Friday 10th January- Happy New Year! 

Happy New Year to everyone, and what a wonderful start back to school we have had!

The children seemed to have grown over the two weeks not at school and it reminds us just how quickly the Foundation year goes!

This half term’s big question is: What can we explore today?

Currently we are exploring polar regions, we have our very own Antarctica in class and the children have loved exploring it. The weather has kindly helped us with our exploration and we have been looking closely at all the ice in our playground. We even completed an experiment to see if we blow bubbles onto the ice will the bubble freeze!!

In English this week we have started to read the story The Emperor’s Egg. The children loved this book, and they learnt it well by using our class story map. We also watched a compilation of Happy Feet the film. The children made connections about what we read in our book. The children have used their oracy and sequencing skills to retell the story in their books.

As we discovered that daddy emperor penguins have a very important job in keeping the egg warm and safe on their feet for 2 months, so we decided to see if we could be an emperor penguin. We had a go at balancing an ‘egg’ on our feet and waddle- it was so tricky! Although Janet was a pro!

In math’s this week we have explored zero, subitise to 5 and count back from 5. Miss Hughes has challenged the children every day to a math’s activity and the children have beat her every day, they are the best mathematicians!

In phonics the children have started level 3 this week we explored phonemes j/v/w/and x. The children have come back to school with such enthusiasm for their phonics and have been so excited to learn level 3!  

The children have also: made arctic scenes, drawn penguins, tried to make igloos from Lego, played read and find, and so much more!

Have a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

The end of term and Happy Christmas!

The children have been absolutely amazing this term and have worked so hard. We have had special visitors in our class this December! We found the elves under the tree at the start of December and they have been up to mischief ever since! We have had to keep a close eye on those cheeky elves, and the children have definitely been keeping them in check!

We have also had our Christmas performances. Foundation were absolutely brilliant in their first Nativity. They sang beautifully and the performance was wonderful. Year 1 performed in our Christmas play ‘The Fleece Force.’ They worked really hard to remember all the songs and the play was brilliant. Thank you all for coming along and supporting.

We have done some lovely Christmas activities to end the term, including our Christmas crafternoon! We have also been making Nativity stick puppets, decorating Christmas trees, using our cutting skills to decorate baubles and many more!

Thank you for all your support.

I hope the children have a very well deserved break. Happy Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year!

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Friday 20th December

Wow! We have reached the end of term!

I cannot believe that the Foundation children have completed a whole term already!

Time flies when you’re having fun they say, and we have had SOOOOO much fun learning and exploring this term!

We are so proud of all that the children have achieved and how they have progressed!

This week has been full of Christmas exploring in class. We have explored The Christmas Story in more detail, we have had fun creating lots of Christmas crafts and following verbal and visual instructions to make special things to come home!

We also had the Christmas disco, and class party which were both great fun. Wednesday was Christmas jumper and lunch day, and the children looked amazing!

This time of year, is always very busy and tiring so we wish you and your children a very happy, relaxed festive time at home and we look forward to seeing all the children back to school for the spring term on Tuesday 7^th.

The Foundation Team 

We have loved making some crafts to bring home for our loved ones over the last week and we hope you enjoy them. We will see you tomorrow for our class party and a 1:30pm finish. Remember children are back on Tuesday 7th January as we have an Inset day on Monday 6th.

Friday 13th December

We have had such a jammed packed week of exploring and learning!

We have been practicing our writing by labelling items in Santa’s sack! The children have worked hard t use their phonics to help them write small words!

We have been using the Christmas theme to match Christmas tree numbers to amounts of baubles. We went all the way to 20!

The children are coming to the end of level 2 again, with the emphasis on writing and have done really well. Next week we will be assessing the children. After Christmas we will begin level 3! We will be sending the weekly phonic sheets back out again after Christmas so that you can join in with the learning at home! They are progressing so well!

The children have also; made a dancing reindeer, made swirly snowmen, cut and decorated winter scenes, made a reindeer face and so much more!

The children have been practicing their Christmas performance and we were so impressed with the magical performance they joined in with, on Wednesday and Thursday! All the adults were so proud of them! It was fantastic! Thank you for coming, it was lovely to see so many of you.

Next week is the last week of the Autumn term. School will close at 1:30pm on Friday 20^th so please collect children at the usual door at 1:30pm please.

Have a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Christmas Craft Afternoon

On Wednesday 4th December the children in Year 2 had a wonderful time making Christmas Baubles with their families.

Artist Sue Bennett came into work with us and helped the children to create their own baubles designs.

