Welcome back!

Welcome back to another year of Learning at Copper Valley ARC. We said a sad goodbye to 3 of our Y6 pupils in July who are now all attending their secondary settings. We will miss them and wish them all the best. This term we are welcoming Rhys into our ARC. Rhys is transitionning at present and will build up gradually to full school days. 

Our ARC has had a re-vamp over the holidays to make the setting more appropriate for our current cohort of learners, most of whom are pre-verbal. We hope you like the pictures. We are all enjoying our new space.

We have now split into 2 groups of learners. Our first group are working predominantley on communication; we are using a total communication approach, supporting spoken word with visuals and makaton. Our second group is accessing some National Curriculum content with a focus on individual interests and building up engagement. 

w/e 19.9.25

Well, what a busy start to the Autumn term it's been for Perranporth class!

Firstly, to launch our 'Rivers' topic, we took our first trip to Coombe Woods to do a spot of water sampling for the Great UK WaterBlitz. We were testing for nitrates and phosphates in water samples taken from 3 different locations. It needed to be absolutely accurate as we had to send our results off to help monitor water quality in this important investigation. Hopefully, we've produced some scientists of the future and we thought you might like to see some photos.

Workwise, in English we're writing our own diary entries based on the book 'The Beasties' and focusing on using descriptive language along with accurate grammar and punctuation. Handwriting and presentation are also a focus for this half term.

In maths, we're working on Place Value and numbers to 1,000,000, as well as concentrating on our times tables.

This half term term's science is all about Properties of Materials, with lots of opportunities planned for practical investigations. Whereas Geography is based on the topic 'What are rivers and how are they used?'

So, that's just a few subjects to be going on with, more about the rest of the curriculum next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

We've had a busy first couple of weeks and the children have all worked hard. The children have enjoyed exploring some of the new things in the classroom and building friendships with children new to our school. Here are just a few photos of some of the things we have been up to. 

This week, in Science we sketched habitat maps of our school and identified the microhabitats we could find. All of the children worked so hard on these and the results were fantastic! In Music, we have been working on repeating patterns and composing our own with the class. During Geography, we learnt the 8 compass points, along with the location of the North and South Poles. We conducted research about each pole to understand what they are like as places. We have been developing our Fundamental skills in PE with Mrs Lister, which has been lots of fun! 

In English, we have been working hard on our descriptive writing and exploring 2A sentences. Today, we planned for writing our own postcards inspired by Meerkat Mail. Next week, we are looking forward to writing these up and creating our final postcards. 

In Maths, we have continued working hard on Place Value, focusing on partitioning. Presentation in our books has been a big focus this week, which all the children have taken great pride in. 

Congratulations to Alfie for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week. 

Reminders
Meet the Teacher is being held on Wednesday 24th September at 2.45pm. I look forward to seeing you all then. 

Wednesday 24th September is also National Fitness Day. On this day, the children are encouraged to come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all next week. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

We have had a busy week voting for our School Council members and choosing our new Planet Protectors group.

Our School Council is a group of dedicated and passionate pupils who are committed to making our school a better place for everyone. School Council members are elected by their peers in our School Council elections which we hold every September. Well done to everyone who put themselves forward and to those who have been elected this year: Kora (Chair), Skye, Archie, Anya, Hector, Maeve, Hugh and Erin and to Jamie who has been chosen as School Council member for Pupil Voice for PE and Sport. Information about our School Council can be found on our website under the 'Our Children' tab.

The Planet Protectors are a passionate school group dedicated to helping stop climate change by promoting sustainability and environmental awareness within our school community. They meet half termly and will be helping us take action through projects like recycling, energy-saving campaigns and eco-friendly initiatives, aiming to reduce the school's carbon footprint. Well done to Lily P, Tristan, Frankie S, Chilali, Aria, Skye, Harley, Leo, April and Hugh who will be our Planet Protectors this year, reporting back to their classmates and leading by example to inspire pupils and staff to make greener choices and take part in protecting the planet for future generations.

Meet the Teacher: 2:45pm, next Wednesday, 24th September Reminder that our 'Meet the Teacher' session will be on Wednesday 24th September starting at 2:45pm. Please come in through the main gate from 2:40pm and access your child's classroom by the external door. We look forward to seeing you then. This is 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 any 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.

National Fitness Day, Wednesday 24th September Next Wednesday, we will be taking part in National Fitness Day - a fantastic opportunity to celebrate physical health, encourage children to discover enjoyable ways to stay active and build positive attitudes toward exercise from an early age. Children should come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. If their kit is already in school, they will have the chance to change into it in the morning. Throughout the day pupils will take part in a variety of fun fitness activities and reflect on what it means to be fit and how to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle.

Wishing you a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Hillman

Hello Everyone!

Our week of learning in Penhallow has included an RE lesson, where we explored the idea of how the world began. We drew pictures of how we thought the world began, and then drew pictures and made models to explain Christian beliefs about how the world was created.

Our new English unit, based on the author; David McKee, began with learning the story of Elmer with actions. We worked on summarising the story and performing a summarised version with expression and intonation. 

