It’s been another busy and productive week at WPA. Our theme this week has been collaboration and team work. There has been plenty of that going on in classes and around the school as highlighted in our Shining Stars assembly this afternoon. This week we also welcomed a number of parents to our 'Welcome to Reception' sessions. It was wonderful to meet everyone; we look forward to welcoming your children into Reception.

KS1 History Day
Year 2 have been time travellers today! We have been very lucky to have the time travelling lady to speak to us about Cornwall in the past. She taught us about life of Cornish miners and what was invented to help them with their work. Did you know there was a special safety lamp to help detect dangerous gases in the mine? We heard some more about famous inventors like Richard Trevithick and Humphry Davey and how their inventions are linked to Cornish tin mines. Then we had to use our prediction skills to guess what the use of some objects from the past were. This included, a wooden darn to mend socks, a chill which was a portable light and a chamber pot that was used as a toilet during the night! (This of course got many laughs as one prediction was a giant soup bowl). We are very proud of how engaged an respectful the children were throughout.
From Year 2

As I’m writing this blog, Year 1 are being transported back in time to a Victorian Seaside Adventure – Take a look at Year 1’s class page later today to see what happened.


The Place – Playground Tour
Next Monday, children in Year 2-Year 5 will be treated to two lively dance shows in our playground: Olive Branch... Playground Edition by Vanhulle Dance Theatre and Mughal Miniatures: The Elephant and the Drummer by Sonia Sabri Company. We can’t wait to watch the performances.

‘Come Dine with Me’
The Year 5 children have made a fantastic start to their 'Come Dine with Me' Design and Technology experience this week. After spending the morning planning and preparing their dishes they were joined by a wonderful group of staff for lunch. The staff praised the children for their attention to detail, hospitality and of course the incredible food they had on offer. A firm favourite so far being the cookie dough cake! We look forward to seeing what other delicious creations the children will cook up in the following weeks.

District Sports Competition
Well done to everyone who took part in the annual District Sports Competition earlier in the week. Overall, Wadebridge Primary Academy came 4th. A special mention to our relay teams, winning 3 silver medals and Dexter in Year 6 who broke the 100m event record sprinting in at 13.19 seconds!

Mid-Cornwall Parent Workshop for Transition to Secondary School
Do check the poster below for further details on how to book for this online course.

After School Clubs
Please note that teacher-led after school clubs end today. Bridge Kids Wraparound Care continues as normal until the end of term.

The following external clubs finish on:
DT Sports – 17th July
Dance – 19th July
Pro20 – Please check your booking confirmation

Important dates coming up:

Monday 1st – Friday 5th July Year 6 Transition Week

Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd July Year 4 Residential to Porthpean

Monday 1st July The Place – Playground Theatre Tour performance for Years 2-5

Tuesday 2nd July 15:15-16:15 KS1 Open Invitation Cross Country (Wadebridge School)

Wednesday 3rd July
09:30-10:30 Drop in & play session for children new to WPA joining Reception in September
13:00-14:00 Drop in & play session for children currently at WPA Nursery joining Reception in September

Thursday 4th July 09:30-12:30 Taster morning & lunch for all new Reception children starting in September

Wednesday 10th July 09:15-15:00 Our Girls Can event for Year 5 girls at Wadebridge Showground

Thursday 11th July Reports home and class/teacher allocation for September

Friday 12th July Transition session (am) for current Reception – Year 5 children to meet their class teacher for September

Saturday 13th July 10:00-12:00 WPA Lego Show

Monday 15th July Transition session (am) for current Reception – Year 5 children to meet their class teacher for September

Wednesday 17th July 13:00-14:15 Nursery Pirate Party with parents

Thursday 18th July 16:00 Year 6 performance

Friday 19th July Year 6 ‘Slip and Slide’ Trip

Monday 22nd July 18:00-20:00 Year 6 Prom

Tuesday 23rd July Last day of term (early finish, see times below):
12:30 Nursery
12:50 Year 6 Guard of Honour
13:20 Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
13:30 Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5

Wednesday 4th September Autumn term begins – Welcome back everyone in Reception to Year 6

Wednesday 4th – Friday 6th September Nursery Home Visits

Monday 9th September
09:00-10:00 Nursery Stay and Play Sessions
10:30-11:30 Nursery Stay and Play Sessions

Tuesday 10th September Nursery opens


Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Best wishes,

Chris Wathern

Happy weekend everyone!

