As we come to the end of an unusually hot week, I wanted to say a big thank you to the whole school community (staff, the catering and cleaning teams, pupils and parents) for making the necessary adjustments to ensure children were able to attend school.

Together at the Table
It was lovely seeing so many families this afternoon at our 'Together at the Table' event. Thank you to all our children for their tasty contributions and the staff for supporting them. A special thanks to Miss Folland for organising the event and the traders for selling a selection of food and drink. Apologies about the ice-cream van - it did arrive right at the end of the day having broken down earlier in the day. What a fantastic way to end the week!

School Uniform
With the weather returning to more 'normal' conditions next week, we return to wearing our usual school uniform.

Year 6 Transition to Wadebridge School
Next week, many of our Year 6 children will be spending three days at Wadebridge School as part of their Year 6/7 transition. A reminder that children attending need to go directly to Wadebridge School each morning.


Home Learning Update
Thank you once again for completing the survey about Home Learning. In addition to parental feedback, we have gathered the views from pupils and staff. Please find below some key headlines from the parent survey: Q - Do you think home learning should be optional?
Yes - 70%
No - 30%

Q - How important do you think home learning is to your child's overall learning experience?
Very important - 26%
Important - 28%
Neutral - 30%
Not important - 16%

Q - Overall, do you support home learning?
Yes - 70%
No - 30%

Using all the written feedback gathered from parents, pupils and staff, we will be sharing with everyone in September our new guidance for Home Learning.

In the same survey, we also asked for feedback about some other areas of school life:

The school is a warm, friendly and accessible environment
Strongly agree - 45% (24) 
Agree - 49% (26)
Neutral - 6% (3)
Disagree - 0
Strongly disagree - 0     

The school makes me aware of what my child will learn during the year
Strongly agree - 38% (20)
Agree - 49% (26)
Neutral - 11% (6) 
Disagree -  2% (1) 
Strongly disagree - 0

The school keeps me informed of how my child is getting on
Strongly agree - 23% (12) 
Agree - 55% (29)
Neutral - 21% (11)
Disagree - 2% (1)
Strongly disagree - 0

These responses, and the written feedback received, were wholly positive with some suggestions made about whether the Parent Teacher Consultations (PTCs) could be longer as well as requests for further information throughout the year regarding children's progress. We will be taking this feedback into account ahead of our first round of PTCs next term (around October half term).

Thank you once again for taking the time to share your feedback.

Term 3 Extra Curricular Activities (ECAs) end Friday 3rd July
A reminder that next week is the last week of our teacher-led after school extra-curricular activities.

Vacancies - Nursery Teaching Assistant and After School Club Assistant
We are currently advertising for these two positions. Take a look on our Vacancies page for further details.

FOWPA
Would you like to support the school's PTA?
FOWPA is a group of parents and staff who strive to foster a strong school community through hosting several fundraising events throughout the year. We fundraise to pay for school trips, facilities or equipment outside the normal school budget advancing the education of the pupils, helping to make Wadebridge Primary Academy such a wonderful school for our children to learn and play. We also have a fantastic, committed group of parent volunteers who take on projects large and small, all working together as a successful team. We welcome anyone interested in helping and are very open to new ideas - it's a brilliant way to meet other parents and make new friends while supporting our children's education!
From FOWPA

House Points
Congratulations to this week's winners, Swans. Overall, Choughs maintain the lead:
Choughs - 13,991
Swans - 13,011
Puffins - 12,970
Cormorants - 11,635

Best wishes,
Chris Wathern

TALLAND'S BLOG 26.6.26

We're hoping everyone has had a fantastic week, have enjoyed the various weather and are still enjoying the World Cup! What a fun morning - SPORTS DAY is always a treat!

Here's a snapshot of what we've been learning:

Maths:
Year 5 have been rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, to one decimal place and to two decimal places - we have had to really think about place value and the the rounding rule - 'if the last digit is 5 or more, raise the score. 4 or less, let it rest.

Year 4 have completed their unit on time and are now moving on to position and movement. Why not quiz your child on time.

English:
We have moved on to our final piece of descriptive writing for the year and we are going SCI - FI! Children have created their own planets and have started thinking about what is on it? We have been inspired by Avatar so some great clips have been shown for inspiration.

PE:
I think it is fair to say that Sports Day was a roaring success and the children conducted themselves brilliantly showing excellent sportsmanship and competitiveness . Due to the glorious weather, Talland have managed 2 sessions in the pool this week where they worked on their front crawl and backstroke, alongside a range of different floating methods. Hopefully, if the weather continues, we will hop in the pool a couple of times next week so please make sure your child has the appropriate kit.

