Sports Day 2024

On Wednesday 19th June Year 3 had their Olympic Themed Sports Day.

The day started with the sprint races followed by the egg and spoon, sack race, relay and the infamous parents race!

Year 3 then took part in a carousel of activities including bowls, shotput and Football a la Francaise.

All the children tried their best, cheered each other on and had a fantastic time!

A huge well done to the Choughs who were the overall Year 3 winners!

Summer Sun

What lovely weather we've been enjoying this week! Tregantle Class have welcomed some new friends from different nurseries this week for their transition sessions to school. We spent lots of time in the garden using things from nature to make some crowns. The children used flowers, leaves and small sticks to create some fantastic patterns. We then made a new role play area in the garden - a pirate ship! The children all had lots of fun dressing up and finding treasure. Some children made treasure maps to help find the treasure and there was even a plank to walk along on the pirate ship! 
Tregantle Class have been getting active when practicing their races for sports day. We are getting very excited to take part in lots of races in a few weeks time! 

Life Skills

Throughout this week, the children have learned basic first aid skills. This included learning how to put a person into the recovery position; placing a triangular bandage into a position to make an arm sling; and the simple technique for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). There were all amazing at this. Well done, Talland Class.

English
This week has included using important grammar techniques in the children's story writing. The children have consolidated their knowledge and understanding of the use of speech marks and writing pieces of dialogue. They have been using some magnificent words so as not to overuse 'said': respond, growled and whispered, for instance.

Maths
This week's study has been investigating angles. We started with the terms acute, obtuse and reflex angles. This progressed to using protractors to accurately measure given angles then drawing their own angles.



best wishes,

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

This week's jokes:

A BOOK NEVER WRITTEN: “Injuries” by R.U. Okay.

What part of first aid are pirates best at? C.P.ARRRR.

This week we have started our teeth cleaning sessions. We have been supplied with toothbrushes and toothpaste so that we can collectively clean our teeth each day. This is a 3 minute activity that will promote oral health and wellbeing. The children are really enjoying this, we even have a special song to sing!

What a lovely week we have had in Canute Class this week. We started the week by releasing our beautiful butterflies out into the big wide world. We have been looking out for them each day to see if they come back to visit!

In English this week we finished writing our poems and they are amazing. The children were really engaged in their learning and used their fantastic imaginations to create some wonderful poems. We also started to think our new learning, all about writing recounts. We were very lucky that the sun shone for our 'experience day' where we visited the Wild Tribe area and completed a range of activities used as a stimulus for our writing next week.

In Maths: - Reception have been continuing their work on numbers to 20 and beyond. - Year 1 have been completing their unit of work exploring and understanding place value with numbers up to 100. - Year 2 have been focusing hard on recognising and finding fractions of numbers and shapes, particularly quarters and three quarters.

We continued our exploration of the World in our Geography, comparing the countryside and cities, locating the equator and poles on our World maps and creating posters to explain how we can all do our bit to slow down the effects of climate change on our world.

We have got another fantastic week ahead where we will all be taking part in various sporting activities as a part of the Bridge School Games and our annual sports day on Thursday. We can't wait to see you there.

Best wishes Mrs Andrew, Mrs Fernie, Miss Taylor, Miss Talbot

How has crime and punishment changed in Cornwall?

Class 3 had a very interesting trip to Bodmin Jail where we discovered how crime, punishment and prisons have changed in the last few hundred years. The class, as always, demonstrated their curiosity for learning by asking perceptive questions and linking new discoveries to previous learning. 

Creative Art Week

The children have had the opportunity to apply their creative skills during this week. The focus was abstract drawing and painting. As you can see from the pictures, the children's ideas, creativity and enthusiasm oozed out throughout the week. They should all be proud of their achievements.

English
This week, the children have learned how to write a set of instructions using imperative verbs and numbered bullet points. They have also secured their knowledge and understanding for the use of : and ;. 


