Please find below some pictures from our Year 6 Residential to Beam House.  Please be sensitive about who you share these images with.

We've had a fantastic start to Autumn Term 2 starting our new topics with lots of enthusiasm!

Science -
Year 3/4A have started to investigate the three states of matter (Liquids, Solids and Gases), making jelly last week to show how states can change through heating and cooling.

Geography -
We've started our journey to Europe discussing the continents of the world and how countries (or states) make up continents. We've started to bring in photographs from our European holidays to add to our working wall, sharing our memories and discussing the climate and geographical features that we can see and how these are similar/different to England.

English -
Myths, legends and traditional tales have captured our imagination this week; discussing the impact that high quality vocabulary has on the reader.
A great start! Please find this term's KIRFS and Mind Map below.



Dates for your diaries:
Class Assembly - Friday 29th November @9am

All things Christmas - Saturday 7th December, St Cleer Church.

Both Year 3/4 classes have been asked to decorate a Christmas tree as part of the celebrations. We'll be taking it up to the church on Friday 6th December.

Dear all

I hope that you have had a lovely half term week and have enjoyed some fireworks!!

We have been incredibly busy in school for this last week!  Last week, we had an amazing re-enactment of the Crimean War battle and the children had lots of fun!  Firstly, they went onto the playground and did the battle and then the amazing nurses helped the injured into the hall where they were treated for all of their injuries!  The children learned many things from this experience and talked about it endlessly!

This week is Anti-Bullying week and also on Wednesday is world kindness day.  The children will be completing some activities during our PSHE lessons to understand how important these two areas are!

In maths, we are still on addition and subtraction.  There are many assignments on Mathletics for the children to complete so please feel free to do this at home.  Also, there are not many entries in children's Reading logs at the moment so please make sure you write in them to enable your child's book to be changed weekly.  If there is no evidence of reading at home then unfortunately the book will not be changed!  Also, your child needs to read the phonics minibooks weekly too - please do not forget to return them.

 The children are learning about continents in geography at the moment and are producing some amazing work!  They will show off their work at the parents consultations in a few weeks time.

 








At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month - we will remember them.

WEEKLY STARS
Eagles - Drake
Jays - Benjamin
Little Foresters - Sienna
Lunchtime - Seb V

Attendance this week: 91.9%

Anti-bullying week - odd sock day
Next week is anti-bullying week, on Tuesday 12 November we are inviting pupils to wear odd socks for the day to recognise the differences we all have.

Children in Need
Friday 15 November is Children in Need day. To raise money for them the school pupil council have chosen to invite pupils to wear non-school uniform on this day. There is also a baking competition taking place..., please bake cakes and bring them to school on the morning of Friday 15 November 204, School Council will judge the cakes and name a winner, cakes will then be sold throughout the school day. Please donate as much as you can to Children in Need via this link: https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=16821 (Please DO NOT bring cash into school).

PTA Bingo
Please see attached poster about a Bingo event being organised by Lanlivery PTA for Friday 15 November for anyone who might be interested in attending.

PTA Christmas Disco
The PTA have organised a Disco for pupils on Wednesday 4 December 2024. Please see attached poster for more details.

Cauliflower Cards
All children are creating Christmas artwork which will be sent home next week on a form for Cauliflower cards where you can order various products with your child's artwork on including cups, cards, wrapping paper and more. If you wish to make an order online for your child's artwork please ensure you complete the forms and return the form and original artwork back to school no later than Friday 15 November 2024.

Absence honesty
We have become aware that there may be some families who not being honest about their reasons for absence. As part of our curriculum, we teach children about telling truth and promote honesty in school. All reasons for absence are recorded whether they are authorised or unauthorised. Every term we must meet with Cornwall County Council and discuss the attendance of our pupils including the reasons. They will look at patterns and trends including absence of siblings at the same time, absence immediately before or after a school holiday and periods of illness that are more than a few days and challenge these. Authorised and unauthorised reasons count towards your child’s overall attendance and where a pupil's absence falls, we may have start requesting evidence for any absence. There has been a series of communications about attendance this term please look back at these to be clear on our policy.

St Nectan’s Glen
We have been asked to share the attached poster regarding local passes on offer.

NSPCC
Just prior to October half term the School Pupil Council held a non-school uniform and cake raffle day, we raised £57 which has now been donated to the NSPCC. Thank you for your support.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Tues 12 Nov - Anti Bullying Odd Sock day
Wed 13 Nov - Vision screening (Reception)
Fri 15 Nov - Children in Need day
Wed 20 Nov - 'What the Dickens?' Workshop (Eagles)
Fri 29 Nov - Library Service Storytime (Little Foresters)
Wed 4 Dec - PTA Christmas Disco
Thurs 12 Dec - After school clubs finish until new year
Mon 16 to Thurs 19 - Police Cadets (Year 5&6)
Wed 18 Dec - Christmas Performance 6pm
Thurs 19 Dec - Caterlink Pupils Christmas Lunch
Fri 20 Dec - Special Visitor
Fri 20 Dec - Pupil class party
Fri 20 Dec - LAST DAY OF AUTUMN TERM 1.15pm finish
Mon 23 Dec to Mon 6 Jan inc. - Christmas holidays
Tues 7 Jan 2025 - BACK TO SCHOOL

WEEKLY STARS
Eagles - Corinna
Jays - River
Little Foresters - Toby
Lunchtime -David

Attendance this week: 98.24%

SATs Club
Miss Howell is planning to run a SATs club after school each Monday starting next week on Monday 14 October 2024 until SATs take place in May 2025 for year 6 pupils only. Please email Mrs Couchman if you would like your child to attend so we can add them to the register, if they already attend a club please confirm if they would like to move to SATs club as it would help free up spaces.

New Menu
Please see attached our new school dinner menu which will run from when we return to school after October half term on Monday 4 November until the Easter holidays in April 2025.

Parent consultations
Don’t forget to log onto Arbor and book an appointment for parent evening on Thursday 17 October 2024. Any problems accessing Arbor or booking an appointment please contact Mrs Couchman secretary@lanliveryprimary.co.uk, 01208 872662


Missing Uniform
We have had a few queries recently re missing uniform items. Please make sure all uniform is named. While we endeavour to find missing items, it is sometimes impossible to find missing uniform when it is unnamed. We are endeavouring to find all current missing items. If uniform has been bought home mistakenly, could you please return it to school.

Forest/Field
The ash trees have been removed and we are now able to use the forest again. However, due to concerns regarding safety of the ground around the new play equipment in the field, the parish have taken the decision to lock access to the field until further notice, so school will continue to use only the front playground gate for drop off and pickups.

PTA Meeting
The PTA are holding a meeting on the 11 October at 7.30pm at The Crown. It is an informal meeting to discuss the year ahead. Anyone is welcome. The commitment is low but threy are seeking new members as the committee is aging with many parents currently involved have their last children in year 6. Please come along and see what you think!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Wed 16 Oct - Family Worker Drop in (8.45am-10.00am)
Fri 25 Oct - INSET DAY (closed to pupils)
Mon 28 to Fri 1 Nov - HALF TERM HOLIDAY
Mon 4 Nov - BACK TO SCHOOL
Tues 5 Nov - Nasal Flu immunisations (Recp-Yr6)
Wed 13 Nov - Vision screening (Reception)
Fri 15 Nov - Children in Need day (details TBC)

WEEKLY STARS
Eagles - Eloise
Jays - Emblyn
Little Foresters - Delphi
Lunchtime -Kacey

Attendance this week: 95.7%

Reading
One of the most beneficial activities you can do at home to support your child's learning is reading. Reading can take many forms: Hearing your child read the book they bring home Reading them a story Reading a story together Reading magazines/ comics Reading non fiction Listening to audio books. Developing children's reading skills and love for reading gives them creator access to other subjects at school. We expect children to engage in reading regularly at home as we set very little other work for home. Please ensure it is recorded in their reading diaries. Every week, children's diaries will be check to see if they are reading at home. If there are not at least 3 records of reading you will receive an email reminder. For older key stage 2 children who are now independently reading, we ask parents to sign the diary to say they read alone.

Uniform
Children returned to school looking incredibly smart last week and we would love this to continue. A couple of reminders: PE kit is only worn on PE days including the school hoody, it is not uniform so should only be worn on PE days. Children should be wearing black shoes and no patterned tights with uniform please.

Punctuality
Children should be in school by 8:45 (before the playground gates are locked). If you arrive and the gates have been locked you should enter through the main entrance. Late marks on the register can contribute to the number of unauthorised absences, therefore please ensure you are here on time. 

Crying the Neck Trip
On Thursday 19 Sept we will be taking part in the tradition of ‘Crying the Neck’ at Gunwen Chapel. We sent an email out last week regarding a trip for Year 2 and Year 3 pupils, if you didn’t receive it please contact Mrs Couchman. Please ensure you provide consent via parentpay for your child to attend if you haven’t already.

