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Friday 17th October 2025

Polperro Primary Academy | Landaviddy

This week we practised using running stitch in DT, and we could not believe how quickly everyone managed to pick it up. We had to adopt our growth mindsets, but our determination shone through! Some of us may choose to use running stitch next week, when joining parts on to our sock puppets. In Science, we explored how different animals are best suited to the habitats they live in. We learnt about camels and the special features they have which help them to live in the desert. We also looked are polar bears. Can you recall any of the special features they have? During Music with Mrs Butlin, we practise using the chime bars and completing 4 beat patterns.

In Maths, we have made a fantastic start on our Addition and Subtraction unit, adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s. We have been working on how to present our calculations neatly in our books and used pictorials to support our understanding.

In English, we have been writing up our recounts, focusing on quality over quantity. With this in mind, we have diligently used our classroom resources to support our writing. Next week, we will finish editing and get these written up neatly.

Congratulations to April and Jemima for being chosen as Landaviddy's People of the Week. And a big well done to Brody for achieving his 99 club badge.

Animal Sock Puppets
As part of our enquiry 'Who rules the animal kingdom?', we have designed and planned to make our own animal sock puppets in DT. On Wednesday 22nd October, we will be finally making our designs. We have a selection of brand new socks available for the children to use in school, which were kindly donated to us. However, if your child would like to bring in their own sock from home to use when creating their sock puppet, they are welcome to do so. Of course, please do let me know if you have any questions.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you next week.

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Lister and Miss Colton

Super Lantic Skippers

Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy | Y1/2 Lantic

This week in Lantic we have had loads of fun learning how to write instructions for carving a pumpkin. We all had a go at scooping out the seeds and pumpkin flesh! We then wrote our set of instructions using bossy verbs to make our writing accurate and interesting.

Lantic have really loved this and they should be really proud of their writing. In maths, we have been exploring addition and subtraction, learning to subtract within 10. We have been using counters to help us. In DT we finished our wheel and axle pull along toys which all look very colourful and fun! We then evaluated our end products and decided what we liked and what we could improve on. In PE, we have been playing mini cricket and got some amazing games on the go.There are some very talented cricketers in Lantic!

On Friday we had an amazing skipping workshop where we developed our skills. We then saw a skipping show from our professional which was absolutely fascinating - she even did 'pretzel skipping'! What a week! As usual please continue to read with your children at home for 10-15 minutes per day. Anton maths should be all working well now and there is work set for this week. Have an amazing weekend - 4 days left until half term for the children!

Looe Primary Academy | Foundation

Friday 17th October

Some of this week's wonderful exploration has included:

Learning phonemes ff/ll/ss and digraph /s- making z sound. The children have learnt these sounds and then have worked hard to use these sounds, and previously learnt ones, to orally blend. Next week we will recap the sounds so far. After half term we return to the beginning of level 2 and we repeat the level with a strong emphasis on writing.

This week we have been finalising our English unit. Children have been discussing adults that can help us at school and within our community. Children decided to try and find Mrs. Waring, Mr Smith, Brian and Mrs. Juleff as they help us in school, so we went on an 'adult hunt' to find them. On Thursday we completed the second part and went for a walk to Looe Town to find adults that help us in our community. The children discussed who helps us in our community and why. The children found a member of the RNLI, a Fish Monger, a Pharmacist and a Postman. They discussed how all these adults help us and are all superheroes in their own right! We then became superheroes ourselves and cleared a part of Looe beach from plastic!

The children have been enjoying outside this week and have been making obstacle courses and problem solving together, they have been strengthening their fingers and hands by playing with playdough to make superheroes. In class the children have been practicing their scissor skills by making superhero scenes and completing pictures. They have been playing with puzzles and working as a team to make a massive marble run.

In PE this week the children continued ball skills with Ryan the coach, and they are progressing really well.

In maths this week we have explored mass and capacity. The children loved taking their maths lessons outside and using the cups in the water tray to explore capacity further.

Each week we discover more, and the children are progressing so well.

The Foundation Team

Tregantle Class Blog

Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy | YR/1 Tregantle

Another Fantastic Week of Fun and Learning!

What a busy and exciting week it's been in Tregantle Class!

The children have been fully immersed in our class story "Whatever Next!" by Jill Murphy. We've been learning lots of new words from the story, acting out Baby Bear's wonderful adventure to the moon, and sequencing the key parts to help us remember what happens first, next, and last. Everyone has shown amazing enthusiasm and imagination!

In our Wild Tribe session, we took inspiration from our rhyme of the week, "Dingle Dangle Scarecrow." The children worked brilliantly together, drawing around each other and using natural materials to create giant scarecrows! There were some very creative designs and plenty of teamwork on show.

