as well as researching the history of computers in Computing, finishing by creating an audio advert for a computer of the future!

Congratulations to Dominic and to Freddie and Ava for gaining their BRONZE in 99 Club as well as Isaac and Elsie for being our People of the Week, demonstrating our school values and being excellent role models.

I sent a letter home to ask if the children could bring in an item of clothing from home - on Monday, please - so that we can investigate the material, stitching and how various parts are sewn together.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

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

This week we have been exploring the farm and animals that live on the farm. We have been exploring our new enquiry question "What animals would you find on a farm?"
The children have been creating cow handprints, paper plate chicks and shredded paper sheep.
We have enjoyed singing "Old Macdonald had a farm" and creating lots of different animal sounds.
The children have been building with the farm, creating enclosures for the animals and have been making animal footprints in the tuft tray.

In phonics we have been naming and describing sounds that we have heard in our indoor and outdoor environment, copying sequences of body sounds and exploring instruments and the noises they make.

In maths we have been finding objects that represent numbers and matching them together. The children have been practicing number writing.


Have a lovely weekend
The nursery team. 

Hello Everyone!

We have enjoyed a great final week of learning based around our enquiry question; ‘Why aren’t Space Ships made of jelly?’

In science, we have enjoyed investigating and sorting magnetic and non-magnetic materials. 

We have been developing our speaking and listening skills in our space rocket role play area, after listening to conversations held by astronauts and technicians at NASA. Using our weekly ‘I see, I think, I wonder’ activity, we have also discussed the surface of the moon.

In maths this week, reception have been comparing weight and mass, while Year 1 have been busy refining their place value skills,  by representing numbers in different ways. 

Our art topic finished with some amazing outside sculptures using different natural materials. We used the knowledge, ideas and techniques of Andy Goldsworthy that we have built up throughout this half term. The results were both amazing and unique. The children thoroughly enjoyed their time in the school garden, collaborating with each other to collect, sort and present the natural materials that they found. Well done everybody. It was lovely to see such brilliant collaboration and creativity. 

We hope you have a lovely half term.

From The Penhallow Team.

Happy Half Term! Landaviddy class have had a lot of fun this week. In Geography, we have been exploring why bees are important and designed our own school bee garden! On Tuesday, as part of Safer Internet Day, Year 3 joined Talland and Chaipel to participate in a live event hosted by the BBC, which they enjoyed. As a class, we also considered the personal information we share online and how we can protect ourselves. 

In English, we have been writing up our final copies of our explanation texts about how bees make honey. We even had a go at typing up our texts and creating PowerPoints in Computing. In Maths, Year 3 have completed their unit on Multiplication and Division B and will start their new unit after half term on Length and Perimeter. Year 2 have finished Money and started looking at equal groups when multiplying. 

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

Remember to continue reading, practising your KIRFS/ times tables and spellings over half term. If you find you have some spare time, you could complete some of the activities from the homework grid for Spring 1 (this can be found further down on the blog). One of the suggested activities was to create a light jar - shout out to Oliver who created a beautiful light jar for his homework! Well done! 

We hope you enjoy a lovely half term break and come back refreshed, ready for an exciting second half to the spring term! We look forward to seeing you all back on Monday 24th February! 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Talland Class Blog 14.2.25

Happy half term everyone! 

Photo dump of fun at the zoo incoming...

We hope you enjoy them. Have  a lovely break and we can't wait to see you all for Spring 2!

 

This half term has flown by. We have crammed a lot into six weeks including work around children’s internet safety this week.

Talland Class had an amazing trip to Paignton Zoo yesterday where they saw all the different animals in all of their different ecosystems and habitats. They enjoyed a workshop in front of the lions where they got to hear them roar and learned lots of fun facts. See the class blog for photos and more information.

Alice Bywater, National Trust Ranger, came to speak to Talland and Chaipel Classes this afternoon about the National Trust’s conservation work in our local area. The children listened really well and asked some excellent questions. They will be using what they have learned as part of the science, art and writing project we are running with the Orwell Society, which we will be sharing with Orwell Society members later this year at their annual conference which will be held in Polperro.

