At a special assembly this week we thanked last year’s house captains and vice captains for doing a wonderful job and announced our new Captains and Vice-Captains for this year who have been chosen because they consistently demonstrate our values. Congratulations to Renley and Lowen H (Willow); Nevaeh and Oliver (Oak); Zack and Heidi (Ash) and Amelia and Arnie (Chestnut). House Points are given to the children when they demonstrate our school values: Curious, Creative, Excellent, Responsible, Determined and Enthusiastic and pupils can see how many points their house has by looking at our House Point Tracker in the corridor by the library. Our value for this half term is ’I am responsible’ and houses met yesterday to consider what this means.

Meet the Teacher: 2:45pm, Tuesday 29th 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’s 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 Tuesday 29th 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.

Achievement Assemblies We will resume our special Wednesday assemblies the week starting 21st September. In these assemblies 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 or email to invite you to attend the assembly which will be held at 2:45pm (please arrive at 2:40pm). We look forward to sharing the children’s successes with you.

Clubs Just a reminder that all clubs (apart from girls’ football) will begin next week. Unless you have heard directly from us please assume your child has places in all requested clubs.

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Anthea Hillman

TALLAND'S BLOG 18.9.26

Another Brilliant Week in TALLAND Class!

We hope everyone has had an excellent week and is looking forward to a well-deserved weekend! The children Talland Class have been absolutely brilliant this week – hardworking, enthusiastic and, as always, full of energy and excitement for their learning. We’re incredibly proud of them!

Here’s a little snapshot of what we’ve been learning this week:

Maths:
Year 4 have continued their Place Value unit and have worked their way up to 10,000! They have been exploring the value of digits within larger numbers and developing their confidence when working with them.
Year 5 have also continued their work on Place Value, with a particular focus on partitioning numbers in different ways. It has been fantastic to see them finding different ways to represent and explain numbers.

English:
In English, we have been learning how to write single-clause sentences, focusing on identifying and using subjects and verbs correctly. The children have really been getting to grips with this skill, and their understanding of sentence structure is developing beautifully. We’re hoping this will give them a fantastic foundation when we begin writing our stories!

PE:
The children were fantastic in PE this week! During Yoga, they worked hard on balancing and transitioning smoothly through their yoga flows. They even began creating some of their own yoga balances, which was great fun! In Tag Rugby, the children have been developing their attacking and defending skills. There were some fantastic examples of quick tag-grabbing, determined defending and, of course, some brilliant tries!

Science:
Our Science enquiry, “Why do we age?”, has taken us inside the womb this week! We learnt about how a foetus develops and grows throughout pregnancy, how long the gestation period lasts and how much development takes place during those 40 weeks. The children were particularly fascinated when comparing the human gestation period of around nine months with that of different animals. There were certainly some surprising comparisons!

Celebrations:
A huge congratulations Harper for successfully completing her next level in 99 Club – what a fantastic achievement! We’d also like to give a special mention to Neveah for her wonderful effort this week. She was noticed for taking real responsibility for her learning and for being an all-round superstar in Talland Class.

That’s all from us! And that’s a wrap on another busy and brilliant week Talland Class! We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and get plenty of time to relax and enjoy yourselves.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone back in school next week, ready for another exciting week of learning!

Signing off, Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

This week, we were delighted to launch our Reading Buddies scheme with Class 1. Our Year 5 and 6 pupils thoroughly enjoyed sharing stories with the Reception children, who listened beautifully and loved hearing the different books. It was wonderful to see the older pupils taking on their roles as reading role models, helping to build confidence and nurture a love of reading across the school. The sessions were full of smiles, enthusiasm and thoughtful conversations about the stories.

In Maths, Year 6 have been developing their understanding of factors and multiples, using their reasoning skills to solve a range of challenges. Meanwhile, Year 5 have been practising rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100, becoming increasingly confident in explaining their methods. In English, we have been exploring how adverbs and adverbials can add detail and interest to sentences as part of our learning about outlaws. We have enjoyed creating descriptive sentences and are looking forward to using these skills when writing our own non-chronological reports next week.

