Landaviddy class have had a fantastic week! We continued our Enquiry, 'What Makes the World Go Around?' by exploring the features of rivers in Geography and investigating what happens to our pulse when we exercise, in Science. We have also been working extremely hard on our handwriting this week!

Today, we were amazed by the Oars of Thunder crew, who will be undertaking a journey across the Atlantic in the next few months...and we were lucky enough to see what they will be travelling in. We had so many questions! 

During English, we have been concluding our character descriptions of Plop form the story 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark'. I have been so impressed with the stamina of the children's writing this week. We have had to use our growth mindsets to stay motivated. Next week, we will finish off our descriptions and then begin our non-fiction unit for this half term.

In Maths, we have concluded our Place Value unit and started working hard on developing our Addition and Subtraction knowledge. Year 2 have been using their number bonds to add and subtract within 20, find fact families and related facts. Year 3 have been busy adding and subtracting 100s, 10s and 1s. 

All of the children have been to the Library this week and chosen a book for pleasure to read at home. This may be a book they read independently or decide to share with their adults at home. Please continue to ensure your child brings in their colour-banded reading book into school daily.

*Year 2 Minibooks will be sent out again next week, as we are working through our new sound 'gn' and will continue this next week.*

Reminder - Wear yellow for World Mental Health Day
Next Thursday is World Mental Health Day and our School Council is asking pupils to come to school in MUFTI and wear something yellow to raise vital funds for Young Minds, https://www.youngminds.org.uk/support-us/fundraising/helloyellow/ and show children and young people they’re not alone with their mental health. A donation of £1 or more to Young Minds will be collected in class

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

TALLAND CLASS BLOG 4.10.24

What an 'eggsellent' week we've had in Talland class this week (excuse the pun)! Here's a brief run down of it...

Maths:
Both year 4 and 5 have completed their place value units and have moved swiftly on to addition and subtraction. It's always fun to get your child solving some addition and subtraction problems at home - especially when it comes to money - you can't have them short changing you now (joke)!

English:
The children have written up their instructions for helping a minaturised monster travel through a digestive system. They have been great to read!


Science:
We have begun our experiment to see what happens to an egg when left in a particular liquid for a week. What do you think will happen? Why not ask your child why we used an egg to replicate a tooth...

ART:
We've continued to experiment with white (to tint) and black (to shade) paint. We tried painting a mug this week -  First, the children draw the mug, then we added either black or white to the paint to show elements of where the light was shining on the cup and where is was most shaded. Talland did a fantastic job!

A massive thank you to the Oars of Thunder crew for bringing their rowing boat in to show and talk to the children about. The vessel will be rowed around the Atlantic - what an amazing achievement that will be once they have conquered it! We wish you all the best on your journey!

Attached are the spellings for both year groups next week. 

We hope you have  a spectacular weekend and we can't wait for Monday!

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

  

Another busy week at Polperro School has seen a visit from George Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, to discuss an exciting upcoming project involving writing, art and nature. The project will start next half term and will culminate in the children presenting their art and writing as part of the annual conference of Orwell Society which is taking place in Polperro in October 2025.

The World's Toughest Row We had an amazing visit today from the crew of Oars of Thunder, who spoke to the children about the World’s Toughest Row by Atlantic Campaigns which brings together teams from all walks of life to take on the unique challenge of crossing an ocean in a rowing boat. The team of four will be rowing more than 3000 Miles west from San Sebastian in La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain to Nelson’s Dockyard, English Harbour, Antigua & Barbuda . The race begins in early December 2024, with up to 30 teams participating from around the world. Our pupils will be following the team’s progress during the race with interest. The team (Sally, Kim, Nat and Harry) brought the boat, Oars of Thunder, onto the school field and all of our pupils were lucky enough to go onboard and have a look round.

