Friday 19th September

What another wonderful week in Foundation!

This week in phonics we have learnt the phonemes (sounds)  i/n/m/and d

The children are progressing so well with their oral blending and sound recognition.

We also made bears from our Story We're Going on a Bear Hunt, we had a class competition to see who could sequence the story, Miss Ginn and Mrs Phillips' team both tied!! The children have been using wonderful oracy skills to describe parts of the story when retelling.

In forest school with Kelly we learnt a new hide and seek game, Mrs Phillips tried to hide but the children found her very quickly! Kelly took the children on a treasure hunt too! The children also collected sticks and leaves to use as craft in class. They have made some wonderful magic sticks in class!

The children have been name writing, colouring, counting using numicon, drawing who is special to them, making family trees and so much more!

What a great week!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Welcome to Year 3!!

Summer seems so long ago now and the children have settled well into our Year 3 class!  This term, we have many exciting things to learn and do!  The topic being one of my favourite subjects - Ancient Egyptians!

In maths we are beginning with a Place Value unit.  The children will be learning numbers upto 1000 and understanding 100's, 10's and 1's.  There are always assignments set on mathletics relating to the unit so please take a look!  The logins have been stuck into the front of your child's reading record.  Do note though that the Mathletics and Reading Eggs logins are the same now as they have merged companies :)

In English, the children are learning the "Egyptian Cinderella" story.  So far, they have learned the story and will be writing a character description at the end of the week.

In Science, the topic is "Animals Including Humans" and will be learning about diet and nutrition.  They will be looking at food labels and deciding deciding whether the foods are a healthy choice or best as a treat!  If you are out shopping, the children could watch out for those green labels!!

In History, we have begun learning about the Egyptians and how they lived.  They all understand how long ago Ancient Egypt existed and completed a fun timeline to show their knowledge!  Next, we will be learning about "mummification" which they are already excited about!!

Just a note to remember your child's reading record every day please!  They will be completing guided reading activities and whole class reading lessons so having them in school every day really helps to keep a good record and gives an opportunity for the children to continue with the karate band initiative.

I have attached the curriculum map for you to see the whole term.  Any questions, as always do let me know!

Mrs Brewer, Mrs Miller and Mr Liddement

Welcome back to a new year at school.  It has been lovely to see everyone settling into the new term in this, our first full week back at school.  Just a couple of reminders:

Reading Books
Please ensure all reading books are brought to school each day. We will collect them in on Mondays to check reading and count up the Karate Bands.

PE/Games Lessons
PE is on Thursday and Friday PMs with Friday being with a coach. Please make sure that your children come to school with the correct kit including footwear and jumpers as the weather gets colder/wetter.

Celebrations
If your child has won a certificate or award for achievements outside school, please feel free to let us know. We would love to celebrate with you in school.

If you have any questions/concerns please feel free to speak to the Year 3/4 Team (Miss Pittas, Mrs Hewitt and Mrs Gregory)

Friday 12th September

We have had  a great first full week in Foundation!

The children started their formal phonics learning this week. The sounds that we learnt were: s/a/t/p. We practiced actions to help us remember these sounds and we practiced holding our pencils and learning the correct letter formation to write these letters!

The children were amazing in phonics.

This half term our bog question is: What is a Superhero? As an introduction to this question, we have started this week with an 'all about me' theme.

The children have coloured handprints and said the things they love to do, and we have discussed how we are all joined in our class but all different and made jigsaw pieces to join together. This display can be seen in the foundation foyer.

The children have used their funky fingers to make themselves out of Lego, they have worked as a team to make marble runs, used the role play area to be doctors and care for each other and so much more!

The children have settled into Foundation class so well and we are so proud of them all!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Happy Summer Holidays

What a pleasure it has been to teach the children in Foundation this year! 
It's a bittersweet day for the staff in class today...We are beyond proud of all the children for all they have achieved, all the skills they have learnt and the wonderful year 1 learners they have become HOWEVER it is a sad day also as we have to say goodbye and pass them onto the next teacher. Although we know they will continue to do so well in year 1, we will miss them so very much! 
Thank you for all of your support this year, we wish you the most amazing summer break. 
Warmest and kindest wishes 
Mrs. Phillis and the Foundation Team ! 

Friday 11th July

Look at the amazing butterflies we made during outdoor learning this week.

We worked together to find some leaves that represented butterfly wings. We then painted these leaves together. Once they were painted, we printed them on the paper around the butterfly's body!

We had great fun, but wow it was hot, so we stayed under the trees where it was a lot cooler!

We wish you a wonderful hot weekend and hope you have lots of fun in the sun!

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

The Foundation Team 

Friday 4th July

Some of this weeks learning:

The children have been exploring water safety this week. We have explored how we can stay safe in the water and also what the flags mean that we see at a lifeguarded beach!

In outdoor learning this week we had the best time searching for things of different colour. Mrs Lyden made us some amazing colour magnifying glasses.

In maths we have been exploring mapping with positional language. The children have been excelling in their maths and the mathematical sentences they have been using have made the adults in class so proud.

We have also made star fish using cheerios, which was so much fun, made ice creams , and so much more!

What a great sunny week!  

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 27th June 

Some of this weeks learning:

This week Mrs Phillips has been assessing the children in reading and maths. The children have been amazing and have tried their best. Mrs Phillips and the other adults have been amazed at how much the children have learnt this year and how well they have retained skills and knowledge. Foundation you are simply amazing!

This week the children have also been exploring patterns and repeated patterns in maths and they have been amazing at making their own patterns.

They have also been observing different types of seashell and drawing them, using their cutting skills to cut and make flying seagulls, creating their own ocean picture then writing about it and so much more.

The children are continuing to progress and achieve so much, and we are looking forward to the last three weeks of their foundation year!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Sports Day fun for Foundation / Year 1! 

On Friday we had our Sports Day at Looe Primary. The children came to school dressed in their house colours Plaidy, Millendreath, Hannafore and Talland. We then took parts in lots of different activities to try and win as many points as we could for our team.

Our first activity was a circuit. We had to do hurdle jumps, throw a bean bag in a hoop, star jumps and then run back for the next person to start. Our next activity was a dress up relay, where we had a hat and we had to run to the next person and give them the hat. We found this very funny and trying to get the hat on and keep it on whilst running was challenging for some! Our last activity was a throwing activity. We had three different hoops and each hoop was worth a different amount of points. We then had to throw the bean bag in one of the hoops. We even made it more challenging at the end by moving the hoops further away.

Foundation / Year 1 made me so proud with their sportsmanship - especially on a very hot afternoon! They even managed to keep their energy for the races at the end of the day, I don't know how they did it! They were determined and responsible, showing two of our values to the rest of the school and the people that came to watch us. I was so impressed with their attitude to sports day. Well done Plaidy, who were the winning team, but well done all of you for taking part.

Thank you.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Friday 20th June

We have had another lovely week in Foundation with lots of wonderful exploring and learning.

Some of this weeks learning:

This week the children have been continuing to write dictated or independent sentences about pictures from Julia Donaldson books. This has really helped Mrs Phillips to see how far they have come with their phonics and writing. The children are progressing so well and the adults in class have been astounded by some of the writing.

In maths this week we have been exploring sharing and grouping. As we have been learning to chant and sing our times tables for some time now , this really helped with this unit of learning. Janet was blown away with how well the children were grouping items in two’s yesterday!

In outdoor learning this week we completed a summer treasure hunt, we found, red flowers, big sticks, bugs, blades of grass, but no frogs!!!

We have also been making jelly fish, completing beach phonics activities, sharing carrots and frogs in a maths activity, writing tricky words outside, making playdough beach pictures and so much more!

Today was sports day and what a lovely day it was…wow was it hot! The children had a great first sports day and really enjoyed taking part in all the activities.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Making art and Bridge School Games! 

