What a brilliant start to Y2 the children have made!

We started by discussing the rules every day in the first week so that we are really clear on what is expected of us.
Lots of us are already earning certificates for showing our school values in different ways.

In our English work, we have been looking at 'The Diary of a Wombat' and picking out the features of diaries.
We linked this to our 'Great Fire of London' topic and finished the unit by writing a diary of 'Maureen' the rat, who was an eye witness in the Great Fire. 

Maths has been mainly about place value, reading, writing and comparing numbers. We have started each lesson with daily counting in twos, fives and tens.

In History, we have learnt about the events of the Great Fire, why and how it happened. We have compared fire fighting equipment, past and present and also tried to place events on a timeline. We are very much looking forward to the fire brigade visiting us in a couple of weeks so that we can learn about how fires are dealt with nowadays.

This week Year 5 have engaged in a variety of enriching activities across Maths, English, and History. Here’s a look at our recent learning experiences:

This week in Maths, students focused on enhancing their skills in addition and subtraction.

Addition Techniques: We concentrated on adding multi-digit numbers that included exchanging. Students practiced breaking down numbers to simplify calculations, which fostered a deeper understanding of place value.

Subtraction Strategies: We explored various techniques for subtraction, including number lines and the traditional column method. Students were encouraged to ensure proper alignment of numbers to minimise errors.

Practical Application: Through engaging word problems and interactive games, students were able to see the relevance of addition and subtraction in real-life contexts, reinforcing their learning in a fun way.

In our English lessons, we came to the end of a creative writing project inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Story Development: Students were guided in crafting traditional narratives, focusing on key elements such as setting, character development, and plot structure.

Creative Expression: We emphasized the importance of vivid descriptions and character motivations. Students worked on developing unique plots that incorporated themes of adventure and conflict.

Some of the final drafts are now proudly displayed in our corridor for the rest of the school to enjoy.

In History, students continued their exploration of Ancient Egypt, enhancing their understanding of this fascinating civilization.

• Timelines: We focused on creating timelines to visualize significant events in Ancient Egyptian history, such as the construction of the pyramids and the reign of notable pharaohs. This activity helped students understand the chronological order of historical events.
• Research Projects: Students conducted research on various aspects of Ancient Egyptian life, including religion, daily activities, and technological advancements. Each student selected a topic of interest, which culminated in informative presentations to the class.
• Developing Historical Skills: Through these activities, students began to develop skills in critical thinking and analysis, essential for any historian.

This week has been marked by significant learning and growth in Year 5. Our focus on addition and subtraction in Maths, the creative exploration of narratives in English, and the deep dive into Ancient Egyptian history have all contributed to a well-rounded engaging week of learning!

Following Instructions

Another busy week has flown by! The highlight has definitely been our English lessons which have focused on instructions. The children carefully followed the instructions to make Paddington's favourite snack - a marmalade sandwich! They were absolutely fantastic at using the instructions to carry out each step and Paddington kept a watchful eye on their progress! It was agreed that the best part of all was eating the yummy marmalade sandwich at the end!
We are all looking forward to planning our own instructions for making a different sandwich next week.
 

Trips, Residentials & Experiences
Year 6 all had a fantastic evening last Friday, playing games, eating a fish and chip supper, watching a film and managing a few hours of sleep! Thank you to all the staff involved for providing this opportunity for Year 6 – we all had a great time. Next up, we have the Year 3 Sleepover in November – please see the email sent home yesterday for further details of how to sign up. We have an exciting range of trips and experiences planned for all year groups throughout the year. Check out the email sent home today for more information.

SEND Coffee Morning – Wednesday 9th October from 08:30
Mr Smith and Mrs Clayson will be organising a half-termly coffee morning with a focus on different Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) themes. They will also be joined by other guests, such as autism advisors, family support workers and the mental health support team. Their first coffee morning is next Wednesday 9th October, particularly relevant for our Nursery and Reception parents (although everyone welcome). Claire Harris, a specialist Early Years Inclusion worker will be attending and Mrs Yates will also call in to answer any questions.

