We have really enjoyed our book of the week ‘Farmyard Hullabaloo’ with its funny rhyming verses about lots of different animals found on a farm.  

Cross-Country Success Well done again to our intrepid cross-country running team who did the school proud, running a difficult course at Lanhydrock last Friday. They showed amazing team spirit, cheering each other on and in many cases beating their personal best times.

New - Yellow Head Bump Wristbands If your child comes home wearing a yellow wristband, this is to inform you that they have banged their head at school. It replaces the yellow head bump letter which we issued previously. You will also receive a record of what happened on a tear out form from our accident book.

Christmas Gift Room fundraiser Next Friday, 29th November We are holding a Christmas-themed Mufti day on Friday 29th November. In exchange for wearing Christmas MUFTI, we are asking that your child brings in any new or unused items such as chocolates, toiletries, socks, notebooks or items you’d be happy to receive as a gift. (No alcohol or DVD’s please). Then, on Monday 16th December, during school time, Santa’s workshop will be open for children to choose a special gift or two. Each gift will cost £2 (max 2 gifts per child). The elves will then help to wrap the gifts, which will be brought home at the end of the day to go under your tree.

Just to clarify, next Friday 29th November when pupils wear Christmas MUFTI in exchange for bringing in any items for the gift shop, this is full MUFTI. On 13th December, our Christmas Jumper Day for Save the Children, children should wear uniform with a Christmas jumper instead of their school jumper.

Polperro Christmas Lights and Lantern Procession On Saturday 30th November, the Christmas lights switch on, there will be a lantern procession. Willow lanterns, made by children from Polperro School, will be available for children to carry. Each lantern has been made by groups of the children working together and the materials for the lanterns have kindly been paid for by the Christmas Light Committee. If your child carries a lantern, please ensure that the cane is returned to school so that we can reuse them next year. The children (with parents) should congregate at the Chapel at 4.15pm to collect a lantern, ready to leave promptly at 4.30pm. Please note that although staff from school will be present at the procession, children will remain the responsibility of their parents at all times.

Polperro Christmas Tree Festival The Christmas Tree Festival in the Chapel will open at 9am on Saturday 30th November to coincide with the Christmas light switch on and it will be open during the evening that day as well. A huge thank you to Mrs Peters and Mrs Hood for making decorations with the children to hang on a tree which they are kindly providing on behalf of the school.

Christmas Wreath Making Workshop Please see attached a poster for a Christmas Wreath Making Workshop on Wednesday 11th December at 6:30pm in the Village Hall. This is kindly being hosted by Megan Fletcher on behalf of FOPS (Friends of Polperro School) with all profits going to School.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Another week has passed for Landaviddy class, and what a busy one it was!

During our Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we learnt about the chronology of Ancient Egypt by plotting key events on a timeline in History. We also explored what early life was like in Ancient Egypt, which we found fascinating! Can you recall the name of the river that runs through Egypt? Why might the Ancient Egyptians have used Egyptian jars, boats or ploughs for? In Computing, we looked at algorithms and discovered which commands we had to use to make our dinosaur move. PE this week focused on developing our ability to control a ball whilst dribbling with our feet, which was very challenging but lots of fun!

In Maths, Year 2 have been continuing to develop their addition and subtraction skills, exploring different methods we can use to add and subtract numbers. Year 3 finished off their addition and subtraction unit, and have started work on multiplication and division. So far, we have looked at making equal groups to multiply, which was helpful revision from last year.

In English, we have been busy planning our Egyptian versions of Little Red Riding Hood by adapting the setting and villains of our stories, with some children innovating further. We thought carefully about how we would describe our new setting and villain by producing a mind-map and labelled diagram. Next week, we will write our new stories and edit and improve our writing for our final neat copies. 

Congratulations to Lowen J, Rosie and Nevaeh for being Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done for those who achieved their 99 club this week! 

Reminder: We have our trip to The Royal Cornwall Museum and Truro Cathedral on Tuesday 26th November. If you haven't done so already, please ensure you bring your permission slip back for the cathedral by Monday 25th November. 

We hope you have a restful weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone!

It’s been a very busy week in Penhallow.

We have been sequencing the story of Cinderella, labelling pictures and writing character descriptions of the ugly sisters. Year 1 are becoming experts in using interesting adjectives in their writing, while Reception are becoming much more confident at using their phonics to write their own words. Well done everyone!

In Year 1 maths, we have enjoyed plenty of practical work this week, which has helped us to reinforce our knowledge of our termly target: To recall number bonds to 10. We have used blocks, games, counters, bead strings, iPads. You name it, we have used it, to increase our fluency in adding these numbers. 

In computing, we have used our knowledge of Andy Warhol’s style of art, to create a set of repeated images using different paint programs on iPads. The children were extremely pleased with their results, which were vibrant, colourful and creative.

