The final full week as Y5.

The children of Talland Class have managed to round off their learning for this year by completing their Batik designs. They now understand how a wax resist works and recognise the effects of colour blending. Your art work has turned out fabulous, Talland Class. Thank you for all of your hard work.

Talland Class have used this last week to consolidate all of their learning from Y5 which has included: Writing an information piece of text about the Maya civilisation using their own research for the content: practising converting measurements which also involved converting metric to imperial measurement and vice versa; and evaluating their final virtual computer program.

Y5, you have all been amazing this year and have learned so much. Your dedication, resilience and perseverance has helped you achieve your goals. 

best wishes,

Mr Parry, Mrs Swabey and the Talland Class team (Mrs Walters and Ms Rowlands)

This week's jokes:

The seaside resort we visited last summer was so boring that one day the tide went out and never came back.

What did the beach say as the tide came in? Long time no sea.

What did the ocean say to the shore? Nothing it just waved.

Nearly the end... but we're still working hard!

On Tuesday the class did a wonderful performance to their parents and carers.  Year 1 children also came to join in with some of the songs and see what Lantic class had been learning on the drums.  It was a great show and the children have really enjoyed learning different songs and how to play the drums with Mrs Butlin.

During English lessons we have finished our own versions of 'Mr Gumpy's Outing' changing the characters and what they are NOT allowed to do... We have enjoyed coming up with ideas for what they get up to in our new stories.

In Maths, we have been learning about capacity and volume - perhaps over the weekend they could look at things around the home to find the capacity of them?

As we near the end of another wonderful year at Storytellers, we celebrated with a circus-themed day; the children all looked fantastic as they arrived as an array of clowns, acrobats and strong men! The children thoroughly enjoyed the large inflatable Circus, which housed a side, ball pool, obstacle course, and air shots. We had a delicious party lunch with a fabulous fruit elephant created by our clever cook, Sam!

A day full of laughter in the sunshine….what a perfect way to end the year.

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Art
In Art this week we have learned about the Japanese printing technique 'Hapa-Zome'. We used India Flint's printing work as our inspiration; finding out about a new artist for all of the children.

Next week is the final week of school for this academic year.  We are in school Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday, the children leave at 1.30pm.

Tuesday morning will be our class party and our whole class reward for the Summer Term.

Please do email if you have any questions.

The Year 4 Team
cpittas@looeprimary.co.uk 

Just popping up a few photos from our FANTASTIC trip to Plymouth Aquarium today. We had a fabulous day and the children were all super stars!

I'll pop some more up with the usual blog on Friday.
Mrs Taylor.

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We can’t quite believe how fast the weeks are flying by in preschool, with only one more full week to go!

This week we have enjoyed our story ‘Clean Up!’ A story about Rocket and her family who visit their grandparents in the Caribbean.  Sadly, on a trip to the beach they see a turtle that has been washed up tangled in plastic.  Rocket is so saddened that she decides to enlist the help of all the people on the beach to do a big clean up!  This story gave us a meaningful way to become aware of the plastic pollution that is destroying the wildlife and beautiful oceans and beaches around the world.

The children were all very keen to tell us what they knew about helping to keep beaches clean and enjoyed some group activities to show what was the right thing to do and not the right thing.  We are so pleased to say that all the children knew not to leave their rubbish behind when visiting a beach, and even said they would love to take part in a beach clean-up themselves!

The children have also been busy with lots of math's activities during the week, and it has been lovely to hear some of their confidence growing when exploring numbers.

With our last full week in preschool, we are looking forward to lots of play and fun games with our older friends who are leaving us to go to Class 1 in September.  Luckily we know we will still get to see them often. 

A reminder that we have our graduation for our leavers at 11.30am on Tuesday 23^rd July, this will be held in the Pumpkins room next door. Then followed by our teddy bears picnic out in our garden area.  If the weather is not suitable, we will be inside.  Please do bring a picnic blanket to sit on if you have one. 

We hope everyone has had an enjoyable weekend.

The Preschool Team

Year 6 have had a busy few weeks. There is always a lot going on at this time of year: the Summer Fayre, Sports Day, transition days to new secondary schools and SATs results to name a few.