Thank you to those of you who joined us at the church on Friday afternoon for our Trelawny Day service, it was great to see you there.

We have enjoyed lots of different learning experiences in class this week and have tried to get outside as much as possible to enjoy the wonderful weather we have had. Please ensure your child has a refillable water bottle and a hat in school with them each day, thank you. 

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item that is special to you. See if you can find out who gave the item to you and be ready to explain why the item is special to you. Please bring the item in on Thursday morning or if emailing a photo please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Well done to those children who have been reading at home, we do enjoy giving out reading karate bands and certificates during celebration assembly. Keep up the great work! 

Have a lovely weekend

Class 1 Team

What we've been doing in year 1! 

It has been a brilliant couple of weeks in year 1, and we have been very busy! Last Friday was our sport’s day. We took part in activities such as long jump, football and throwing. We then did our running races at the end. We had an absolutely brilliant day and we showed our school value of determination, collecting as many points for our house team as we could. Year 1 also showed great sportsmanship and cheered on their friends on each activity. Safe to say we were pretty tired at the end of the day!

On Monday, we had our beach trip with the foundation/ year 1 class and nursery. We started our trip at the RNLI station, finding out information about the work they do. We found it really fascinating that they have only 90 seconds to get dressed and ready when the alarm is sounded. We all agreed that we can hardly put our shoes and socks on in that time! We enjoyed looking at all the boats they take out on the water, and learning what we have to do if we get into trouble at sea.

Just a few reminders for the upcoming weeks:
- Please remember to send your child in with a sun hat each day.
- PE days are Monday and Friday
- Whole school transition day is the 2nd July, where your child will meet and spend the day with their teacher for September

I am looking forward to all the activities we get up to as we move into the last few weeks of school before the holidays.

Any questions as always, just let me know.

Miss Bolger 

The Sun has Been Shining...

What a lovely week of sun-shine we've had this week!  Gardening Club have had a great week planting vegetables in our little plot - we are still trying to get rid of weeds! We now need to make sure we water them in the sun! 

In Lantic Class this week, we have been learning a new story during our English lessons - Mr. Gumpy's Outing.  We will be using this to inspire our own stories in the next two weeks.

In Math's we have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes and have been investigating them.

In our wider curriculum lessons, we have been classifying seeds, using directional language to move around maps, writing prayers for forgiveness - and discussing the importance of forgiveness and continuing to build our tractors!  

The children's ability in using different art techniques is amazing. They've practised Batik designs using various patterns, a variety of imaginative colours and wax resist. They applied the wax by using a tjanting tool (see pictures).To complete this term's unit of art study, they have produced an original Batik design based on the Maya cultural traditions. A  lot of thought and imagination has gone into each piece. Thank you, Talland Class.

English
The children have researched and practised several grammar related activities throughout the week. One of the advanced challenges was to use passive voice. Passive voice requires the writer to reorder an active sentence, for example:

James kicked the ball. (Active sentence.)

The ball was kicked by James. (Passive sentence.)

Using this strategy is a challenge, however, enhances the children's written work. A huge effort put in to this by all of the children.

Maths
There's been a lot of fun, together with serious learning, using protractors to measure and draw angles. This can be a complicated activity unless a child is focused and recognises the techniques used to be successful. They are now confident in finding acute and obtuse angles and many relate to the idea that there are 360 degrees around a point. Well done, Talland Class.



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


This week's jokes:

What did the triangle say to the circle? - You're pointless!

What is a swimmer's favourite part of maths? - Dive - vision!

Summer 2 - Week 3 and 4 - Being a good sport

We have had an extremely sporty few weeks here in Reception, and the children have really done us proud. We had spent some time practising the sports day events, and the children's 'have a go' attitude on the day and impeccable behaviour throughout really did shine out. We are so proud of them, as we are sure you are too. 

