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

Happy Birthday Looe!

We are looking forward to the celebrations on Friday and welcoming all of the community that help to make Looe primary great! 

What a fantastic start the school year. The children in Year One are settling in so well and are showing so many of our school values through their work and play.
Our first 'Big Question' is 'Where on Earth are we?'. We have been learning to find the United Kingdom on maps and globes and have been learning some key facts about the four countries that make it up. We have also learnt about the county that we live in and how to find it on a map of the UK.

In the last week we have begun 'The Big Brush Club'. This is an NHS initiative to help improve children's oral health. The children have really enjoyed having a brush-along to Hey Duggee or Danny Go's tooth-brushing songs. They are getting used to the routines and know how to keep their toothbrushes clean.

In art, the children have been using their sketchbooks to try out drawing different kinds of line. They have looked at the work of Maurice Sendak (author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are) and have thought about how he uses different kinds of line to show the texture of hair, scales, teeth and claws. The children also did some printing with autumnal colours in order to enter the art competition at Callington Honey Fair.

We have been learning about materials in science and have been learning some of the more scientific vocabulary we can use to describe their properties such as transparent, opaque, absorbent, flexible and rigid.

The children have continued to love our daily Drawing Club sessions. These magical sessions allow the children to enjoy wonderful stories, learn some new vocabulary and write number and sentences codes in order to bring aspects of their drawings to life. It is so much fun and the children are wonderful code-creators.

In maths we have thoroughly explored numbers to 10. Through out 'Mastering Number' sessions we have practised subitising and partitioning skills and through our mathematics sessions we have learnt to read, write, order, compare and draw numbers on the number line. This is an excellent foundation for our next step into addition and subtraction.

In our COOL time (Choose Our Own Learning), many of the children have particularly enjoyed creating their own wonderful settings using the wooden blocks. The have created homes for the Wizard from one of our stories and many different animal homes. Their verbal explanations have been so detailed and so much thought has gone into the way they have been built. It has been great to watch the children work so cooperatively and communicate so well to share their ideas for moving the models forwards.

The Autumn Term is in full swing!

Year 6 are settling brilliantly into their new, responsible roles as the oldest in the school and we are all getting used to our lovely new name, 'Copper Valley Junior Academy!'

The children have enjoyed their historical enquiry into the lives of the Anglo-Saxons and they are also proving to be enthusiastic Scientists, as we explore the fascinating Science behind 'Light'.

In English, we have been looking at the various tools and language features that make effective suspense writing and the children are currently finishing their own, innovated suspense story! We are particularly impressed with their determination to improve their handwriting!

Our RE question for this half term asks, 'What would Jesus do?" and the children have shown what deep thinkers they are, when challenged with these 'Big Questions'!

Across the two bases, we are thrilled to have been placed joint first, alongside Callington Primary Academy, for our entries to the Art competition at the Honey Fair, with one of our very own Year 6 children achieving 4th place in our age range!

In French, we have been learning how to talk about our families and in Computing, we are learning all about networks and how these work, both locally, nationally and internationally.

Year 6 have shown amazing positivity when it comes to their Maths and they have shown us what strong Reasoning skills they have! We will continue to build on their Arithmetic skills with daily practice and we are encouraging them to learn their times tables at home, as well as reading regularly.

The mornings are getting darker and the days are getting soggier, however, Year 6 will not let this dampen their spirits, as we continue to plough through this long Autumn Term, towards that time of year that cannot yet be mentioned!!

Thank you for all you hard work so far, year 6; Mrs David and Miss Cunningham are so proud of you all!

Road Safety and lots of learning! 

What a great week we have had in Foundation/Year 1.

We were very lucky to have a Road Safety Roadshow that taught us all about how to stay safe when we are out and about. We really enjoyed learning the dance and words to ‘Stop, Look and Listen.’ We were also taught about how important it is to stay close to, or hold hands with our adult when crossing the road. The children really enjoyed learning all things road safety!

In Phonics, Year 1 have been learning their new ‘ie’ sound. We then practised writing this in different words. In Maths, we have also been looking at one more and one less. We have been building towers and finding the correct numbers that are one more and one less!

We have also all been learning about the weather. Every morning we discuss what the weather is like and we’ve been focusing on using amazing adjectives to do this. My favourite ones this week are ‘the sun is golden’ and ‘the sea is sparkly.’ How brilliant! We have also been thinking about the right clothing we need depending on the weather.

On Friday we have our 40th birthday celebration for the school. This is going to be a great day. Please let me know if you will be attending either through email or letting me know during meet/greet.

Thank you!

The Foundation/Year 1 Team