Lantic Class have had a fantastic week of learning and fun!

In Literacy, we have been enjoying the story Poles Apart. The children have worked hard to make their writing more exciting by using adjectives and nouns. We described different characters and places from the story, thinking carefully about words that would help the reader imagine them. We came up with some brilliant descriptions and the children were very proud of their work.

In Maths, we have been learning about place value to 50. The children have been exploring tens and ones, building numbers and showing them in different ways. They used practical resources to help them understand how numbers are made, and everyone showed great determination when solving number challenges.

We also have some very exciting news! We have transformed our second classroom space into an area for continuous provision. The children were so excited to explore it and it already looks amazing. It has lots of opportunities for exploring, creating, building and learning through play, and we are looking forward to using it even more in the coming weeks.

To finish the week, we celebrated World Book Day. The children came to school dressed as a huge variety of wonderful characters. It was fantastic to see so many creative costumes and to celebrate our love of reading together.

Well done Lantic Class for a brilliant week of learning!

"Gool Peran Lowen!"

We have really enjoyed the sunshine this week in Tregantle Class! The garden has been full of imaginative and creative play, with the children making the most of the warm weather and spending lots of time outdoors. Our new stage area has been especially popular, inspiring plenty of performances and role play. This week we even had a yoga class led by the children themselves - what a wonderful and relaxing activity to see them organise and share with their friends!

Thursday was a very special day as we celebrated St Piran's Day. We were incredibly proud to perform our school anthem, Trelawny, live on Radio Cornwall. Tregantle children joined the whole school and sang their hearts out. It was such an honour to take part and celebrate this important Cornish occasion together.

World Book Day was also incredible. The costumes the children arrived in were imaginative and beautifully designed, and it was lovely to see so many favourite book characters come to life around the school. Throughout the day we enjoyed stories read by different teachers, made our own bookmarks, and went on an exciting 'character hunt' around the school grounds. What a fantastic way to celebrate our love of reading!

Celebrating St Piran's Day at School

Today, the pupils of Kensa and Nessa Class have immersed themselves in a joyful celebration of St Piran's Day, embracing the rich traditions, stories, and creativity that make Cornwall such a special place to call home. The classrooms have been filled with delicious smells, splashes of colour, and the sound of proud Cornish voices as the children explored their heritage in a range of hands on activities.

One of the highlights of the day has been pasty making, with pupils learning about the historic importance of this iconic Cornish food. Working together, they mixed, shaped, crimped, and filled their own traditional pasties, enjoying both the process and the chance to share something that has been part of Cornish identity for generations. Many pupils commented on how making pasties helped them feel connected to the families and communities who have carried on this tradition for hundreds of years.

In art, the children have been inspired by the dramatic Cornish landscape and its deep links to mining heritage. Pupils worked in mixed age groups to create beautiful watercolour paintings, helping one another with techniques and sharing ideas along the way. From engine houses silhouetted against stormy skies to rolling moorland and rugged coastlines, their work reflects both creativity and a shared pride in the place they live. The collaborative nature of the activity encouraged teamwork and showed just how much younger and older pupils can learn from one another.

Music also played a special role in the celebrations. The classes came together to sing the modern Cornish classic "Cornwall My Home", filling the hall with voices full of heartfelt enthusiasm. For many children, singing the song was a moment to reflect on what Cornwall means to them: its beauty, its history, and its strong sense of community.

To deepen the children's understanding of St Piran himself, Mrs Elliot led an engaging whole school assembly exploring the story of the patron saint of Cornwall. Pupils shared their thoughts about what it means to be Cornish and how traditions like St Piran's Day help keep their heritage alive. Many spoke with pride about their families, their local history, and the importance of celebrating who they are.

Our nursery children have been busy celebrating St Piran's Day with a delicious Cornish treat! To mark this special occasion, the children helped make their own scones, carefully mixing the ingredients and proudly watching their dough rise. Once the scones were baked, everyone enjoyed a cosy afternoon tea together, complete with jam, cream and lots of smiles. The activity was a wonderful way to explore Cornish traditions, develop early cooking skills and share a sense of community. It was a joyful celebration, and the children loved every moment of creating - and tasting - their homemade scones!

It has been a wonderful day of connection, creativity, and community-one that truly captured the spirit of Kernow.

Thank you so much coming to join us this morning for our breakfast with a book event. Happy World Book Day and Gool Peran Lowen!

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At Storytellers, we have been loving diving into this term's topic, "Food Glorious Food", and what a fantastic way to explore it by celebrating the Chinese New Year!

