This week at nursery we have been answering our enquiry question of "Who am I?". The children have been busy making paper plate portraits and naming and drawing parts of their faces. We have been discussing their likes and dislikes and what makes them, them.
On Monday, the children enjoyed making and creating their own wrap snack faces. They selected their own fruit and vegetables to make the different features and then enjoyed eating them at snack time.

At story time we are looking at the story of "The Three Little Pigs". We have started to talk about the different houses in which the pigs live and talking about our own homes.

In phonics we have used our bodies to make different sounds such as stamping and clapping and have been listening and trying to identify different sounds in our environments both indoors and out.

In maths we are finding numbers in everyday life. Kirfs learning will be sent out soon.

Just a reminder that flu vaccinations will take place next Friday (20th Sept) and can all forms be back to nursery by the end of Tuesday 17th.

Have a great weekend

Julie, Sarah and Jade

Dark is...Exciting!

Our first full week in Landaviddy class is over! In English, we have continued reading our story The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark' and used role play to explore what the characters might be thinking, saying and feeling. In Maths, Year 2 have been partitioning two digit numbers into tens and ones, with Year 3 recognising and exploring hundreds.

During our Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we have been busy in Art, sketching and using our observational skills to draw like an artist. In Geography, we learnt the names of the continents and oceans by learning a song. In Science, we looked closely at what offspring are and how they change into adults. Who knew a baby goat is called a Kid!? In PE, we have been practising our Yoga, and we are already showing how flexible we are! This afternoon, we enjoyed learning about possession and what this means when you are an attacker or defender during team games. The sun shone too, which we were grateful for after a wet week! 

Homework
Please find attached the Homework grid for this half term, along with the KIRFS for Autumn 1 for you to practise at home. In addition to this, please continue to read daily and practise your Common Exception Word spellings (attached below). I have also uploaded some spelling challenge cards which may help you when practising these. Children can also access TT Rockstars to practise their times table facts. Anything you can do at home can make a big difference to your learning! 

Reading Books
Everyone was sent home on Thursday with their new reading record and colour banded book. We ask that children read their book twice at home before getting it changed, however longer reads can be changed after being read once. Additionally, Year 2 will be sent home next week with their minibooks, relating to the sound we are learning in Phonics. In future, a new minibook will be sent home every Friday. 

PE
Our PE days are Tuesday and Friday, so please make sure PE and swimming kits are complete in school everyday.

Congratulations to Frankie and Nevaeh for being Landaviddy's People of the Week!

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

Hello Everyone!

A very warm welcome to our new reception children and families who have joined us this year. The children really have made a fantastic start to school, and we are so proud of them.

Welcome back to Year 1, who have been so helpful and kind to the younger children. You have been so helpful this week. Thank you!

This week, we have launched our new learning enquiry question; 'What makes me, me?' We began by learning a song all about families and how they are all different.

In art, we have been using mirrors to draw and paint our own self-portraits, which are displayed in the Penhallow cloakroom. Well done Penhallow, they look amazing!

In our outdoor learning area, we have been learning about our senses by exploring objects with different textures, smells, sounds and visual effects. 

The reception children have been enjoying their phonics learning this week. The use of water pistols to aim at an outside wall, to practice the letters that they had learnt, was definitely a favourite activity! 

To support the development of reading, we will be introducing an activity that can be used at home on ipads, tablets or laptops. Please look out for an individual username and password for a program called 'Teach your monster to read, ' that will be stuck into your reading record next week. We will be asking the children to have a go at practicing some fun activities at home, using this app. All children will also be given a phonics booklet to practice reading at home, as well as a bookmark containing all the words that they have been learning during phonics lessons. New booklets and bookmarks will be given out every week.

To help us with our topic of 'What makes me, me?' Please can you email or send in a photograph of your house? We will be using these in our construction area, and to compare different types of houses. hfitzsimmons@polperroprimary.co.uk 

Please remember that we are always more than happy to talk to you either before or after school about any questions or information that you might have, that will help us to help your child. You may instead prefer to phone school or email. 

