New sports equipment 

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Bond and his associates for their generous donation towards the purchase of sports and play equipment for the children of Pelynt Academy. Your kindness and support have made a meaningful difference in enriching our children' physical education and playtime experiences. Thanks to your contribution, our children now have access to quality equipment that will inspire teamwork, fitness, and fun for years to come. Your generosity is truly appreciated by our entire school community.

Lantic Class Trip Porfell

Lantic class have had a brilliant day at Porfell Wildlife Park. They enjoyed seeing and learning about lots of different animals. The children were able to feed the donkeys, goats and chickens themselves and watched Boris the Capybara being fed. A good day was had by all! 

Pelynt Primary Sports Personality of the Year 2025

This year, choosing the Pelynt SPOTY found us reaching a unanimous conclusion.  In its inauguration last year, we decided that we would look for not only sporting excellence, but all-round attributes including sportsmanship, teamwork, being an encouraging yet critical friend.  In considering the various traits that make a great 'Pelynt' sportsperson we are pleased to be recognising someone who has all of these traits as well as being supremely talented in sport both in and outside of school. This year she qualified and represented the school at the Cornwall cross county finals, she is an excellent footballer playing for our school team and also part of the Girls elite Plymouth Argyle Team outside of school. This year's Pelynt Academy Sports Personality of the Year Award goes to Elsa Lee. 

Sports Day

A super enjoyable sports day took place this week in rather hot conditions! Thank you to all of the parents and carers who were able to attend and cheer the children on. As always, the children were magnificent, demonstrating excellent sportsmanship. The Blue team were the eventual winner in a close fought contest, winning by only 6 points! A huge thank you to Mr Knight for organising the event.

Balance Bikes

Mrs Milford has recently attended and completed a course to become out Get Cycling Lead. As a result of this Get Cycling and Bikeability have donated 6 wonderful balance bikes and helmets to the school, enabling us to teach the children to balance and learn to ride as part of our school learning.

         Our first 2 weeks of Summer Term 2 have already flown by, with lots of learning of places we can go in an aeroplane.  We have looked at world maps and discussed where some of us may have travelled to on holiday.  We also thought about what we would need to take with us for a sunny holiday and packed our own suitcase.

         The children have really enjoyed our airport role play corner with Pelynt Pre-School Airways flying to various destinations!

         We have also looked at what we need to do at the airport before we get onto an aeroplane, with checking in bags, then showing our passports and tickets.  We have watched some clips of what it is like to travel on an aeroplane and how we would feel.

          Last week the children took part in our whole school sports day, they were all amazing in their races and even if your child wasn't there on the day they have all really enjoyed all the practices we have done on the field.

         Thank you to all the parents that have been in to see us for a parent consultation, it is a lovely way of catching up and talking through your child's progress, achievements, and any concerns you may have.

           We always have an open-door policy where you can speak to any of the team at any time so even if you did not book a consultation, please do come and see us if you have any questions or concerns.

     A reminder that our graduation celebration and end of year Teddy Bears Picnic is on Wednesday 16^th July at 11.30am.  Everyone is invited to come enjoy a picnic with your child.  If you have a child graduating but it's not their normal session, you can still bring them along for 11.30am. 

Letters will be coming out next week to confirm September sessions for parents of children returning in autumn term, and school will be sending out information for parents of those children transitioning and a parent welcome meeting with their teachers. 

Lastly, as we have been experiencing some difficulties uploading the blog to our website, we will transition to doing a weekly update on to our class page on Seesaw from September. A reliable way to ensure all parents are receiving updates about our learning and any other news. 
 
The Pre-School Team. 

Sarah from the Liskeard and Looe Foodbank joined us at Pelynt this week to promote the work of our local foodbank and go through some basic recipes with the children.

As a school we are able to refer families to the foodbank, including extra support over the summer holidays. If you, or anybody you know, needs support please speak to Mr Hannah, who will be able to organise everything with complete confidentiality. 

Apologies for the absence of last weeks blog due to technical issues!  This is a roundup of our last 2 weeks of summer term 1 in pre-school.

We have completed our learning around our enquiry question ‘What do we like to eat?’

Lots of different fruits and vegetables have been tried throughout our snack time with the most popular ones being cucumber, grapes, peppers, watermelon and pineapple. The children were all keen to try everything!

We have had lots of discussions around what our favourite foods are, but also what we do not like and why.  Sometimes it can be the texture of a food, surprisingly many of the children did not like a tomato because they said it was too squishy on the inside.

We have looked at where our food comes from, and what foods we can grow in our gardens.  We have even planted some carrot seeds and a raspberry plant. We will keep watering and crossing our fingers that they grow!

This week we have been using food items to investigate ‘heavy’ and ‘light’, we then took this into our play and explore time with weighing pasta and rice on weighing scales. 

Outside time has been glorious with the beautiful weather we have had.  The children have enjoyed lots of water play, the sand pit, and the mud kitchen in our garden area. A lovely way for us adults to observe their social and language skills as they use their imaginations and interests to lead their play.

When we return after half term, we will have a new enquiry question ‘Where can we go on an aeroplane?’ We will explore holiday destinations, looking at world maps, what we may need to pack for a holiday depending on the climate, what we will see and hear in different countries.    
A fun topic to build on the children’s understanding of the world.

We return to pre-school on Monday 2^nd June, but a reminder that the Friday 6^th is another Inset Day. 
A newsletter was handed out this week but it will be attached below for anyone who has not received one.

Finally, if you wish to book a parent consultation to talk about how your child is doing in pre-school then please sign up on the appointment sheet in our entrance area. 

We hope all our children and families have a wonderful half term break.

The Pre-School Team.

Learn. Grow. Discover

Our new hall display has been installed this week by local company ‘Print 2 Media’ The display consists of a map of Cornwall, the United Kingdom and the World, as well as our school values and a nod to our local farming community. It also includes a quote from David Attenborough, ‘The future of humanity and indeed all life on Earth, depends on us.’ We hope the artwork will help the child reflect on the beauty of the world and how important it is to protect it.

Lantic Class

As part of our Geography fieldwork about our local area, Lantic class took part in a short walk around Pelynt to carry out a survey of the local area. They looked at the local landmarks in Pelynt, and when back in the classroom they will use this to create a simple map of our local area.

Talland Class have been studying the Anglo Saxons, who they were and where they came from.  To mark the end of our topic we attempted to recreate the Anglo-Saxon building technique of wattle and daub.  We started by ' weaving' with a selection of sticks and then covered them in dried grass and sticky mud.  The children showed excellent skills of teamwork and delegation.

Lansallos Class

The football team enjoyed a rare home win against Four Lanes End last week. In the first half every time we went ahead, they managed to peg us back.  Eventually we came out winners 6-3.  Excellent performance all round, especially from the substitutes and a great stickers performance from George. 

Last week, the whole school attended the village war memorial to celebrate the 80^th anniversary of Victory in Europe and also reflect on the pain and suffering caused by war, both historically and in the world today. The children demonstrated impeccable behaviour during the service led by Reverend Richard and represented the school magnificently. 

Lansallos Class

Lansallos Class have made the most of the glorious weather by taking their learning outside whenever possible.

In maths, the children have been exploring direction, degrees, and how to classify angles. Year 6 pupils have also been learning how to calculate missing angles in a variety of shapes.

In PE, the class have been building on the skills developed during the recent cricket enrichment day, showing great teamwork and enthusiasm for the sport.

In English, alongside a SPaG focus on clauses, the children have been editing and improving the poems they wrote from the perspective of an animal.

Talland Class