Information for a new half term

Spring 1 in 5/6H

It has been an icy start back to the new term but the children have settled back into their learning with enthusiasm.

CURRICULUM

Our topics for this half term can be found in the overview that I have attached below. In addition to this you will find this half term’s Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) to practice with your child. I have also included the Year 5 and Year 6 recommended reads and statutory spelling lists.

PE

Our PE day has had to change to a THURSDAY – please remember that children should come into school in full PE kit.

CLASS BLOG

We will endeavour to regularly update this blog to give you a flavour of what we have covered in class, and also pass on any important information. To help us with this, please make sure that all permissions are up to date on Arbor so that we can share images as soon as possible.

SUPPORTING LEARNING AT HOME

In Upper Key Stage 2, it is important to support the children’s learning at home as much as possible. A reminder that our home learning expectations are:

Daily Reading (15 minutes) – recorded reading record to contribute to a Reading Karate reward

Times-tables and KIRF practice (20 minutes weekly) using TTRS and the KIRF sheets below

Spellings (20 minutes weekly)

Online learning – set on Atom Prime (logins will be stuck into children’s reading record)

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please do get in touch.

All the very best, Mr H and the Year 5/6 team

Welcome to Spring 1 2025 - we have loved welcoming everyone back this week. We weren't quite expecting the snow and ice that have challenged our transport routes this week but well done to all for travelling safely and working with us to keep everything going! We were treated to a beautiful blanket of white and a stunning view of the moors this morning so it was all worth it. Here's to a healthy and successful term again at St Cleer. 

Welcome back, we hope you had a wonderful holiday and are ready for an action packed Spring 1!
I've attached the plan below so you can all see the coverage for the term.
More updates and pictures will be added as we go through the term!
Mrs Alberts and Mrs Nute

Happy New Year

Welcome back everyone. It has been nice to see all of the children return to nursery this week and we had some new children start with us so we have enjoyed welcoming them into the nursery. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.

We have come back this week to some very cold wintery weather which goes perfectly with our enquiry question "Why is it cold in winter?"
The children have been exploring our snowy themed road on the tuft tray and have made some lovely handprint calendars to take home.
They have made handprint birds in the snow and we have started creating lolly stick snowmen.

At story time, we have been enjoying the book "The Gruffalo's child" and in phonics we have been talking about hospitals. The children have been clapping to a beat, matching hospital sounds to different instruments and trying to match objects to there initial sounds.

On the maths table, we have been making comparisons and looking at more than, fewer than or the same. The children are been encouraged to mark make and have a go at forming numbers 1-3 or beyond.

Have a lovely weekend

The Nursery Team 

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Spring Term; What a snowy start!

Year 3/4A have started their unit on Multiplication and Division in Math, talking about efficiency in methods and practising recall of related facts as well.
With the Year 4 MTC approaching in June, we've stepped up our daily activities and challenged ourselves to improve our scores each week, aiming for 25/25.

Please find attached your KIRFS and Timetable for the Spring Term. We're looking forward to our Ukulele lessons starting next Friday.

Happy New Year 2025. We have an action packed term planned ahead of us titled: What is life like in the Alps? We will use this topic to explore the peaks of this mountainous region and expand our knowledge of the geographical features of the area.

We will be writing a traditional tale based on Hansel and Gretel. However, we are changing the setting so that the children climb a mountain in The Alps and find a house made of cheese. Inside, they will be captured by an evil yeti who they will have to defeat!

In DT, we will designing and creating stuffed animals using blanket stitch. I am looking forward to researching animals found in The Alps and seeing the stuffed toys they produce. 

Please find the knowledge web below for more information on each subject.

I hope you all have a lovely week back, 

Miss Burton

Happy New Year! 

Welcome back!

We hope you all are ready to come back and meet all your Nursery friends again!

The Nursery adults are looking forward to seeing you all again, and we look forward to welcoming the new children who are starting this week.

We are settling back by revisiting our last story - The Gingerbread Man, and then we will be looking at a new focus story, which is Goldilocks and the 3 bears.

Have you got this story at home?

if you have, perhaps you can share a photo of yourself and the book on Tapestry so we can put it on our Tapestry display board?

