TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 12.7.24

How is this final term almost over?  Time is flying!

I think it's fair to say everyone had a lovely transition morning today and we've had another VERY busy week!

Maths:
Year 4 have just finished their unit on position and movement and will begin time next week.
 Year 5 have completed their unit on volume and are preparing to start their final unit of negative numbers... Yay!

English:
Talland have edited and improved their poems about the Paris Olympic Games and I can't wait to see them written up in top copy - the children's use of rhythm and rhyme is fabulous.

Art:
We've had fun in art by creating space themed creatures using a method called, 'painting by scissors' and they have used wax crayons to create a colourful pattern - this pattern has now been painted black, ready to scratch some creative patterns into, which are based on their space creatures.   

PSHE:
Year 5 have had interesting lessons today based on the human anatomy and self esteem - be prepared to hear all about it!

Geography:
Year 4 have been using the eight points of a compass to solve problems on a map and then have created their own treasure maps - really fun!

Well done to Skye for being noticed as our enthusiastic child of the week and great work from Frankie and Chilali for earning their next 99 club badge!

That's about it from Talland class this week. We hope you have a brilliant weekend and (if you're watching) enjoy the final... COME ON ENGLAND!

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Mrs. Hodge.

In Science, we set up an experiment to see what seeds actually need to grow... Some seeds have light and water, some just water (no light) and the last set of seeds have not water, but they have lots of sun!  We'll update you next week with our results.

Friday 12th July 

Some of this weeks amazing learning!

Year one children have been exploring features of a poster this week in English. They have been revisiting how important it is to stay safe on the beach and what important job the RNLI does. They have been identifying features and remembering how to use capital letters and full stops when writing their sentences. The children then used their knowledge to plan a poster that they wanted to write and today they created a wonderful poster including lots of information about water safety and the RNLI.

In maths the children have been exploring time, they started the week using words such as before, after, first and next. They then explored days of the week and months of the year. They used calendars to work out what date and days activities were taking place!

The Year 1 children have also been writing postcards from the point of view of Victorians this week and recalling all their knowledge about how visiting the beach was different in the Victorian times.

The foundation children have been using so many wonderful skills this week, they have made beautiful decoupage shells with Mrs Gregory, the children had to think carefully how to apply the glue to the shell, cut out their chosen picture and then paste it together, they have turned out beautiful. The children have also been making repeated patterns in maths, using their memory and recall skills in beach pairs, they have been labelling pictures for Miss Hughes and making wonderful beach scenes.

In phonics the children have continued to work really hard. Some children are on assessment weeks and some children continue to work hard to use their phonic knowledge to read tricky words and write amazing sentences.

The children continue to make us proud every day with their effort.

Next week will be our last full week of the academic year and we have lots of amazing and fun learning planned!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

Transition
As we look to end one year, we prepare for another to begin. Today and next week, children have the opportunity to move up to their new class in preparation for their next step. We know that transition can be a nervous time for both children and parents. We do everything possible to ensure this is as smooth as possible, whilst at the same time recognising it’s ok to be a bit worried about new challenges. Should you have any questions regarding your child’s transition, please don’t hesitate in contacting your child’s current teacher. 

As part of the school’s transition, we are also looking forward to next year and planning our next steps. In September, we will be sharing with you our key development priorities.

Important dates coming up:
Saturday 13th July 10:00-12:00 WPA Lego Show

Monday 15th July Transition session (am)

Tuesday 16th July Additional transition session for the new 3W class (as both teachers not in on Friday 12th July)

Wednesday 17th July 13:00-14:15 Nursery Pirate Party with parents

Thursday 18th July 09:30 & 16:15 Year 6 performance Year 2 Cornish WOW Day

Friday 19th July Year 6 ‘Slip and Slide’ Trip

Monday 22nd July 18:00-20:00 Year 6 Prom

Tuesday 23rd July Last day of term (early finish, see times below):
12:30 Nursery
12:50 Year 6 Guard of Honour
13:20 Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
13:30 Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5

Wednesday 4th September Autumn term begins – Welcome back everyone in Reception to Year 6

Wednesday 4th – Friday 6th September Nursery Home Visits

Monday 9th September
09:00-10:00 Nursery Stay and Play Sessions
10:30-11:30 Nursery Stay and Play Sessions

Tuesday 10th September Nursery opens

Over the past term, Year 3 have been learning all about living things and their habitats alongside their class topic of the rainforest. We were fortunate to be invited to Saltash Library to complete three workshops put on by the Beach Guardians. This is a charity set up in Cornwall to help raise awareness about plastic pollution, the impact it can have on a range of habitats and wildlife plus the need for us to look after our beautiful coastline.

Mousehole Class thoroughly enjoyed creating posters, sifting nurdles of plastic and discovering the various items that get washed up on our shores. We also learnt about how we can play our part in reducing plastic pollution. 

w/e 12.7.24

We had a lovely time over at St Anne's this week - it was the last session for the year and we paraded over with Archie themselves! We popped in and gave the residents from handmade thank you cards, sang 'Trelawny' and said goodbye for the summer. We're so lucky to have this project and grateful that we get to run it again next year!