Coffee Morning & Shared Reading Workshop – Friday 11th October from 08:30
Next Friday after drop off, Mrs Reeve is also hosting a coffee morning and sharing some tips on helping your child with reading at home. Everyone is welcome! We look forward to seeing you there. For both coffee mornings, just come along to the office after drop off, and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Well done Salvador!
Salvador ‘Braved the Shave’ for Macmillan Cancer Support. Thank you to all of his sponsors and cheerleaders. He has raised an impressive £235 and will donate his long hair to The Princess Trust. Everyone is very proud of you, Salvador!

Harvest Food Collection for Wadebridge Foodbank
Thank you for the generous donations ready to send on to the Wadebridge Foodbank. Your kindness will help those in need of food and toiletries and is very much appreciated.

Eco Council
Did you know your child can borrow a litter picker from school to help keep Wadebridge tidy? Just ask your class teacher or Mrs Harrison to borrow one (not forgetting to return after use). If you’re able to take any photos of your child in action helping to keep our environment tidy, please email them to aharrison@wadebridgeprimary.co.uk and we can add them to our Eco Council display. Thank you for your help.
From the Eco Council

Year 3 Jaguar Adoption
Last year our current Year 3s hosted a Rainforest Cafe as part of their Year 2 wider curriculum learning and to raise money and awareness. They explored the effects of climate change and deforestation on the rainforest. Thank you to the parents and grandparents for attending the Rainforest Cafe and helping them raise money. As a year group, they voted to adopt two jaguars from the WWF as well as donate funds to plant trees. Today in our Celebration Assembly, both Year 3 classes were presented with their adoption packs, which included their new class mascots (names to be confirmed...) The jaguars join our two adopted orangutans that are safely being looked after by our Year 4s. We look forward to doing the same again with our current Year 2s and adding to our animal collection!

House Points
Congratulations to this week’s winners, Cormorants. For a third week running, Swans have the most overall points, but their lead is narrowing:

Swans – 1358
Choughs – 1000
Cormorants – 997
Puffins – 910

FOWPA Bake Off and Cake Sale – Monday 21st October (Hall)
All children are invited to get creative and bake cupcakes, cookies or traybakes for a HUGE bake sale in the school hall on Monday 21st October from 3pm. Each home-baked entry needs to be dropped off at the school hall on Monday 21st October after drop off in the morning. Please label all plates/boxes/containers with name and class, so these can be returned to your child’s classroom. Each entry MUST come with an ingredients list for allergens…PLEASE REMEMBER WE ARE A NUT FREE SCHOOL…and without the list we sadly cannot sell your yummy bakes! The winners of each year group will be presented with a certificate and commemorative tea towel in assembly by Mr Wathern. All of your yummy bakes will be sold at the end of the school day. Please feel free to donate what you see fit during the sale. All children and parents/carers are welcomed, and all proceeds go towards FOWPA fundraising initiatives for WPA. Let’s get creative…HAPPY BAKING!
From FOWPA

Cornish Winter Fair and Prime Stock Show
The Cornish Winter Fair and Prime Stock Show will be taking place at the Royal Cornwall Showground on Saturday 23rd November. It is always fantastic to see the wonderful entries from children at our school on display. If your child would like to enter, the entry information and children's classes are listed below.
Entry closing date is Monday 4th November 2024
Please send entries to: Wadebridge Prime Stock Show, The Showground, Wadebridge. PL27 7JE
Tel: 01208 814489
Email: livestock@royalcornwall.co.uk

7 Years and Under (On 23rd November 2024)
165 4 chocolate crispies
166 An animal created from a pine cone/s
167 A paper plate mask

11 Years and Under (On 23rd November 2024)
168 4 butterfly buns
169 A Christmas tree decoration, to be hung
170 A miniature garden (standard seed tray size)

Hall for Cornwall Colouring Competition
HfC are running a colouring competition with the chance to win tickets to see the Very Hungry Caterpillar Show. The winner will be selected week beginning 14th October. For your chance to enter, further information has been sent home via email.