It was lovely to be able to have so many parents join us for Christmas Crafts.

Friday 29th November

Some of this week’s exploring and learning:

In English this week we started to explore the story Lost and Found. The children have been learning this story through listening to the book, watching the video and using a story map in class. The children made stick puppets of the characters this week and then used their oracy skills to retell the story. They have really enjoyed exploring this story.

This week in maths the children having been subitising 4 and 5 and also ensuring they have mastered counting on and back to 5. We sang lots of counting on and back songs and read some lovely counting stories.

In phonics this week we have been reviewing, revisiting and writing letters, e/u/r and diagraph ck/

The children have also been making magical castles from building blocks, learning how to draw a teddy bear by practicing their pencil grip and pencil control and, printing with ink. We have also been watching Toy Story and using our imaginations to design toys that may come alive when we are at home! Next week we will make our toys!

Have a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Dear all!

We have had another busy week!  In maths, the children are still learning about addition and subtraction - please do not forget to check the assignments set on mathletics!

In English, we are doing poetry based on "The Winters Child" story.  It will be an acrostic poem and the children will read their poems to each other at the end of the week.

Both Year groups have now been to Morewellham Quay for their school trip.  It was amazing!  The children dressed up in Victorian Clothes and then went to Victorian School where the teacher was very strict!  They had to use slate and practise their handwriting!  Then the children went on the mine train and had lots of fun!

We are beginning to practise the Christmas performances so please help your child to practise their lines when you receive them!

Thank you!

WOW

A big thank you to all families.  We have managed to collect such a fantastic array of items for our Christmas Shoebox collections. What a special chance for us to take part in making a difference in our community. Mrs Davies will be taking bags of goodies to the homeless shelter to pass on to those who want and need these items.

Parent Partnership Meetings
Thank you for meeting with us last week.  If you have not yet made an appointment to come and have a conversation about your child, please feel free to do this and we will meet at the earliest possible time. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do feel that you can come and ask at any time.

Craft Afternoon.
Please come one and all. Year 3/4 crafter afternoon is next Monday PM. (2.12.24). All are welcome!

Christmas Celebrations
Our Christmas celebration is on Monday 9th December 9.30 for 1 hour. Please come and join us for a sing and watch our contributions.

Miss Pittas

Toasting marshmallows and lots of outside fun! 

We haven’t let the storm stop us this week. We finished our learning journey in English through toasting marshmallows. Our learning journey was all based around following instructions. Year 1 learnt about time conjunctions and imperative (bossy!) verbs, whilst Foundation sequenced different sets of instructions and used their phonics sounds to read bossy verbs. We then wrote our instructions to toast marshmallows and had so much fun following them outside. Mr Liddiment lit the fire and the children told each other the instructions. They were very tasty!

Year 1 have also been writing some fantastic number sentences in Maths. We have been using part-whole models to add together, and to take away. Year 1 have worked really hard to get the right numbers in the sentence and remember their + sign and their = sign!

Foundation have been recognising the numbers 4 and 5 this week. They had two different coloured hoops on the floor with the numbers 4 and 5 in them and they had to recognise these numbers on different pictures and sort them into the correct hoops. They have also been testing each other on recognising the number super quick when someone holds it up!

We have been having lots of fun outside this week. We have used our building blocks to build a town. The children told me that they had built Looe! We have also been using peg boards and other resources to make our favourite toys.

Well done Foundation / Year 1. What a lovely week.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Year 6 Parents and Carers: 

Please come along and join us for an afternoon with a bit of crafting and a bit of quizzing to celebrate the festive season with the Year 6 class.

Friday 22nd November

Some of this week’s exploring and learning:

The children have had great fun exploring instructions on how to toast a marshmallow this week. They have been exploring using fab vocabulary to start the sentence such as, get/let/hold/check. The most exciting part of our instructions is that today we got to toast marshmallows with Mr. Liddement! It was an amazing experience at school! The children were using words such as magnificent, delicious, crackling and wonderful!

The children have been subitising this week (saying an amount without counting) to three and some even beyond to five! The children really are working so hard!

In phonics this week we have revisited and reviewed writing the letters g/o/c/and k/. Alongside oral blending practice, their reading is progressing amazingly!

In outdoor learning with Mrs Gregory the children made tree sprites, and they were superb! They also had the chance to learn how to fly a kite just like Kit and Sam in phonics!!

The children have also learnt how to draw a robot toy, made their favourite toys from plasticine, designed some amazing toys using their imagination and so much more!

We wish you all a wonderful and restful weekend

The Foundation Team