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.

Week 3 

In English this week all the children imitated the Lost and Found story. The foundation children have been working hard to write captions and sentences to match the imitated story and the year ones have been writing the story inm full. The year ones then planned their own story ready to write next week.

In maths the year one children have been completing post and pre assessments at the end of one unit and ready to start a new one: Place value to 50. The foundation children have been exploring height and time.

The children have enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters this week and in pyjamas! They also made lovely bookmarks and explored lots of different books!

IN PSHE all the children have continued how to stay healthy, and this week explored what to do when we have a cold and how to prevent the spread of germs! Mrs Lydon needed the children’s help when blowing her nose and washing her hands eeewwww! Thank goodness the children were there to support her!!

St Piran's day was amazing and we loved having all the parents in school for some great activities in the afternoon! The singing outside was just lovely and the children enjoyed learning about what St Piran's day means in Cornwall. 

On Friday we were lucky enough to have Martin, a community visitor, come into school and tell us all about Antarctica as he was stationed there for a long time. Martin told us all about Antarctica and the children told Martin all they knew about Robert Falcon Scott.

We have had a wonderful week in class full of exciting learning.

Have a great weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

This week, Year 4 have had a great time enhancing their history learning. They took a trip to 'The Box' in Plymouth and combined looking around the museum with a fantastic workshop where they became assistant curators. They were able to handle authentic objects from the Ancient Egyptian period and learn how to look at them and document them accurately. Each group also created a final display of their items and showed the rest of the class what they had accomplished on a mini tour. Back in class, the children have completed a secret mission to help prepare a special person for the after life. Let's just say canopic jars were used... shhhhh!


Thank you to everyone who has managed to book Parent Teacher appointment so far.  I have updated the list and will add it to the door in time for Monday.  Just 9 spaces left!

Week 2 

Another fab week of learning has taken place in Foundation/Year 1!

In English this week we have started to explore a new story called Lost and Found.

This book fits wonderfully with our current polar theme as it is about a little boy who discovers a penguin at his door and wants to return him to the South Pole. The children have explored the story by watching the movie as a wow moment and then exploring the book and story map in detail. They then worked in teams to sequence the story using pictures. The year one children used time connectives to join the pictures and the foundation children used their phonic knowledge to write key words to match the pictures. The year ones then used the pictures and time connectives to write sentences.

In maths this week the year ones have been exploring subtraction and difference. They have worked really hard and used lots of resources to help them solve some tricky questions. The foundation children have been exploring length, they have been making chains and then ordering in order of length. Yesterday the foundation children had lots of different ribbon to sort, and they ordered these in length sizes too. Today they started to explore height and built towers- whose was tallest?

The year ones have also continued to explore parts of plants and trees in science, they learnt about David and Goliath in RE and discussed being brave, then wrote when they believed they have been brave recently. In PSHE all the children have been remembering how to stay healthy and writing their knowledge down. In History the year ones continued to discover more facts about Robert Falcon Scott’s journey to the South Pole.

The foundation children have been working as a team to collage a polar scene (its wonderful), they have been using hexagon links to make igloos, they have explored the frozen arctic animals and figured out how to set them free, They have been using their observational skills to paint some polar pictures using watercolours, and so much more!

Next week we will continue to be explorers but explore the world of plants!

What a wonderful week!

Have a great weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

Spring 2 - Week 1 

Well, what a wonderful first week back at school we have had! Spring 2 has started with such enthusiasm for the children.

Our big question for this half term is: What’s it like to be an explorer? We have been exploring Polar regions and the explorer Robert Scott.

This week in English the children have been exploring acrostic poems. We explored a poem with the focus words SOUTH POLE. We read this poem and explored the features of an acrostic poem. We learnt actions to help us recall the poem.

We then thought of our own acrostic poem (HUGO) and explored lots of different acrostic poems. The children then explored lots of different adjectives linked to polar regions and wrote planned and write their own acrostic poem with the focus word ARCTIC.

In maths year ones have been exploring doubles, near doubles and subtraction facts using their number bond knowledge.

The foundation children have also been exploring doubles and combining two groups.

In PE this week we have started dance and are exploring a penguin dance to fit our explorer topic.