Dates coming up next week
Monday 7th October
Year 4 Swimming

Tuesday 8th October
Year 6 Swimming

Wednesday 9th October
08:45 SEND Coffee Morning with Mr Jonathan Smith and Mrs Donna Clayson
Year 1 – Mark's Ark Encounters (experience in school)
Year 3 Swimming

Thursday 10th October
Year 5 Swimming

Friday 11th October
08:45 Coffee Morning & Shared Reading Workshop with Mrs Paula Reeve
Nasal Flu Vaccinations

Have a fantastic weekend! 

All Things Orange...

This week in Lantic Class we have been very busy making marmalade sandwiches to help us with our instruction writing.  The children really enjoyed making them however, some were less keen when eating them!!  Paddington must have a different palate than the children...

In Science, we helped astronauts as we discovered they wear nappies!!  We needed to find out what was the most absorbent material - we found that cotton wool was slight better than sponge at soaking up water.

During history, we learnt how the Great Fire of London started.  We discovered that it was over 350 years ago (long before Mrs Stevens and Miss Sleep were born!) in 1666 in our capital city, London.  It started when a spark from the Bakery oven lit up the wooden buildings along Pudding Lane (it had been a hot summer and the buildings were built very close to each other).  We also experimented creating flames using chalks in our art lesson today.

In Guided Reading we sequenced how to make a jam and peanut sandwich after watching a video where we saw how important it is to make sure the instructions are VERY clear.

And what we've noticed is lots of our learning is orange based! The colour not the fruit... 

It has been another great week for Daymer class!

On Monday, half of the class went to St Anne's to celebrate Active Aging Week! They joined in with some chair yoga and stretched their brains with a tricky quiz! It was great fun!

We celebrated National Poetry Day 2024 by taking part in a Guinness World Record attempt for the world's largest poetry lesson! Please see the post below this one for a special recording for the children and a copy of the poem and THANK YOU letter!

On Wednesday, we enjoyed learning more cricket skills with Cricket Chris and on Tuesday we learned dodging skills in PE (netball).

In Science, we've been learning about three different types of rock (igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic) and how they are formed. We've already modelled some in edible form and are learning a song, with actions to help us remember. So this week we put on our safety specs and investigated which rock would make the best material for a statue of Mr Woolner! What a crazy idea!

On Thursday, we learned about Harvest thanks to the NFU live lesson, ahead of our Harvest Assembly on Monday.

The children have been developing their SHAPE for learning well this week - can they tell you what this means?

On Thursday next week, we are celebrating Mental Health Awareness day, where the children are welcome to wear something yellow and we will be exploring different ways of keeping mindful. There is also a Parent Cafe next Wednesday at 2.30pm. 

Welcome to our new Year 6 bloggers: Verity, Joel and Ava.

It's another busy week in Chaipel. We have finished writing up our newspaper report best copies and they all look amazing! In Maths, the Y5s have finished place value and are now onto adding and subtracting, whilst the Y6s are learning the rules of divisibility.

Chaipel have enjoyed learning about what causes a tsunami in Geography and who Boudica was, and her influence over the Roman invasion of Britain. Did you know 'tsunami' means 'harbour wave' in Japanese?  - VERITY

In ICT, we are learning about the Mars Rover and have been creating instructions for sending data from Mars back to Earth. Recently, we were lucky enough to have a visit from George Orwell's son who we will be working with on an exciting project in the Spring term. More information to follow...

We have been experimenting with tinting and shading in Art, and been looking at atmospheric landscapes. They look fab!

We've had another fabulous Funky Friday, listening to music and dancing our hearts out at lunchtime. - AVA

On Wednesday, our Readers of the Week were Lily and Phoebe, our Writers of the Week were Aria and Max B for their newspaper reports and our Mathematicians of the Week were Kora and Harrison. A big well done to those guys!

Today some amazing people came in to show us the boat that they will be sailing across the Atlantic in, later on this year. We learnt that two people would row whilst the other two would sleep or eat. We wish them lots of luck and hope to follow their adventure! - JOEL

Have a fab weekend!

Verity, Ava and Joel (Chaipel's Y6 Bloggers)

Autumn Term 1 - Weeks 4 & 5 - Gettin' busy with it!  

We had a busy but an amazing start to Week 4!

On Monday 23^rd September, the boys went to the Royal Cornwall Show Ground for ‘Boys Active’ and on Tuesday 24^th September the girls went there for ‘Our girls can’. They all had a wonderful time engaging in a range of activities lead by sports leaders from the secondary school. From archery to tag rugby, to mountain biking, it is safe to say the day were packed with fun and laughter.

On Friday 27^th September, the children participated in the Macmillan coffee morning, raising money for the charity. The children decorated the hall, brought cakes, make bookmarks and had the chance to beat their parents at games. It was a lovely morning shared by all! Below is a comment from Lexie in 6B:

Today we ran the Macmillan coffee morning, we made money for the charity by selling bookmarks and coasters our class had made. Some people even volunteered and made extra things like scrunchies, pins, and pumpkin teddies. All these contributions were topped off with lots of homemade cakes and sweet treats, as well as coffees and teas specially made by our classes. We thoroughly enjoyed this event from the board games to the quizzes to the talking and hanging out with our parents. This is definitely an excellent event that we would love to be involved in again. We know how much our community appreciate our hard work and efforts!

That evening the fun continued with our Year 6 camp out. All the children came back to school dressed in their PJ’s. We played games, had fish and chips, watched a movie with sweeties and FINALLY went to sleep. It was such an amazing evening and will certainly by a memory that we will cherish forever.

English

Over the past two weeks, we have started our new learning journey of Poetry. In this journey, the children will explore a range of grammatical skills and knowledge to create their own poems that enhance imagery. The journey is based on the text Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan. So far, in the journey, the children have used their VIPERS skills to explore the text, studied the key features and created their own word banks using figurative language.

Maths

In Maths, we have begun our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division learning journey. The children have looked at common factors, common multiples, rules of divisibility and primes to 100. During the lessons, the foundational skills needed have been times tables and the importance of having fluency in them has been highlighted.

Please continue to encourage your children to access TTRS at home. The magic number for TTRS according to them is 21... 21+ minutes of TTRS a week to really promote recall of tables (just over 4 minutes per school day!)

Wider Curriculum

In Wider Curriculum, the children have continued their history journey. Most recently, the children looked at end of the war. They researched into the lead up to D-Day and how VE day came around. As a result, the children created their own newspaper reports where they showed off what they had learnt.

The excitement around this topic has been amazing, we have had so many children share some wonderful facts and learning from home!

Next up is Art, we are looking forward to creating some perspective drawing pieces for our displays. WATCH THIS SPACE.

Another brilliant few weeks in Year Six,

Best Wishes,

Friday 4th October

What a busty week we have had!

We have been making and preparing for our Looe Primary 40^th Birthday celebration today and the children have worked so hard! On our stall we will have all that they have made to sell. We will upload pictures on Monday for you to see, after the event!

The children have been exploring and learning so much this week.

In phonics the children have learnt the diagraph (two letters, one sound) CK and the sounds e/u/ and r. They have been amazing in phonics, and we are really beginning to see progress with their oral blending to read small words!

The children have also been using water colours to paint, sorting monsters into different groups, using their funky fingers to cut out pictures to make a picture of all the things they like and using felt tips to decorate a person.

In English the children have been trying to perfect their tripod grip when holding a pencil. The children drew a picture of their favourite part of the story We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The children are progressing well with the tripod grip and once they have mastered this their writing and drawing skills will be even more amazing!

On COOL time ( Choose Our Own Learning) the children have chosen the marble run a lot and it has been amazing to see and hear them working together to make a marble run, we have heard so much wonderful vocabulary from the children to solve problems! They were so impressed and happy when the marble reached the bottom!

On Thursday we were lucky to have a visit form Pop Up Play. The children loved exploring the toys and resources. There was a vets, hospital, baby nursery, supermarket, fire and police station and a construction site! Miss Hughes and Janet seemed to be WANTED a lot and ended up in the police van!!!! It was a wonderful morning!

We have explored so much more this week and it’s been a wonderful week

We look forward to seeing you all later at the celebration!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

What another amazing week at Team Brunel!

We have had another fun packed week at Team Brunel! It has been a super busy week with our Nursery children visiting St. Anne's, our Year 1 and 2 children following instructions to make marmalade sandwiches, our Year 3 and 4 children taking part in a Guinness World Record on National Poetry Day, new chick arrivals in Year 5 and Year 6 writing letters to Michael Morpurgo; it has been yet another incredible week at our wonderful school. 

In addition, the whole school community have been getting excited about our Terracycling campaign! Our bin has been emptied twice this week and we have featured in the local paper. If you missed the article you can read it here:

Over the last couple of weeks we have continued to look at farms and in geography year 1 have been looking at some of the farms local to Lanlivery and what sort of farming happens there. The pre-school children have been making the most of the first signs of autumn with the leaves falling off the trees. They have collected a variety of leaves which they have crafted with and even gave some of the green ones to the class pet stick insects. The reception children have been spotting patterns in the environment, continuing patterns and creating their own patterns.  The children also made some amazing fluffy sheep. 

It has been another great week for Marazion class. We have celebrated National Poetry Day 2024 by taking part in a Guinness World Record attempt for the world's largest poetry lesson!
In maths, we have continued to work on place value and year 3 have just began their journey with addition and subtraction where they worked with key vocabulary and have applied number bonds within 10 ready to use their key knowledge across hundreds soon.
In Geography, we learnt about different volcanoes, where they are in the world and what 'active', 'dormant' and 'extinct' volcanoes are.
We enjoyed learning more cricket skills with Cricket Chris and dodging skills in PE (netball). 
In Science, we've been learning about three different types of rock (igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic) and how they are formed. We've already modelled some in edible form and are learning a song, with actions to help us remember. So this week we're going to put on our safety specs and investigate which rock would make the best statue.

On Thursday, we learn about Harvest ahead of our Harvest Assembly on Monday.

The children have been developing their SHAPE for learning well-can they tell you what this means?

On Thursday next week, we are celebrating Mental Health Awareness day where they children are welcome to wear something yellow and we will be exploring different ways of keeping mindful.

Autumn 1 - Week 4 and 5 - Awesome Autumn Learning

The children have continued to impress us with their enthusiasm and curiosity towards learning. During the first few weeks in school, we noticed that many children showed an interest in learning more about animals. So, last week, we read ‘Owl Babies’ and learned some facts about owls. The children were able to use vocabulary to describe owls such as nocturnal, talons and owlets. This week, we have been learning about animals that hibernate and have enjoyed the story ‘Don’t Hog the Hedge’.

Literacy
We have now learned 8 sounds in our phonics lessons and the children have been keen to learn more sounds and actions. We have been practising our ‘robot talking’ to blend short words. It’s been lovely to see them choosing to practise their letter formation in COOL time. In their writing books, the children have applied their understanding by identifying and writing the initial sounds of words.

Maths
Last week, we focused on matching objects. The children showed real confidence in matching objects, whether that be matching based on shape, colour, size or pattern. This week, we have been thinking about the different way we can group objects.

Next week, we are learning all about apples! We will be exploring the life cycle of an apple, developing our vocabulary linked to apples, investigating what we find on the inside of apples, using our observational skills to create apple paintings, using apples to explore printing and creating repeating patterns with paints and much, much more. If anyone knows of any local apple trees or if you find yourself going out and about this weekend where apples trees are, we would really appreciate lots of apples being brought into school on Monday morning for our wonderful activities!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Best wishes,
The Reception Team