 We spent the week learning how the Chinese New Year is celebrated around the world and discovered that red is considered a lucky colour, symbolising happiness and good fortune. The children were fascinated to learn that this is the Year of the Horse, and we talked about what that means.

We explored different Chinese prints and patterns before having a go at painting our own names in Chinese-style writing - the children were so proud of their creations! Our creative table was full of colour as we made beautiful, bright dragons and enjoyed dancing around the room with them, just like in traditional dragon dances.

The children also had great fun mastering chopsticks, showing real determination and developing their fine motor skills as they practised picking up different foods. There were lots of smiles (and a few giggles!) as they improved their skills.

To finish our celebrations, we prepared a special banquet to share with our friends. The children showed such bravery and curiosity, trying different foods and tasting some delicious desserts. It was a wonderful way to explore new flavours, cultures and traditions together. What a joyful, colourful week of learning, exploring and celebrating! 

Our first week back after half term has flown by and we can't quite believe that we are already in Spring Term 2!

We are very excited about our new enquiry question' 'What do we know about where we live?'  We will be discovering all about what makes Cornwall so special, from beaches, rockpools, sea creatures, pasties and even some tales of Pirates and Mermaids!  Alongside that we will look at some of our seasonal changes as we transition into Spring.  There is always so much to observe outside as we move into the warmer weather, and the children have already spotted lots of daffodils popping up around our garden area.  With some glimmers of sunshine this week we have enjoyed some long-awaited dry play and explore time in our outside area.

Our first week back has seen us enjoy the story 'Duffy's Lucky Escape'. This book was written by a local author, Ellie Jackson, and helped the children to understand why it is important to keep our beautiful Cornish beaches clean to help protect the sea life.

We had our own beach clean activity tray set up where the children have been finding all the rubbish that does not belong on the beach. 

Alongside this the children have been serving lots of delicious ice-creams from our Beach Cafe role play area and creating some Ocean themed play doh scenes. We also made our own sand castle artwork with sand and glue, then sticking pictures of shells on to decorate them.

In music with Mrs Butlin this week we enjoyed exploring the Djembie African Drum, following along as Mrs Butlin changed the volume, tempo and rhythm that she played. 

Our listening skills were also extended during our phonics as we explored symbols, the children did so well to correctly clap out one, two or three symbols depending on the words we gave them. 

A very busy but enjoyable first week back.

A reminder that next Thursday 5^th March is both St Piran's Day and World Book Day.  We are happy for the children to choose what celebration they would like to dress up for.

The Pre-School Team.

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A Busy and Brilliant Week in Perranporth class! 

In English, we continued our poetry unit. The children explored different poems, performed them, and wrote their own across the week. We were so impressed with their creativity and the ambitious language they used.

In Maths, we focused on multiplication and division, developing our number sense and building confidence with times tables.

Our wider curriculum was packed full of interesting learning:

• In Geography, we completed our learning about deserts and created a double-page spread to showcase everything we had discovered.
• In Science, we finished our electricity topic, again presenting our understanding in a detailed double-page spread.
• In French, we learned about habitats, while in Music we continued with Classroom Jazz.
• On Tuesday, we marked Safer Internet Day with special computing activities, including a live lesson.
• In PSHE, we recognised Children's Mental Health Awareness Week and continued our learning about relationships.

There was plenty happening beyond the classroom too! We played dodgeball for our team match in PE, explored fastenings in DT, celebrated achievements in Friday's assembly, and enjoyed meeting many of you at Parents' Evening.

It was a full, fun and focused week of learning - we were very proud of all our superstars!

This week in English, we started our new poetry unit. We are creating a sonnet about cats based on Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. The children have spent this week exploring the sonnet, finding out about the structure, researching Shakespeare and using archaic language, such as: thus, thee and thou.
This afternoon, the children used their story maps to learn the poem by heart and practise their oracy skills . I was proud of each group because they had to learn to pronounce words they had never seen before. 

In maths, we have started a unit on ratio and proportion. Today we focused on scaling recipes up and down and they commented on what a useful life skill it was. 

In History, we have been finding out about the census and looking at old extracts. We then had a go at creating a class census by interviewing each other and collecting data. 

Please find the knowledge web for this half term below. 

Have a fantastic weekend, Miss Burton.

Planting for the future

Welcome back!

The first week of term is already underway. Building on last year's Orwell Project, our Year 5 and 6 pupils, together with our Planet Protector group, visited the temperate rainforest just ten minutes from school to take part in a special tree-planting session. They were the very first group of pupils to plant trees as part of this exciting initiative, which will see more than 20,000 trees planted to help restore and regenerate the temperate rainforest. A fantastic start to the term and a wonderful way for our pupils to make a real difference to their local environment.

Parent Consultations We will be holding parent consultations the week commencing 9th March for Penhallow, Talland and Chaipel Classes and the week commencing 16th March for Landaviddy Class. Please see separate letter attached for dates and details of how to sign up.

Clubs will resume next week as follows: Monday: After School Running Club (Miss Bowden and Miss Bolton) for years 3-6. Tuesday: Lunchtime Construction Club (Mrs Lister) Reception/Y1/Y2; After school Girls' Football (Y3-6); Thursday: Lunchtime Choir Mrs Butlin (Y2-6) After school Art Club (Mrs Fitzsimmons) Reception/Y1/Y2 ; After school Football Club Mr Langley (Y3-Y6). We had hoped to restart Gardening Club this half term; however, unfortunately the greenhouse did not withstand the recent storms and we are currently awaiting a replacement. We are now aiming to have this popular club up and running again after the Easter break.

If your child would like to join any of the clubs available for their year group and has not already signed up, please let us know by email or telephone. Please note that once children have signed up to a club, they are expected to attend every week unless they are absent from school or we have received written parental permission for them not to attend. This applies to both lunchtime and after-school clubs.  

World Book Day, Thursday 5th March 2026 Please find attached a £1 digital book token for your child to spend on a free book for World Book Day. Reminder that on World Book Day children should come in dressed as their favourite book character. We have already had some super entries for "decorate a paper plate" competition where the children are asked to decorate a paper plate following the theme or character of a book. Reminder that the deadline for entries is Monday 2nd March and winners will be announced on World Book Day (Thursday 5th March).

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Welcome back to everyone after the half term break. As ever, it has been a busy week, with lots of fantastic learning taking place across the school.

Design Technology
Class 3 are learning about mechanisms through model vehicles This week, they learnt to make a prototype model car to roll down an inclined plane. Children had to work in pairs to achieve their learning outcomes in the lesson and then test their car.


Art Exhibition
We hope all those who were able to join us for the art exhibition on Wednesday enjoyed viewing the children's work. It was great to see the variety of approaches on display.



Year 3/4 Football Tournament
Despite losing both games from the first round of matches this week, I thought the players were terrific. Many of the children were playing their first ever game and were very unsure what to do at the beginning. However, by the end, they had improved significantly.

Swimming
Year 1 and 2 children started their swimming programme this afternoon. With half of them assessed as non-swimmers, it shows the value of these lessons.

I look forward to sharing more of the children's learning next week.

In PSHE as part of our 'Dreams & Goals' topic we have been learning about how to work well with a partner and we had to work in pairs to design a welly boot. We have also been setting ourselves goals and thinking about how we can achieve them. 

On Internet Safety day we read a story called 'Digiduck's Big Decision' all about being kind and making good choices on the internet. 

We joined an online assembly that talked about places where we feel safe for Children's Mental Health week. 

In PE we have been practising throwing and catching and learning how to find a space and communicate with our team in a game. 

We made lovely Valentine's Day cards and some sweet cake treats on our last day before the half term holiday. We also had a lot of fun at the school disco!

Thank you Class 2 families for making it to our Art Open Classroom session on Wednesday. It was lovely to see all of you in the classroom sharing the children's works. It was especially wonderful to see you all sharing your children's illustrated stories. They are all very, very proud of their books... as you might have noticed!

This week in Maths, we have started a new unit on measurement. Our class have had a lot of very active Maths lessons measuring things around the classroom using our rules and meter sticks. Please see below for some photos from one of our lessons. We have also started a new unit of writing in Literacy. This half term, we are writing explanation texts. This week, we explored a WAGOLL and identified the key text and language features we can use in our own writing. We also consolidated our understanding of writing in the present tense and have had a go at independently writing the introductions to an explanation text.

In Science, we have begun our unit on Life Cycles by learning about the life cycle of humans. In DT we have begun our unit on textiles by learning how to handle a needle and to sew a running stitch. In Geography, we looked at the 4 countries that make up the United Kingdom. We learned the names of the capital cities and explored some physical and human features found around our country.

Finally, we ended our very full first week back with an exciting first swimming lesson on Friday!!!

Have a lovely weekend and see you again on Monday for another week of learning fun!