A massive well done to our year 6 children for completing their SATs with such great attitudes. They should all be extremely proud of their efforts; we are beyond proud of them. The whole class had a much-deserved celebration with their SATs party on Friday. We look forward to our outdoor learning day on Wednesday too.

This week, amongst lots of other things, the children improved their mastery of drawing. They learnt how to draw and use a grid to support them with their detailed drawings. They explored this method and used various drawing media whilst recording their thoughts in their sketch books. Some children decided to use charcoal which they started learning to use last week.  

The children used their recent computing learning of manipulating and presenting media to create a modified image of themselves as a Viking. They took a picture of themselves and then layered other parts of images into the picture. They included (historically accurate) Viking helmets, clothing and some children even added Viking style facial hair! They then used their art learning to try and draw this using many of the drawing techniques they have learnt across the year. The children are looking forward to sharing their final outcomes with you at our class assembly on Tuesday morning.  

Points to remember:

PE on Monday.

Class 4 assembly 9am Tuesday 21^st May.

Class 4 outdoor learning day Wednesday 22^nd May.

INSET day Friday 24^th May.

Residential 12^th-14^th June 2024.

Hello Everyone,

This week, we have particularly enjoyed our science work, where we planned our own investigation relating to plants. The children thought of their own scientific questions to ask, and worked together to plan ways to answer these questions.

In maths this week, year 1 have been learning about position and direction. They particularly enjoyed using apps on the iPads to practice their understanding of vocabulary such as; clockwise, quarter and half turns.

In PSHE, we have been learning a song about families, that we would like to sing to you in our assembly next week. We hope that you like it. 

Next week, it will be our outdoor learning day on Monday. Please can children wear clothes and shoes suitable for whatever the weather may bring.

On Thursday, we have our class assembly at 9:00, where we look forward to showing you our learning from this half term.

Year 2 pupils will also complete their end of key stage SATS tests next week. These tests are now non statutory, but we have chosen to complete them, in order to help us to form judgements about asessments in reading, maths, spelling and writing. We  already have a secure knowledge of the children’s strengths and areas for improvement in these subjects. The tests therefore will simply help us to become more informed about our judgements. To the children, the tests will just be a part of their normal routine. They are already prepared and familiar with the test formats. 

We had another super week at Pre-School and have yet again enjoyed being outside in our playground and garden.

This week we have been reading the story of "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle -


This is the story of how a tiny seed travels from its parent plant and blows across seas, deserts and mountains, braving many hazards along the way, before finally finding a place to settle and grow into a beautiful flower so that the story can start again. A beautiful and uplifting first introduction to the life cycle of a seed.

We have been planting more seed in Pre-School for our garden area, we've planted some peas, carrots, beetroot and some more beans and sunflowers, hopefully with this warm weather we will have some super plants and be able to watch them grow.

We have also been baking some cupcakes using poppy seeds and made some beautiful flowers using cup cake cases and doilies which we have put up on our growing display board to make it look pretty.

On Wednesday we made some little gardens with some of the parents that came in for our Stay and Play afternoon, thank you to all of you that came in , it was lovely to see you and I know the children enjoyed sharing there day with you.

We have one week left until our half term holiday, this year is certainly whizzing by, just a reminder that we finish next Thursday 23rd May and the Friday is an inset day.

We are hoping to start "Our Big Brush Club" the week we return from half term, please may we ask for the remainder of the reply slips as we have to order our resources.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend enjoying the sunshine.
Mrs G, Mrs Rickard, Mrs Rowe and Miss Carr.


Dates for your diary :

24th May - Inset Day, School/Pre-School Closed
27th - 31st May - Half Term Holiday
3rd June - Back to School

Learning Outside the Classroom

Our LOtC day saw the us enjoying the forest school area, the great weather and some of our slimy friends!  We started the day on a scavenger hunting, searching for as many different things as we could and everyone had their own interpretation.  Some groups found big things some groups small.  We then had to categorise them and here we looked at things that had grown and it made us realise the impact we have on our environment when we looked at all the things that would not have naturally grown their.  This gave us the opportunity to remove and tidy our forest school area and also to think about projects we'd like to put in place.

Under Mrs Dan's direction,  our allotment bed had been refreshed and planted with rows of potatoes.  We are also trying some companion planting with various types and beans being planted and we hope that these will be able to grow up the sunflowers and sweet corn that we've planted alongside.

Time will tell just how successful our planting will be.

Mr Knight.

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MORE Y6 POST-SATS PHOTOS!

Tie-dye-tastic!

It's been another busy week in Chaipel. Firstly, I want to say how incredibly proud I am of our Y6s. They were amazing this week, supporting each other through their SATs and were ambassadors of our Bridge School Values! Thank you parents and carers for supporing us and bringing them into school extra early for their bacon baps and a natter. It really helped! We celebrated in style after the last test, a lovely ice-cream from Noah's dad's cafe at Talland and then off to the beach. We did say to 'paddle only' but...

In Art, we made tie-dye swatches at the beginning of the week and evaluated the outcomes such as: colour scheme, technique and application of the dye. We then decided on which technique and colour scheme we would like then created our own T-shirts. They are currently hanging out to dry in my garden and they look amazing! Can you spot which one is yours?

On Friday, the Mayor of Polperro came in to annouce the winners of the Polperro Festival programme cover competition. Congratulations to DAISY for winning 3rd place, VERITY for 2nd place and MAX B for his 1st place entry for Chaipel class!

In other areas of the curriculum, Chaipel have been learning about classification, moving on from animals this week to plants for our final week this half term. Y5s had Music with Mrs Butlin, whilst the Y6s were down at Talland beach, practising for our upcoming Polperro Fesitval in June.

REMINDERS
Next week is only a 4-day week, finishing on Thursday for pupils.
The swimming pool is ready so please make sure you have your swimming kit in every day as we intend to make the most of it. Each pupil must have swimming kit, towel and a swim cap. Please see the secretary if you do not have a swim cap.

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle and Mrs Clary

Well done to our wonderful year 6 pupils who have been excellent this week in their attitude towards their SATS.  They had a well-deserved celebration on the beach after sitting their last paper. Thank you to the Smugglers Cafe for the warm welcome and ice-creams!

Parent Questionnaire The Trust parent questionnaire is open now and will close at 4pm on Thursday 23rd May. We would love to have your views as your feedback is really important to us to achieve the best possible education for the children. Please click on this link to complete it: Parent and Carer Questionnaire – Summer 2024

Polperro Festival Programme Cover Competition Earlier this term, the children each designed a cover for this year’s Polperro Festival Programme. The standard of design was fantastic which made choosing winners a difficult task. Congratulations to all of our winners, who were presented with certificates by the Mayor and Mayoress of Polperro. All of the designs will be displayed at the festival on Big Green during festival week. The overall winning design, by Henry, will appear on the programme. Well done Henry!

MSHT (Mental Health in Schools Team) Parent Workshops Please see attached details of the East-Cornwall Parent Workshops which will be held over the next few months. These are free, one-off, one hour long, online workshops with Mental Health Practitioners.



Upcoming dates Half term is coming up: 24th May – 2nd June. Class photos are happening on 3rd June. The school will be performing at the Polperro School Festival Day on Big Green this year on Tuesday 18th June. Sports Day is on 25th June (10am-12) with a reserve date of 27th June. These and other diary dates can be found on the Events Diary page.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Another busy week for Landaviddy Class! 

We have been keen Scientist's this week, designing and conducting an experiment to discover whether all magnets are the same strength. We couldn't believe how many paper clips were attracted to each magnet! In History, we started to created fact file posters about Sir Francis Drake, following our visit to the National Maritime Museum last week. On Thursday, we had a wonderful whole school Music session run by Mrs Butlin. We can't wait to share with you the songs we have been learning at the Polperro Festival in June. In Art, we explored the work of Coco Chanel and produced our own collaged hats, using images of Coco Chanel's fashion designs. In PE, we worked in groups to recreate different maps using various equipment, which was lots of fun!

We have been focussing hard this week on writing up our final neat copies of our biographies. All the children have done such a brilliant job, and we are blown away by their hard work and writing. Well done everyone!

In Maths, Year 2 have been looking at recognising and findings halves and quarters. Year 3 have been identifying fractions on a number line, which had been a challenge. However, everyone was determined to try their best. 

Remember, please make sure you are reading your coloured book at home and bringing it in to school everyday with your reading record. Year 2 also have their phonics minibooks, relating to the phoneme/grapheme we are focussing on for that week.

We hope you have a lovely weekend full of sunshine, and look forward to seeing you on Monday. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Cullingford

17/05/2024

What a busy 2 weeks we have had in Year 3!

Last Friday we had a fantastic alternative day of sports. Coaches from Arena came in to deliver some awesome games including Dartmoor 3 ball, Capture the Flag, American Football, Boccia and Archery. We had a fantastic day and we were very impressed with the skills and teamwork that we saw. 

Also this week we have been continuing with sewing. Year 3 first designed their pillows before cutting the fabric, sewing the motif and using a running stitch to sew it all together. The finished designs looks fabulous!  

In Science we have been looking at Plants and continuing with our work in the school Polytunnel growing flowers and vegetables. We conducted an experiment, which we have been monitoring for the last 3 weeks, to see if a seed will germinate and grow in a darkness, artificial light and natural sunlight. We also used soil and cotton wool to compare growth too.  We predicted that the seeds in the natural light and soil would grow the best as those conditions give a plant everything it needs to grow. The children were amazed to see that the seeds in darkness did germinate however, the seedlings were stringy, brown and did not look too healthy. After half term we will be starting to look at the Water Cycle and Rivers. 

We are looking forward to our Geography Field Trip on Monday and will post some pictures from the trip later next week.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team 

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 17.5.24

A busy week for Talland!

A huge thank you to all of Talland for being so respectful to the Year 6's during SATS week. Their behaviour was fantastic! Also, well done to the Year 6's - great effort with all of the tests this week! A nice relaxing weekend is definitely needed!

Maths: 
Year 4's have just finished their unit on decimals - they will have their end of unit assessment on Monday.
Year 5's are working their way through decimals still. They've been looking at adding and subtracting decimals. Onto decimal sequences next week.

English:
Talland have been working hard at finding features of a persuasive text. Now we know what persuasive writing entails (apologies for some really persuasive birthday wish list letters coming your way), we will be planning and writing a letter to Cornwall Council - We want recycling bins!

Geography: 
We've had the atlases out and have been discovering where different countries are in North and South America! It looks like such an amazing place to visit! Fun fact: Did you know that there are different time zones in America because it is SO BIG!

Art:
Talland have just finished their mood board for the final art piece they will be creating next week. I'm really excited to see the final product. Thank you to everyone who has sent some photos in - they're great!

That's it from us. We hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Mrs. Hodge. 

Beautiful butterflies

This week our learning about life cycles has reached its climax! We've been eagerly watching our caterpillars this term as they've eaten and grown into huge caterpillars - just like our story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar.' It was amazing to watch them build their cocoon  - and then we waited. This week was the week when we witnessed the butterflies emerging from their cocoons and it was truly spectacular. Tregantle Class watched in amazement as the butterflies stretched their wings and began to move around. The butterflies remained in their net in the classroom for most of the week, until finally on Friday we took them into our garden and release them into the wild. It was very interesting to see how the butterflies reacted to being set free. A few were very brave and flew off immediately to find new homes. Some were more cautious and were quite still sitting in the sun before they tentatively made their way into the sky. It was a wonderful experience to watch this life cycle first hand - from tiny caterpillars to beautiful flying butterflies!  

A HUGE well done to all of Year 6 this week. The children have really persevered with their SATs assessments and have done themselves, and their adults, very proud indeed.  They are all FAB-U-LOUS! Thank you also for your continued support at home.

We celebrated the end of a busy week with a walk, BBQ and the children receiving their hoodies along with a special invitation. Thank you very much to the adults who have organised this for the children to celebrate the end of their time at St Cleer.

Mines and Mosques!

KS2 SATs
Well done to our wonderful Year 6 children. They approached the assessments this week with a determined and calm attitude. Today they have certainly let their hair down (and given it a rinse too) as they finished the week with some water fun. The warmer weather certainly added to their afternoon!

Summer 2024 Bridge Schools Trust Parent and Carer Questionnaire
Your feedback is really important to us as we work in partnership to achieve the best possible education for the children. Please check your email to complete a Trust-wide questionnaire that each school is sending out. For Q20, I would really appreciate your views on the key strengths to celebrate, as well as areas we could develop even further for all our children. Your time in completing this questionnaire is valued and will help us continually improve. Please complete by Friday 24th May, thank you. 

FOWPA Disco – Wednesday 22nd May
A reminder of arrangements:

14:15 – 15:00 Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 (in school time)
15:15 – 16:00 Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

Children are invited to wear party clothes into school. Please note that Year 6 will need to wear their PE kit to school and bring a change of clothes if they are going to the Disco.

We will have a couple of quieter areas should children want to have some time out from all that dancing!

Don’t forget to complete a permission slip if your child is in Year 4 - Year 6, as the Disco takes place at the end of the school day. Spare letters are available from your class teacher/office. For this fundraising event, we would welcome a suggested donation of £1.50. Please ensure your child brings into school a water bottle that can be topped up. A small snack will also be provided.

Lost Property
Thank you to FOWPA for organising the nearly new uniform sales this week. Next Monday-Wednesday after school, we will be putting out all the lost property by the main entrance. Please do take a look to see if anything belongs to your child. Anything that isn’t collected will be donated to a local charity/clothes bank.

House Points
Congratulations to this week’s winners, Choughs!

Swans – 365
Choughs – 369
Cormorants – 281
Puffins – 331

Important dates coming up:
Monday 20th May: Year 1 and Year 3 Trips
Monday 20th May: Year 2 PE instead of Wednesday (please wear PE kit)
Wednesday 22nd May: 14:15-15:00 Reception-Year 3 Disco; 15:15-16:00 Year 4-Year 6 Disco
Friday 24th May: INSET Day – School closed
Monday 27th – Friday 31st: May Half term
Monday 3rd June: Back to school
Tuesday 4th June: 14:00-16:15 Year 5 and Year 6 Quad Games
Wednesday 5th June: Class Photos
Thursday 6th June: Year 6 Dance-a-thon
Friday 7th June: Community Day for Royal Cornwall Show – School closed for children

A reminder that school is closed next Friday 24th May for INSET. It’s a four-day week for the children before the May half term break.

Have a relaxing weekend.
Best wishes,
Chris Wathern