It was great to see so many of you at sports day on Wednesday - thank you for coming. We were very proud of the way the children joined in, competed and supported each other and of the Year 6 leaders who ran the morning so well. There will be photos on the class blogs later.

We added up the house points from the sports day races and awarded others to pupils for exceptional effort, enthusiasm and determination. The final scores were Ash 64; Chestnut 65; Willow 78 and Oak 99. Congratulations Oak!

Football Success On Monday our football team played against Pelynt in the League where they played their best match of the season. They worked together as a team, attacking and defending as one. Player of the match was Harry. Final score: Polperro 10 - Pelynt 1. And even better news - we have just heard that Polperro has won the League, having won all five of their matches. Go team Polperro! A well-deserved result.

FOPS Summer Fair - Monday 21st July at 2pm Reminder that this Monday 30th June will be a MUFTI day where we will be asking for donations of an item matching your child's house team colour to create hampers for raffle prizes. Children can wear their own clothes and this could include wearing their house colour. If you would like to help out on the day of the Summer Fair, please let us know.

The Summer Reading Challenge: Story Garden is a fun, free way to help children keep up their reading skills over the long summer break. Just six books over the holidays can make a huge difference to your child's confidence and enjoyment of reading. • Sign up for FREE at your local Cornwall Library from Saturday 5th July or at the school gate after school on Thursday 10th July • Fun stickers, rewards and events • Open to all 4-11-year-olds of all reading levels - there are resources for children with dyslexia and visual impairments.  

Liskeard and Looe Rugby Club Please see attached flyer regarding some fun trial rugby sessions that Liskeard and Looe Rugby club is running for year 4 pupils.


Have a great weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Another week has gone by and Chaipel have been busy. We have been writing poetry on the theme of Cornish poet Charles Causley's I AM THE SONG. We have some incredible emotive sentences:  I am the breeze that cools the Earth (Elsie), I am the personality that forms the mind (Joel) I am the fuel that ignites the flame (Aria) I am the ink that composes the word (Harry), I am the word that determines the sentence (Kora) to name but a few.

In Maths, the Y5s have been going back over key arithmetic skills such as long multiplication, division and have been introduced to the technical process of long division. Y6s are still on their travel project, looking at budgeting and identifying best value for money deals.

In our wider curriculum learning, Chaipel have been identifying the mining towns and villages in Cornwall and what types of mining they were famous for. In French, they have been identifying and ordering different foods and beverages and in swimming this week, Chaipel have been perfecting their underwater gliding. In Science, we have been investigating friction and for RE, we have been learning about values and what are import to us as both individuals and part of a wider community.

On Wednesday we had our Sports Day and it was a huge success. The Y6s were fab at organising and running the events and everybody gave their races 100%.

It's our Y6 Residential next week and we are really looking forward to it! Please make sure all medical forms are back in on Monday. 

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday!

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

Team Spirit in Full Swing

What an unforgettable day! On Friday, our school field came alive for Brunel Sports Day, filled with cheers, cheers, and even more cheers as pupils competed and supported one another brilliantly. Each child showed incredible sportsmanship-cheering on teammates, offering high-fives, and celebrating every effort. No matter the result, enthusiasm ruled, and the collective energy was nothing short of inspiring. The classic egg and spoon race was met with giggles, squeals, and some surprisingly steady hands! The sack race had everyone hopping in unison, occasionally tumbling, but always picking themselves up with a big smile. The highlight of the afternoon was undoubtedly the obstacle course-complete with coloured water and vibrant hurdles. With the crowd on their feet and a rainbow of splashes marking each runner, the atmosphere was electric. The sprints were a display of raw determination. Children poured their full effort into each dash, faces flushed with focus and energy. Mid-race cheers echoed, urging runners to push on to the finish line. After tallying all the points, Team Tintagel emerged victorious-well done! They earned their win through exceptional dedication and teamwork.

Friday 27th June 

Some of this weeks learning:

This week Mrs Phillips has been assessing the children in reading and maths. The children have been amazing and have tried their best. Mrs Phillips and the other adults have been amazed at how much the children have learnt this year and how well they have retained skills and knowledge. Foundation you are simply amazing!

This week the children have also been exploring patterns and repeated patterns in maths and they have been amazing at making their own patterns.

They have also been observing different types of seashell and drawing them, using their cutting skills to cut and make flying seagulls, creating their own ocean picture then writing about it and so much more.

The children are continuing to progress and achieve so much, and we are looking forward to the last three weeks of their foundation year!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Class 3 attended the Cornwall School Games held at Liskeard Secondary. Approximately 1,300 children participated in the event and our school took part in three activities: dance, girls football and a swimming and crossfit event.
The children all had a great day and came home with medals - Well done Class 3!

Another busy week in Lantic...

Lantic Update 27.6.25

English: It's been letter writing this week based on our class book 'The Magic Paintbrush'. Our letters have focused on saying thank you for gifts.

Maths: We are spending lots of time practising our times tables at the moment, particularly the 2x and 5x tables - we sing them, we dance them, we chant them, we test them..

Music: Lots and lots of singing this week in Lantic class as we practise for our class assembly (Monday 7^th July 2.30pm) and Music of the Afternoon (Wednesday 16^th July 1.30pm). We are hoping to see you all there.

Science: We're keeping a close eye on our seeds experiment and can report.....

PSHE: This half term's topic is 'Changing Me' so we're considering how we change as we grow up.

Art: This week has been a great time to use our outdoor classroom for a spot of painting, come to our assembly to see the results!

DT: After a lot of careful planning, cutting and gluing, we've finally finished our wild things puppets and they're fantastic.

PE: A very active week as we've been practising for Sports day and then we all had the best time in all our activities and races. 

We have had a busy week exploring under the sea and finishing craft relating to this. The children have been exploring the under the sea tuft tray and making jellyfish.
We have enjoyed some sunny weather this week and have been making the most of this by practicing sports day on the field and exploring the nursery garden.

At story time we have enjoyed under the sea stories and the big children who are going to school soon enjoyed going into reception class to join them for a story before lunch.

The children have enjoyed carrying out different phonics activities including looking for initial sounds in the sand tray, going on a listening walk and blending sounds together to form words.

It was sports day on Wednesday and we were incredibly proud of the children for their great running. They all did a fab job.

We hope you all have a good weekend.

Julie and Sarah.












































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Sports Day fun for Foundation / Year 1! 

On Friday we had our Sports Day at Looe Primary. The children came to school dressed in their house colours Plaidy, Millendreath, Hannafore and Talland. We then took parts in lots of different activities to try and win as many points as we could for our team.

Our first activity was a circuit. We had to do hurdle jumps, throw a bean bag in a hoop, star jumps and then run back for the next person to start. Our next activity was a dress up relay, where we had a hat and we had to run to the next person and give them the hat. We found this very funny and trying to get the hat on and keep it on whilst running was challenging for some! Our last activity was a throwing activity. We had three different hoops and each hoop was worth a different amount of points. We then had to throw the bean bag in one of the hoops. We even made it more challenging at the end by moving the hoops further away.

Foundation / Year 1 made me so proud with their sportsmanship - especially on a very hot afternoon! They even managed to keep their energy for the races at the end of the day, I don't know how they did it! They were determined and responsible, showing two of our values to the rest of the school and the people that came to watch us. I was so impressed with their attitude to sports day. Well done Plaidy, who were the winning team, but well done all of you for taking part.

Thank you.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

It was another hot day today when Class 2 held their long-anticipated Sports Day. It's lovely to see the children supporting each other and cheering for their friends even if they are on different teams.

The parents tug of war was fantastic, not competitive at all.

Fun in the sun and So Much More! 

What a wonderful week we’ve had in preschool!

The sunshine gave us the perfect opportunity to enjoy lots of outdoor play, including water fun and story time in the sun. The children loved relaxing with books outside, which was a great way to nurture our growing love for reading.

Phonics Fun This week in phonics, we explored the sounds f (f-f-f flower) and e (e-e-e egg). The children really enjoyed practising these new sounds through games, songs, and hands-on activities.