This week, a small group of children attended a multi-skills event up at Wadebridge Leisure Centre where they took part in lots of events. They absolutely loved it  and were full of excitement on their return. The children have been wearing their medals as much as they can this week. 

As well as all the sport, learning has continued in the class with the children embedding their phonics learning, and progressing on to real and nonsense words, as well as impressing us with some fantastic writing when they come into school in the mornings. To make our reading time even more fun, we had Year 6 visitors on Wednesday afternoon. It was so lovely to see them sharing, talking and reading together so beautifully. 

In maths, we have been finding half of amounts up 10, and this week looking at sharing equally into groups. 

Our wider curriculum learning has continued on a sea theme, but focusing on the RNLI  and beach safety. We have talked about the lifeguards, the coastguard and the type of equipment that they use. Over the next few weeks we will be looking at how to keep our beaches clean, so if you have any pictures of your children taking part in a beach clean, please upload them to Tapestry for us to share. 

Reminders - Please can any toys from home not be brought into school. They can get lost and broken, so please have a check of their school bags to ensure nothing is being sneaked in! 

Requests - We would love any boxes, yogurt pots etc for our junk modelling area. Please nothing that has contained nuts or eggs though due to allergies. Thank you. 

Have a wonderful weekend,

The Reception Team 

Summer term 2

Well the fine weather is finally here! What a packed Summer Term we have.

PGL

Nessa class have recently returned from a hugely successful trip to Barton Hall. The residential was packed with activities: high ropes, climbing, archery, rifle shooting, aeroball and raft building to name a few. We were blessed with perfect weather and the children had a trip to remember!

Awful Auntie

On Friday we are off to the theater to see Awful Auntie - what an end to the week. 

Aquarium

Kensa class visited Plymouth Aquarium last week. They came back full of facts and ideas about the underwater world.

Cricket

Next week we are visiting Summerset Cricket Ground to watch a county game.

What a busy couple of days we are having!

Residential and trip to Plymouth University

I hope that, by now, you have heard all-of-the stories from the Year 4 residential. It is safe to say that fun was had by all. And, for those who went to Plymouth University, they report to us that they had ‘amazing fun’ with Mrs Marshall in Plymouth. Well done to all of the Year 4s who were a credit to us. Thank you to you all for all of the positive comments you wrote on our Facebook page.  If you have not already gone across to see the updates from the residential, please feel free to see what your children were up to!

Sports Day 2024

Sports Day was a triumph again this year.  The children moved around the chain of activities enthusiastically and showed both a healthy team spirit coupled with the drive to ‘win’ personal races. Well done to the ‘Green Team’ for their deserved win. And well done to everyone for giving it their very best.

Transition Day

Next Tuesday is our transition day.  Children will come into school as usual on Tuesday and will be escorted to their new classrooms.  They will return to their usual classroom at the end of the day for a normal pick up.

Quick Note

As it is hot, please do send your child into school with a sun hat and or sun cream if you feel they need these things.

PE

Please be advised that PE days are Tuesday and Friday. Children MUST come into school in their kits with a water bottle.  All children must be wearing trainers. Shoes really are not suitable for the athletics that we are completing on both of the days.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Miss Pittas and the Year 4 team

Year 6 have been enjoying their Maya based topic by completing a range of activities. We’ve been finding out about the various religious practises of this ancient civilisation and how they believe in 9 levels of the under world and 13 layers of heaven.

In DT, we’ve been busy creating beautiful Maya masks using the technique of batik. This involves drawing with hot, melted wax before painting in the unwaxed fabric with ink. The results are stunning, and we are so pleased with how they turned out. 

Year 6 have been enjoying their Maya based topic by completing a range of activities. We’ve been finding out about the various religious practises of this ancient civilisation and how they believe in 9 levels of the under world and 13 layers of heaven.

In DT, we’ve been busy creating beautiful Maya masks using the technique of batik. This involves drawing with hot, melted wax before painting in the unwaxed fabric with ink. The results are stunning, and we are so pleased with how they turned out. 

Class 1 enjoyed a lovely train ride to Looe as part of their learning about Grace Darling.
The children had a tour of Looe RNLI where they got to see the equipment and vehicles that the crew use.

We then visited Looe beach where the children got to carry out some geography field work, sketching and sand scultptures, a game of boccia and most importantly toast some marshmallows!

A huge thank you to Mrs Currah for organising such a wonderful day and all the staff who helped it to be such a success. 
 

Sports Day 

Thank you to all the children and families for a great sports day and family picnic, here are some photos of the day.

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Another busy week!

• A rainforest paint-along with the Born Free foundation, painting capybaras in the rainforest. It was tricky to keep up but fun to do!
• We enjoyed a reading assembly with a book called The Day War Came - a great window to those who have escaped war and a mirror for some children we know from such countries. 
• We took part in the Bridge Games, with an Olympic theme! We enjoyed playing the games and achieved some great scores!
• We watched a great documentary by Sir David Attenborough to support our learning on rainforests, specifically the issue of deforestation. We learned to 'Use less space'!

Well done all of the children and adults who took part in our Wear Yellow to school/PTA fun run on Friday. All donations will be split between the PTA and the CFT #wearyellow campaign. Every tacked the laps in their own way; from a chatty stroll to a speedy sprint - you all did yourselves proud. Thank you to the PTA for providing a refreshments stall and a treat for all of the children. We really appreciate all of the staff, family and friends who also ran along with the children and cheered them around the track. 

Year 3/4A have enjoyed: Doodling, 2D mark making and sculpture during Sky Arts' Week last week. We created dioramas linked to our topic on 'Investigating Coasts'. Take a look at our masterpieces! 

Sports Week
What a week of sport! Around all the other learning taking place this week, we were all treated to watching children from Nursery to Year 6 take part in their Sports Days. I think a message passed on from one of our parents sums it up nicely:

“Thank you SO much for such an amazing first sports day! I can’t wait to see our child later to hear his version of events. We could tell how much fun he was having! I can’t believe how well behaved and organised they all were – what a gorgeous bunch of souls. Massive well done to all of the organisers.”

Congratulations to our overall winners, Cormorants, stacking up an impressive 1050 points.
2nd Swans - 1000 points
3rd Choughs - 850 points
4th Puffins - 700 points

Well done to all the children!

Year 6 Residential & Enrichment Days
We were expecting to see some tired Y6 children towards the end of the week. Despite being on residential or having a fantastic time taking part in enrichment activities, our Year 6 children certainly ended the week on a high during Friday’s Sports Day. Their Bristol adventure included a trip to a zoo, tree top climbing, bowling and an historical experience finding out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel. For the Year 6 children who remained in Cornwall, they also had fun-filled days making some beautiful bird art, a day with DT sports including zorbing and to finish the experience, a trip to Pentire beach. A huge thank you to the team of staff involved in organising a wonderful couple of days. Many lasting memories made for sure.

Transition
We have now finalised staffing for September. Next week, we will be sharing the staffing overview for September and further details about transition. We will be letting you know your child's class/teacher for September in their report coming home on Thursday 12th July.

Important dates coming up:
Wednesday 26th June 09:30 & 17:30 Welcome Meeting for New Reception Parents (Hall)

Friday 28th June KS1 History Day – Time Travelling Visitor

Monday 1st – Friday 5th July Year 6 Transition Week

Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd July Year 4 Residential to Porthpean

Monday 1st July The Place – Playground Theatre Tour performance to school

Tuesday 2nd July 15:15-16:15 KS1 Open Invitation Cross Country (Wadebridge School)

Wednesday 3rd July 09:30-10:30 Drop in & play session for children new to WPA joining Reception in September

Wednesday 3rd June 13:00-14:00 Drop in & play session for children currently at WPA Nursery joining Reception in September

Thursday 4th July 09:30-12:30 Taster morning & lunch for all new Reception children starting in September

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Best wishes,
Chris Wathern