We've had a truly wonderful week enjoying the sunshine, which has brought a lovely energy to all our activities. The children particularly loved their PE session yesterday, where we practiced our dribbling skills - it was fantastic to see everyone so enthusiastic and giving it their best effort. Reception continue to thoroughly enjoy their weekly sessions with Coach James.

In Maths, we have been focusing on ordering numbers from smallest to largest and practicing how to compare them using mathematical language such as "more than," "less than," and "equal to." Reception have also been learning to represent numbers up to three using objects, pictures, and their fingers, helping them build strong foundations in early number sense. We've also begun exploring the concept of sharing equally - an important first step towards understanding division - using practical resources and play-based activities.

In English, we have been working on sequencing the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children have enjoyed retelling the tale in their own words, using pictures and prompts to help them put the events in the correct order. This has been a great way to develop their understanding of story structure, and it has sparked lots of interesting conversations about characters, setting, and plot.

Reception have also been busy developing their fine motor skills through activities such as cutting and sticking, threading, and mark-making. These tasks support their hand strength, coordination, and early writing skills. In addition, the children have had lots of fun dressing up as different characters and engaging in imaginative role play. It's been lovely to see them using their creativity and storytelling skills to bring their favourite characters and scenarios to life.

Overall, it's been a joyful, active, and creative week full of learning through play!

Friday 26th September

Some of this weeks wonderful exploration has included:

Learning phonemes g/o/c/k. The children have learnt these sounds and then have worked really hard to used these sounds and previously learnt ones to orally blend.

For instance K-i-t   kit. They are amazing the adults with how well they are all doing.

Please use the weekly phonics sheets sent home to allow your children to share their reading knowledge with you!

The children decorated our season tree in class this week by learning about deciduous trees and exploring the colour changes in the tress on our school grounds. The children then worked in teams to collect fallen leaves and use autumnal colours to complete leaf rubbings. Mrs. Phillips then cut them out and placed them on our season tree- it looks amazing!

We have started formal mats this week and the children have been exploring matching, sets , and sorting. For one of our activities we went outside, collected some natural materials and sorted them into groups that the children suggested. You may have seen this when walking into class.

In English this week have continued to explore the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. The children have been individually using their oracy skills to retell the story and sequence the story in their books.

In our Forest school time with Kelly this week , we explored the forest area and loved the rope swing , the trees to climb, the woodland to explore and so much more!

The children have also, used their funky fingers to cut out items in a house and make their houses, explored the Harvest table, used shaving foam to mark make, and sooooo much more!

Next week we move away from our sub theme of All About Me and we start to explore Superheroes/ People Who Help us!  Eventually this will include a walk down to Looe Town to explore people that help us so please ensure your consents are complete on arbor! We are so excited!

What a great week!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

It's been a busy week at Darite again. The trip to the Cornwall Museum yesterday was brilliant. The children had a great time learning about childhood in Cornwall and the toys that were played with. They have come back with some amazing knowledge that will be really helpful in their learning. The sponsored triathlon is also taking part today. The children are really excited to take part and the number of bikes and scooters is testament to their fitness. Thank-you to everyone who has managed to sponsor the children. Every penny raised will be used to support the learning and providing experiences for the children at Darite. Stay tuned for the final total. Thank-you to the PTFA for their support in running the event too. It has been a wonderful start to the term and we are always looking for ways to make Darite even better. We are again looking at interest for extending wraparound care at Darite. There will be a message going home in the near future asking for your feedback including if you would use it, how often and then when you would need it for. Once we compile the responses, we can look at how we can support moving forward. Finally, can I politely remind you that children should not be using the trim train before or after school. This is a safety and insurance issue and, like you, we want to keep the children safe during the school day.

This week Matt Windle - the poet with punch was with us in KS2. Matt is a former Olympic athlete and poet laureate in Birmingham. He explored the theme 'What I want to be'..in all senses of the phrase and helped create poetry with the children and staff around this theme. PTFA - thank you for funding this experience for our children!

