Friday 13th March

Some of this weeks learning:

In English this week the children continued to wow Mrs Phillips with their phonic knowledge. The children had a sentence dictated to them and their job was to use their phonic knowledge to write that sentence, using a sound mat. The adults in class were blown away with how amazing the writing was! Next week we move onto instruction writing and how to build a rocket. We want to be like bear in the story and build our own rockets!

In maths the children have been exploring number bonds to 10. They have explored using two parts and have used lots of resources to make the parts individually and working as a team!

In PSHE this week the children continued to explore how we keep ourselves healthy. This week the children spoke about what they do before bed to ensure they get a restful and full night's sleep. WE also had the RNLI come into school today, to deliver an assembly all about how to stay safe when you visit the beach! 

WE were also so lucky to have our new recycled playhouse delivered by the wonderful Looe Shedders! The children have already put lots of things inside and cannot wait to keep playing in it, we have already decided to act out a part of The Three Little Pigs story! 

The children have been exploring space and this week they have made space pictures, made lolly-stick pictures, role played astronauts in the role play area and on Wednesday Mrs Lyden put paper on top of the tables AND under the tables, the children had the task of drawing space pictures as a table. The pictures that were produced were amazing!

Have a lovely weekend

The Foundation Team 

Making clay fish and litter picking! 

We've had a great start to the half term in Year 1 and 2.

We have been enjoying our new big question: Would you rather live in a hot or cold place? In Geography, we have been finding the seven continents, the North Pole and the South Pole and the equator.

In Science we have been exploring living things and their habitats. This week, we learnt about why habitats might become endangered, and what might happen to the plants and animals that live there if they do. We then went around the school and picked up any litter we could find. The school looks cleaner and we helped the plants and animals too!

We were very lucky to take part in the Clay Fish project that is happening around Looe. The children were taught how to make the fish and they really do look wonderful.

We have got lots of learning to look forward to - especially our Eden project trip on the 19th March!

Thank you all.

Year 1 and 2 Team

This week we enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. The children wore some fantastic costumes and had lots of fun sharing their favourite stories. We read a variety of books, talked about different characters, and took part in an activity where the children followed instructions to draw characters from the stories.

In Maths this week we have been learning about adding equal groups and exploring how this can be shown using arrays. The children practised making equal groups with objects and drawing arrays to help them understand how numbers can be organised in rows and columns. Reception have been focusing on subtracting 1 from different numbers and practising their subitising skills, where they quickly recognise how many objects there are without needing to count them.

In English we have begun writing our own non-chronological report about Edinburgh. We discussed what a non-chronological report is and looked at examples to identify the key features. The children then worked on writing their opening sentence to introduce the city. Reception have been reading and learning about The Tiger Who Came to Tea, talking about the characters, the events in the story, and sharing their ideas about what they might do if a tiger came to their house for tea.

In PSHE we talked about healthy eating and discussed which foods are good for our bodies and help us stay strong and healthy. The children sorted foods into healthy and less healthy groups and talked about why it is important to have a balanced diet.

We also enjoyed our singing assembly with Mrs Butlin, where the children practised singing a range of songs and worked on using their voices clearly and confidently.

In PE the children took part in a variety of group games that encouraged teamwork, listening, and coordination. They also explored different ways of travelling across the bench, practising their balance and control while moving safely.

In Geography we learnt about different features and important sites that can be found in cities. We discussed examples such as parks, museums, shops, and landmarks, and talked about why these places are important for people who live in or visit a city.

What a glorious week we have had this week! The sun brough a lot of excitement and much needed outdoor sessions. 

The highlight of the week has to be World Book Day on Thursday when we all came in dressed as our favourite book characters. We all shared our books and played some book-related games before we had a go at redesigning our books. Just look at some of the amazing rebranded covers of our favourite titles that our class created!

In Maths, we continue our exploration of measurement by measuring mass in grams and kilograms. We even got to take some of our Maths lesson outdoors when we used the forest school to help us measure natural found materials in grams. In Literacy, we learned all about adverbials this week. We learned to write more exciting sentences by adding adverbials of reason and time.

In Science, we build on our learning from last week to look at the different stages of the human life cycle in detail. In Geography, we looked at the 7 continents and located some amazing physical and human features around the world using Google Maps.

In RE, we learned the Easter Story and retold it in our own words before beginning to explore the idea of salvation and how it relates to the stories of the Holy Week. In Computing, we recapped our understanding of algorithms and debugging before exploring programming in games.

In Music, we are exploring Musical Moods. This week has all about rhythm and tempo. We have also begun learning songs that link to our Science lessons. The song of the week is "The Life-Cycle Song." Sing along with us by clicking the link below:
https://app.sparkyard.com/shared/song/2390/1d49f370-e1cd-49b8-bcb5-73f770356e48

In Geography this week, we have been exploring different sources of energy and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each one. We compared options such as nuclear energy-which can produce large amounts of power but creates long‑lasting waste-and hydropower, which is renewable but can affect river habitats. In Maths, Year 6 have been practising multiplying and dividing decimals, while Year 5 have continued developing their long‑multiplication methods. In English, we've also been learning how to use parentheses to add extra detail to our descriptions, especially when writing about the fantastical creatures of Pandora, like the fierce Thanator (a powerful predator from the rainforest).

Friday 6th March 

Another fabulous week in Foundation with lots of extra learning opportunities!

In English this week we have started to explore the story Whatever Next!

The children have been using their oracy skills to sequence the story, then they have explored adjectives (describing words) and have described characters, the children then wrote adjectives in tehri books using their phonic knowledge.

In maths we have been exploring 9 and 10. We have been working hard to learn parts of 10, we have used counters, rekinrek, counting bears and numicon.

In outdoor learning this week we completed our first orienteering activity; we had to work as a team to find the markers in our playground and then find the corresponding-coloured Duplo block! The children worked in teams and they were amazing!

On Thursday we celebrated St Piran's day and some home adults came into school and enjoyed completing St Piran's day activities with us! We then sang to the parents on the playground; it was a lovely day celebrating our County of Cornwall.

Today was World Book Day at Looe Primary and the children , and adults, all looked amazing. In class we had four focus books; Room on the Broom, Sneds and Smoos, Rainbow Fish and The Scarecrows Wedding. We had activities to go with each book and we had so much fun.

The Foundation Team