Marvellous Maths In maths, we’ve been focusing on counting objects from 1 to 5 and recognising numbers in any order. The children are gaining confidence every day and showing great progress with their number work!

Getting Ready for Reception We’re beginning to think about our exciting move up to Reception in September. In book bags this week, you’ll find a helpful poster outlining some of the key skills we’re working towards to help your child feel confident and ready for the next step.

Sky Arts Week  We were thrilled to take part in Sky Arts Week and had some very special visitors come to talk to us about their jobs:

Steph, a Speech and Language Therapist, showed us some amazing tools that help people communicate.

Chef Will, a Development Chef, shared what goes into creating new dishes—and answered lots of brilliant questions!

Dr. Katie spoke to us about what it takes to become a doctor and what it’s like to help people every day. It was such an inspiring experience for the children—and staff too!

Here’s to another fun-filled week ahead! Come back next week to see what we have been up to. 

Mrs Whitty-Mutton

After being rearranged twice due to the weather, it was almost too hot when Class 1 had their Sports Day! The children all did incredibly well and showed great sportsmanship and patience, especially with the pesky egg and spoon race. The Pre-schoolers race was also a delight to watch.

         Our first 2 weeks of Summer Term 2 have already flown by, with lots of learning of places we can go in an aeroplane.  We have looked at world maps and discussed where some of us may have travelled to on holiday.  We also thought about what we would need to take with us for a sunny holiday and packed our own suitcase.

         The children have really enjoyed our airport role play corner with Pelynt Pre-School Airways flying to various destinations!

         We have also looked at what we need to do at the airport before we get onto an aeroplane, with checking in bags, then showing our passports and tickets.  We have watched some clips of what it is like to travel on an aeroplane and how we would feel.

          Last week the children took part in our whole school sports day, they were all amazing in their races and even if your child wasn't there on the day they have all really enjoyed all the practices we have done on the field.

         Thank you to all the parents that have been in to see us for a parent consultation, it is a lovely way of catching up and talking through your child's progress, achievements, and any concerns you may have.

           We always have an open-door policy where you can speak to any of the team at any time so even if you did not book a consultation, please do come and see us if you have any questions or concerns.

     A reminder that our graduation celebration and end of year Teddy Bears Picnic is on Wednesday 16^th July at 11.30am.  Everyone is invited to come enjoy a picnic with your child.  If you have a child graduating but it's not their normal session, you can still bring them along for 11.30am. 

Letters will be coming out next week to confirm September sessions for parents of children returning in autumn term, and school will be sending out information for parents of those children transitioning and a parent welcome meeting with their teachers. 

Lastly, as we have been experiencing some difficulties uploading the blog to our website, we will transition to doing a weekly update on to our class page on Seesaw from September. A reliable way to ensure all parents are receiving updates about our learning and any other news. 
 
The Pre-School Team. 

Friday 20th June

We have had another lovely week in Foundation with lots of wonderful exploring and learning.

Some of this weeks learning:

This week the children have been continuing to write dictated or independent sentences about pictures from Julia Donaldson books. This has really helped Mrs Phillips to see how far they have come with their phonics and writing. The children are progressing so well and the adults in class have been astounded by some of the writing.

In maths this week we have been exploring sharing and grouping. As we have been learning to chant and sing our times tables for some time now , this really helped with this unit of learning. Janet was blown away with how well the children were grouping items in two’s yesterday!

In outdoor learning this week we completed a summer treasure hunt, we found, red flowers, big sticks, bugs, blades of grass, but no frogs!!!

We have also been making jelly fish, completing beach phonics activities, sharing carrots and frogs in a maths activity, writing tricky words outside, making playdough beach pictures and so much more!

Today was sports day and what a lovely day it was…wow was it hot! The children had a great first sports day and really enjoyed taking part in all the activities.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Sky Arts' Week

We've had great fun looking into the future and focusing on our dream professions - everything from professional footballers to counsellors.
We enjoyed the guest speakers and well-done Year 3/4a for creating some great questions for them to answer!
On completion of our artwork, we peer assessed, commenting on the features, design, choice of colours, 3D detail and how we may be able to improve our artwork if we were to do it again.

