Head's Blog

Reading

This week we took delivery of 68 brand new reading books. As part of our gold membership with the Education Library Service, we are entitled to a new selection of books every year to add to our already extensive library. The children are looking forward to getting stuck into some great reads.

Local history

Class 3 have been investigating local history within the local church. The children looked for gravestones with the same surnames as themselves and found some graves that dated back over 200 years.

Writing & French - 3 little pigs

Class 3 have been learning the story of the 3 little pigs in both English and French. Their French vocabulary has improved greatly, they have created wanted posters and acted out the story. Over the last couple of weeks, Class 2 have also had some surprise visitors from the story of the 3 little pigs, who they have interviewed to gain more information for their writing.

Maths

Class 2 have been taken part in a fraction treasure hunt, looking for equivalent fractions hidden around the school by Mrs Dunn.

Science

As part of their Fairy Tales topic, Class 1 have been learning about Jack and the beanstalk. In science they have been planting vegetables and flowers in our raised beds, carrying out research about native wild plants and learnt the parts of a plant. They have also been carrying out experiments to find the best place for a seed to grow.

The children have written their own instructions about how to grow a beanstalk and Reception children worked together to write some instructions about how to climb a beanstalk.

Geography Fieldtrip

Class 3 visited the local woods to study the East Looe river. The name Duloe derives from Due-Loo, which means 'Two Loos', describing the fact that the parish is situated between the East and West Looe rivers.

The trip combined the learning the children have been doing in geography about the features of the river with their learning in computing, as they are creating their own multi-media presentation about rivers using the KeyNotes app.

School Allotment

The children have been making the most of the fine weather by getting into the school allotment, weeding the beds and planting potatoes and shallots. Hopefully, we will now get some rain to help everything grow.

The school would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Tucker for supplying the vegetables and for keeping an eye on the allotment.

Collective Worship

All this week, children at Duloe have been learning about positive relationships as part of their PHSE lessons. Class 1 have also been learning about the Enormous Turnip story, so in Collective Worship we combined these parts of our learning and also made the link about our Christian Value of Friendship. At first it was difficult to move the strongest boy in the school, but when Class 1 worked as a team, they moved him easily.

Friendship and compassion is a real strength of the children at Duloe and we are very proud of them for this.

Maths and Writing

This week Class 1 have been measuring and comparing non-standard units and then starting to use cm. They have also been learning the story of the enormous turnip through role play, sequenced the characters and then wrote their own stories.

Three Little Pigs

As part of Class 2's 'Three Little Pigs' writing, we received a letter from the Three Little Pigs asking for help, as they had heard the big bad wolf was on his way to eat them up. They wanted us to make houses for them, so they would be safe. He would arrive before lunchtime, so we had to be quick and we also had to think about how we could wolf proof the house - signs to trick him, decoy houses, traps! We set about making houses, it was very stressful as we didn't have long! Then there was a phone call, the wolf had been spotted in the village! We quickly finished our houses and put the little pigs inside. Then the wolf arrived and tried to huff and puff our houses down