Wear yellow for World Mental Health Day Next Thursday is World Mental Health Day and our School Council is asking pupils to come to school in MUFTI and wear something yellow to raise vital funds for Young Minds, https://www.youngminds.org.uk/support-us/fundraising/helloyellow/ and show children and young people they’re not alone with their mental health. A donation of £1 or more to Young Minds will be collected in class.

Harvest Assembly and Donations We will be holding a harvest assembly for the children in school on Tuesday 8th October with Reverend Allen. 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.

School Open Morning Do you know anyone looking for a school for their Reception age child in September 2025? If so, please pass them the attached information regarding our open morning on 13th November, 9:30 – 11am. 

Spooky Discos we will be holding Spooky school discos on Thursday 24th 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. Please find attached a poster for this event and the FOPS Quiz which will be held on Friday 15th November.

We Are Music (WAM) Pupils from year 3 to year 6 are welcome to attend the WAM music ensemble, led by Mrs Butlin, at Looe Community Academy (Music Department) on Monday’s 4pm-4:45pm term time. The first two sessions are free then it is £3 per week. To book a place please email wam@cmst.co.uk if your child is interested.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Hillman

Welcome to our new Year 6 bloggers: Verity, Joel and Ava.

It's another busy week in Chaipel. We have finished writing up our newspaper report best copies and they all look amazing! In Maths, the Y5s have finished place value and are now onto adding and subtracting, whilst the Y6s are learning the rules of divisibility.

Chaipel have enjoyed learning about what causes a tsunami in Geography and who Boudica was, and her influence over the Roman invasion of Britain. Did you know 'tsunami' means 'harbour wave' in Japanese?  - VERITY

In ICT, we are learning about the Mars Rover and have been creating instructions for sending data from Mars back to Earth. Recently, we were lucky enough to have a visit from George Orwell's son who we will be working with on an exciting project in the Spring term. More information to follow...

We have been experimenting with tinting and shading in Art, and been looking at atmospheric landscapes. They look fab!

We've had another fabulous Funky Friday, listening to music and dancing our hearts out at lunchtime. - AVA

On Wednesday, our Readers of the Week were Lily and Phoebe, our Writers of the Week were Aria and Max B for their newspaper reports and our Mathematicians of the Week were Kora and Harrison. A big well done to those guys!

Today some amazing people came in to show us the boat that they will be sailing across the Atlantic in, later on this year. We learnt that two people would row whilst the other two would sleep or eat. We wish them lots of luck and hope to follow their adventure! - JOEL

Have a fab weekend!

Verity, Ava and Joel (Chaipel's Y6 Bloggers)

"Goldilocks and the three bears is what we have been looking at this week at nursery. The children have enjoyed exploring the themed tuft tray, re-creating the story using the props available and exploring voice sounds such as a deep voice for daddy bear, a soft voice for mummy bear and a high squeaky voice for baby bear.
The children have been getting creative decorating bears, making paper plate bears and have made their own bear toast for snack!

In phonics we have been talking about pets and the children have been using instruments to match animal sounds, identifying the different sounds that animals make and using our bodies to explore and create different sounds.

In maths, we continue to practice KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) We have been finding numbers in everyday life and sorting objects and identifying how many.

Julie, Sarah and Jade
 

We've had another busy week in Chaipel. Y6s have been finishing off Place Value and will be moving onto the four operations next week (addition/subtraction/multiplication/division) whilst the Y5s are tackling rounding, compairing and ordering numbers.

We have written and edited our draft newspaper report on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79, adapting our byline names to that of ancient Roman times, such as 'Veritius' , 'Elisius' and 'Maximus'. We will be writintg up our best copy, assessing our writing and creating our first writing target for this year. 

In PE, we have been learing and sequencing a range of yoga positions and techniques, which we will develop over the next few weeks, and in Art, we are looking at atmospheric perspective, using tints and shading to create the illusion of distance.

For PSHE, we have looking at the rights of children and how this differs globally. We have been investigating the cocoa plantations in Ghana and how the lives of the children compare to those of our own. In Geography, we have been exploring earthquakes, how they are measured on the Richter Scale and where the tectonic plate faults are around the world.

