TALLAND'S BLOG 17.10.25

Happy weekend everyone! Photo dump incoming...

Please don't forget to send your child in to school this Monday wearing clothes suitable for the woods (they probably will get mucky).

A huge well done to Flora this week for being chosen as our person of the week for her fabulous biome she created at home and brought in to share with the class... I loved the moss, the soil, the plants and the little Lego character!

We are organising a girls' football club for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 run by a football organisation. Please make sure you sign your child up as soon as possible if they are interested because if we don't have enough people, unfortunately the club will not run. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Signing off Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.  

Cross Country Success Congratulations to all our runners who completed their first race last Friday at Great Trethew, some of them racing for the first time. We had an impressive turnout of 22 pupils, each running brilliantly and demonstrating fantastic team spirit by cheering each other on throughout the event. The next race is on 14th November. Please return any running vests to school as soon as possible so we can ensure we have enough for everyone on race day.

Clubs There will be no Alternative Sports Club on Tuesday 21st October because of staff training and no gardening or football club on Thursday 23rd October because of the school discos.

Girls' Football. We are planning to start a girls' football club for students in Years 3 to 6, held on Tuesdays after school, beginning after the half-term break. If your child is interested in joining, please email the school secretary as soon as possible. So far, we've only received four official sign-ups, which isn't enough to run the club despite 15 girls expressing interest. We'd love to make this club happen, but we need more confirmed participants to move forward.

Harvest Donations Reminder that we are collecting donations for the foodbank in Liskeard. If you would like to donate, please send your donation in with your child or bring it to reception where there is a collection box. There will also be a collection point in the nursery. We will be taking donations to the foodbank at half term.

Parent Consultations Parent consultations will be held after half term during the week commencing 10th November. We will send details out early next week.

Neighbourhood Policing Team During half term the local Neighbourhood Policing Team will be out and about in their community van visiting villages and neighbourhoods across the Looe sector. They will be in the school car park on 30th October from 1130-1230 to chat with about local concerns, give crime prevention advice and share community issues that matter to you. 

Have a good weekend.

Anthea Hillman

What a busy week we have had. Our Art is really coming together; we have completed our nebula and star clusters, our planet(s) and our foreground. Next week, we will put all elements together and then create a light and dark effect by using chalk and charcoal.

In Maths, we have been completing our first set of SATs papers and then going through them with our learning partners to help each other with our next steps. For English, we have been looking at the features of a non-chronological text, identifying the use of parenthesis in our sentences and uplevelling our writing using precise vocabulary which we learnt how to apply in our last piece of writing.

On Friday, we had Kim back in from Barnado's to complete our PSHE sessions on healthy relationships. The children were a credit to the school and we had some great discussions which gave everyone food for thought.

POLITE NOTICES
Remember that the Spooky Disco is on next Thursday - tickets to be purchased at Reception.

If any girls would like to sign up for our Girl's Football Club after school on a Tuesday, could you please let us know ASAP as a coach will be coming in to train them up!  

Congratulations to Thomas and Kora for being our People of the Week (demonstrating our school values) and to Frankie for achieving his 66 Club badge.

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

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary.

This week we practised using running stitch in DT, and we could not believe how quickly everyone managed to pick it up. We had to adopt our growth mindsets, but our determination shone through! Some of us may choose to use running stitch next week, when joining parts on to our sock puppets. In Science, we explored how different animals are best suited to the habitats they live in. We learnt about camels and the special features they have which help them to live in the desert. We also looked are polar bears. Can you recall any of the special features they have? During Music with Mrs Butlin, we practise using the chime bars and completing 4 beat patterns.

In Maths, we have made a fantastic start on our Addition and Subtraction unit, adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s. We have been working on how to present our calculations neatly in our books and used pictorials to support our understanding. 

In English, we have been writing up our recounts, focusing on quality over quantity. With this in mind, we have diligently used our classroom resources to support our writing. Next week, we will finish editing and get these written up neatly. 

Congratulations to April and Jemima for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Brody for achieving his 99 club badge. 

