Microbits and Coding

This week, we have started to learn how to use coding to control our resident set of BBC Microbits. These are small programmable devices that can be made to show light sequences, sounds and responses to inputs.

We used block code to provide a set of instructions for the Microbits to follow. Next week, we will be looking at developing our understanding of Microbits to develop our own projects.

The start of the Summer Term


It has been lovely to welcome the children back and hear what they've been up to in the holidays. It sounds like they have all had a lovely time off. 

We have a really exciting summer term planned with lots to look forward to.

We have started our science topic this week which is 'our bodies.' We have been learning about our eyes and how they help us to see. We did an investigation where we turned off and on the lights and saw what happened to our pupils. We then also acted as scientists and collected data. We made a tally chart of the eye colours in the class and discussed which was the most common. We loved collecting data and sharing our findings as a class! 

Our big question for this term is 'where do we live?' and I am looking forward to our Geography lessons where we will explore this question further. 

Just a reminder that our P.E days have stayed the same this half term and so children can wear their P.E kits in on a Monday and a Friday. 

The children have come back to school brilliantly and as always, I am always so impressed with their attitude to learning and look forward to our term together. 

The year 1 team. 

Happy Easter Holidays!

Happy Easter Holidays

Wow! We have completed yet another term!

The children have worked so hard, and all the children are progressing really well. We are so proud of their achievements.

We have had a really busy week, attached are some of the pictures of  some of the learning we have explored this week.

May we take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support this term and we wish you an amazing Easter break.

We look forward to seeing the children back at school on Monday 15^th April.

Foundation /year 1 team. 

Dear All!

We have come to the end of a very busy term!  The children have had a broad range of learning and opportunities this term and I can safely say that we are all tired and ready for the break!

The children have covered money, multiplication and some aspects of measure in maths this term.  Next term will focus on finishing all of the curriculum and then will be revisiting and practising methods and strategies in preparation for their SATs in May.

In English, the children have written a very important letter to the Prime Minister to persuade him to do more regarding climate change in this country.  Alongside this, they have covered many different habitats and how it all relates to one another!  Not to mention our trip to the Aquarium which was excellent and the children thoroughly enjoyed it!

We made moon buggies too!  The children loved learning about all of the different explorers past and present and particularly enjoyed the moon landings!

We have also had many other exciting things like our celebration on St Pirans day and also TT Rockstars and World Book days where the children had opportunities to dress up (and adults too!).

We have many more lovely things planned for Summer Term!

Enjoy your Easter everyone!

Mrs Brewer, Miss Ryan and Miss B

Art Project- Sneak Peek!

Year 6 had the opportunity to work with two local artists to contribute towards a collective project involving paint, collage and sketching. The theme of the project is identity and our understanding of ourselves. The creativity shown by the children throughout the sessions was superb and it was great to see their unique approaches to the brief. We will shared the finished results in due course but hopefully it will make for a fantastic piece of collaborative art.

Well done Year 6!

Happy Easter!

We have had a lovely week in the lead up to the holidays. The children have worked extremely hard to get the last of their learning for our topic finished before we move onto our next big question for the summer term! Our question for next term will be ‘Where do we live?’ and I am excited to explore this with the children.

We have also had our annual Easter egg competition at Looe this week. The children had some fabulous entries and I can see they worked so hard. They look fantastic.

We also had an exciting visit from the Easter bunny this morning. We designed our own eggs and sat on them yesterday and today we came in and they have hatched into chocolate eggs! We were all very excited. I hope you all have a lovely Easter break, whatever you get up to. I will see you all after the Easter holidays.

Miss Bolger


 

This week we practised our Egyptian Dance routine before completing our final PE lesson and video performance in the hall. 

We all really enjoyed this unit of learning and learnt some brilliant Egyptian moves! 

Year 1's day at The Eden Project!

We had a great day at The Eden Project today. We started our day with a talk where we learnt about all the things we use plants for. Year 1 were brilliant at showing their knowledge of plants from our science lessons here!

