Happy New Year

Welcome back everyone. It has been nice to see all of the children return to nursery this week and we had some new children start with us so we have enjoyed welcoming them into the nursery. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.

We have come back this week to some very cold wintery weather which goes perfectly with our enquiry question "Why is it cold in winter?"
The children have been exploring our snowy themed road on the tuft tray and have made some lovely handprint calendars to take home.
They have made handprint birds in the snow and we have started creating lolly stick snowmen.

At story time, we have been enjoying the book "The Gruffalo's child" and in phonics we have been talking about hospitals. The children have been clapping to a beat, matching hospital sounds to different instruments and trying to match objects to there initial sounds.

On the maths table, we have been making comparisons and looking at more than, fewer than or the same. The children are been encouraged to mark make and have a go at forming numbers 1-3 or beyond.

Have a lovely weekend

The Nursery Team 

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Spring Term; What a snowy start!

Year 3/4A have started their unit on Multiplication and Division in Math, talking about efficiency in methods and practising recall of related facts as well.
With the Year 4 MTC approaching in June, we've stepped up our daily activities and challenged ourselves to improve our scores each week, aiming for 25/25.

Please find attached your KIRFS and Timetable for the Spring Term. We're looking forward to our Ukulele lessons starting next Friday.

Happy New Year 2025. We have an action packed term planned ahead of us titled: What is life like in the Alps? We will use this topic to explore the peaks of this mountainous region and expand our knowledge of the geographical features of the area.

We will be writing a traditional tale based on Hansel and Gretel. However, we are changing the setting so that the children climb a mountain in The Alps and find a house made of cheese. Inside, they will be captured by an evil yeti who they will have to defeat!

In DT, we will designing and creating stuffed animals using blanket stitch. I am looking forward to researching animals found in The Alps and seeing the stuffed toys they produce. 

Please find the knowledge web below for more information on each subject.

I hope you all have a lovely week back, 

Miss Burton

Happy New Year! 

Welcome back!

We hope you all are ready to come back and meet all your Nursery friends again!

The Nursery adults are looking forward to seeing you all again, and we look forward to welcoming the new children who are starting this week.

We are settling back by revisiting our last story - The Gingerbread Man, and then we will be looking at a new focus story, which is Goldilocks and the 3 bears.

Have you got this story at home?

if you have, perhaps you can share a photo of yourself and the book on Tapestry so we can put it on our Tapestry display board?

Welcome to the Spring term. In the first half our wider curriculum will have a history focus with the enquiry question 'How was school different in the past?'
Below is the Curriculum web that shows what we will be learning in all of our subjects. The homework grid is also below and has been sent home in bookbags too.

Welcome to Tregantle class 2025! We are all very excited to jump into the new term and get started on some exciting learning! Our EYFS classroom is looking spectacular with a new clothes shop in our role play area and a new story area to become immersed in our EYFS book 'The Gruffalo's Child.' Our overview for learning for Year 1 is attached. We are really looking forward to finding out more about what schools were like in the past. See you all tomorrow! 

Happy New Year 2025. We have an action packed term planned ahead of us titled: What is life like in the Alps? We will use this topic to explore the peaks of this mountainous region and expand our knowledge of the geographical features of the area. 

Please note, on Monday 13th January, at 3.15pm, there will be a meet the teacher session with Mr Parry. It will be an informal meeting to discuss the curriculum for the rest of the term and to meet Mr Parry. 

Below, you will find a copy of the 'knowledge web' which will cover the topics of this term.

Best wishes, Mrs Swabey, Mr Parry, Mrs Walters, Mrs Payne and Miss Rowlands.

We've been learning about the animals that live in cold places. We looked at a globe and found the Arctic and Antarctica. We then sorted the animals according to where they live. We learnt some facts about these animals and had fun playing with them in our small world area. The children were challenged to write a list of five animals they might see if they went to the Arctic. I was impressed that they all remembered that penguins don't live there. We listened to a story about Hunter the polar bear who had to be rescued from a rocky ledge and flown back to his home in the Arctic. 

We looked at photographs of the Northern Lights and watched a short video clip. We then used chalk and pastels to create our own representations of them.

In maths we've been continuing to practise our subitising skills and number bonds to 5. We've also been learning about patterns and the children have been busy continuing repeating patterns using paint, chains and cubes.

We've been focusing on reading and writing CVC words using the letter sounds we've learnt so far this term. The children have really enjoyed hunting for the CVC pictures that I placed around the room. Many of the children were able to sound out the words independently and write them on their clipboards.

We've also been busy practising our nativity. The children were very brave to get up on the stage in front of an audience of their family and friends. 

What a lovely month of celebration and learning. 
The children did a fantastic job of learning lines and songs for the Key Stage One Nativity show which was a joy to watch. 
In maths we spent some weeks consolidating what we have learnt so far this term and really working on the rapid recall of number binds within 10.
We learnt abut the season of winter and used this as a subject for some descriptive writing. 
The term was rounded off with a special Christingle assembly shared with families.

This month we have continued to learn about how toys have changed through time. We asked our parent's about their favourite toys and we found out more about the differences between how toys are made now and how toys were made in the past. We had a go at making a cup and ball toy which was popular with children in the Victorian days.
The theme of toys continued into our DT learning. We explored and made toys with moving parts in preparation for making moving robots.
We learnt more about the NSPCC's 'Speak out. Stay safe' message and learnt about what could motivate us to speak out to a trusted adult. We also learnt the number for the NSPCC in case we feel we need to speak to an adult at the charity. 
In science we have used our knowledge of materials and their properties to make windproof and waterproof structures and have used our testing and observation skills to check our structures were up to the task. 

 

December

December was a busy month for us.

We had a successful ARC trip to Plymouth Theatre to see Raymond Briggs 'Father Christmas'. It even snowed in the theatre. The children enjoyed the show and there was much laughter throughout. 

As this was the Christmas Term, we looked at why Christmas is important to Christians. We discovered that for Christians, Advent is a time for preparing for Christmas and each candle as it is lit represents Faith, Hope, Peace, and Joy. The final one is the joy that Jesus was born. 

We also completed our Science module 'Animals including humans'. We looked at what is needed to keep animals and humans healthy and alive including exercise. 

December was full of Art and craft including making prints from our Literacy topic - books from Julia Donaldson. 

We enjoyed making our own Christmas tree, Christingle, decorations and Christmas cards.

And of course, much fun and laughter was had as we enjoyed our Christmas dinner, lovely food, crackers and our own hats that we made.

We hope you have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hello Everyone!

There has been plenty of fun and festive activity in Penhallow this week.

Our Christmas Art Day took place on Tuesday, where we worked with our school house groups to make Christmas cards, crowns for our Christmas dinner, Christmas decorations and bags. We have also made some of our own decorations and cards in Penhallow this week, during our art and design technology lessons.

During our Christmas party on Friday, we enjoyed playing some old fashioned party games such as musical statues, musical chairs and pin the nose on Rudolph. Thank you so much for the party food that was supplied. Great fun was had by all.

As well as all the festive fun this week, we have also been busy writing some amazing stories, based on the story of 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs. Reception have enjoyed sequencing the story, and retelling the events, while Year 1 have really shown off their learning this term, by including some fantastic vocabulary and sentences in writing their own version on the stories. Well done everybody!

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas.  We will see you on Tuesday 7th January.

From The Penhallow Team.

Merry Christmas!

We've had a very festive week in Landaviddy class!

On Tuesday, we had Christmas Art Day, which was lots of fun. We made a variety of different decorations, cards, crowns and bags. 

Our Christmas party was on Friday. We started the day playing a team building game, where we used only candy canes to build a marshmallow snowman. This was a challenge but so much fun! The fastest team was Amber and Nevaeh! Well done! We completed a 'Grinch Run', danced and played some musical statues too, finishing off the morning with a christmas film and snacks. 

During DT this week, we also made our Egyptian collars and practised sewing fabric together. This was a challenge for sure, so we needed to use our growth mindsets! But everyone persevered extremely well and didn't give up. 

Congratulations to Oliver, Nevaeh and Darragh for being Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done for all those who achieved their 99 club. 

We hope you all have a magical Christmas and look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 7th January 2025!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton