Thank you for sending your children in for a cosy day today in PJs or spots or bright colours. We raised £168 for Children in Need.

For anti-bullying week we have had discussions in assembly and in class about what bullying means to us and how ‘Choosing Respect’ over being a bully is the best choice we can make. We shared our antibullying policy which is on this website under the policies tab.

Well done to our Book Fair bookmark design competition winners Kai, Lowen, Chilali and Harry and thank you for supporting our book fair so generously. We are looking forward to having much needed extra money to spend on books as a result.

Fundraising for Charities and School We recognise that with the cost of living crisis it is currently a challenging time for many families and we are aware that we are asking for several different donations this half term. Please only donate where you are able.

Christmas events We are entering a very busy time of year and here are the dates of upcoming events for your diary. Further details will follow.
• Christmas Gift MUFTI - Friday 29th November (see details below under Christmas Gift Room)
• Polperro Lights Switch On – Saturday 30th November. The children have are making lanterns in school, kindly funded by the Polperro Christmas Lights Committee, for the Lantern Parade from the Village Hall (more details to follow).

• Christmas Fair - Friday 6th December FOPS are currently busy organizing our Christmas Fair which will be on Friday 6th December starting at 2.00 pm. We would be grateful for raffle prizes and good condition toys and books to sell.

• Christmas Performances (in the school hall)
Penhallow Class Nativity Play - Tuesday 10th December at 11am and 2.00 pm.
Landaviddy Class Christmas Play - Wednesday 11th December at 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm.
Talland Class and Chaipel Class Christmas Play (joint performance) - Thursday 12th December at 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm.

• Christmas Jumper Day We are holding our Christmas Jumper Day in aid of the charity ‘Save The Children’ on Friday 13th December. This is one day after National Christmas Jumper Day so that the children can all enjoy their wearing their jumpers after the Christmas performances are over. We ask for a £1.00 donation for this non-uniform day. We will provide opportunities for children to add some sparkle to a plain jumper if they do not already have a Christmas top to wear.

• Christmas Gift Room On Monday 16th December during school time in the morning, Santa’s workshop will be open for children to choose a special gift or two. Each gift will cost £2 (max 2 gifts per child). The elves will then help to wrap the gifts, which will be brought home at the end of the day to go under your tree. To make the magic happen, we kindly ask for donations by holding a Christmas-themed Mufti day on Friday 29th November. In exchange for wearing Christmas MUFTI, we ask that your child brings in any new or unused items. These can include chocolates, toiletries, socks, notebooks or items you’d be happy to receive. (No alcohol or DVDs please).

• Christmas Lunch Wednesday 18th December The Christmas lunch will be held on Wednesday 18th December this year. If your child would like a Christmas dinner, please ensure you have booked their meal by Friday 6th December as this tends to be very popular with the children. Please book their meals on Parentpay, even if you do not need to pay for their lunches. If you have any problems, do not hesitate to contact Mrs Turnbull on secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk.

FOPS Quiz – new date, February 28th Please note that in light of the West Looe roadworks and their impact on local travel, we are postponing the FOPS Quiz until Friday February 28th.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Hillman

Another week has flown by in Chaipel and we have been investigating our Circulatory System further. We can now explain how the process works and are learning the SpaG needed in order to write our explanations in English. Have have conquered subordinate clauses/conjunctions and are getting to grips with cause and effect. Next week, we will investigate the formal language we need as well as the use rhetorical questions to draw in our readers.

In Maths, Y6s have finally mastered long division and the Y5s have been tackling multiples of 10/100/1000 as well as multiplying and dividing by 10/100/1000.

Wider Curriculum
In other areas, we have used symbolism to express ourselves in Art, learnt where our food comes from (farm to fork) in DT and further developed our skills in basketball and fitness for PE. For RE, we have been revisiting the trimurti and the meaning behind the spiritual power of Brahman to a Hindu.
 
We wore odd socks on Monday to celebrate our differences and have been acknowledging our role as friends and classmates as part of Anti Bullying week.

Congratulations to our People of the Week, Noah and Joel, who said to us, "Thank you for teaching me long division!", for being superb role models and demonstrating our school values.

Planet Protectors
Some of Chaipel pupils have joined a lunchtime club designed to make our school 'cleaner and greener'. They have called themselves the Planet Protectors. Watch this space to see the impact they have on our school in the coming weeks...

