Happy weekend everyone!

Thank you to those of you who joined us at the church on Friday afternoon for our Trelawny Day service, it was great to see you there.

We have enjoyed lots of different learning experiences in class this week and have tried to get outside as much as possible to enjoy the wonderful weather we have had. Please ensure your child has a refillable water bottle and a hat in school with them each day, thank you. 

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item that is special to you. See if you can find out who gave the item to you and be ready to explain why the item is special to you. Please bring the item in on Thursday morning or if emailing a photo please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Well done to those children who have been reading at home, we do enjoy giving out reading karate bands and certificates during celebration assembly. Keep up the great work! 

Have a lovely weekend

Class 1 Team

We have had another wonderful week together in Class 1!

Here's a brief overview of just some of our learning...

In maths this week we have been exploring grouping and sharing. We were grouping for a purpose and dividing a set of objects by placing a certain number in each group. We ended the week with odd and even sharing, we were each given different a different amount of buttons and had to say whether we had an odd or even number, we investigated this by sharing the buttons out. 

In art we started to paper mache a balloon which we hope to turn into a piece of art linked to artist Jane Tomlinson over the coming weeks... watch this space! 

We have also been practicing for sports day, we look forward to welcoming you to our sports day and family picnic next Friday 21st from 9:30-1pm. 

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: A photograph of you at the beach. Please bring the photograph in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Class 1 Team

Welcome back to Summer term 2!

Thank you to those of you who joined us for our service at the church on Thursday morning.

During maths this week we have focused on sharing equally and unequally. We particularly enjoyed sharing the conkers between two squirrels! We have learnt that when sharing we need to give one to each person/ animal in turn, rather than giving multiples to begin with. 

In English, our story this week was 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'. We have been writing character descriptions, sequencing the story and labelling parts of a lighthouse. 

In art we designed a bird that we are hoping to make out of paper mache in the coming weeks. We started to explore artist Jane Tomlinson and enjoyed looking at and discussing some of her artwork. 

This week we had our first PE session with our Arena coach. We will be working on various athletic skills in readiness for our Sports Day.

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item/object that you have found at the beach. Please bring the item/photograph in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Please find the curriculum map which outlines our learning for this half term in the uploads below. 

Enjoy your weekend!

Class 1 Team

Hello everyone

Here's an insight into some of our learning in Class 1 this week....

In PE we have been developing our awareness of distance and weight and if we were able to throw in a coordinated way for accuracy. We had three hoops to throw the bean bags into and had to adjust the way we threw the bean bag to enable us to try and reach the hoop that was the furthest away. We then completed a carousel of activities such as hoopla, target practice and throwing bean bags over a distance. 

Our focus in Maths has been around shapes. We have been selecting shapes for a purpose, exploring how shapes will appear once they have been rotated, manipulating shapes and making tangram pictures. 

In English, we have been reading the story 'Superworm'. We have been thinking of adjectives to describe Superworm and Wizard Lizard and then writing our own character descriptions. We have also been practising writing a list when writing what rubbish Superworm finds underground. 

In art we used Lichtenstein’s “Ben Day Dots” as inspiration to create a piece of artwork. We used pop art style dots to show colour without filling a space completely. We are all so proud of our pieces! 

In PSHE we have been looking at using ‘calm me time’ to manage our feelings. We spoke about if we had ever felt angry and discussed different ways we could calm down. One of the ways we spoke about was to listen to calm music. We decided we wanted to do some drawing whilst listening to calm music. 

The theme for Show and Tell is: Free Choice. As it is the last day of the term I thought the children could choose something of their own choice to bring in and tell us about. Please bring into school on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Points to note for next week:
Class 1 Assembly on Wednesday 9am - children to come to school wearing their Superhero costume.
INSET Day on Friday

Class 1 Team

Hello everyone

The weather has been so kind to us this week and we have enjoyed our learning experiences outside. 

Our maths learning this week has been focused on adding and taking away. We have enjoyed playing different games to help us understand the principles such as 'Pirate treasure' and 'Race to zero'. 

Our English this week has been based around stories and non-fiction texts about real-life superheroes. We wrote sentences about what Bear's friends did to help him feel better in the story 'Bear Feels Sick' and wrote sentences to describe what happened to Tim in the story 'Topsy and Tim go to Hospital'. We looked at non-fiction texts about the emergency services and wrote about the role of a firefighter, police officer and doctor. 

During art, we started to create our own piece of artwork inspired by Andy Warhol involving a colour wash background and printing with real fruits...photos will follow when our pieces are complete. We also completed another component of some artwork we started inspired by Roy Lichtenstein. 

We learnt a very important number this week - 999! We looked at how technology is used by the emergency services and learnt what to do in an emergency, including role-playing how to make a 999 call. 

We learnt about plants and growing including four of the basic things that a seed needs to grow. We then went outside and planted tomato, radish and lettuce seeds in our large bed. We also planted some sunflower seeds in the tyres. We are looking forward to observing the changes and watering our seeds to help them grow! 


The theme for Show and Tell this week is: A hobby/ a skill that you can demonstrate or tell everyone about. Please bring in any items or photographs (if required) on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Happy Bank Holiday weekend!

We have had another wonderful week in Class 1.

In our art learning this week we finished off our artwork inspired by Andy Warhol and used a stylus, an iPad and paint to create our own superhero themed logo. See the image gallery below for some examples! 

Our focus in PE was all about jumping. We talked about how we could be successful by using our arms to help us swing forwards and upwards, leaning forward and taking off and bending and then straightening our legs. We then jumped over the 'stream' using different kinds of jump such as 'jump off one foot' and 'run and jump one foot to both feet'. We practiced this on 'streams' with both narrow and wide banks! 

Our story for our English learning this week has been 'Supertato, Evil Pea Rules'! We received a letter in Class 1 and when we read it, we found out Evil Pea had taken all our Supertatos and trapped them! We decided we needed to catch him so we made some traps out of different construction materials. We also made some 'Wanted' posters and put them up around the school. Luckily we caught him and our Supertatos were returned to us! Well done Class 1!

In Maths we have really tried hard with recognising numerals and representing the number on a ten frame using counters. We then tried adding a given number using different coloured counters and telling the adults how many we had altogether. 

The theme for Show and Tell this week is: An item/object that is special to you. Please bring in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday. 

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.

Class 1 Team

Hello everyone,

It was great to see you all at our 'Family Friday' this week, we hope you all enjoyed the different activities! 

In maths our main focus this week was around verbal counting and patterns. We practiced counting forwards and backwards from different starting points as well as looking at a hundred square to identify, discuss and start to explain the patterns we noticed. We also used a set of number cards, put them in order and then played ‘Which one is missing?’ 

This week in English our learning has been based around the story 'Supertato'; clearly a firm favourite for the children! We have been labelling the characters and using adjectives to describe Evil Pea and Supertato. We also made our own 'super veggie' and wrote a description of what our 'super veggie' looks like and their superpowers.  

Our art learning this week saw us start to learn about two of our focus artists; Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. We looked at examples of their work, discussed what we noticed and then started to create our own inspired pieces.  We used photos and crayons to create a piece of art inspired by Andy Warhol where each child had four identical pictures of themselves that they coloured using crayons. The children will make this into a collage and we look forward to sharing these pieces with you. We also used pop art style dots to show colour without filling a space completely. We looked at Lichtenstein’s “Ben Day Dots” to create a piece inspired by his theory, we have made a good start on this and will continue with it next week. 

In RE we have been looking at ‘special places’. We visited our local church and discussed what we could see and why it is important for Christians.

As our story this week was Supertato, we have been exploring floating and sinking with fruits and vegetables. We learnt what a prediction is and made predictions first before testing the fruits and vegetables. We discussed why some float and why some sink, and why some of them floated first and then sank. We then explored floating and sinking with other objects.

We also went on a superhero rescue! A villain (Evil Pea) sent a note to the children explaining that he had taken 'Ted'. The children had a series of clues to follow which they hoped would lead them to Ted. The clues were solved accurately and when they found Ted on the PE shed they had one final question to answer about the focus text we have been using this week. Great superhero problem solving everyone! Well done!

We are going to have a themed weekly 'Show and Tell' which will be on a Thursday. The theme for next week is 'A favourite place you have visited'. We will ask the children to tell us about the item/photograph and ask them a couple of questions too. The children can bring in an item from the place they have visited or a photograph or you can email any photos to me at this address: rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk **Please note, if you are emailing me any photos to ensure that they are sent before 8:30am on Thursday so that they are ready to show on Thursday morning, many thanks.**

Points to remember....
- As the weather warms up please ensure your child brings a drinks bottle to school each day filled with water.
- Please ensure sun cream is applied before school; we are unable to apply sun cream at school.
- Please ensure your child brings a sunhat to school. 
- Below we have attached some optional homework activities, based around our learning about Superheroes this term. The children can do as many of the activities as they wish. Please do take photos or bring the homework activities to school so we can give them house points for their amazing work! You will also be sent a copy of these home on Monday.

