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

Friday 1st May

In English this week the children started by using adjectives to describe food items from our story. They thought of the most amazing adjectives, we were all very impressed. Next the children wrote lists of what the hungry caterpillar ate. The children used their phonics and wrote some amazing words.

In maths this week we have been exploring missing numbers to 20 and ordering numbers to 20. The adults gave some children, and Miss Ginn some teen numbers but missed some numbers out and we had to figure out what numbers were missing!

The children have been collaging food items from our story this week, classifying minibeasts and finding lots of minibeasts in our outside area using magnifying glasses. They have loved looking through the magnifying glasses and seeing the minibeast close up.

We have also made potions in the water tray, sandcastles and mazes in the sandbox, coloured caterpillar sheets, made minibeasts from Lego, and so much more!

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend

The Foundation Team 

Friday 24th April

What an amazing first week back at school, for summer term!

The children seemed to have grown so much over the two weeks break!

They have come back raring to explore and learn and boy , have we explored this week!

Our new big question is: Are minibeast like me?

In English this week we have started our new text: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The children have used role play, and a story map to learn the story. We came into class on Tuesday and The Very Hungry Caterpillar was clearly still hungry as he had eaten our raisins and bread sticks!! The children have loved reading this story and recalling all the yummy foods the caterpillar are. Today we had a story table and then children tried the first three foods of the story, an apple, a pear and an orange!

In maths we have been exploring teen numbers 11-19, we have explored how teen numbers have one ten and some more! We have used base ten, blocks, counting teddies and lots of manipulatives to learn our teen numbers!

We have also this week used so much of our outside area, the children have been so happy to get back outside. Brain and AJ our trust caretakers, worked so hard in the holidays to make our new sandpit! The children can now utilise all the new things that the fund-raising money brought us, including a new writing/colouring table, a mud kitchen, new water tray resources, a dumper truck area, garden decorations, new sand play toys, binoculars and water fountain and so much more. The Foundation team cannot thank you enough for the fundraising; listening to the vocabulary, conversations, excitement and role play that has been taken place this week has been nothing short of wonderful!

The children have explored so much this first week back and the sun has helped with an exciting engaging week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Thursday 2nd April- Happy Easter! 

Wow, we have reached the end of Spring term!  

What an amazing spring term it has been. The children have progressed so well.

Here are some pictures of some amazing things we have done in the last couple of weeks.

We wish you all a wonderful Easter break and look forward to seeing you all and the children back at school on Monday 2oth April.

Happy Holidays!

The Foundation Team 

Today saw the launch of the 'Flavours of Looe' Community Cook Book.  It is part of a venture by Creative Looe to create, '... a vibrant, painted love letter to a town that has lived by the rhythm of the tide for centuries'.   'It celebrates the heritage of the town as a historic fishing port through the eyes - and paint brushes - of the young people of the town.'

The role of the book is to connect the classroom to the quay, the home kitchen to the professional restaurant and the history of the town to the future.  

GSCE art students from Looe Community Academy have worked through the Creative Looe team, and together with a number of professional chefs and producers to create recipes and link them with art to bring together a beautiful selection of recipes and art in a book for all to share.  It also has a recipe and a message from her Majesty the Queen.

Today saw the launch of the book at the Sardine factory in town, where the books and the original art work were on display for all those invited.  We were delighted to be there and our wonderful choir, led by Mrs Brewer and one of our Trustees, Nick Hart performed two songs to the gathered audience.  First of all, they sang a song they wrote and produced for the recent Bridge Schools Trust Music Event at St. Martins Church in Liskeard and then as a highlight, they sang 'Cornwall My Home' in Cornish.  The choir has done a remarkable job in learning this song quickly and it proved to be an emotional experience for all involved.  Their singing received a rousing round of applause and was one of the highlights of the event.  Living in Looe is special and when we had the privilege to share the talents and enthusiasm of the local youth, it became an event that will remain in the memory for a very long time.  Well done to all those involved in this amazing project.  Our wonderful town and all it cherishes is in good hands!

Friday 20th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In Enlgish this week the children have been ordering instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. They then went in groups to the local bakery and shops to buy ingredients.  The children also practiced their clear and precise oracy skills to give 'a robot' ( Mrs Phillips has a robot button you know!). At first the children were not very clear and the robot got very confused and emptied the bread all over the table. Then when the children said - spread the butter, the robot scooped butter with their hand and spread it on the bread eewwww! However, with a little bit of practicing and prompting the children gave brilliant instructions to allow the robot to finish a yummy sandwich. The children then gave each other instructions to make sandwiches and then we ATE THEM!

In maths the children have been exploring the number ten and making ten with three parts! The children then explored doubles to ten in detail! Wow they are all progressing so well.  

The children have been helping Mrs Phillips make the outside area look soooooo much better. We have swept, scooped, cleaned and built! Our new activity picnic table is amazing, and the mud kitchen will be in its new home soon. The track area looks great and Mrs Waring has kindly brought us more stones as we ran out! It is beginning to look so much better. We cannot wait for our new sandpit and surrounding fences!

Enjoy the sun this weekend

The Foundation Team 

A trip to the Eden Project! 

We had the best day visiting the Eden Project.

When we got there we were given an introduction and learnt a little bit more about Eden and the journey it has been on. We then went and explored the biomes. We have been learning all about the rainforest in Science and hot climates in Geography so we were amazed by the rainforest biome. We saw cocoa beans, palm trees, waterfalls and much more. We were using our curiosity to ask lots of questions and we talked about the impact of deforestation and why it is so important to look after these environments.

We then had a workshop all about seeds! We learnt about what a seed needs to grow, dissected a seed and found the baby root, and held the biggest seed ever! We then got to plant our own seeds to watch them grow at home. We were then given a certificate to say we had graduated as Eden seed experts! We were all very proud of ourselves.

I have to praise the children's behaviour and attitude at the Eden Project. They were real role models for Looe Primary and we were so proud! Well done Year 1 and 2!

Miss Bolger