What a wonderful start to Year 3!  The children have settled into KS2 life superbly and we are proud of their positive attitudes towards the challenge.

English
We have begun our English learning journey with the fiction text ‘The Beasties’. The children have been learning about lots of Year 3 skills for writing as well as consolidating lots which were learnt in Key Stage 1.  They are getting ready for their first Key Stage 2 big writes next week and we can't wait to read their versions of The Beasties! 

Maths

In Maths, the children are coming to an end of the Place Value unit and have enjoyed working with concrete Base 10 equipment as well as Place Value Counters when exploring numbers to 1000. 

Best wishes, 
The Year Three Team

This term, Class 2 are travelling back in time to the prehistoric Stone Age. We were amazed to learn that some cave art has survived millions of years and still exist today! We enjoyed creating our own cave art style drawings, using charcoal to sketch animals and chalk to create our own hand art. Watch this space for our upcoming cave paintings. 

A fantastic start!

It has been an amazing start to Year 2. Well done and thank you to all pupils for such a fantastic start to a brand new academic year. We have been very busy already getting stuck in to our History topic for the half term; “How have significant people shaped our world?”. So far, we have studied Florence Nightingale, Muhammad Ali and Mary Anning.

In English, we have been writing about the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and have had lots of fun innovating the story to make our very own versions which vary from Three Cheeky Chimps to Three Merry Mermaids! Take a look at just one of the fabulous examples of extended writing. We are very proud of all of the children.

A reminder that Home Learning is sent home every Monday. Please ensure your child brings their Home Learning book into school with them so that we can update it. On a Monday, we also change reading books and visit the school library. If you have any library books at home from last year, please do send them in with your child. Each child’s Home Learning book has also been updated with their Numbots log in details for practice at home.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year 2 Team

A spot of cricket anyone?

This week, Talland class have been incredibly busy with not one, but two, extra PE sessions this week. We are immensely lucky to have 'Cricket Chris' instructing us as part of the 'Time to Shine' program. After an assembly introducing the basic physical and life skills we would be covering, we began with catching and bowling this week. The progress the children have made, even in a couple of hours, has been vast - who knows, we may have a future England player in our midst!

In art, we are studying the work of William Morris (linking with our big question, 'Were the Victorians Really Vile?'). This week the children were tasked with making careful observations of some of Morris's most famous designs and simplifying them. They then took their inspiration from nature closer to home - around the school grounds! We went on an observation walk; picking up interesting leaves and fallen flowers, as well as taking photos of trees, flowers and leaves that we thought we particularly pleasing to the eye. Back in the classroom, we created simplistic outline sketches of some of these items and images, preparing to transform them into a printing block design in the next couple of weeks. We were very taken with the hydrangea shown above - we liked the outline shape of each set of petals. Check back next week to see a sneak preview of some of our designs so far...

Over the last couple of weeks the children have been enjoying the new classroom set up and some of the new resources we have. All the children old and new have settled in well to school life. We went on a bear hunt in the forest and even found a bear! The children then created their own verses for the bear hunt story. Out in the forest the children have been making animal homes as part of their construction unit in DT. The children also made some amazing pictures representing the main scenes from the story using collage. Please see the document below which tells you a little bit about what we will be doing in Little Foresters over the next few weeks. 

A week of fun, families, and forest school! 

During our Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we have continued to explore 'What makes our world go around?'. In Geography, we found out what the equator is and discovered what the climate is like for countries along the equator. We managed to get into the swimming pool on Friday, which was fantastic, but a tad cold! We had fun though, playing some pool games. During Science, we learnt about the human life cycle, along with the life cycle of barn owls. Can you recall the five stages of the barn owl life cycle?

In English, we have been working hard on our descriptive writing this week. We recapped adjectives and nouns, and written some amazing expanded noun phrases inspired by owls. Today, we began to plan for writing our own character descriptions about Plop from 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson. I can't wait to see your final written descriptions next week!

