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!

Wednesday 30th September

Today we had an incredible time as a class when the Pop up Play Village came to Looe Primary Academy. The children enjoyed taking part in so many different role play experiences. During the session they were able to take on the role of Hairdressers, vets, nursery teachers, post office workers, restaurant staff and builders. It was so nice to see the children interacting with each other and using their imaginations. 

Friday 11th September- The best first week in Rame class! 

This week has been the most amazing first week for Rame class. The children have adapted to their new school/class so well and we are unbelievably proud of them all! 

We have spent the week concentrating on the environment, new routines, new adults and most importantly having lots and lots of fun getting to know each other!

We begin a little more formal routines and learning next week alongside all of our fun learning! 

Rame Class. 

This year, as our school has chosen to adopt Cornish place names, nursery will be known as Pendennis Class. 
We have had a wonderful start to the term and have welcomed new children and returning children with lots of exciting ideas and plans for the weeks ahead.  Autumn is always a lovely term and with all the changing seasonal colours and festivities, there is always something fun going on!
Our topic is "This Is Me" and we will be exploring what makes us, us! We will be comparing our families, hobbies, homes and environments and have asked families to send in family photos for our display.
Staff have been undertaking some interesting professional development around speech and language in the early years through Cornwall Council Together for Families. There will be more to come on this subject as we hope to hold some future parent and carer sessions.
In addition, we are happy to announce that we are undergoing the Maths Champion Programme which encourages a love of all things mathematical in early childhood. We are looking forward to implementing these ideas into the nursery day. 
Our forest school continues to run this year on a Friday, and we are delighted to have the wonderful Mrs Gregory leading our sessions this term. We began this week with a lovely story called Bibble Bubble, and we made self-portraits from natural resources.
We will continue to visit Hillcrest Nursing Home on alternative Mondays, and our PE day will be Wednesday. Unfortunately, we no longer have coach Ryan this year, but Mrs Hilton and Mrs Owen will be running a sport session of our own.
A big thankyou to all of our fabulous families as we settle back into nursery life, we value your support greatly to make each day a happy, positive and enriching experience for your child. 
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                  Mrs Hilton, Mrs Owen and Miss Given

Welcome back Year 1 - Heligan class!

We have had a wonderful first week back in Year 1! The children have been introduced to our new class name - Heligan class. We have explored where Heligan is and talked about what you might see there.
We've also been working as mathematicians! We've been using different resources, lots of counting and sorting different objects into groups. Each half term we will have a big question that we focus our wider curriculum work around. This half term our big question is: How was school different in the Victorian times? So, in History we will be learning about schools in the past and comparing them to now. We have lots of lovely learning to look forward to and the children have settled in just wonderfully.

Just a few reminders / updates:

PE days are Monday and Thursday. Please make sure children come to school in correct PE kit on these days.

Please send your child in with a water bottle and coat each day.

Please order lunches on a Thursday for the following week if your child has a school lunch.

We will be changing books on a Friday. Please send your child in with their book and reading record on this day.

Thank you for all your support so far - we are in for a good year!

Heligan class

It is the best day of the year, to feel the excitement and to know that we are ready and prepared to either welcome our returning pupils, our brand new Foundation pupils for their first day at school, or pupils who have joined us from another school.

They arrived looking very smart; most were happy to return and there was lots of support for those who perhaps were feeling a little overwhelmed.  The first week has been wonderful.  We have made a few small changes to the way that we work and encourage each other through kindness, our school values (creative, curious, responsible, enthusiastic, excellent, determined) and our three main school rules (be ready, be responsible, be safe).  

We have new teams this year instead of houses:
Woodpeckers (green)
Kingfishers (blue)
Jays (red)
Goldfinches (yellow)
The children will earn team points throughout each week and there are surprises and rewards along the way.



One of our biggest changes this year is that we have named all of our classes.  These were chosen democratically by the children and we drew names at the end of the summer term to decide which class had which name.  Our new classes are:
Nursery: Pendennis - Mrs Hilton and Mrs Owen
Foundation: Rame - Mrs Phillips and Mrs Lyden
Year 1: Heligan - Miss Bolger and Miss Ginn
Year 1/2: Lanhydrock - Mrs Marshall, Mrs Miles, Miss Given, Mrs Gregory and Mrs Stephens 
Year 2/3: Kynance - Miss Chapman and Mr Liddement
Year 3/4: Tintagel - Miss Pittas, Mrs Stephens and Mrs Williams
Year 4:  Eden - Miss Strickland, Mr Phillips and Mrs Williams
Year 5/6: Minack - Mr Bowden, Mrs Higgins and Mrs Hewitt
Year 5/6: Mount Edgecumbe:  Mrs Davies, Miss Cook and Mrs Miller

In the next few weeks, we will be delighted to open our new inclusion provision which we have called Roseland.  This is a new offer that will support many children with their social, emotional and behaviour need, whether on a regular basis or if they need it for a short time.  It will also help those children who struggle to learn so that we can help them to find new ways of understanding how they can work to the best of their ability in a fun and very supportive way.  I will lead this provision initially, supported by Miss Masters who will be with the provision every day.  All staff will then provide activities and time to work with the children when they access the rooms.  We have three spaces available to us at the end of the Key Stage 2 corridor and we are busy getting these spaces ready for the fun to begin.  There may even be a few surprises on the way! 

Another new venture is the addition of some slightly different activities throughout the week.  The picture above shows the first class enjoying their introduction lessons with Mr Tweedle.  They will be learning circus skills, so watch out at home!  This activity is not only fun, but also teaches coordination, balance, spatial awareness and the need for resilience and patience when it doesn't go right first time.  It was great fun and we can't wait to see how we all get on with plate spinning, diabolo, stilt walking, juggling and much, much more! 

As you can see, we are prepared and ready for an amazing year of learning filled with fun and determination to do well in all that we do; I can't wait to see the outcomes!

Here's to a great year.
Janine Waring 

Friday 26th June 

Some of this week's learning

In English this week the children have imitated the story of The Rainbow Fish. The new story is called The Glittery Dolphin! The children thought and changed the characters of the story. They then started to write a sentence from the new story. The children are writing beautifully and have used their phonic knowledge so well.

The children have coped well with the hot weather this week, but it has been a struggle, and we have had lots of cooling down time. To make sure we didn't overheat we had lots of extra water play and walking around like slow snails!

The children have been exploring Rockpools this week, they have made their own rockpools, drawn creatures that may live in rockpools and written sentences about pictures of rockpools.

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

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