Maths 
This has been the final week for the children's study of decimal numbers for this term. They are now confident in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimal numbers. This includes its every day use when calculating money. 


best wishes,

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

This week's jokes:

What did the artist draw before he went to bed? – The curtains!

Did you hear about the artist that always took things too far? – She didn’t know where to draw the line.

It has been a wonderful week in Penhallow this week where we have continued to delve a bit deeper into our new enquiry; What is the Commotion in the Ocean.

Year 1s have done a super job in their Phonics Screening Checks this week and it is wonderful to hear and see their progress in their reading.

In English, we continue to look at rhyming words to write our own verse for the Commotion in the Ocean story.

In maths, reception have been investigating more into patterns and year 1s are now exploring numbers to 100.

We managed to squeeze in a swim this week and the children all had fun moving around the pool and looking a little more into floating. We also enjoyed an athletics lesson, where we tested our pace and realised that we would get very tired if we tried to run our fastest when running for longer periods of time. 

In Geography, we investigated where we lived and discovered the difference between a town, city or village. 

We began our new PSHE topic of 'Changing Me' and the children enjoyed learning about our body parts and lifecycles.

Well done to Iylah who received her 55 badge in 99 club this week! Keep practicing your KIRFs to ensure that your maths facts are embedded and recalled quickly; this will help you to succeed in 99 club! 

Well done to our 'People of the Week' this week for showing our school values. This term we focus on being enthusiastic in our learning. Dexter and Darragh were picked for showing super enthusiasm in their learning and I picked all of the Year 1s for being amazing in their Phonics Screening Checks!

We are looking forward to performing to you at the Polperro Festival on Tuesday and we have been busy learning our songs so we can 'wow' the crowds at the school day on the Big Green. We look forward to seeing you there!

This week is also a big week for sport at school, the Bridge School Games take place where children will be taking part in a variety of French themed activities. Please ensure PE kit is in all week and swimming kit will be needed if the weather is kind to us!

I have just updated the twinklGO! activities and extra reading opportunities so please pop on to have a go if you have any spare time over the weekend. This is all aimed at your child's relevant learning.

Enjoy a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday for another great week!

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

It's been another busy week, with performance practise and prop making well underway!

We launched our new enquiry 'What's On Our Doorstep?', thinking carefully about what we would like to learn this half term. In Geography, we revised compass directions and has a go at using 4 figure grid references. We've been spending time rehearsing for our 'rocking' Polperro Festival performance which is on Tuesday! We can't wait! Please continue to practise the songs and your speaking part! Links to the songs can be found in the previous blog post.

We have come to the end of Fractions in Maths. Year 2 have been working hard finding three-quarters of a set of objects and Year 3 have been applying pictorial strategies to find the non-unit fraction of an amount. We are ready to move on to the world of Statistics next!

English this week has involved lots of Polperro Festival rehearsal along with continuing to explore legends. We made predictions about the Polish legend we will be learning, 'The Cobbler and the Dragon' and today wrote descriptions of a dragon's lair using our senses.

Polite Reminder: Please can you ensure you are bringing your colour banded reading book in with you to school everyday. 

Congratulations to Summer and Anya for being Landaviddy's People of the Week.

We hope you have a great weekend and see you on Monday.

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Bowden

TALLAND'S BLOG 14.6.24

SUMMER 2 has kicked off and there's been loads going on already! 

I'm extremely pleased to say we have our final collage art pieces! They look fantastic! I can't wait for them to take them home for you to see!

Maths:
Year 4 have been measuring their way through length and perimeter. They have their post assessment next week... Eeeee!
Year 5 have been diving into position and movement. Why not ask them all about translation?

English:
Drama based - we have been rehearsing our production for Polperro Festival happening THIS TUESDAY! Hopefully you can make it. Talland have been working so hard. It really is looking fabulous!

Computing:
We've had a lot of fun using Excel this week. Children have been firstly, 'tinkering' on it to see what kind of madness they can create. Then, we have put our data from a science experiment into a spreadsheet and converted that data into a chart. The children have loved it and the finished results are excellent!