In Maths, we have continued working hard on our Place Value unit. This week, we have particularly been using number lines to count in 10s and 1s (Y2) and 100s (Y3). 

Congratulations to Lowen J, Harley and Darragh for being Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Amelia and Frankie for achieving their 22 club! 

Please find this half terms Knowledge Web attached below. This details everything your child will be learning during wider curriculum lessons. Of course, should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Reminder - Meet the Teacher is on Wednesday 25th September at 2:45pm.

We hope you have a fabulous weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

School Council Our School Council is a group of dedicated and passionate pupils who are committed to making our school a better place for everyone. School Council members are elected by their peers in our School Council elections which we hold every September. Well done to everyone who put themselves forward and to those who have been elected this year: Elsie, Martha, Henry, Grace, Tabbi, Benjamin, Amelia, Ronnie and Ada and Phoebe (our member for Pupil Voice for PE and Sport). Information about our School Council can be found on this website under the ‘Our Children’ tab.

Time Capsule Each of our classes has created a booklet to go in a time capsule to be buried under Big Green in Polperro which is currently being refurbished. The booklets contain the children’s self-portraits and their wishes for the future. To go with the booklets, we have written a letter to the future (attached) which Tristan read beautifully to the school at today’s assembly.

Asda Cash for Schools Parentkind – a charity that supports school PTAs - have teamed up with Asda, who is making millions of pounds available to donate to primary schools across the UK through their ‘Cashpot for Schools’ initiative. To support our school, all you have to do is opt-in through the Asda Rewards app, shop and scan in store or shop online at Asda.com. Between 2nd September and 30th November 2024, every time you shop with Asda using the Rewards app, our school will receive a percentage of your spend.

Home School Agreement/ Parental Consents Please would you take some time to log into your Arbor Parent Portal/App to check both your own and your child’s data, amending where necessary ensuring you have details of at least two contacts on your file in case of an emergency. Once logged in you will notice that the 2024/25 Home School Agreement has been uploaded. Consents are to be completed for every child to enable them to have photos taken, watch PG films, attend local sporting events and access approved learning platforms etc. 

Pre-loved uniform We keep a stock of very good condition pre-loved uniform in school (£1 donation per item towards school funds). Please bear this in mind if you need to replace any items for your child. There is a rail of items just inside the reception. Please ask at the office for a range of sizes.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our Meet the Teacher sessions on Wednesday 25th September at 2:45.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Hillman

TALLAND CLASS BLOG 20.9.24

I cannot believe it's in the end of the week - it's flown by!

Talland have been working their socks off this week! We even managed to squeeze  a couple of cheeky swims in - might as well make the most of the sun shine!

Maths:
Both year groups are nearing the end of the first unit (place value). Addition and subtraction is next on the list!

English:
Talland have worked their way through the features of an instructional text - next week it will be time to begin planning to write their own (independently). Let's see how much they've learnt - it should be fun!

Art:
We had lots of fun using black and white paint to show the children how to add shade to a colour using black or tint a colour using white. Why not ask your child what shading and tinting means?

Geography:
We've continued looking at erosion and what causes this to happen - fun added homework task to those who choose a little adventure - take pictures of you and child on/next to (nothing dangerous) different coastal features: Arch, bay, beach, cave, cliffs, coast, cove, headland, island, stack, stump, sand dune, spit. I wonder who can find the most?

CONGRATULATIONS:
Well done to Isabelle for earning a 99 club badge!
Well done to Skye for being noticed as Tallander of the week!

I have attached the spellings your children will be learning next week. If you have time, it would be fantastic if you could help your child learn them along with their times tables.

That's all from Talland. We hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.

 

Chaipel have been busy this week, investigating Place Value in Maths and are really getting to grips with dealing with numbers up to 10,000,000. Next week, we will be rounding, reasoning and problem solving, applying our new understanding.

We are currently planning our newspaper report on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii and this week we have been exploring how to write 'journalist-style', practising direct and indirect reporting as well as past simple and past progressive verb sentences. We will be writing our report next week and I look forward to reading them!

