Friday 19th June 

Some of this week's learning

The children have amazed the adults this week by using pictures from The Rainbow Fish story and writing dictated or independent captions about the picture, using an adjective!!! We can tell they are nearly Year 1 children! WoW!

In maths this week we have been exploring sharing and grouping. We have sung songs, played games and used plates and counting teddies to share equally!

This week we completed our Bridge school games, the weather was a bit yucky, so we did ours in class, which worked out well as we used our class carpet as our guide, we cheered and took part in all the activities, and we scored lots of points!

This week we also made beautiful Rainbow Fish pictures, and we explored and talked about water safety at the beach. The children have coloured beach flags, dressed boys and girls appropriately for the sunny weather by cutting out different clothes and accessories. The children have also designed sun hats and so much more!  

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 12th June

Some of this week's learning

The children have been continuing to explore The Rainbow Fish. To support our understanding of the book we have mixed colours and used pipettes to make a Rainbow Fish, we have used different mediums to paint and decorate fish also. The children's creativity has been amazing to see, and some lovely artwork has been produced.

In maths this week we have been decomposing shapes, and we used shapes to make different shapes. For instance, we cut a large rectangle diagonally and then rotated it to make a large triangle!! Mrs Lyden was set the challenge to see if she could do it! She needed the children's help!

We have completed lots of other activities too!

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 4th June

Some of this week's learning

We have had a lovely first week back, beginning the last half term of this academic year!

I English this week we have started to explore a new story The Rainbow Fish! The children have really enjoyed learning this story using role play, a story map and by using their oracy skills to sequence the story. We have also made our own rainbow fish using lots of creativity.

In maths this week we have been concentrating on shape! We have continued to sing our 2d and 3d shape songs, which we LOVE in Foundation. The children have been learning to use shapes for purpose and exploring how to rotate shapes!   

Our BIG question this half term is: Where would I bury my treasure?

So, this week the children have been designing flags to go on a ship, making underwater pirate pictures, selling ice cream in our role play area, and exploding shells. In PSHE the children have started their 'changing units of work and this week we drew around one of the children and labelled parts of our bodies!

We have completed lots of other activities too!

We wish you a wonderful INSET day tomorrow and weekend

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 21st May- Happy half term 

What an amazing, but quick, half term we have had! 
The children have been progressing so well, and all the adults are extremely proud of them! 

They are definitely ready for a break, and we look forward to welcoming them all back ready for their final half term in Foundation and getting - YEAR 1 READY! WHOOP! 

Friday 15th May

Some of this weeks learning

In English this week the children have been drawing pictures from our story and then writing small captions underneath to match their picture. Then the children have been writing lists of their favourite fruits ready to finish our unit of work next week by making Hungry Caterpillar fruit kebabs. The adults were so impressed with the children's phoneme to grapheme correspondence, and we have had some amazing writing.  

In maths this week we have concentrated on adding more. We have done this in many ways using lots of different resources. The children have worked hard at using full mathematical sentences when answering questions and using mats I the provision.  

The children have continued to embrace the minibeast life and have been real scientists looking at and exploring, classifying and describing. They have also made painted butterflies and have drawn bees and bee hives after our special community visitor Liam came to show us his bee keeping equipment and tell us all about bees and how honey is made. We even got the chance to taste honey and try on a bee keeping suit!

We continue to be amazed with how well the children are progressing

We wish you  a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Painting and Forest School! 

We have been having so much fun in Year 1 and 2!

We have started our new big question which is 'What is it like to live by the Coast?' We have been exploring this question in our Geography lessons where we have been identifying features of the coast and talking about human and physical features we can spot on a map.

  In Art, our unit is all about painting and mixing colours. We have been mixing primary colours to make secondary colours as well as exploring different mediums to paint with. We have used paintbrushes, Lego blocks and finger painting.

On Fridays, we have also been exploring the Forest School area as a class. This has been wonderful and the children have loved it. We have linked it to Earth Day and David Attenborough's 100th Birthday! The children have been making seeds and talking about things that grow. They have also been making dens, climbing trees, and exploring nature. We have had so much fun at Forest School and it really is a lovely end to the week!

An important date: We have the Spring Fair on Thursday 21st May 2-4pm.

Thank you all!

Year 1 / 2 Team

Friday 1st May

In English this week the children started by using adjectives to describe food items from our story. They thought of the most amazing adjectives, we were all very impressed. Next the children wrote lists of what the hungry caterpillar ate. The children used their phonics and wrote some amazing words.