A huge WOW goes to Joel, Ava, Max B and Harry for their creations of Mount Vesuivius as part of their homework grid activities. They look amazing and you can see that a lot of work has gone into these.  

Congratulations to Dom for achieving another badge in his 99 Club and to Freddie and Lily for being Chaipel's People of the Week for demonstrating our school values.

Have a lovely weeked and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary and Miss Colton.

During Wider Curriculum sessions this week, we loved refining our shading skills in Art. We practised our detail and shading grip, and recalled the four rules of shading. Can you remember the four rules? In Geography, we used atlases to identify the countries, capitals and seas of the United Kingdom. On Thursday, we conducted a Science experiment to explore how our feet may change as we get older. What pattern did you notice?

In English, we have been writing our character descriptions on Plop, from 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson. Next week, we will continue to work on our writing and get these finished. 

We are coming to the end of our Place Value unit in Maths. Everyone has been working so hard and we are looking forward to moving on to addition and subtraction next week.

Year 2 - Minibooks haven't been sent home this week as we will finish off the previous week's spelling rule.

Congratulations to Ida and Oliver for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week! And a big well done to Charlie-Ray and Nevaeh for achieving their 22 club this week. 

We hope you have a brilliant weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone,

It was lovely to meet those of you who came to our 'meet the teacher' meeting on Wednesday. Please don't hesitate to contact us at any time, via phone, email or in person after school if you have any questions or information that might help us to help your child with their learning.

This week, Year 1 have been busy learning about parts and wholes in mathematics. Well done to Ada, Evie, Casey, Hugh, Martha and Jack, who also received their 11 badge for the 99 club.

During their English lessons, Year 1 have written some fantastic stories, based on the story of 'Stanley's Stick.' We have already seen an improvement in their writing after only a few weeks.

Reception have been busy enjoying the story; 'Oi! Get off our Train' by John Burningham during their English lessons. They have loved joining in with repeating phrases from the story, and using the train set to construct and act out parts of the story.


In Geography, Year 1 went on a tour of the school, to help them to draw a plan of the school. They even managed to include a key. Well done Year 1.

We have all been learning about the story of creation in RE this week. We wondered and discussed how we thought the world was made, and then learnt about the bible's story of creation, which explains what Christians believe. We drew pictures and some children made a 'story wheel' which retold the bible story.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow team.

TALLAND'S BLOG 27.924

It's been a fun but icky week in Talland class. Hopefully you were informed all about our delightful digestive system hands on experience!
The children are now in an excellent position to set instructions on how to travel through the digestive system! I'm looking forward to reading them next week!

I wanted to say a huge well done to all the children that have been bringing in their amazing pieces of homework - it was lovely celebrating their work with the school during celebration assembly today!

Well done to Isabelle for achieving her second 99 club badge two weeks in a row... YAY!
Great work from Heidi this week also for being noticed for her excellent attitude towards learning and work ethic - what a fabulous member of the class she is!

Short but sweet this week! I'm looking forward to lots more fun learning next week. But until then, we hope you have a brilliant weekend!

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

P.S. Spellings for next week are attached at the bottom.

It was lovely to see so many of you at our Meet the Teacher sessions on Wednesday. We hope that you found it useful.

Home School Agreement/ Parental Consents Please would you take some time to log into your Arbor Parent Portal/App to check both your own and your child’s data. Once logged in you will notice that the 2024/25 Home School Agreement has been uploaded. Consents are to be completed for every child to enable them to have photos taken, watch PG films, attend local sporting events and access approved learning platforms etc.

FOPS fundraisers - save the date FOPS are busy planning some exciting fundraisers. The first two of the year are: Spooky Discos which will be after school on the last day of this half term, Thursday 24th October, and a Quiz Night on Friday 15th November. (Details of both events to follow).