The Bridge School Games kick off next week. Could all children please make sure they have their PE kits in school ALL week. This is all about the up coming Olympic Games, Paris 2024. Date for your Diary: 26th July 2024 is when the Olympic Games start - I for one, CAN'T WAIT!  

For Polperro Festival, children have been asked to try and bring in some clothing which resembles Victorian School Children. Ideally plane white, black, brown or grey. Please, please, please DO NOT feel you need to buy anything for their outfit!
Boys: A plain shirt and trousers. Waist coat, top hat and braces if you have them - not a problem if not. 
Girls: A long plane dress or a plane shirt/blouse and long skirt. Or what ever you can find. There is no pressure what so ever!

A massive well done to the year 4's this week, who have completed their times tables checks. Every last one of them should be tremendously proud of themselves and a huge thank you to the year 5's for being so respectful to the year 4's throughout this week.

Finally, well done to Harrison and Tabbi for being nominated as writers of the week. Well done to Harley and Joey for being nominated as mathematicians of the week. Well done to Ashton and Thomas for being nominated as readers of the week.

That's all from us. We hope you have an incredible weekend.

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

We have had another wonderful week together in Class 1!

Here's a brief overview of just some of our learning...

In maths this week we have been exploring grouping and sharing. We were grouping for a purpose and dividing a set of objects by placing a certain number in each group. We ended the week with odd and even sharing, we were each given different a different amount of buttons and had to say whether we had an odd or even number, we investigated this by sharing the buttons out. 

In art we started to paper mache a balloon which we hope to turn into a piece of art linked to artist Jane Tomlinson over the coming weeks... watch this space! 

We have also been practicing for sports day, we look forward to welcoming you to our sports day and family picnic next Friday 21st from 9:30-1pm. 

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: A photograph of you at the beach. Please bring the photograph in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Class 1 Team

Weeks 1 and 2: Fabulous Fruit Salads

We've been busy learning about eating healthy this week in DT and the children learnt about different food groups. We looked at the Eatwell Plate and learnt about the importance of eating a balanced diet. 

The children designed a fruit salad using three fruits and either apple or orange juice to top it with. Today, the children have been busy making their fruit salads. We discussed how important it is to wash our hands before we touch any foods we are preparing. We learnt how to cut the fruits safely using a bridge hold and used chopping boards and knives to cut the different fruits carefully. Once the fruit was cut, the children were able to select the fruits they wanted according to their designs and arrange them in an appetising way, topping them carefully with apple or orange juice. Some of their designs were beautiful! The children then sat together to enjoy their fruit salads together and we were really proud of them for trying some fruits they were not sure of. Some children said they don't usually have some of the fruits at home but that they had enjoyed them. We talked about what they liked about the look and taste of their salads and what they would do next time to improve their designs. We had some very constructive comments, including: 

"I would use less juice because there's too much!"
"I would use bananas next time. I'm not keen on the strawberries." 
"I would use more watermelon - it's so yummy!" 
"I'd add more of everything!" 

What a lovely treat after all their hard work during their Phonics Screening checks. 

Next week is Sports Week and we will be talking to the children about the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris.

Reminders

We're very excited to have our sports day on Thursday - please send your child into school wearing their PE kits and a coloured t-shirt to match their house team - if you are unsure of what colour they should wear, please do ask! 

Puffins - red
Cormorants - blue
Choughs - yellow
Swans - green. 

Summer 2- Week 1 & 2 - Sharing is Caring

We have spent the last 2 weeks enjoying books with not only a sea theme, but a key message of sharing. The children have been immersed in the story of The Rainbow Fish and Sharing a Shell, and have thoroughly enjoyed discussing the story, explaining how the characters change throughout the book, and thinking about how this applies in our own lives.

