Friday 21st November

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

In English the children have been recalling their phonic knowledge and using a sound mat to write CVC words that they know form the story of The Little Red Hen. The children continue to practice their tripod grip and letter formation every day.

In maths we have been subitising to five and beyond! The children are becoming amazing mathematicians! We weave our maths learning through all of our daily activities, and we can really see some amazing progress.

We have been practicing our nativity this week and the children are simply wonderful we cannot wait to share it with you in a few weeks.

The children have also been exploring The Three Little Pigs this week, and they have: sequenced the story, made masks, dressed the pigs, completed maths counting based on the story, coloured pictures, made traditional tale castes from blocks, used the small world table to make up their own traditional stories and sooooooo much more!

We are looking forward to the icy weather so we can get outside more and explore ice crystals and frost so please send your child into school with appropriate clothing for the weather each day please.

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Dear all!

We have been very busy as always in Year 3!  

We finished our art project where the children made their own papyrus paper and then designed their own scroll.  This half term as part of DT, they will be designing and making their own sarcophagus!

In English, we have been following the story of Tadeo Jones and the children will be writing their own version this week.


In maths, the children are still working on addition and subtraction!  Please do not forget that for homework, there are assignments set on Mathletics!

For Whole Class Reading lessons, the children have been learning about emotions which ties in nicely with our PSHE unit "families" and how to resolve conflicts!

In French, the children are learning about different flavour ice creams!  They used our Outdoor Orienteering Markers to find the days of the week in French too!

In Geography, the children are learning all about the River Niles and it's features!  They will be writing about the journey of a tiny droplet later this week!


We will begin our Christmas Service practise soon - please watch out for dates of when the service is at the church!

That is all for now!

Mrs Brewer, Mrs Miller and Mr Liddement.

Friday 14th November

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

We have been practicing shoulder, arm, hand and finger strength by doing lots of gross and fine motor skills activities. Having strength is really important to be an amazing writer. So in English this week the children have been showing Mrs Phillips how amazing they are at holding their pencils with the correct tripod grip, we will continue to practice this lots. The children have drawn a picture of The Little Red Hen, in their books and then used oral blending and letter recognition to write a key word like /hen/ or /red/.

On Tuesday we had Remembrance Day, and all our activities were based on the day. We learnt and explored what this day meant, and we all stood to take part in the two-minute silence, which all the children did amazingly well, and it was very moving!

The children have been exploring Anti-Bullying week, we started with odd socks day on Monday and then we explored what bullying means and what we can do to ensure we are kind to others, how we can be good friends and also what to do if we feel we are being bullied.

Today we had a wonderful Children in Need Day and we all looked great in our PJ's. Thank you for all the donations. We explored why we take part in this day, and the children were so kind and thoughtful with their words during our children in need lesson.

We have started to practice our Christmas nativity concert this week, so apologies for the amount of Christmas singing you will be hearing at home over the next few weeks he he! More details about the performances will come out soon.

Have  a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 7th November

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

Our big question for this half term is: Who is afraid of the big bad wolf?

We will be exploring traditional tales and nearer the time the Nativity Story.

In English this week we started to explore the story The Little Red Hen. The children used a story map to help learn the story and act it out. We read the story but also watched videos of the story , we then used our oracy skills to discuss how the stories were the same and different! The children then used their oracy and sequencing skills to retell the story in their books.  

The children started guided reading this week and they have amazed the adults at how well they have adapted to the routines of a guided reading session! We are going to have some amazing readers in our class!

In maths this week we have begun to explore representing numbers 1 2 and 3 in different ways! The children are progressing well with recognising, making and ordering numbers.

We have had two 'Understanding the World' days this week.  On Monday we explored Halloween and used lots of learnt skills to cut, stick, and build Halloween tasks.

On Wednesday we learnt all about why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We explored how men tried to kill King James 1^st but did not succeed. We then explored how different people celebrate Bonfire Night. All of our activities were based on this celebration, we even made edible sparklers!

