St Pirans Day

Year 2 and 3 went on an exciting trip to Bodmin to take part in the St Pirans Day celebrations.

After a procession, a dance and a ceremony in the town square, Year 2 and 3 made their way to the church.

When they arrived they got onto the stage and sang 'Trelawney' at the top of their voices and were later rewarded with a delicious pasty. 

Spring term

What a busy term we've had. We started the term learning about the United Kingdom, the 4 countries that make up the UK and their capital cities. The children then moved on to learn about space. The children loved learning about space and creating a variety of different art pieces. This term we have also enjoyed world book day where we focused on the author Oliver Jeffers. We were also lucky enough to win a competition to go to Plymouth Argyle for the day where we had a tour of the stadium, got a free football shirt, shot penalties against Pilgrim Pete and also played a mini match. We finished off the term enjoying some Easter craft activities and doing some yummy baking. 

Spring term 

It has been a chilly start to the new year with a few sprinklings of snow in January. As we approached half term we focused on our mental health. It was children's mental health week. All classes spent time focusing on wellbeing in different ways. We had slower starts to the days with mindful activities, we had afternoons with hot chocolate, gardening and exercise and consider which activities help us to feel good, be calm and destress. During the week, it was also Safer internet day -  EYFS and key stage 1 looked at what to do when something scares you or worries you online. In key stage 2 we looked at techniques programs and apps use to persuade us to do something that we were not planning to do including staying online for longer - prizes, streaks, rewards etc. We also reminded children of age ratings on games. We have lots of information for parents about online safety in the keeping safe section. 

Spring term 1 

It has been a while since we shared an update on what is happening in class. This term we finished our history work learning about the Mayans. We used our previous learning from Jays class to compare them to the Egyptians and considered whether they really were civilized!

We have now moved on to a geography based unit, where we can use our geographical understanding from learning about the Americas to learn more about rainforests. 

In science we have moved on to look at properties and changes in material. We have been using our investigation skills to learn about dissolving and insulating. 

We have have written the ending to the traditional tale Hansel and Gretel. We were focused on writing for a specific audience and did not want to write a tale for young children, but a darker creepier version for older readers. 

In maths it is all about fractions, decimals and percentages!! We are starting to get our heads around the concept of equal parts and equivalences. 

In DT we have made automata models. This involved a lot of problem solving and perseverance as you have to observe how it works to make small changes to make it move more easily! 

This term we have Mrs Butlin back for music, where we are learning how to play the keyboard. Andy is here for PE and the children are loving developing their netball skills and playing competitively. 

That is just some of the things we have been working on this term already!! As we finished for half term it was Children's mental health week and safer internet day. So we spent the week thinking about our emotions and how to use our time. 

We visited Newquay Zoo to help support our learning about different types of habitats.

We enjoyed an interesting workshop before exploring the rest of the zoo.

We traveled by train, which was very exciting.

What a great day!

Jays have been making dens in the forest this half term. This has helped us to built resilience, communication and  problem-solving skills. 

On Thursday the 21st of September, the Year 2/3 Jays were invited to Gunwen Chapel to help celebrate Crying the Neck. Crying The Neck is a festival tradition once common in Devon and Cornwall marking the end of harvest. We had a great time taking part and even got to eat some yummy saffron buns and yeast cakes!

Sporting Adventures 

November has been a busy month with sporting competitions, we have had tag rugby, multi skills, swimming and dodgeball. We have had the opportunity to take children to competitions from all year groups. All the children that participated showed fantastic sportsmanship and determination. They all worked well together to represent our small school. 

In the forest this week the children worked with older children in the school to build a car. The children found the different items they wanted to use and shared their ideas with the older children to create the car. They also went on a bug hunt and drew some of the insects they found. 

Continuous provision is important for our early years children. This is the time for the children to select what they would like to do around the classroom. The children have busied themselves around the classroom this week with a variety of different activities. Meanwhile in art the year one children have been learning to control a pencil to create lines and shapes to draw pictures. They drew some dragons and crowns. 

In maths this week reception and pre-school children have been looking at recognising, making and continuing patterns. We went on a walk around the school looking for the different patterns we could find. We then made our own two colour patterns using different counters. We also focused on building our fine motor skills this week to help our writing. 

Reflection, Refraction and Climate

Eagles are now settled in to their routine. We are still enjoying our class book - The Nowhere Emporium and have enjoyed reading chapters set at different times and linking the two time lines together. Year 5 and 6 have now designed their own Wonders inspired by the book for their independent writing. 

Year 6 have moved on to calculations in maths and year 5 are nearly at the end of their place value work. In science we have explored reflection and looked at the Incident ray and reflected ray. We also investigated refraction by looking at images in different ways through water. 

In Geography we are developing our knowledge of North and South America by looking at the different climates and then focusing our attention on Mexico and what life is like there. 

In RE children are considering the question of how religion helps people when life gets hard and have been looking at religious traditions around death and how these help people to grieve. 

We were visited by EJ again over the last two weeks to support our PSHE work. We were focusing on sympathy and empathy. 

Everyone should have received a list of spellings that cover the whole year, if you haven't got yours, please let us know.