During our English lessons this week, whilst focusing on Beowulf, the children learnt about the progressive and perfect tenses along with planning their own characters for their story. Each child decided how they wanted to plan their character. Some decided to use their computing skills to combine pictures together; others drew their idea straight from their imagination. Once they had come up with a character idea, each child, created ambitious word banks and planned figurative language to support them when drafting their story. 

In our science lesson, the children learnt about separating mixtures. They filtered, sieved, evaporated, and used magnetic attraction to separate out a variety of mixtures.

As part of our art lesson this week, the children drew a preassessment piece of artwork which we can reflect back on at the end of our drawing topic to see whether we can notice any improvements in our mastery of drawing.   

During our RE lesson, the children learnt key vocabulary linked with Islam. They enjoyed using Seesaw to record their findings.

In PSHE, we continued our focus on relationships. The children thought about how everyone in class is connected and has things in common with each other. We tried to visually represent our connections in class by passing a ball of string between as many people as we could.  

Homework has been set on Mathletics and Spelling Shed. Please also remember to read regularly and that we have Times Table Rockstar logins.

Points to remember:

PE on Mondays and Fridays

SATs week- 13^th- 16^th May

We have reached the end of our latest topic, ‘What’s so special about clouds’. We have focussed on a range of themes including erosion, human impact on the coast, how clouds are formed, their influence on the weather and how to read maps. We finished this week by completing some personal research into questions we still had on the topic. We recorded our findings in our books and on a few clouds too! 

We have reached the end of our latest topic, ‘What’s so special about clouds’. We have focussed on a range of themes including erosion, human impact on the coast, how clouds are formed, their influence on the weather and how to read maps. We finished this week by completing some personal research into questions we still had on the topic. We recorded our findings in our books and on a few clouds too! 

Week Ending Friday 26th April

Exploring Nature's Classroom: A Trip to Nancarrow Farm This week in Canute, the children embarked on a delightful journey to Nancarrow Farm, nestled amidst the rolling countryside. It was a day brimming with discovery, learning, and a touch of farmyard magic.

The children, as always, showcased impeccable behaviour, their excitement palpable as they ventured into the heart of the farm. They had the opportunity to connect with nature firsthand, immersing themselves in the rhythms of rural life. From tenderly stroking newborn lambs to carefully gathering freshly laid chicken eggs, every moment was filled with wonder.

Amidst the buzzing of busy bees in their hives, our young explorers learned about the vital role these pollinators play in our ecosystem. They even got their hands dirty, planting seeds with hopes of nurturing new life back at home—a tangible reminder of the cycle of growth and renewal.

As we strolled through the verdant vegetable patches and bountiful orchards, our senses were treated to the vibrant colors and fragrances of the season. And what better way to appreciate nature's bounty than by indulging in some freshly harvested delights? The children savored the taste of farm-fresh food, a true farm-to-table experience that left them with a deeper appreciation for where their food comes from.

In English this week the children continued their journey into the enchanting world of storytelling, crafting sentences for the timeless fairy tale, "Little Red Riding Hood." Meanwhile, in Reception Drawing Club, the children used their imagination to draw and write sentences about the Poddington Peas.

In maths, each year group delved into a world of numbers uniquely suited to their level. Reception explored the concept of doubles and delved into the world of odds and evens. Year 1 ventured into the realm of multiplication, mastering the art of repeated addition. And Year 2 students stretched their mathematical muscles as they tackled the concept of length, measuring and comparing objects with precision.

Of course, amidst all this learning, we couldn't resist the call of the great outdoors, especially with the sun shining brightly overhead. Our students revelled in the freedom of learning outside, soaking up the warmth and vitality of the natural world.

As we bid farewell to another enriching week, we wish you all a restful and rejuvenating weekend. We look forward to what next week bring but, keep exploring, keep learning, and keep embracing the wonders that surround us.

Mrs Fernie, Mrs Westacott, Miss Taylor, Miss Talbot

Year 3 Get Planting!

As part of our new topic- What Makes the World Survive and Thrive?- we have been busy sewing seeds and getting our Polytunnel into shipshape! 