Wild Wellbeing sessions Following on from the success of their summer Wild Wellbeing sessions, the Mental Health Support Team (MHST), along with Natural England, are running several Wild Wellbeing sessions over the October half term. These are nature-based, creative, practical workshops where we will be learning about the Five Ways to Wellbeing: Give, Connect, Take Notice, Be Active and Keep Learning outdoors in nature. These sessions are open to all primary school aged children (5-11), each session will be approximately 2 hours long. Sign up using the link below, and also details are included in the attached poster.
https://forms.office.com/e/ZDVNVVwfdP

The Looe Festival of Words begins next week. Please see the attached flyer for more details of free events for children on Saturday, 5th October, including poetry on the rocks at Hannafore, combined with a rockpool ramble.

Ladybirds Please see attached information on a local parent and toddler group.

Coats Please ensure your child has a coat in school every day as the weather is rather unpredictable at the moment.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

During our Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we have continued to explore 'What makes our world go around?'. In Geography, we found out what the equator is and discovered what the climate is like for countries along the equator. We managed to get into the swimming pool on Friday, which was fantastic, but a tad cold! We had fun though, playing some pool games. During Science, we learnt about the human life cycle, along with the life cycle of barn owls. Can you recall the five stages of the barn owl life cycle?

In English, we have been working hard on our descriptive writing this week. We recapped adjectives and nouns, and written some amazing expanded noun phrases inspired by owls. Today, we began to plan for writing our own character descriptions about Plop from 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson. I can't wait to see your final written descriptions next week!

In Maths, we have continued working hard on our Place Value unit. This week, we have particularly been using number lines to count in 10s and 1s (Y2) and 100s (Y3). 

Congratulations to Lowen J, Harley and Darragh for being Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Amelia and Frankie for achieving their 22 club! 

Please find this half terms Knowledge Web attached below. This details everything your child will be learning during wider curriculum lessons. Of course, should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Reminder - Meet the Teacher is on Wednesday 25th September at 2:45pm.

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

School Council Our School Council is a group of dedicated and passionate pupils who are committed to making our school a better place for everyone. School Council members are elected by their peers in our School Council elections which we hold every September. Well done to everyone who put themselves forward and to those who have been elected this year: Elsie, Martha, Henry, Grace, Tabbi, Benjamin, Amelia, Ronnie and Ada and Phoebe (our member for Pupil Voice for PE and Sport). Information about our School Council can be found on this website under the ‘Our Children’ tab.

Time Capsule Each of our classes has created a booklet to go in a time capsule to be buried under Big Green in Polperro which is currently being refurbished. The booklets contain the children’s self-portraits and their wishes for the future. To go with the booklets, we have written a letter to the future (attached) which Tristan read beautifully to the school at today’s assembly.

Asda Cash for Schools Parentkind – a charity that supports school PTAs - have teamed up with Asda, who is making millions of pounds available to donate to primary schools across the UK through their ‘Cashpot for Schools’ initiative. To support our school, all you have to do is opt-in through the Asda Rewards app, shop and scan in store or shop online at Asda.com. Between 2nd September and 30th November 2024, every time you shop with Asda using the Rewards app, our school will receive a percentage of your spend.

Home School Agreement/ Parental Consents Please would you take some time to log into your Arbor Parent Portal/App to check both your own and your child’s data, amending where necessary ensuring you have details of at least two contacts on your file in case of an emergency. Once logged in you will notice that the 2024/25 Home School Agreement has been uploaded. Consents are to be completed for every child to enable them to have photos taken, watch PG films, attend local sporting events and access approved learning platforms etc. 

Pre-loved uniform We keep a stock of very good condition pre-loved uniform in school (£1 donation per item towards school funds). Please bear this in mind if you need to replace any items for your child. There is a rail of items just inside the reception. Please ask at the office for a range of sizes.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our Meet the Teacher sessions on Wednesday 25th September at 2:45.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Hillman

TALLAND CLASS BLOG 20.9.24

I cannot believe it's in the end of the week - it's flown by!

Talland have been working their socks off this week! We even managed to squeeze  a couple of cheeky swims in - might as well make the most of the sun shine!