Next week, Chaipel and Talland will be making the lanterns for the Polperro Lights Switch-on, on the 30th down in the village. It is always a fun afternoon and gives everybody a chance to come together to create something special for the community to enjoy.

I have attached the KIRFs for this half term, the homework grid and our Knowledge Web to show you what we are learning.

That's all from me, so enjoy the weekend and see you all on Monday!

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

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 15.11.24

Hello and goodbye Autumn Term two, week two! Blink and you miss it!

There's been loads going on this week: Anti bullying week, check; book fair, check; Mufti, check; cross country, check; loads of learning, check!

Maths:
Both year groups are coming to the end of their first unit of Multiplication and Division.

English:
Talland have completed their own adventure story. Next week, they will be assessing their writing success and then moving on to our next piece of writing (PERSUASION). Just in time for those letters to Santa.

Science: 
The children are experimenting with sound this term and today went on a sound hunt to find out which materials vibrate to produce sound waves.

Talland were excited to find out our new Enquiry Question: What did the Greeks do for us? We've dived straight into researching the Greek Gods and Goddesses - SO MUCH FUN! This turned out to be similar with our RE question, where we looked into Hindu deities. 

The class trip was also revealed - DRUM ROLL PLEASE - we are heading to The Eden Project where we will be known as the 'Greek Edenauts' and we must defend our village (the Mediterranean  Biome) against those menacingly ferocious Spartans. And as it's Christmas, we have also managed to get a spot of Ice Skating in there too... YAY! 

The date of the trip: Friday 13th December... more details to come shortly...

WELL DONE to Chilali, Grace and Lily for being noticed as our children of the week. Also, CONGRADULATIONS to Grace for passing her 44 club and Jamie for passing his 88 club.

Polite notice: 
Could all children please make sure they are coming to school with their complete PE kit including safe and suitable footwear. Thank you.

That's all from Talland this week. We hope you all have a spectacular weekend!

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

This was our last week of exploring colour and answering our enquiry question of " How does colour make us feel?"
The children have been busy sorting colours on the funky fingers table into the different coloured colour monster cups and sorting coloured objects on the tuft tray.
We enjoyed going onto the field this week and into the school garden where we went on a colour hunt, looking for different coloured items to match our list. The children did well and enjoyed looking at all of the different colours on the leaves.
Today (Friday) it has been Children in Need. The children looked great, dressed in their pyjamas, spots and bright coloured clothes and thank you for your kind donations. We enjoyed cooking and made blueberry muffins, the children coloured in Pudsey pictures and we made pudsey ear headbands.

This week at story time we have enjoyed  continuing to read "The colour monster" story and we have also explored the books "Elmer's colours" and "When i'm feeling happy", giving the children lots of opportunities to discuss their own feelings.

In phonics this week, we have been using our mouths and our voices to create different sounds, using everyday objects such as pots and pans to create different sounds and we have enjoyed games of "I spy" to help recognise the initial sounds in different words.

In maths we have been continuing to recognise and order numbers and the children have been experimenting with their own symbols and marks to represent numbers.

Have a great weekend
The nursery team

It's the first week back and already Chaipel class have been busy. Our new enquiry is HOW DOES MY BODY WORK? and we will be learning about how important our heart is and its role in our Circulatory System. We will then write an explanation text about the process, writing range range of complex sentences using subordinate clauses to show cause and effect. Thank you to Harry and Elsie who have already created detailed diagrams of the system to help in our learning.

In Maths, Y5s have been learning about prime, square and cube numbers - which they were amazing at -  before moving onto multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 next week.

In Art, we are going to be making our voice heard by learning a range of techniques such as symbolic imagery, chiaroscuro, street art and tonal drawings. We have already been exploring how the Maya expressed themselves through art and everyone has done an amazing job so far! 

We have completed our best copy write-up for our timeslip to Pompeii narrative; I look forward to reading them all. In PE, Chaipel are developing their skills in Fitness and Basketball and we will be learning how to program Micro:bits in ICT, starting next week.

All in all, a very successful first week back. Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

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

Our first week back has zoomed by! In celebration of Black History month, we shared our chosen person with the whole school, Ibtihaj Muhammad, who wrote the book 'The Proudest Blue' and was the first Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab while competing at the Olympics. How amazing! 