We then had a workshop called ‘Building Brazil.’ We had to think about how we would build a suitable house for the amazon rainforest. To do this, we explored the rainforest biome and collected ideas about how to make it waterproof and what the best materials would be. We then came back and had a go at building models of our houses. Year 1 were very excited to share what they know about Brazil already and we learnt some more interesting facts.

We then finished our day by linking to our big question ‘what’s it like to be an explorer?’ and did our own exploring of the Mediterranean biome! Year 1 were absolutely brilliant and it has been a lovely opportunity to consolidate everything we have learnt this term in a fun and exciting way.

Well done year 1!

Week 5 

The children have had another wonderful week in Foundation/Year1 this week!

Can you believe we only have 3 ½ days to go until the Easter holidays!

This week the year ones have finished off some place value to 50 lessons and have been exploring partitioning larger numbers and also finding larger numbers on a number line. The year ones have then spent time being assessed on their maths knowledge. They all worked so hard, and the adults are very impressed!

In English the year ones have also been showing the adults what they can achieve by completing English assessments. The children tried so hard, even when it was quite tricky!

This week all the children have enjoyed exploring dinosaurs. We started the week with discovering dinosaur eggs. We then used vinegar ad pipets to hatch the dinosaurs form the eggs1 This was great fun! We have also been palaeontologists and used brushes to carefully uncover the fossils in the sandpit. We have also been using crayons to make rubbings of dinosaurs. We have explored dinosaur books and made dinosaurs from 2d shapes and Lego! We also drew dinosaurs, coloured them and SO MUCH MORE!

We have had a great week! Next week we will be exploring the Eden project and Easter!

We have definitely been great exploders this half term and I think the children can answer our big question: What’s it like to be an Explorer?

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

We had the most fantastic day at Looe Primary today.  We hosted an Alternative Sports Day for all of our Trust schools.  We had nearly 80 children attend the day and a range of exciting activities were delivered by Kernow Sports and Leisure who work with the children at Looe every week.  The children participated in mini segway, ultimate frisbee, street surfing and fencing which they enjoyed very much.  The street surfing was very hard, but they enjoyed it a lot!  It was great too because they could not really succeed without the help of a partner. The day ended with a large dodgeball competition.  All of the children represented their schools fantastically well, and both behaviour and engagement were excellent.  Well done to Wadebridge, Blisland and Trenode, who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd places for scoring the most points for their overall skill, technique and application in each event.  We are very much hoping that this can become an annual event.

Week 4 

What a wonderful week of learning we have had in foundation/year 1!

On Monday we started the week exploring Eid, we learnt about how Muslims celebrate Eid. We learnt about the yummy food and celebrations that take place and how some Muslim people fast. We learnt about the importance of praying to God for Muslim people. One of our pupils shared his experience of Eid and what it means to him.

It has also been Science week . We started Science week by cutting up three apples, we wanted to see what happened to natural things over time! We placed one apple in a pot with nothing else, one in oil and one in vinegar! WE predicted what might happen... we surprised today to find the part of the apple that was submerged in oil was REALLY brown and mushy! We loved also exploring other scientific experiments! 

In English this week the foundation and year 1 children have continued to use their skills and phonic knowledge to write their planned stories. The children have been given lots of time because they were so enthusiastic about finishing the story. They have all worked so hard with some amazing results!

In maths the foundation children have been working hard with numbers 8, 9 and 10. They have been recognising these numbers, sorting these numbers, and comparing them. They have been subitising and exploring the composition of these numbers.

The year 1 ‘s have been exploring place value to 50! This has been quite tricky, and we have been learning our ten times tables to help us. They have been exploring groups of tens and ‘some ‘  more like 43 being 4 groups of ten and 3 more.

In PSHE this week the children explored medicine sand how to be safe around them and what medicines do for us. In PE the children continued to perform their Arctic dance and ball skills with Ryan.

In Phonics all the children have been working so well in their groups. The children really are progressing very well.

The children have also been exploring spring; they have made daffodils, used play-dough to make plants, they have used funky fingers to complete spring pictures and sop much more!

Today was Red Nose Day and the children looked fab! Thank you for any donations!

Have a great weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.