There was a fantastic turnout for the Orwell Exhibition on Friday with people attending from around the world and many of last year's year 6 pupils. Visiting Orwell Society members were hugely impressed with the children's ability to speak so eloquently and passionately about their work. Quentin Kopp, Chair of the Orwell Society, said that it was great to see the support of pupils and parents present and now past and hear the excited conversation echoing around the hall. He described the work of the pupils as outstanding.

Orwell's son, Richard Blair, who attended the exhibition, presented the school with a plaque which commemorates George Orwell's time at Barnhill on the Isle of Jura, where he completed his famous novel 1984. The plaque will be put in the library along with the children's wonderful artwork from the project. 

Harvest Assembly and Donations Reverend Allen came in on Tuesday for our harvest assembly where he talked about the importance of sharing what we have. We are collecting donations for the foodbank in Liskeard. If you would like to donate, please send your donation in with your child or bring it to reception where there will be a collection box. There will also be a collection point in the nursery. We will be taking donations to the foodbank at half term.

Important Safeguarding Notice: Children's "Spy" Books We want to make you aware of a recent issue affecting some popular children's books by Andrew Cope, including the Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series. Some editions of these books include a printed web address at the back. This link used to go to the author's website, but the domain is no longer under his control. It has since been taken over by another party and now leads to inappropriate adult content. The publisher, Puffin, has paused sales and distribution of the books and is working with schools, libraries, and retailers to remove copies from circulation. They have stressed that the website has no connection to the author or publisher. What this means for you: • If your child has any Spy Dog, Spy Cat or Spy Pups books at home, please check the back for website links and make sure they do not try to visit the site. • It is safe for children to continue reading the stories themselves - the concern is only with the outdated link. • We recommend talking with your child about the importance of not following web addresses in books without checking with an adult first. We will continue to share updates from the publisher as more information becomes available.

Clubs There will be no Alternative Sports Club on Tuesday 21st October because of staff training.

We are looking into providing a football club for girls from Year 3 to year 6 on Tuesdays after school to start after half term. If your child would be interested in attending, please email secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk by Tuesday 14th October and if we have enough demand we will set this up.

Keeping Safe Please remind your children not to play on the bank outside the school gates at the beginning and end of the school day as this area is not supervised and we do not want the children to get hurt. Also, the defibrillator nearby is a vital emergency device, so we'd really appreciate it if children could avoid touching or playing near it. Thanks so much for your support.

Spooky Discos Reminder that we will be holding Spooky school discos on Thursday 23rd October, the last day of this half term. Tickets are on sale in the office and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm. 

Have a great weekend!

Hello Everyone!

As you can see in the photograph, Year 1 and 2 have been hunting for mini beasts in the school garden this week. This was during our science lesson, where we learnt about different habitats, and found micro habitats for living things. When we got back to the classroom, we drew and labelled a map of the habitats that we found.

Our English unit based on David McKee, has come to an end this week, with some fantastic stories from Year 2. These stories really are something to celebrate, as they have used the repetitive phrases in the original Mr Benn stories, to create their own versions. Their writing have some fantastic vocabulary and we really enjoyed reading them. Reception have been busy in their English lessons, learning the story of The Little Red Hen. We are all set to follow instructions to make some bread next week.

Year 1 and to have almost completed their maths unit on place value. Year 1 have been busy ordering numbers, while Year 2 have been partitioning 2 digit numbers. 

Have a lovely weekend,

From The Penhallow Team

This week at nursery we have been exploring autumn leaves on the tuft tray. The children talked about what colours they saw and explored sounds that they made using words such as crunchy.
We have been discussing what animals you might see in autumn and the children then made some paper plate owls. They have enjoyed fruit and vegetable printing in the paint.

At story time, we have enjoyed stories such as "The Leaf Thief" and "The Enormous Turnip" and the children have enjoyed reinacting parts of the story in their play.

In maths, we have been using pine cones to count and order, looking at quantities and have continued to explore shapes.

A reminder that we have a Bags2school collection on Tuesday 14th. If you have any used but good quality clothes, shoes, bags or belts then please bag them up and bring them to nursery before 9am on the day.

