Art
Year 1 have been learning about the artist Picasso. We looked at his cubist artwork and have learnt about his style. We have also learnt about different types of lines we can use in our drawing. We have a class of artists!

Maths
In Maths this week we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes, next week we are going to go and look for them in our environment!!

English
In English this week we have been writing postcards from Max, we have been learning to describe his adventures and use conjunctions to put together two clauses.

Geography
In Geography we have been looking at maps and the children had to draw a picture of their classroom.

Out and about

Well Tregantle Class have certainly had a busy week! On Tuesday we walked to Saltash Fire Station with Lantic Class. The Children learnt about how different fire fighting is now compared to when the great fire of London happened. The Fire Service were absolutely brilliant and even let the children have a go with the hose pipe - it was so much fun! 
On Thursday we were off again - this time to the cinema. Tregantle Class got a double decker bus (the excitement levels were through the roof!) into Plymouth to watch Jungle Bunch 2 as part of the national film event. The film was so funny and we all enjoyed laughing together. We even got to see snow on the way back to school!
On Friday the children came to school in high visibility and reflective accessories as part of our leaning about road safety and we now all remember the phrase: 'be safe, be seen.' What an action packed week! 

What a busy week!

We have done so much this week in Lantic Class!

At the beginning of the week we visited Saltash Fire Station - we learnt about fire safety ay home and who to call in a fire.  We then were shown around a fire engine and we even got to have a go using the water hose.

On Thursday we visited Vue Plymouth to watch Jungle Bunch World Tour - we all really enjoyed the film it was very funny.

In DT, we have started to look at designing Tudor buildings.  We have done this by studying Tudor buildings and finding their features.

The rain won't stop us! 

We have had another lovely week in Foundation / Year 1.

In English we have been learning about the features of instructions and what we need to write them. We have written instructions as a whole class for making edible chocolate sparklers and we have now written our instructions for toasting marshmallows! The children have really impressed me with their understanding of imperative verbs and time conjunctions. Year 1 have also written brilliant sentences. We were so proud we showed them to our Deputy Head Mrs Marshall!

In History, we have continued our learning on toys from the past and present. We brought in our favourite toy and discussed why it was our favourite. We then had Miss Hughes come in and talk about her favourite childhood toy. We compared how our toys were different to our adults.

In Maths Foundation have been subitising numbers 1, 2 and 3. They are recognising numbers without having to count! We have been playing lots of different games to practise this. Year 1 have been solving addition problems. They have really shown how determined they are with their problem solving skills; what super stars!

We have also been exploring our big question ‘What can I play with today?’ through building our favourite toys with lego. We have been building boats, action people and lots of different things to explore our favourite toys.

We also haven’t let the rain stop us this week! We have been out exploring and using brilliant vocabulary to discuss the weather. We may have got a little muddy too with all the fun we were having!

Well done Foundation/Year 1, another brilliant week.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Marazion class have truly made us so proud this week. They performed their class assembly to an incredible high standard. The oracy skills shown were superb. Thank you to this parents and grandparents who were able to join us.

As well as our rehearsals and performance, the children have continued to work hard across the curriculum which has included learning about Democracy in PSHE, Rosh Hashanah in RE, continuing our work with earthquakes in geography, writing our first draft of a non-chronological report in English and column addition and subtraction in maths (Y3)!

We thoroughly enjoyed our STEM workshop on Tuesday where the children used their Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical skills to work to design and code robots.

We have been delighted with the homework that has been coming in this week. Thank you so much for your support with this. The children have shone when sharing what they have done.

We also learnt some vital road safety skills in our assembly on Wednesday. Friday is ‘wear bright’ to school (on coats and/or bags-still normal school uniform please) where a prize will be given to the best class.

Next Thursday is our school reading café after school where families can pop up to the KS2 hall to enjoy books together and for fun around books. It will be lovely to see your support with this.

More gruel please...

Today we dressed like Victorians and learnt what life was like in a Victorian school.

We started by singing the National Anthem in the hall and then we learned how rules were different in Victorian times. For example, children stand every time an adult enters the classroom and they must not count on their fingers during maths lessons.

Throughout the day, they took part in workshops where they found out about Victorian life. They learned about Victorian Christmas and made a decoration, they created a sampler by experimenting with embroidery, they played some Victorian playground games and even chanted their times tables!

I think the highlight was trying the gruel that Jane made - it had mixed reviews.

What a fantastic and educational day!

More gruel please...

Today we dressed like Victorians and learnt what life was like in a Victorian school. 

We started by singing the National Anthem in the hall and then we learned how rules were different in Victorian times. For example, children stand every time an adult enters the classroom and they must not count on their fingers during maths lessons. 

Throughout the day, they took part in workshops where they found out about Victorian life. They learned about Victorian Christmas and made a decoration, they created a sampler by experimenting with embroidery, they played some Victorian playground games and even chanted their times tables!

I think the highlight was trying the gruel that Jane made - it had mixed reviews. 
What a fantastic and educational day!

A bit more fun in the snow if you can...

Catching snowflakes. If it is snowing and you have some black fabric, paper or plastic you can catch and look at snowflakes. 

You need to freeze whatever you are using to catch the snowflakes. Take it out of the freezer when it is snowing and then you can catch and take a very close look at snowflakes.

Are they all different? What shapes can you see? Can you draw what you saw?

Another fun week at Pre school.

Last week we were very lucky to have the two Mikes from East Cornwall search and rescue come in and give us a talk. We learnt a lot about what they do, but best of all we got to try everything out. We got to lift Miss Harden on a stretcher, have a go in the tent, lay on a stretcher and then when we got to go outside we got to play tug of war with the truck!  A few of us enjoyed beeping the horn and having a look inside the truck. 


We have also been lucky enough to have Coach James from Kixx here every Monday with us. Our gross motor and hand eye-coordination skills are really improving.  We love our Monday sessions. 

Our nursery  rhyme of the week last week was 'ring -a - ring -roses' We are really enjoying learning a nursery rhyme a week and can't wait to perform them for you. 

We have learnt to recognise numbers 1-7 and this week we are learning number 8. Can you spot any numbers at home or when you are out and about. 

** Please don't forget to bring in your Christmas boxes this week for all of our lovely crafts to go in!** 

The weather is getting colder please bring in a warm coat, wellies, hat, scarf and gloves ( please make sure they are named!) We do go outside!! 

Well done for another amazing week everyone :)