We have explored so much during the first week back at school.

The Foundation Team 

Pyjamas or Onesies for Children in Need

To celebrate the Children in Need appeal and to help to raise money towards this, we are inviting the children to come to school dressed in their jazziest pyjamas or cuddliest onesies. 

Children will still need coats suitable for playing outdoors and proper footwear for the day. Slippers may get a bit soggy out on the playground! We are asking for a £1 donation with all donations going directly to BBC Children in Need.

Thank you for your support!

Harvest is one of our favourite times of the year in school.  It celebrates all of our values in so many ways.  We have been collecting food to donate to the Liskeard Food Bank which also serves Looe and we have worked hard to understand all of the reasons why we do this, From history, to music, to thinking about others, to showing kindness to those who may need help more than we do and learning to share with others when we have enough.

To celebrate this year, we invited parents to two assemblies, Key Stage 1 in the morning and Key stage 2 in the afternoon.  Each class had prepared songs, poems, prayers and art to share with their parents.  We were so pleased that so many parents were able to join us.
We were also thrilled with the donations of food that we received.  The photo is of the volunteers from the Liskeard Food Bank who came to take the food back to their storage facility.  As you can see, their van is rather full of produce!

Harvest is colourful, vibrant , thoughtful, kind and helpful with so many other wonderful qualities to share the positive things in life when we all work together and to give thanks for the food that we eat and the people who grow and make it for us.  Thank you to all those families who donated so generously.

Dear all!

Year 3 have been busy again!  In maths, we have moved onto addition and subtraction - please do not forget that your child has mathletics assignments assigned to them for homework!  We do allow time in school for them to access however, it is beneficial if they can practise at home too!

In English, the children have finished their own versions of the "Egyptian Cinderella" story. We will be sharing the stories on Friday with Miss Stricklands class :)  The next unit is to write an Information Text about the pharaoh "Rameses II (Rameses The Great) where the launch included a very special visitor who is over 3000 years old!!  The children questioned "Queen Nefertari" and found out lots of information in preparation for our Egyptian unit.

In science, the children are continuing their learning on human and animal skeletons.  Last week, they created a full sized human skeleton using sticks and this week, they drew various animal skeletons using chalk on the playground!!!

In art, the children will be making their own Egyptian scrolls so when they are finished, I will post them on our page!

That is all for now!  Please do not forget, Reading logs to be in school every day; book changes every Friday and Reading Eggspress/Mathletics assignments are set every week!!!! Thank you for your continued support!

Mrs Brewer, Mrs Miller and Mr Liddement

Primary School days are meant to be memorable. but I have a feeling that the residential visit to London for many of our Year 6 pupils last week was one of their most memorable experiences ever and hopefully one that will last forever.  With huge thanks to Mrs Davies for organising the experience and for all of the adults attending, including one of our governors, I think it is safe to say that they all had a wonderful time.  With over 29,000 walking steps on one day in particular, the visit was packed full of new things to enjoy and experience.  The main reason for the trip at this time of year was tickets to visit the Houses of Parliament and because it is the party conference season, the children were allowed to enter the Houses of Commons and Lords as there were no sessions on the day that they were there.  It meant that they could experience being in the chambers, rather than observing debates and questions from the viewing galleries.

They stayed very close to St.Paul's Cathedral and saw the outside art in the grounds, walked to the Tate Modern via the Millenium Bridge, went to the Tower of London and saw The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre as well as their visit to the Houses of Parliament.  They walked and experienced the London Underground and they saw many of the other London sights on foot, such as the Embankment, Tower Hill and Paddington Station.  I am sure you will agree that it was an action packed few days!  They were all exhausted when they returned, but all smiling and very excited to share their time away with their families.  All adults reported how well the children coped and they were hard to miss in their brightly coloured group hats.  I think we all wished that we had been with them!