We’ve been very busy in Foundation / Year 1 this week.
We have been learning even more about Julia Donaldson and her books. In Year 1, we have started using our comprehension skills to answer questions about different stories. In Foundation we have started writing key words to match a picture and finding words that rhyme.

In Maths, Year 1 have been making equal groups through sharing. We’ve also been learning all about doubles and have been singing songs to remember our doubles. Foundation have also been learning about groups and how we share to make them equal. Then Foundation were finding out how many were in each group.

In Art we have been exploring mark making and making different shapes with our pencils. We’re looking forward to practising making marks with different materials!

In Science, we have been learning about the seasons. This week, our focus was on winter. We talked about what happens to trees in winter and what appropriate clothing we can wear in the colder months. We then started looking at weather forecasts and made our own for the day. We were very happy that it was a sunny one!

This week, it has also been Bridge School Games. This is where all the schools in Bridge Trust take part in physical activities and we see what school scores the highest. Foundation/ Year 1 were brilliant. They showed great sportsmanship and had a really good ‘I can’ attitude. I’m excited to see how they do on sports day!

Year 1 have also finished their phonics screening and they have just been amazing. Their hard work truly does pay off!

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Thursday 5th June

What a great first week back to school. The children have returned to school raring to go for their last half term in Foundation! This half term will all be about getting ‘Year 1 ready’

Some of this week’s learning:

Our big question this half term is:

What do we know about our local area?

This week we have started to read stories by Julia Donaldson, specifically The Snail and the Whale. For a WOW moment we watched the video as well as read the book. The children then used their oracy skills to retell the story. We then moved on to exploring rhyming words. We discovered there are lots of rhyming words in the story we read this week.

In maths we have been exploring shape. We have named and recognized lots of shapes and also explored rotating and manipulating shapes. Today we used positional words to describe where shapes were.

We have explored maps and fitting in environmental features, thinking about whats in our local area and drawing and labeling them, exploring our new RNLI and beach role play area and so much more!

Its been an amazing week of learning.

Gentle reminder that tomorrow ( 6^th June) is an INSET day.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Julia Donaldson books and learning all about shapes! 

We’ve had a great first week back after half term, and it has been lovely to see that the children have returned with the same brilliant attitude towards their learning.

We have started our new English learning Journey focusing on books by the same author. We have chosen to focus on Julia Donaldson as we love her books in our class! We started our journey by listening to the Snail and the Whale story and then making stick puppets to act it out. We used our oracy skills to show each other what we could remember about the story. Year 1 have also started writing their own fact files about Julia Donaldson. Did you know she has more than 200 books!

In Maths, Foundation have been focusing on shapes. They have been learning about different 2D shapes and exploring these independently. We have spoken about how many sides different shapes have and what they look like. Foundation have also learnt about rotating shapes and how if we turn shapes, they might look slightly different! Year 1 have started their multiplication and division unit by counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. They are already brilliant at this but now they are applying their learning to number lines and number tracks.

Foundation have also discovered our new dressing up box and have loved dressing up this week! They have used their imaginations to make characters. I have particularly enjoyed the fairy princess stuck in the castle story they told me!

Just some reminders/updates: 

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check starts next week. Any practise you can with those real and alien words will really help with their screening. 

P.E days are still Tuesday and Thursday for this half term.

It has been a wonderful first week back and we’re in for a busy but exciting final half term!

Thank you all.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Thursday 22nd May- End of half term

End of yet another half term! Wow! One more half term to go!

Its amazing to see the children progress and learn so much. We continue to be so proud of them!

This week’s blog is about the trip!

The children were an absolute credit to the school and their adults at home. It was the foundation children’s first trip out at school, and they were just amazing!

We had a great day exploring so many different animals, learning so many fun facts and feeding the farm animals was very giggly! The children were so brave, holding their hands the correct way to feed the animals!

We had lunch in the jungle barn and the chickens kept coming in to try and steal the sandwiches!

What an amazing day we had!

We wish you all a wonderful half-term break and look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 2^nd June

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team