Friday 20th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In Enlgish this week the children have been ordering instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. They then went in groups to the local bakery and shops to buy ingredients.  The children also practiced their clear and precise oracy skills to give 'a robot' ( Mrs Phillips has a robot button you know!). At first the children were not very clear and the robot got very confused and emptied the bread all over the table. Then when the children said - spread the butter, the robot scooped butter with their hand and spread it on the bread eewwww! However, with a little bit of practicing and prompting the children gave brilliant instructions to allow the robot to finish a yummy sandwich. The children then gave each other instructions to make sandwiches and then we ATE THEM!

In maths the children have been exploring the number ten and making ten with three parts! The children then explored doubles to ten in detail! Wow they are all progressing so well.  

The children have been helping Mrs Phillips make the outside area look soooooo much better. We have swept, scooped, cleaned and built! Our new activity picnic table is amazing, and the mud kitchen will be in its new home soon. The track area looks great and Mrs Waring has kindly brought us more stones as we ran out! It is beginning to look so much better. We cannot wait for our new sandpit and surrounding fences!

Enjoy the sun this weekend

The Foundation Team 

A trip to the Eden Project! 

We had the best day visiting the Eden Project.

When we got there we were given an introduction and learnt a little bit more about Eden and the journey it has been on. We then went and explored the biomes. We have been learning all about the rainforest in Science and hot climates in Geography so we were amazed by the rainforest biome. We saw cocoa beans, palm trees, waterfalls and much more. We were using our curiosity to ask lots of questions and we talked about the impact of deforestation and why it is so important to look after these environments.

We then had a workshop all about seeds! We learnt about what a seed needs to grow, dissected a seed and found the baby root, and held the biggest seed ever! We then got to plant our own seeds to watch them grow at home. We were then given a certificate to say we had graduated as Eden seed experts! We were all very proud of ourselves.

I have to praise the children's behaviour and attitude at the Eden Project. They were real role models for Looe Primary and we were so proud! Well done Year 1 and 2!

Miss Bolger

Friday 13th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In English this week the children continued to wow Mrs Phillips with their phonic knowledge. The children had a sentence dictated to them and their job was to use their phonic knowledge to write that sentence, using a sound mat. The adults in class were blown away with how amazing the writing was! Next week we move onto instruction writing and how to build a rocket. We want to be like bear in the story and build our own rockets!

In maths the children have been exploring number bonds to 10. They have explored using two parts and have used lots of resources to make the parts individually and working as a team!

In PSHE this week the children continued to explore how we keep ourselves healthy. This week the children spoke about what they do before bed to ensure they get a restful and full night's sleep. WE also had the RNLI come into school today, to deliver an assembly all about how to stay safe when you visit the beach! 

WE were also so lucky to have our new recycled playhouse delivered by the wonderful Looe Shedders! The children have already put lots of things inside and cannot wait to keep playing in it, we have already decided to act out a part of The Three Little Pigs story! 

The children have been exploring space and this week they have made space pictures, made lolly-stick pictures, role played astronauts in the role play area and on Wednesday Mrs Lyden put paper on top of the tables AND under the tables, the children had the task of drawing space pictures as a table. The pictures that were produced were amazing!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

We have finally been able to start the improvement phase for our Early Years outdoor learning space.  A lovely group of volunteers, Looe Shedders have previously built us a playbus and some large planters for the Key Stage 1 playground.  They have been enjoying making this shed for a number of months and yesterday it arrived and was built in the front play space.  They have made the shed from items they already had access to with donations from local suppliers for paint etc. and I am very aware that they have contributed to this project themselves.  As you can see, it is beautiful.  It has stairs and a small mezzanine floor inside and Mrs Phillips, the Foundation class teacher has already begun to stock if with homely items for role play.  It took most of the morning to erect in place and the children were getting more and more excited as they saw it grow.
Thankfully, we had some sun and they were able to give it a good check over and explore.  It was a special moment to watch their joy and excitement at their new house.  It has made such a difference already to the space.

The class with the help of the adults, raised an amazing £500 from a pancake race on Shrove Tuesday and some of this has already been spent to begin to make their outdoor space more colourful and appropriate.  The recent storms had a big impact on the spaces and we had trees down and lots of debris.  It has meant that the children have not been able to safely use these spaces for a few weeks, but the arrival of the playhouse gave us new energy and excitement to get the project done now and with some help from our premises team at Bridge Schools.  Watch this space and a very big thank you from us all to Looe Shedders!

Making clay fish and litter picking! 

We've had a great start to the half term in Year 1 and 2.

