Friday 9th October

Week 5 in Rame class has been full of giggles when learning! 

Some of this week's exploration:

In English the children have been showing the adults how well they can use their 'funky fingers' to hold their pencil using a tripod grip. They have then drawn pictures of their favourite part of the story whilst maintaining a good pencil grip. This is really tricky to do but the children are progressing so well. 

Handwriting in Rame class and this point of the year may not look like other classes handwriting BUT rest assured we are! We have completed loads of dough disco this week, we have pulled ourselves along using scoot boards, we have moved like animals around the room. At this stage of the year ensuring that the children have strength in their shoulders, arms, hands and fingers is vital for them to become amazing writers. 

In PE with coach Jack The children have been participating in lots of listening and attention games. The children have been moving slow, fast, up and down. They gave loved playing the splat game and sharks in the water. 

Outside this week the children...and Mrs Lyden were loving using the crates to explore, speed, and weight! check out the picture! 

In maths this week the children have been exploring the compositions of 2, 3 and 4. The children have been using lots of STEM sentences to understand their maths activities. 1 and another 1 is 2. 3 and another 1 is 4. 

We continue to have so much fun learning in Rame class and the children continue to impress us every day! 

Exploring everyday materials, controlling paint and finding conkers!

We have been busy in Heligan class! This week we have been continuing our science topic of Everyday Materials. We have been exploring materials that are natural and those that are man-made. We have also been looking at different objects and identifying the material that they are made from.

In Art, we have been exploring the art work of Alma Thomas. This week we have been thinking about how to keep our colours bright, and how to control paint to make our pictures stand out. We have created some wonderful pictures.

In outdoor learning, we have made our own bears out of conkers and leaves with Mrs Gregory. We loved doing this activity and finding as many leaves as we could for the bear’s body. We then finished with some fun games using the parachute!

We also had our Harvest Festival assembly this week where we showed our parents and carers the songs we have been learning and acted out the story of the Little Red Hen. We collected lots of food for the food bank too!

Well done Heligan class, another great week.

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.