Over in our Exploration Area, the children have been busy investigating bugs and soil. They've shown fantastic curiosity as they've dug, discovered, and talked about all the little creatures they found living underground.

We finished the week with a fun skipping workshop, where everyone had a go at learning new skipping techniques. The hall was full of smiles, laughter, and lots of jumping feet!

Another brilliant week in Tregantle Class - full of fun, learning, and adventure!

Our pet stick insects

Lanlivery Primary Academy | Little Foresters

It all started in summer 2024. We had 10 stick insect eggs. Stick insects take 2-3 months to hatch. Of those 2 survived to adults which is 6 months old. Once they get to 6 months old they start laying eggs. We found out the they can lay up to 100 eggs! Fast forward to summer 2025 and we had 80 baby stick insects. We have learnt a lot along the way and we have had to get a bigger tank for them to live in. They are now thriving and we've lost count of how many we have. See how many you can spot in the pictures. Make sure you have a look next time you are in school.

Storytelling

Lanlivery Primary Academy | Little Foresters

This week in Little Foresters we have been focusing on retelling stories and adding actions. Our focus story at the moment is Rapunzel. The children put on their magic storytelling cloaks that gave them magic story voices. The children then thought of actions to match certain words in the story. They all did a fantastic job and were great storytellers.

Update for week ending Friday 17th October 2025

Harrowbarrow Primary Academy | Class 4

This week has been full of energy and creativity as we've been rehearsing for our upcoming Harvest Festival, with some truly impressive solo singing performances from the children. In class, Year 6 have been mastering division methods while Year 5 have been exploring inverse operations with great enthusiasm. We've also been busy writing up our non-chronological reports on the Victorians, showcasing some excellent historical research and writing skills. A big thank you to all the parents who joined us in class this morning to see our maths work in action-it was wonderful to have you with us!

The spellings for next week will be suffixes again and will be: achieve, achievement, beauty, beautiful, careful, deceitful, careless, definitely, gentle, gently.

September

Copper Valley Infant and Nursery Academy | Year 2

The children have made an excellent start to Year 2.
They have been really enjoying our big question - 'What happened in the Great Fire of London?'.
We have been learning all about he events that took place and thinking about why things happened as they did.
We have sequenced events and compared fire fighting methods, houses and London itself.

In Literacy we have been continuing with our 'Curious Quests' which has involved writing diaries, writing instructions and stories.
Maths has been mainly about place value, ensuring that we are confident with what the different digits represent, ordering and comparing numbers and many other key skills.

In Art, we have been creating collages with flames and Tudor houses. We also created some fabulous boat paintings for the Honey Fair.
In Music we have been singing chants, rhymes and songs and we also learned to sing in a round.

Science has been all about materials. We've had great fun making bridges and testing their strength, also testing the elasticity of different materials and finding out which material is the most waterproof.

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The Little Red Hen

Blisland Primary Academy | Nursery

Storytellers enjoyed listening to the traditional tale The Little Red Hen. The children talked about why the hen's friends wouldn't help her and whether it was kind for them to expect to eat her bread after doing none of the hard work! This sparked some lovely discussions about kindness, teamwork, and helping others.

After the story, the children had the chance to become little bakers themselves! They helped weigh the ingredients and took turns kneading the dough, noticing how its texture changed as they worked. The room soon filled with the wonderful smell of baking, and the best part of all was tasting their very own freshly baked loaf - warm, golden, and absolutely delicious!

We were also very grateful to get all our ingredients from our fantastic Village Shop, helping the children understand where food comes from and how our local community supports us.

This activity was not only great fun but also a wonderful learning experience. Listening to and discussing the story supported the children's understanding of morals and empathy, while baking helped them develop early maths and science skills through weighing, measuring, and observing changes. Working together encouraged sharing and cooperation, and the sensory experience of kneading dough built fine motor skills - all while giving them a real sense of pride and achievement in what they'd made.

What a busy week!

Harrowbarrow Primary Academy | Class 1

How are making history?
Thank you to all our parents and grandparents who sent in photos of themselves as children. We are very lucky to receive nearly 60 photos! The children loved looking at these and comparing childhood now to childhood in the past. Our Year 1's wrote sentences about these similarities and differences.

Drawing warm-ups
Every week we see such improvement in the children's drawing. We begin each art lesson with a drawing 'warm-up', this term's have all been focussed on insects. In the above pictures we have used ink on sugar paper but we've also been lucky enough to use pencil, graphite, compressed charcoal, willow charcoal, soft pastels and oil pastels this term!

Eric Carle inspired collages
Look at our beautiful Eric Carle inspired collages! The class carefully hand painted their own papers with acrylic paint, just like Eric Carle does. These were then cut into hundreds of different shapes which the children chose from to make their insects.