Friday 2nd October

Rame class have been super busy this week!

Some of this weeks learning:

In phonics we have been learning phonemes g/o/c/k. The children have been using their robot arms to blend words with these sounds and read them. They are really progressing well with their oral blending! 

The children had a competition at the beginning of the week; they were split into two teams with Janet and Mrs. Lyden and then they had to work together using their sequencing and oracy skills to order the story of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. They worked they were brilliant. The children then spent the rest of the week working with MRs Phillips to individually sequence the story and retell the story using brilliant oracy skills. 

In Mastering Number, we have been learning to count accurately. Monkey the puppet was counting wayyyyy to fast and getting very confused, so we all worked together to count small objects by touching or moving them. The children were amazing at this and by the end of the week they were counting lots of different objects with ease, even massive objects in the room! 

During bucket time today the children discovered ingredients to make slime! So together we all made slime and played with it. The children were using amazing vocabulary during bucket time, and some of these words were put up on our wow word wall! 

The children are accessing lots of activities during COOL time and continue to play, explore and discover so well together. 

Such a wonderful week of exploring and learning! 

Rame Class 

Mastering Number and making fairy wands! 

We’ve been busy in Heligan class this week!

We have started our new scheme: Mastering Number, which helps the children to recognise numbers and to help them remember key number facts. We have been focusing on subitising this week and different numbers we can use to make 5. The children have begun recognising the numbers without needing to count and can also explain how they make 5. We are looking forward to how this helps with their maths learning throughout the year.

We have also been to our outdoor learning session with Mrs Gregory. This time, we made fairy wands and used them to blow bubbles. We found sticks outside and used wool to create different colours and make different patterns. We were then using our fairy wands during our role play in provision time.

We have been working lots and lots on our number formation, as this is a goal for all Year 1. We have done this through writing in the air, practising our numbers on whiteboards and practising forming the number on a peg board. We are going to keep working on our numbers until we are super confident writing them down.

We have also been busy practising our Harvest Festival songs for our Harvest Assembly next week. This is at 10am on Tuesday 6th October if any parents would like to come along. We have been working so hard on our singing so it will be lovely to share it with our adults!

Well done Heligan class, another fantastic week.

We have been playing with words

On Monday, our Year 2/3 class, Kynance and our Perfoming Arts children were delighted to be invited to the first workshop of the Festival of Words Week - an key annual event in Looe.  This took place in the wonderfully historic Guildhall on Looe High Street.  The children were asked to look at one of the historic pictures from within the town council chamber and to write a letter as if they were one of the figures in the painting, writing to another figure in the painting, using the picture to frame the story that they were going to write about.  Some of the writing produced was stunning with some very clever story telling.  One of the stories was read out to the audience at the end of the session. 

There are lots of events being held throughout the week, so do check it out and get involved; the events are not just for children and there are many venues involved.  You might also enjoy the  Seagull Trail that is available through the shops and venues in town - can you spot Stephen the Seagull on your trail?  He has a few friends too!

Our Year 5/6 Minack and Mount Edgecumbe classes will enjoy further activities at the end of the week, again at the Guildhall and we are looking forward to seeing what they achieve during their day with the Festival of Words team.

Looe is an amazing place to live and there is so much for us all to get involved in.  Have you found your 'thing' yet?

Thank you to everyone who came in to visit during Art this week!  The children have moved on to the next lesson of creating paints using natural resources.  They picked berries, leaves, dandelions, soil, sand, grass and flowers to grind down, add water and paint onto paper.  They really enjoyed this!

Our history lessons have been focusing on what the word "Prehistoric" means and created a timeline that was presented on the playground!

In PE, hockey is going well and the children learned how to "push" and pass the ball safely.  In PSHE, the children brainstormed ideas of what a "Dream School" might look like! They decided that a dream school would be everyone being nice to one another!

We are all looking forward to the Festival of Words trip on Monday! 

Friday 25th September

Rame Class continue to be amazing!

Some of this week’s learning:

This week in phonics we learnt the phonemes   i/n/m/d. We have really been practicing using the sounds we know to ‘robot talk, read the word- blending the sounds to read the word.  Only three weeks in their new school and they are achieving so much.

Continuing with our big question, this week we have been exploring what we like and what we dislike. We have explored how we grow and have ordered pictures from babies to the elderly. We have been outside exploring the bricks and trying to make massive, big, humongous houses!! The children used these amazing words!

We have started Mastering Number( our new maths journey) this week and the children have adapted to the formal lessons well. They have ‘blown’ Mrs Phillips’ socks off with their knowledge! Number blocks 1, 2 and 3 kept setting the children subitising challenges and they beat those challenges every single time! (Subitising is knowing an amount without counting).

Today we had bucket time, and we explored conkers in their shells, the children used wonderful vocabulary to describe the conkers, the adults then opened the shells to explore inside. We will use the conkers next week in our learning!

This is only a small fraction of what the children have been doing, and they continue to impress us every day!

Rame Class is the best!!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Another busy week

This week in Pendennis class we have been exploring colours using rainbow filters, messy water play and coloured carpet tiles. We are able to identify colours, and we are learning to spot patterns. The coloured water play also helps us with our hand eye coordination and our motor skills with pouring, as well as our maths too! 
In our This is Me topic, children have been using letters of all shapes and varieties to spot letters in our names. Some of us are able to put those letters together to build our name. We have also been playing board games together which builds on our social skills, helping us to wait and take turns as well as building our vocabulary. 
 

