Well, this half term seems to be zooming by with only one more to go until half term!

This week I have seen a huge range of creative learning experiences going on around the school. Class 4 have had fun investigating the buoyancy of their tin foil boats whilst scientists in Class 3 have been making telephones with cups and string as part of their learning about sound vibrations. Class 1 have been learning about all things royal and have been particularly enjoying the outside learning areas which adults have been working hard to develop this half term. A huge well done to children in Class 2 who have been studiously working hard on their SATs tests this week; we are extremely proud of all of their achievements.

A massive THANK YOU to the lovely parents who came and painted our playhouse last weekend! They not only donated the paint but also gave up their own time to improve our learning environment and we are extremely grateful. Congratulations to the pupils who received certificates in this week’s celebration assembly. As always these certificates are given by the teachers for a range of achievements but there was a special round of a applause to the children who received their Fowey Festival certificates this week too.

On Friday 27th May, we will be holding our Queen’s Jubilee celebrations. Children are invited to come to school dressed in red, white and blue, and are welcome to dress up with a royal theme but this is optional! The children will be having a whole day of Jubilee celebrations, spending the morning taking part in a range of royal activities followed by a whole school street party. For this day of festivities, we are asking parents/carers for a £1 donation. This money will be used to cover the cost of the refreshments for our street party. FOPs will also be holding a cake sale on this day, straight after school under the year 2 shelter. Money raised from this will be used to buy new play equipment for the playground.

Coming up:

• Friday 27th May – Jubilee celebration day and FOPS cake sale after school

• Thursday 14th July 6-8pm - Return of the Summer Neon Disco. Save the date! Tickets on sale after half term

• 30th May – 3rd June HALF TERM WEEK School closed

• 10th June INSET DAY School closed to all pupils

Happy Friday! 

KS2 SATS

I’d like to start by saying a huge WELL DONE to our Year 6 pupils who have worked immensely hard this week and taken their Key Stage 2 SATs. Every child arrived at school each day early to enjoy a hearty breakfast and boy did they enjoy it! All of us here are incredibly proud of the positive and extremely hard working attitudes displayed by our oldest pupils this week. We have certainly seen a lot of ‘Keep going Kangaroos!’ You will find some photos of their breakfast club in the gallery below. 

Celebration Assembly

Well done to all of the children who received certificates for achievements in our celebration assembly today. In the photo gallery, you will see photos of this week’s stars and also some photos from last week’s assembly. (Due to technical difficulties I was unable to blog last week and am truly sorry about that!) Also in the hall this week, we have enjoyed Class 1 sharing their learning with us. To enhance their classroom learning about hedgehogs they used clay to create some very cute hedgehogs in their forest school session and even built them some cosy nests.

Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations

On Friday 27th May, we would like to invite all children to come to school dressed in red, white and blue to commemorate the Queen’s Jubilee. Children are more than welcome to take this non-uniform day to the next level by dressing up with a royal theme but this is optional! The children will be having a whole day of Jubilee celebrations, spending the morning taking part in a range of royal activities followed by a whole school street party. For this day of festivities, we are asking parents/carers for a £1 donation. This money will be used to cover the cost of the refreshments for our street party, and any left over money will be put towards FOPs latest fund raising project which is to buy new play equipment for the playground.

On the 5th June, the Parish Council are organising a Community Picnic on the school field. Please see attached flyer for details. The children will be taking part in a craft competition (don’t worry they will complete the craft at school), which will be judged by Reverend Richard. There will be 6 prizes in total and the winners will be announced at 2pm at the community picnic.

Playground refresh

I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to the members of our community who have already donated items for our playground refresh project. So far we have received some pallets, tyres, outdoor paint and time for which we are extremely grateful. This week, we are asking if anyone has any unwanted pots and pans, metal or wooden spoons for our Pinterest inspired Music Wall. If you feel that you could help with this, do contact the school office.

Walk to School Week

Next week (WB 16th May) is national Walk to School Week so we are encouraging as many pupils as possible to come to school by foot, bike or scooter. We appreciate that some of you live too far to walk the whole way, but we’d appreciate your support with getting the message across, by endeavouring to walk at least PART of your journey. The children will be exploring the benefits of reducing use of cars during this week’s assemblies.