Home/School Agreement
We sent out emails last week asking parents to log on to Arbor and consent the home/school agreement, update consents for trips, photos etc and check contact/personal details. If you have not already done so please log on to Arbor asap. Paper copies can be sent on request.

Santas on the run
Please see attached poster about ‘Santas on the run’ at Eden on 1 December 2024. We have been asked to share it with parents for anyone who may be interested in signing up.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Thurs 19 Sept - Year 1 hearing screening
Thurs 19 Sept - Crying the Neck @ Gunwen Chapel (Years 2&3)
Tues 24 Sept - Brannel open evening 5pm (Year 6)
Thurs 26 Sept - Junior Life Skills @ Bodmin Fire Station (Years5&6)
Thurs 26 Sept - Penrice open evening 4.30pm (Year 6)
Fri 27 Sept - Tempest Photo's (Individuals)
Thurs 3 Oct - Census Day Thurs 3 Oct - Poltair open evening 5pm (Year 6)
Thurs 10 Oct - Bodmin College open evening - time TBC (Year 6)
Wed 16 Oct - Family Worker drop in session (8.45am-10.00am)
Fri 18 to Thurs 24 Oct - Bikeability (Year 5 & 6)
Fri 25 Oct - INSET DAY (closed to pupils)
Mon 28 Oct to Fri 1 Nov - HALF TERM HOLIDAYS
Mon 4 Nov - BACK TO SCHOOL

  While making Poppy paintings for Remembrance Day, the Children can begin to explore British Values. As and Early years settings we are required to promote British Values actively to ensure our young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. British Values are embedded into everyday practice. Remembrance Day will help children make links between their lives, their freedoms, and the values in England. Democracy, Mutual Respect, Tolerance, Rule of Law, and Individual Liberty are the values that settings are expected to incorporate into their practice. They are learning about these values when:

* They make choices and decisions and know that their decisions and choices can make a difference.

* They begin to understand that everyone is entitled to have different opinions or feelings that may be different from someone else, but learning that this is ok.

* They begin to learn about the importance of being kind and respectful of similar and different people.

* When they learn about cause and effect and that actions have consequences

* When thinking about the freedoms that they have in the things that they enjoy doing every day. 

It's the first week back and already Chaipel class have been busy. Our new enquiry is HOW DOES MY BODY WORK? and we will be learning about how important our heart is and its role in our Circulatory System. We will then write an explanation text about the process, writing range range of complex sentences using subordinate clauses to show cause and effect. Thank you to Harry and Elsie who have already created detailed diagrams of the system to help in our learning.

In Maths, Y5s have been learning about prime, square and cube numbers - which they were amazing at -  before moving onto multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 next week.

In Art, we are going to be making our voice heard by learning a range of techniques such as symbolic imagery, chiaroscuro, street art and tonal drawings. We have already been exploring how the Maya expressed themselves through art and everyone has done an amazing job so far! 

We have completed our best copy write-up for our timeslip to Pompeii narrative; I look forward to reading them all. In PE, Chaipel are developing their skills in Fitness and Basketball and we will be learning how to program Micro:bits in ICT, starting next week.

All in all, a very successful first week back. Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Miss Hodge and Miss Colton.

 Our first week back after half term has been packed with some lovely activities and fun exploring and playing in our farm role play areas.   

Beliefs in Benin

We have really enjoyed learning about the Kingdom of Benin.  At the start of our learning journey hardly any of us had even heard of the Kingdom of Benin, but we have enjoyed finding out all about life in Benin and why it is important for us in the UK to learn about the Benin Kingdom.

As a celebration of our learning, we finished our adventure by investigating what beliefs were common in the Kingdom of Benin.  We learned that the people worshipped many different Gods (making links to Hinduism) and also that they would offer sacrifices to try and please the Gods.  We learned that sometimes humans were sacrificed!  We also found out that people in Benin were Animists - who believed that animals had special powers.  Leopards were very important because they represented power, and crocodiles were thought to be guardians of the water.  We know this from artefacts found in Benin.

We created our own clay tiles to represent animals which might have been worshipped in the Kingdom of Benin.  Needless to say it was dirty - but fun!

Creating Automata toys

We had great fun in our DT project this half term - which focused on using cams.  Our design brief was to create a themed window display which used cams to make the display interactive.