Handwriting, Hockey, Nouns and Verbs! 

We’ve had a great third week back at school for Heligan class.

This week, we have started our handwriting each day. We do this through warming up our fingers by line tracing with music. We then have been practising forming the letters in the air, and then writing them down. We’ve been working really hard on our letter formation and it shows in our writing!

In PE, we have started our Hockey lessons. This week we focused on how to hold the hockey stick and how to control the ball. We did this through small taps, making sure we had two hands on the stick and we were keeping the ball close to us. We then played a few games to practise these skills. We have loved Hockey and have said how much we’re looking forward to working on it again next week.

In English, we have been learning about nouns and verbs. We have consolidated our learning of common and proper nouns and we keep practising this in the classroom, finding common nouns and finding proper nouns. We have now begun looking at verbs and have done some sentence building using verbs. We played ‘spot the missing verb’ in different sentences.

We have also been focusing on numerals as words in Maths. We had to find the word to match the number!

We’ve had a great week.

Well done Heligan class.

Friday 18th September

We had another wonderful week in Rame Class.

Some of this week’s learning:

Phonics:

This week in phonics we learnt the sounds (phoneme) s/a/t/p. The parent phonics sheet was sent home this morning to continue the children’s wonderful phonic knowledge.

 

Our big question is: Who Am I?

So, this week the children have made faces with different 2d shapes, we have looked in mirrors and filled a head template in with our faces and looked at different eye colours. We have explored who is special to us and drawn lovely pictures of them, and we had templates of girls and boys, and we used our creation station to decorate them.

During outdoor learning we used natural resources to make faces, and we also explored different ingredients and made face pizzas!

There has also been so much more exploration from the children during COOL (choose Our Own Learning) time and a favourite this week was bucket time.

Next week we start formal math’s lessons!

 Have a lovely weekend

Rame Class

Our second week back at school has been a very busy one. We have been following our topic of This is Me by creating faces from natural resources and salt dough, making collage versions of ourselves and learning the song Heads, Shoulders Knees and Toes!
We have also introduced our new Talking Tots Toolkit which is created by the Cornwall Council Early Years Speech and Language Team and aimed at getting two- and three-year-olds to build on their language skills. This week's circle time activity was "what's in the bag?"  we each in turn have to pull an object from the bag and talk about what we see. We are having lots of fun, and the children look forward to this activity every day.
So far, the term has got off to a fantastic start, and our children are keen to learn, they are picking up on routines and are developing positive friendships. 

Outdoor learning and lots of counting! 

We’ve had a great second week in Heligan class.

This week we have been looking at ‘Jeans for Genes day’ and we have all come to school on Friday in our jeans to raise money for this cause. We explored this in outdoor learning by making our own jeans out of natural materials. We gathered all the materials we needed and worked as a team to make our jeans.

In maths, we have been representing objects on a ten frame. We were given an amount and then we had to show that number on our ten frame. We have also begun our counting in 2s, 5s and 10s at the start of our maths lessons which we are really enjoying! Next week we will start our Mastering Number unit which helps children with their quick recall of number facts.

Our science unit this half term is focusing on everyday materials. We have explored different materials such as wood, plastic, fabric and metal. We have then talked about the properties of these materials by saying what they feel like.

Well done Heligan class, another great week!

First Week Blog for Eden Class! 

Please take a few minutes to read our classes first newsletter! 

Watch this space for weekly updates about what we have been doing in class and important information.

Miss Strickland, Mr Phillips and Mrs Williams. 

Welcome to Tintagel Class.
Would you like to live like a Stone Age hunter?
Well, we will be finding out all about life in Britain during the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age this term. We will be finding out about how people lived, ate, and how life was all those years ago.  At the end of the unit, we will consider 'Would we like to live like a Stone Age hunter?'

Need to know:

Reading Books:
Please can the children bring their books into school EVERY day. We try to read with the children as often as possible and want to keep these fundamental skills at the top of list.





PE Days:

Please make sure your children come to school in their kits on the following days:
Thursday PM - Hockey
Friday PM - Dance

Times Tables:
We are learning our 3 x tables. Please make sure to learn the multiplication facts and all of the division facts that go with them.

As usual, please don't hesitate to get in contact with the team if you have any questions.

Many Thanks
Miss Pittas, Mrs Stephens and Mrs Williams

Kynance Class 

Monday 14th September

Welcome everyone into the new 2/3 class - Kynance Class!  

We were so busy last week, learning new routines and becoming used to a different space!  To ease ourselves into the year, we have learned expectations for each lesson and have adapted very, very well!

As our class is named Kynance, we largely spent the week learning all the facts about the area.  We researched on ipads and completed a questionnaire!  We then painted the cove which was very fun!

In English we are learning all about common, collective, partitive and proper nouns.  In maths we are beginning with a place value unit where the children are using many practical resources to help them.

On Wednesday, the children completed circus skills as part of the Enrichment programme.  They all did very well balancing and using their hand to eye co-ordination for the other activities.

This week, we will be launching our New Topic around the Stone Age - make sure you check back to see what we have been doing!