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September in Year 3 - What a Fantastic Start!

Copper valley Junior Academy | Year 3

We've had a busy and exciting start to the school year! In English, we've been diving into Stig of the Dump by Clive King. The children have loved exploring the adventures of Stig and Barney and even wrote their own creative chapters about a brand-new adventure the two characters might have. In Maths, we've been sharpening our place value skills and stretching our understanding of numbers up to 1000. It's been great to see everyone's confidence growing! Our History focus has been the big question: How did we survive before metal? We've travelled back in time to the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, learning about early homes, tools, weapons, and how people used nature to live. The children really enjoyed creating their own triorama Stone Age homes. In RE, we've been learning how Christians follow God through stories and messages in the Old Testament. In French, we've started with the basics-greeting each other with a friendly "Bonjour!" PE has been all about football, developing our control, teamwork, and ball skills. And in DT, we looked at seasonal foods, then rolled up our sleeves to bake delicious treats for our Bake Sale! It's been a great month-well done, everyone!

Pre-school

Duloe C of E Primary Academy | Pre School

Preschool is taught by Natalie and Sam along with Teighan our Nursery Apprentice.

What are the aims of our Pre-School?

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage** (EYFS) Principles from birth to age five.

In doing this we aim:

• To have happy, fulfilled and motivated children.

• To provide a stimulating environment for children to explore with their play and to learn from their experiences.

• Supporting Learning

• Transition to School

• Play and Exploration

What is the Early Years Foundation Stage? This is how the Government and Early Years professionals describe the time in your child's life between birth and age 5. This very important stage in your child's development helps them get ready for school, as well as preparing them for their future learning and successes.

From when your child is born up until the age of 5, their early years' experience should be happy, active, exciting, fun and secure and support their development, care and learning needs

You can download a copy of the Parents' Guide to the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework at

https://foundationyears.org.uk/2021/09/updated-guidance-to-support-the-eyfs/

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About Me.pdf

Intimate Care Form.pdf

Welcome to Duloe Preschool 25.pdf

EY2c Parent Declaration Form January 2024.pdf

Welcome to our new EYFS children

Trenode C of E Primary Academy | Kilminorth

We have 8 new EYFS children join our Trenode family and they have settled wonderfully. The focus over the first few weeks is establishing routines and building relationships with their new peers.

In maths, we are focusing on place value and understanding each number's worth.

Our curriculum learning is "Why didn't Paddington come to Looe?" so the children have been busy in the role play bakery. They have been learning and performing the story of Paddington and we even went on the same adventure tasting food from the bakery, writing our name on mirrors and drawing a map in Peru in shaving foam. We are currently learning about eating healthy in DT and will be preparing a healthy meal for our teddy bear's picnic.

We have also started with a weekly forest school session each week with Kelly. She has been looking at team building in different outdoor games and the children have loved exploring our amazing grounds. A reminder to parents that children require old clothes every Friday during this half term.

You may have seen us in the news and this is because Looe Shedders kindly created a playhouse for our outdoor learning area. The playhouse has been a hit with the children enjoying imaginative and creative play to support language development. We love that we have a space outside to take part in role play.

We have launched Showbie (our online learning platform) to EYFS parents. Please make sure you have signed up to see what your child gets up to with their learning. For Year 1 and 2 parents, you will be receiving the codes for Showbie in the next couple of weeks.

Key date: Wednesday 1st October-We are inviting family members in to have a teddy bear's picnic to taste the healthy food we are making in DT.

Autumn 1

Pelynt Primary Academy | Talland

Crying the neck

Lanlivery Primary Academy | Little Foresters

The reception and year 1 children went to Gunwen chapel to take part in the tradition of crying the neck. This is a Cornish tradition that is about celebrating the harvest. The children joined in with the Cornish chants where they had the opportunity to hold the neck of corn and lead the chant. We then went into the chapel and joined in with some harvest songs and learnt a bit more about how the tradition started. We then finished off in the chapel hall doing some crafts. As a group we made a field of corn out of our hands which we made with paper and a collage owl.

September 2025

Copper Valley Infant and Nursery Academy | Reception

We started the term by learning the school rules and have focused on being kind to each other. We looked at photographs of different people and discussed how we thought they were feeling. We talked about what makes us feel happy, sad or angry. We then thought about how we could help our friends if they were feeling sad or angry. We introduced a class reward system so that the children can add beads to the jar when they are being kind to others and when they are following the school rules. The children are very excited about this as when they fill the jar, they can bring a toy into school.

We've been learning about ourselves and how we are all unique. We drew around one of the children and labelled the parts of the body that we knew. We talked about the fact that we have a skeleton inside us and were introduced to 'Mr Bones' a skeleton model. We identified some of the parts e.g. skull, spine and rib cage and talked about why they are important. We then made skeleton pictures by cutting and sticking art straws onto black paper. We also looked in mirrors to look closely at our facial features. We then painted self portraits. Our inside role play area has been a doctors surgery. The children have been brilliant at taking on the different roles such as doctor, patient and receptionist.