In Maths, we have picked up where we left off before half term, focussing on addition and subtraction. Year 2 have been exchanging 1s for a 10 when adding two 2-digit numbers. Year 3 have continued with column subtraction and carrying across place value columns when borrowing. 

We started a new unit in English this week, where we have been looking at Pie Corbett's version of Little Red Riding Hood. We made some excellent predictions and came up with lots of questions based on illustrations. Then, we started working on learning the story map, assigning actions. Today we used drama to explore different settings and recorded vocabulary to describe what we imagined we experienced.

Congratulations to Sonny, Amelia and Benjamin for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week! And a big well done to those who achieved their 99 club this week!

If you haven't done so already, be sure to hand in your permission slip for our trip to the Royal Cornwall Museum on Tuesday 26th November. 

We hope you have a super weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone!

It was lovely to meet everyone this week at our parents evening appointments. It really helps us to help your children when we share information together.

This week Penhallow have been busy thinking about their topic; 'What was it like before we were born?' We talked about the different favourite toys that the children currently have, and then we went way back in Ancient History to explore some of the toys that Mrs Fitzsimmons had as a child.

Thank you to those children who brought a show and tell object or picture in today. These children talked about their toys extremely well, and there were some interesting questions that were asked. Next Friday, please can the children bring in an object, picture or send an email of a picture that was taken before the children were born, of a family member. It could be a parent or Grandparent as a child. Instead, it could be related to Remembrance Day. A relative that was perhaps alive during the first or Second World war.

In art this week, we have all been learning about the artist Andy Warhol. We looked at the ways in which his art work makes use of bright colours, and we created our own piece of artwork in the style of Andy Warhol.

Well done to the whole of Penhallow, who sang a song, complete with percussion instruments, to the whole school. As a part of last month's Black History month, we learnt about the life of Floella Benjamin, who has been influential in children's TV,  and books. We presented our facts and sang a calypso song from Trinidad. Well done everyone!

We hope you have a lovely weekend, and keep safe if you visit any firework displays.

From the Penhallow Team

TALLAND'S BLOG 8.11.24

What a great first week of Autumn Term 2! Absolute magnificent to see so many smiley and happy children back in Talland Class!

This week we have focused lots on Black History Month and we studied an incredible lady, who goes by the name of Maya Angelou. You might of heard of her. She was an incredible poet and writer, a civil rights activist and she was involved with many of the arts (acting, dancing, film making ect...) An extraordinary person really.

Talland did an amazing assembly about her and I was blown away when they read out and performed the poem 'Still I Rise'. It's got me looking forward to the Christmas production, which isn't too far off. AUDITIONS COMING SOON!


Maths: 
Year 4 have been looking at the 3, 6 and 9 times tables.
Year 5 have been finding out about multiples and factors. 
Why not quiz your children to find out what they have learnt...

Writing: 
Talland Class have immersed ourselves into drama this week and as mentioned above, showed off their fantastic efforts during our Black History assembly.

PE:
This term we are throwing ourselves into fitness, where we are looking at the key elements (strength, speed, agility, stamina, balance and coordination). We are also getting our Michael Jordan sneakers and on shooting some hoops (basketball). We will see how Talland are at working as a team, finding space, learning the rules and invading an opponents territory. 

Talland will find out on Monday what our learning focus will be for this half term. I can't wait to tell them. There are lots of fun and exciting lessons planned including a trip... stay tuned to find out what they are learning and where we are going!

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

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

Welcome to the second half of the Autumn term. For those of you affected by the roadworks in West Looe, thank you for making the necessary arrangements to bring your children in during the disruption. Thank you all for attending this week’s parent/carer consultations. It is great to have such supportive parents and carers who are keen to work with us to achieve the best for pupils in our school.

On Wednesday we held a Black History Month Assembly where each class shared what they had learned about successful black authors. We learned about Floella Benjamin, actress, singer, presenter, author and politician (Penhallow Class); Ibtihaj Muhammed, entrepreneur, author, activist, and Olympic medalist in fencing (Landaviddy Class); Maya Angelou, an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist (Talland Class) and Malorie Blackman, a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015 (Chaipel Class). In the UK, Black History Month is celebrated every October. It gives everyone the opportunity to share, celebrate and understand the impact of black heritage and culture.

We have a lot planned for this half term already. Please see below and our events diary on this website for details.

FOPS A huge thank you to FOPS for organising and running the Spooky Discos before Half term. We raised over £260 which will go towards subsidising trips for all classes across the school year.