Next week, please use the main gate when coming to school.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow team.

A big welcome back!

It has been great to see all of our returning children to nursery and we have enjoyed welcoming some new faces to our nursery family.

This week has been all about settling the children back into nursery life and the nursery routine and we will be beginning to explore our enquiry question which is "Who am i?"

We have enjoyed some sunshine over the last 3 days so have been making the most of this time to play and explore outside. We have enjoyed lots of discussions about the children's summer holidays and it was lovely to hear about what you all been up to.

We look forward to sending book folders home again from Monday and we are sure the children will enjoy taking these home to share with you all.
We have a new helper in nursery from today. Jade will be in nursery helping us on a Monday and Friday morning and is looking forward to getting stuck in!

Have a lovely weekend

Julie and Sarah

Welcome back to school from all the staff at Polperro Primary Academy and a particularly warm welcome to those joining us for the first time. The children have settled extremely well. Please see the Class blogs for a flavour of the week’s learning and for information regarding your child’s class. Class Blogs and the Head’s Blog are updated after school on Fridays.

Communication I will continue to send a weekly update out on Fridays rather than send several emails out per week, so that all the information you need is together in one place. Information from this update will also be posted on this Blog each Friday along with photos. We are going to relaunch our Facebook page shortly which we will use to update you on everything to do with school, whether it’s news about the children’s learning, upcoming events or useful reminders.

Parent Survey Thank you for the many very positive and helpful comments which we received in our Parent Survey in the summer term. As always, we strive to improve and this year we will again be organising trips to enhance our curriculum, alongside valuable local visits. We will also be organising more fundraising events to build on the success of FOPS (Friends of Polperro School) events last year. Please watch this space as we will be asking for your support with this shortly.

We will be continuing our garden project: growing fruit and vegetables in our greenhouse for the school kitchen to prepare for the children. Mr and Mrs Peters have kindly looked after the garden over the summer break and there are crops ready to pick including some amazing bunches of grapes.

Achievement Assemblies We will resume our special Wednesday assemblies the week starting 16th September. In these assemblies, we celebrate the children’s achievements in Reading, Writing or Maths. If your child is to be awarded a certificate, their class teacher will ring to invite you to attend the assembly which will be held at 2:50pm (please arrive at 2:45pm). We look forward to sharing the children’s successes with you.

Swimming The pool is still open so in the hope that there is still some warm weather to come, please ensure your child’s kit is in every day.

Clubs The school is again providing after school and lunchtime clubs and we would like to get these up and running as soon as possible. The clubs and days are listed below and if your child would like to attend, please email the office secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk by Friday 13th September. All clubs will start from Monday 16th September. Clubs will run from 3.15pm until 4.15 pm after school and from 12:30-1pm at lunchtime. Please note that year groups for our clubs may change half termly to give everyone an opportunity to try them out. We will introduce other clubs as the year progresses such as creative clubs and we will incorporate our School Council’s suggestions where possible.

Monday: After School Football Club (Mr Langley) for years 3, 4, 5 and 6
Tuesday: After School Dance Club (Mrs Phillips) for years 1, 2 and 3
Thursday: After School Gardening Club (Miss Randle and Mrs Wilkie) for years 1-6. We will have to limit numbers in this very popular club on a first come first served basis in the first instance.
Friday: Lunchtime Music and Singing Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) for years R, 1 and 2
After School Running Club (Mr Langley and Mrs Turnbull) years 3-6. This club will not run when the Cross Country League races are on. The club is open to anyone who likes running. Pupils who attend do not have to race in these events.

Arbor You will have received a communication from the Trust about completing the permissions for photos, trips, medications etc. on Arbor. It is really important that these are completed soon as they allow staff to plan in more detail. Even if nothing has changed since last year, please re-complete the forms so we have the most up to date information. If you are having trouble logging in, please contact the office for help.