In phonics we've been learning letter sounds and have started to blend the sounds together to read simple words. Fred the frog always joins in with phonics and the children have really enjoyed meeting him. We've also started to learn how to write the letters. Some of the children have been taking part in daily dough gym to help strengthen their fingers to enable them to hold a pencil correctly.

In maths we've been learning to recognise 1, 2 and 3 objects without needing to count them. The children are getting very speedy at representing the number of objects using their fingers. We've also been practising our counting skills by counting objects using 1:1 correspondence. We've learnt to sort and match objects and to identify what is the same and different.

In PE we've learnt how to keep safe whilst in the hall. We practised moving around the hall safely without bumping into anyone or anything. We've been practising fundamental skills such as running, jumping and moving in different directions.

In music we listened to a variety of different music from classical to pop. We showed how it made us feel using our facial expressions. We then moved in different ways in response to the music. The children were very good at identifying whether the music made them feel happy or sad. We also learnt to sing a song together, gave ideas on how to change the words and used instruments to express different feelings in the song.

During forest school sessions we've learnt how to carry sticks and branches safely. We've played imaginative games, hunted for bugs and built dens together.

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Polperro Primary Academy | Chaipel

Another busy week has flown by in Chaipel. We have had Sian - the charity's vice president - in from Plymouth and Devon Cancer Trust to collect the monies that we raised for them in July. She was amazed to collect a 'cheque' for £451.45! The children collectively ran/biked/scooted a marathon around the school grounds and thoroughly enjoyed raising the money for such a worthy charity.

In Maths, we have been learning about decimal place value and on our Friday Shape lesson, revisiting the properties of a 2D shape. For English, we are writing up our 'newly discovered planet' description, using some incredible vivid sensory detail and figurative language. Tristan has really done himself proud - especially with...
AS THE MOON'S DIVINE BEAM FLOODS THE MOUNTAIN, THE STARS RAPIDLY GET THEIR SPOTLIGHT - wow Tristan, very atmospheric!

In our Wider Curriculum, we have been creating space nubulas and star clusters in art, experimenting with creating background. Next week, we will move onto the foreground and then design and develop ideas for our final piece. It was National Fitness Day on Wednesday and we took part in a series of activities designed to improve our fitness. We have all written an activity pledge which will hopefully devlop our fitness levels further. In Computing, we have been on a web quest, identifying websites which offer reliable content and those which are not completely trustworthy!

We explored the origin of chocolate in PSHE, comparing our lives to the life of a Ghanaian child on a cocoa plantation. It was very insightful and shows just what we take for granted. In Science, we researched what makes Earth the perfect planet to live on. Ask us what the Goldilocks zone is within our solar system!

CONGRATULATIONS to Imogen and Skye for being our People of the Week, displaying our school values and being excellent role models to their peers.

That's all from us so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

MISS RANDLE AND MRS CLARY

Week ending Friday 26th September

Polperro Primary Academy | Penhallow

Hello Everyone!

It's been a very sporty week in Penhallow, with 2 PE lessons as well as National Fitness day on Wednesday. The children enjoyed challenging themselves to complete different fitness tasks that were demonstrated to them in an assembly by Mr Langley and some volunteers throughout the school. We worked together to time ourselves and count the number of exercises that we could complete in a minute. The class co-operated extremely well as a team to help each other with these tasks and showed determination to improve their scores.

As part of our enquiry question; 'What makes our families unique?' Our history lesson this week involved finding out about how homes have changed in the past, as a result of the invention of different objects. Year 2 enjoyed using the internet to research images of homes during past decades, as well as in Victorian times. They were amazed to discover that not only did tv's not have remotes in the past, but that there was time before the very invention of the tv.

We have been so pleased with the children's efforts in reading during these past few weeks. Please can you make sure that children bring their reading books to school every day. Reading books will be changed, when children have read their book at least 3 times.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

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Update for week ending 26th September 2025

Harrowbarrow Primary Academy | Class 4

Here is a sample of Talan's writing showing our stories with a moral based on our starting text: The Bear and The Piano. What a fantastic effort from Talan.

In class this week, we explored how stories can teach important lessons by including a moral, such as the value of honesty or kindness. We also practiced rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand and hundred thousand helping us understand place value and how it makes estimating easier in everyday life. In science, we investigated how periscopes work, using mirrors to reflect light and allow us to see over or around objects-just like submarines do! Each activity helped us think creatively, solve problems, and understand the world a little better.

This week's spellings are going to stay the same so that we have another week to work on them.

Here are the KIRFs to work on.

Harrowbarrow Primary Academy | Class 3

Class 3 Blog for W/E 26th September 2025

This week Class 3 have been busy with lots of exciting learning! We completed our final session on Decider Skills with Hannah Lees, who has been helping us explore ways to support our mental wellbeing - a big thank you to her for leading these brilliant sessions. The children particularly enjoyed the activity on communication, where Hannah demonstrated both good and bad instructions, sparking some great discussions. In Computing, we have been learning all about routers, while in Science we investigated reflective materials to decide which would be best for Mr Watts's new running coat. Meanwhile, in English, we have started writing our own first-person narratives inspired by the Day of the Dead storyline, showing creativity and imagination in our writing.

A big thank you also to everyone who has signed up to Showbie. We will officially start using this from next Wednesday (1st October).