First of all, we investigated different Automata toys and mechanisms.  We watched videos to understand how different automata work and also how cams of different shapes would impact the follower.

Then we started to create our frame.  We measured, cut and assembled the pieces of wood for our frame, and then measured and cut pieces of card to encase our frames.

Once our frames were completed, we considered the designs for our displays and also created the cams to place in the rod which went through the frame.  The final piece was the trickiest bit - 
fitting the cam rod so that the follower pieces were positioned correctly.

We were very proud of our finished designs!

Our first week back has zoomed by! In celebration of Black History month, we shared our chosen person with the whole school, Ibtihaj Muhammad, who wrote the book 'The Proudest Blue' and was the first Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab while competing at the Olympics. How amazing! 

In Maths, we have picked up where we left off before half term, focussing on addition and subtraction. Year 2 have been exchanging 1s for a 10 when adding two 2-digit numbers. Year 3 have continued with column subtraction and carrying across place value columns when borrowing. 

We started a new unit in English this week, where we have been looking at Pie Corbett's version of Little Red Riding Hood. We made some excellent predictions and came up with lots of questions based on illustrations. Then, we started working on learning the story map, assigning actions. Today we used drama to explore different settings and recorded vocabulary to describe what we imagined we experienced.

Congratulations to Sonny, Amelia and Benjamin for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week! And a big well done to those who achieved their 99 club this week!

If you haven't done so already, be sure to hand in your permission slip for our trip to the Royal Cornwall Museum on Tuesday 26th November. 

We hope you have a super weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone!

It was lovely to meet everyone this week at our parents evening appointments. It really helps us to help your children when we share information together.

This week Penhallow have been busy thinking about their topic; 'What was it like before we were born?' We talked about the different favourite toys that the children currently have, and then we went way back in Ancient History to explore some of the toys that Mrs Fitzsimmons had as a child.

Thank you to those children who brought a show and tell object or picture in today. These children talked about their toys extremely well, and there were some interesting questions that were asked. Next Friday, please can the children bring in an object, picture or send an email of a picture that was taken before the children were born, of a family member. It could be a parent or Grandparent as a child. Instead, it could be related to Remembrance Day. A relative that was perhaps alive during the first or Second World war.

In art this week, we have all been learning about the artist Andy Warhol. We looked at the ways in which his art work makes use of bright colours, and we created our own piece of artwork in the style of Andy Warhol.

Well done to the whole of Penhallow, who sang a song, complete with percussion instruments, to the whole school. As a part of last month's Black History month, we learnt about the life of Floella Benjamin, who has been influential in children's TV,  and books. We presented our facts and sang a calypso song from Trinidad. Well done everyone!

We hope you have a lovely weekend, and keep safe if you visit any firework displays.

From the Penhallow Team

Coffee Afternoon & Phonics Workshop – Wednesday 13th November 14:30
We have re-arranged this morning’s coffee morning to next Wednesday 13th November at 14:30 in the Hall. As well as enjoying a cup of tea or coffee before collecting your children, Mrs Yates and Mrs Clarke will be sharing our approach to the teaching of phonics and tips to help at home. Everyone welcome!

Grandparents’ Stay and Learn - Tuesday 19th November 09:00-11:30
A reminder that we are holding a special Stay and Learn for grandparents or other older relatives/friends. We will start the morning in the Hall where our special visitors will be treated to some tea/coffee and a mince pie. Following this they will hear the story ‘The Forgettery’ read by some of our children, and there will be a festive performance from our choir.

Our visitors will then go to the classrooms, where we ask them to share stories of Christmas past – if they have any objects to bring in to share too, that would be great. The classes will then make a memory box based on what they have seen and heard. These will be the inspiration for the children to make a decoration or object, some of which will be sold at our Winter Fayre.

We would like to ask for your help in sending in a photograph of the child/ren’s grandparent(s) so we can decorate the Hall. Please can these either be sent in with your child or emailed to secretary@wadebridgeprimary.co.uk by Friday 15th November. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to return any photos sent in with your child, as we will use them after the event for display. 

Trips, Residentials & Enrichment
Tonight, we look forward to the Year 3 sleepover, with a chip supper, fireworks, hot chocolate, film and popcorn! Earlier in the week, I also had the opportunity to travel to London as part of a pre-visit for the Year 6 residential next June; it’s going to be a fantastic action-packed trip. Take a look at the dates below for many of the wonderful enrichment and community activities still to come this term. The rest of the year dates can also be found on the ‘Events’ section of our website.