Animal Sock Puppets
As part of our enquiry 'Who rules the animal kingdom?', we have designed and planned to make our own animal sock puppets in DT. On Wednesday 22nd October, we will be finally making our designs. We have a selection of brand new socks available for the children to use in school, which were kindly donated to us. However, if your child would like to bring in their own sock from home to use when creating their sock puppet, they are welcome to do so. Of course, please do let me know if you have any questions.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you next week. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

We have been continuing with our enquiry question "How do I know it is autumn?".
The children have been very busy this week making orange bird feeders to take home and hang in gardens and have enjoyed collecting leaves to make an autumn bookmark.
The children have been learning about hibernation and so we made clay hedgehogs and put them in their little house to have a sleep before they went home.

Today (Friday) we have enjoyed going onto the field and into the school garden where as part of phonics we read the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". The children were encouraged to copy and make movements from the story and to move in different ways. We enjoyed a snack of porridge just like Goldilocks and the children answered questions from the story.
Also in phonics this week we have been exploring different words that rhyme when mixing them in a bowl in a game of "Lumpy, Bumpy Porridge", exploring sounds that we can make using our voices and have played a game of "Goldilocks, please be quiet" where the children had to listen and recognise familiar sounds they heard.

In maths we have been ordering numbers and identifying numbers that we see in our environment both indoors and out.

Just a reminder that it is INSET next Friday (24th) and then half term week.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

Wonderful Woodlice 

Another week goes by in Landaviddy class, and what a week it has been! We have continued to explore our enquiry question 'Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?' in Science, where we investigated which conditions woodlice prefer the most. The children loved hunting in the garden for woodlice, which we carefully brought back to the classroom to observe and discover which conditions they were drawn to the most. We found our woodlice spent most of their time on dark, damp surfaces. Once complete, we took our woodlice safely back to their micro-habitat. 

In Geography, we made comparisons between the UK and Kenya, focusing on physical and human features. During Music with Mrs Butlin, we practised using the chime bars to create patterns which we performed to our partners. In DT, we explored how to join different materials together and evaluated which methods were best. This was lots of fun and helped us to start making decisions about how we may join different materials when creating our animal sock puppets.

We concluded our Place Value unit in Maths this week. All the children have done so well and shown a great understanding of Place Value. We have now moved on to Addition and Subtraction, starting today by applying numbers bonds within 10 to add tens and hundreds. 

In English, we have made progress towards writing up a recount of our Dartmoor Zoo trip. We practised using our 'doctor's kits' to operate on sick sentences and turn these into healthy sentences. We enjoyed working together to improve our writing. Next week, we will finish writing our recounts. 

Congratulations to Esme, Ida and Brody for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Frankie and Iylah for achieving their 99 club badges this week! 

We hope you enjoy a fantastic weekend and will see you on Monday. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

TALLAND'S BLOG 10.10.25

This term is flying by! Another end to another great week! Good luck to all of the Cross Country Runners'. We hope you enjoyed yourselves!

Here's a break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have completed PLACE VALUE and have just begun ADDITION and SUBTRACTION where they have started by adding 10 / 100 / 1,000 to numbers. They have also explored quadrilaterals.
Year 5 have also begun ADDITION and SUBTRACTION where we have looked at regrouping numbers whilst using column method. They have also continued using protractors where they are measuring degrees up 180.

English: 
Talland have independently completed their narrative, assessed which writing techniques they have used and are now writing them up using their neatest handwriting. Reading them was a real delight!

PE:
Yoga and football have of course continued and we are beginning to see some real progression in Talland's agility, balance, coordination and control.

Geography:
We had a double dose of Geography this week to get us ready for our trip to the Eden Project next week. We investigated Brazil's regions, found out about its climate and realised where most Rainforests are found.

Computing:
Talland made a fun maths game on Scratch this afternoon where different codes and variables were used - a good times table knowledge was also useful for this activity!

CONGRATULATIONS to Kayla for achieving her next badge in 99 club and a massive WELL DONE to George and Anya for getting noticed this week for their kindness and eagerness to learn. 

We are going to Eden on Wednesday for our class trip (which I'm so excited for) and letter incoming in the attachments for some more fun to be had on Monday 20th October 2025! 

