Artefacts to support our writing

We have been looking at some artefacts that give more of an insight into the lives of evacuees to support us with our diary entries linked to the fantastic book, Letters from the Lighthouse.

Alongside our writing projects, we have been exploring the first world war and the events that acted as a catalyst. We explored the different alliances of the time and also looked into the tensions that were forming in the lead up.

This week, the school council gathered for an important meeting and proudly defined their vision: "To make our school a better place for everybody."

The council, made up of elected pupil representatives, discussed their hopes and ideas for how to improve life at school.

With a focus on inclusivity and positivity, they explored different areas they felt needed attention and brainstormed ways to create an even more welcoming and supportive environment.

Excitement filled the room as the council looked forward to their upcoming class council meeting, where they will gather suggestions from fellow pupils.

By actively listening to their peers, they hope to take on a range of ideas and concerns, ensuring that every pupil's voice is heard. This collaborative approach will help shape their goals and drive the positive changes they are eager to bring about in the weeks ahead.

Autumn 1 - Week 1, 2 and 3 -A Super Start!

We are so proud of how well the children have settled into school life. It’s been a busy first few weeks learning new routines and discussing our school rules: Be Safe, Be Ready, Be Respectful. It has been lovely getting to know the children and watching them play and interact with new friends.

They have had a go at writing their own names, experienced their first PE lesson in the hall and we have begun to learn about our over-arching topic: What’s awesome about Autumn? Lots of children knew that the leaves on trees change colour and fall to the ground. In Maths, the children have been learning to recognise and create patterns using peg boards, interlocking cubes and pens.

Next week, we will begin our Phonics lessons. Every Friday, your child will come home with a worksheet stuck in their Home Learning Book and an information sheet all about this week’s sounds for you to practise at home. Thank you in advance for your support with this.

Reminders
Please label absolutely everything your child brings into school so that nothing is lost. We are a nut free school so please do not send your child into school with foods containing nuts - thank you. 

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Best wishes,
The Reception Team

What a wonderful art afternoon Class One had in the sunshine with a visit from local artist Eleanor Russell-Hsieh. The children focused on the techniques of sketching with Ellie teaching the skills of hatching, blending and finding light and shade. Our budding artists loved exploring the range of sketch pencils and the effects the different grades had on their mark making. A highlight of the afternoon was the observational drawings which took place outside on our beautiful field.

Due to growing numbers, Duloe is looking for a passionate and skilled apprentice to work as part of our EYFS team. The successful candidate would work between our on-site Nursery and within our Reception class.

We are looking for a colleague who can bring enthusiasm, energy and a professional approach to all that they do and who are willing to engage in all aspects of school life. You will also have a warm, smiley, nurturing approach that children will enjoy and which will enable them to feel special in your care.

In return, Duloe Academy offers a friendly, experienced and supportive team, who work well together and put the education and welfare of the children at the heart of all we do. You can expect to receive high quality support and training in a school that has a good reputation and is fully committed to do the best for the children in its care.

For more information, please look at our vacancies page. 

Pelynt Primary Academy is looking for a full-time (32.5 hours) Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and hard-working team.

The post is offered as a fixed-term position to the end of this academic year in the first instance.

The post would involve working with children across all age ranges and include a lunch-time supervisor role.
We are looking for a colleague who can bring enthusiasm, energy and a professional approach to all that they do and who are willing to engage in all aspects of school life. You will also have a smiley and nurturing approach that children will enjoy, and which will enable them to feel special in your care.

In return, Pelynt Academy offers a friendly, experienced and supportive team, who work well together and put the education and welfare of children at the heart of all we do. You can expect to receive high-quality support and training in a school that has a good reputation in the community and is committed to delivering the best outcomes for its children.

Please look at our vaccancies page for more details.

The class are off to a fantastic start with their PE this term! We are lucky to be supported by a professional under 12s hockey coach who is working in the school and the class are already displaying a range of key skills in their sessions. Keep up the good work Class 5 6 MG!

A busy week! 

We have been very busy in week 2! We have started our English learning journey and it is based around the Michael Rosen book, We are Going on a Bear Hunt. We have been loving learning the story and the actions to go along with it. Year 1 children have started writing captions and adding labels to a picture of the bear, and Foundation children have been making puppets to practise their role play skills and start to retell the story.

We have started our Music learning and have been trying to find the steady beat in a song. We have done this through clapping, stomping our feet and tapping our heads. In Geography, Year 1 have been thinking about the different seasons. This week, we thought about the appropriate clothes for each season. We did agree that it is quite warm outside for Autumn!

We have also been doing some outdoor learning linked in with our question ‘Who am I?’ We have been building houses out of bricks and using natural materials to make portraits.

We have loved exploring and learning. I look forward to seeing what we get up to next week!

Foundation/ Year 1 Team

Super scientists!

Year 4 have made an excellent start to their learning and have impressed us already with some beautiful writing! 

Science 
Check out our fabulous human models of solid, liquid and gas particles in action. We were "teamwork turtles" and worked together to read all about how the different particles move and decide how best to demonstrate this to the class. I think you'll agree we did a fantastic job!

English
After finishing our poems, we moved on to a unit based on "The Catch" (short movie - https://www.literacyshed.com/the-other-cultures-shed.html). We used the video to help us include lots of descriptive details in our writing and are now revising how to use inverted commas properly for speech - which has included remembering our rhyme from Year 3 to help us remember..!