Children in Need & Wild Planet Trust Charity Non-Uniform Day – Friday 15th November
We invite the children (and staff) to come to school on this day dressed up as an animal of their choice. They may choose to combine this with the 'Spotacular' Children in Need theme! If you would like to contribute to this fund-raising event, please send your child to school with a voluntary donation in cash which will be collected by the teachers in class. Money raised will be split equally between Children in Need and the children’s chosen charity, Wild Planet Trust for conservation. As it’s Year 3’s PE day, please can they bring in their PE to change into, if wanting to dress up for the day, thank you.

Little Nursery Vacancy
We are looking to recruit a full time Teaching Assistant to join our Little Nursery team; Mon-Fri 08:00-15:00. For more information, please check our Vacancies page on the website.

Eco Council
On 5th November the Eco Council had an exciting meeting about reusable glue sticks and other eco-friendly stationery. We tested out all of the items our visitor brought in, including reusable glue sticks and whiteboard pencils. We are going to teach our classes how to load the glue sticks and refill them. He was very kind explaining that we should use them because of the amount of waste found every year in Cornwall. Glue sticks build up large amounts of plastic waste which is either burnt or thrown into rivers or seas, and that is not good! We believe that by using reusable glue sticks the same plastic will be used again and again and again!
From Abi Year 6

Poppy Appeal
Thank you for everyone’s support in raising money for the Poppy Appeal by buying the various items during the week. Our House Captains did a fantastic job running the stall during their breaktimes. We will let you know how much money was raised as soon as it’s handed in and counted. Next Monday, we will marking the national period of reflection at 11:00 in school. On Sunday, we will be laying a wreath on behalf of the school at the Remembrance Sunday service in Wadebridge.

Big Nursery and Reception Christmas Singalong with Parents and Buddies – Same day, change of time
Apologies for any inconvenience, but we have needed to change the timing of this event to 14:00 on Monday 16th December.

TALLAND'S BLOG 8.11.24

What a great first week of Autumn Term 2! Absolute magnificent to see so many smiley and happy children back in Talland Class!

This week we have focused lots on Black History Month and we studied an incredible lady, who goes by the name of Maya Angelou. You might of heard of her. She was an incredible poet and writer, a civil rights activist and she was involved with many of the arts (acting, dancing, film making ect...) An extraordinary person really.

Talland did an amazing assembly about her and I was blown away when they read out and performed the poem 'Still I Rise'. It's got me looking forward to the Christmas production, which isn't too far off. AUDITIONS COMING SOON!


Maths: 
Year 4 have been looking at the 3, 6 and 9 times tables.
Year 5 have been finding out about multiples and factors. 
Why not quiz your children to find out what they have learnt...

Writing: 
Talland Class have immersed ourselves into drama this week and as mentioned above, showed off their fantastic efforts during our Black History assembly.

PE:
This term we are throwing ourselves into fitness, where we are looking at the key elements (strength, speed, agility, stamina, balance and coordination). We are also getting our Michael Jordan sneakers and on shooting some hoops (basketball). We will see how Talland are at working as a team, finding space, learning the rules and invading an opponents territory. 

Talland will find out on Monday what our learning focus will be for this half term. I can't wait to tell them. There are lots of fun and exciting lessons planned including a trip... stay tuned to find out what they are learning and where we are going!

That's all from us this week. We hope you have a spectacular weekend.

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton. 

This week has been such a busy week back!

In gymnastics we have been learning how to travel and land from jumps safely.  The children were really good at travelling in different ways before freezing in a different shape.

During Science, the children were investigating which materials would be the strong and stretchy enough to be used as a tether for an astronaut - we discovered that nylon tights were the best (sadly, Rolo's are not good for tethers!)

In History, we looked at how London has changed since the 1666 Great Fire and became architects, drawing what the new city should look like.  We also wrote and discussed why the changes needed to happen.

Last week, Hindu's around the world celebrated Diwali - the festival of light.  So this week the children learnt about the festival and made diya lamps, diya lamps are traditionally oil lamps with a cotton wick dipped in ghee to symbolise prosperity for the new year.

Learning

Our first week back has been full of energy and the children's books are brimming with great examples of their learning.

I have included some examples of how our new editing stations are working, the children really enjoy the focus it gives for them to physically move to a new area in the classroom which has a different focus for them to consider .

Our new approach to guided reading is working well, with the class approaching their reading with their detective hats on to find clues and hidden meanings in  the texts.