History:
This week, we concentrated on smuggling, why people decided to smuggle and thought about, what turned out to be quite a challenging question - 'were smugglers heroes or criminals?' TRIP INCOMING!

COMPUTING: 
We became animators this week. Children created flipbooks and thaumatrope through drawings and then filmed themselves flicking through the pages or spinning their thaumatropes to show off their animation - they looked super cool!

CELEBRATIONS:
Congratulations George, Rory, Amber and Lowen for earning their next badge in 99 club. Well done to Renley for showcasing excellent work in English!

That's all from us - we hope you have a wonderful weekend and can't wait to seeing everyone next week.

Signing off, Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

It has been a slightly different week in Mousehole Class due to the extremely warm weather, but the children have been absolutely wonderful throughout. They have shown fantastic resilience and maturity, adapting brilliantly to the changing routines and helping each other to stay safe and comfortable.

We have made the most of the shady areas of the field, as well as enjoying fun activities with ice and water to help everyone keep cool. The children have been incredibly sensible, remembering to drink plenty of water and look after one another.

Brunel Day

Today was a real highlight as we celebrated Brunel Day! The children had a fantastic time taking part in a range of engineering activities inspired by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

They worked collaboratively to design and construct their own bridges, thinking carefully about strength, stability and teamwork. We were also lucky enough to take part in an exciting workshop led by 'Brunel' himself, where the children learned fascinating facts about his life, achievements and the incredible engineering projects he was responsible for.

The enthusiasm, creativity and problem-solving skills on display throughout the day were fantastic, and it was wonderful to see the children so engaged in their learning.

Although it has been an unusual week because of the high temperatures, Mousehole Class have continued to shine. We are incredibly proud of the resilience, positivity and kindness they have shown, and Brunel Day was the perfect way to finish another memorable week together!

We don't know about you, but it has been one HOT week here in Class 2!

We have had to find some very innovative ways to keep cool and continue learning in our very hot classroom this week. We have had barefoot classroom, water tray congas, forest school lessons and joining Steve Backshall to watch videos about the Polar habitats to try and help us cool down enough to learn. However, despite the heatwave, we ploughed on and got oodles of learning this week.

In Maths, we have completed all units of learning for the year, and so we have started consolidating some key learning from the year. This week, we have started consolidating our understanding of multiplication and division. We have had everything from table maths to carpet maths... and in all this we have managed to use bar models and arrays to visualise multiplication. In Literacy, we have continued working on our diary entry and constructed expanded noun phrases to make our sentences "juicy."

In Science, we looked at how the environment is constantly changing. We looked at a variety of habitats and how they might change naturally. We also looked at the impact of human activity on these habitats. We had a cool, calm session in our forest school area. We took our Explorer Journals and made notes of what we saw and had a very serious discussions about how our activities there might impact the habitat and the many micro-habitats there. In PSHE, we ended our unit on relationships by talking about people who are special to us and reflected on what makes them special to us.

In RE, we discussed our understanding of the word "sacred" and "holy." We also looked at some sacred buildings and worked together to understand why they are sacred to some people. In Geography we looked at some coastlines around the UK and used Google Map to help us locate them on our maps. We were really good at remembering our learning from previous terms about the difference between physical and human features as we explored some photos of coastlines. Finally, in DT we used our learning from the previous lesson about a balanced meal to help us create a balanced and healthy menu for our end of term Teddy Bear's Picnic. In Computing, we revisited our understanding about life on the ISS before we received an invitation from our friendly alien Paxi to join him for a day on the ISS. We now have to digitally design, draw and annotate a bag with 4 key essential things to take with us.

Finally, a very well done to:
> Lilly R for getting the Ready Award for her resilience and perseverance. 
> Theo for getting the Respectable Award for making really good choices during his RWI lessons and doing some great reading.
> Sofia for getting the Safe Award for being a kind and helpful friend.
> Darcie and Jimmy for earning their London Achievement Award. 

Please look below for a montage of images from our Science learning this week.

We have had a full-on week, this week. We began with an art afternoon with Sean where we were ink printing abstract, bird's eye landscape views onto card. These will become part of an Art Exhibition which we will hold at the Summer Fayre on Friday 17th July.

In English, we have created our fictional outlaws and used Tinkercad to design their hideouts. We will be writing up our character profiles before the end of term as next week's Residential is top priority for us now! In History, we have learnt about the signing of the Magna Carta and how its abolishment led to some heinous punishments during the Tudor and Stuart periods. What a gruesome time to be alive! We are looking into Cornwall as a spiritual place in RE, linking local myths and legends with areas of interest to people of faith.