Class 1 Team

What lovely weather we've had this week to welcome the children back to school for the summer term! It has been wonderful to spend some time outside in our outside area and for our PE lessons. We started our new learning for this half term, our big question is 'What is a superhero?' The children are very excited about this topic!

During our maths learning this week, we were focusing on building numbers and continuing patterns beyond 10. We practiced counting to 20 using the stable order counting principle. We practiced counting both forwards and backwards. We then explored counting and building amounts and explaining what number we had built. The children were starting to notice patterns they could see e.g. ten and 1, ten and 2, ten and 3 etc. They then said that "the number after the one was going up by one each time". We will continue with this strand of learning next week where we will be further investigating pattern and verbal counting. 

In English, to introduce our new 'big question' we begun the week by looking at some very familiar superheroes and writing their names and their superpowers.  Our story this week was 'Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero'. We wrote about the superpowers Eliot used in the story and what he used them for. We also  looked at when speech bubbles are used in stories; we then wrote some speech bubbles for the characters in the story.

In RE we have started to discuss which places are special and why. We talked about places that are special to us, for example, places to be happy, to have fun, to be quiet or to feel safe. The children came up with some lovely ideas, including, the beach, the park, the woods, the playground and their bedroom.

In PSHE we have started our unit on 'Relationships' and this week we have been looking at our families. Mrs Forbes shared a photo of her family; if any of the children would like to bring in a photo of their family to share during our PSHE circle time next week on Wednesday we would love to see them. 

Our art learning this week involved creating a piece of artwork...more information to follow soon! 

The children each took their tricky word bags home on Friday, please see the note inside which provides some more information. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. 

School photos are next Friday - please ensure all children are wearing their school uniform. 

Class 1 Team

Hello everyone

We cannot believe we have just completed the last full week of Spring term 2! Just 4 days to go next week!

We had an exciting music lesson with Mrs Butlin this week after our singing assembly. We learnt a funny duck dance and had to move like the different members of the duck family and listen carefully to when the music changed. Mrs Butlin also showed us her clarinet. She told us all about it and she played it for us, we listened carefully to the sound it made and how she moved her fingers to change the pitch.

In our maths learning this week we have started learning about 3D shapes. We started off by being able to recognise the shapes and then started to learn their names. We have learnt about these shapes: cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, pyramid, sphere. We then started to use mathematical vocabulary to describe the properties such as all of the faces on a cube are flat. Towards the end of the week, we were finding 2D shapes within 3D shapes. We used paint to print the 3D shapes and identified which 2D shapes we could see. On Friday we were using 3D shapes for tasks where we had 3D shapes and a ramp. We had to explore which 3D shapes rolled down the ramp and which did not and then explain what we noticed about the shapes that did not roll. After that, we explored which shapes stacked and which did not, we investigated which properties made it a good shape for stacking.

In English this week our learning has been based around the story 'Katie and the Dinosaurs'. We used describing words to describe one of the scenes in the land of the dinosaurs and wrote about where we thought Katie would take Grandma at the end of the story.

In PSHE we have been discussing the importance of being clean, in particular washing our hands.  We spoke about the importance of washing our hands and then looked at how we do it properly. We discussed that we can’t always see the germs on our hands because they are invisible. We then took part in an experiment. The pepper in the water was the germs. When we put our finger in the water the pepper (germs) stuck to our finger. We then dipped our finger in soap and dipped it back into the water. The pepper (germs) moved away from our finger. This showed that germs don’t like soap and we need to use it when we wash our hands to wash the germs away.

We enjoyed going out to the forest school area looking at the pondlife. Before we went out to the pond, we discussed what we might expect to find and what pond creatures look like, we linked this to our learning about lifecycles. We then did some pond dipping where we tried to identify the pondlife using magnifying glasses to take a closer look, we were so excited to have found two newts! We looked at them in the jugs so we could take a closer look and were surprised to see all of the different colours on the newts! 

A few notes about next week:
*No PE due to Easter service on Tuesday afternoon and early school closing (after lunch) on Thursday afternoon.
*Parent consultations on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday after school – everyone has booked a slot – we look forward to meeting with you.

Class 1 Team