This week, we also designed some Fruit Kebabs! We have sent our designs off to Lidl in the hope that they will start marketing and producing one of them in time for the summer! Some of our designs are in the photos below! They look so yummy!

Liskeard Show Entries

Every child at Duloe has entered an item into the Liskeard Show craft tent for judging. If you are attending the show please pop down and take a look at the amazing cross-stitching, photography, prints, poems and more the children have created.

We have continued our learning about the Maya civilization and culture. The children worked in small groups to investigate, research and make notes about different aspects of the Maya civilization and how they have influenced our society today: for example, the invention of chocolate; and the playing of team games. They found some amazing facts such as the Maya used hot chocolate as a medicine, albeit, a lot different from the hot chocolate we drink today and  included chilli peppers.

English
This week has included assessment in reading. All of the children have made good progress and are able to infer (read between the lines) in a piece of text. They enjoyed reading the stories in their reading assessments.

Maths
This week has included learning the key vocabulary for converting units of measurement. The children recognise that kilo derives from the Greek language and means a thousand and milli derives from the latin language and means a thousandth. This has helped them to solve simple conversion challenges for grammes and mm, for example. 


best wishes,

Mr Parry, Mrs Swabey and the Talland Class team (Mrs Walters and Ms Rowlands)

This week's jokes:

Where do sharks go on their Summer holidays? Finland.


What's the favourite tree of an English teacher? Poetry. 

A fun week of learning! 

We have had another wonderful week in year 1. We finished off our maths unit of money this week with a fun, practical lesson. We had to buy ingredients to make biscuits! We used our understanding of coins and our addition skills to collect the right amounts to buy our ingredients from Miss Bolger and Miss Masters. We could then decorate our biscuits with what we had bought! They were very tasty! We loved gathering the correct money and using our problem-solving skills.


In English, we have been learning all about the RNLI to make an informative poster. We have watched videos, looked at books and used the information we found out at the lifeboat station to gather our facts together. We have also been learning how to stay safe at the beach and collected some top tips. We have really enjoyed learning more about the RNLI and we now have lots of facts to add to our poster!


I am looking forward to our final full week and all the activities we will be doing to celebrate the end of the year!


Miss Bolger 

Summer 2 - Weeks 5 and 6 - Let's make a pattern

We have had a very busy couple of weeks in Reception. In Maths we have been exploring odd and even numbers, followed by exploring patterns this week. We took our learning outside and found natural resources to be able to create patterns with. This tied in beautifully with Art week, learning all about Andy Goldsworthy.

In Literacy, we have continued our focus on beaches and read a story called 'Clean up!' which focused on the importance of cleaning up our beaches. This gave the children the opportunity to learn all about recycling and sorting materials for them to be recycled. They enjoyed learning what recycled materials could be made into. 

This week has also seen our first transition visit to Year 1. We were so impressed with how the children took this in their stride, and the Year 1 teachers commented on how wonderful all of the children are. They enjoyed taking part in all of the fun activities that Miss Lake, Miss Folland and Mrs Clarke had planned for them. 

Going into the final full week of Reception, we have sent out a reminder to return ALL reading books, library books and packets by Monday 15th July. To continue the love of reading, you can access a wide range of books (linked to your child’s book band) on the Oxford Owl website. Please visit: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk. 


Best wishes, 

The Reception team 

Scrumptious Science:

We've put our scientific enquiry questions to the test this week; creating solar ovens to cook s'mores. The sun was on our side and we were able to prove that the darker the box colour, the quicker the s'mores cooked. We ensured fair testing and discussed how we'd observe and record our findings/results. They tasted great too!

Geography,

Coastal erosion and sea defenses are very close to home living in Cornwall. We have thought carefully about how this is caused, discussing erosion and deposition features and also the benefits of sea-defenses.
We also put on various 'hats' when thinking about differing views in the light of tourism and how developments in natural beauty spots can come with a mixed view. As you may of guessed, we voted 'NO' to building a hotel on a beach!

This week Tregantle Class has been all about money! Our Year 1 children have been getting to grips with identifying coins and notes. There have been lots of interesting activities to practice using money and finding a total by using different coins. Our tuft tray activity has been a big hit with the children. The challenge has been to make different totals of money using as many or as few coins as possible. The EYFS children have made their own 'Tregantle Shop' in the role play area and have been busy stocking up on healthy fruits and vegetables! The children have been using our play money to pay for items and give change.
We have also been wonderful writers this week. Year 1 have written our class version of the story 'Mr Gumpy's Outing' which we re-named 'Mrs Honey's Outing.' There were some great adjectives and verbs including our spelling patterns for adding suffixes - amazing! The EYFS children have used their sounds and tricky word knowledge brilliantly to write about the animals that stole Handa's fruit in our class story 'Handa's Surprise.' What a busy week it has been! 
 