FOPS Quiz – change of date Please note that in light of the West Looe roadworks and their impact on local travel, we are postponing the FOPS Quiz until February. Watch this space for a new date.

Book Fair, NEXT WEEK – help us buy more books for school. We will be holding a Scholastic book fair the week commencing 11th November after school from 3:15pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The fair will held be in Chaipel Class. A percentage of the profits will go to school funds and enable us to buy more books for school. If you would like to buy any books from the fair, you will be able to pay in cash or online if you have your phone with you. You can pay for books online while you are at the Book Fair by scanning a QR code on your phone to easily access the Scholastic parent pay website.

Anti-Bullying Week 2024, 11th-15th November Anti-Bullying Week 2024 will be taking place from Monday 11th-Friday 15th November and has the theme Choose Respect. The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 11th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. Odd Socks are all about fun and laughter, but more importantly they deliver a message of individuality, acceptance and tolerance. We will be joining in with Odd Socks Day. All the children need to do is wear odd socks on Monday 11th please.

Children in Need, MUFTI Day Friday 15th November We have asked the School Council what they would like to wear for our Children in Need MUFTI fundraiser day on Friday 15th November. Please send your child in wearing spotty clothes, pyjamas or anything colourful on the day. A donation of £2 or more to Children in Need will be collected in class. We also have a supply of “Pudsey Ears”. These cost £2.50 with all profits going to Children in Need.

Poppies and Remembrance Reminder that we will be having a Remembrance assembly next week with Rev Richard. Year 6 volunteers are selling poppies at playtimes. If your child would like to buy a poppy to raise funds for the British Legion, please send your child in with cash. A minimum donation of 50p per poppy would be welcome and other items are available to buy.

Clubs Reminder that clubs will restart NEXT WEEK as follows:
Monday: After School Football Club (Mr Langley) for years 3, 4,5 and 6
Tuesday: Lunchtime ECO Club (Miss Randle) for years 3 to 6, some places by invitation
Wednesday: Lunchtime Mindfulness and Art Club (Mrs Wilkie) for years 2 to 6
Thursday: Lunchtime Music and Singing Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) for years R, 1 and 2
Friday: After School Running Club (Miss Bowden and Mrs Turnbull) for years 3-6. This club is open to anyone who likes running however it will not run when the Cross-Country League races are on – next race 15th November. Pupils do not have to race in these events.

Please inform us by email or phone call, which clubs you wish your child to attend by midday on Monday 11th November. Please sign up again, even if your child attended last half term.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Hillman

Welcome back

It has been lovely to see everyone back after the half term and to welcome some new faces to nursery. This week we have been exploring colour and answering our enquiry question "How does colour make us feel?". The children have been using different coloured paint to create firework pictures and have been discussing bonfire night and all of the colours that they create.
On Friday, the children decorate poppy biscuits and made poppies using apples to mark remembrance.

At storytime, the children have enjoyed looking at "The colour monster". They have been talkinig about how they feel and which colours make them happy, sad, scared or angry.

In phonics,  we have used musical instruments to create sounds. They have explored them to see if they make different sounds or if they sound similar. The children have performed different actions to songs they have heard and been exploring the initial sounds in words.

In maths, we are naming and ordering number to three and beyond, we have been exploring numbers on the maths table and practicing counting using different objects.

On Monday it is the start of Anti- bullying week. Children are invited to wear their odd socks to nursery.

Have a lovely weekend

The nursery team

Hello Everyone!

The children have been busy investigating all kinds of pumpkins this week. In English we have been reading the story 'Pumpkin Soup' by Helen Cooper. We began by exploring a range of different pumpkins and used adjectives to describe them. The story inspired the children to make pretend pumpkin soup during play. They added all sorts of weird and wonderful ingredients. Reception enjoyed drawing and painting the pumpkins, while Year 1 wrote a list of ingredients for how to make pumpkin soup. We are really proud of the instruction writing that Year 1 have produced this week.

Today we took advantage of the weather and spent some time in the school garden, hanging up some home made bird feeders. We also enjoyed an art lesson, where we re-created some concentric circles, in the style of the artist 'Kandinsky

After half term, our enquiry question will be 'What was it like before I was born?' Every Friday, we will have a themed show and tell, where the children can bring in and talk about something from home. On the first Friday after half term, please can the children bring in an object or a picture from before they were born. 