In Science, we investigated whether the mass of a ball affects the rate at which it falls, making predictions, carrying out fair tests and discussing our results. We have also been learning about Sir Isaac Newton and his discoveries about gravity, linking our investigations to his important scientific work. It has been another busy week of learning and discovery. We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and look forward to welcoming everyone back next week for more exciting learning and new challenges.

Art
I teach Class 3 on Thursday afternoons and this week they were learning to use charcoal as a medium in art lessons. We explored the idea of Chiaroscuro (light and dark) in art. Using different charcoals and techniques the class observed rocks and made these sketches: Isla (left) Oliver (right). The darkness and light created with different techniques has contributed to the overall effect.

Friendship Bench
Thank you to Sarah Marley, who successfully secured this free bench for our playground. Donated by the Lazy Susan Furniture Company, this has been introduced to the the children as a friendship bench. If they are looking for someone to play with at breaktime, they can sit on the bench and other children will see they need a buddy and invite them to play.




Meet The Teacher
Thank you to the parents and carers of all our new reception children who joined Abi Flashman and Tom Otterwell-Taylor for an information session this week. We hope you found it useful.

Staff Update
I am delighted to share the exciting news that through their outstanding practice, Tom Otterwell-Taylor and Abi Flashman have been appointed as early years subjects leaders across the 15 schools of Bridge MAT. Tom has also taken on the leadership of art across the Trust. In addition to this, Sam Watts is leading on Showbie, the app used across Trust schools to support children's learning. These appointments reflect the excellent work and level of expertise of these teachers.

We have had another super week here in Class 2.

In Maths, both years 1 and 2 are almost at the end of their first unit of work on Place Values. This week, Year 1s have been counting forward to and back from 10, finding 1 more and 1 less than a number and comparing numbers. Year 2s, on the other hand, have been using deins to split large numbers and writing them in their expanded forms, using number lines and comparing numbers.

In Literacy, we are learning to write a recount. This week, learned to use the adverb of place and time, and coordinating conjunctions. We used our learning to write the introduction and first paragraph of our recount.

In Science, we are learning all about living things and how they grow. This week, we recapped our understanding of what different animals eat and considered all the things that are essential for our survival.

In RE, we explored the Christian concept of forgiveness. In History, we have begun to look at our own personal histories and talk some significant events in our lives. In Computing, we looked at how technology is controlled after which we designed our own robots with our own unique set of controls.

In Art, we have begun to look at how artists explore and collect things to help them create their art. We considered how artists use of sketchbooks to collect and preserve their impressions and how we could also do the same using our art sketchbooks. We also looked at some works by Andy Goldworth and went out into the forest school for an afternoon of foraging, collecting and arranging to create some Goldsworthy inspired nature art. Here are some of the amazing works we created this afternoon!

Finally, a very well done to:
> Ysella for getting the Ready Award for working really hard at Maths and putting in extra effort to master the art of flexibly splitting big numbers.
> Viv for getting the Respectful Award for always taking care to present all her work neatly.
> Rowan for getting the Safe Award for always taking care of his friends.

NOTE:
Please note that we have an additional day of PE with Pro20 every week starting next week. Besides Tuesday, please sent your children in their PE kits on a Thursday too. 
Friday, 25 September 2026 is Share-a-book-Friday.

We have had another productive week at school! The children have been amazing and have been fully immersed in all of their learning. We are becoming more familiar with our new classes, routines and teachers, and it has been lovely to see everyone settling in so well.

In Maths, we have continued our work on place value. We have been working with larger numbers, adding and subtracting different amounts, and exploring what happens to each digit when numbers change.

In English, we have been revisiting common and proper nouns and learning about different types of verbs. We have explored regular and irregular verbs, as well as verbs such as ‘to be’ and ‘to have’.

Our Science learning has focused on the differences between young and adult animals. We have been learning about the different names given to young animals and exploring how they look different from their adult counterparts.

In Computing, we have been learning about the different buttons found on various types of computers and what each button does. We then used our creativity to design our own robots and decided what each button on our robot could do. I was particularly impressed by the wonderfully creative ideas the children came up with!

In PE, we started our yoga unit. The children created their own sequences of yoga moves and thought carefully about how they could transition smoothly between different shapes and positions. They showed great creativity, concentration and control.

A huge well done to Evie, who was chosen as our Pupil of the Week! This week's value was being responsible, which Evie consistently demonstrates in the classroom, with her friends and around the school. Well done, Evie!

A big well done to Felix and Rosie, who were awarded their badges for the 99 Club this week. What a fantastic achievement!

Well done to everyone for working so hard and for continuing to follow our school values. We are incredibly proud of all the children and the positive attitudes they have shown this week. Keep up the fantastic work!

The children have settled really well into our nursery routines this week and are becoming increasingly confident and comfortable back in the class.

We have been exploring our topic ‘All About Me’, looking at our similarities and differences and talking about what makes each of us unique. The children enjoyed looking at their reflections in the mirror before creating their own self-portraits.

We have also been learning about different parts of our bodies through dancing and singing along to ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’, helping the children to identify and name different body parts while developing their listening and movement skills.

Our learning continued through a range of puzzles, matching games, and activities that supported problem-solving, concentration, turn-taking, and skill development through play.

The highlight of the week was drawing around one of our littlest members, then taking turns adding their features to our giant person. The children absolutely loved this activity and worked together brilliantly.

It has been lovely to see the children developing friendships, confidence and independence as they settle into life at Storytellers.

What a Wonderful week!

Dear Parents and Carers, just wanted to write to let you all know how wonderful your children are!
Our Nursery and Reception children have settled in beautifully and are accessing all the exciting learning opportunities that surround them.

I’ve seen children in all year groups enjoying their learning and socialising with their friends, it’s been a great start to the school year.
Thank you for all you’ve done in ensuring that your children have been ready and raring to go each morning. I have had a very busy, but very rewarding first couple of weeks at Copper Valley, thank you for continuing to make me feel so welcome.

Assembly Invitation
As you’ll probably know, your children attend a Celebration/Achievement assembly each Friday. This is an opportunity for us, as a school, to recognise some of the excellent learning, that has been happening throughout the week and also let us congratulate those children (of which there are many) that show the Trust and school values in school each day.
We’d like to invite you into our Celebration Assemblies as of next week. Therefore, if your child will be receiving a certificate on Friday your child’s class teacher will let you know via Seesaw, or email on Wednesday evening. The Celebration assembly is held in the hall at the Infants site at 9am on a Friday morning and will finish by approximately 9:20am. You can enter school through the main door in the morning. At the Junior site our celebration assembly starts at 2:30 in the hall and ends at approximately 2:50pm. It would be lovely to see as many of you as possible.

ECO Council
Congratulations to our Eco council for securing the Green Flag award.

After all their hard work last academic year Copper Valley Academies have been awarded the Green flag Award. We managed to obtain this through showing our green credentials including, litter picking, establishing gardening clubs, creating bug hotels, buying and installing bird feeders and collaborating with Tavi Task force who tided and cleaned up our pond area. We also attended an Eco Summit at another Bridge Trust school and ensured through assemblies that the rest of the school knew about the benefits of being ecofriendly. Well done to everyone involved and huge thanks to Mrs Wright for supporting and overseeing this project.

Eco council elections will be taking place in the coming days, with our first meeting of the school year on Monday 5th October.

School Meal Menu and introducing our new chef!
If you’d like to view the menu choices for this term, there are copies of the school menus in the reception area of both sites and it is available on the school website. Just click information and school meals. Unhelpfully, it is still titled Spring/Summer menu, however the dates down the side do refer to this term. Also, I wanted to let you know that Katy Upton, our new school chef, joined us at the beginning of this term, it’s been great to welcome her to the team.

Hope you all have a great weekend, and we look forward to seeing you back at Copper Valley on Monday. Mr Arnold and the Copper Valley Team.

It's been lovely welcoming all the children to Reception. They have all settled in brilliantly and are enjoying exploring their new environment and making new friends. I've been so impressed with how well they listen and follow instructions. We've been learning what it means to be kind and they are all trying hard to share and take turns. It's been such a lovely start to the year!

Year Group Newsletters
To see what learning has been happening in classes, and what’s coming up, please take a look at the Year Group Newsletters emailed home today. Copies can also be found on the class pages of our website.

Macmillan Coffee Morning – Friday 25th September 08:45-10:00
Everyone is welcome to join us for the Macmillan Coffee Morning hosted by Year 6 next Friday morning. If parking at school for the coffee morning, in the first instance, we will guide you to the staff car park (to double park) to help the morning drop off routine. Please also consider parking off site and walking if you are able to.

Year 2 Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS)
Today, Year 2 ‘rocked’ their times tables with their official launch of Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS), an online platform used throughout the school to develop accuracy and fluency in recall of multiplication and division facts. The children learnt to use the ‘Garage’ function which contains their personal ‘heat map’. This tracks their progress enabling children to identify which facts they need to work on next. Later in the year, we will set up tournaments whereby the children can work together to improve their scores. We will keep you posted! We would like to say a special thank you to you for helping the children look and feel the part – the costumes were amazing and really helped to make the day a special event.
From Year 2

FOWPA News
A big thank you to The Red Lion, St Kew Highway, who raised £200 for FOWPA over the summer through their weekly quiz nights — we really appreciate their ongoing support!

Our next FOWPA Quiz Night is on Friday 9th October at 7pm in the Town Hall — £20 per table (max 6 people). It's a great evening for a good cause, so grab your friends and family and come along to support the school. Please use the link in the email sent home today to book tickets.

Next week, children will bring home their Christmas artwork for cards and gifts.

Please remember the three steps:
1. Artwork is created at school and taken home
2. Orders placed at home
3. Artwork returned to school by 29th September

More details on both the quiz and the Christmas cards will be shared in the coming days!
From FOWPA

Year 1-6 Extra-Curricular Activities (ECAs) – Registration closes this Sunday 18:00

Home School Agreement and Permissions – Action needed
Have your contact details changed (we must have two contacts for your child)? Does your child now walk home from school on their own? Do you give permission for your child’s photo to go on social media? All permissions need to be updated annually via your Arbor account. If you need any support updating this information, please see Claire or Caroline in the office; they will be more than happy to help.

Allergies/Health Care Plans
Should your child have any allergies that we haven’t been made aware of already or they require a Health Care Plan (or an updated plan is needed), please contact the school office for further information.

School Meals – Food Allergies and Intolerances
Our school meals are provided by Caterlink. It is essential that if your child is having a school meal, you complete Caterlink’s new dietary requirements/food allergies form, if not done so already. If school is aware your child has an allergy but Caterlink’s form hasn’t been completed, your child will only be allowed the ‘safe option’ until the form is completed. Thank you for your cooperation.

House Points
Congratulations to this week’s winners, Choughs. Overall, Puffins are in the lead:

Puffins – 618
Choughs – 562
Swans – 490
Cormorants – 460

Wishing you a fantastic weekend.
Best wishes,
Chris Wathern

Friday 18th September

We had another wonderful week in Rame Class.

Some of this week’s learning:

Phonics:

This week in phonics we learnt the sounds (phoneme) s/a/t/p. The parent phonics sheet was sent home this morning to continue the children’s wonderful phonic knowledge.

 

Our big question is: Who Am I?

So, this week the children have made faces with different 2d shapes, we have looked in mirrors and filled a head template in with our faces and looked at different eye colours. We have explored who is special to us and drawn lovely pictures of them, and we had templates of girls and boys, and we used our creation station to decorate them.

During outdoor learning we used natural resources to make faces, and we also explored different ingredients and made face pizzas!

