As we reach the end of another wonderful year at Polperro School, I would like to thank you for your continued support. The children have worked incredibly hard and we are so proud of everything they have achieved. We hope you have enjoyed seeing their progress through the books sent home.

Before the summer break, we have some goodbyes to say. We wish our fantastic Year 6 pupils every success as they move on to secondary school. They have been such a valued part of our school community and we know they will do well. We are also saying goodbye to Mrs Lister who is moving to another school within the Trust and Miss Bowden who is leaving to begin her teacher training. We thank them both for their dedication and wish them every success.

Finally, Mrs Clary has recently decided to take up a new role that will allow her to spend more time with her grandchildren. While we will miss her greatly, we completely understand her decision and thank her for everything she has done for our school over the last four years. We wish her every happiness for the future.

From September, Miss Colton will provide TA support in Chaipel Class and Miss Beere will provide TA support in Landaviddy Class.

Swim Gala Thank you for coming to see the children in our first whole school swimming gala yesterday. From what I hear, it was a great success and I am sorry to have missed it. We will certainly do another one next year and meanwhile we will spend the generous £110 raised on the pool.

FOPS Funds The Summer Fair last Friday raised over £750. A huge thank you to everyone who helped out. The funds raised through FOPS for our school have been invaluable this year, allowing us to enhance our curriculum in many ways. We have spent the money on: subsidising trips for every class; gymnastic equipment; music lessons with Sally Butlin; House badges; 99 club badges; rewards eg prizes for World Book Day competition; Christmas plays; styluses for the iPads; an iPad trolley to store and charge the new iPads; gardening supplies; SATS revision books; Guided Reading books; class rug and outdoor resources for Penhallow Class; maths boards for all classes and KS2 maths.co.uk accounts; DT resources and Christmas craft materials for Christmas art day; Y6 leavers' party food. Next year we aim to raise money for providing some form of sun shelter for the field; gardening supplies; trips for each class. We will keep you posted about these and other future plans.

House Team winners Congratulations to Ash, this year's House Team winners with 502 house points. Runners up were Chestnut with 493 points; then with 470 points Willow and Oak in joint third.

Online Safety During the summer holidays, without the distraction of school, internet usage for many young people can increase all the way up to September. Please use this link https://saferinternet.org.uk/guide-and-resource/staying-safe-online-in-the-summer-holidays for more information about keeping children safe online children safe when using the internet, social media and playing online games.

INSET Thursday 3rd September and Friday 4th September are INSET days. We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school at 8:30 on Monday, 7th September.

Thank you again for all of your support throughout the year. I will write again at the end of the summer break, meanwhile please see below for the main information you will need about the new term in September.

Wishing you all a wonderful summer break.


Anthea Hillman and the staff at Polperro Primary Academy

Well, that is it for our final few days of summer term 2026!

I think we have said it to all the parents at the door this week, this past academic year seems to have flown by!

Last week seen us enjoy our Graduation Celebration, and our family teddy bears picnic.  The weather was perfect for the occasion.  It was so nice to enjoy some time with all the families and chat about all the things we enjoyed with the children this past year.

As a team we pass on a huge thank you for all the lovely cards and gifts we have received.

This week was not only a goodbye to our pre-school leavers, but also to our very own lovely Mrs Carr.  We wish Mrs Carr all the very best as she gets closer to a very exciting new chapter of welcoming her baby girl into the world.  She will be visiting in the autumn term and keeping in touch, so it's not actually a goodbye, but see you soon.

We are excited to welcome Mrs Taryn Hicks to our team in the new term, and I know Mrs Hicks is equally as excited to join us.

We hope all our pre-school families have a lovely safe summer.  Let's hope this glorious weather continues for us.

Our first session for pre-school when we return is Tuesday 8^th September.

Our new Parent and Toddler group starts on the following Monday at 9-11am, we look forward to seeing familiar faces and some new ones too! We hope this brings a friendly and supportive group to the village and wider community.

HAPPY SUMMER HOLIDAYS!

The Pre-School Team.

Today we said farewell to our Year 6 pupils. We wish them all the very best for the future in their new schools and thank them for the many contributions they have made during their time at Harrowbarrow. Thank you to those families who are leaving us; we wish you all the very best for the future too. To sign off for the summer, I share some photographs from the Year 6 residential to the Brecon Beacons last week. We had a glorious week of weather and had a huge amount of fun. Hopefully, this will leave the children with some lifelong memories of of their time at Harrowbarrow. 



Thank you to the all the staff and pupils who have worked so hard over the last year. It's now time to relax, unwind and recharge ready to go again in September. I wish you all a very happy summer holiday break and look forward to seeing everyone for the start of term on Monday 7th September.

Thank you St Cleer PTFA and the wider school community for a fantastic Summer Fayre 2026! It was a wonderful atmosphere and the sun shone on another lovely community event. It is a team effort and we appreciate every single one of you.

Hello Everyone!

Our final full week of the year is complete. 

We have still kept busy with our learning.

In maths, Reception have been practicing their number formation by using chalk, sand, Lego, and plenty of outdoor learning. Year 1 have been working on their knowledge of place value, and Year 2 have been practicing their skills of explaining reasoning.

We have also been busy practicing for our swimming gala on Monday, which has helped us to cool off in the heat this week.

We completed our art this half term, by using a paint program on the iPads to recreate our own John Dyer paintings. 

We also enjoyed an afternoon of board games on Thursday, which was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. 

Next Week:
Monday:
Children will be bringing their books home today so can they bring in a large, strong carrier bag, please. 


Swimming Gala:
Our Swimming Gala is on Tuesday. Our slots start  at 9:00 and parents are very welcome to come and watch us compete for our House Teams.

Wednesday:
Our last day! We finish school at 1:30pm and we say goodbye to our lovely Year 1's and Year 2's who will move into Landaviddy. We wish you well and look forward to seeing you grow in your next chapter.

From The Penhallow Team

TALLAND'S BLOG 17.7.26

We hope you've had a fabulous week and enjoyed the school fayre! I've finally dried off -YAY!

CONGRATULATIONS to Amber, Harley, Reuben and Oliver for their excellence this week!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you all for our final week of the school year! 

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop

P.S. Books are going home on Monday so if you could give your child a BIG BAG ready for the haul home - that would be wonderful.

Photo dump incoming...