Another very busy week has flown by at school. On Monday, we held our Black History Month assembly, where the children shared their learning linked to this year's theme: "Standing Firm in Power and Pride." This theme celebrates the courage, resilience, and achievements of Black people around the world. Penhallow Class told us about the poet Benjamin Zephaniah and recited one of his poems beautifully. Landaviddy Class shared their work on artist Lubaina Himid, whose colourful artwork celebrates culture and identity. Talland Class taught us about Ade Adepitan, the Paralympian and TV presenter who inspires others through his determination, and Chaipel Class introduced William Robinson Clarke, the first Black pilot to fly for Britain in the First World War. The assembly was a thoughtful and uplifting celebration and we are very proud of how confidently and respectfully the children shared their learning.

Cross Country success Well done once again to our intrepid cross-country running team, who did the school proud in their race at Great Trethew. Six of our runners finished in the top 25, and all 20 competitors completed the race with 12 achieving personal bests. Another fantastic effort. Well done, runners!

Willow Lantern Making Every child in the school has taken part in creating willow lanterns for the Polperro Lantern Parade on 6th December. A huge thank you to the parents who came in to help. It was a very gluey and sticky experience, but the results were well worth it!

Christmas Gift Shop fundraiser - Christmas MUFTI next Wednesday, 3rd December We will be having a Christmas-themed MUFTI Day on Wednesday 3rd December. Children are welcome to come to school in their favourite festive outfits. In return, we'd really appreciate it if they could bring in two new or unused items - things like chocolates, toiletries, socks, notebooks, or any small gift you'd be happy to receive. (Just no alcohol, please!). The items will reappear in our Christmas gift shop on 17th December.

Clubs Next week clubs will run as usual apart from football club on Thursday as we have a home match against Downderry on that day. For the final 2 weeks of term (8 Dec - 19 Dec) there will be no clubs except for afterschool wraparound club and Breakfast Club which will continue as usual. Clubs will restart in January and we will send a letter out after the Christmas break about which ones will be running.

Christmas Fayre 2pm Friday 5th December FOPS are currently busy organising our Christmas Fayre which will be next 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. We look forward to seeing you there.

Polperro Christmas Lights and Lantern Procession Saturday 6th December On Saturday 6th December, before the Christmas lights switch-on, there will be a lantern procession in Polperro. Willow lanterns, handmade by children at the school, will be available for the children to carry. Each lantern has been created collaboratively by groups of pupils from all our classes, and the materials have been generously funded by the Christmas Lights Committee. Children, accompanied by their parents, should gather at the Village Hall at 4:30pm to collect a lantern, ready to set off promptly at 4:45pm. If your child carries a lantern, please ensure the cane is returned to school afterwards so it can be reused next year. Please note that although school staff will be present at the procession, children remain the responsibility of their parents at all times.

Polperro Christmas Tree Festival The Christmas Tree Festival in the Chapel will open at 11am on Saturday 6th December to coincide with the Christmas light switch on. It will be open during the evening that day as well and daily throughout December. A huge thank you to Mrs Peters for making decorations with the children to hang on a tree which FOPS are kindly sponsoring on behalf of the school.

CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE DATES reminder
Tuesday 9th Dec: Penhallow Performances 11am and 2pm
Thursday 11th Dec: Landaviddy Performances 2pm and 6pm
Monday 15th Dec: Talland and Chaipel Performances 2pm and 6pm
Please note that, to ensure we can accommodate everyone in the hall, audience numbers will be limited as follows: • Penhallow Class performances: three members per family for each performance. • Landaviddy Class performances: four members per family for each performance. • Talland and Chaipel Class joint performances: two members per family for each performance. For Landaviddy, Talland and Chaipel Class pupils, after the afternoon performance, children will need to be back in school by 5.30pm to prepare for their 6pm performance. Doors will open 30 minutes before each performance. If you choose to take photographs or videos, please ensure that no images are uploaded or shared online, including on Facebook or other social media platforms.

Please drive safely near our school We kindly ask all parents and carers to take extra care when driving to drop off or collect children. Residents have reported cars travelling too fast along the road, which has a 30mph speed limit (20mph near the school). Many of our pupils walk along this road and, with the darker evenings approaching, it is especially important to slow down. Thank you for helping to keep our children safe.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Hillman

Hello everyone,

Christmas is coming and we have started to practice our Christmas nativity performance. The children all have their parts, and some of the older children in Penhallow may have taken home some lines to learn. Please help them at home if you can. We are all very excited to be performing this in a few weeks time. 

During our English lessons this week, we have been using the story 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers to improve our writing skills. So far, we have written thought bubbles for different characters in the story, described a lost toy, and written about what we would do, if we found a lost penguin. 

We have all learnt a poem this week, as part of our learning about Benjamin Zephania, for black history month. The poem is called 'Clever Trevor' and is about a footballer. We have enjoyed adding actions and expression to the poem.

In maths this week, Reception have enjoyed investigating 2D and 3D shapes, Year 1 have been learning about addition and subtraction fact families, and year 2 have been adding 2 digit numbers. 

We have also enjoyed plenty of time outside, learning and playing, despite the cold and changeable weather.

Have a lovely weekend!

from the Penhallow Team

CHOCO-TASTIC!

What an amazing week we have had. Play rehearsals are in full swing and everyone is getting into character!

In English, we are planning our Mayan narrative, altering the plot and characters as we go; I am looking forward to reading them. For Maths this week, Chaipel have been problem-solving as well as calculating missing angles. Next week, we will begin to delve into fractions!

Our trip to St Ives on Thursday was a huge success. We visited the Tate gallery and Barbara Hepworth sculpture museum, selecting our favourite sculpture for us to replicate out of clay. We then took part in a chocolate-making workshop at I SHOULD COCO. We put our knowledge of chocolate-making to the test; creating chocolate bars and lollypops, then decorating, piping and packaging them up. We had a great day and enjoyed sharing our yummy produce with our families!

Congratulations to TRISTAN for achieving his 66 Club badge and to Tabbi, Tristan and Aria for being our People of the Week, demonstrating our school values - particularly our focus one 'being curious'.

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend,

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

TALLAND'S BLOG 21.11.25

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.

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

TALLAND'S BLOG 14.11.25

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.

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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