The year 1’s have also been exploring Henri Matisse in art, Sukkah in RE and beginning to explore plants in Science. We have been super busy this week!

The foundation children have also enjoyed exploring all about Robert Scott, looking at polar region books, looking at polar animals and making arctic scenes. They have also enjoyed being explorer in our explorer role play area and so much more!

We have had a wonderful first week. 

Have a great weekend

Foundation /year 1 team.

I was invited to attend the official opening of the Looe Police Station Enquiry Office and I was delighted to be able to take one of our Year 6 pupils with me.  We met Alison Hernandez who is the Police Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall and the Acting Chief Constable, Jim Colwell as well as many of the police officers and local councillors and people who give their time and skills to make Looe the wonderful place that it is.  Our pupil was asked if she would like to cut the ribbon and she was delighted to be asked.  It is a very proud moment when one of our pupils is able to talk so well and enjoy the company of people who are important to our lives and who welcomed her as a very valued member of our community.  It was a lovely event!

During the Spring Term we have been exploring the History of Ancient Egypt. In English we have been rewriting the tale of the Egyptian Cinderella. We have been looking at the similarities and differences between this story and the traditional tale of Cinderella. It prompted some excellent discussions about how the main characters were treated and how this would have made them both feel.

In Art we have been finding out about Egyptian Hieroglyphs and using these special symbols to write our own names. We have also been using different materials to create portraits of Tutankhamun and have looked at patterns and colours when creating our own pharaohs designs. 

We went on a fabulous trip to the Box Museum in Plymouth where we were able to explore Ancient Egyptian artefacts and experience being curators.  

Week 5

Well, we have reached the end of yet another half term- and what a fantastic one it has been again! The children are progressing so well.

This week in English the year 1 children have been planning and writing a fact file . They have written facts all about pigs. The foundation children have been exploring parts of an owl and labelling them, writing captions about owls and using their phonic knowledge so well.

In maths the year ones have continued to explore addition within 20. The have worked hard to remember number bonds to solve tricky addition calculations. Foundation children have been exploring odd and even numbers and have mastered odd and even numbers to ten really well.

This week the children have also been reading tricky words, writing captions ad sentences, using their arts and craft knowledge to create beautiful pieces of art.

Today we had a Chinese New Year Day. All of our activities were based on Chinese New Year. We learnt lots of wonderful facts and explored wonderful; things about it. We were then super lucky to have a community Visitor, Eva, come into class. She told us all about Chinese New Year. She then showed us how to make Chinses lanterns and dancing dragons. To finish off Eva and her husband Kindy made us spring rolls to try – they were yummy! What a great day.

We have explored so much amazing learning this half term- we are ready to relax and refresh ready for next half terms jam packed learning adventures!

We wish you all a wonderful half term and look forward to seeing you all on Monday 19^th February.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Foundation /year 1 team. 

We love to fundraise here at Looe Primary and when we can link it to learning we like it even more!  Before Christmas, we took part in the Children's Hospice South West Santa's on the Run Fun Run.  We were delighted to raise £444.10 on that day and it was such a good afternoon with an elf in attendance and also some snow to slow everyone down as they were running.  it was a lovely way to head into the festive period and thank you to all of the parents and family members who joined in too.  The hospice will use the money to continue to support children, young people and their families living with life-limiting health conditions. 

On Friday, we took part in the NSPCC Number Day.  This year it was linked to our multiplication app TTRockstars, so we invited staff and pupils to dress as rockstars for the day.  We had some of the most amazing outfits and I am sure you will agree, they all looked fantastic.  We think Mrs Davies should come to school dressed like that every day.  Thanks to Mrs Davies' organisation, we raised £140 on the day and the children were delighted.  This money will help the NSPCC to continue running their Speak Out, Stay Safe Programme.  The children spent the day applying their maths skills to every day situations.  

We always enjoy an opportunity to dress up and have fun and these events show just how good we have become.  Thank you to everyone for their support and donations to these worthy causes.

As this week is Children's Mental Health Week and Online Safety Day takes place tomorrow, 6th February, we will enjoy more opportunities to consider our own lives and the lives of others, both in school, locally and in the wider world.