We were invited to Looe Community School on Wednesday afternoon as part of a wider community project. We created our own bespoke ceramic fish - alongside pupils from some of our cluster schools - which will eventually be mounted to make one impressive display in the heart of Looe for everyone to appreciate, hopefully, for many years to come. 

We had our Sports Day on Friday and it was a huge success. The Year 6 made us all extremely proud with how well they organised and help to run the events; however, it was the camaraderie in their 600m races at the end that made many adults shed a tear! What a lovely kind, caring bunch of Y6s we have!

Congratulations to our People of the Week, Frankie and Isaac for demonstrating our school values and being role models to others.

And finally...
Remember it's our Residential on Wednesday! Please make sure that children arrive in non-uniform ready for the off at 10am. Any last-minute queries, please email me!

That's all from us, so have a lovely weekend.
Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

Friday 26th June 

Some of this week's learning

In English this week the children have imitated the story of The Rainbow Fish. The new story is called The Glittery Dolphin! The children thought and changed the characters of the story. They then started to write a sentence from the new story. The children are writing beautifully and have used their phonic knowledge so well.

The children have coped well with the hot weather this week, but it has been a struggle, and we have had lots of cooling down time. To make sure we didn't overheat we had lots of extra water play and walking around like slow snails!

The children have been exploring Rockpools this week, they have made their own rockpools, drawn creatures that may live in rockpools and written sentences about pictures of rockpools.

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Dear Parents and Carers, As another busy and exciting week at Brunel comes to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support, particularly during the exceptionally hot weather. Your understanding and cooperation in helping us keep the children safe, hydrated and comfortable has been greatly appreciated.

As I am typing this email, our children are thoroughly enjoying Brunel Day! They have already experienced a wonderful assembly delivered by none other than Isambard Kingdom Brunel himself, and there is plenty more excitement to come throughout the day. Be sure to check out our social media pages to see some of the fantastic moments from today's celebrations.

Thank you also for your understanding regarding the postponement of Sports Day. We are hopeful that, weather permitting, it will now take place on Thursday 2nd July at 9:15am.

We look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible to cheer on the children.

Next week is another busy and exciting week at Brunel:

Wednesday 1st July - Music in the Afternoon Parents and carers are warmly invited to join us from 2:00pm. Please feel free to bring a picnic blanket and enjoy what promises to be a wonderful afternoon of music performed by our talented pupils.

Thursday 2nd July - Sports Day 9:15am (weather permitting).

Friday 3rd July - Sports and Shades Day Children are invited to wear their sports clothes, shorts and their favourite sunglasses.

Instead of a monetary donation, we are asking each child to bring an item for a Summer Fair hamper in their House colour:
Trematon - Red
Tintagel - Blue
Pendennis - Green
Restormel - Yellow

Your generous donations will help us create some fantastic hampers for our Summer Fair.

Finally, I hope you enjoy browsing through this week's edition of the Brunel Bulletin and reading about all of the wonderful learning and experiences our children have enjoyed.

Thank you once again for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend, and we look forward to seeing you at our events next week. 

A roundup of of our week at Harrowbarrow: 

Design Technology

This week, Class 3 concluded work to design and make their own working torch. Recycling a plastic bottle and using their knowledge of electrical circuits, the children made these very realistic and effective torches with a homemade switch.

Meanwhile, Class 4 concluded their project to design a multifunction navigation device. Having already used Micro;Bits to code a programme that counts their steps and also work as a digital cardinal compass, the children used Computer Aided Design software to come up with the case for their Micro:Bit.

UK Parliament Workshop

Tomas Williams from the UK Parliament Service joined Class 3 and 4 on Tuesday to talk about our system of government. He presented information about how laws are agreed upon and the role of MPs. The session concluded with a question and answer session and a mock vote on the proposal of  new law. The children voted to abolish school uniform!



Heat Wave

Thank you for helping us make school more bearable during the oppressive heat this week; fan donations, dressing the children appropriately and ensuring they attend wearing sunscreen and with a water bottle has really helped. The children have been amazingly tolerant, given how uncomfortable it has been for everyone. Today has felt lovely by comparison!

Sports Evening

Just a reminder that our summer sports evening has been rescheduled for Thursday 2nd July at 5pm. We hope to see you all there next week.