Maths
We have begun our baseline assessments for the multiplication check and will be sending the results home very soon. Extra practice at home really does make a difference so please do try and squeeze this in if you can! (https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check)

Swimming/P.E. 
Swimming will begin on Monday 23rd September for all Year 4 children (please see the letter that has been send home for info). This will be in place of our P.E. on a Wednesday - so school uniform as normal on Wednesday please.

Have a fantastic week! 
Mrs Graham, Mrs Keat and Mrs Hodkinson  

Maths

In KS2 we are kicking off with place value. Pupils are learning to read number lines with a million, partition numbers flexibly, understand the value of a digit within a number and round to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000.

We are also focusing on our Times Tables Space Race. Pupils have helped to create our display where they are each represented by a space rocket and they must learn there times tables to move onto the next planet. Ask you astronaut which planet they are on.

English

We are leaning to use sentence structures for the first three weeks of this term. We have 5 structures to learn: Verb starters, Conjunction starters, Adverb Starters, Sentence of Three and Embedded clauses. We are learning to use these structures, punctuate them properly and mix them together. Years 5 and 6 are taking these structures and creating an emotion,

Wider Curriculum
This term our topic is: Would you rather love in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age? We are focusing on being historians and looking at sources. How do we know how early humans live? How do historians make inferences? In music we are learning to play the recorder. We have so far Jazzed up Hot Cross Bun! There will be a performance at the Harvest Festival.

Our sister school, Pelynt Primary Academy is looking for a full-time (32.5 hours) Teaching Assistant to join our friendly and hard-working team.

The post is offered as a fixed-term position to the end of this academic year in the first instance.

The post would involve working with children across all age ranges and include a lunch-time supervisor role.
We are looking for a colleague who can bring enthusiasm, energy and a professional approach to all that they do and who are willing to engage in all aspects of school life. You will also have a smiley and nurturing approach that children will enjoy, and which will enable them to feel special in your care.

In return, Pelynt Academy offers a friendly, experienced and supportive team, who work well together and put the education and welfare of children at the heart of all we do. You can expect to receive high-quality support and training in a school that has a good reputation in the community and is committed to delivering the best outcomes for its children.

Please look at our vaccancies page for more details. 

We've had a lovely start to the new term. All the children have settled in brilliantly and have been having lots of fun making new friends. You will find a newsletter giving you important information about this term below. 

What a week!

Talland class have had a fantastic first full week! As well as demonstrating some excellent Issy Manners, they have been working hard to follow our class rules and exercise their British Values by electing the new House Captains. Last week we voted for School Councillors - take a look at our Talland representatives V and K.

In English we have been finding out all about our school's namesake - Brunel. Ask your children what fascinating facts they found out about him. We will start to write these into a biography next week.

In maths we have began by learning the place value within numbers to 1,000,000. We've also been practising our 8 times table during our Minimaths afternoon sessions.

Excitingly, we had our second violin session with Sally this week; progressing to holding and using the bow! She was very complimentary about their rhythm and musicality.

We can't wait to see what the next week brings!

It has been a great start back to the new academic year. The children are settling back into their classes and routines. In assembly we have been focusing on the positive learning behaviours we want to harness as we work together on the next stages of our learning journey together. We talked about the power of words and how our words have the potential to add so much to our positive experiences together and how we feel about ourselves.

We spoke together about the nicest things people have said to us and these words made us feel. In the words of Dr Wayne W. Dyer “If you have the choice between being right and being kind, choose being kind.”

We look forward to exploring these ideas together over the half term.

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!

What a lovely week it has been!

During our science lesson, we enjoyed exploring the school garden, where we were able to find plenty of signs that Summer is starting to turn into Autumn. The children have been learning about seasonal changes, and we have been really impressed at the range of scientific vocabulary that the children can now already use.

Reception are already getting the hang of their phonics learning, and have been enjoying a range of fun activities that have helped them this week. We hope all of the children will start to benefit from logging on to their new 'Teach your monster to read' account. Account details and passwords have been sent home this week. 

On Monday, Penhallow enjoyed their first music lesson of the year with Mrs Butlin. They practiced using a range of percussion instruments to keep a steady beat, and enjoyed singing a range of songs.

In Geography this week, we have been learning about maps. The Year 1 children have created some plans of our classroom. We learnt about keys, directions and birds eye views. Thank you to those people who have emailed pictures of their houses. We will use these in our continuous provision areas.

We have been making an extra effort to keep active in Penhallow this week. Mr Langley has given each class the challenge of being active in school for at least 30 minutes a day, so we have been busy dancing at different times throughout the day.

Have a lovely weekend!

From the Penhallow team.

What a fantastic week Daymer have had this week! We are embedding Issy Manners and have now chosen our Year 6 House Captains! 

In English, we have started our unit on descriptive settings, where we have retold the text, found some features and worked a lot with vocabulary.

In Maths, our Place Value unit has started in Year 3 and year 4. The children are working hard in number and knowing their values.

Our topic of 'How active is our planet?' has sparked interest and many, many questions, which we look forward to finding out this term! We learned, this week, about the different layers of the Earth. In art, we began to look at the artist Jackson Pollock who will inspire our EXPLOSIVE volcano paintings later this term. We talked a lot about changes; how they make us feel and about different thoughts we may have in PSHE. We worked on how to help ourselves when these thoughts and feelings are troubling us.

We have also enjoyed our first reading assembly this week where Miss Pentreath read the inspirational true story 'Emmanuel's Dream'-can your child tell you what it was about?

Don't forget to log reading so that we can give out more awards and prizes to the children please! Our picture is our Star Reader this week!