Hoppy Easter!

We've had a lovely end to the Spring Term in Landaviddy Class. In Science, we looked at the life cycle of flowering plants and continued making observations on our bean plants - we can't believe how much some of them have grown! Today, I had a look at the plant we were keeping in the cupboard and watering (see picture), so it has had no sunlight. Look at how different it is to our ones growing in the cloakroom! I will continue to water it at home over easter, so it will be interesting to see how it might change. 

In Computing, we demonstrated how a website worked. Can you recall what happens when a user puts in a request? We played a lovely game for April fools day in French - poisson d'avril!
In Art, we created collages of plants and flowers, by using the paper we prepared last week with different textures and patterns. The results were beautiful!

Today, we were lucky to have a visit from the Easter Bunny! What fun we have had! 

Please continue to practise your times tables, KIRFS and read when you can over the holidays! 

We hope you have a wonderful easter holidays and look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 22nd April. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Thank you to all who were able to come and join us in our curriculum sharing afternoon on Friday. After a week of parent consultations, it was great to share our Easter crafts, stop-motion animation, orienteering, maths, writing, art and many more aspects of our learning here together. I am looking forward to sharing our photos from the 'when I was young' photo booth soon too!

The East Cornwall Harriers cross-country series of races has come to an end for another season. All the children photographed opposite have represented the school over this season and have done an excellent job. Well done Pelynt Lightning!

Pelynt went 1-nil in the early minutes of the game at home against St Germans. They quickly levelled the score and went on to win 5-3. A change in line-up saw and change in goalkeeper and a display that the opposing coach described increasing 'getting better throughout the game'. Well done Pelynt. 

It was wonderful to see all the children dressed up as their favourite characters on World Book Day. All the classes had a great day focusing on ‘reading for pleasure’ and delving into the magical world of reading. 

This week, Lansallos Class have been enjoying their painting focus in their art lessons. They have been learning about tints, shades and skin tones. After experimenting with watercolours, poster paints and acrylic paints, they then chose which paint they preferred. They used this paint to paint a portrait of an individual who inspires them.

Talland class have been investigating mass and capacity, trying to work out the mass of the Pepsi in a can. This was made a little trickier as some cans were stuck together, others had a sneaky weight added on top!

What a busy week we have had in Landaviddy! Some our bean seeds have began to sprout small green shoots. This has been very exciting and we are all very eager to see how our plants change this week. Unfortunately, some of our seeds haven't shown signs of germination yet, which has got us wondering why. We are looking forward to bringing home our plants next week.

In Science, we have been discovering why roots are important and what their function is. Can you remember why plants need roots? In History, we have been exploring how technology has changed how we write; from typewriters to tablets. During Art this week, we created our own collage paper using different textures and patterns. Next week, we will be using these to create a flower collage. In Computing, we have continued learning about networks and created network maps to show how files move across a network.

Year 2 have started to measure in centimetres this week, recognising where they must start when using a ruler and developing their reasoning skills. Year 3 have continued to work hard on fractions, plotting these on number lines. 

English this week, has primarily focussed on writing up our own Jack and the Beanstalk stories, using our best handwriting. Our hope is to compile all our stories into a book which we will pass on to Penhallow to read. We have really been taking our time and thinking carefully about how we can be the best writers. Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Reuben and Finn for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. 

Next week is our last week before the Easter holidays, and will continue to be busy no doubt! 

We hope you have a lovely weekend full of sunshine and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone!

Spring is in the air, and we have been busy drawing daffodils this week. We made careful observations of different varieties of daffodils and then used oil pastels to create the different colours and shapes that we observed.

This week, we also finished our English work on Quentin Blake’s ‘Mrs Armitage on Wheels.’ Everyone has made up a story of their own, based on the original story, and Year 1 have written some amazing story sequels. We have been very proud of our results.

Both year groups have been busy learning all about length and measure this week in maths. We made and compared different lengths using play dough, measured and compared objects around the classroom, and Year one began to use standard measures to carefully measure objects.

We had a lovely end to this week, on our trip to The Theatre Royal in Plymouth. The Little Red Hen performance did not disappoint, and had the children participated well throughout the show. The children’s happy faces, showed how much they enjoyed and benefitted from the whole experience, and we are extremely proud of how well they behaved throughout the whole day.

In Class 2 we have had another great week of learning and fun.

Now that the weather is getting brighter and clearer, we Class 2 have started a Mile a Day Challenge. This means that for our regular breaks, instead of our indoor recess routines, we try to get outside for a quick jog around the field to clear our heads and get ready for the next round of learning. So far, we have had great fun running around the field and trying our best to resist the temptation of racing each other to the finish line.

In Literacy, we have begun looking at poetry. We read "Calico Pie" by Edward Lear and had a lot of fun sharing our own interpretations of the poem. We have now begun learning the poem as we begin planning new verses of our own.

In Maths, while year 1s have started looking at place values to 50, Year 2s have completed their unit of mass, volume and temperature. Both year groups have also been busy testing their KIRFs and quick fire arithmetic skills.

In DT, we are almost done with our puppet project. This week, we took our Paddington Bear inspired puppet designs and used it to cut out the base of our finger puppets. We then learned to sew the pieces together. I must say we have some budding seamster in our midst!

To consolidate our understanding of how technology is controlled, this week, Years 1 and 2 had a very active ICT session with our Botleys. We used a variety of codes to make Botley do a variety of actions for us. However, we found that some of our Botleys were unwittingly being controlled by other users. This lead to a very heated carpet discussions around why this could be happening. We concluded that some of the signals from different controllers were interfering with each other. So, we all put our heads together to talk about what we could do to help prevent this. We had ideas ranging from individual controllers sending the signals through wires to inventing different signal signatures for each Botley.