Thank you so much to all those who have brought in their themed show and tell this week. The children were excellent at listening to each other and asking questions.
Next week, please can the children bring in a gadget/mystery object from the past. If it’s not possible to bring in the actual object, a photograph will be fine. It would be great if the children could use their thinking skills to try to work out what the objects are. Show and tell is on Friday afternoons. 

Please keep practicing your reading at home everyone. When you have read your reading book 3 times, you can choose your next book. Every week, you can also choose a new library book when your previous book is returned. You also have your paper Twinkl phonics book to read at home which will help you with the phonics that you learn each week. We are all so proud of how much your reading is improving. Keep up the good work!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

From The Penhallow Team. 

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 22.11.24

We hope everyone has had a lovely week this week - Talland certainly have!

Maths:
Both year groups have come to the end of their first unit of Multiplication and Division and are starting the next unit of Multiplication and Division next week.

English: 
Talland class have put their handwriting to good use and have written up their top copies of their adventure stories... they're looking and sounding GREAT!

History:
We have looked at time lines and artefacts from Ancient Greece. We've spoken about BCE (Before Christ Era) and CE (Current Era). We then thought about what would archeologists find first on a dig: an item from the the BCE or the CE?

Art:
Talland used a range of mark making tools (different leads of pencil, oil pastels and charcoal) to draw, colour and shade a still life image. They look fantastic!

Well done to Everly for being noticed for being an amazing member of Talland class this week. Also, congratulations to Everly (again), Callum and Skye for passing their next stage of the 99 club.

That's all from Talland this week. We hope you have a brilliant weekend and can't wait to see you on Monday.

Signing off,

Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.

Friday 22nd November

Some of this week’s exploring and learning:

The children have had great fun exploring instructions on how to toast a marshmallow this week. They have been exploring using fab vocabulary to start the sentence such as, get/let/hold/check. The most exciting part of our instructions is that today we got to toast marshmallows with Mr. Liddement! It was an amazing experience at school! The children were using words such as magnificent, delicious, crackling and wonderful!

The children have been subitising this week (saying an amount without counting) to three and some even beyond to five! The children really are working so hard!

In phonics this week we have revisited and reviewed writing the letters g/o/c/and k/. Alongside oral blending practice, their reading is progressing amazingly!

In outdoor learning with Mrs Gregory the children made tree sprites, and they were superb! They also had the chance to learn how to fly a kite just like Kit and Sam in phonics!!

The children have also learnt how to draw a robot toy, made their favourite toys from plasticine, designed some amazing toys using their imagination and so much more!

We wish you all a wonderful and restful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Year Group News
Every fortnight, attached to my email you will receive Year Group Newsletters for Reception to Year 6. These give you a brief overview of what the year group have been learning, what’s coming up and any important year group notices. These will also be uploaded to the year group webpage. 

As mentioned before, your first point of contact regarding your child, is the class teacher. If emailing teachers, please note they will respond to you when they can, as they are in class teaching most of the time. Please also note, some of our teachers are part time. Should you need to contact the class teacher urgently or give a message, e.g. your child isn’t going to an after school ECA, please contact the school office as normal and they will pass on the message. Thank you for your cooperation.

Grandparents’ Stay and Learn
It’s hard to sum up the wonderful atmosphere created on Tuesday. We had over 130 special visitors come into school and share memories of the past with the children and with each other over a cup of tea in the Hall – beautifully decorated as ‘The Forgettory’. A special thank you to our School Choir, the House Captains, Miss Folland and everyone behind the scenes for making this such a successful morning. We will be creating a display in our Hall to remember the event. We are also considering ways we can host other events for the children’s grandparents/ older relatives in the future. We welcome any feedback from anyone who attended and/or show an interest in helping/volunteering at our school. Please email Mrs Orme: eorme@wadebridgeprimary.co.uk, thank you.

Year 6 Assembly
What an amazing first year group assembly. Huge congratulations to the Year 6 children and team of staff. The audience were treated to an immersive experience whilst joining the street party. From acting to singing to trumpet playing – well done Year 6!

A typical comment from the review cards on the table included: “It was just perfect. I felt like I was back celebrating at a street party when I was younger. Loved the singalong! Well done Year 6 – smashed it!”

Reception 2025 Stay and Play
Yesterday, we welcomed September 2025 families to our Reception Stay and Play session. It was wonderful to see so many new families as well as familiar faces come for a play session and a look around our Early Years environment. The children enjoyed the art and craft activities, as well as being able to access all of the resources and outdoor learning areas. We will be holding our final 'Stay and Play' session on Thursday 28th November between 10:00-11:00. We can't wait to see you there.

Road Safety Week
To mark Road Safety Week, we began with a special assembly on Monday. You may have also spotted a black Peugeot driving around the car park at 10mph too – it’s a lot slower than we might all think, and drive! A couple of our Year 6 children have also supported us to make a short film, with some reminders about the use of our school site, car park and drop off arrangements. Please find a moment next week to watch this video – a link will be emailed out early next week.

Year 3 Stay and Learn
Year 3 are looking forward to welcoming their parents to the first year group’s Stay and Learn next Friday 29th November between 08:45-09:45. Get ready to join your children for a maths investigation in the Hall. All Year 3 parents/other relatives welcome!

House Points
Congratulations to this week’s winners, Swans. Overall, Swans still maintain the lead, though other Houses are narrowing the gap:

Swans – 2961
Choughs – 2724
Cormorants – 2489
Puffins – 2262

Coffee Morning - Children’s Mental Health & Wellbeing
It was wonderful to see so many parents at this morning’s coffee morning. As well as being on hand to listen and speak with parents, Mrs May and Mr Smith were able to show parents the dedicated spaces we use to support our children. If you couldn’t make it and want to get in touch with Mrs May or Mr Smith, please contact them on mmay@wadebridgeprimary.co.uk or jsmith@bridgeschools.co.uk or catch them in the mornings when they are around.

Our final coffee morning of the term will take place on Friday 13th December after drop off (outdoors!) in the Reception playground. Wrap up warm for some al fresco refreshments and Christmas tunes!

Compost Donation
A big thank you to Arthur’s parents (in Year 2) and Mrs O’Dwyer for transporting the generous donation of compost from the Green Waste company to our school site.

Winter Fayre – Friday 6th December 15:00-16:30
We look forward to welcoming everyone to our Winter Fayre on Friday 6th December. There will be a mix of stalls, games and refreshments on offer to both enjoy and raise money for the school. With FOWPA’s support, our main fundraising efforts this year are going towards improving the Key Stage 2 wet area/learning zones between classrooms, as well as additions to our outdoor learning and play environment. Further details about the Fayre and arrangements for all the other festive activities will be coming home next week. All the dates are below again for information.

FOWPA Christmas Jumper Sale
FOWPA is holding a pre-loved Christmas jumper sale on Thursday 28th November after school - all jumpers £1. Please donate any unneeded clean Christmas jumpers in the box in the main reception. Alongside festive wear will be our regular second hand uniform.

WPA Christmas Fun Run 2024!
The elf is returning to WPA once again and hopefully with some snow! On Wednesday 11th December all year groups will take part in our Christmas Fun Run in aid of a charity close to our hearts. For the last few years we have helped Children’s Hospice South West raise much needed funds to provide children and their families vital support. We are once again asking pupils to take on the fun run and high-five the elf and get as much sponsorship as possible. The route around the school grounds will be shared with pupils soon. The date of the run is also our Christmas Jumper and Christmas Dinner day, therefore the plan is pupils will be dressed in Christmas attire for the run! We will be sharing a JustGiving link like in previous years soon, so please keep an eye on your email and Facebook for the link. We appreciate any donation given, regardless of amount. Thank you!

School Emergency Closures
Following yesterday’s flurry, a timely reminder that in the event of an emergency (e.g. snow, flooding, no water or heating), leading to a decision to close the school, parents will be notified as follows:

• By mobile phone text message
• Email
• School website news feed and banner
• Local radio stations, if possible

In addition, providing it is safe to do so, a member of staff will be at the school gate to meet any parents and children who have missed the above messages. Should a decision be made during the school day, we will follow the same messaging as above, but supervise your children in school until they are safely collected.

Reminder: Please ensure the school office has your most up to date contact details.

w/e 22.11.24

As always, Daymer children have continued to work hard across the curriculum this week, including learning about Democracy in PSHE, Rosh Hashanah in RE, continuing our work with earthquakes in geography, writing our first draft of a non-chronological report in English and column addition and subtraction in maths (Y3) and Area (Y4)! In geography, we even learned what to do in the case of an earthquake alarm - Drop, Cover, Hold on and stay calm!  

We thoroughly enjoyed our STEM workshop on Tuesday, where the children used their Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical skills to work to design and code robots.

We have been delighted with the homework that has been coming in this week. Thank you so much for your support with this. The children have shone when sharing what they have done.

We also learnt some vital road safety skills in our assembly on Wednesday. Today, Friday, was ‘wear bright’ to school (on coats and/or bags-still normal school uniform) where a prize will be given to the best class.

Next Thursday is our school reading café after school where families can pop up to the KS2 hall to enjoy books together and for fun around books. It will be lovely to see your support with this.

Art
Year 1 have been learning about the artist Picasso. We looked at his cubist artwork and have learnt about his style. We have also learnt about different types of lines we can use in our drawing. We have a class of artists!

Maths
In Maths this week we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes, next week we are going to go and look for them in our environment!!

English
In English this week we have been writing postcards from Max, we have been learning to describe his adventures and use conjunctions to put together two clauses.

Geography
In Geography we have been looking at maps and the children had to draw a picture of their classroom.

Out and about

Well Tregantle Class have certainly had a busy week! On Tuesday we walked to Saltash Fire Station with Lantic Class. The Children learnt about how different fire fighting is now compared to when the great fire of London happened. The Fire Service were absolutely brilliant and even let the children have a go with the hose pipe - it was so much fun! 
On Thursday we were off again - this time to the cinema. Tregantle Class got a double decker bus (the excitement levels were through the roof!) into Plymouth to watch Jungle Bunch 2 as part of the national film event. The film was so funny and we all enjoyed laughing together. We even got to see snow on the way back to school!
On Friday the children came to school in high visibility and reflective accessories as part of our leaning about road safety and we now all remember the phrase: 'be safe, be seen.' What an action packed week! 

What a busy week!

We have done so much this week in Lantic Class!

At the beginning of the week we visited Saltash Fire Station - we learnt about fire safety ay home and who to call in a fire.  We then were shown around a fire engine and we even got to have a go using the water hose.

On Thursday we visited Vue Plymouth to watch Jungle Bunch World Tour - we all really enjoyed the film it was very funny.

In DT, we have started to look at designing Tudor buildings.  We have done this by studying Tudor buildings and finding their features.

The rain won't stop us! 

We have had another lovely week in Foundation / Year 1.

In English we have been learning about the features of instructions and what we need to write them. We have written instructions as a whole class for making edible chocolate sparklers and we have now written our instructions for toasting marshmallows! The children have really impressed me with their understanding of imperative verbs and time conjunctions. Year 1 have also written brilliant sentences. We were so proud we showed them to our Deputy Head Mrs Marshall!

In History, we have continued our learning on toys from the past and present. We brought in our favourite toy and discussed why it was our favourite. We then had Miss Hughes come in and talk about her favourite childhood toy. We compared how our toys were different to our adults.

In Maths Foundation have been subitising numbers 1, 2 and 3. They are recognising numbers without having to count! We have been playing lots of different games to practise this. Year 1 have been solving addition problems. They have really shown how determined they are with their problem solving skills; what super stars!

We have also been exploring our big question ‘What can I play with today?’ through building our favourite toys with lego. We have been building boats, action people and lots of different things to explore our favourite toys.

We also haven’t let the rain stop us this week! We have been out exploring and using brilliant vocabulary to discuss the weather. We may have got a little muddy too with all the fun we were having!

Well done Foundation/Year 1, another brilliant week.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

Marazion class have truly made us so proud this week. They performed their class assembly to an incredible high standard. The oracy skills shown were superb. Thank you to this parents and grandparents who were able to join us.

As well as our rehearsals and performance, the children have continued to work hard across the curriculum which has included learning about Democracy in PSHE, Rosh Hashanah in RE, continuing our work with earthquakes in geography, writing our first draft of a non-chronological report in English and column addition and subtraction in maths (Y3)!

We thoroughly enjoyed our STEM workshop on Tuesday where the children used their Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical skills to work to design and code robots.

We have been delighted with the homework that has been coming in this week. Thank you so much for your support with this. The children have shone when sharing what they have done.

We also learnt some vital road safety skills in our assembly on Wednesday. Friday is ‘wear bright’ to school (on coats and/or bags-still normal school uniform please) where a prize will be given to the best class.

Next Thursday is our school reading café after school where families can pop up to the KS2 hall to enjoy books together and for fun around books. It will be lovely to see your support with this.

More gruel please...

Today we dressed like Victorians and learnt what life was like in a Victorian school.

We started by singing the National Anthem in the hall and then we learned how rules were different in Victorian times. For example, children stand every time an adult enters the classroom and they must not count on their fingers during maths lessons.

Throughout the day, they took part in workshops where they found out about Victorian life. They learned about Victorian Christmas and made a decoration, they created a sampler by experimenting with embroidery, they played some Victorian playground games and even chanted their times tables!

I think the highlight was trying the gruel that Jane made - it had mixed reviews.

What a fantastic and educational day!

More gruel please...

Today we dressed like Victorians and learnt what life was like in a Victorian school. 

We started by singing the National Anthem in the hall and then we learned how rules were different in Victorian times. For example, children stand every time an adult enters the classroom and they must not count on their fingers during maths lessons. 

Throughout the day, they took part in workshops where they found out about Victorian life. They learned about Victorian Christmas and made a decoration, they created a sampler by experimenting with embroidery, they played some Victorian playground games and even chanted their times tables!

I think the highlight was trying the gruel that Jane made - it had mixed reviews. 
What a fantastic and educational day!