We have been enjoying our new big question: Would you rather live in a hot or cold place? In Geography, we have been finding the seven continents, the North Pole and the South Pole and the equator.

In Science we have been exploring living things and their habitats. This week, we learnt about why habitats might become endangered, and what might happen to the plants and animals that live there if they do. We then went around the school and picked up any litter we could find. The school looks cleaner and we helped the plants and animals too!

We were very lucky to take part in the Clay Fish project that is happening around Looe. The children were taught how to make the fish and they really do look wonderful.

We have got lots of learning to look forward to - especially our Eden project trip on the 19th March!

Thank you all.

Year 1 and 2 Team

Friday 6th March 

Another fabulous week in Foundation with lots of extra learning opportunities!

In English this week we have started to explore the story Whatever Next!

The children have been using their oracy skills to sequence the story, then they have explored adjectives (describing words) and have described characters, the children then wrote adjectives in tehri books using their phonic knowledge.

In maths we have been exploring 9 and 10. We have been working hard to learn parts of 10, we have used counters, rekinrek, counting bears and numicon.

In outdoor learning this week we completed our first orienteering activity; we had to work as a team to find the markers in our playground and then find the corresponding-coloured Duplo block! The children worked in teams and they were amazing!

On Thursday we celebrated St Piran's day and some home adults came into school and enjoyed completing St Piran's day activities with us! We then sang to the parents on the playground; it was a lovely day celebrating our County of Cornwall.

Today was World Book Day at Looe Primary and the children , and adults, all looked amazing. In class we had four focus books; Room on the Broom, Sneds and Smoos, Rainbow Fish and The Scarecrows Wedding. We had activities to go with each book and we had so much fun.

The Foundation Team 

Friday 27th February

Wowzers! What a fun learning week we have had back at school!

We started the week back to school with a celebrating Chinese New Year Day. We explored what the Spring Festival means to the Chinese communities. The children completed lots of activities that were all about the celebration and they loved learning about the Zodiac story. In the afternoon were privileged to have Eva , our Chinese community visitor, come into school and talk to all the children about the festival, show them how to make Chinese Lanterns and brought all the children spring rolls, from her restaurant, to try!  What an amazing day of learning!

On Tuesday the children prepared themselves for their sponsored pancake race. The children had been gaining sponsors for their outdoor learning area for a few weeks and on Tuesday they certainly earned all the money that had been raised by seeing how many times they could complete an obstacle course, whilst balancing a pancake. The children were amazing and the MASSIVE total of their sponsors was: £484.75p. This is a phenomenal amount of money, and the children have brained stormed what they want in their outdoor area, and lots has already been ordered!

Our new Big Question this half term is: Is There Anything Above the Clouds?

The children have been building astronauts with Lego, colouring space pictures by number, making space scenes, flying to space in the role play area, drawing and labelling what they would take to the moon and so much more!

This is only a small part of what exciting learning we have had this week and we are so excited with what we will explore leading up to Easter!

We are looking forward to our last full week in Foundation!

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 12th February - half term! 

We have reached the end of yet another amazing busy half term.

The children continue to impress us every day; their progression is wonderful to see on a daily basis.

We end of big question of What would it be like if the world were frozen? The children have worked so hard and had so much fun thinking about this question. They have explored so much amazing learning and especially enjoyed exploring lots of ice!

Our big question next half term is: Is there anything above the clouds?

We hope you all have a wonderful half term and look forward to seeing all the children back at school on Monday 22^nd February.

The Foundation Team 

Friday 6th February

This week  in phonics, we have learnt trigraph /igh/ and digraph /ee/ . Please look out for you weekly email so you can support your children's phonics at home.

In maths Miss Wilson explored the composition of 6, 7 and 8 with the children and then they began to explore 'one less'.

In English the children have started a new text The Emperors Egg. The children have loved exploring this book and learning all about penguins. We have explored a story map, drawn and labelled a penguin, thought of questions that we want to ask a penguin. Then on Friday we had a visit from a penguin and the children got to ask their questions and have them answered!!  We enjoyed making penguin huddles and doing a penguin dance!

In foundation we have started to complete handwriting lessons each afternoon to help with letter formation and begin to get ready for year1. On the first day all the children found it quite tricky to follow the handwriting lines BUT today Mrs Phillips nearly ran out of stickers because the handwriting was sooooo good!

The children have also made polar scenes, penguin scenes, started to make a penguin plate, explored books, had another library visit, built, made snipped and so much more!

We are nearly at the end of spring 1 already and next week school finishes at 3:15 on Thursday. Friday is an INSET day.