This week we have been looking at writing narrative poems based on a short film called The Three Brothers.  We have been experimenting with metaphor, adverbs and poetic language and word order.  Watch this space for our completed poems next week. 

In maths, Year 5s continue to work out written methods for multiplication while Year 6 have been looking at revising different types of graphs including line graphs and bar charts.  

The Kirfs maths starter has changed and we now have a sticky question from the previous lesson to refer to.  

There are no spellings for next week to work on as we have assessments to complete in class. 

What a busy week it has been at Team Brunel. With the Storytelling Caravan and Space Odyssey Dome making a visit to our school as well as a theatre trip by train. It has yet again been quite a week at our wonderful school. Sit back, relax and enjoy this week's edition of The Brunel Bulletin.

 

Week 5 of fun 

This week at preschool, we had an amazing time learning and playing outside. There’s something special about being in the fresh air while discovering new things, and we made the most of it!

One of our favourite activities was playing with play dough – what a fun way to help our hands get stronger! Rolling, squishing, and moulding the dough helped our little fingers work hard and build fine motor skills.

We also had fun learning the sound of the letter T. We practiced saying "t t tower" and looking for things that start with the sound, like tiger, tree, tent and toy. We even made the letter T out of our play dough! It was a great way to connect our learning to the hands-on fun we were having.

We have also been working on writing our names helps us recognise letters and practice holding our pencils. We are  getting better at writing the first sound of our names and some of us even wrote our full names by the end of the week! Next week you will all be getting a copy of the dotted names to have a go at over the Easter holidays 
Learning outside is always a great way to stay engaged, have fun, and practice important skills in a new way. 

We were also very lucky to have the easter bunnies come in today!! Thank you Miss Selby for teaching us all about how to look after a bunny and letting us stroke them.

Come back next week to see what we get up to. 

**REMEMBER NEXT FRIDAY EARLY FINISH 1:30 PICK UP**

This has been a busy week full of trips. On Wednesday, our Planet Protectors Club went to the recycling plant in Bodmin to research what happens to all of our recycling and why it is important to recycle. They will be sharing what they found out with the rest of the school in an assembly shortly. Year 5 visited Liskeard Fire Station to learn all about safety on the railways; online; on the roads; on the beach and when using electricity. They also tried their hand at choking prevention and CPR. This morning Penhallow and Landaviddy Classes had a really enjoyable trip to see ‘Little Red Hen’ at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth.

More Cross-Country Success
The Polperro team yet again did brilliantly well in last week’s Landrake Inter Schools Cross Country Race. Congratulations to the children who all completed their races, with or without shoes. Thank you to Mrs Turnbull for her wonderful team support this season and for running alongside the children too, and to parents and carers for transporting our runners to each race come rain or shine. An amazing effort all round from Team Polperro. A huge well done too to Flora who came a magnificent 34th in the Cornwall Cross Country Finals on Tuesday.

Clubs Please note that there are no clubs next week because of the football match, the disco and staff training.

Drop off and pick up Polite reminder when you are picking up and dropping off, please do not park or wait on the zigzag lines outside school. This is likely to result in drivers receiving penalty notices (a £75 fine). Cars are still blocking this area causing problems for children crossing the road.

FOPS Easter Discos Reminder that Easter Discos for the children on Thursday, 3rd April. Tickets are on sale in the office and cost £3. The disco for Reception, Year 1 and year 2 will be from 3:15-4:15pm. Pupils should bring a change of clothes and will be able to change after school. KS2 (years 3-6) children should go home at the usual time of 3:15pm and then return to school for their disco which will be from 4:30-6:00pm.


The last day of term is next Friday 4th April and school will finish at 1:30pm. On Friday morning we will have a visit from the Easter Bunny. Monday 21st April is a bank holiday, therefore the first day of the Spring term for the children will be Tuesday, 22nd April.

Have a good weekend

Mrs Hillman

w/e 28.3.25

Wow, these weeks are flying past, they're so jam packed! Let's see what's been going on this week!

It started off with the most AMAZING visit to the Space Dome - as we lay on our backs admiring the night sky, we were transported to space stations, moons, meteors and even back in time! A wonderful, memorable experience had by all!

English - we are planning our balanced arguments about digging up our school field for the Roman remains - will they turn out to be genuine or not? Will we lose our field?

On Monday, some children from each class visited the 'Story Caravan', a truly magical place full of awe and wonder! What a special treat!

History - we learned about Hadrian's wall and Vindolanda fort - some amazing artefacts from Roman times have been found there and we analysed some of these to see what we could learn about the Romans that lived there. Fascinating stuff!

In RE, we learned about the weird and wonderful Penzance festival of Golowen. We were all really taken by the Obby Oss! What a strange creature it is! It looks like a really exciting festival, too!

Science - we learned about how different surface textures affect the speed of objects moving down them - we used ramps and toy cars to experiment with the hypothesis that a rougher surface creates more friction and will therefore slow the car down. We were right!

Also on Friday, Year 4 were taken over to the library to take part in 'Biowatch' and do some arts and crafts about the world around us! Can they tell you all about it?

Have a lovely weekend and we'll see you all back on Monday for the final week of term!

We have been thoroughly enjoying the spring sunshine and being able to open the doors and venture outside without wellies and waterproofs!

For a change we got out all of the bikes, trikes, scooters and push along toys.

The children enjoyed a different type of play and were developing a different range of skills and muscle toning as they played.