What a great start to our Summer term! The sun has graced us with its presence so we have all been outside on the field enjoying the rays at every opportunity. On Tuesday, we had a whole school assembly where the children learnt some interesting (questionable!) facts about me, Mrs Orme. And I was gobsmacked to find out that only one child in the whole school had heard of Take That! I have thoroughly enjoyed my first week at Pelynt and am already starting get to know lots of your children, who have given me such a warm welcome. Every time walk into a room I am greeted by excited cries of ‘Mrs Orme!’, which has just been so lovely.

Church of England Service

Year 5 trip to Liskeard firestation.

Our Year 5 children had a wonderful opportunity to visit Liskeard fire station to take part in the junior life skills events. They visited the stands hosted but GWR, Devon and Cornwall Police, Cornwall Council and the Tri Service. The children were actively involved in learning about safety on the railway, internet safety and they even tried some CPR techniques with the support the Tri team. It was a wonderful morning, topped of by the fantastic opportunity to fire the fire hoses!! Even I got to have a go.
The children were impeccably behaved and gained a lot from the experience. 

Learning enquiry topics

Each term the classes embark on a new learning enquiry topic. They work together to decide what they want to find out about and generate questions. These learning topics are brought to life in the classrooms in a variety of ways. Class 1 created a large 3D map of London in the role play area, Class 2 came to school dressed as someone famous. It was wonderful to see so many creative ideas and it was lovely to hear the children explaining who they were dressed up as. Class 3 had a Roman day to kick start this terms topic, they dressed up and experienced eating Roman foods and learning about the clothing worn during this time. Class 4 have become movie makers this week as part of their English learning. It is always wonderful to see how engaged the children are in their learning. Thank you to all our parents for your support with dressing up J

Cycling

This term some of our children have benefited from Bikeabilty and Balanceability. It has been lovely to see the Year 4 children learning about safety and also watching the younger children whizzing around the hall on the balance bikes. Their confidence grew tremendously in the sessions.

COVID update

Unfortunately we experienced a number of COVID cases this month but we are happy to be welcoming those children back into school now. Our bubble system enabled us to make sure that this didn’t have an impact on the whole school. Although some of the government’s COVID restrictions are due to be reduced in the following weeks, I wanted to assure you that our protocols within school will remain the same. We endeavour to do our best to protect.

Community services.

You will have received a flyer about the lamb service being held this Sunday. It has been organised by the church and promises to provide some lovely hands on experiences for the children. I hope that some of you might be able to attend.

I have also had an invite to attend a tree planting ceremony at 3:30pm on Friday 28^th January. The Parish Council has been given a Landmark Tree from Forest for Cornwall to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and are proposing to plant the tree, a flowering cherry, on The Green, Pelynt. So weather permitting I will be there and would like to invite any of you who would like to join me to come along too.

Merry Christmas

The school has been filled with festive cheer and the children have taken part in some wonderful activities. We even had a special visit from Santa just before the class parties. It was very exciting. 


On behalf of all the staff and children, I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. We look forward to welcoming you back in the New Year on Tuesday 4th January 2022.


Please see our winners for the decorated Christmas Stocking below.
Jasmine in Class 4 was the lucky winner of the Christmas Hamper name the donkey competition with Brownie.
 

The children are always so keen to support a charity and to learn about the significance of the work that the charity does. This term the children in class 4 sold the poppy items and we all came to school in non-inform for Children in Need. As a small school it is hard to raise large quantities but we are always keen to contribute in whatever way we can.

Thank you to everyone for your support for both the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal and Children in Need. 
We raised £152.35 for the poppy appeal, which is our highest yet. The total for the district was £3761, we are really proud to have played a part in that.

We also raised £68.70 for Children in Need.

The whole school dedicated learning time to Remembrance this week. They produced some wonderful pieces of art which were taken to Pelynt Spar, in order to decorate the shop.
This beautiful picture was created at home by Scarlet.