Class 4 have coped incredibly well with the hot weather this week and have shown great resilience in the classroom. A big thank you to Mr Thomas for kindly providing ice lollies, which have certainly helped us to stay cool and refreshed! Despite the heat, we have continued our learning with enthusiasm. In Science, we have been classifying living organisms using key vocabulary such as "warm-blooded" and "invertebrate". In swimming, the two groups who have successfully completed their 25m have been developing important water safety and rescue skills and who knew a football could be such a useful tool for helping someone in trouble! In Maths, Year 6 have been focusing on area and perimeter while Year 5 have been working hard on adding and subtracting decimals. In English, we have been exploring how to write persuasive commands to sell a resort and using adverbials of time to show when events might happen. We are all looking forward to a cooler classroom tomorrow!

It has been a busy week here at nursery. On Monday the children enjoyed a visit in the afternoon from Peter Heywood. He is part of a project called "United By The Sea" and the children enjoyed making ceramic fish with him which will be displayed in Looe. They created patterns using a wide range of materials and then used fish shaped cutters to create the shapes. Fun was had by all!

The children took part in sports day today (Friday) and all did super running in their races.

We have finished our arts and crafts related to holidays this week and will soon be exploring a new enquiry question.

At story time this week we have read books including "What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside".

In phonics the children have been trying hard to blend sounds together to make short words and have been suggesting words that complete different rhymes, well done.

We hope you all enjoy a lovely weekend.

Julie and Sarah

Landaviddy 

In Maths this week, we began our new topic of Statistics. We revisited bar graphs and explored how to interpret and analyse data presented in a variety of formats. This has helped us develop our understanding of how data can be organised and represented.

In English this week, we have continued exploring The Cobbler and the Dragon. We have been developing our sentence-writing skills by using a wide range of nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to make our writing more detailed and engaging. We have also been collecting lots of exciting 'wow' words and phrases, which we can use to make our writing more vivid, imaginative, and interesting for the reader.

In Art this week, we have been creating some amazing prints using a relief printing technique. First, we carefully attached card shapes associated with the sun onto a larger piece of card to create our printing blocks. We then designed a vibrant 'hot' background using layers of red, orange, and yellow tissue paper. Once our backgrounds were complete, we rolled black ink over our printing blocks and printed the designs onto the colourful backgrounds. The final pieces looked incredibly effective, with the bold black prints standing out beautifully against the warm colours. Next week, we will be exploring repeating patterns and creating our own patterned designs.

In Design and Technology this week, we have continued exploring the importing and exporting of food in the UK and around the world. We investigated a variety of fruits and vegetables and learned about which produce can be grown in the UK during different seasons of the year. This helped us to develop our understanding of seasonal foods, where our food comes from, and why some foods need to be imported from other countries.

We have certainly made the most of our swimming pool this week! With the exceptionally hot weather, the children thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to cool off and have fun in the water. Swimming provided a refreshing break from the heat and was a wonderful way to stay active while enjoying the sunshine. We feel incredibly fortunate to have access to our own swimming pool, and it has been greatly appreciated by everyone this week.

Sports Day was a huge success, and we would like to thank everyone who came along to support the children. We were certainly lucky to enjoy the best weather of the week! A huge well done to all of the children for their enthusiasm, determination, and fantastic effort throughout the day. They showed great sportsmanship, encouraged one another, and should be very proud of their achievements.

Landaviddy 

This week in Maths, Year 3 have been developing their understanding of time. We have been learning how to calculate and read start and end times, using our knowledge of hours and minutes to work out when events begin and finish. We have also explored durations, measuring time in hours, minutes and seconds. The children enjoyed discussing how long different everyday activities might take. We estimated and compared the length of tasks such as:

• Taking a bath
• Walking home from school
• Decorating a house
• Brushing our teeth
• Watching a television programme

We used our reasoning skills to decide whether activities would take seconds, minutes or hours and explained our thinking to our partners. We hae now completed 'time' and will move onto statistics next week. 

This week in English, we began our exciting new topic: Myths and Legends. We started by reading and exploring The Cobbler and the Dragon and created a detailed story map to help us remember the key events and characters. This helped us to understand the structure of the story and retell it in our own words. We have also been focusing on building exciting sentences by using nouns, adjectives and adverbs. The children worked hard to identify these word classes in sentences and discuss how they make writing more interesting for the reader. Throughout the week, we discovered lots of new vocabulary and practiced sorting words into the correct groups. We enjoyed becoming 'word detectives', spotting nouns, adjectives and adverbs in our reading and explaining how they add detail and meaning to a sentence.

This week in Science, we have been learning all about the human skeleton. We started by identifying and naming some of the major bones in our bodies. We discovered lots of fascinating facts, including which bone is the longest (the femur in your leg) and which is the smallest (the stirrup bone in your ear). The children enjoyed labelling a skeleton and learning where different bones are found. We also discussed the important jobs that our skeleton does. We learned that our skeleton helps to support our bodies, protect our vital organs, and work with our muscles to help us move. To prepare for our next investigation, we measured the length of our arms and legs. Next week, we will use these measurements to investigate whether people with longer arms can throw further and whether people with longer legs can jump the furthest. The children have already begun making predictions and are excited to test their ideas.

Finally, the children thoroughly enjoyed their time at the Polperro Festival. It was wonderful to see their hard work and dedication come together in such a special event. A huge well done to the whole class for performing with such confidence. You spoke clearly, represented our school brilliantly, and sang your song beautifully. We were incredibly proud of the enthusiasm, teamwork and maturity you showed throughout the festival.

Thank you to all the families who supported the children and helped make the experience such a memorable one. It is an achievement that the children should be very proud of!

This week in pre-school we have looked at two important things that we do to keep ourselves healthy, this has been brushing our teeth and washing our hands.

The children have really enjoyed our activities linked to this learning and hopefully it has helped them to understand these healthy daily habits.

The children enjoyed practicing their cutting and sticking skills by making a healthy lunchbox..including some treats. Lots of healthy meals were served in our Healthy Eating Cafe.

On a Monday afternoon the children have really been enjoying their P20 football sessions with Lantic class and Coach Ryan.  They have been practicing their technical skills and having a go at 5 a-side matches. 

The children enjoyed making a special card to take home for Father's Day on Sunday.  We hope all our pre-school dads had a lovely day.

A reminder that Sports Day is on Tuesday 23^rd June at 1pm.  Pre-school will be taking part in a couple of races at the beginning of the event, then we will return to our playground area to watch the rest of the school.  

Please ensure your child has suncream, sunhat and a water bottle.

The Pre-School Team.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Festival on Tuesday. Thank you for coming along and helping to make it such a special occasion. The children were absolutely fantastic: confident, entertaining and full of enthusiasm. They sang beautifully and we are incredibly proud of each and every one of them.

Sports Day, Tuesday 23rd June Sports Day will take place on Tuesday morning from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Please ensure that your child has their PE kit in school on the day. The forecast is for sunny weather, so please make sure your child comes to school with sunscreen, a sun hat and a water bottle. We look forward to seeing you there! Please enter the school via the field gate. Chairs will be available for spectators. To help the event run smoothly, we kindly ask that all spectators remain seated throughout the event and do not cross the track to see their child. This can be upsetting for children whose parents are unable to attend and it also makes it more difficult for our Year 6 pupils, who help to organise and run the races. Thank you for your cooperation and support.

FOPS Summer Fair and Children's Art Exhibition - Friday 17th July at 2pm FOPS are busily organising this year's Summer Fair which will include an exhibition of the children's art project which they are currently working on with local artist Sean Hewitt. Thursday 9th July will be a MUFTI day where we will be asking for donations of an item matching your child's house team colour to create hampers for raffle prizes. Children can wear their own clothes and this could include wearing their house colour. Please see attached posters for suggestions of what to send in for your child's colour on the day.

This is a very busy half term with more exciting events coming up including trips for some of our classes and the Year 6 residential trip to the Ultimate Adventure Centre in North Devon at the beginning of July. We also have our transition morning on Monday 6th July when the children will spend time in their new classes. These and other important dates are on our events diary on this website.

Have a great weekend.

Anthea Hillman

There are always some pre-race nerves but these wonderful runners had nothing to worry about. They gave it their all and finished in style. The Landrake run is never an easy one but our St Cleer runners pushed themselves in the June humidity and should feel really proud of themselves. Thank you to parents, family and friends for cheering them along!

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for your support at the Polperro Festival on Tuesday. We thought that the children did incredibly well to show you their learning in the form of paintings, songs and speaking. They did a fantastic job at speaking and singing in front of a large audience and we are all extremely proud of them. We were told about a number of comments from the audience, who had said how well the younger children in particular, had performed. Well done Penhallow!

This week, we have also been busy practicing for sports day, writing stories and programing beebots.

Reception have been learning all about position and direction in maths, and have enjoyed using programmable toys and technology to give precise instructions. 

In RE this week, we have been comparing 3 different religions and have found differences and similarities in their special places and places of worship.

During our science lesson this week, after drawing skeletons of different animals, we have compared and sorted animals and their offspring. We watched diffrent video clips of the life cycle of different animals and choose different ways to sort the types of offspring that animals have.

We look forward to seeing you at our sports day next week.

Have a lovely weekend,

From The Penhallow Team