That's all from us in Talland class. We hope you have a splendid weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

 

There was a fantastic turnout for the Orwell Exhibition on Friday with people attending from around the world and many of last year's year 6 pupils. Visiting Orwell Society members were hugely impressed with the children's ability to speak so eloquently and passionately about their work. Quentin Kopp, Chair of the Orwell Society, said that it was great to see the support of pupils and parents present and now past and hear the excited conversation echoing around the hall. He described the work of the pupils as outstanding.

Orwell's son, Richard Blair, who attended the exhibition, presented the school with a plaque which commemorates George Orwell's time at Barnhill on the Isle of Jura, where he completed his famous novel 1984. The plaque will be put in the library along with the children's wonderful artwork from the project. 

Harvest Assembly and Donations Reverend Allen came in on Tuesday for our harvest assembly where he talked about the importance of sharing what we have. We are collecting donations for the foodbank in Liskeard. If you would like to donate, please send your donation in with your child or bring it to reception where there will be a collection box. There will also be a collection point in the nursery. We will be taking donations to the foodbank at half term.

Important Safeguarding Notice: Children's "Spy" Books We want to make you aware of a recent issue affecting some popular children's books by Andrew Cope, including the Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series. Some editions of these books include a printed web address at the back. This link used to go to the author's website, but the domain is no longer under his control. It has since been taken over by another party and now leads to inappropriate adult content. The publisher, Puffin, has paused sales and distribution of the books and is working with schools, libraries, and retailers to remove copies from circulation. They have stressed that the website has no connection to the author or publisher. What this means for you: • If your child has any Spy Dog, Spy Cat or Spy Pups books at home, please check the back for website links and make sure they do not try to visit the site. • It is safe for children to continue reading the stories themselves - the concern is only with the outdated link. • We recommend talking with your child about the importance of not following web addresses in books without checking with an adult first. We will continue to share updates from the publisher as more information becomes available.

Clubs There will be no Alternative Sports Club on Tuesday 21st October because of staff training.

We are looking into providing a football club for girls from Year 3 to year 6 on Tuesdays after school to start after half term. If your child would be interested in attending, please email secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk by Tuesday 14th October and if we have enough demand we will set this up.

Keeping Safe Please remind your children not to play on the bank outside the school gates at the beginning and end of the school day as this area is not supervised and we do not want the children to get hurt. Also, the defibrillator nearby is a vital emergency device, so we'd really appreciate it if children could avoid touching or playing near it. Thanks so much for your support.

Spooky Discos Reminder that we will be holding Spooky school discos on Thursday 23rd October, the last day of this half term. Tickets are on sale in the office and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm. 

Have a great weekend!

Hello Everyone!

As you can see in the photograph, Year 1 and 2 have been hunting for mini beasts in the school garden this week. This was during our science lesson, where we learnt about different habitats, and found micro habitats for living things. When we got back to the classroom, we drew and labelled a map of the habitats that we found.

Our English unit based on David McKee, has come to an end this week, with some fantastic stories from Year 2. These stories really are something to celebrate, as they have used the repetitive phrases in the original Mr Benn stories, to create their own versions. Their writing have some fantastic vocabulary and we really enjoyed reading them. Reception have been busy in their English lessons, learning the story of The Little Red Hen. We are all set to follow instructions to make some bread next week.

Year 1 and to have almost completed their maths unit on place value. Year 1 have been busy ordering numbers, while Year 2 have been partitioning 2 digit numbers. 

Have a lovely weekend,

From The Penhallow Team

This week at nursery we have been exploring autumn leaves on the tuft tray. The children talked about what colours they saw and explored sounds that they made using words such as crunchy.
We have been discussing what animals you might see in autumn and the children then made some paper plate owls. They have enjoyed fruit and vegetable printing in the paint.

At story time, we have enjoyed stories such as "The Leaf Thief" and "The Enormous Turnip" and the children have enjoyed reinacting parts of the story in their play.

In maths, we have been using pine cones to count and order, looking at quantities and have continued to explore shapes.

A reminder that we have a Bags2school collection on Tuesday 14th. If you have any used but good quality clothes, shoes, bags or belts then please bag them up and bring them to nursery before 9am on the day.