We dug over the raised beds ready for seeds and planted a variety of vegetable seeds and flower seeds into seed trays.

As well as studying plants and how they grow as part of our topic, we are entering into some of the upcoming Royal Cornwall Show competitions with what we grow at school.  A slip has been sent home with information regarding bringing in recycled material and other items for these entries. 
 
This week we also began our 3 week Science experiment on how light and soil can affect a seeds germination and growth. We planted Runner Bean seeds in soil, tissue and cotton wool and have placed them in either direct sun light, artificial light or darkness. We will be checking up on the seeds each week to see which ones grow the best and why. 

Keep a look out for next weeks blog on our current DT project - designing and sewing our own cushions! 

Many thanks,
Year 3 Team 

Hello Everyone,

On Thursday afternoon this week, we enjoyed a visit to the church. In RE, we have been learning about sacred places and objects that help people to worship. We managed to find plenty of interesting things in the church, that helped us with our learning, such as the font, altar, pulpit and bell tower. We all had a turn walking to the top of the pulpit, just to see what it looks like from Rev Allen’s perspective. We drew pictures of these special places in the church, and talked about what they are used for. 

During our English lessons this week, we have innovated and written some fantastic stories about Little Red Riding Hood. They are very creative and imaginative. 

We have impressed the judges of our art competition this week, with our watercolour paintings of bluebells and sunflowers. They found it difficult to pick a winner and said that class 2 has some extremely impressive examples. Well done children, your hard work has produced some excellent results. 

Please continue to bring reading books back every day, and try to read daily at home. 

Have a lovely weekend!

The class 2 team.

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This has been another exciting week for Talland Class. They particularly enjoyed discussing, exploring and making decisions about respect. This was based on our RE topic and how all faiths are accepted in society, more especially in Cornwall. The children's ideas were in abundance and this highlighted further questions to answer. Two pertinent ideas the children explored were: What does respect look like? (A smile, taking a bow to the King, a hand shake, etc.) and What does it sound like? (Singing Happy Birthday, etc.)

English
Talland have been focusing on English grammar this week. This will enhance their understanding of the text they read and will promote their writing skills. For example, the children explored the use of relative clauses. A relative clause is used for extra information in a sentence relating to the subject of the sentence. (Mr Parry, who teaches Talland Class, walked into the classroom. In this sentence, 'who teaches Talland Class' is the relative clause.)

Maths
The children have further developed their understanding of decimals. They can now relate decimals to fractions and are beginning to grasp the relevance and importance of place value. We have now covered decimals up to thousandths: 

O . t  h th
2 . 1  4  5             
for example.


best wishes,

Mr Parry, Mrs Swabey and the Talland Class team (Mrs Walters and Ms Rowlands)

This week's jokes:

What word becomes shorter if you add two letters to it? Shorter

What do you call a train carrying bubble gum? A chew-chew train.

Penhallow Class Blog: 26th April 2024.

It has been another week of fun in Penhallow where we have learned lots of wonderful things along the way!

We started the week by celebrating World Earth Day, we have been working hard to pick up any litter we see around the school grounds in a step to look after our planet!

In Science, we looked at different animals and the characteristics that made them what they are. We worked with a partner to describe our animals to see if our partner could guess which animal we were trying to describe by it's key characteristics.

In English this week, we have been looking at the difference between fiction and non-fiction books about animals. This is in preparation to write a non-chronological report (a fact file) about a chosen mini beast! I can't wait to find out more about the mini beasts the children choose to write facts on.

Maths has been an adventure for Reception this week who are counting to 20 and beyond. The Year 1s have been counting in 2s and 10s to start their multiplication topic. In 99 club, the children tried brilliantly to answer their questions in 10 minutes.

PE was great fun this week where on Wednesday we worked on our underarm throws. We enjoyed a mindful Yoga session on Friday afternoon which we really enjoyed and stretched all of our muscles. We found the spider pose particularly tricky!

We enjoyed an afternoon of coding with some fantastic 'mousebots' on Thursday. We learned that robots could hold a place in our future job and we showed that we are going to be experts if we ever need to programme a robot in our future roles.

In PSHE, we discussed: What made a good friend? We were able to tell each other what we thought made up a fantastic friend and also the importance of being a good friend ourselves.

Well done to our 'People of the Week' April, Jemima, Max and Iylah were picked for showing great examples of being 'Excellent'. This is one of our school values and our focus this half term. 

Please find attached this half term's knowledge web, where you will be able to see what amazing learning we will be covering over the next few weeks. You will also find copies of this half term's KIRFs. The KIRFs are our Key Instant Recall Facts that children should learn to recall instantly, more information is on the cover letter from our maths lead to explain why these are such an important part of your child's learning.

TwinklGO! codes have now been updated, an email with the updated codes has been sent to you all. They are:

Reception Phonics: AD7803
Reception Maths: NG4763
Year 1 Phonics: EF0215
Year 1 Maths: QX4721

It is World Veterinary Day on Saturday, perhaps you could enjoy reading the story Jet the Vet and answer the questions together afterwards.

We hope you all enjoy a lovely weekend!

Keep up with your amazing reading and remember to head onto TwinklGO! for some more fun learning opportunities.

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

Life Cycle of a Butterfly.

This half term, we are delving into the fascinating world of animal life cycles. The children were overjoyed when a small box arrived in the nursery today. Inside were five tiny caterpillars! We dove into some nonfiction books that revealed intriguing facts about caterpillars and butterflies. 

 We talked about the life cycle of our caterpillars and what we may see next. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the process and used some wonderful new vocabulary that we had been learning. The children made their own wonderful pictures of the butterflies' life cycle and decided where to place them in class so they could watch and wait patiently for the changes to happen.

  Watching the caterpillars change into chrysalises and then emerge as butterflies in the coming weeks is a fantastic opportunity for our children to learn more about the natural world around them.

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Our school values are Curious, Creative, Excellent, Responsible, Determined and Enthusiastic and we explore a different value each half term. We started the week with an assembly about our school value for this term which is ‘I am Excellent.’ After splitting into Houses to discuss what being Excellent means, the children came back together to share their thoughts. As usual, the children had the best ideas and fed back that to be excellent means trying your hardest, trying new things, being extra kind and doing your best.

Fowey Festival Writing Competition Congratulations to three of our year 6 writers whose poetry about the Normandy beaches received a commended (Wyatt and Lily) and Highly Commended (Bayley) in the Fowey Festival, Competition for Young Writers and Artists.

Online Safety Please find attached ‘Parent’s Guide to Cyberbullying’ poster which has a useful link to information on how to keep your child safe online.

School Uniform The link for our supplier for uniform with a school logo, has changed to www.uniformsales.co.uk/school/polperro-primary-academy/ Our uniform can also be bought from most supermarkets and we have some very good quality preloved uniform available from the office for a small donation.

Swimming The pool is nearly up and running and when the weather is warm enough, we will start lessons for all year groups. In the meantime, you may wish to organize your child’s swimming kit which should comprise a swimming costume/trunks, towel, waterproof bag, swimming hat. Please ensure everything is named. We have swimming hats for sale. Please email the office if you would like one. These can be paid for on Parent Pay.

Upcoming Dates School will be closed on Monday 6th May which is a Bank Holiday and then closed to children on Friday 24th May for INSET (staff training). 

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Hello everyone,

It was great to see you all at our 'Family Friday' this week, we hope you all enjoyed the different activities! 

In maths our main focus this week was around verbal counting and patterns. We practiced counting forwards and backwards from different starting points as well as looking at a hundred square to identify, discuss and start to explain the patterns we noticed. We also used a set of number cards, put them in order and then played ‘Which one is missing?’ 

This week in English our learning has been based around the story 'Supertato'; clearly a firm favourite for the children! We have been labelling the characters and using adjectives to describe Evil Pea and Supertato. We also made our own 'super veggie' and wrote a description of what our 'super veggie' looks like and their superpowers.  