Forest School

Class 3 enjoyed their Forest School Session on Wednesday. They were tasked with building dens using items they were given like tarp and rope along with any items they could find. We ended up with some very inventive dens! Next job was to build the fire and toast some marshmallows.

We have finished looking at under the sea this week and answering our enquiry question of "who lives under the sea?". The children have enjoyed playing in the tuft tray with all of the different sea creatures and have been counting shells. They have been painting and making paper plate jelly fish and using  potato masher to create sea turtles. On Thursday we enjoyed a snack that the children created using pancakes and fruit to create a fish.

We have been exploring voice sounds and identifying sounds in our environment this week in phonics and at storytime we enjoyed reading the story of "What the ladybird heard at the seaside". All of the children loved this story and had lots to say about it as well as been able to answer questions about what they heard.
In maths we have been counting, identifying and writing numbers.

We have two more days at nursery now before we finish for the summer holidays.
We are looking forward to seeing all of our big children graduate from nursery next week. Graduation is on Tuesday 23rd July at 1pm for those that will be going to big school in September and then nursery finishes at 1.30pm for all children.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week for the last few days.

Julie and Sarah

Fun filled learning. 

We had a lot of fun last week. 

We are all really enjoying the new jelly numbers we have. Some super star learners took them out and drew around them, they then identified and represented that number.  

Our topic this term is school readiness and in preparation for this the children asked if they could colour pictures for their new teachers. They really enjoyed this all a while looking at pen grip and colours. The children were also discussing what they are looking forward to and what they want to learn. We of course were on hand to answer the many questions they had.  They then passed their pictures to their new teacher and they LOVED them. 
We also went down on Friday to have a play in our new outdoor area. 

Sports day - 

Wow, we all  had a lot of fun! 
'I enjoyed the parachute when all the parents waved it above us, it was so much fun!'
"I run really fast and ran to the end"
"I liked the ice poles we got"
"I liked the football game, I shoot and score!"

Phonics-  The sounds we explored were v and y. The children enjoyed this and a few thought of words beginning with that sound! van, vet, violin, yak, you, yell.  

Come back next week to see what we have been up to. :) 

In June we began thinking about our new big question 'How have the Olympic games changed over time?'. We have learnt some key information about the ancient Olympics and about the modern Olympics which are happening this year in Paris. We also learnt about Jesse Owens (runner) and Ellie Simmonds (swimmer). We took part in sports week and sports day and had a great time learning our dance for the opening ceremony. We continued our learning about the Jewish faith and learnt what happens each week as Jewish families celebrate Shabbat and what happens each winter when Jewish families mark Hanukkah. We learnt two stories which people of the Jewish faith tell to help them to understand what their God is like. One of the stories was the story of David and Goliath. After reading this we reflected on times when we had been courageous. 

During May we concluded our work on 'Why should forests be protected?'. We learnt about the flora and fauna of the rainforest and compared it to that of forests in the UK. We learnt about deforestation and used The Lorax to help us to think about how human activity can have a huge affect on plant and animal habitats. We also compared the weather and climate of the tropical rain-forest and forests here in the UK. 
In the lead up to the school art exhibition we learnt about, and worked in the style of, Alma Thomas. We experimented with sketching and paint techniques and created wonderful pieces for the exhibition. In science we continued to learn about plants and learnt about how to identify trees and tree and flowering plant structures. We planted seeds and investigated how well deeds would grow under different conditions. 

Our Art Exhibition entry

A few highlights from the past few weeks of learning in Class 4...

Year 6 children held an ice-cream parlour after sports day to raise money for their Class 4 end of year show. Although they didn’t raise as much money as they had predicted when planning the stall during their maths lessons focused on profit and costings, they did exceptionally well selling over 60 ice-creams!

During our outdoor learning day, the children learnt about many types of birds and their nests. They took part in various bird focused learning activities including creating bird art using outdoor resources. I was really impressed with the final outcomes as you can see in the picture! We also enjoyed our infamous smores around the campfire.

This week, as part of our D.T learning, the children have learnt how to tie dye. They learnt how to create the various patterns using elastic bands to block out the dye and had a go at preparing their own. After preparing the t.shirts, they then dyed them in the various colours of their choice. We are very excited to reveal our t.shirts on Monday. We are extremely grateful for Mrs G's expertise in tie dying! As part of our D.T lessons, the children also started to create outfits using recycled materials. Thank you for the donations!

Year 6 children took part in another transition day to Looe Community Academy. They relished seeing the school again and enjoyed taking part in the escape room that they had to solve.  

Main points to remember:

·       No Pro20, art or yoga clubs this week

·       Thursday 18^th July Class 4 Show- 2pm and 6pm

·       Tuesday 23^rd July Year 6 Assembly 9:15am