Have a lovely half term break.

From the Penhallow team.

TALLAND CLASS BLOG 25.10.24

HAPPY HALF TERM EVERYONE!

What a fabulous Autumn term 1 it's been. It's been so lovely getting to know Talland as a class and I have to say - what an exceptional group of children we have! They've all worked so hard, helped each other to learn along the way and have had a load of fun doing so! I'm so proud of each and every one of them - keep up the great work Talland!

Maths: Children have worked their way through PLACE VALUE, ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION and the year 5s even learnt VOLUME!

Writing: We've made fantastic instructions for travelling through the digestive system and have been writing an adventure narrative based on saving the Micro Monster, who was kidnapped by Acidro (the evil gastric acid beast), whilst following our instructions to travel through the digestive system. What a cheeky little acid monster Acidro is!

Art: Talland created an amazing mixed media collage by making a mood board of school based objects, choosing which collage they preferred, experimenting (over  a course of lessons) how to tint, shade and create different textures with paint and produce fantastic final piece.

Science: WE delved into the digestive system, looked at teeth and food chains. This was so much fun!

Geography: Talland looked at erosion, defenses for erosion and the impact erosion has on communities that live near the coast. We also explored different physical features of coasts - some children took some amazing photos of these different features with their parents - a huge WELL DONE there!

Well, that was a brief break down of just some of the learning that took place over the last 7 weeks. I have had a great time and I hope your children have too!

That's all from Talland - we hope you have a magnificent half term and look forward to seeing you all soon!

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

What a lovely last week of the first half term we have had! 

English
We have completed and edited our Back to Pompeii timeslip story and are in the process of writing up our best copy as part of our handwriting lessons. Everyone has worked extremely hard and have produced writing with language which creates mood, atmosphere and tension. I look forward to reading them!

Maths 
Y6s have been learing a range of strategies to solve division problems (including short division and factor division) whilst the Y5s have been learning about multiples and factors. They all have a focus times table which they will need to practise their fluency and recall of.

Wider Curriculum
We wrapped up our enquiry into Ancient Rome and its influence on Britain by having a Roman Day on Thursday. We had such fun baking honey biscuits, engaging in gladiator battles, eating typical Roman foods for that era and making shields and jewellery. We completed our day by testing out our aquaducts and we invited Penhallow class to watch our 'destruction of Pompeii', re-enacting the fateful events of 24th August AD79.

Chaipel staff have thoroughly enjoyed our first half term of the year and we wish you all a lovely break. 

Thanks for your support and see you all back at school on Monday 4th October.

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

It was great to see so many parents and carers at the foodbank assembly on Tuesday after school. They have welcomed the kind donations you have made. As they said, if you are aware of anyone who is struggling, please point them in the direction of the foodbank or indeed, if you would like support, please contact school. We recognise it is a challenging time for everyone. Attached is a rural pop up poster to look out for which will contain details of the local pop-up where they will be giving free help for those in need of food, energy support, benefit checks and much more.

House Points School Council has added up the house points for this half term. House Points are given to the children when they demonstrate our school values: Curious, Creative, Excellent, Responsible, Determined and Enthusiastic. We have been focusing on ‘Responsible’ this half term: Congratulations to Oak who are in the lead with 112 points followed by Ash with 79 points, Willow with 74 points and Chestnut with 56 points.

Communications Class blogs and the Heads’ blog on this website are updated weekly so that we can share with you what the children are learning. We will also post information messages on our resurrected Polperro Primary Academy Facebook page – please follow us. This is in addition to the weekly Friday update which will contain all of the messages and information you need about school in one place.

Parent Consultations – week of 4th November. Thank you all for signing up for parent consultations. These are straight after half term. There will be no clubs the week of the 4th November however wraparound care will continue as usual.

Clubs will restart on the week commencing 11th November. Monday: After School Football Club (Mr Langley) for years 3,4,5 % 6 Tuesday: Lunchtime ECO Club (Miss Randle) for years 3 to 6, some places by invitation
Wednesday: Lunchtime Mindfulness and Art Club (Mrs Wilkie) for years 2 to 6
Thursday: Lunchtime Music and Singing Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) for years R, 1 and 2
Friday: After School Running Club (Miss Bowden and Mrs Turnbull) for years 3-6. 