For Spellings, we have been creating Top Trump cards for our curriculum spellings, navigating dictionaries and unpicking a word, its composition and its word family. Phoebe and Verity have created some impressive cards full of facts.

We have been exploring the use of water colour in Art, and experimenting with various techniques to create texture. Freddie worked extremely hard and has produced some incredible work to be proud of. 

Today, we were lucky to have had the opportunity to create class cards to put into a time capsule which will be buried beneath the new Big Green for future inhabitants of Polperro to unearth in years to come...

Congratulations to our People of the Week - Aria and Imogen - to displaying our school values as well as to Dom for achieving his 99 Club. 

Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

Mss Randle, Mrs Clary and Mrs Hodge.

What a great start 

Wow! What a great start to the year. The children have settled in brilliantly and are becoming more confident in their new classroom and playground.

We started off their learning with Science exploring our key question ‘what are the characteristics of an animal?’ The children discovered which groups different animals belonged to, looked at their diet to decide if they were a carnivore, omnivore or herbivore and what makes an animal suitable to be pet.

In English the children learnt the story of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by acting it out with actions. This lead on them writing the story in their books before making up their own animal hunt adventure!

In Maths the children began with place value by counting and representing objects, recognizing numbers as words, counting on from a number and finding 1 more/1 less within 10.

You will find a log in for ‘Numbots’ in your childs reading record. This is an app which can be accessed from home. Please don’t forget we visit the school library on a Thursday if you would like a new book to read please return it each week. We update our class blog regularly so keep coming back to find out what else we have been up to.

Many thanks Year One team.

Friday 9th September

Wow! What another wonderful week of learning we have had!

This week the children have learnt the sounds i/n/m/and d/ in phonics and have worked hard to continue holding their pencils correctly and write these letters daily.

We completed dough disco daily too as this helps strengthen the children’s hands so they can grip their pencils correctly.

This week the children worked in teams with Mrs Gregory and Mrs Lyden and sequenced the story of Were Going on a Bear Hunt! The children then started their first bit of formal English activity and sat with an adult to sequence the story themselves, they then thought of words to match the story and tried to write the initial sounds of that word! WOW!

In maths this week the children have been exploring the topic of Match, Sort and Compare! They have worked amazingly well at matching objects, sorting them and comparing them with lots of different resources. We even went out to the big playground and sorted items in big circles!

The foundation children have also used their cutting skills to cut parts of a bear out to make the Bear from our book, they have been making their homes from Lego, using natural resources to make faces, read books, made tracks for the bikes and so much more!

It's been a wonderful week of exploring and learning!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Another week has flown by in Tregantle Class - and what a fun week we've had! Our EYFS children have been making the most of the nice weather and exploring our amazing garden area. We went on a 'bug hunt' and found all sorts of interesting creatures and insects. The children have used the magnifying glasses and bug identification sheets to find out what the bugs they found are called. We have got really into our story of the week 'Jack and the Beanstalk.' The children have been busy acting out the story and making their own beanstalks. We are super proud of how hard the EYFS children are working in their phonics lessons. We are using our 'SHAPE' learning skills every day to learn and remember each new sound. Our rhyme of the week has been 'This Little Piggy.' Tregantle Class are now experts at reciting the rhyme and have even made up some of their own actions to go with the rhyme. 

In year 1 the children have been working on numbers to 10. Their focus has been finding 1 more and 1 less and using sentence stems to show their learning. In English they have written their class story 'Paddington Bear' using capital letters and full stops - amazing! The children really enjoyed their RE lesson this week where they listened to the story of Moses. You can see the children re-enacting the story in the photographs. The Year 1's have been lucky to have two sessions with 'Cricket Chris' this week and develop their throwing and catching skills.

Once again we are so pleased that the Tregantle children have tried so hard to use their 'Issy Manners' all week. We have been filled with pride listening to them talk confidently using please and thank you to the adults and children around school. There has also been a whole school focus on saying kind words, of which we've heard so much of in Tregantle Class. What incredible children we have!