Looe Primary's 40th Celebration! 

We have had a wonderful week in Foundation/ Year 1.

On Friday it was Looe Primary’s 40th birthday! Our stall was cupcake decorating and the children decorated the signs for it. We had some wonderful little helpers too. Thank you to everyone that bought a cupcake from our stall, fingers crossed we raised the most money!

We also had the Pop up Play Village in to visit us. We loved the construction area and the bakery area the best. The children were so excited when they saw everything to play with, and they practised their sharing and taking turns really well.

In English, we finished our Bear Hunt learning journey by writing our own verse of the story. We changed the story to ‘We’re going on a Monster Hunt!’ Foundation helped us to think of actions to our new verse and year 1 wrote it down. We are moving onto poetry next and will be focusing on ‘Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear.

We have had a great week and I look forward to the next!

Thank you.

The Foundation / Year 1 Team.

Friday 4th October

What a busty week we have had!

We have been making and preparing for our Looe Primary 40^th Birthday celebration today and the children have worked so hard! On our stall we will have all that they have made to sell. We will upload pictures on Monday for you to see, after the event!

The children have been exploring and learning so much this week.

In phonics the children have learnt the diagraph (two letters, one sound) CK and the sounds e/u/ and r. They have been amazing in phonics, and we are really beginning to see progress with their oral blending to read small words!

The children have also been using water colours to paint, sorting monsters into different groups, using their funky fingers to cut out pictures to make a picture of all the things they like and using felt tips to decorate a person.

In English the children have been trying to perfect their tripod grip when holding a pencil. The children drew a picture of their favourite part of the story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The children are progressing well with the tripod grip and once they have mastered this their writing and drawing skills will be even more amazing!

On COOL time ( Choose Our Own Learning) the children have chosen the marble run a lot and it has been amazing to see and hear them working together to make a marble run, we have heard so much wonderful vocabulary from the children to solve problems! They were so impressed and happy when the marble reached the bottom!

On Thursday we were lucky to have a visit form Pop Up Play. The children loved exploring the toys and resources. There was a vets, hospital, baby nursery, supermarket, fire and police station and a construction site! Miss Hughes and Janet seemed to be WANTED a lot and ended up in the police van!!!! It was a wonderful morning!

We have explored so much more this week and it’s been a wonderful week

We look forward to seeing you all later at the celebration!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Happy Birthday Looe!

We are looking forward to the celebrations on Friday and welcoming all of the community that help to make Looe primary great! 

Road Safety and lots of learning! 

What a great week we have had in Foundation/Year 1.

We were very lucky to have a Road Safety Roadshow that taught us all about how to stay safe when we are out and about. We really enjoyed learning the dance and words to ‘Stop, Look and Listen.’ We were also taught about how important it is to stay close to, or hold hands with our adult when crossing the road. The children really enjoyed learning all things road safety!

In Phonics, Year 1 have been learning their new ‘ie’ sound. We then practised writing this in different words. In Maths, we have also been looking at one more and one less. We have been building towers and finding the correct numbers that are one more and one less!

We have also all been learning about the weather. Every morning we discuss what the weather is like and we’ve been focusing on using amazing adjectives to do this. My favourite ones this week are ‘the sun is golden’ and ‘the sea is sparkly.’ How brilliant! We have also been thinking about the right clothing we need depending on the weather.

On Friday we have our 40th birthday celebration for the school. This is going to be a great day. Please let me know if you will be attending either through email or letting me know during meet/greet.

Thank you!

The Foundation/Year 1 Team

Friday 27th September

The children have had yet another impressive week of exploring and learning in Foundation.

In phonics this week the children have been learning g/o/c/k – They have been working really hard to orally blend sounds that they know to read words, and they are progressing well. Lots of writing practice would be great to progress them even further- the phonics sheets have been sent home for you to follow.

Foundation children have continued with their big question- Who Am I?

This week the children made people using natural resources with Mrs Gregory in outdoor learning. The children are becoming great at following instructions when walking around the school and in the forest area. They have been exploring some wonderful adjectives to describe the materials they are using.

In English the children have been sequencing the story of Were Going on a Bear Hunt and saying words from the story and writing the initial graphemes they know! The adults are VERY impressed!

The children have also been exploring capacity, mass and patterns in math’s this week and the children loved being human weighing scales. They have been identifying patterns and making patterns of their own using the peg boards.

Foundation have also been preparing items to sell at the 40^th birthday celebration, they are wonderful so please come and see our stall and purchase some of their creative work. We will also have a pirate chocolate tombola and pirate cupcakes!

The children have explored and chosen so much wonderful learning activities this week!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Road Safety Roadshow

Today we had a road safety talk to help us to stay safe whilst out and about. The children were really engaged and we were really impressed with their understanding of the key rules for road safety.

We had our Road Safety Roadshow come into school today!  The children were taught a song that said "Stop, Look and Listen".  The session was highly engaging and the children learned many things about Road Safety.

Please can you continue these conversations about Road Safety to keep our children safe :)

Clive from Emazdad came to school today to give us a Safety Roadshow came to see us today. The children learned all about road safety and the things to watch out for whilst out and about.

He mentioned the benefits of wearing an item that reflects on our clothing as the evenings draw in and the mornings are darker for longer.

He will be visiting us again to help us celebrate our 40th birthday. Watch out for the magic show!

Wednesday 25th September

We have had another lovely week!  In English, the children wrote a letter to Grandma from the Wolf, apologising for all of the crimes that he had committed!!

In maths, we are on our last leg of the place value unit and learning the number line to 100 (YR2) and the number line to 1000 (YR3).  

For science, Year 3 pupils learned about Endoskeletons and Exoskeletons and which animals have no skeleton at all!  They sorted them into groups!

For Art, the children have been learning all about the famous artist Jasper Johns and recreated his art piece "Numbers in Color" which was painted in 1958!  They really enjoyed this today!

For History, the children learned all about a Victorian classroom and made comparisons to our classroom now.  They will be going back in time and writing a letter to a Victorian child to tell them all of the things that will change in the future!

What we've been doing!

We have had another great week in Foundation / Year 1!

In English, we have continued our learning on ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt.’ The children have loved learning this book and we know the story very well now! We have been sequencing the story with pictures. Foundation have been writing a sound they have learnt in phonics to match the picture and Year 1 have started writing words to match.

In Maths, Foundation have been sorting and matching objects. They have been making sets and thought about what objects match in each set. Year 1 have been continuing their place value unit of numbers up to 10. We are also continuing to practise counting in 2s in the classroom.

In the wider curriculum, Year 1 have been learning about their bodies in science. This week, we learnt about our ears and hearing. We have thought about how we hear and what it would be like if we couldn’t. We did this through learning a little bit of sign language, including the first letter of our names. Foundation have been exploring all about themselves in our provision inside and outside. They have been finger painting faces, mark making and using blocks to build.

Raffle tickets have gone home for our celebration on the 4th October. We are really looking forward to this and will begin making preparations for this in the next week!

Have a great week.

Foundation / Year 1 Team