Half Term Activities Please find attached information about a children’s book launch in Polperro on Saturday; Halloween Activities in Looe next week; Cornwall Cricket Holiday Camps and Half Term Football Roadshows with Plymouth Argyle Community Trust. 

Flu Nasal Vaccination YR – Y6 This will take place on Wednesday 6th November. Here is the information you need in order to sign up: Flu Link (all years): https://www.kernowimmunisations.co.uk/Forms/Flu
School Code: EE142953 Deadline to submit: Monday 4th November, noon If you have already submitted a consent form, then you do not need to do another one. If you are unsure or have any problems, please call the School Immunisation Team on 01872 221105

Attendance I would like to remind you that we do not authorise holidays within term time unless circumstances are exceptional. Unfortunately, attendance across the school for this half term has been below the national average and under the new statutory guidance, we have had to consider fining for some families. If you require your child to be out of school for an exceptional reason a form MUST be submitted at least 15 days before the proposed absence.

Coming up next half term…
• Anti-Bullying Week 2024 will be taking place from Monday 11th-Friday 15th November and has the theme ‘Choose Respect’. The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 11th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. Odd Socks are all about fun and laughter, but more importantly they deliver a message of individuality, acceptance and tolerance. We will be joining in with Odd Socks Day. All the children need to do is wear odd socks on Monday 11th please.
• Children in Need, MUFTI Day Friday 15th November For our Children in Need MUFTI fundraiser day on Friday 15th November, please send your child in wearing spotty clothes, pyjamas or anything colourful on the day. A donation of £2 or more to Children in Need will be collected in class. We also have a supply of “Pudsey Ears” for the School Council to sell after half term. These cost £2.50 with all profits going to Children in Need.

Tomorrow, 25th October, is an INSET day. We wish you all a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing everyone back in school from 8:30 am on Monday, 4th November.

Thank you for your support this half term.

Mrs Hillman

Happy Half Term!

We made it to half term! This week, we have been focussing our efforts on finishing off our non-chronological reports on owls. I have been super impressed with everyone's writing - well done! 

In Maths, Year 2 have been continuing to explore addition and subtraction, and using base 10 to support their understanding. Year 3 have been practising their column addition, when crossing over 10s and 100s. We have had to work hard to remember when to exchange, but everyone has done fantastically well! 

During Wider Curriculum, we have been discovering what an input is in Computing and designed our own robots, labelling what different components do. In Art, we finished our abstract flower paintings, where we produced an A3 version of our chosen flower section. We then used watercolour paints to add a wash of colour. We were amazed by what was produced! We also had another lovely Music lesson with Mrs Butlin, using the ukulele's. 

Congratulations to Tommy and Anya for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week! 

Please continue to read daily, practise your curriculum spellings and KIRFS over half term. 

Class Trip
A letter has been sent via email regarding a class trip we will be going on next half term, to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. Children will be given the paper copy of the letter on the first day back after half term. 

We hope you have a wonderful half term break and we look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 4th November. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

This week we have finished our enquiry question “How do I know it is autumn?”
The children have been finishing different crafts including fingerprint acorns and they have been sticking leaves and drawing faces to make leaf animals.
On Thursday we dressed up for Halloween and made apple pumpkins and had a spooky snack of ghost bananas and pumpkin satsumas.
At story time we have enjoyed more autumn stories and the children have especially loved "Room on the broom"

In phonics we have been finishing rhymes that we hear in stories, naming the different sounds that we hear in our environment and copying and making movements with our bodies.

In maths, we have been making arrangements with shapes, identifying numbers in everyday life and counting groups of objects.

It is INSET tomorrow and then half term so have a great week and we will see you when we return on Monday 4th November.

The nursery team

Well done to our amazing cross-country runners who entered the first cross-country league race of the year with enthusiasm and energy. In spite of the mud and rain they all completed the course admirably. A great start to the season.

Foodbank Assembly and Cookery Demonstration On Tuesday 22nd October, the Foodbank Schools and Rural Outreach Team will be joining us for an assembly where the children will learn about all of the things they do in the community. At the assembly, the children will present our harvest donations collected this month. At 3:15, following the assembly, parents and carers are encouraged to come and join their children in the hall where a cookery demonstration will take place. Any family that attends after school will receive a bag of ingredients and a recipe card to take home. This project is separately funded and is all about encouraging families to cook. It is open to everyone. If your child is at dance club, please come and join us anyway. Please email school by Monday to us to let us know if you would like to attend the cookery demonstration. It would be great to see as many of you as possible there.