We wish you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 30th January

We have had a great week of learning in class.

In phonics we have continued to explore level 3. This week we have learnt /ai/ and /ee/ . The children have amazed Janet with their reading and writing this week.

In maths Miss Wilson explored the numbers 6, 7 and 8 with the children and then they began to explore 'one more'. We have great mathematicians in class that use wonderful mathematical vocabulary.  

In PE we used BIG parts of our body and small parts of our body to balance. The children were absolutely amazing at this!

In English the children have written key words and captions to match pictures from Snow White and have also explored what an adjective is and used adjectives to describe characters.

The children have also painted their tree snowflakes, discussed what it would be like if the world were frozen and decorated icy pictures, they have collaged polar animals , enjoyed playing with ice and using wonderful vocab to discuss what is happening to the ice as they were holding, and sooooo much more!

We wish you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Snow White writing and drawing shapes!

We've had a brilliant couple of weeks in Year 1 / Year 2. We have been finishing off our learning around traditional tales and finished writing our stories. We adapted the Snow White story to choose our own characters. We then wrote our stories up in neat to be displayed in the library. We have used adjectives, suffixes, capital letters and full stops in our writing. We have also done art work linked to Snow White and drew characters from the story in the magic mirror. 

On Tuesday there was Art club after school. We used colouring pens to decorate snakes and then used our cutting skills to make them move. The children were brilliant at taking their time to create their patterns and we were so happy with the finished result! 

Next week, we are moving onto writing about Mary Anning. We have been researching her in History and we're now going to write our own information texts about Mary Anning. 

We've had a great start to the half term. 

Year 1 / Year 2 Team 

Our first two weeks back! 

What a first few weeks we have had back! With some crazy weather and a pantomime, it has been quite the first two weeks back!

In our first week we were very lucky to have a theatre production of Snow White come to school. We absolutely loved the pantomime and joining in with all the songs. It was a great way to start our English unit all about Snow White and traditional tales. We will be using the pantomime as inspiration for writing our own stories.

We have also started our new big question in the wider curriculum: Who was Mary Anning? We have started learning some facts about Mary Anning and fossils. In Science we are exploring living things and their habitats. This week we were looking at things that are alive, dead, or never been alive. We explored our outside area and found plants, leaves, trees and other objects that we were sorting and classifying.

We have lots to look forward to this half term.

Just a gentle reminder:

Our PE days are Tuesday and Friday.

Please order your child's lunches on Thursday for the following week.

Reading records and books need to be in on a Friday to be changed.

Thank you!

Miss Bolger and the Year 1 / Year 2 Team

Friday 16th January

Another amazing learning filled week in Foundation!

This week, in English,  we have continued our story of Snow White and we have used our oracy and sequencing skills to sequence the story. We then separated into groups and with an adult we practiced acting a part of the story. We then performed our acting to the rest of the class! The children were amazing.

In maths we have been concentrating on subitising 0-5. Miss Wilson has been helping the children learn how to subitise in fun ways and the children have completed some lovely activities after each lesson to show how much they have learnt.

In outdoor learning this week we braved the wind and rain and went stick collecting. Ince we had the right size sticks we made snowflakes but winding string around the sticks to hod them together. They are currently hanging in class drying, ready for us to paint next week.

In PE we started gymnastics. This week we have explored holding our bodies in a stretch pose or a curled pose!

The children have also collaged snowflakes, which currently hang I our class and are beautiful. They have made polar scenes, had library time exploring books and sooooooo much more!

The Foundation Team 

Friday 9th January- Happy New Year

We have had a wonderful start back to school this week. The children must have had Christmas magic sprinkled on them as they have grown over the holidays and have come back so determined to explore and learn! 
Our big question for this half term is: What would it be like if the world were frozen?

THis week the children have explored polar regions and made pictures, they have made icicles from small parts, used pencil control to follow lines and make a snowy picture, painted lasagna sheets in frosty colours ready to make a polar collage next week and so much more! 

In phonics we have started to learn level 3 phonemes and write the graphemes and the children have been trying so hard to write CVC words that include our sounds of the day! 

In maths we have been exploring zero. We have completed activities including zero or not zero. The children are really beginning to use mathematical thinking and full mathematical sentences when answering questions! we have a class of mathematicians! 

In outdoor learning this week we went on an ice hunt! It had all melted by the time we got there but we found some wonderful things in our forest area. 

On Thursday we were so lucky to have M and M productions visit us and put on a wonderful pantomime- Snow White! We had so much fun and it has really got us excited to start our English learning journey on Snow White! Wonderful wow work coming soon!