We are so excited to begin a brand new school year together. Our new classroom has been carefully designed to support the needs of all our children, and we can't wait to see it filled with learning, laughter, and curiosity.

For the first half of the autumn term, our class topic is 'All about Me.' Children will have the opportunity to talk about themselves and find out more about their new friends. We will be learning a new song or rhyme each week and our focus texts for the half term will be Farmer Duck, Whatever Next, Slug needs a hug and Tadpoles promise. Our story time author books will be by Eric Carle and Tom Fletcher. We will be starting our phonics lessons following the Read Write Inc program straight away. Our maths sessions will focus on numbers to 5, counting accurately and making and continuing patterns.

This year we have lots of exciting learning opportunities planned and we're really looking forward to getting to know each and every child as they begin or continue their journey in Tregantle Class. Here's to a wonderful year ahead!

With warm wishes, Mrs Grinsted, Mrs Orchard, Mrs McIntyre, Mrs Bennett, Mrs James & Mrs Newman

We are delighted that you are interested in our Nursery for children aged 2 to 4 years. Please do have a look through the blog to find out about the exciting learning taking place in Big and Little Nursery. We have two rooms in our Nursery provision at Wadebridge Primary Academy.

Welcome to the Year 6 page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

Home Learning
Maths Fluency: Learning times tables is really important. After all, they're the building blocks of maths, and with their multiplications mastered, they can do anything! Therefore, each child from Year 2 - Year 6 has a log in for 'Times Tables Rock Stars' (TTRS). This is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practise online which helps your child learn their tables in a fun and engaging way. Please encourage your child to log on to TTRS as often as possible. Children's use of these apps are monitored closely by teachers. Each week, one child per class is awarded the TTRS Champion.

Reading: Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. We are happy for children to read their allocated reading book, their school library book or any other reading material. In Year 6, the children are encouraged to take greater responsibility for their own reading. Due to the varying length of books, the children will be responsible for changing their own books weekly. They will be able to change their books during morning work, guided reading sessions and at free reading times. Class teachers keep a record of book changes to support the children and give reminders if needed.

PE
Our PE lesson is on a Monday. Please ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school every Monday.

This web page will be updated throughout the year with our fortnightly weekly news, termly curriculum maps and other useful information, so please do watch this space!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,

The Year 6 Team

Welcome to the Year 5 page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

Home Learning
Maths Fluency: Learning times tables is really important. After all, they're the building blocks of maths, and with their multiplications mastered, they can do anything! Therefore, each child from Year 2 - Year 6 has a log in for 'Times Tables Rock Stars' (TTRS). This is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practise online which helps your child learn their tables in a fun and engaging way. Please encourage your child to log on to TTRS as often as possible. Children's use of these apps are monitored closely by teachers. Each week, one child per class is awarded the TTRS Champion.
 
Reading: Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. We are happy for children to read their allocated reading book, their school library book or any other reading material. In Year 5, the children are encouraged to take greater responsibility for their own reading. Due to the varying length of books, the children will be responsible for changing their own books weekly. They will be able to change their books during morning work, guided reading sessions and at free reading times. Class teachers keep a record of book changes to support the children and give reminders if needed.

PE
Our PE lesson is on a Friday. Please ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school every Friday.

This web page will be updated throughout the year with our fortnightly weekly news, termly curriculum maps and other useful information, so please do watch this space!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,

The Year 5 Team

Welcome to the Year 4 page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

Home Learning
Maths Fluency: Learning times tables is really important. After all, they're the building blocks of maths, and with their multiplications mastered, they can do anything! Therefore, each child from Year 2 - Year 6 has a log in for 'Times Tables Rock Stars' (TTRS). This is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practise online which helps your child learn their tables in a fun and engaging way. Please encourage your child to log on to TTRS as often as possible. Children's use of these apps are monitored closely by teachers. Each week, one child per class is awarded the TTRS Champion.

Reading: Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. We are happy for children to read their allocated reading book, their school library book or any other reading material. In Year 4, the children are encouraged to take greater responsibility for their own reading. Due to the varying length of books, the children will be responsible for changing their own books weekly. They will be able to change their books during morning work, guided reading sessions and at free reading times. Class teachers keep a record of book changes to support the children and give reminders if needed.

PE
Our PE lesson is on a Wednesday. Please ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school every Wednesday.

This web page will be updated throughout the year with our fortnightly weekly news, termly curriculum maps and other useful information, so please do watch this space!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,

The Year 4 Team

Welcome to the Year 3 page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

Home Learning
Maths Fluency: Learning times tables is really important. After all, they're the building blocks of maths, and with their multiplications mastered, they can do anything! Therefore, each child from Year 2 - Year 6 has a log in for 'Times Tables Rock Stars' (TTRS). This is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practise online which helps your child learn their tables in a fun and engaging way. Please encourage your child to log on to TTRS as often as possible. Children's use of these apps are monitored closely by teachers. Each week, one child per class is awarded the TTRS Champion.

Reading: Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. Regular daily reading at home is so very important to help your child in becoming a fluent reader. We encourage parents to read and discuss literature with their children and believe that reading should be a shared experience where possible. We are happy for children to read their allocated reading book, their school library book or any other reading material.

PE
Our extended PE lesson is on a Tuesday. Please ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school every Tuesday.

This web page will be updated throughout the year with our fortnightly weekly news, termly curriculum maps and other useful information, so please do watch this space!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,

The Year 3 Team

Welcome to the Year 2 page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

Home Learning
Maths Fluency: Learning times tables is really important. After all, they're the building blocks of maths, and with their multiplications mastered, they can do anything! Therefore, each child from Year 2 - Year 6 has a log in for 'Times Tables Rock Stars' (TTRS). This is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practise online which helps your child learn their tables in a fun and engaging way. Please encourage your child to log on to TTRS as often as possible. Children's use of these apps are monitored closely by teachers. Each week, one child per class is awarded the TTRS Champion.

Reading: Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. Regular daily reading at home is so very important to help your child in becoming a fluent reader. We encourage parents to read and discuss literature with their children and believe that reading should be a shared experience where possible. We are happy for children to read their allocated reading book, their school library book or any other reading material. 

PE
Our extended PE lesson is on a Thursday. Please ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school every Thursday.

This web page will be updated throughout the year with our fortnightly weekly news, termly curriculum maps and other useful information, so please do watch this space!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,

The Year 2 Team

Welcome to the Year 1 page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.

Home Learning
Each child has a Phonics folder that is included within their reading packet. This folder has key information about Phonics along with grapheme charts and tricky words. Each week, the children will be sent home with Phonics learning, in addition to regular reading.

Reading
Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. Regular daily reading at home is so very important to help your child in becoming a fluent reader. We encourage parents to read and discuss literature with their children and believe that reading should be a shared experience where possible. We are happy for children to read their allocated reading book, their school library book or any other reading material.

PE
Our extended PE lesson is on a Tuesday. Please ensure that your child wears their PE kit to school every Tuesday.

This web page will be updated throughout the year with our fortnightly weekly news, termly curriculum maps and other useful information, so please do watch this space! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,

The Year 1 Team

Learning in Reception
As you know, children in Reception are on the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum (EYFS). This curriculum is predominantly play-based and celebrates the whole child's learning and development in a holistic approach. Our planning comes from the children - through careful observations and assessments of their play, noting the gaps in their knowledge and primarily from their interests in an overarching 'topic'.

In school, we typically have a daily 30-minute phonics lesson, a 30-minute maths lesson and a short topic taught session. In addition to this, we have 10 minutes reading a day. We support the children's writing development with weekly small group guided writing sessions. This is where the children can apply their skills and knowledge of letters and sounds from their daily phonics lessons. The rest of the day is child-initiated play in the learning environments inside and outside. We call this COOL time (Choosing Our Own Learning)! This allows children the time for totally uninterrupted play; they can apply their learning from the taught sessions in a range of different activities and contexts. This ensures the learning is meaningful to them and that it becomes embedded. We try to ensure that the children have a minimum of 1.5 hours in the morning and the same again in the afternoon.

In line with our school values, we promote the Characteristics of Effective Learning through our learning characters: Ideas Iguana (Creativity), Have a Go Hippo (Enthusiasm) and Keep Going Koala (Determination).

Morning routines
Each morning, we ask that the children are dropped off at the green gate into the Reception area between 08:30 and 08:45. The children will then independently enter their classroom to organise their belongings and get ready for an exciting day of learning. This time of day is a busy time for teachers so we ask that any messages are passed on via the teacher on duty who will then pass the information on to the class teacher. If you have any further concerns or questions then an appointment can be made via the office.

End of day routines
At the end of the day, please come to the same green gate at 15:10, so that we can dismiss your child to you and pass over any messages about the day. If you are ever unable to collect your child, please either phone the office or pass it on to the teacher on the gate in the morning. We will not send any child home with anyone different unless we have had a message to do so and the adult has your collection password.

Things to bring to school
As well as wearing school uniform, your child will need a waterproof coat, pair of wellington boots, book bag with reading record and book, and a water bottle. In the summer months, please bring a hat and sun-cream. We also kindly ask you to leave a spare pair of clothes on their pegs just in case they are need to change or have an accident. Please ensure that every item is clearly named - including water bottles and packed lunch boxes.

Reading books - changed on a Monday and Thursday / library books on a Monday
Throughout the school, we emphasise developing a love of reading and books. From Reception to Year 6, reading should take place daily. Your child will soon receive a reading packet and a reading record. It is really important that these are brought into school every day in their book bags. We will change your child's reading book every Monday and Thursday. By practising re-reading the same book over a few days, it will help your child to become more confident with the text and fluent. The children will visit our wonderful school library on a Monday morning, where they will get to choose their very own book to take home. They will need to return their library back to school every Monday morning, in order to change it for a new one. We kindly ask you support your child with taking good care of our reading and library books at home, so that we can keep them in a nice condition for everyone to enjoy.

PE - Every Thursday
As independent changing for PE is part of the of the Early Years curriculum, we will be supporting and encouraging children to get changed for PE at school. Please leave your child's P.E. kit on their peg. We will send home the kits for regular washing.

Snacks
Free fruit will be provided for all of the children in Reception. However, if your child would like to bring their own fruit then they are more than welcome to. We kindly ask you to bring in a snack for the afternoons. In order to promote healthy eating, we do ask that children only bring fruit to school.

Lunch
The children are entitled to receive a free school lunch each day. Please ensure you order your child's lunch via ParentPay. Alternatively, your child is welcome to bring their own packed lunch.

Showbie
We know that the children often get up to some amazing things out of school too. If you have visited somewhere interesting or achieved an award (swimming, karate etc.) then please let us know and upload onto Showbie. We love to celebrate all types of learning and achievements. We share WOW moments and whole class special events, as well as key milestones of learning and development on the individual child on Showbie.
 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best wishes,
The Reception Team

What a wonderful service performed by Class 3. I especially liked their impressions of the Staff!

A big thank you to Mr Hodgins and Mrs Campbell for their work with today's production, I think the new words for Pink Pony Club are better than the original!

Finally, it is time to say goodbye to our Year 6 children. Many of this group have been with us since Nursery and have therefore been part of the family for up to 8 years.

As a group they have been a pleasure to teach and we can say with complete confidence that they are ready to take on the next chapter of their learning at secondary school.

We will genuinely miss them being here daily, but as the last line from the song at our leaver's service said today:

'For this is my Duloe and this is my school.'

They will always be part of school and will always be welcome here.

 A final blog to say a farewell to our 2025 pre-school leavers and wish all our families a wonderful fun summer break. 

Happy Summer Holidays

What a pleasure it has been to teach the children in Foundation this year! 
It's a bittersweet day for the staff in class today...We are beyond proud of all the children for all they have achieved, all the skills they have learnt and the wonderful year 1 learners they have become HOWEVER it is a sad day also as we have to say goodbye and pass them onto the next teacher. Although we know they will continue to do so well in year 1, we will miss them so very much! 
Thank you for all of your support this year, we wish you the most amazing summer break. 
Warmest and kindest wishes 
Mrs. Phillis and the Foundation Team ! 

We are at the end of another wonderful year at Polperro School. The children have worked extremely hard all year which you will have seen in their books which have been sent home. They have achieved so much and we are all proud of them all as I am sure you are. Thank you so much for all of your support throughout the year.

We say some emotional goodbyes this week, firstly to our amazing Y6s who we are sure will all go on to do great things. We have also said goodbye to Mrs Phillips in a special assembly this morning. She is moving to a school in Plymouth. We will all miss seeing her smiling face in school and I am sure you will join me in wishing her all the best for the future. Mrs Lister will be replacing her in Landaviddy Class.

Summer Fayre It was lovely to see so many of you at our Summer Fayre yesterday. It was such an enjoyable afternoon and we raised over £550! Thank you to the parents/grandparents who helped out on the day and to everyone in FOPS who helped organise such an fun afternoon.

FOPS Funds The funds raised through FOPS for our school have been invaluable this year. We have spent the money on subsidising trips for every class; House badges; 99 club badges; rewards eg French pencils; prizes for World Book Day competition; Christmas plays; eco bins for our Planet Protectors; marshmallows for wellbeing day; fruit cage for garden; garden storage unit, compost and school garden supplies; maths logins for maths co uk; book boxes for phonics scheme books; SATS breakfast and Y6 leavers party food; EYFS resources.

Next year we aim to raise money for styluses for the iPads to enable the children to access everything that the educational apps on the school iPads have to offer; a trolley to store and charge the new iPads; gardening supplies; trips for each class. We will keep you posted about future plans in addition to these.

Caterlink Design a Meal Competition Congratulations to Amber for winning Landaviddy Class' design a healthy meal competition. And well done to Sonny who was runner up. Amber's meal was put on the school lunch menu today.

House Team winners Congratulations to Oak, this year's House Team winners with 570 house points. Runners up were Ash with 470 points; then Chestnut with 427 points and Willow with 393 points.

Years 5 and 6 Charity Fundraiser Well done to years 5 and 6 who cycled, scootered, walked and ran a marathon between them to raise an amazing £451 for the Plymouth and Cornwall Cancer Fund as part of their PSHE learning.

Online Safety During the summer holidays, without the distraction of school, internet usage for many young people can increase all the way up to September. Please use this link https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/staying-safe-online-in-the-summer-holidays for more information about keeping children safe online children safe when using the internet, social media and playing online games.

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Information for September

Dropping off and picking up In September, the gates will be open as usual from 8:30am to allow you plenty of time to drop off in order for your child to be in school ready for registration at 8:45am. Please drop by 8:40am so that they are there in plenty of time for registration at 8:45am. As usual, pick-up time for all classes will be 3:15pm with Penhallow Class leaving from the side gate and Talland and Chaipel Classes from the main gate. Parents of pupils in Landaviddy Class (year 3) are asked to wait for their child outside Landaviddy Classroom on the playground.

Uniform Information about our uniform is on the information tab on this website. Please ensure that everything is labelled for the start of term.

PE and Swimming PE kit should come in on the first day of term and be in all half term. The swimming pool will still be open in September therefore please send your child in with their swimming kit on the first day.

After School and Breakfast Clubs Wraparound care will start on the first day back (4th September). Please email the office (secretary@polperroprimary.co.uk) if you would like your child to attend.

INSET Wednesday 3rd September is an INSET day. We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school at 8:30am on Thursday, 4th September. Thank you again for all of your support throughout the year. Wishing you all a wonderful summer break.

Anthea Hillman and the staff at Polperro Primary Academy

Ahoy there, mateys! We have ended the year at Storytellers with a rip-roaring pirate adventure that would make even Captain Jack jealous! The little buccaneers played a raucous round of pass the parcel, bounced like jellyfish on the bouncy castle, and dared to walk the wobbly plank with fearless giggles. They splashed and slipped through our splishy-splashy water fountain like mischievous mermaids, stirred up some slimy seaweed soup in the messy play zone, and feasted like true pirates at our epic banquet. The crowning glory? A magnificent fruit ship fit for a captain, crafted by our magical cook.

We are incredibly proud of our Storytellers family - the laughter, learning, and love have made this year truly unforgettable. We can't wait to see what magical adventures next year will bring! 

Wishing you all the best Lantic Class...

'Oh please don't go, we love you so!'

So, we've arrived at the last day of term and indeed the school year, which means  it's time to bid goodbye to Lantic class and wish you all a very happy Summer holiday

This term has been full of thrills and excitement, including a Forest School evening, complete with a campfire and a science trip to Tincombe Nature Reserve. We presented our class assembly all about the Wild Things and were so pleased to show you all our lovely outdoor classroom with a vegetable patch and beautiful flower beds.

We also celebrated the talent at Brunel Primary with several events including Sports day, Music of the Afternoon and of course this week's Brunel's Got Talent.

We've enjoyed playing on our brand new playground equipment and our recent introduction to the Builders' Yard, which has endless opportunities for exploration and creativity..

However, that's just a small part of Lantic's journey, for the class have also worked incredibly hard in all areas of the curriculum, which was so apparent in the vast numbers of books they've been bringing home!

So, now's the time to reflect on all the fun, friendship and naturally lots of laughter along the way - it's been great.

Thank you so much for all your support, particularly this term.

With love from the Lantic team xxx