Following this sea theme, we talked about  sea creatures. We thought about what we already know, where they live, could we identify and name any other sea creatures, what different animals live in the sea, what are some of their features and what were their favourites. 

This sea theme continued though our provision in the classroom with children writing sea creatures names, writing sentences about what they could see in the sea pictures, and in our creative area drawing and making rainbow fish,  creating underwater scenes using materials and decorating shell pictures. 

Maths - We have spent the last two weeks learning how to double numbers up to 5 and recapping our learning so far in Reception. This week we have focused on subitising up to 5, recognising which picture has more or less, number bonds to 5 and one more and one less of numbers up to 10. 

Requests - If you have any junk modelling resources that we could use to make small boats we would be very grateful. Plastic bottles and fruit packaging would be ideal. 

Sports day - Reception Sports Day is Thursday 20th June from 9:15 - 11:15. Your child has been sent home with a letter with their house team colour on there. Please send your child in in this colour t-shirt for sports day. A letter detailing the event has been emailed out to all parents and guardians this week.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Best Wishes,

The Reception Team 

Chaipel Class are really immersing ourselves in our new enquiry, 'Did the Punishment Always Fit the Crime?' and this week, we have been investigating crime and punishment in Anglo-Saxon Britain. We have learnt about tithing, the wergild system of payment and some of the horrendous 'trials' that people accused had to endure whilst awaiting their time in court - guilty or not. We are very thankful for our modern-day justice system!

English
We have had a lovely week, learning about the features of crime-writing. We have looked into suspects, clues, red-herrings and motives/alibis. The children have thought about a period in history that they are basing their story around and have designed a fitting villain, writing a character descrption which really brings them to life! Their only criteria is for them to ensure that the crime committed links to the period and the punishment given. We have moved onto using AI to generate a setting for our crime-scene, which we will write about on Monday.

In Science, we are investigating states of matter and have begun by revisiting the properties of a solid, liquid and a gas. We will be separating, melting, evaporating, freezing and so much more...

Polperro Festival
Rehearsals are in full swing for Tuesday's festival. The children are working really hard and have created their own props too. Any final props from home need to be in on Monday, please. We are all super excited!

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

Week 2 

This week has been super busy, full of lovely learning!

Some of Foundations exploring:

Foundation children have been trying t write lots of short sentences independently this week. They have been given seaside pictures and they have been writing about what they see.

In phonics they have been reading words with adjacent consonants and completing letter formation practice to ensure their writing is ready for year 1.

The Foundation children have also been making ocean picture plates to celebrate world ocean day and have been talking about how we protect our oceans, they have been sharing objects into equal groups, exploring shells, using their funky fingers to complete seaside pictures and so much more!

Some of Year 1’s learning this week:

The Year 1 children have been exploring a list poem over the last two weeks and this week they have been imitating the known poem to make it their own, they then spent time writing the poem up ensuring they were using ambitious vocabulary and using capital letters and full stops in their wiring.

In maths this week the children have started to explore place value to 100! The children have been counting from 50-100, counting to 100 in tens and also learning how to partition numbers to 100.

In PSHE all children explored how we have changed since we were born and had lots of discussion about how our bodies have changed and what we can do now that we couldn’t do then!

In PE all the children have continued to explore tennis skills with Ryan, and they are progressing really well.

It’s been another wonderful week of learning.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

Art Week

The children in Lantic class have been busy artists all this week... They have been making observational drawings of flowers, then drawing various farm animals!  They really are getting much better at REALLY looking at objects and pictures before drawing what they can see.

We have of course also been writing a class poem based on '10 Thing in a Wizard's Pocket' about a farmer's pocket - you wouldn't believe what they carry!!  And of course Maths, where we started looking at lines of symmetry...

St Breock Care Home Choir Visit
Our KS2 choir visited St Breock care home on Monday afternoon, where they sang to the residents. The sea shanties they had learned for Songfest 2024 went down a storm. We look forward to forging more links with the local community.


Car Park – Drop off and Collection arrangements
Thank you so much for your co-operation this week. Feedback has been very positive and is helping, in the mornings particularly, for a much calmer and safer start to the day.

A couple of key reminders from what we’ve noticed this week:

• In the mornings, please do not park in the ‘Stop and Drop’ channel.

• To help the flow, please drive on as far as you can in the channel before dropping off. It would be helpful if your child has all their belongings ready to exit the car.

• Please do not drop off your child in any other area of the car park, as this is unsafe and causes congestion for others.

• When walking on the footpath next to the ‘Stop and Drop’ channel, please keep to the school fenced side for your own safety.

• If parking, please supervise your child across the car park.

• Please do not park on the double yellow lines or next to any coned areas.

• Please drive slowly.

Additional Parking - Wadebridge Town FC have kindly offered their car park for parents to use in the mornings and afternoons on a first-come-first-served basis. Please do make use of this facility if you can, especially at the end of the day where you can park, walk down to school and collect your child without worrying about finding a space on the school site.


FOWPA
Non-Uniform Day Donations
A massive thank you to all the parents, carers and children of WPA for the generous amount and quality donations that were collected on Thursday. We cannot thank you enough for your ongoing support and we look forward to making some excellent hampers to raffle off soon. As always, all proceeds go back into the school and benefit the children. If anyone was unable to donate yesterday and still wishes to, there is a box outside the office. Thank you!

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The FOWPA Team

Sports Days
Please check the email sent on Wednesday 12th June about the various Sports Days taking place next week. Without mentioning the car park too much more, please refer to the email for parking arrangements. We are all looking forward to seeing everyone take part throughout the week. Fingers crossed for some drier weather!

Year 6 Residential
Next Monday, many of our Year 6 children will be travelling to Bristol for their residential experience. Please ensure you’ve checked the letter sent out earlier this week with final details. The team will be updating the WPA Facebook page each day; so do take a look. For our Year 6 children not attending, we look forward to three enrichment days of art, sport and a trip.

Transition
As part of transition to secondary, Year 6 were visited by staff and Y7 students from Wadebridge School. This week they also took part in some science lessons taught by secondary staff. We received the following feedback after their visit:

“Thank you for hosting us for our science visit today. I hope your students got an insight into science at secondary and we were able to build some positive relationships. Walking through your school was an absolute joy and the class we visited were bright, keen, kind and attentive. Thank you for having us.”

As mentioned during the coffee mornings, we are wanting to build closer links with Wadebridge School for the benefit of our whole community. I’m looking forward to meeting the new headteacher when he starts in September to plan for closer co-operation between both schools.

Next week, I will share with you our plans for transition for all other classes taking place this half term.

Coffee Mornings
From September, we will be offering regular coffee mornings throughout the year. Some will be themed based on what parents might want to hear about/what the school would like to share; some will just be an opportunity to socialise with other parents and meet staff.

Today, Mr Jonathan Smith, hosted a SEND coffee morning with Ms Wright from Wadebridge School meeting with parents to talk about transition from a SEND perspective.

Sleep Wise Parent/Carer Workshop

Important dates coming up:

Monday 17th – Wednesday 19th June Year 6 Residential to Bristol (Departs 09:15-09:30)

- Year 6 children who are going to arrive between 08:45-09:00 if parents staying to wave off
- If not waving off and/or have younger siblings, please arrive as normal
- Year 6 children not going on residential arrive as normal
- Arrive back on Wednesday 19th June around 18:30


Tuesday 18th June 09:15-10:15 Nursery Sports Day

Tuesday 18th June 14:00-16:15 Year 3/4 Quad Games at Wadebridge School

Wednesday 19th June 09:15-11:15 Year 3/4 Sports Day

Wednesday 19th June Year 6 children not on residential out on trip

Thursday 20th June 09:15-11:15 Year Reception/KS1 Sports Day

Friday 21st June 09:15-11:15 Year 5/6 Sports Day