This week has just flown by, beginning with a research investigation into what life was like for a Mayan family. We have been learning about farming, education, entertainment and sport, although the game rules were slightly more 'gory' then they are today, thank goodness!

In Maths, we have been investigating Place Value: ordering, comparing, partitioning and solving problems involving powers of 10. We have planned our non-fictional information text and written our introduction, ready for writing up next week. We had our first Music lesson of the term with Mrs Butlin on Thursday as well as French with Mrs Hillman on Tuesday afternoon. 

Next week, Year 5 will continue to master Place Value whilst Year 6 move onto number problems involving the four operations (+/-/x/divide). We will be looking into how the cocoa bean arrived in Europe and dive deeper into Mayan education (learning about their alphabet and number system). In RE, we will be learning about the Mayan Maize God and the Pok a Tok myth. WE will design our own Mayan god which will feed into English in the coming weeks...

CONGRATULATIONS to Leon for achieving his 77 AND 88 club this week, and Verity for being our Reader of the Week. Harry and Rosie May were recognised for their kindness in our celebration assembly.

HOMEWORK
Chaipel class have the following homework for this half term:

• Reading: to continue to read daily to develop and broaden their range of vocabulary,
• KIRFs: they were sent home last Friday but I have attached them below. Y5 and Y6 are different to be sure to download the correct year group,
• MAYA-THEMED HOMEWORK GRID: attached below. Feel free to bring in any homework completed to share with the rest of the class!
• CURRICULUM SPELLINGS: As always, these need to be practiced at home regularly. I have attached Y3/4 and Y5/6 for you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          That's all from me for this week's blog. Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday morning!                                                                                                        Miss Randle, Mrs Clary and Mrs Evered.

The children have been amazing in the way they have already thrown themselves into their new routines and learning this week.

Our class enquiries have started. Questions this half term are: ‘What Makes Me Amazing?’ Penhallow Class; ‘Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?’ Landaviddy Class; ‘Why are Rainforests Important?’ Talland Class and ‘Why Should we Remember the Maya?’ Chaipel Class. Please look at the class blogs to see how the children’s learning is going.

Dropping Off Most of our children now go into the playground first thing every morning so from Monday 18th September, children from all classes should be dropped at the main gate. We hope this will make it much easier for those of you who have children in different classes. The gate will be open from 8:30. Please continue to drop your child/children in time for them to line up on the playground at 8:45.

Meet the Teacher: 2:45pm, Wednesday 27th September It is extremely important for us to work together to ensure that every child makes as much progress as possible each year. Each year we hold a Meet the Teacher session at which you will find out about your child’ classroom, the adults working alongside your child, classroom routines and timetable, and most importantly, how you can help your child at home. It is also an opportunity to find out about all of the exciting learning and activities the teachers have planned. Of course, the teachers will also answer any questions and try to eliminate and worries or concerns you may have. We understand if you are unable to make the meeting because of work commitments and will find a mutually convenient time to chat to you about your child’s new school year if this is the case. If you have children in more than one class, please attend one session and we will find another time for you to meet your other child/children’s teacher/s. Our ‘Meet the Teacher’ session will be on Wednesday 27th September starting at 2:45pm. Please come in through the main gate from 2:40 and access your child’s classroom by the external door. We look forward to seeing you then.

FOPS (Friends of Polperro School). Can you help out? We currently re-establishing our FOPS (Friends of Polperro School) fundraising group. If you would like to support our fundraising by helping out at our events, please email the school secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk We are planning several events this year and at each event we would like to hold a raffle. If you would like to donate a prize, please send it in with your child and we will use it at one of our events.

Water Bottles As a Heathy School and a Sugar Smart school we encourage children to drink water throughout their day at school, rather than juice or squash. We would prefer that your child’s water bottle contains water only, to encourage healthy habits. This also helps us when there is a spill as water doesn’t stain! If there is a reason why your child cannot drink water, please let you child’s teacher know. Please note that this applies to their classroom drinks and not to their lunchtime drinks.

Guitar Guitar lessons will start next Wednesday, 20th September.

Clubs Reminder that clubs start next week. Please contact the office to sign your child up.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Penhallow 15.9.2023

Wow, we've enjoyed a fantastic second week! Our first full week in Penhallow class as a Reception/Year 1 Class. 

We have been making the most of the September sun and on Wednesday, we took the opportunity for a cool down in our outside pool! The reception class loved their first lesson and showed great enthusiasm in the water! We ventured into the garden area on Friday for our snack and even bought some of natures own resources back to use for our maths lessons.