Have a good weekend

Julie and Sarah

On Wednesday, we had our first class trip of the year to Dartmoor Zoo. We had a fantastic time. We started off the day with a close encounters workshop, where we got to see a cockroach, python and many other fascinating artefacts up close. After lunch, we explored the rest of the zoo and met their resident tiger, African lions and visited the reptile house. Our final workshop before heading home was a climate change problem solving activity, which really got us thinking. I have uploaded some pf the best photos from the day below.

In Maths, this week we have been using number lines to count and estimate numbers to 1000. This is often a tricky concept for the children, but they have all persevered and worked so hard.

In English, we finished writing up our postcards and have started our new unit on recount writing. We will be using our zoo trip as inspiration for our next piece of writing. 

Congratulations to Darragh, Rosie and Dexter for being chosen as Landaviddy's people of the week.

We hope you have a well rested weekend and look forward to seeing you. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

This has been been a week of firsts. Our first school trip of the year took place this week, with Landaviddy Class visiting Dartmoor Zoo as part of their enquiry topic, "Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?" The children had a fantastic time exploring the wide variety of exotic animals that the zoo provides a sanctuary for - from tigers and lions to snakes, parrots, and meerkats. They also took part in two excellent workshops: Close Encounters, which offered a unique opportunity to get up close to reptiles and invertebrates, and Climate Change, a fun and thought-provoking sustainability challenge. You can see some lovely photos from the trip on Landaviddy's blog. We're very grateful to the Friends of Polperro School (FOPS) for generously subsidising the trip.

This week also saw the first meeting of our new School Council. The children have already shared some fantastic ideas, including suggestions for new playtime equipment and themed activity days. I'm looking into their requests and will keep you updated!

And finally, our new school choir met for the first time on Thursday. There was a great turnout and it was lovely to hear them singing some familiar songs together with such enthusiasm.

School Open Morning Do you know anyone looking for a school for their Reception age child in September 2026? If so, please pass them the attached information regarding our open morning on Wednesday 12th November, 9:30 - 11am.

Spooky Discos We will be holding Spooky school discos on Thursday 23rd October, the last day of this half term. Tickets will be on sale in the office from Monday and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm.

Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Wellbeing Sessions Please see attached details of the MHST Wild Wellbeing sessions being run this October half term. These sessions are open to children aged 5-12, each session will be approximately 2 hours long. Details of how to sign up are included in the attached poster. Sign up will close one week before the session date, or when the session reaches capacity, whichever comes first.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Hillman

TALLAND'S BLOG 3.10.25

What a great week it's been at Polperro. Music, sport (with some speedy mile of the day-ers) and a whole load of learning.

Let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 / 100 / 1,000 and have been identifying different triangles - why not quiz them to see if they remember what they are...

Year 5 have continued to round up to the nearest 1,000,000 and we have been experimenting with protractors.

English: The children have been planning to write their story of the Great Tree. They have thought carefully about characters and how to describe them; how to use emotive devices to persuade our tree surgeon to stop and the choice of sentence techniques to help make their writing sound descriptive, imaginative and gripping. I can't wait to read their independent attempts next week!

PE: With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing balances which involve strength, particularly within their core. In football, we have been using both the inside and outside of both feet to dribble and turn in different directions to evade defenders. 

Science: Talland class thought about which mini-beasts might reside within our local habitats and then researched one that took their particular fancy. Messy day incoming where we will go on a mini-beast hunt.

Computing: We got to create a quiz on Scratch where everyone added Sprites, an icy background and popped in instructions for the computer to follow. 

CONGRATULATIONS to Kayla for becoming our first success in 99 club this year and to Zach for being noticed for his brilliant Sportsmanship manner and his leadership skills - showing the traits of a responsible, mature and kind young man.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a lovely weekend and hope to see many of you tonight for the George Orwell Project. The children's work is up in the hall and it looks fantastic! 

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

What an amazing week of learning we have had! We began by investigating 3D shape properties in Maths, before moving onto addition and subtraction. Everybody worked so hard to line up their columns accurately and improve on their presentation.

Carrying on the theme of presentation, in English, we have had a real push in improving our handwriting this week. We experimented with a range of pens and have begun to write up the best copy of our planet descriptions. 

In the Wider Curriculum, we were exploring foreground in Art and have sketched possible designs using a range of sketching pencil grades, deciding on the exact pencil grades we will use for our overall piece which we will start next week. We have worked on our 'flow' in Yoga and finally conducted our shadow experiment in Science, identifying that we recorded 12:55pm as our midday Sun this week. 

On Friday evening, we hosted our Orwell Exhibition, showing the incredible work of last year's Y4/5 and 6. Many ex-Y6 pupils came back to see their work and a great evening was had by all.

That's all from us this week  so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary 

This week at nursery we have started to answer our enquiry question "How do I know it is autumn?"
The children have enjoyed spending time in the school garden where we collected different materials such as leaves and acorns. They talked about what they saw and we explored different sounds that things made such as "crunchy" leaves.
We have started arts and crafts such as making paper plate owls and the children enjoyed some cooking this week, making crumpet pizzas.

Our book corner has changed to show the story of "Owl Babies". We have enjoyed reading this story along with others including "In the woods"

In phonics we have been on a listening walk, beginning to listen to sounds and identify which have the same one and the children have been listening for rhyming words in a game of rhyming pairs.

In maths, we continue to explore shape and have been constructing with shape bricks and blocks.
Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

Hello Everyone,

We enjoyed a lovely lesson outside in science this week. Reception were busy collecting objects for our Autumn display, while year 1 were finding living and non-living things. Year 2 were working together to categorise objects that were alive, used to be alive, and never been alive. They were excellent at giving reasons as to why they had chosen their particular categories.

In art this week, the children each created their own colour wheel, which used the 3 primary colours to mix purple, green and orange. They enjoyed adding more of certain primary colours, and watching the effects.

We have been particularly pleased with Year 1 this week, as they have really made an effort to become more independent in their writing. We have written some lovely descriptions of story settings and have innovated the Mr Benn stories by David McKee.

Well done to Reception this week, for working hard in maths to compare weight and to sort objects in different ways.

Have a lovely weekend.

From The Penhallow Team

Another busy week has flown by in Chaipel. We have had Sian - the charity's vice president - in from Plymouth and Devon Cancer Trust to collect the monies that we raised for them in July. She was amazed to collect a 'cheque' for £451.45! The children collectively ran/biked/scooted a marathon around the school grounds and thoroughly enjoyed raising the money for such a worthy charity.

In Maths, we have been learning about decimal place value and on our Friday Shape lesson, revisiting the properties of a 2D shape. For English, we are writing up our 'newly discovered planet' description, using some incredible vivid sensory detail and figurative language. Tristan has really done himself proud - especially with...
AS THE MOON'S DIVINE BEAM FLOODS THE MOUNTAIN, THE STARS RAPIDLY GET THEIR SPOTLIGHT - wow Tristan, very atmospheric!

In our Wider Curriculum, we have been creating space nubulas and star clusters in art, experimenting with creating background. Next week, we will move onto the foreground and then design and develop ideas for our final piece. It was National Fitness Day on Wednesday and we took part in a series of activities designed to improve our fitness. We have all written an activity pledge which will hopefully devlop our fitness levels further. In Computing, we have been on a web quest, identifying websites which offer reliable content and those which are not completely trustworthy!

We explored the origin of chocolate in PSHE, comparing our lives to the life of a Ghanaian child on a cocoa plantation. It was very insightful and shows just what we take for granted. In Science, we researched what makes Earth the perfect planet to live on. Ask us what the Goldilocks zone is within our solar system!

CONGRATULATIONS to Imogen and Skye for being our People of the Week, displaying our school values and being excellent role models to their peers. 

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

MISS RANDLE AND MRS CLARY

Hello Everyone!

It's been a very sporty week in Penhallow, with 2 PE lessons as well as National Fitness day on Wednesday. The children enjoyed challenging themselves to complete different fitness tasks that were demonstrated to them in an assembly by Mr Langley and some volunteers throughout the school. We worked together to time ourselves and count the number of exercises that we could complete in a minute. The class co-operated extremely well as a team to help each other with these tasks and showed determination to improve their scores.

As part of our enquiry question; 'What makes our families unique?' Our history lesson this week involved finding out about how homes have changed in the past, as a result of the invention of different objects. Year 2 enjoyed using the internet to research images of homes during past decades, as well as in Victorian times. They were amazed to discover that not only did tv's not have remotes in the past, but that there was time before the very invention of the tv. 

We have been so pleased with the children's efforts in reading during these past few weeks. Please can you make sure that children bring their reading books to school every day. Reading books will be changed, when children have read their book at least 3 times.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

TALLAND'S BLOG 26.9.25

It's been a sport-tastic week this week. Well done to all of the children for getting involved so enthusiastically with National Fitness Day. Muscles were being used that haven't been used before, energy filled the air and sportsmanship was at an all time high!

Apart from sport, let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been ordering and comparing numbers to 10,000 and comparing angles.
Year 5 have been rounding to the nearest, 10/ 100/ 1,000/ 10,000/ 100,000 and estimating angles.


English:
Talland have continued to WOW me with some more spectacular descriptive writing based around a Rainforest. The language and writing techniques that are being used are brilliant!

PE:
With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing different yoga flows. When I came to watch, the balance, core strength and focus were great! In football, Talland have continued to think about spatial awareness, dribbling and passing with the side of their foot.

Geography:
We explored features of a  Brazilian Rainforest - quite different to features found in the United Kingdom!

RE: 
Talland thought about how Christians live their lives, who sets a good example for them and what Christians do to make their God proud.

Computing:
We got to tinker on a program called Scratch, where children wrote scripts for their sprites (characters) to follow. They changed their sprites, changed the background and made their characters rotate.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
 

We have had a busy week with plenty to celebrate in our Friday celebration assembly today, not least our visit from Mrs Dennison of the Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund who came to thank our year 5 and 6 children for thier amazing efforts in the summer term where they cycled, scooted and ran a marathon between them, raising over £450 for the charity.

George Orwell Polperro Project Exhibition Last year, Polperro Primary Academy was proud to receive the 2024/25 Orwell Society School Award. The award funded a nature-based project for last year's Y4-Y6 pupils, inspired by George Orwell's deep appreciation for the natural world - a passion he developed during childhood visits to Polperro. A special exhibition showcasing the work, is taking place at the school on Friday 3rd October at 7:00pm and parents/carers and pupils are invited to attend. The event will also be attended by members of the Orwell Society, including George Orwell's son, Richard Blair, who the children had the opportunity to meet during the project. The exhibition forms part of the Society's annual conference, which is being held in Polperro this year.

Polperro Arts Foundation Postcard Competition Last year, our pupils took part in an exciting competition to design a postcard inspired by Polperro. The competition was judged by the Polperro Arts Foundation, and we're delighted to announce that six of our talented pupils were selected as winners - congratulations to Leo, Flora, Callum, Arnie, Jemima and Imogen. A limited edition of just 50 copies of each winning design has now been professionally printed and is available to purchase at the Arts Foundation Gallery for £1 each. As recognition for their creativity, each winner has received a gift token funded through a share of the postcard sales. The remaining proceeds will contribute to the Foundation's annual donation to our school - a generous, much-needed and valued support that we deeply appreciate.

National Fitness Day Thank you for ensuring your child came to school in their sportswear on Wednesday for National Fitness Day. All the children enthusiastically took part in a variety of fitness challenges and engaged in thoughtful discussions about the importance of staying active. Each child also made a personal pledge on how they plan to keep fit moving forward.

Meet the Teacher It was a pleasure to welcome so many of you to our 'Meet the Teacher' sessions on Wednesday. If you were unable to attend but would like to speak with your child's teacher, please don't hesitate to contact the school office to arrange a convenient time. Parent consultations will also be taking place later this half term (dates to be confirmed).

Choir We're excited to announce that we have received funding from the Radford Trust to run a choir. Initially open to pupils in Years 2-6, the choir will begin next week and take place during Thursday lunchtimes. To encourage maximum participation, all eligible children will be invited to attend the first session. If your child chooses to join, we kindly ask for a regular weekly commitment going forward. The choir will be led by our music teacher, Mrs Butlin.

Looe Festival of Words Please find attached, information about this year's Looe Festival of Words which runs from 1st to 5th October. There are some exciting free events for children planned.

Have a good weekend.

Anthea Hillman