In maths this week we have been exploring missing numbers to 20 and ordering numbers to 20. The adults gave some children, and Miss Ginn some teen numbers but missed some numbers out and we had to figure out what numbers were missing!

The children have been collaging food items from our story this week, classifying minibeasts and finding lots of minibeasts in our outside area using magnifying glasses. They have loved looking through the magnifying glasses and seeing the minibeast close up.

We have also made potions in the water tray, sandcastles and mazes in the sandbox, coloured caterpillar sheets, made minibeasts from Lego, and so much more!

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 24th April

What an amazing first week back at school, for summer term!

The children seemed to have grown so much over the two weeks break!

They have come back raring to explore and learn and boy , have we explored this week!

Our new big question is: Are minibeast like me?

In English this week we have started our new text: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The children have used role play, and a story map to learn the story. We came into class on Tuesday and The Very Hungry Caterpillar was clearly still hungry as he had eaten our raisins and bread sticks!! The children have loved reading this story and recalling all the yummy foods the caterpillar are. Today we had a story table and then children tried the first three foods of the story, an apple, a pear and an orange!

In maths we have been exploring teen numbers 11-19, we have explored how teen numbers have one ten and some more! We have used base ten, blocks, counting teddies and lots of manipulatives to learn our teen numbers!

We have also this week used so much of our outside area, the children have been so happy to get back outside. Brain and AJ our trust caretakers, worked so hard in the holidays to make our new sandpit! The children can now utilise all the new things that the fund-raising money brought us, including a new writing/colouring table, a mud kitchen, new water tray resources, a dumper truck area, garden decorations, new sand play toys, binoculars and water fountain and so much more. The Foundation team cannot thank you enough for the fundraising; listening to the vocabulary, conversations, excitement and role play that has been taken place this week has been nothing short of wonderful!

The children have explored so much this first week back and the sun has helped with an exciting engaging week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 2nd April- Happy Easter! 

Wow, we have reached the end of Spring term!  

What an amazing spring term it has been. The children have progressed so well.

Here are some pictures of some amazing things we have done in the last couple of weeks.

We wish you all a wonderful Easter break and look forward to seeing you all and the children back at school on Monday 2oth April.

Happy Holidays!

The Foundation Team 

Today saw the launch of the 'Flavours of Looe' Community Cook Book.  It is part of a venture by Creative Looe to create, '... a vibrant, painted love letter to a town that has lived by the rhythm of the tide for centuries'.   'It celebrates the heritage of the town as a historic fishing port through the eyes - and paint brushes - of the young people of the town.'

The role of the book is to connect the classroom to the quay, the home kitchen to the professional restaurant and the history of the town to the future.  

GSCE art students from Looe Community Academy have worked through the Creative Looe team, and together with a number of professional chefs and producers to create recipes and link them with art to bring together a beautiful selection of recipes and art in a book for all to share.  It also has a recipe and a message from her Majesty the Queen.

Today saw the launch of the book at the Sardine factory in town, where the books and the original art work were on display for all those invited.  We were delighted to be there and our wonderful choir, led by Mrs Brewer and one of our Trustees, Nick Hart performed two songs to the gathered audience.  First of all, they sang a song they wrote and produced for the recent Bridge Schools Trust Music Event at St. Martins Church in Liskeard and then as a highlight, they sang 'Cornwall My Home' in Cornish.  The choir has done a remarkable job in learning this song quickly and it proved to be an emotional experience for all involved.  Their singing received a rousing round of applause and was one of the highlights of the event.  Living in Looe is special and when we had the privilege to share the talents and enthusiasm of the local youth, it became an event that will remain in the memory for a very long time.  Well done to all those involved in this amazing project.  Our wonderful town and all it cherishes is in good hands!

Friday 20th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In Enlgish this week the children have been ordering instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. They then went in groups to the local bakery and shops to buy ingredients.  The children also practiced their clear and precise oracy skills to give 'a robot' ( Mrs Phillips has a robot button you know!). At first the children were not very clear and the robot got very confused and emptied the bread all over the table. Then when the children said - spread the butter, the robot scooped butter with their hand and spread it on the bread eewwww! However, with a little bit of practicing and prompting the children gave brilliant instructions to allow the robot to finish a yummy sandwich. The children then gave each other instructions to make sandwiches and then we ATE THEM!

In maths the children have been exploring the number ten and making ten with three parts! The children then explored doubles to ten in detail! Wow they are all progressing so well.  