Maths:
Both year groups are nearing the end of the first unit (place value). Addition and subtraction is next on the list!

English:
Talland have worked their way through the features of an instructional text - next week it will be time to begin planning to write their own (independently). Let's see how much they've learnt - it should be fun!

Art:
We had lots of fun using black and white paint to show the children how to add shade to a colour using black or tint a colour using white. Why not ask your child what shading and tinting means?

Geography:
We've continued looking at erosion and what causes this to happen - fun added homework task to those who choose a little adventure - take pictures of you and child on/next to (nothing dangerous) different coastal features: Arch, bay, beach, cave, cliffs, coast, cove, headland, island, stack, stump, sand dune, spit. I wonder who can find the most?

CONGRATULATIONS:
Well done to Isabelle for earning a 99 club badge!
Well done to Skye for being noticed as Tallander of the week!

I have attached the spellings your children will be learning next week. If you have time, it would be fantastic if you could help your child learn them along with their times tables.

That's all from Talland. We hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

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

 

Chaipel have been busy this week, investigating Place Value in Maths and are really getting to grips with dealing with numbers up to 10,000,000. Next week, we will be rounding, reasoning and problem solving, applying our new understanding.

We are currently planning our newspaper report on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii and this week we have been exploring how to write 'journalist-style', practising direct and indirect reporting as well as past simple and past progressive verb sentences. We will be writing our report next week and I look forward to reading them!

For Spellings, we have been creating Top Trump cards for our curriculum spellings, navigating dictionaries and unpicking a word, its composition and its word family. Phoebe and Verity have created some impressive cards full of facts.

We have been exploring the use of water colour in Art, and experimenting with various techniques to create texture. Freddie worked extremely hard and has produced some incredible work to be proud of. 

Today, we were lucky to have had the opportunity to create class cards to put into a time capsule which will be buried beneath the new Big Green for future inhabitants of Polperro to unearth in years to come...

Congratulations to our People of the Week - Aria and Imogen - to displaying our school values as well as to Dom for achieving his 99 Club. 

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

Mss Randle, Mrs Clary and Mrs Hodge.

Hello Everyone!

We have all been enjoying a new story this week, to inspire our writing lessons. The story of ‘Stanley’s Stick’ by John Henley, has helped us to use our creative ideas. According to Penhallow, a simple stick, has become a musical instrument, a dinosaur, a telescope, and a magic wand. The reception children have enjoyed finding their own sticks to explore these ideas in the school garden. Year 1 have written some lovely sentences to tell the story in their own words.

As you may have noticed, your child will have taken a wet swimming costume home on Wednesday. We decided to take advantage of the warm weather and go swimming in our lovely pool. Well done to reception, who mostly took part with enthusiasm. 

On Friday we enjoyed a fun music lesson in class. We used a range of percussion instruments to accompany our singing, which included some action songs. It was lovely to hear some of the children singing these songs later, during learning through play.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow team.

This week we have finished our question of “who am I? The children have been practicing drawing faces with different features such as eyes, ears, nose and mouth. We have been discussing the places we live and exploring the story of “The three little pigs”.
We have made the pigs houses out of straw and sticks and bricks and used props in the tuft tray with the pig stick puppets. The children have been painting and creating tube pigs.

In phonics we have been making the sounds of different family members, taking notice of the way we formed these sound with our mouths and we have been making silly soup with different initial sounds.

In maths we have been practicing counting and finding different numbers around us. We have been learning about simple shapes such as circle, square and triangle.

Have a great weekend

Julie, Sarah and Jade

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What a lovely week it has been!

During our science lesson, we enjoyed exploring the school garden, where we were able to find plenty of signs that Summer is starting to turn into Autumn. The children have been learning about seasonal changes, and we have been really impressed at the range of scientific vocabulary that the children can now already use.

