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!

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