Our art learning this week saw us start to learn about two of our focus artists; Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. We looked at examples of their work, discussed what we noticed and then started to create our own inspired pieces.  We used photos and crayons to create a piece of art inspired by Andy Warhol where each child had four identical pictures of themselves that they coloured using crayons. The children will make this into a collage and we look forward to sharing these pieces with you. We also used pop art style dots to show colour without filling a space completely. We looked at Lichtenstein’s “Ben Day Dots” to create a piece inspired by his theory, we have made a good start on this and will continue with it next week. 

In RE we have been looking at ‘special places’. We visited our local church and discussed what we could see and why it is important for Christians.

As our story this week was Supertato, we have been exploring floating and sinking with fruits and vegetables. We learnt what a prediction is and made predictions first before testing the fruits and vegetables. We discussed why some float and why some sink, and why some of them floated first and then sank. We then explored floating and sinking with other objects.

We also went on a superhero rescue! A villain (Evil Pea) sent a note to the children explaining that he had taken 'Ted'. The children had a series of clues to follow which they hoped would lead them to Ted. The clues were solved accurately and when they found Ted on the PE shed they had one final question to answer about the focus text we have been using this week. Great superhero problem solving everyone! Well done!

We are going to have a themed weekly 'Show and Tell' which will be on a Thursday. The theme for next week is 'A favourite place you have visited'. We will ask the children to tell us about the item/photograph and ask them a couple of questions too. The children can bring in an item from the place they have visited or a photograph or you can email any photos to me at this address: rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk **Please note, if you are emailing me any photos to ensure that they are sent before 8:30am on Thursday so that they are ready to show on Thursday morning, many thanks.**

Points to remember....
- As the weather warms up please ensure your child brings a drinks bottle to school each day filled with water.
- Please ensure sun cream is applied before school; we are unable to apply sun cream at school.
- Please ensure your child brings a sunhat to school. 
- Below we have attached some optional homework activities, based around our learning about Superheroes this term. The children can do as many of the activities as they wish. Please do take photos or bring the homework activities to school so we can give them house points for their amazing work! You will also be sent a copy of these home on Monday.

Class 1 Team

Talland's Class Blog 26.4.24

Week two came and went in the blink of an eye!

There's been an abundance of sport, jelly making, science investigations, instruction writing and much more...

Maths:
Year 4 have been finding out about how to write fractions and decimals and hundredths. Some children have been thinking about how that can link to percentages too.
Year 5 have continued to measure angles and perimeter in shapes. They're very handy with a protractor now!

English:
We have finished writing our instructions about 'How to make Jelly'. We have followed the instructions and made our own jelly. The children are now planning how to make instructions for a 'Gruesome Smoothie'. I'm looking forward to getting outside and finding our ingredients next week!

PE:
Talland have explored a range of activities to play in an outdoor environment and we've been practicing how to return the shuttlecock in badminton. Some children challenged themselves to catch their opponent out and return the shuttlecock to a space on the court where the partner wasn't to help them win a point.

Science:
We have looked at and experimented on jelly - how does it change its state of matter? Why not ask your child how the jelly changes when heated and then cooled...
We also began thinking about our experiment for next week - What is the best material to wrap a cup in to keep drinks warmer for longer? The material and the ice cubes are already waiting...

Computing:
This topic is linking nicely to Science this term. After we have our results for the experiment, Talland will be creating an excel spread sheet to gather data. We will then transfer the data to a graph, which will show help to show our results in a pictorial manner.

A huge well done to Nuala this week for being noticed for excellent behaviour and trying her best in lessons. 

Exciting News:
School trip information coming Monday... I'm personally looking forward to the 10th May. I think all of Talland will be once we find out where we are going!

That's it from Talland this week. We hope you have a fabulous weekend!

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

Week 2 

The children have had a wonderful second week of amazing learning!

In English this week the children started to explore the story of Mr Gumpy’s Outing. WE read the story and went on a little outing around school to see what we could see. We practiced the story lots by using our story map and we made up actions to remember it . We then worked as team to sequence the story- Miss Hughes tried and got it all wrong! BUT luckily the children helped her to sequence the story correctly! The year 1’s then sequenced it in their books and thought of fantastic time conjunctions to write alongside the pictures. The Foundation children also sequenced the story and they wrote key words next to the pictures to show their understanding! The year 1 children have also been writing sentences from the story using conjunction ‘and’.

In maths the year 1 children have spent this week exploring mass and volume , they have used bucket scales and they have been using ambitious vocabulary such as  balance, mass, heavier, lighter. They have found out the mass of objects in cubes and also compared the mass of different objects.

The Foundation children have been exploring the composition of 10 , they have continued to use their number bond to 10 knowledge to help them explore the number 10 in detail.

In PE the children have continued to explore throwing with our coach Ryan and have enjoyed building skills to play quick cricket.

IN PSHE the children are all exploring relationships, this week we had lots of great discussion about what makes a caring friend. The children in this class are so thoughtful and kind and really contributed well with this lesson.

IN Geography the year 1’s have been exploring physical features of Looe! Yesterday they explored a map of Looe and worked well to identify physical features , they then looked at a picture of Looe and showed their knowledge by labeling all the physical features they could see!

The foundation children have been building Looe out of Lego, riding the balance bikes around a chalked Looe track, drawing their favourite things they like to do in Looe and so much more!

On Tuesday we celebrated St Georges day and all of our activities were based around St George . The children loved exploring the story and a great discussion happened about whether we think St George really killed a dragon or whether he was known for being  a great person that protected his village!

What a wonderful week

Have a lovely weekend

Foundation /year 1 team. 

Wow the second week is over already! 

This week we have continued looking into our enquiry question in Geography, by using atlas' to explore the settlements of the UK. We learnt what the difference is between a village, town and city and located cities on maps of the UK. As Historians, we have thought about how we can learn about the past and what it means to be an explorer. We also recognised the difference between primary and secondary sources. Can you remember the difference? Can you think of any examples? We explored the artwork of Michelangelo in Art and had a go at experimenting to create different shades of colours. Finally, during our Science lesson this week we investigated how magnets interact with different materials; do they repel or attract?

In English, we have continued to look at biographies and read about the lives of Amelia Earhart and Mary Anning in a brilliant book called Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World. We learnt how to use commas when listing items and applied this when writing sentences. Next week, we will hope to write our own biographies about people who have campaigned for something important.

In Maths, we are coming towards to the end of our unit on Shape, which all the children have been working so hard on. Y2 have been able to count the faces, edges and vertices on 3-D shapes. Y3 have been revising their knowledge of 2-D and 3-D shapes, as well as making 3-D shapes using multilink cubes.

Congratulations to Isabelle for being Landaviddy's Person of the Week. And a big well done to Heidi for achieving her 88 club badge! 

Class Trip
Everyone has been sent home with a letter for our class trip to the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth on Thursday 9th May 2024. Please be sure to pay your contribution and return your permission slips as soon as you can. Thank you.

Please see attached the KIRFS and Homework Grid for this half term. Of course, should you have any questions please do let me know.

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

Miss Gibbings, Mrs Phillips and Mrs Cullingford

w/e 26.4.24

On Thursday, we visited Saltash library for an exciting Live Lesson from the aquarium. We enjoyed seeing and learning about the different marine life and loved the fun facts shared!

We also took a look at the books in the library - lots of the children would love their library cards, so please do pay them a visit! You can even apply online and reserve your favourite books! https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/libraries-museums-and-archives/libraries/join-the-library/ 

More photos below!

This week Year 4 have been fulfilling the PE curriculum by taking swimming lessons. They have had an amazing time each afternoon.

They have shown great determination and resilience as they have all endeavoured to improve themselves. It has been fantastic to see so many children progress and everyone can be pleased and proud of themselves.

It was so good to see parents come to our sporting event last Friday.  Thank you so much for the continued support you have for the children.  So many of the children have said how much they appreciated doing sports they had never tried before. 

Have a well-earned rest over the weekend everyone.

Miss Pittas