Congratulation to Elsa who qualified to take part in this year’s cross country final. She went to Newquay on Tuesday to race against finalists from across Cornwall. She ran a brilliant race coming 38th in the Year 6 girl’s race.

Thank you to FOP's for organising and running our Easter egg hunt. The children had a lovely afternoon working out answers to all the questions.  

Talland Class have enjoyed quiet a lot of outside learning during the last few weeks. We have been investigating the pond during forest school and making dens.

As part of our PE lessons we have been practicing throwing and catching focusing on distance, accuracy and catching.

As part of geography, we investigated what are the differences between a hamlet, town and city, whilst also listing all the cities we have visited.

Children in pre-school have been discovering all the wonderful changes that Springtime brings.  They have used their five senses to discover what they could see, hear, taste, smell, and touch.

With some visits to forest school, we have been keeping an eye on the pond and were rewarded with seeing hundreds of tadpoles. We have also spotted lots of spring flowers and listened to the birdsong from our garden area.

Our final week seen some fun Easter activities, with water colour painted eggs, an Easter picture hunt to win a chocolate egg, some easter baking and card making has also been enjoyed

Our last week before the Easter holidays has been filled with lots of Easter fun. The children have enjoyed making Easter chick baskets filled with some Easter treats and we have been talking about what we do at Easter.
On Thursday the children enjoyed trying hot cross buns for snack and today (Friday) have made yummy chocolate nests.

A big well done to Teddy and Tiffany for winning the decorate an Easter Egg competition which we held. All of the entries were amazing and Mrs Hillman had a difficult desicion in choosing the winners!

We also say goodbye to Jade this week who has been volunteering with us on Monday and Friday mornings since September. We wish her all the best for the future.

We now have two weeks Easter holiday to enjoy and hopefully it will be a sunny one.
We hope you all have an amazing time and we look forward to welcoming the children back from Tuesday 22nd April.

Julie and Sarah

This week, we welcomes Open the Book again into school. It was great to see some of the children acting along with the story and, as usual, they made the Easter Story interactive for the audience.

Watch out for the Roman shields.... coming to a home near you this week!

The children have really enjoyed the history and geography topics this year. It has been so helpful to learn about history in a chronological order. After the holiday, we will be linking the end of the Roman era to the Anglo Saxons.  Please feel free to do some research at home. We always celebrate and display these sorts of projects in class.

We return back to school on Tuesday 22nd April.

Have a lovely holiday!
Miss Pittas and the Year 3/4 team

Hoppy Easter!

We've had a lovely end to the Spring Term in Landaviddy Class. In Science, we looked at the life cycle of flowering plants and continued making observations on our bean plants - we can't believe how much some of them have grown! Today, I had a look at the plant we were keeping in the cupboard and watering (see picture), so it has had no sunlight. Look at how different it is to our ones growing in the cloakroom! I will continue to water it at home over easter, so it will be interesting to see how it might change. 

In Computing, we demonstrated how a website worked. Can you recall what happens when a user puts in a request? We played a lovely game for April fools day in French - poisson d'avril!
In Art, we created collages of plants and flowers, by using the paper we prepared last week with different textures and patterns. The results were beautiful!

Today, we were lucky to have a visit from the Easter Bunny! What fun we have had! 

Please continue to practise your times tables, KIRFS and read when you can over the holidays! 

We hope you have a wonderful easter holidays and look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 22nd April. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Thank you to all who were able to come and join us in our curriculum sharing afternoon on Friday. After a week of parent consultations, it was great to share our Easter crafts, stop-motion animation, orienteering, maths, writing, art and many more aspects of our learning here together. I am looking forward to sharing our photos from the 'when I was young' photo booth soon too!

The East Cornwall Harriers cross-country series of races has come to an end for another season. All the children photographed opposite have represented the school over this season and have done an excellent job. Well done Pelynt Lightning!

Pelynt went 1-nil in the early minutes of the game at home against St Germans. They quickly levelled the score and went on to win 5-3. A change in line-up saw and change in goalkeeper and a display that the opposing coach described increasing 'getting better throughout the game'. Well done Pelynt. 

It was wonderful to see all the children dressed up as their favourite characters on World Book Day. All the classes had a great day focusing on ‘reading for pleasure’ and delving into the magical world of reading. 

This week, Lansallos Class have been enjoying their painting focus in their art lessons. They have been learning about tints, shades and skin tones. After experimenting with watercolours, poster paints and acrylic paints, they then chose which paint they preferred. They used this paint to paint a portrait of an individual who inspires them.

Talland class have been investigating mass and capacity, trying to work out the mass of the Pepsi in a can. This was made a little trickier as some cans were stuck together, others had a sneaky weight added on top!

What a busy week we have had in Landaviddy! Some our bean seeds have began to sprout small green shoots. This has been very exciting and we are all very eager to see how our plants change this week. Unfortunately, some of our seeds haven't shown signs of germination yet, which has got us wondering why. We are looking forward to bringing home our plants next week.

In Science, we have been discovering why roots are important and what their function is. Can you remember why plants need roots? In History, we have been exploring how technology has changed how we write; from typewriters to tablets. During Art this week, we created our own collage paper using different textures and patterns. Next week, we will be using these to create a flower collage. In Computing, we have continued learning about networks and created network maps to show how files move across a network.

Year 2 have started to measure in centimetres this week, recognising where they must start when using a ruler and developing their reasoning skills. Year 3 have continued to work hard on fractions, plotting these on number lines. 

English this week, has primarily focussed on writing up our own Jack and the Beanstalk stories, using our best handwriting. Our hope is to compile all our stories into a book which we will pass on to Penhallow to read. We have really been taking our time and thinking carefully about how we can be the best writers. Well done everyone!

Congratulations to Reuben and Finn for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. 

Next week is our last week before the Easter holidays, and will continue to be busy no doubt! 

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

Hello Everyone!

Spring is in the air, and we have been busy drawing daffodils this week. We made careful observations of different varieties of daffodils and then used oil pastels to create the different colours and shapes that we observed.

This week, we also finished our English work on Quentin Blake’s ‘Mrs Armitage on Wheels.’ Everyone has made up a story of their own, based on the original story, and Year 1 have written some amazing story sequels. We have been very proud of our results.

Both year groups have been busy learning all about length and measure this week in maths. We made and compared different lengths using play dough, measured and compared objects around the classroom, and Year one began to use standard measures to carefully measure objects.

We had a lovely end to this week, on our trip to The Theatre Royal in Plymouth. The Little Red Hen performance did not disappoint, and had the children participated well throughout the show. The children’s happy faces, showed how much they enjoyed and benefitted from the whole experience, and we are extremely proud of how well they behaved throughout the whole day.

What a busy week it has been at Team Brunel. With the Storytelling Caravan and Space Odyssey Dome making a visit to our school as well as a theatre trip by train. It has yet again been quite a week at our wonderful school. Sit back, relax and enjoy this week's edition of The Brunel Bulletin.