Guitar lessons will start next Thursday, 12th September.

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman 

Welcome Chaipel Class!

We have had a lovely first few days back and what a fabulous class Chaipel is this year!

We have chosen our class monitors and they are already helping the school day run smoothly. Welcome to our new class member, Elsie, who has settled in very well to life in Chaipel. 

Our enquiry is all about the Romans this half term and we have already been learning about where Rome is and how historians believe it was built/founded. We are also exploring extreme Earth in Geography and have been investigating areas of extreme temperatures. We will move onto learning about tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes etc. which the children are already excited to learn about. FYI, Knowledge Webs, KIRFs and Homework Grids will be attached to the blog next week.

Congratulations to Elsie and Dom for being our first People of the Week this school year for their fabulous learning attitudes and how well they have settled into our class.

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary and Mrs Hodge.

Happy Summer Holidays!

I can't quite believe we have made it to the end of this academic year! What a brilliant year Landaviddy class have had! 

Thank you to all who came to our book share on Monday. It is always lovely to be able to share with you all the learning we have covered this year. 

During our final week, we have been working hard on writing our persuasive letters to Peter Pluto. I was amazed by all of your hard work and the reasons you gave were superb. Well done everyone! We also concluded our enquiry 'What's on our doorstep?' which we have thoroughly enjoyed.

Congratulations to Nevaeh for achieving her 22 club, as well as Anya and Jamie for their 77 club! 

Remember to keep reading as much possible, practising your times tables and finding any opportunities to get writing! 

I hope you all have a wonderful summer break, find lots of time to rest and most importantly, have fun! Hopefully, we will have lots of sunshine too! 

I look forward to seeing you all again on Wednesday 4th September 2024.

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Bowden

School's Out for Summer!

We have enjoyed a fantastic last day in Penhallow today which rounds up our amazing year! We started the day with a final assembly for this school year. We enjoyed a very tasty and different fruit snack where we were able to try some new fruits and cover them in chocolate if we wished! A yummy treat for our last day! We then enjoyed a lovely garden party with our handmade bubble wands.

Leading up to today, we had a fantastic week of learning. In English looked at what made a diary and wrote our own from a Pirates perspective. In maths, we completed our topic of measurement, learning all about time and money. In RE, we considered why Churches are 'special' to Christians. In PE, we enjoyed a swimming lesson where we explored floating! 

This is my final blog for Penhallow and Polperro school. I have selected a few of my favourite photos from the year but this was very tricky, there were so many to choose from! I have enjoyed a fantastic year in Penhallow and will treasure the memories we have made! The children are all amazing and inspire me every day! I will miss them all terribly. Thank you for the opportunity to teach your amazing children and thank you for the kind gifts, cards and words today. They mean the world to me! I have been lucky to have worked alongside the most amazing team. Mrs G, Miss Colton, Miss Cullingford and Mrs Hodge have helped me to create the most amazing experiences for the children in Penhallow this year. It will be very strange going to another school in September. I will ensure I see the children again soon and be sure to say hello if you see me around the beaches or coast paths this summer!

TwinklGO! is set up and remains valid for another 25 days which should see you well into the holidays!
Codes below - 
Reception Maths: KH1650
Reception Phonics: WJ7324
Year 1 Maths: WP7249
Year 1 Phonics: QH5034

Remember to keep up with your daily reading and handwriting! But most importantly, enjoy every second of your summer holidays! (Hopefully you'll have the chance to use those sunglasses!)

Keep shining and being the amazing stars you are!

Mrs Taylor XX
 

The end of term has arrived! Today we said farewell to our big children who will be going to school in September. 
We had a lovely graduation where the children sang beautifully to all of their familles and collected their graduation certificates.
We wish them the best of luck for when they start school in September.
We will also look forward to seeing our younger members return in September along with some new faces.

Have the best summer and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Julie and Sarah

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We are at the end of another wonderful year at Polperro School. The children have worked extremely hard all year which you will have seen in their books at the book share yesterday. They have achieved so much and we are all proud of them all as I am sure you are. Thank you so much for all of your support throughout the year.

We have said some emotional goodbyes this week, firstly to our amazing Y6s who we are sure will all go on to do great things. We have also said goodbye to Mrs Taylor in a special assembly this morning. We will all miss seeing her smiling face in school and I am sure you will join me in wishing her all the best for the future.

Summer Fete It was lovely to see so many of you at our Summer Fete on Friday. It was such an enjoyable afternoon and we raised approximately £1000! Thank you to the parents/grandparents who helped out on the day and to everyone in FOPS who help organize such an enjoyable afternoon. We will keep you posted about what we use the funds for.

House Team Winners We have enjoyed our new house points teams system this year. It was very close: Chestnut 343 points; Ash 363 points; Willow 367 points and Oak 372 points. Congratulations to Oak, the overall winner and our first ever champions.

Online Safety During the summer holidays, without the distraction of school, internet usage for many young people can increase all the way up to September. Please use this link https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/staying-safe-online-in-the-summer-holidays for more information about keeping children safe online children safe when using the internet, social media and playing online games.


I will contact you all at the end of the summer break.  Meanwhile, here is the main information you will need about the new term in September.

Dropping off and picking up In September, the gates will be open from 8:30 to allow you plenty of time to drop off in order for your child to be in school ready for registration at 8:45. Please drop by 8:40 so that they are there in plenty of time for registration at 8:45. As usual, pick up time for all classes will be 3:15 with Penhallow Class leaving from the side gate and Talland and Chaipel Classes from the main gate. Parents of pupils in Landaviddy Class (year 2/ year 3) are asked to wait for their child outside Landaviddy Classroom on the playground.

Swimming PE kit should come in on the first day of term and be in all half term. The swimming pool will still be open in September therefore please send your child in with their swimming kit on the first day.

After School and Breakfast Clubs Wraparound care will start on the first day back (4th September). Please email the office (secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk) if you would like your child to attend.

INSET Tuesday 3rd September is an INSET day. We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school at 8:30 on Wednesday, 4th September.

Thank you again for all of your support throughout the year.

Wishing you all a wonderful summer break. 

Mrs Hillman

Just popping up a few photos from our FANTASTIC trip to Plymouth Aquarium today. We had a fabulous day and the children were all super stars!

I'll pop some more up with the usual blog on Friday.
Mrs Taylor.

What was Farming in Cornwall like in the Past?

What a whirlwind of a week Landaviddy class have had! 

To continue our enquiry question 'What's On Our Doorstep?' during our Wider Curriculum lesson this week, we discovered what Farming was like in Cornwall in the past but examining photographic evidence. We compared photographs and began to develop our oracy skills through discussion.

In Art, we sketched repeated patterns we observed around us and then cut out a motif to be used as a stamp for a repeated, rotated print. We learnt about how our muscles contract and relax in Science. Can you recall what the muscles in your arms are called? What happens to them when you bend your arm?

We also got in the pool this week on a sunny Thursday afternoon, despite the rain for most of the week! We worked on our breath work and enjoyed playing water tag.

In Maths, Year 2 have been exploring telling the time to o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Year 3 have been measuring in m, cm and mm.

English *BREAKING NEWS* - We received a letter from 'Peter Pluto' this week, detailing that aliens are planning to destroy Cornwall's natural environment, to make way for the galaxy's first ever milky-way supermarket! We couldn't believe it! So next week, we will be planning and writing persuasive letters to try and change their minds!

Congratulations to Emma and Flora for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Reuben for his 55 club and Anya for her 66 club!

Reminder - On Monday 15th July is a mufti day, where we will be asking for donations of an item matching your child's house team colour to create hampers for raffles prizes. Children can wear their own clothes and this could include wearing their house colour. 

We hope you have a super weekend and look forward to seeing you all next week!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Bowden

We have enjoyed another fun-filled week of learning in Penhallow this week. 