Have a good weekend

Julie and Sarah

On Wednesday, we had our first class trip of the year to Dartmoor Zoo. We had a fantastic time. We started off the day with a close encounters workshop, where we got to see a cockroach, python and many other fascinating artefacts up close. After lunch, we explored the rest of the zoo and met their resident tiger, African lions and visited the reptile house. Our final workshop before heading home was a climate change problem solving activity, which really got us thinking. I have uploaded some pf the best photos from the day below.

In Maths, this week we have been using number lines to count and estimate numbers to 1000. This is often a tricky concept for the children, but they have all persevered and worked so hard.

In English, we finished writing up our postcards and have started our new unit on recount writing. We will be using our zoo trip as inspiration for our next piece of writing. 

Congratulations to Darragh, Rosie and Dexter for being chosen as Landaviddy's people of the week.

We hope you have a well rested weekend and look forward to seeing you. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

This has been been a week of firsts. Our first school trip of the year took place this week, with Landaviddy Class visiting Dartmoor Zoo as part of their enquiry topic, "Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?" The children had a fantastic time exploring the wide variety of exotic animals that the zoo provides a sanctuary for - from tigers and lions to snakes, parrots, and meerkats. They also took part in two excellent workshops: Close Encounters, which offered a unique opportunity to get up close to reptiles and invertebrates, and Climate Change, a fun and thought-provoking sustainability challenge. You can see some lovely photos from the trip on Landaviddy's blog. We're very grateful to the Friends of Polperro School (FOPS) for generously subsidising the trip.

This week also saw the first meeting of our new School Council. The children have already shared some fantastic ideas, including suggestions for new playtime equipment and themed activity days. I'm looking into their requests and will keep you updated!

And finally, our new school choir met for the first time on Thursday. There was a great turnout and it was lovely to hear them singing some familiar songs together with such enthusiasm.

School Open Morning Do you know anyone looking for a school for their Reception age child in September 2026? If so, please pass them the attached information regarding our open morning on Wednesday 12th November, 9:30 - 11am.

Spooky Discos We will be holding Spooky school discos on Thursday 23rd October, the last day of this half term. Tickets will be on sale in the office from Monday and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm.

Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Wellbeing Sessions Please see attached details of the MHST Wild Wellbeing sessions being run this October half term. These sessions are open to children aged 5-12, each session will be approximately 2 hours long. Details of how to sign up are included in the attached poster. Sign up will close one week before the session date, or when the session reaches capacity, whichever comes first.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Hillman

TALLAND'S BLOG 3.10.25

What a great week it's been at Polperro. Music, sport (with some speedy mile of the day-ers) and a whole load of learning.

Let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 / 100 / 1,000 and have been identifying different triangles - why not quiz them to see if they remember what they are...

Year 5 have continued to round up to the nearest 1,000,000 and we have been experimenting with protractors.

English: The children have been planning to write their story of the Great Tree. They have thought carefully about characters and how to describe them; how to use emotive devices to persuade our tree surgeon to stop and the choice of sentence techniques to help make their writing sound descriptive, imaginative and gripping. I can't wait to read their independent attempts next week!

PE: With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing balances which involve strength, particularly within their core. In football, we have been using both the inside and outside of both feet to dribble and turn in different directions to evade defenders. 

Science: Talland class thought about which mini-beasts might reside within our local habitats and then researched one that took their particular fancy. Messy day incoming where we will go on a mini-beast hunt.

Computing: We got to create a quiz on Scratch where everyone added Sprites, an icy background and popped in instructions for the computer to follow. 

CONGRATULATIONS to Kayla for becoming our first success in 99 club this year and to Zach for being noticed for his brilliant Sportsmanship manner and his leadership skills - showing the traits of a responsible, mature and kind young man.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a lovely weekend and hope to see many of you tonight for the George Orwell Project. The children's work is up in the hall and it looks fantastic! 

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

What an amazing week of learning we have had! We began by investigating 3D shape properties in Maths, before moving onto addition and subtraction. Everybody worked so hard to line up their columns accurately and improve on their presentation.

Carrying on the theme of presentation, in English, we have had a real push in improving our handwriting this week. We experimented with a range of pens and have begun to write up the best copy of our planet descriptions. 