Every-one in the Brunel Family is so incredibly proud of how well the children have done in their SATs. The hard work and dedication they have shown over the past 10 months has really paid off. Collectively, they have exceeded the National Average for results across all of the tests. Another huge thank-you goes out to everyone at home for the support and encouragement that has been in abundance throughout Year 6.

Year 6 have had a busy few weeks. There is always a lot going on at this time of year: the Summer Fayre, Sports Day, transition days to new secondary schools and SATs results to name a few.

Every-one in the Brunel Family is so incredibly proud of how well the children have done in their SATs. The hard work and dedication they have shown over the past 10 months has really paid off. Collectively, they have exceeded the National Average for results across all of the tests. Another huge thank-you goes out to everyone at home for the support and encouragement that has been in abundance throughout Year 6.

SATS Superstars

We are incredibly proud of our year six pupils who have had their SATS results this week. We have worked extremely hard in school and in after school club. Each pupil was set their own targets and they put their all into achieving it. The process of setting high expectations and working hard towards it - with all the ups and downs - will set them up perfectly for the next stage of their learning journey. It is an absolute pleasure to see them succeed and all of us at Blisland Primary are extremely proud of each one them.

This week has been a great week in Canute Class.

The children enjoyed a great P.E. day with the ARENA team and were all very tired on Thursday morning, showing how they gave all of their energy to the day!

In English this week the Year 1 and 2 children spent the start of the week editing their aquarium recounts and have been putting their handwriting practice into action by creating some 'final' copies of their recounts, including their edits to share with Tregeagle next week.
In Drawing Cub Reception have been sharing the story of Captain Pugwash.  They have been using fantastic phonic skills to write some great words and sentences.  They've used their imaginations to think about what the dragon might've wanted to eat next and the friends he might meet on Dragon Island so that he doesn't feel lonely anymore.

In Maths, Reception have been learning about sharing and grouping, Year 1 have been consolidating their learning on time by reading analogue clocks and making o'clock and half past times on their own clocks.  Year 2 have completed their work on statistics and are now learning about position and direction.

In Art, the class used natural objects for weaving and have produced some lovely patterns.

In History we have continued to look at explorers from the past, we have created a timeline to show the events of Christopher Columbus' expedition to The Americas and dug deeper into Matthew Henson's expedition to the North Pole.

We had a super music session with Mrs Butlin, working with Tregeagle.

On Monday the school are very lucky to be having a second P.E. day with ARENA.

On Friday we have our Pirate Day, dig out your best costumes and practice your pirate vocabulary!

Mrs Andrew, Mrs Fernie, Miss Taylor, Miss Talbot

What was Farming in Cornwall like in the Past?

What a whirlwind of a week Landaviddy class have had! 

To continue our enquiry question 'What's On Our Doorstep?' during our Wider Curriculum lesson this week, we discovered what Farming was like in Cornwall in the past but examining photographic evidence. We compared photographs and began to develop our oracy skills through discussion.

In Art, we sketched repeated patterns we observed around us and then cut out a motif to be used as a stamp for a repeated, rotated print. We learnt about how our muscles contract and relax in Science. Can you recall what the muscles in your arms are called? What happens to them when you bend your arm?

We also got in the pool this week on a sunny Thursday afternoon, despite the rain for most of the week! We worked on our breath work and enjoyed playing water tag.

In Maths, Year 2 have been exploring telling the time to o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Year 3 have been measuring in m, cm and mm.

English *BREAKING NEWS* - We received a letter from 'Peter Pluto' this week, detailing that aliens are planning to destroy Cornwall's natural environment, to make way for the galaxy's first ever milky-way supermarket! We couldn't believe it! So next week, we will be planning and writing persuasive letters to try and change their minds!

Congratulations to Emma and Flora for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Reuben for his 55 club and Anya for her 66 club!

Reminder - On Monday 15th July is a mufti day, where we will be asking for donations of an item matching your child's house team colour to create hampers for raffles prizes. Children can wear their own clothes and this could include wearing their house colour. 

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

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips and Miss Bowden