Parent Consultations
Please sign up for parent consultations which are happening week commencing 4th November. Details have been emailed and are attached to this blog.

Clubs There will be no clubs the week of the 4th November because of parent consultations ; however wraparound care will continue as usual. Clubs will resume from Monday 11th November as follows:

• Monday: After School Football Club (Mr Langley) for years 3, 4, 5 and 6
• Tuesday: Lunchtime ECO Club (Miss Randle) for years 3 to 6, some places by invitation
• Wednesday: Lunchtime Mindfulness and Art Club (Mrs Wilkie) for years 2 to 6
• Thursday: Lunchtime Music and Singing Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) for years R, 1 and 2
• Thursday: After School Running Club (Mr Langley and Mrs Turnbull) for years 3-6. This club is open to anyone who likes running however it will not run when the Cross-Country League races are on. Pupils do not have to race in these events. Please inform us by email or phone call, which clubs you wish your child to attend by Thursday 24th October. As usual, if your child has signed up for a club they should attend every session in the half term unless they are unwell.

Photographs Individual Photographs will take place on Wednesday 23rd October. We will arrange for siblings to be photographed together including those in our nursery.

Spooky Discos Tickets for next Thursday’s discos are selling quickly. Don’t forget to buy yours from the office!

INSET and Diary Dates Reminder that next Friday is an INSET day and pupils will not be in school. There is an Events Diary on this website where you can find upcoming events and dates such as the year’s INSET dates, sports day and other events.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Hillman

Another week has gone by in Landaviddy class. And what a week it has been!

On Wednesday, we learnt about the famous author and olympian, Ibtihaj Muhammad, in celebration of Black History month. We created some fantastic posters, ready for our annual Black History assembly, where we will share our posters with the school. In Art, we continued practising our sketching and shading skills. We began by creating botanical drawings from our observations of plants and flowers we found outside. Then, using viewfinders, sketched varying parts of flowers to create a plan for a piece of abstract art. 

In Maths, we have continued exploring addition and subtraction. Year 2 have been using concrete objects to support their understanding of exchanging, when crossing 10s. Year 3 have been focussing on using the column method with accuracy this week, taking great care with our presentation.

In English, we finished off our plans for writing non-chronological reports on owls. We spent today's lesson writing our first drafts, which required a lot of determination! I can't wait to see your final reports next week! 

Congratulations to Amber and Hector for being Landaviddy's People of the Week! And a big well done to Rosie for achieving her 99 club! 

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone,

We have had a wonderful week of writing this week. Reception have been busy writing captions and acting out the story of the little red hen, while Year 1 have started to learn all about the features of instruction writing. They have also completed their own poems, based on the Allan Ahlberg poem; 'Peepo'. Thank you to Hugh, who brought in his own copy of the book from home, and read it to the whole class.

In our RE lessons this week, we have been learning all about how to look after our world. We went into the school garden to make sure that all of our plants are well cared for. We also read stories, with a conservation theme, and discussed examples of how we can care for our environment.

Year 1 have really enjoyed using the ipads in maths today, to increase their fluency in addition and subtraction. Meanwhile, Reception had a great time getting active with their maths in the hall. They were learning about the composition of 1,2,3,4 and 5, by throwing bean bags into hoops, and zooming around on wheels to make different numbers to 5. 


Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow team.

Another week has flown by and we have been writing up our narrative in English. We will continue next week as our stories are reaching their resolution. In Maths, the Y6s are investigating long multiplication and short division whilst the Y5s have been learning to apply the inverse operation to check their calculations.

Wider Curriculum
Chaipel have been learing about the significance of Roman Baths for leisure as well as for health and relaxation. We have learnt how to use Binary texts in ICT and about the importance of the Hajj pilgrimage to Muslims in RE. In Art, we have planned our final piece which we will create next week. 

Roman Day
A letter went home today (and via email) regarding our Roman Day on Thursday. Please take time to read the letter and let Miss Randle know if you have any allergies to the food that is listed. We will be taking part in Gladiator battles, feasting on tradional Roman food, making jewellery and then re-enacting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius thanks to Lily's volcano she has brought in as part of her homework activity grid.

Spooky Disco
Don't forget the disco on Thursday!
Tickets are on sale at reception.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary and Miss Colton