On Tuesday, we learned about Self-portraits and had a go at drawing our own! WOW, the results were FANTASTIC and are displayed in our art area for us to look at and admire every school day!

We are finding our feet in Phonics and children will gradually bring home resources to help them in learning the appropriate sounds. All reception children now have a phonics file where we will put all of the relevant resources and the weekly 'read together' book, please ensure these are bought in daily so that we can keep them up to date!

We thoroughly enjoyed our first music lesson with Mrs Butlin this week, the children listened brilliantly and it was a joy to see them joining in with a variety of songs, instruments and movements.

Well done to Hugh and Amelia who were our 'Readers of the Week' this week. Also well done to Max who was chosen by Mrs Pollard as her person of the week this week for showing great listening skills in his first full week at school.

We look forward to seeing you next week for another fantastic week of fun filled learning!

Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Mrs Robinson and Mrs Pollard.

Talented Talland's Weekly Blog

Here's to the end of our first full week of term - what a fantastic week it's been! We've continued to dive deeper into our enquiry question: WHY ARE RAINFORESTS IMPORTANT?

In Geography, we have discovered where rainforests are located - ask your child - do they remember? Clue: They're located in countries near a very hot imaginary line that travels across the middle of our planet...
Also, we have been investigating predators, plants and creepy crawlies which reside in these kingdoms of green. 

In PE, we've been back in the pool and dodge, ducking, diving and dodging some more in dodgeball - this sport is so much fun! We've also been racking up the miles around our mile track. As you can see, Talland Class is full of speedsters (they might of over done it)!

In Maths, we've continued with our Place Value unit by looking at how to partition numbers and representing this using part-whole models and number sentences.

We've just completed our poetry unit in writing. Reading Talland's poems today blew me away. The children have worked so hard to create some real masterpieces all about their favourite things.

We began our class read for this term, 'The Explorer'. It's had a fast paced beginning where we've been thrown into action. Three children have been left stranded in a  rainforest after their plane crashed. What kind of crazy adventures will they get up to? Will they be safe? Will they be saved? Ask your child for regular updates...

Congratulations to Sienna, Kora and Thomas for being Talland's People of the Week.

Homework
Reading
All the children have been sent home with a new reading book at the end of last week. So many of you have already been reading at home! Please make sure you are reading daily. Keep up the great work!

Maths
It would be fantastic for you to practice your times tables and number bonds. Mathletics and TT Rockstars can be accessed at home and support this. If you do not have access to a device for this, please do not hesitate to let me know and I will happily provide you with resources. This is also the case for the KIRF links that was sent out last week. 

Homework will be sent out next week based around our enquiry question - these will be fun and engaging activities to boost your child's confidence, knowledge and enthusiasm about rainforests.

We hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Over and out from Mr Langley, Mr Bishop and Mrs Hodge. 

Our first full week is done! Landaviddy class has had a wonderful week, continuing to explore 'Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?'. In Science, we have started to learn about life processes by learning MRS GREN. We have continued to discover algorithms in Computing, by constructing repeat commands on Turtle Logo. In DT, we investigated how to join different materials together, ready for making our own animal sock puppets in a few weeks.

The children have been working so hard in English this week, focussing on developing their descriptive writing skills. In Maths, we have carried on our Place Value unit by looking at how to partition numbers and representing this using part-whole models and number sentences.

Congratulations to Nevaeh, Anya and Jamie for being Landaviddy's People of the Week. A big well done to Everly for achieving her 33 club today. 

Homework

Reading
All the children have been sent home with a new reading book at the end of last week. So many of you have already been reading at home! Please make sure you are reading daily. We ask that you read the book you have at least twice before changing it. 

*Year 2 Minibooks*
Today, Year 2 have been sent home with a minibook which is used to support and reinforce the Phonics sound we have been revising this week. This needs to be returned every Thursday so we can replace it with the next one containing new sounds. If your child would like to complete the questions inside the minibook, please complete these on a separate piece of paper and I would be more than happy to have a look at them.

Spellings
I have attached the common exception word lists for Year 1/2 and 3/4. Any spelling practise you can do of these words at home would be great! I have attached some spelling strategies that you can use to practise these.

Maths 
We would also like you to practice your times tables and number bonds. Mathletics (https://login.mathletics.com/) and TT Rockstars (https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school) can be accessed at home and support this. Your child's logins can be found in the back of their reading record. Please also practise your KIRFs at home as often as you can - Further information about this will be sent home next week.

Enquiry
Finally, attached below is a homework grid of activities relating to this half terms enquiry. Anything you do complete, we would love to see and share with the class!


We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Gibbings, Mrs Phillips and Mr H

We have had a great week. We have continued our enquiry questions of "Who am i?" and the children have been talking about where they live. They made their house using and naming different shapes as they did this. We talked about our likes and dislikes and they enjoyed some cooking where we made stuffed peppers. The children practiced cutting skills and showed their preferences for different foods.
 We have enjoyed using the field and school garden this week and the children went on a hunt to collect lots of different natural objects so they could create their own faces and collages. We enjoyed smelling the herbs and seeing who could find the biggest and tallest sticks.

We look forward to more great activities and explorations next week.
Have a lovely weekend

Julie and Sarah


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Wow, what an incredible first week back to school we have had! Everyone has settled in amazingly well (including myself)!

We have had lots of fun finding out about what we all have in common – there’s lots! We have created our class charter to make sure that we all feel comfortable and confident in our learning environment.

We have been getting mathematical and used resources to help us understand place value.

We have been getting poetic during our writing lessons.

We have been getting wet in our PE lessons.

We have had lots of fun!

School Council

Congratulations to Hamish (Y5) and Isaac (Y4) for being elected our class School Council representatives. I am sure that they will do a fantastic job at getting all our voices heard. Talland class were so supportive and full of positive energy when the results were revealed – it was lovely to see.

Important information

PE kits should be complete and in every day. The children can take them home for washing at the end of each half term. At present, the swimming pool is still open, so swimming kits should come in daily as we will go in the pool if the weather permits us to. PE for Talland class will be on Monday (swimming) and Tuesday so please could you ensure your child is prepared and ready for this with the appropriate kit.

On Friday, your child went home with their KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) for this half term. This is part of their homework which we will give you more information on, on next week's blog.

Our Wider Curriculum focus this half term is, WHY ARE RAINFORESTS IMPORTANT? This enquiry is already live and kicking and we’ve had good fun completing a ‘Kahoot’ quiz based on the rainforest, and we’ve delved into what we want to find out! We will upload the Knowledge Web next week so that you can see what the children will be learning these next few weeks. EXCITING TIMES!

That's all for now! I hope you have all had an amazing weekend and I can’t wait for this week to begin!

Over and out from Mr Langley, Mr Bishop and Mrs Hodge.

Welcome Penhallow! 

Wow, what a first week in Penhallow! We have loved every minute of getting to know each other and enjoyed all of the fantastic learning along the way!

The brand new reception children have done so well to settle into their new classroom environment and have enjoyed making new friends. 

We began our phonics lessons this week and the children have 'wowed' me with their knowledge of previously learned sounds. 

In maths we have started our first topic of place value. Today, we looked at sorting buttons into groups and this will continue with our learning over the coming weeks.

Year 1s have been enjoying their quieter afternoons and we have been lucky enough to enjoy our first dip in the pool for this school year!

Year 1 children will have come home with reading books this week and we encourage you to read as much as you can with your child. Enjoy reading together and let them impress you with their own reading! They have enjoyed reading in our new reading area and we have shared lots of books this week.

Well done to our people of the week this week, Mrs G picked all of the reception children for settling in so well! I chose April as my 'person of the week' for being kind and considerate. Well done to all of Penhallow Class for a great first week back!

We also chose our school council representative, we were super impressed that all year 1 children wanted to be considered for the role. After a discussion about British Values we voted as a class. Our Reception representative will be Kai, amazing! Our Year 1 representative is Sonny, well done!

Our P.E. days are on Wednesday and Friday, although it's a good idea that P.E. kit is in every day, these days are particularly important to remember.

I hope you all enjoy a lovely weekend! 
All of the children left happy and tired on Friday, a sign of a great first week!

Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Mrs Robinson and Mrs Pollard.

Welcome Back Landaviddy!

We have had a fabulous, fun-filled week back to school in Landaviddy. Everyone has begun to settle into our routines. We are very excited for a wonderful year!

This week, we have been focussing on completing our Class Charter and taking our time to settle into Landaviddy life.  Our Enquiry question for this half term is 'Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?'. So far, in Geography we have been learning to name the continents and oceans through song, in Computing we created algorithms on Turtle Logo to draw squares and in DT we completed designs for animal sock puppets that we will be making this half term!

To end a brilliant first week, Landaviddy went swimming for the first time today, which they absolutely loved! 

Congratulations to Lowen and Everly for being Landaviddy's People of the Week.

Reading Books
Everyone was sent home today with their new reading record and colour banded book. Some children have been sent home with two books; one Phonetically Decodable and one coloured banded book. We ask that children read their book twice at home before getting it changed. Further details regarding Homework, will be posted on next weeks' blog, so watch this space!

PE
Our PE days are Monday and Friday, so please make sure PE and swimming kits are complete in school everyday.

School Council
Congratulations to our School Council representatives; Lucy (Year 2) and Zac (Year 3). It was a close vote and we were so impressed with the confidence all the children had when standing in front of the class and giving their speeches! Well done everyone!

We hope you have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week. 

Miss Gibbings, Mrs Phillips and Mr H

Welcome back to school from all the staff at Polperro Primary Academy and a particularly warm welcome to those joining us for the first time. Thank you for your efforts in ensuring that your children are smart and in full school uniform and arriving at our new earlier opening time. The children have settled extremely well. Please see the Class blogs on our website for a flavour of the week’s learning and for information regarding your child’s class. 

Parent Survey Thank you for the many very positive and helpful comments which we received in our Parent Survey in the summer term. As always we strive to improve and this year we will be organising more trips to enhance our curriculum, alongside valuable local visits. We will also be organising more fundraising events. Please watch this space as we will be asking for your support with this shortly.

We will be continuing our garden project: growing fruit and vegetables in our greenhouse for the school kitchen to prepare for the children.

Achievement Assemblies Every Wednesday in a special assembly, we celebrate the children’s achievements in Reading, Writing or Maths. If your child is to be awarded a certificate, their class teacher will ring to invite you to attend the assembly which will be held at 2:50pm (please arrive at 2:45pm). We look forward to sharing the children’s successes with you.

Sun Safety While the weather is hot, please ensure your child comes into school with a named sun hat and sun cream (at least factor 30.)

Swimming We have used the pool this week and hope to do so again next week while the weather remains warm enough. Please ensure your child’s kit is in every day so we can make the most of the pool being open.

Clubs After school clubs will start on the week commencing 18th September. You will be emailed a list of clubs and details of how to sign up next week.

ParentPay Thank you for bearing with us as we set up/update Parent Pay accounts this year. We have had a few technical issues this week which hopefully have now been sorted. Please contact the office if you are still having problems. Please check your accounts regularly to ensure lunch and wrap around debts are paid.

Arbor You will have received a communication from the Trust about completing the permissions for photos, trips, medications etc. on Arbor. It is really important that these are completed as soon as possible to allow staff to plan in more detail. Even if nothing has changed since last year, please re-complete the forms so we have the most up to date information. If you are having trouble logging in, please contact the office for help.

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

WELCOME, CHAIPEL CLASS OF 2024!

I think I can say on behalf of all of our class, what an incredible first week back we have had! Everyone has settled in amazingly well and are are already feeling like a real team.

We have had a real, 'Getting to know you' week and making sure that we are in a happy and comfortable learning environment.

School Council
Congratulations to Rosie May (Y6) and Joel (Y5) for being elected our class School Council representatives and to Wyatt (Y6) for being voted School Council Chairperson. I am sure that they will do a fantastic job at getting all of our voices heard. 

Important information
PE kits should be complete and in everyday. The children can take them home for washing at the end of each half term.
At present, the swimming pool is still open, so swimming kits in daily as we will go in as long as the weather permits us to.
Today, your child went home with their KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) for this half term. This is part of their homework which we will give you more information on on next week's blog.

Our Wider Curriculum focus this half term is, WHY SHOULD WE REMEMBER THE MAYA? We are already getting our teeth into this amazing civilisation - especially the link with chocolate! We will upload the Knowledge Web next week so that you can see what the children will be learning these next few weeks. EXCITING TIMES!

That's all for now so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle, Mrs Evered and Mrs Clary.

Welcome back everyone!!
We hope you all had a fun filled and enjoyable summer. It has been lovely to welcome all of our returning children back to nursery as well as some new faces and to see new friendships forming.

We have had a lovely start to the new term with the weather been so sunny which means we have had lots of opportunities to be outside where the children have particularly enjoyed playing in the sand and water.
Our new enquiry question is "Who am i?" The children have started to make paper plate and wooden spoon portraits and have talked about different features of their faces such as eye and hair colour. The role play area has become a home corner where the children have been looking after the babies and making shopping lists.

In the book corner we have shared stories about making firends and helping each other to feel happy.
We will continue to carry out Kirfs (Key instant recall facts) this half term for maths and letters for this will be sent out next week for your information.

Have a lovely weekend
Julie and Sarah