Welcome to the Spring term. In the first half our wider curriculum will have a history focus with the enquiry question 'How was school different in the past?'
Below is the Curriculum web that shows what we will be learning in all of our subjects. The homework grid is also below and has been sent home in bookbags too.

Welcome to Tregantle class 2025! We are all very excited to jump into the new term and get started on some exciting learning! Our EYFS classroom is looking spectacular with a new clothes shop in our role play area and a new story area to become immersed in our EYFS book 'The Gruffalo's Child.' Our overview for learning for Year 1 is attached. We are really looking forward to finding out more about what schools were like in the past. See you all tomorrow! 

Happy New Year 2025. We have an action packed term planned ahead of us titled: What is life like in the Alps? We will use this topic to explore the peaks of this mountainous region and expand our knowledge of the geographical features of the area. 

Please note, on Monday 13th January, at 3.15pm, there will be a meet the teacher session with Mr Parry. It will be an informal meeting to discuss the curriculum for the rest of the term and to meet Mr Parry. 

Below, you will find a copy of the 'knowledge web' which will cover the topics of this term.

Best wishes, Mrs Swabey, Mr Parry, Mrs Walters, Mrs Payne and Miss Rowlands.

We've been learning about the animals that live in cold places. We looked at a globe and found the Arctic and Antarctica. We then sorted the animals according to where they live. We learnt some facts about these animals and had fun playing with them in our small world area. The children were challenged to write a list of five animals they might see if they went to the Arctic. I was impressed that they all remembered that penguins don't live there. We listened to a story about Hunter the polar bear who had to be rescued from a rocky ledge and flown back to his home in the Arctic. 

We looked at photographs of the Northern Lights and watched a short video clip. We then used chalk and pastels to create our own representations of them.

In maths we've been continuing to practise our subitising skills and number bonds to 5. We've also been learning about patterns and the children have been busy continuing repeating patterns using paint, chains and cubes.

We've been focusing on reading and writing CVC words using the letter sounds we've learnt so far this term. The children have really enjoyed hunting for the CVC pictures that I placed around the room. Many of the children were able to sound out the words independently and write them on their clipboards.

We've also been busy practising our nativity. The children were very brave to get up on the stage in front of an audience of their family and friends. 

What a lovely month of celebration and learning. 
The children did a fantastic job of learning lines and songs for the Key Stage One Nativity show which was a joy to watch. 
In maths we spent some weeks consolidating what we have learnt so far this term and really working on the rapid recall of number binds within 10.
We learnt abut the season of winter and used this as a subject for some descriptive writing. 
The term was rounded off with a special Christingle assembly shared with families.

This month we have continued to learn about how toys have changed through time. We asked our parent's about their favourite toys and we found out more about the differences between how toys are made now and how toys were made in the past. We had a go at making a cup and ball toy which was popular with children in the Victorian days.
The theme of toys continued into our DT learning. We explored and made toys with moving parts in preparation for making moving robots.
We learnt more about the NSPCC's 'Speak out. Stay safe' message and learnt about what could motivate us to speak out to a trusted adult. We also learnt the number for the NSPCC in case we feel we need to speak to an adult at the charity. 
In science we have used our knowledge of materials and their properties to make windproof and waterproof structures and have used our testing and observation skills to check our structures were up to the task. 

 

December

December was a busy month for us.

We had a successful ARC trip to Plymouth Theatre to see Raymond Briggs 'Father Christmas'. It even snowed in the theatre. The children enjoyed the show and there was much laughter throughout. 

As this was the Christmas Term, we looked at why Christmas is important to Christians. We discovered that for Christians, Advent is a time for preparing for Christmas and each candle as it is lit represents Faith, Hope, Peace, and Joy. The final one is the joy that Jesus was born. 

We also completed our Science module 'Animals including humans'. We looked at what is needed to keep animals and humans healthy and alive including exercise. 

December was full of Art and craft including making prints from our Literacy topic - books from Julia Donaldson. 

We enjoyed making our own Christmas tree, Christingle, decorations and Christmas cards.

And of course, much fun and laughter was had as we enjoyed our Christmas dinner, lovely food, crackers and our own hats that we made.

We hope you have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year.