We completed our weaving topic in art where we made woven Rainbow Fish. The children worked together brilliantly and the classroom looks AMAZING!

On Thursday, we managed to make the most of a break in the weather and enjoy a lovely swim in the pool where we practiced submerging as much as we felt comfortable. The children enjoyed being fireworks and singing heads, shoulders, knees and toes!

In Maths, we have started our topic on measurement, looking at money firstly, before we move onto our final topic of time this week. All children have done brilliantly in their end of year consolidation work. Well done to our 'People of the Week' this week who have showed brilliant examples of our school values. Well done, Evie G, Ada and Rosie. 

I have attached copies of this term's KIRFs, these are Key Instant Recall Facts that the children should be able to recall instantly. They will help the children in their maths journey. 

We look forward to our trip to the National Marine Aquarium on Tuesday. If you haven't returned your child's permission slip, please do this on Monday. Payment is set up on Parentpay. The children are very excited for both the coach journey and Aquarium visit (I am too)!

We have a MUFTI day on Monday where the children are invited to wear non uniform and if possible, wear something to represent your house colour. In exchange they should bring something in to be included in a raffle for our Summer Fair next week. This should be something that is the colour of their house. There are examples in last weeks Head's emails. (e.g. I am in Willow so I will bring something in Yellow for the raffle). I have attached a list if you are unsure what house/colour your child is in. 

We hope you enjoy a lovely weekend! 

Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Miss Colton, Miss C and Mrs Hodge. 

Up, up and away...

This week has just flown by. As part of our enquiry into Crime and Punishment, Chaipel have been learning about the 'inmates' of Bodmin Jail in the run up to our school trip. They enjoyed learning about the crimes that were committed and have been discussing whether the punishment did in fact fit the crime. In many cases, not.

On Thursday, we had an amazing school trip to the jail. The trip leader couldn't believe how much we knew and it was so exciting to actually stand in the jail that the people we had researched actually stayed in. We tried out some 'hard labour' and agreed that it was not something that we ever wanted to do!

As a special surprise, we then detoured - on the way back to school - to Bodmin Airfield where a biplane was waiting for Miss Randle to take to the skies and flutter the WW1 poetry we had written earlier this year. It was a chance in a lifetime and we were proud to be the class that was there to witness this!

Our Transition morning, on Friday, went very well and it was lovely to meet Chaipel's new recruits. 

Y6s
The guys have been super busy preparing for their Leaver's Assembly next week. We look forward to seeing all of you on Wednesday for a tearful farewell and celebration of their time at Polperro Primary. There is a 'pool and pizza' party afterwards, though, so I'm sure that the Y6s will soon recover!

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

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary 

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 12.7.24

How is this final term almost over?  Time is flying!

I think it's fair to say everyone had a lovely transition morning today and we've had another VERY busy week!

Maths:
Year 4 have just finished their unit on position and movement and will begin time next week.
 Year 5 have completed their unit on volume and are preparing to start their final unit of negative numbers... Yay!

English:
Talland have edited and improved their poems about the Paris Olympic Games and I can't wait to see them written up in top copy - the children's use of rhythm and rhyme is fabulous.

Art:
We've had fun in art by creating space themed creatures using a method called, 'painting by scissors' and they have used wax crayons to create a colourful pattern - this pattern has now been painted black, ready to scratch some creative patterns into, which are based on their space creatures.   

PSHE:
Year 5 have had interesting lessons today based on the human anatomy and self esteem - be prepared to hear all about it!

Geography:
Year 4 have been using the eight points of a compass to solve problems on a map and then have created their own treasure maps - really fun!

Well done to Skye for being noticed as our enthusiastic child of the week and great work from Frankie and Chilali for earning their next 99 club badge!

That's about it from Talland class this week. We hope you have a brilliant weekend and (if you're watching) enjoy the final... COME ON ENGLAND!

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Mrs. Hodge.