In the Wider Curriculum, we were exploring foreground in Art and have sketched possible designs using a range of sketching pencil grades, deciding on the exact pencil grades we will use for our overall piece which we will start next week. We have worked on our 'flow' in Yoga and finally conducted our shadow experiment in Science, identifying that we recorded 12:55pm as our midday Sun this week. 

On Friday evening, we hosted our Orwell Exhibition, showing the incredible work of last year's Y4/5 and 6. Many ex-Y6 pupils came back to see their work and a great evening was had by all.

That's all from us this week  so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary 

This week at nursery we have started to answer our enquiry question "How do I know it is autumn?"
The children have enjoyed spending time in the school garden where we collected different materials such as leaves and acorns. They talked about what they saw and we explored different sounds that things made such as "crunchy" leaves.
We have started arts and crafts such as making paper plate owls and the children enjoyed some cooking this week, making crumpet pizzas.

Our book corner has changed to show the story of "Owl Babies". We have enjoyed reading this story along with others including "In the woods"

In phonics we have been on a listening walk, beginning to listen to sounds and identify which have the same one and the children have been listening for rhyming words in a game of rhyming pairs.

In maths, we continue to explore shape and have been constructing with shape bricks and blocks.
Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

Hello Everyone,

We enjoyed a lovely lesson outside in science this week. Reception were busy collecting objects for our Autumn display, while year 1 were finding living and non-living things. Year 2 were working together to categorise objects that were alive, used to be alive, and never been alive. They were excellent at giving reasons as to why they had chosen their particular categories.

In art this week, the children each created their own colour wheel, which used the 3 primary colours to mix purple, green and orange. They enjoyed adding more of certain primary colours, and watching the effects.

We have been particularly pleased with Year 1 this week, as they have really made an effort to become more independent in their writing. We have written some lovely descriptions of story settings and have innovated the Mr Benn stories by David McKee.

Well done to Reception this week, for working hard in maths to compare weight and to sort objects in different ways.

Have a lovely weekend.

From The Penhallow Team

Another busy week has flown by in Chaipel. We have had Sian - the charity's vice president - in from Plymouth and Devon Cancer Trust to collect the monies that we raised for them in July. She was amazed to collect a 'cheque' for £451.45! The children collectively ran/biked/scooted a marathon around the school grounds and thoroughly enjoyed raising the money for such a worthy charity.

In Maths, we have been learning about decimal place value and on our Friday Shape lesson, revisiting the properties of a 2D shape. For English, we are writing up our 'newly discovered planet' description, using some incredible vivid sensory detail and figurative language. Tristan has really done himself proud - especially with...
AS THE MOON'S DIVINE BEAM FLOODS THE MOUNTAIN, THE STARS RAPIDLY GET THEIR SPOTLIGHT - wow Tristan, very atmospheric!

In our Wider Curriculum, we have been creating space nubulas and star clusters in art, experimenting with creating background. Next week, we will move onto the foreground and then design and develop ideas for our final piece. It was National Fitness Day on Wednesday and we took part in a series of activities designed to improve our fitness. We have all written an activity pledge which will hopefully devlop our fitness levels further. In Computing, we have been on a web quest, identifying websites which offer reliable content and those which are not completely trustworthy!

We explored the origin of chocolate in PSHE, comparing our lives to the life of a Ghanaian child on a cocoa plantation. It was very insightful and shows just what we take for granted. In Science, we researched what makes Earth the perfect planet to live on. Ask us what the Goldilocks zone is within our solar system!

CONGRATULATIONS to Imogen and Skye for being our People of the Week, displaying our school values and being excellent role models to their peers. 

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

MISS RANDLE AND MRS CLARY

Hello Everyone!

It's been a very sporty week in Penhallow, with 2 PE lessons as well as National Fitness day on Wednesday. The children enjoyed challenging themselves to complete different fitness tasks that were demonstrated to them in an assembly by Mr Langley and some volunteers throughout the school. We worked together to time ourselves and count the number of exercises that we could complete in a minute. The class co-operated extremely well as a team to help each other with these tasks and showed determination to improve their scores.