Thankfully, we all managed an outside PE session this week, as well as plenty of outside learning for Reception, as shown in the pictures below. Please also see the attachments below, for some activities that you could complete at home, to help support your child's learning.

Meet the Teacher is being held on Wednesday 24th September at 2.45pm. I look forward to seeing you all then. 

Wednesday 24th September is also National Fitness Day. On this day, the children are encouraged to come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. 


Have a lovely weekend.

From The Penhallow Team

Duckpool go down to the woods...

Well, what a busy start to the Autumn term it's been for Duckpool class!

Firstly, to launch our 'Rivers' topic, we took our first trip to Coombe Woods to do a spot of water sampling for the Great UK WaterBlitz. We were testing for nitrates and phosphates in water samples taken from 3 different locations. It needed to be absolutely accurate as we had to send our results off to help monitor water quality in this important investigation. Hopefully, we've produced some scientists of the future and we thought you might like to see some photos.

Workwise, in English we're writing our own diary entries based on the book 'The Beasties' and focusing on using descriptive language along with accurate grammar and punctuation. Handwriting and presentation are also a focus for this half term.

In maths, we're working on Place Value and numbers to 1,000,000, as well as concentrating  on our times tables.

This half term term's science is all about Properties of Materials, with lots of opportunities planned for practical investigations. Whereas Geography is based on the topic 'What are rivers and how are they used?'

So, that's just a few subjects to be going on with, more about the rest of the curriculum next week..

Have a lovely weekend.

Chaipel have really made progress in their writing this week, immersing themselves in how to write setting descriptions effectively using precise vocabulary, vivid sensory detail and figurative language. This afternoon, they have designed their 'newly discovered' planet with which they will combine their new learning to write a description which will evoke mood and create a sense of atmosphere.

In Maths, we have been comparing, ordering and rounding numbers. We will bring in decimals next week before moving onto addition and subtraction.

For our Wider Curriculum, we have been mixing colours to create tonal swatches, practising using a range of mediums to design the look and texture of their 'newly discovered planet. Next week, we will be looking at creating the background, producing nebulas and star clusters. In PE, Mrs Hillman has taught a range of yoga poses and I was lucky enough to see them put the poses together as a 'flow'. In PSHE, we have thinking about our hopes and dreams and what kind of world we want to live in and in French phonics, Chaipel have been learning the alphabet, how French primary school systems work and how different they are from English schools.

POLITE NOTICE
Don't forget it is National Fitness Day AND Meet The Teacher on Wednesday 24th. Children can come into school wearing warm PE clothes. Parents, the Meet The Teacher session begins at 2:45pm.

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend,

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

TALLAND'S BLOG 19.9.25

Happy weekend everyone! We hope you have had a lovely week and are all set for a breezy but fun weekend! 

We've had a great week in Talland... busy, active and creative! Here's a brief breakdown of the week:

Maths:
Year 4 have continued to look at Place Value, investigating numbers that are 10/ 100/ 1,000 times more than or less than a number. and putting numbers to 1,000 on to a number line. 
Year 5 have also continued their work with place value. They have been partitioning numbers to 1,000,000 and investigating different ways to partition these rather large numbers. 
On a Friday, both year groups are learning shape. We have been exploring the different types of angles...why not ask your child which angles they can remember...

English:
I have been WOWED by the creativity that Talland are showing when it comes to writing. They have been working hard to inspect sentences and come up with fun and descriptive ways to improve sentences... their sentences are fantastic!  

RE: 
We created posters about how wonderful our world is and what we can do to protect it. Why not ask your child how we can keep our world healthy...

PE:
Talland have been working on their core strength during yoga sessions with Mrs. Hillman, demonstrating a range of strong and agile balances. With me, we had lots of enjoyable mini football matches where children demonstrated their dribbling skills, spatial awareness, team spirit and good sportsmanship.

Geography:
Talland got to work with the atlases today, where we probed features of South-East and South- West England. We analysed keys, telling us where cities, towns, rivers and counties are. We also explored where the highest and lowest points of our country are... do you know which country in the United Kingdom has the highest point? 

CONGRATULATIONS to Anya and Archie for being nominated as our school councilors', a huge well done to Jamie for being chosen as our PE representative in the School Council and fantastic work from Lily this week for being noticed for a her excellent work ethic, learning behaviours and effort.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a great weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.
 

A great first few weeks back! 

We have had a wonderful start in our new Year 1 / 2 class.

We have started our new question for this term which is "How am I making History?" We have begun exploring our personal histories using baby photos and photos of us now. We really enjoyed guessing which baby was who!

In English, we have started our story writing unit based around the book The Three Little Pigs. We have started by building our own houses out of different materials and learning the story through role play.

In Maths, we are looking at numbers up to 20. We have been finding one more and one less this week using cubes and ten frames. We have also started counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Some updates for our new class:

PE days are Tuesday and Friday.

Books will be changed on a Friday.

Please remember to order your child's lunches on a Thursday for the following week.

Please send your child in with a coat every day. The weather is very changeable at the minute but if we can get outside, we will!

Thank you all.

Miss Bolger - Year 1/2 class

A very busy week!