We have finished looking at under the sea this week and answering our enquiry question of "who lives under the sea?". The children have enjoyed playing in the tuft tray with all of the different sea creatures and have been counting shells. They have been painting and making paper plate jelly fish and using  potato masher to create sea turtles. On Thursday we enjoyed a snack that the children created using pancakes and fruit to create a fish.

We have been exploring voice sounds and identifying sounds in our environment this week in phonics and at storytime we enjoyed reading the story of "What the ladybird heard at the seaside". All of the children loved this story and had lots to say about it as well as been able to answer questions about what they heard.
In maths we have been counting, identifying and writing numbers.

We have two more days at nursery now before we finish for the summer holidays.
We are looking forward to seeing all of our big children graduate from nursery next week. Graduation is on Tuesday 23rd July at 1pm for those that will be going to big school in September and then nursery finishes at 1.30pm for all children.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week for the last few days.

Julie and Sarah

July already!

How have we got to July already? We still have so much to squeeze in to our last few weeks in Penhallow. 

This week was a busy one and started with our fantastic Beach Day. The children behaved brilliantly and we had a wonderful time.

The week continued with natural weaving looms on Tuesday, where the children ventured out into the garden. We are writing recounts in English and in maths we begin our topic on money in Year 1. We enjoyed a very energetic PE lesson on Wednesday where we learned the difference between a hop, a jump and a leap! 

Well done to all children for having a try at 99-club this week. The Reception children had their first attempt and wowee! it shows me how amazing they all are.. well done to Hugh, Casey, Martha, Ada and Evie for getting their 11-club badge. Well done also to our 'People of the Week' this week who are recognised for showing amazing examples of our School Values. Well done Ada, Casey, Theo and Jemima.

The children should have come home with 2 letters on Friday, the first, regarding our Pirate Day on Monday the 8th, where children are invited to dress like a pirate. We will be exploring all things piratey and don't worry if you don't have any pirate wear, we will accessorise throughout the day. The second letter is regarding our trip to the aquarium and we really hope all children can make the trip on Tuesday the 16th of July! We are very excited! We will have an interactive tour of the aquarium as well as take part in craft activities throughout the day. I have attached both letters to this blog if you require another copy, alternatively, just ask!

I have also attached a copy of this half-term's knowledge web so that you can take a look at the amazing things Penhallow will be learning throughout Summer 2.

We hope you enjoy a lovely weekend!

Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Miss Colton, Miss C and Mrs Hodge.

Do People with Longer Femurs Jump Further?

What a great week we have had! 

As part of our enquiry 'What's On Our Doorstep?' we enjoyed exploring topography maps in Geography, locating different elevations across the UK. In Science, we conducted an experiment to find out whether people with long femurs jump the furthest. We had a mixture of results, but most of use agreed that longer femurs did mean further jumps! In Computing, we learnt more about how PowerPoint works and had a tinker within the app. Hopefully, we will be able to develop our word processing skills next week, by typing up our English stories.

In Art, we have continued to discover what we can do with printing. We used a range of found objects to print with, such as potatoes, buttons and cotton reels, and began to create rotated patterns. Music this week was fantastic! Mrs Butlin worked with the class on a story, where we used the keyboards to provide sound effects for key parts of the story. Everyone did a brilliant job at locating the sounds and playing this in time with the key parts of the story. 

In English this week, we have been working tirelessly on our own Polperro legends. We have written these using our own mythical creatures and enjoyed describing their secret lairs. Next week, we will finish off our legends and begin some non-fiction writing. 

Both Year 2 and 3 have had a whistle stop tour of money this week. Year 2 have been recognising coins, making amounts and comparing money, whilst Year 3 have been converting coins, adding and subtracting money. Next week, we will finish off this unit, with Year 2 exploring Time and Year 3 consolidating their knowledge on Length and Perimeter. 

Congratulations to Zac and Harley for being Landaviddy's People of the Week! 

Polite Reminder - Please can you ensure you child brings in their colour banded reading book into school each day. Thank you.

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Bowden