Hello everyone!

It’s been a very sporty week in Penhallow this week. We managed a swimming session on Wednesday, The Bridge School Games on Thursday, and a sports day practice on Friday.

For The Bridge School Games, we competed in 5 different events, and recorded our scores, which will be compared with other bridge schools. We competed in events such as throwing, catching, balancing and collecting tennis balls. All events were tennis themed and we had great fun.

We have also been busy this week, writing a recount, based our experiences at The Polperro Festival. We were so proud of the children. First of all, for exemplary behaviour whilst watching the other performances, but most of all for performing so well in front of an audience. Some children stood in for others at the last minute, and we all worked as a team to do the best we could. Well done Penhallow! We hope you enjoyed it.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

Another week has gone by already! 

On Tuesday, we performed at the Polperro festival. The children were fantastic and did so well during our performance. Well done! You are all SUPERSTARS!

This week has been the Bridge School Games, so we have been very active exploring different Wimbledon inspired activities. We have also been practising for Sports Day, which we can’t wait for!

In English, we have been enjoying performance poetry and loved performing Michael Rosen’s ‘The Rhythm of Life’. We collaborated to write our own versions too, influenced by nature, the sea, even school! We will finish writing these next week and creating a short performance for our peers. 

Congratulations to Amelia and Lowen J for being chosen as Landaviddy’s People of the Week.

Please ensure you bring in your PE and swimming kits next week. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

What a lovely week we have had. Polperro Festival was a huge success, on Tuesday, and our performance was amazing! We had so much positive feedback from the general public, it made all the hard work in the run-up to the day worth while. Thank you to Hamish and Harry for stepping in at the last minute to cover roles and to Joel who had full control of the microphone as a very convincing Henry Tudor!

It has been Bridge School Games week and we have been busy taking part for our school. It was fun to try out all of the challenges and try to improve our scores to be the best we can be. Fingers crossed!

We enjoyed a trip to The Box for our Evolution, Adaptation and Inheritance workshop on Friday. The workshop organiser was blown away at how much we knew and we in turn learnt a lot about how mammoths and beetles have adapted and then gave use food for thought in how beetles may need to adapt in light of Climate Change.

Next week, Chaipel will be practising for our Sports Day on Wednesday (10am - 12pm) where we will be competing in our classes for our House Teams.

We have a Mufti Day 

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG

WOWZERS... What a busy week we've had and I've absolutely loved it - I hope Talland has too. They did such an amazing job at Polperro Festival. I thought their performance, both acting and singing were an absolute triumph! Chaos and fun - just the way us Tallander's like it! We've also had the Bridge School Games, where children competed against themselves in numerous Wimbledon based challenges and each individual tried to earn more points for Polperro. It was wonderful to see them cheering each other on. Team spirit was at an all time high! We've also been swimming and practicing for sports day - the relay team is now ready! 

On top of all of this...
Maths:
Year 5 have been looking at statistics, where we have delved into reading and interpreting line graphs.
Year 4 have been translating shapes during their position and movement unit.

English:
We have begun to look at Comoran vs Jack the Giant Killer for our narrative based writing. This also links nicely for our trip to St. Michael's mount. This is where this myth originated! We've realised that there are items we need to look out for whilst we're there - including the Giant's heart.

History:
We have begun looking at the life of Ibraham Kingdom Brunel and his amazing accomplishments. Talland all realised that he was the one who designed the The Royal Albert Bridge, which was a cool fact.

RE:
We went on a journey in RE and thought about our life and what journey we have all been on so far! That led to discussions of where might our journey through life take us. It was really interesting hearing the children's different stories.

CONGRATULATIONS to Isabelle for being noticed for her hard work this week and well done to Tabbi, Arnie and Thomas for earning their next badge in 99 club.

That's all from us. We hope you have an amazing weekend and can't wait to see you on Monday.

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