This week the nursery children have been very busy! 
 
We started our week with a visit to Hillcrest Residential Nursing Home where we did some art with the residents.  We used our hands and seasonal coloured paint, to create some wonderful handprints of various sizes. We will use the handprints to cover our Autumn section of the season tree on the classroom wall. 

 Midweek was our PE session with Ryan our coach. We have been learning some ball skills, using our hands and feet to control tennis and footballs. We have also been refining our balance by carrying beanbags on our heads and shoulders. PE is a real highlight for the children and there are always lots of giggles and smiles during our sessions. 

 Friday morning was our second outdoor learning session with Kelly Edwards. This week we were foraging for natures treasure! We had to collect natural resources that would be good for bedding and food for the woodland creatures. The children were very excited to be out in the wild! 

We are all very happy to be back into the swing of the new term and the children are all nicely settled and eager to enjoy all of the upcoming adventures we have lined up for our topic of "All About Me"

It has been another really busy week across the school, with classes fully emersed in their autumn curriculum work following the settling period at the start of term. As well as the artwork Class 3 are doing with me (shared last week), I am teaching art to Class 4 this half term too. They are learning to turn 2D into 3D and started by scaling up a silhouette of an animal onto A1 paper using a grid method. Josh's example above is really impressive and very accurate. Next week, the children will be adding texture to their animals before making them 3D.

At our weekly celebration assembly today, alongside our Ready, Respectful and Safe awards, we introduced a new certificate. For those children who use TimesTables Rockstars, we are able to look at a heat map of their performance and award a Going Green certificate when they have demonstrated they can correctly answer times tables questions repeatedly in less than 1 second. This is phenomenal and something many adults would struggle to do!

Our after school and lunchtime clubs started again this week. Depending on their age, children are able to join football, music, art, multi-skills and cross country clubs. Our peripatetic music teachers also started lessons again, with guitar, keyboard and brass tuition on offer. For further information or to sign your child up to a club or instrument lesson, please contact the school office.
 
Finally, we welcomed Bridge Trust Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) Hannah Prinn to the school this week. Hannah will be supporting me, as Harrowbarrow SENCO, in this important area of our work. She will be visiting once a fortnight and brings additional experience and expertise. 

Busy week!

This week in Treyarnon, we have been busy little bees and now are brains are full of knowledge and creativity. 

Our class story has been 'The Final Year' by Matt Goodfellow. In English, we have been planning our own poems based on the book by focusing on informal language, noun phrases and figurative language. In guided reading, we reviewed the book and shared our opinions.

In maths, we have been learning about negative numbers, factors and multiples. We have also been finding out the divisibility rules and how they can help us when solving problems. 

In PSHE, we discussed what it meant to be mature and thought about ways in which we can show maturity. We created comics and posters to show how people can act maturely and created our own targets for personal growth. Some children said they will be tidier, except that sometimes things are not fair and take responsibility for their own belongings e.g. reading records and homework. Please ask your child what their personal target is. 

Have a great weekend from Miss Burton and all of Treyarnon class.  

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An Emotional Menagerie

LoTo kick of our new term we have challenged the children to be creative.  We have focused on the poetry book 'An Emotional Menagerie' to inspire us to create a range of poems of our own.

In the poetry book, each letter of the alphabet links an emotion to an animal.  The poem then explores more about both the creature and how we can identify and manage those emotions.

So far we have learned about figurative language, rhyming couplets, and how to use colons and semi-colons in lists.  We have also spent a lot of time, developing creative ideas around each different emotion.  We look forward to sharing the final poems when the children have published them!

Friday 19th September

What another wonderful week in Foundation!

This week in phonics we have learnt the phonemes (sounds)  i/n/m/and d

The children are progressing so well with their oral blending and sound recognition.

We also made bears from our Story We're Going on a Bear Hunt, we had a class competition to see who could sequence the story, Miss Ginn and Mrs Phillips' team both tied!! The children have been using wonderful oracy skills to describe parts of the story when retelling.

In forest school with Kelly we learnt a new hide and seek game, Mrs Phillips tried to hide but the children found her very quickly! Kelly took the children on a treasure hunt too! The children also collected sticks and leaves to use as craft in class. They have made some wonderful magic sticks in class!

The children have been name writing, colouring, counting using numicon, drawing who is special to them, making family trees and so much more!

What a great week!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

It has been a rather soggy week this week but the children have been able to brighten up the school with their smiles and positive attitudes. It has been busy with photos, clubs and learning but the children have worked hard in their learning. Next week sees the sponsored triathlon on Friday and the whole school trip to the Cornwall Museum in Truro on Thursday. Sponsor forms went out for the triathlon this week. All children will be able to take part and every bit of money raised will go towards supporting the school and children. Can you please ensure that you have given permission and paid the donation for the Truro trip on Parent Pay. If we do not receive enough payments to cover the cost of the trip, we will unfortunately need to cancel. Finally, as we get into the new year, can I please ask everyone to continue to respect the residents who live around the school. This is particularly true at drop-off and pickup times as it is sometimes hard for them to move cars with parents parking on the zig-zags outside of school. This is for safety of the everyone in our community.