Today, at 3.20pm, Melissa Pinfield will be running the Scholastic book fair for the final day. If you haven't already done so, please drop by and browse the books available; there are books for all age groups. The book fair is in Class 4 and Melissa will be on hand to help provide information about payments and ordering online.
We are passionate about children having access to high quality texts through reading and being read to. Having access to books and reading outside of school is something we strongly encourage. Our reading provision is at the heart of our curriculum offer, with children having a healthy daily diet of reading, being read to and using a variety of texts across the curriculum. During their first week at school, our new reception children are partnered with a Year 6 'reading buddy', who share a book with them every Friday. Across the infants, children are taught phonics and early readings skills daily and junior children have access to a broad range of real books banded to match their ability. Unfortunately, this year we have been unable to sign up for Accelerated Reader, a programme that allows children to read a real book and then compete a short online quiz to determine how much of the book they have understood. We have used Accelerated Reader for many years but the cost has become prohibitive. The children still have access to the full range of Accelerated Reader books and we will still be assessing them to determine when they are ready to progress, but we are no longer able to provide online quizzes. Apologies to those children who enjoyed the quizzing, but hopefully there may be a time when we can afford Accelerated Reader again. In the meantime, please read to your children, hear them read, visit the local library to borrow books and visit the book fair later today to buy some great reads if you haven't already done so.

Next week, our music lead Abi Flashman has arranged for a group called Rocksteady to run infant and junior music workshops. This should be an exciting introduction to music beyond our usual curriculum provision. The following week, on Thursday 9th October, school photos will be taken at the village hall. Further details will be provided by the school office. 

Hello,
We have had a busy week here at nursery. We have been finishing off our learning where the children have been talking about themselves, describing different features and talking about who lives with them. We have also been talking about different people that help us including firefighters, police and the ambulance service.
The children have been busy drawing and creating pictures of their family and who lives in their house in order to make a mobile.  They have made paper cup houses and played in the firefighter themed tuft tray. We have enjoyed using play dough to make different faces.

At story time we have enjoyed reading "We are all different" and " Charlie the firefighter".

During phonics, the children have been listening to sounds and then trying to remember them in a game of "What do you hear?". They have been making different voice sounds with their mouths and playing instruments to match different sounds heard.

In maths, we have been exploring shape by making arrangements with them, completing inset puzzles and building with shaped blocks.

Have a lovely weekend

Julie and Sarah 

Making pinch pots and some orienteering!

We have had another great week in our class.

In Music, we have been learning about instruments. We practised using feathers to get the right amount of power to play a flute. We quickly realised if we blew too hard the feather would blow away. If we do the same with a flute it doesn't make a very nice sound! We have also started practising our Harvest songs for our Harvest assembly in a few weeks time.

In Art, we have been experimenting with clay. Last week we explored how we can shape clay and this week we used our skills to make pinch pots. We then learnt about slip and how to attach pieces of clay together.

We have also begun some outdoor learning this week! Looe primary have been very lucky to have an orienteering course set out on our playgrounds. We had a go at a 'five a day dash' course and practised our map reading. The children really enjoyed trying to find the right checkpoints and gather all the clues.

In Miss Bolger's Drawing and Craft club this week, we have been focusing on leaf rubbings. We gathered our leaves outside and then made beautiful collages using different colours! They look wonderful. If any children would like to join our club there is still space. Just pop me an email.

Well done Year 1 and 2, another great week.

Miss Bolger

Fab Fitness and Sock Puppet Designs

On Wednesday, we celebrated National Fitness Day by participating in a range of fitness activities throughout the day. We had so much fun doing this and enjoyed moving our bodies! 

During Wider Curriculum lessons this week, we have continued to explore 'Who Rules the Animal Kingdom?' in Science, by exploring world habitats. We explored a range of big habitats and then chose our own to research. In Music, we have been composing eight beat patterns using body percussion. In DT this half term, we will be making our very own animal sock puppets. Today we had a go at creating some designs. Over the next few weeks, we will explore joining materials and sewing, before creating our sock puppets. 