The children have been helping Mrs Phillips make the outside area look soooooo much better. We have swept, scooped, cleaned and built! Our new activity picnic table is amazing, and the mud kitchen will be in its new home soon. The track area looks great and Mrs Waring has kindly brought us more stones as we ran out! It is beginning to look so much better. We cannot wait for our new sandpit and surrounding fences!

Enjoy the sun this weekend

The Foundation Team 

A trip to the Eden Project! 

We had the best day visiting the Eden Project.

When we got there we were given an introduction and learnt a little bit more about Eden and the journey it has been on. We then went and explored the biomes. We have been learning all about the rainforest in Science and hot climates in Geography so we were amazed by the rainforest biome. We saw cocoa beans, palm trees, waterfalls and much more. We were using our curiosity to ask lots of questions and we talked about the impact of deforestation and why it is so important to look after these environments.

We then had a workshop all about seeds! We learnt about what a seed needs to grow, dissected a seed and found the baby root, and held the biggest seed ever! We then got to plant our own seeds to watch them grow at home. We were then given a certificate to say we had graduated as Eden seed experts! We were all very proud of ourselves.

I have to praise the children's behaviour and attitude at the Eden Project. They were real role models for Looe Primary and we were so proud! Well done Year 1 and 2!

Miss Bolger

Friday 13th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In English this week the children continued to wow Mrs Phillips with their phonic knowledge. The children had a sentence dictated to them and their job was to use their phonic knowledge to write that sentence, using a sound mat. The adults in class were blown away with how amazing the writing was! Next week we move onto instruction writing and how to build a rocket. We want to be like bear in the story and build our own rockets!

In maths the children have been exploring number bonds to 10. They have explored using two parts and have used lots of resources to make the parts individually and working as a team!

In PSHE this week the children continued to explore how we keep ourselves healthy. This week the children spoke about what they do before bed to ensure they get a restful and full night's sleep. WE also had the RNLI come into school today, to deliver an assembly all about how to stay safe when you visit the beach! 

WE were also so lucky to have our new recycled playhouse delivered by the wonderful Looe Shedders! The children have already put lots of things inside and cannot wait to keep playing in it, we have already decided to act out a part of The Three Little Pigs story! 

The children have been exploring space and this week they have made space pictures, made lolly-stick pictures, role played astronauts in the role play area and on Wednesday Mrs Lyden put paper on top of the tables AND under the tables, the children had the task of drawing space pictures as a table. The pictures that were produced were amazing!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

We have finally been able to start the improvement phase for our Early Years outdoor learning space.  A lovely group of volunteers, Looe Shedders have previously built us a playbus and some large planters for the Key Stage 1 playground.  They have been enjoying making this shed for a number of months and yesterday it arrived and was built in the front play space.  They have made the shed from items they already had access to with donations from local suppliers for paint etc. and I am very aware that they have contributed to this project themselves.  As you can see, it is beautiful.  It has stairs and a small mezzanine floor inside and Mrs Phillips, the Foundation class teacher has already begun to stock if with homely items for role play.  It took most of the morning to erect in place and the children were getting more and more excited as they saw it grow.
Thankfully, we had some sun and they were able to give it a good check over and explore.  It was a special moment to watch their joy and excitement at their new house.  It has made such a difference already to the space.

The class with the help of the adults, raised an amazing £500 from a pancake race on Shrove Tuesday and some of this has already been spent to begin to make their outdoor space more colourful and appropriate.  The recent storms had a big impact on the spaces and we had trees down and lots of debris.  It has meant that the children have not been able to safely use these spaces for a few weeks, but the arrival of the playhouse gave us new energy and excitement to get the project done now and with some help from our premises team at Bridge Schools.  Watch this space and a very big thank you from us all to Looe Shedders!

Making clay fish and litter picking! 

We've had a great start to the half term in Year 1 and 2.

We have been enjoying our new big question: Would you rather live in a hot or cold place? In Geography, we have been finding the seven continents, the North Pole and the South Pole and the equator.

In Science we have been exploring living things and their habitats. This week, we learnt about why habitats might become endangered, and what might happen to the plants and animals that live there if they do. We then went around the school and picked up any litter we could find. The school looks cleaner and we helped the plants and animals too!

We were very lucky to take part in the Clay Fish project that is happening around Looe. The children were taught how to make the fish and they really do look wonderful.

We have got lots of learning to look forward to - especially our Eden project trip on the 19th March!

Thank you all.

Year 1 and 2 Team