Cross Country There were more personal best results at the Fursdon Farm race on Friday. As usual the team ran brilliantly in spite of the freezing conditions.

Fantastic Footballers Congratulations to our football team who played incredibly well again on Tuesday and won 9-2 against Antony School.

Parent/carer consultations – diary date Consultations will be held the week of 3rd March either in person or on TEAMS. Appointments will be available as follows:
Penhallow Class: Monday 3rd March 1-4:00 pm; Wednesday 5th March 3:30 – 5:30pm
Landaviddy Class: Monday 3rd March 1-4:00 pm; Tuesday 4th March 3:30-4:30pm; Wednesday 5th March 3:30 – 5:30pm
Talland Class: Wednesday 5th March 3:30 – 5:30pm; Thursday 6th March 1pm-4:30pm
Chaipel Class: Tuesday 4th March 1pm-4:30pm; Wednesday 5th March 3:30 – 5:30pm
We will email you immediately after half term with information regarding how to book an appointment.

World Book Day Competition This year World Book Day is on Thursday 6th March. Information about this year’s Extreme Reading competition and school World Book Day activities can be found in a separate letter (sent yesterday and attached).

Friends of Polperro School (FOPS) Quiz Please see attached flyer for details of the FOPS  Quiz which we are holding on Friday 28th February to raise funds for the school. We hope to see you there. Tickets are on sale at the main gate or the office.

Half Term Activities (details of all activities are on flyers attached)
• Football Pro-20 are running some Football Courses in the area during the February half term period.
• Hugs Foundation Activity Day Bodmin The Hugs Foundation supports families when a parent/ carer has a terminal illness and they are running some fully funded equine and forest school activities available as an activity day at the hugs foundation during half term week. They ask a £5 booking fee for this as numbers are limited, but can waive this for families who need us too.
• Looe Mini Miler The Looe Mini Miler fun run takes place at 10am on Sunday 2nd March. The race, which is organised by the Looe Pioneers, is suitable for children aged 4 and above. No entries on the day.
• National Trust Tree Planting in Fowey The National Trust is creating a new woodland at Coombe Farm in Fowey on Wednesday 19th February and is inviting families to come and plant trees there with the aim of extending and joining up existing areas of woodland.

Friday is an INSET day and then it is the half term break. We look forward very much to seeing everyone back in school on Monday 24th February.

Have a wonderful half term break.

Mrs Hillman

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Hello Everyone,

We have enjoyed a variety of learning tasks which have helped to improve our wellbeing in Penhallow. After watching a clip from the film ‘Inside Out’ we were able to name and describe different feelings and emotions. We  read the story ‘The Colour Monster’ and created feelings jars using colours which helped to describe different feelings. We also learnt a song, linked to these ideas. The children’s vocabulary has really improved throughout these activities. 

We have all been really proud of our reception children recently, who are beginning to write their own words and captions, using their recently acquired phonic knowledge. We even caught some children writing for fun during choosing time. Well done reception!

Year 1 have been working very hard in maths this week, adding and subtracting numbers to 20. They have been using number lines and drawing on their knowledge of number facts to represent their knowledge in different ways. We have written fact families using addition and subtraction and used bar models and part while models to record number sentences.

During our Geography lesson this week, we went outside to observe different forms of clouds. We located different areas of the UK on a map, and learnt about seasons and weather patterns in the UK.

We all had a lovely end to our week, with a day of birdwatching, yoga, and outdoor learning. All of this, combined with a fascinating visit from a Hindu lady, who brought in a huge selection of artefacts which helped us to understand her religion and beliefs, has made sure that we have had a very varied and interesting week.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

From the Penhallow team.