Reception are already getting the hang of their phonics learning, and have been enjoying a range of fun activities that have helped them this week. We hope all of the children will start to benefit from logging on to their new 'Teach your monster to read' account. Account details and passwords have been sent home this week. 

On Monday, Penhallow enjoyed their first music lesson of the year with Mrs Butlin. They practiced using a range of percussion instruments to keep a steady beat, and enjoyed singing a range of songs.

In Geography this week, we have been learning about maps. The Year 1 children have created some plans of our classroom. We learnt about keys, directions and birds eye views. Thank you to those people who have emailed pictures of their houses. We will use these in our continuous provision areas.

We have been making an extra effort to keep active in Penhallow this week. Mr Langley has given each class the challenge of being active in school for at least 30 minutes a day, so we have been busy dancing at different times throughout the day.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow team.

It's the end of our first full week and we have had a fun one! We are learning how to write a newspaper report in English. We will take what we have learnt and then create a report on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its destruction of Pompeii. It's got everyone excited about writing about the tragic event and I look forward to reading their amazing reports in the coming weeks.

In Maths, it's Place Value and the Y6s are looking at numbers to 10,000,000 and Y5s to 1,000,000. We have investigated extreme weather conditions as part of our Geography and why the Roman army were so powerful in History. In Art, we have been learning perspective landscape drawing, creating work from a horizon line and vanishing point. Noah has really got to grips with this and has made a piece to be proud of! In ICT we have been learning about the Mars Rover and how the Binary system of data collection works. 

Congratulations to Harry and Henry for being our People of the Week today for displaying our school value of being a 'responsible' role model - both for behaviour and attitude to learning. 

I have attached the KIRFs  for Autumn 1 as well as the homework grid and curriculum spellings (Y3-4 and Y5-6 pdfs below). Please continue to read every day and practise your KIRFs and spellings. It really makes a difference to your learning!

Have a fantastic weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary and Mrs Hodge.

TALLAND'S BLOG 13.9.24

HAPPY NEW SCHOOL YEAR!

It's been so lovely getting to know the new year 4's in Talland class and just wonderful seeing my year 5's back from their summer break. 

I hope everyone had an amazing summer holiday and had a whole lot of fun -  I'm sure you were kept busy!

We've kicked started into a very busy first couple of weeks back with our new enquiry question of... drum role please... 'WHY DO WE AGE?'

This enquiry gives us a great opportunity to delve into a bit of biology and take a look at the human body. Time for  a whistle stop tour of what we've done so far...

MATHS:
Both year groups are looking at place value. The year 4's are building up to 10,000 while the year 5's have been building up to 1,000,000... lucky them! We've had resources out to help the children understand different representations of numbers. They need to know which digit represents which place value. Why not quiz your child. E.G. Which digit represents 5 tens in the number 9,354?  

WRITING:
We have begun with instructions. Once we have found out all of the key features, children in Talland will have to write a set of instructions for a miniaturised individual to travel through a human digestive system. Which organ to gracefully pass through, what equipment they might need on their rather revolting adventure and key directional prepositions to safely guide our brave explorer out the body and down the toilet. Hopefully the children will add a cunning method to avoid getting flushed down the loo.  

SCIENCE:
We will of course be looking at the digestive system, the roles and function of our mouth, food chains - these fun lessons will be accompanied with some fascinating science investigations and experiments. You have been given a lovely one to have a go at on your homework grid which has been attached.

PE:
On a Wednesday, Talland will have TAG RUGBY - this is tremendous fun and the children had a blast in the first lesson. 
On a Thursday they will become relaxed and flexible with some refreshing YOGA. 

There's a brief run down of some of the fun lessons we will be covering -  there is of course, a whole load more (COMPUTING, ART, RE, PSHE, MUSIC and GEOGRAPHY) and I'll keep you up to date on those as the weeks progress.

CONGRATULATIONS:
Well done to Flora for earning her title as Talland's HANG TOUGH champion!
Well done to Lilly for being celebrated as last week's person of the week!
Well done to Frankie for being celebrated as this week's person of the week!
Well done to Tabbi, Skye and Archie for being nominated as HOUSE CAPTAIN's.
Well done to EVERYONE for a fabulous start to the year!

Important Information:
Please make sure PE kits are always in school with indoor and outdoor clothing. I like to keep your children as active as possible - Wednesday's and Thursday's are our designated PE slots.
Please make sure your child brings their reading records into school daily to hand in (they will bring it home everyday). It would be lovely if you could write some comments in there at least 3 times a week.
Spellings will be given out on a Friday - it would be amazing if you could practice these with them throughout the week (I will also attach these to the weekly blog).
KIRFs for this term were given out today (these will be attached to this blog.
Homework grids were given out today (this document will be attached to this blog). It would be so nice to share what the children have done with you at home. This can be in the form of show and tales and their work will be displayed on the 'WOW WALL'. 

Your kids are great and I can't wait to get to know you all throughout the year. Any questions please don't hesitate to ask!

That's all from us in Talland Class this week. We hope you have an amazing weekend!

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

The children have been amazing in the way they have already thrown themselves into their new routines and learning this week. Our class enquiries have started. Questions this half term are: ‘What Makes me me?’ Penhallow Class; ‘What makes our world go round?’ Landaviddy Class; ‘Why do we age?’ Talland Class and ‘What have the Romans done for us?’ Chaipel Class. Please look at the class blogs to see how the children’s learning is going.

House Captains At a special assembly this week we thanked last year’s house captains and vice captains for doing a wonderful job and announced our new Captains and Vice-Captains for this year who have been chosen because they consistently demonstrate our values. Congratulations to Max B, Martha H (Willow); Skye and Hector (Oak); Tabbi and Amber (Ash) and Martha F and Archie (Chestnut). House Points are given to the children when they demonstrate our school values: Curious, Creative, Excellent, Responsible, Determined and Enthusiastic and pupils can see how many points their house has by looking at our House Point Tracker in the corridor by the library. Our value for this half term is ’I am responsible’ and houses have met to consider what this means.

Meet the Teacher: 2:45pm, Wednesday 25th September It is extremely important for us to work together to ensure that every child makes as much progress as possible each year. Each year we hold a Meet the Teacher session at which you will find out about your child’s classroom, the adults working alongside your child, classroom routines and timetable, and most importantly, how you can help your child at home. It is also an opportunity to find out about all of the exciting learning and activities the teachers have planned. Of course, the teachers will also answer any questions and try to eliminate any worries or concerns you may have. We understand if you are unable to make the meeting because of work commitments and will find a mutually convenient time to chat to you about your child’s new school year if this is the case. If you have children in more than one class, please attend one session and we will find another time for you to meet your other child/children’s teacher/s. Our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session will be on Wednesday 25th September starting at 2:45pm. Please come in through the main gate from 2:40 and access your child’s classroom by the external door. We look forward to seeing you then.

Keeping Active We actively encourage the children to do at least 30 minutes physical activity each day in school. This is in the form of playground activities at break and lunchtime, movement breaks such as Supermover active videos in between lessons, and the daily mile round our playground. As part of this challenge, we have introduced a new active timetable for lunchtimes which includes a range of activities across the week including football, basketball and playground games. Every Friday in School is Funky Friday when lunchtime is reserved for dancing. Today the children managed 25 minutes of dancing and chasing bubbles from our new bubble machine.

Water Bottles As a Heathy School and a Sugar Smart school we encourage children to drink water throughout their day at school, rather than juice or squash. We would prefer that your child’s water bottle contains water only, to encourage healthy habits. This also helps us when there is a spill as water doesn’t stain! If there is a reason why your child cannot drink water, please let you child’s teacher know. Please note that this applies to their classroom drinks.

Clubs Reminder that clubs start next week. Please contact the office to sign your child up.

Space Please find attached a poster with details of the SPACE programme which is a free programme for any parent or carer who wants to better understand and support their children’s emotions, as well as their own.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Hillman