In English, we have spent the week working hard on writing our postcards inspired by Meerkat Mail. Today, we began writing up our neat copies, which we hope to finish early next week. 

In Maths, we have been working hard on Place Value, recognised hundreds, tens and ones and counting on a number line to 1,000. As we near the end of this unit, we will be moving on to Addition and Subtraction.

Congratulations to Ida and Tommy for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week, and a big well done to Sonny for achieving his 55 club badge this week. 

Some wonderful news, Jemima was chosen as one of the winners of the Polperro Arts Foundation Postcard Competition. She produced a wonderful postcard, which has been printed and can be purchased in the village. Well done Jemima! 

Reminder - We have our class trip on Wednesday 1st October to Dartmoor Zoo. 

We hope you have a super weekend and look forward to seeing you next week. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

w/e 26/9/25

What a lovely week in Duckpool class!

Making the most of the beautiful September sunshine, PE for this half term has been all about orienteering and we've enjoyed following maps and directions to collect clues to solve puzzles. Huge thanks to Mrs Williamson for organising the fun sessions, which have shown our fantastic grounds at their best. Also, as you can see, we've been having  great fun in the builder's yard.

Art has been a revelation too as we're working on drawing self portraits using our own poetry from the very first week of term..yes, it's hard to imagine we know. As soon as they're finished, we'll be super keen to share them with you.

In computing, we're learning all about systems and networks, as always knowing how to use technology both safely and respectfully is central to this. We're also using Showbie our new Trust program across the curriculum and becoming quite proficient already.

This half term term's RE focuses upon what it means to be a Humanist in Britain Today, whilst PSHE is based on Being Me and particularly on facing new challenges positively and setting personal goals. French is also Being Me this half term, so we've been practising introducing ourselves and having brief conversations.

Last but certainly not least, in music we're learning about musical terms such as dynamics, pitch, ostinato and timbre, then putting them into action. Our Y4 children are also having weekly violin lessons, so please ask them how it's going.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

What a busy and inspiring week it has been in Year 5/6KN!

We began the week with a fantastic visit from poet Matt Windle, who brought poetry to life in such an exciting and memorable way. His energy and creativity inspired us to write and perform our own class poem all about our aspirations, goals, and how we will achieve them. Working together, we produced a brilliant piece called Kite's Kind Kebabios, which we performed with confidence and pride.

Here is our poem:

Kite's Kind Kebabios

Have the courage to be yourself;
Work hard for the trophy on your shelf.
You'll be proud that you've done the right thing:
That single spark is inspiring.

It's OK to make mistakes,
Be determined and do what it takes.
Be confident and never back down,
Step right up and stand your ground.

We're Kite's kind kebabios, these are our bars.
If you work hard, you can be a star!
So chase your dreams and never give in,
Even a loss can lead to a win!

Alongside our poetry, we have been working hard across the curriculum:

• Maths - We have focused on rounding numbers, comparing and ordering numbers, and placing numbers accurately on a number line.

• Science - Our topic has led us to explore life cycles and gestation periods in different animals, which sparked some very interesting discussions.

• Online Learning - A reminder that we use an online platform called Atom Learning to support the children's learning. Each week, we set 'assignments' linked to what we have been covering in class. Please do encourage your child to check in regularly.

As part of our rewards and celebrations, we have been linking our learning with Forest School sessions. This week, the children enjoyed lighting fires and toasting marshmallows - a perfect opportunity to work together, celebrate achievements and build skills for life. Have a look at some of our photos to see the fun we had!

It has been a week full of creativity, challenge and teamwork. We are very proud of the effort Year 5 and 6 have put into their learning - well done, everyone!

Tregantle Class - Enjoying the Sunshine!

What a wonderful week we've had in Tregantle! The sunshine has given us lots of opportunities to take our learning outside, and the children have loved making the most of our garden space. From digging and building in the giant sandpit, to splashing and pouring in the water area, and getting creative in the mud kitchen - there has been so much fun and discovery happening outdoors.