As part of our enquiry question; 'What makes our families unique?' Our history lesson this week involved finding out about how homes have changed in the past, as a result of the invention of different objects. Year 2 enjoyed using the internet to research images of homes during past decades, as well as in Victorian times. They were amazed to discover that not only did tv's not have remotes in the past, but that there was time before the very invention of the tv. 

We have been so pleased with the children's efforts in reading during these past few weeks. Please can you make sure that children bring their reading books to school every day. Reading books will be changed, when children have read their book at least 3 times.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

TALLAND'S BLOG 26.9.25

It's been a sport-tastic week this week. Well done to all of the children for getting involved so enthusiastically with National Fitness Day. Muscles were being used that haven't been used before, energy filled the air and sportsmanship was at an all time high!

Apart from sport, let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been ordering and comparing numbers to 10,000 and comparing angles.
Year 5 have been rounding to the nearest, 10/ 100/ 1,000/ 10,000/ 100,000 and estimating angles.


English:
Talland have continued to WOW me with some more spectacular descriptive writing based around a Rainforest. The language and writing techniques that are being used are brilliant!

PE:
With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing different yoga flows. When I came to watch, the balance, core strength and focus were great! In football, Talland have continued to think about spatial awareness, dribbling and passing with the side of their foot.

Geography:
We explored features of a  Brazilian Rainforest - quite different to features found in the United Kingdom!

RE: 
Talland thought about how Christians live their lives, who sets a good example for them and what Christians do to make their God proud.

Computing:
We got to tinker on a program called Scratch, where children wrote scripts for their sprites (characters) to follow. They changed their sprites, changed the background and made their characters rotate.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
 

We have had a busy week with plenty to celebrate in our Friday celebration assembly today, not least our visit from Mrs Dennison of the Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund who came to thank our year 5 and 6 children for thier amazing efforts in the summer term where they cycled, scooted and ran a marathon between them, raising over £450 for the charity.

George Orwell Polperro Project Exhibition Last year, Polperro Primary Academy was proud to receive the 2024/25 Orwell Society School Award. The award funded a nature-based project for last year's Y4-Y6 pupils, inspired by George Orwell's deep appreciation for the natural world - a passion he developed during childhood visits to Polperro. A special exhibition showcasing the work, is taking place at the school on Friday 3rd October at 7:00pm and parents/carers and pupils are invited to attend. The event will also be attended by members of the Orwell Society, including George Orwell's son, Richard Blair, who the children had the opportunity to meet during the project. The exhibition forms part of the Society's annual conference, which is being held in Polperro this year.

Polperro Arts Foundation Postcard Competition Last year, our pupils took part in an exciting competition to design a postcard inspired by Polperro. The competition was judged by the Polperro Arts Foundation, and we're delighted to announce that six of our talented pupils were selected as winners - congratulations to Leo, Flora, Callum, Arnie, Jemima and Imogen. A limited edition of just 50 copies of each winning design has now been professionally printed and is available to purchase at the Arts Foundation Gallery for £1 each. As recognition for their creativity, each winner has received a gift token funded through a share of the postcard sales. The remaining proceeds will contribute to the Foundation's annual donation to our school - a generous, much-needed and valued support that we deeply appreciate.

National Fitness Day Thank you for ensuring your child came to school in their sportswear on Wednesday for National Fitness Day. All the children enthusiastically took part in a variety of fitness challenges and engaged in thoughtful discussions about the importance of staying active. Each child also made a personal pledge on how they plan to keep fit moving forward.

Meet the Teacher It was a pleasure to welcome so many of you to our 'Meet the Teacher' sessions on Wednesday. If you were unable to attend but would like to speak with your child's teacher, please don't hesitate to contact the school office to arrange a convenient time. Parent consultations will also be taking place later this half term (dates to be confirmed).

Choir We're excited to announce that we have received funding from the Radford Trust to run a choir. Initially open to pupils in Years 2-6, the choir will begin next week and take place during Thursday lunchtimes. To encourage maximum participation, all eligible children will be invited to attend the first session. If your child chooses to join, we kindly ask for a regular weekly commitment going forward. The choir will be led by our music teacher, Mrs Butlin.

Looe Festival of Words Please find attached, information about this year's Looe Festival of Words which runs from 1st to 5th October. There are some exciting free events for children planned.

Have a good weekend.

