You helped us to raise £2,374

What a wonderful afternoon we had at our 40th birthday celebration event.  Looe Primary Academy moved from its old site down in West Looe to its new site 40 years ago in November.  We could not resist the opportunity to celebrate the event.  It was a bit of an impromptu reunion for some of the previous staff including Mr Trethowan who was the Headteacher at the time that the school moved and Mr Wardle who was the Headteacher here not too long ago.  We wanted as many organisations in town to join us as possible and we we so pleased that we had so many join us - far too many to mention here!  We were very lucky with the weather and although it got a little cold towards the end, we all enjoyed everything that was on offer.  We are raising money for some new play equipment for both of our play areas and we have made a very good start to add to the money that we have already raised.  Thank you to everyone who made the day successful.  The children raised over £670 with their social enterprise projects, so thank you to them all too.  It was certainly a day to feel proud!

We started our new academic year by remembering the important British Value of respect.  We are so very polite and respectful to each other throughout the day at school, but do we really value and understand respect as the British Value of Mutual Respect and how this affects everything we do; not just open doors for each other, saying thank you and generally being polite?  

We came up with so many examples of mutual respect in action at school and in our community.  Some of the things we thought about were how we respect each other when adults are not looking, showing kindness, helping each other, disagreeing in a friendly and polite way, respecting the feelings of others, looking after things and animals, following the school rules etc.  We had so much to talk about and we are now working on some sentences that we can display around the school to remind us that mutual respect is such an important value and one that can help us to have safe and happy lives.

We can't wait to see what we come up with!

A year ahead to celebrate!

Welcome back to all of our children and families for the new academic year, with a special welcome to all of our new children and their parents or carers.

In November, our school celebrates 40 years since its move from its old site in West Looe to its current beautiful site on East Looe hill. 

To make this a year to remember, as well as welcoming all of our new pupils to school, we will be celebrating all things family.  We will start the proceedings with our '40 Years of Looe Primary Academy' celebration event.  An afternoon of fund-raising, song, music, performance, fun, food and games and stalls run by the children and a variety of local enterprises.  Our fund-raising effort this year is to provide new significant play equipment for both or our playgrounds.  We have been overwhelmed by the generosity and promise of funding from some of our local organisations and with grants as well as money already raised, we are well on the way to more than £20,000 to support this project already.  This event is open to all of our local community and all are very welcome - we pray for good weather!

Our aim this year is also to provide more and more opportunities for parents and families to join us at school to have fun and to learn together.  Towards the end of the Autumn Term we will begin to provide a number of learning opportunities for parents, both with and without their children and we hope that we will be able to welcome more and more people to join us in our learning and activities throughout the year.  A lot of these activities will be in partnership with local providers and the local authority, so please do join us as often as you can.

We cannot wait to throw open our doors to all who wish to join us as we mark this special time for this amazing school.  We are a happy bunch - why not come and see for yourself?

The residential and day trip season has well and truly arrived at Looe Primary!  Our Year 6 pupils enjoyed 3 nights and 4 days at Hendra near Newquay last week, supported by Kernow Sports and Leisure, one of our sports providers.  As you can see, they got up to all sorts of activities, including segway, body boarding, adventure challenges and a day trip to Camel Creek.  Even the staff got in on the act at the silent disco with evidence of Mrs Higgins dancing away with the instructors!  The staff were very proud of the children and hopefully they will have some lovely memories of their last few weeks at Looe Primary School.

Our Year 5 children will enjoy their residential this week and the Year 4 children recently enjoyed a visit to Longleat for 2 nights and a trip to Cheddar Gorge on the way home.  For the other year groups it has been a season of some wonderful visits to local venues, including the beaches in and around Looe, Plymouth University, the Sardine Factory/Heritage Centre etc.

We are now all eagerly anticipating the Year 6 drama production in the next few weeks - before we know it, it will be the end of the school year.  Where did all that time go?

We were so excited today for so many reasons.  We have got Children's University back up and running at school.  This is an opportunity for children to log all of the additional activity that they take part in beyond the daily school timetable.  They have a 'passport' to record their activities and once they reach a certain number of entries in their passport they become 'graduates' and are invited to attend a graduation ceremony at Plymouth University.  This hopefully helps them to understand that universities and further education are accessible for all.

Today we were delighted to welcome David Lawrence Jones back to school.  David is a Chancellor at Plymouth University but he is also an author and has written a number of children's books, and has made an animated film.  David is a great friend to the school and he has written a new book about Cub, the Children's University Bear and the children had met Cub not long ago when the Children's University Ambassadors came to visit.  This time though Cub had been on his travels and the children were finding out all about his adventures.

The children then worked with David to write a new adventure for Cub as he travelled around Devon and Cornwall.  Cub went to Exeter, Home Park in Plymouth, the Eden Project,  The Box, Bodmin Jail and Land's End.  They worked hard and even managed to finish their story!  The story will arrive back in school soon, so we will be able to share it soon.  Cub was so impressed with the work of the children that he arrived to congratulate them.

There was just one thing wrong with today.  Our own housework bear had been on his travels around the world recently, but we thought he was back to stay.  However, we couldn't find him anywhere and we now think he may have been so excited about Cub's travels that he has gone on his own travels again.  There is a chance he may just be being a mischief maker and that he may be hiding in your house.  If you find him, can you please send him back - we miss him when he is not here!

We were excited to say 'hello' to our RNLI lifeguard friends this week.  We know that we live in a beautiful place, but it is important that we remember how to stay safe in and around the water.  We learned and remembered that floating if you are in difficulty is the best way to stay alive if you are in difficulty, but we also heard how we can have a lot of fun as long as we remember where we are and play safely.  We got to wear the lifeguard helmets and understand all of the equipment that they use every day in their work.  A big thank you to the RNLI for helping us out.  I wonder how many of our children will become lifeguards in the future?