There has also been so much more exploration from the children during COOL (choose Our Own Learning) time and a favourite this week was bucket time.

Next week we start formal math’s lessons!

 Have a lovely weekend

Rame Class

Our second week back at school has been a very busy one. We have been following our topic of This is Me by creating faces from natural resources and salt dough, making collage versions of ourselves and learning the song Heads, Shoulders Knees and Toes!
We have also introduced our new Talking Tots Toolkit which is created by the Cornwall Council Early Years Speech and Language Team and aimed at getting two- and three-year-olds to build on their language skills. This week's circle time activity was "what's in the bag?"  we each in turn have to pull an object from the bag and talk about what we see. We are having lots of fun, and the children look forward to this activity every day.
So far, the term has got off to a fantastic start, and our children are keen to learn, they are picking up on routines and are developing positive friendships. 

This week we continued to talk about ourselves and our families by making faces of them and naming different members. 
The children talked about different features of their families like eye colour and hair colour and talked about the jobs they do.

They have been busy making themselves on a spoon and traced over their names in different colours.

At story time we have enjoyed the books “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and “My Hair”.

In phonics this week the children have played a game of “Family Footsteps” where they had to create different footstep sounds for different family members.
They have played a game of sound bingo.

In maths we have continued to compare groups of objects and have been sorting according to amounts and colour..

Have a great weekend.

Julie and Sarah

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Another Great Week of Learning in Marazion Class

Marazion Class have had another fantastic week, with lots of exciting learning taking place across the curriculum!

History – How Far Back Does Human History Go?

Our history learning really helped us to understand just how far back human history stretches. We used a timeline to explore the earliest evidence of human life in Britain, discovering that this dates back an incredible 900,000 years! To help us visualise this enormous length of time, we used toilet rolls to represent the timeline – and we would have needed to unravel three whole loo rolls to show the distance!

We also explored the evidence for more modern humans, dating back around 300,000 years. It certainly helped us to appreciate just how ancient some of the evidence we are studying really is!

PE – Football

We enjoyed our first football lesson this week. We began developing our ball skills and learnt how to dribble the ball, practising keeping the ball close to our feet while moving around the space. There was lots of enthusiasm as we began developing our football skills.

Computing – What Is Inside a Laptop?

In computing, we became computer detectives! We explored the different components and elements found inside a laptop, beginning to understand what each part does and how the different components work together to make a computer function.

English – Exploring Our Key Texts

We have been enjoying getting to know our key texts in English. We explored the texts carefully, identifying their important features and considering how they are structured. We then began mapping the stories onto a story pathway, helping us to understand the sequence of events and how stories are developed.

Maths – Place Value

In maths, we have continued developing our understanding of place value and this week we were introduced to thousands. We have been exploring how numbers are built using thousands, hundreds, tens and ones and applying this understanding to different numbers and problems.

Art – Colour and Meaning

Our art learning has been particularly colourful this week! We explored the colour wheel and investigated warm and cool colours. We also looked closely at the work of artist Romare Bearden, exploring how he uses colour in his collages to help convey meaning and create different effects.

It has been another busy and enjoyable week in Marazion, and we are very proud of the enthusiasm and curiosity the children are showing as they settle into their new learning.

Outdoor learning and lots of counting! 

We’ve had a great second week in Heligan class.

This week we have been looking at ‘Jeans for Genes day’ and we have all come to school on Friday in our jeans to raise money for this cause. We explored this in outdoor learning by making our own jeans out of natural materials. We gathered all the materials we needed and worked as a team to make our jeans.

In maths, we have been representing objects on a ten frame. We were given an amount and then we had to show that number on our ten frame. We have also begun our counting in 2s, 5s and 10s at the start of our maths lessons which we are really enjoying! Next week we will start our Mastering Number unit which helps children with their quick recall of number facts.

Our science unit this half term is focusing on everyday materials. We have explored different materials such as wood, plastic, fabric and metal. We have then talked about the properties of these materials by saying what they feel like.

Well done Heligan class, another great week!