Anthea Hillman

Hello,
We have had a busy week here at nursery. We have been finishing off our learning where the children have been talking about themselves, describing different features and talking about who lives with them. We have also been talking about different people that help us including firefighters, police and the ambulance service.
The children have been busy drawing and creating pictures of their family and who lives in their house in order to make a mobile.  They have made paper cup houses and played in the firefighter themed tuft tray. We have enjoyed using play dough to make different faces.

At story time we have enjoyed reading "We are all different" and " Charlie the firefighter".

During phonics, the children have been listening to sounds and then trying to remember them in a game of "What do you hear?". They have been making different voice sounds with their mouths and playing instruments to match different sounds heard.

In maths, we have been exploring shape by making arrangements with them, completing inset puzzles and building with shaped blocks.

Have a lovely weekend

Julie and Sarah 

Fab Fitness and Sock Puppet Designs

On Wednesday, we celebrated National Fitness Day by participating in a range of fitness activities throughout the day. We had so much fun doing this and enjoyed moving our bodies! 

During Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we have continued to explore 'Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?' in Science, by exploring world habitats. We explored a range of big habitats and then chose our own to research. In Music, we have been composing eight beat patterns using body percussion. In DT this half term, we will be making our very own animal sock puppets. Today we had a go at creating some designs. Over the next few weeks, we will explore joining materials and sewing, before creating our sock puppets. 

In English, we have spent the week working hard on writing our postcards inspired by Meerkat Mail. Today, we began writing up our neat copies, which we hope to finish early next week. 

In Maths, we have been working hard on Place Value, recognised hundreds, tens and ones and counting on a number line to 1,000. As we near the end of this unit, we will be moving on to Addition and Subtraction.

Congratulations to Ida and Tommy for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week, and a big well done to Sonny for achieving his 55 club badge this week. 

Some wonderful news, Jemima was chosen as one of the winners of the Polperro Arts Foundation Postcard Competition. She produced a wonderful postcard, which has been printed and can be purchased in the village. Well done Jemima! 

Reminder - We have our class trip on Wednesday 1st October to Dartmoor Zoo. 

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

This week, in Science we sketched habitat maps of our school and identified the microhabitats we could find. All of the children worked so hard on these and the results were fantastic! In Music, we have been working on repeating patterns and composing our own with the class. During Geography, we learnt the 8 compass points, along with the location of the North and South Poles. We conducted research about each pole to understand what they are like as places. We have been developing our Fundamental skills in PE with Mrs Lister, which has been lots of fun! 

In English, we have been working hard on our descriptive writing and exploring 2A sentences. Today, we planned for writing our own postcards inspired by Meerkat Mail. Next week, we are looking forward to writing these up and creating our final postcards. 

In Maths, we have continued working hard on Place Value, focusing on partitioning. Presentation in our books has been a big focus this week, which all the children have taken great pride in. 

Congratulations to Alfie for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week. 

Reminders
Meet the Teacher is being held on Wednesday 24th September at 2.45pm. I look forward to seeing you all then. 

Wednesday 24th September is also National Fitness Day. On this day, the children are encouraged to come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. 

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

We have had a busy week voting for our School Council members and choosing our new Planet Protectors group.

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: Kora (Chair), Skye, Archie, Anya, Hector, Maeve, Hugh and Erin and to Jamie who has been chosen as School Council member for Pupil Voice for PE and Sport. Information about our School Council can be found on our website under the 'Our Children' tab.

The Planet Protectors are a passionate school group dedicated to helping stop climate change by promoting sustainability and environmental awareness within our school community. They meet half termly and will be helping us take action through projects like recycling, energy-saving campaigns and eco-friendly initiatives, aiming to reduce the school's carbon footprint. Well done to Lily P, Tristan, Frankie S, Chilali, Aria, Skye, Harley, Leo, April and Hugh who will be our Planet Protectors this year, reporting back to their classmates and leading by example to inspire pupils and staff to make greener choices and take part in protecting the planet for future generations.

Meet the Teacher: 2:45pm, next Wednesday, 24th September Reminder that our 'Meet the Teacher' session will be on Wednesday 24th September starting at 2:45pm. Please come in through the main gate from 2:40pm and access your child's classroom by the external door. We look forward to seeing you then. This is 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 any 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.

National Fitness Day, Wednesday 24th September Next Wednesday, we will be taking part in National Fitness Day - a fantastic opportunity to celebrate physical health, encourage children to discover enjoyable ways to stay active and build positive attitudes toward exercise from an early age. Children should come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. If their kit is already in school, they will have the chance to change into it in the morning. Throughout the day pupils will take part in a variety of fun fitness activities and reflect on what it means to be fit and how to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle.

Wishing you a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Hillman

Hello Everyone!

Our week of learning in Penhallow has included an RE lesson, where we explored the idea of how the world began. We drew pictures of how we thought the world began, and then drew pictures and made models to explain Christian beliefs about how the world was created.

Our new English unit, based on the author; David McKee, began with learning the story of Elmer with actions. We worked on summarising the story and performing a summarised version with expression and intonation. 

Thankfully, we all managed an outside PE session this week, as well as plenty of outside learning for Reception, as shown in the pictures below. Please also see the attachments below, for some activities that you could complete at home, to help support your child's learning.

Meet the Teacher is being held on Wednesday 24th September at 2.45pm. I look forward to seeing you all then. 

Wednesday 24th September is also National Fitness Day. On this day, the children are encouraged to come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. 


Have a lovely weekend.

From The Penhallow Team

Chaipel have really made progress in their writing this week, immersing themselves in how to write setting descriptions effectively using precise vocabulary, vivid sensory detail and figurative language. This afternoon, they have designed their 'newly discovered' planet with which they will combine their new learning to write a description which will evoke mood and create a sense of atmosphere.

In Maths, we have been comparing, ordering and rounding numbers. We will bring in decimals next week before moving onto addition and subtraction.

For our Wider Curriculum, we have been mixing colours to create tonal swatches, practising using a range of mediums to design the look and texture of their 'newly discovered planet. Next week, we will be looking at creating the background, producing nebulas and star clusters. In PE, Mrs Hillman has taught a range of yoga poses and I was lucky enough to see them put the poses together as a 'flow'. In PSHE, we have thinking about our hopes and dreams and what kind of world we want to live in and in French phonics, Chaipel have been learning the alphabet, how French primary school systems work and how different they are from English schools.

POLITE NOTICE
Don't forget it is National Fitness Day AND Meet The Teacher on Wednesday 24th. Children can come into school wearing warm PE clothes. Parents, the Meet The Teacher session begins at 2:45pm.

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend,

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

TALLAND'S BLOG 19.9.25

Happy weekend everyone! We hope you have had a lovely week and are all set for a breezy but fun weekend! 

We've had a great week in Talland... busy, active and creative! Here's a brief breakdown of the week:

Maths:
Year 4 have continued to look at Place Value, investigating numbers that are 10/ 100/ 1,000 times more than or less than a number. and putting numbers to 1,000 on to a number line. 
Year 5 have also continued their work with place value. They have been partitioning numbers to 1,000,000 and investigating different ways to partition these rather large numbers. 
On a Friday, both year groups are learning shape. We have been exploring the different types of angles...why not ask your child which angles they can remember...

English:
I have been WOWED by the creativity that Talland are showing when it comes to writing. They have been working hard to inspect sentences and come up with fun and descriptive ways to improve sentences... their sentences are fantastic!  

RE: 
We created posters about how wonderful our world is and what we can do to protect it. Why not ask your child how we can keep our world healthy...

PE:
Talland have been working on their core strength during yoga sessions with Mrs. Hillman, demonstrating a range of strong and agile balances. With me, we had lots of enjoyable mini football matches where children demonstrated their dribbling skills, spatial awareness, team spirit and good sportsmanship.

Geography:
Talland got to work with the atlases today, where we probed features of South-East and South- West England. We analysed keys, telling us where cities, towns, rivers and counties are. We also explored where the highest and lowest points of our country are... do you know which country in the United Kingdom has the highest point? 

CONGRATULATIONS to Anya and Archie for being nominated as our school councilors', a huge well done to Jamie for being chosen as our PE representative in the School Council and fantastic work from Lily this week for being noticed for a her excellent work ethic, learning behaviours and effort.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a great weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.