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 7.2.25

We hope you've all had a tremendous week... we've had an absolute hoot! We've had children representing the school and competing in football matches, dodgeball tournaments and cross country competitions! Every child has done themselves and the school proud so a HUGE well done to these children! Not to mention, we've had the wonderful Tini in to speak about Hinduism to the children, which was incredibly insightful and so lovely to develop our learning about this culture and religion. After this, and to top it all off, we've had a lovely time today thinking about our well being. We began by finding some quantitative data for geography by conducting The Great Birdwatch where we found different types of birds that use our ecosystem. Then, the children took part in lots of fun activities like art, fire making, yoga and dancing. All in all, it's been a brilliant week!

CONGRATULATIONS to Heidi for earning her next badge in 99 club and WELL DONE to Tristan for being noticed this week for trying really hard with his learning and sharing a project with us that he has begun at home. The art he is producing is great and his story telling is highly engaging. Talland are excited to hear the next part!

That's all from us this week. We hope you have a lovely weekend!

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

P.S. There will be no year 5 spellings this week as they are ahead of the game... YAY! They will have some fun with the year 5 and 6 statutory word list.


  

This week we were fortunate to welcome to school Muhunthiny (Tinni) Sivasothy, a remarkable Hindu woman with an incredible passion for sharing her culture, beliefs, and values with others. During a special whole school assembly, she spoke about the key elements of Hinduism: about its rich history, its colourful festivals, and the deep spiritual traditions that are part of daily life for millions of Hindus around the world. Following the assembly, years 4-6 took part in a workshop designed to give students a deeper understanding of Hinduism. Tinni emailed to say that she had thoroughly enjoyed visiting the school saying ‘all the students focused well, were enthusiastic to learn about Hinduism, were well behaved, and respectful.’ We were delighted to see how the children reflected on what they had learned, asking thoughtful questions and sharing their thoughts on the experience.

Children’s Mental Health Week
Wellbeing Morning As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, today, staff and children had a wonderful morning outside taking part in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch; toasting marshmallows around the fire in the school garden; practicing yoga and mindfulness and enjoying art activities involving nature. The children have asked that we have a wellbeing session every term which we intend to organize.

In addition to learning about mental health in class, on Tuesday, Rev Richard spoke about mental health in an assembly and how it is important to know yourself and recognise that there are things about yourself that may be different, but these things are an important part of who you are.

Football Success Congratulations to our football team who won 3-1 against Bishop Cornish School on Monday. Coach Langley said they played amazingly as a team, passing really well to each other.

Dodgeball Tournament Our year 3/year 4 team played very well yesterday at Callywith College against other Bridge schools, narrowly missing the final. Well done to all involved.

Upcoming dates
Reminder that Friday 14th February is an INSET day and half term is 17-21 February.

Have a lovely weekend.  

Mrs Hillman

This week we have been talking about animals and answering our enquiry question "Do all animals like the cold?"
We have been looking at different animals such as polar bear and penguins and the children have been comparing them to animals that live in the jungle or in our own homes.
They have made some wonderful polar bear pictures using sponges and a bear template and have been making all sorts of arrangements and objets in the tuft tray with the playdough.
This week the children have made paper plate musical shakers and we have taken part in lots of singing. The children have all been very confident in standing in fornt of their peers and performing a song for us.

At story time, we have enjoyed the story of "The penguin who wanted to fly". The children have really enjoyed this story and helped to decorate our book area and our very own Flip Flop the penguin.

In phonics we have been exploring jungle animals. We have been matching different musical instruments to different jungle animals, clapping out the syllables in words and the children have enjoyed a game of jungle eye spy!

In maths, the children have been recognising and matching shapes, continuing to notice different patterns and forming numbers and marks that represent their numbers.

Next week is the last before the half term break.
We finish on Thursday 13th as Friday is an INSET day.

Have a good weekend

The Nursery Team














































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A Wonderful Week in Landaviddy!

What a brilliant week Landaviddy class have had! On Wednesday, we were lucky enough to have a wonderful visitor, Muhunthiny (Tinni) Sivasothy, come into school and share with us about her beliefs as a Hindu. We loved listening to her stories and learning more about the Hindu faith. 

In Science, we have continued investigating shadows by conducting an investigation measuring the length of shadows and how they change. Can you remember what happened to the shadow when the torch was moved further away? In DT this week, we explored different materials and had a go at joining these together. We now know what we will need to make strong shadow puppets.

Today, we spent a lovely morning with the whole school in recognition of Children's Mental Health Week. We started off the day by completing the RSPB's Birdwatch and then participated in a range of activities throughout the morning, designed to promote mental health wellbeing. What was your favourite activity? 

In Maths, Year 2 have completed their unit on Money. We have explored how to find change and completed two-step problems. Year 3 have been exploring division by dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers using flexible partitioning and finding remainders. 

In English, we have been progressing to finish writing our explanation texts on bees. We have particularly focussed on including subordinating conjunctions in our writing. 

Congratulations to Dexter and Oliver for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week and a big well done to Dexter and Lowen H for achieving their 99 club badges this week. 

We hope you have a super weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday, ready for the last week before half term arrives!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

I don't know where to begin as this week has been so busy!

On Wednesday, we were visited by Muhunthiny (a Hindu speaker) who gave us a workshop on the Hinduism religion. We had a lovely morning, trying on the traditional clothing, learning about the religion and how Hindus live their lives, day to day. Our behaviour was impeccable and she is looking forward to visiting us again in the future.

ENGLISH
We have written our draft copy of our free verse poetry and are in the process of editng, improving and writing up our best copies: I look forward to reading them all.

MATHS
Y5s have been completing their multiplication and division this week, focusing on the short method of division. Y6s have been multiplying and dividing fractions by integers and are absolutely nailing the learning.

WIDER CURRICULUM
We have been exploring the construction of suspension bridges in DT. Lily has made a fabulous 3D model and Martha, Elsie and Ava constructed a bridge, spanning the length of a 60cm gap. The class will be moving onto designing and constructing their own model bridge in our final week next week. In Geography, Chaipel have been learning about energy sustainability, about the life and times of Gandhi in RE and in Computing, how to compress images to show how pixel quantity enhances an image without altering its size.

WELLBEING MORNING
Recognising that this week is Child's Mental Health Week, Polperro Primary had a fabulous morning ensuring positive mental health. We began with the RSPB National Bird Watch - dedicating an hour to watching and recording the birds that we saw in our area. After that, in our house teams, we then did four different activities designed to relieve stress and support our wellbeing. Ava embraced her love of art and took a piece of chalk to our playground! It was a truely wonderful morning and as a school, we have decided that we should do more mornings like this. 

Congratulations to our People of the Week, Isaac and Lily, for demonstrating our school values of being 'creative' and 'curious' as well as Lily for achieving her BRONZE in her 99 Club.

That's all from me this week. So have a lovely weekend and see you all for a four-day final week of half term from Monday.

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Miss Hodge and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone,

We have enjoyed working with clay this week in Penhallow, as part of our learning about the artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. We chose objects to make imprints into clay, and then used them to make patterns on finger pots that we had made. We are looking forward to finding out how they have dried next week, so that we can paint them.

During our English lessons we continued to use the text; ‘Field Trip to the Moon’ by John Hare to inspire our writing. Year 1 have written some superb recounts, all about their trip to the Moon, while Reception have been busy writing labels, captions and even some onomatopoeia words, after watching a clip of a rocket taking off. They thought of some fantastic vocabulary and used their knowledge of phonics to write their own words.

We have been enjoying our new rocket role play area, and have been busy writing space log books, painting different planets and preparing for journeys into space. We have also used different construction materials to make additions and inventions for the rocket. 

It is now the Chinese New Year, so this week, we have also learnt about the story of the great race, as well as finding out about some of the traditions involved in Chinese New Year. Reception have managed to write a list of some of the animals that were involved in the race.

Have a lovely weekend! 

From the Penhallow team.