Showtime!

What a fantastic couple of performances the EYFS/KS1 children did of 'Whoops-a-Daisy Angel'!  The children really enjoyed doing both the shows, which I think showed in their performances and we know the adults that came and watched enjoyed it too.

The children visited the Christmas Tree festival on Friday - it is one of our favourite times of the year... They loved finding the Brunel tree and seeing all the other decorated trees - some are a real inspiration!

In Science the children sorted different materials into magnetic and non-magnetic - shhh... don't tell Mrs. Williamson that we even tested her coffee!  During our DT lesson the children worked collaboratively at building their Tudor buildings after planning them a week ago.  They are starting to look amazing - Thank you for all the donated boxes! 
 

The children all looked wonderful in their Christmas jumpers today. Thanks to your generous donations we have raised £51 for Save the Children.
Christmas dinner was enjoyed by all, we had crackers and squash donated by the PTFA and Christmas music to sing and dance along to. Thank you to Mrs Crago and her elf for cooking us another lovely Christmas dinner.

Incredible artists

We have really enjoyed getting stuck into our Art topic this half term about portraits.  Focusing on Lucien Freud (a celebrated portrait artist) we have enjoyed evaluating his famous portraits and trying to develop our own artistic styles.

We have considered Freud's use of colours and tried to develop different skin tones as well as working on our sketching skills.

We have challenged ourselves to move out of our comfort zones and use different styles and techniques than we usually would.  We are very please with the results so far!

R/1 have been very busy the last few weeks, we have been preparing for our Nativity, dressing up for Elf Day, learning about why we celebrate Christmas and why it is important to Christians, learning about 2D and 3D shapes, innovating the story of Where the Wild Things Are and drawing wonderful pictures linked to Picasso!
We have just finished learning about shape and finished with a shape hunt around the school grounds.
Yesterday we walked around the village looking for Human and Physical features, we have been learning about our local area in our Learning Adventure!!
This afternoon we will demonstrating our singing skills in Church!

Friday 13th December

We have had such a jammed packed week of exploring and learning!

We have been practicing our writing by labelling items in Santa’s sack! The children have worked hard t use their phonics to help them write small words!

We have been using the Christmas theme to match Christmas tree numbers to amounts of baubles. We went all the way to 20!

The children are coming to the end of level 2 again, with the emphasis on writing and have done really well. Next week we will be assessing the children. After Christmas we will begin level 3! We will be sending the weekly phonic sheets back out again after Christmas so that you can join in with the learning at home! They are progressing so well!

The children have also; made a dancing reindeer, made swirly snowmen, cut and decorated winter scenes, made a reindeer face and so much more!

The children have been practicing their Christmas performance and we were so impressed with the magical performance they joined in with, on Wednesday and Thursday! All the adults were so proud of them! It was fantastic! Thank you for coming, it was lovely to see so many of you.

Next week is the last week of the Autumn term. School will close at 1:30pm on Friday 20^th so please collect children at the usual door at 1:30pm please.

Have a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team 

Tree Festival

We’ve had such a super Christmassy week in Tregantle Class! We began the week with our amazing performances of ‘Whoops-a-Daisy Angel.’ It was a joy to see so many Brunel friends and family join us with cheerful singing and encouragement. Visiting the Christmas tree festival at St Nichollas and Faith Church has, as always, been a real highlight of the Brunel Christmas calendar. The children were delighted and amazed to see all of the beautiful trees. They really enjoyed taking part in our treasure hunt where they had to find specific decorations around the church. Merry Christmas everyone!

It has been an incredibly festive week at Brunel. Please keep up with our latest news from this week in The Brunel Bulletin.

Another lovely week in Marazion class - busy and fun!

We watched the EYFS/KS1 performance and can't wait to see the Nursery one next week. We've been busy rehearsing our Christingle service and hope to see all parents and carers at St Stephens Church next Wednesday at 6pm!

On Thursday, we visited the church for the Christmas Tree Festival - always a festive favourite and the children wowed the whole of Fore street by singing Christmas carols beautifully the whole way!

In Science on Friday, we found out about freezing points and carried out another experiment!

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Another lovely week in Daymer class - busy and fun!

We watched the EYFS/KS1 performance and can't wait to see the Nursery one next week. We've been busy rehearsing our Christingle service and hope to see all parents and carers at St Stephens Church next Wednesday at 6pm!

On Thursday, we visited the church for the Christmas Tree Festival - always a festive favourite! Lots of glorious photos of everyone in the files below!

In Science on Friday, we found out about freezing points and carried out another experiment!

Christmas has arrived at Storytellers; the children created their letters to Father Christmas and were lucky to have our wonderful postman collect them! They have been assembling beautiful decorations and enjoying Santa's post office while often dressed in various festive outfits, which always bring a smile to everyone’s faces. 

Storytellers had a magical day visiting Father Christmas in his beautiful grotto; the children embraced everything on offer: riding reindeer, making snow angels, decorating gingerbread, and talking to Father Christmas and the elves. We enjoyed a delicious lunch together and even had chocolate cake to take home! 

River Exploration with Trenode

On Wednesday the 11th, as a culmination of our geography work on rivers and their uses, Class 2 walked to the moor to find the start of the river Seaton. 

We were joined in this by Mr Abraham and his class from Trenode Academy. The children made friends and the children at Darite really enjoyed showing the visitors around the area. 

We looked at the mine workings and how humans have affected the physical geography of the area with spoil heaps, dams to create the donkey pool and the pits in the South Caradon mine. 

The children had a great time and were superb ambassadors for the school and themselves. It is great to have chances to work closely with other schools in the trust and we have already put plans in action to visit Trenode and Blisland later in the year.

Christmas is well under way here in nursery. The children have been super busy creating lots of lovely artwork and some lovely things to take home with them. They have been busy cutting, sticking and wrapping "presents" on the tuft tray ready to put under our Christmas tree and have been doing a super job of writing and forming recognisable letters to create name snowman.

At story time, we have enjoyed the books "Hurry Santa!" and "Through the North Pole snow".
In phonics we have tried to recreate sounds that we have heard with instruments and have been naming them. The children have been learning more about rhyming words and have been thinking of words that rhyme with pen, cat and dog.

In maths we have been exploring and building with shapes and the children have been completing inset puzzles.

Today (Friday) we have all been wearing our Christmas jumpers. Thank you for your kind donations for Save the Children.
This afternoon we had our nursery nativity. Thank you to everyone that came. The children all did such a great job and we were so proud of them.
We look forward to next week where we will enjoy Christmas dinner on Wednesday and our nursery party on Friday 12-1.15pm.

Just a reminder that Friday is our last day before the holidays and we finish at 1.30pm.

See you next week
The Nursery Team

Thank you to year 3 and year 4 who contributed a tree this year to the Christmas tree festival at St Cleer church. We are looking forward to seeing it up close when we visit the church for our Christmas celebration on Friday.