This week also marked our very first Wild Tribe session! The children went on a leaf hunt, collecting and comparing the many different shapes, sizes, and colours they found. Using their leaves, they created fantastic face shapes, showing amazing imagination and teamwork. We ended the session by pretending we were leaves blowing gently in the wind - such a lovely way to finish our outdoor adventure.

Back in class, our learning is moving full steam ahead.
In phonics, the children have now learned all 10 of our first sounds - what an incredible achievement! In maths, we've been practising our counting skills and are working hard to count and order numbers to 5. Tregantle are quickly becoming expert counters!

It has been a wonderful week of sunshine, learning, and creativity - we can't wait to see what next week brings!

The children at Storytellers have been making the most of the autumn sunshine today by harvesting their very own potatoes!

With big smiles and muddy hands, they loved digging through the soil to find the hidden treasures beneath. Along the way, they discovered some of the amazing creatures that help the soil stay healthy - from wriggly worms to busy beetles - and even came across a tiny baby frog! The children carefully returned it to the pond area, learning more about how all these creatures play an important part in nature.

Welcome back!

Welcome back to another year of Learning at Copper Valley ARC. We said a sad goodbye to 3 of our Y6 pupils in July who are now all attending their secondary settings. We will miss them and wish them all the best. This term we are welcoming Rhys into our ARC. Rhys is transitionning at present and will build up gradually to full school days. 

Our ARC has had a re-vamp over the holidays to make the setting more appropriate for our current cohort of learners, most of whom are pre-verbal. We hope you like the pictures. We are all enjoying our new space.

We have now split into 2 groups of learners. Our first group are working predominantley on communication; we are using a total communication approach, supporting spoken word with visuals and makaton. Our second group is accessing some National Curriculum content with a focus on individual interests and building up engagement. 

w/e 19.9.25

Well, what a busy start to the Autumn term it's been for Perranporth class!

Firstly, to launch our 'Rivers' topic, we took our first trip to Coombe Woods to do a spot of water sampling for the Great UK WaterBlitz. We were testing for nitrates and phosphates in water samples taken from 3 different locations. It needed to be absolutely accurate as we had to send our results off to help monitor water quality in this important investigation. Hopefully, we've produced some scientists of the future and we thought you might like to see some photos.

Workwise, in English we're writing our own diary entries based on the book 'The Beasties' and focusing on using descriptive language along with accurate grammar and punctuation. Handwriting and presentation are also a focus for this half term.

In maths, we're working on Place Value and numbers to 1,000,000, as well as concentrating on our times tables.

This half term term's science is all about Properties of Materials, with lots of opportunities planned for practical investigations. Whereas Geography is based on the topic 'What are rivers and how are they used?'

So, that's just a few subjects to be going on with, more about the rest of the curriculum next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

We've had a busy first couple of weeks and the children have all worked hard. The children have enjoyed exploring some of the new things in the classroom and building friendships with children new to our school. Here are just a few photos of some of the things we have been up to. 

This week, in Science we sketched habitat maps of our school and identified the microhabitats we could find. All of the children worked so hard on these and the results were fantastic! In Music, we have been working on repeating patterns and composing our own with the class. During Geography, we learnt the 8 compass points, along with the location of the North and South Poles. We conducted research about each pole to understand what they are like as places. We have been developing our Fundamental skills in PE with Mrs Lister, which has been lots of fun! 

In English, we have been working hard on our descriptive writing and exploring 2A sentences. Today, we planned for writing our own postcards inspired by Meerkat Mail. Next week, we are looking forward to writing these up and creating our final postcards. 

In Maths, we have continued working hard on Place Value, focusing on partitioning. Presentation in our books has been a big focus this week, which all the children have taken great pride in. 

Congratulations to Alfie for being chosen as Landaviddy's Person of the Week. 

Reminders
Meet the Teacher is being held on Wednesday 24th September at 2.45pm. I look forward to seeing you all then. 

Wednesday 24th September is also National Fitness Day. On this day, the children are encouraged to come to school wearing sports clothes or their PE kit. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all next week. 

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton