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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).

Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy | Y4/5 Perranporth

w/e 26.9.25

What a lovely week in Perranporth class!

Making the most of the beautiful September sunshine, PE for this half term has been all about orienteering and we've enjoyed following maps and directions to collect clues to solve puzzles.

Art has been a revelation too, as we're working on drawing self portraits using our own poetry from the very first week of term - some photos are attached!

In computing, we're learning all about systems and networks, focusing on search engines - as always, knowing how to use technology both safely and respectfully is central to this. We're also using Showbie, our new Trust program across the curriculum and becoming quite proficient already.

This half term term's RE focuses upon what it means to be a Humanist in Britain Today - we were lucky to be visited by a real-life humanist this week - the children asked really inquisitive questions! PSHE is based on Being Me and particularly on facing new challenges positively and setting personal goals.

French is also Being Me this half term, so we've been practising introducing ourselves and having brief conversations.

Last but certainly not least, in music we're learning about musical terms such as dynamics, pitch, ostinato and timbre, then putting them into action. Our Y4 children are also having weekly violin lessons, so please ask them how it's going.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

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TALLAND'S BLOG 26.9.25

Polperro Primary Academy | Talland

TALLAND'S BLOG 26.9.25

It's been a sport-tastic week this week. Well done to all of the children for getting involved so enthusiastically with National Fitness Day. Muscles were being used that haven't been used before, energy filled the air and sportsmanship was at an all time high!

Apart from sport, let's have a little break down of our week:

Maths:
Year 4 have been ordering and comparing numbers to 10,000 and comparing angles.
Year 5 have been rounding to the nearest, 10/ 100/ 1,000/ 10,000/ 100,000 and estimating angles.

English:
Talland have continued to WOW me with some more spectacular descriptive writing based around a Rainforest. The language and writing techniques that are being used are brilliant!

PE:
With Mrs. Hillman in Yoga, the children have been practicing different yoga flows. When I came to watch, the balance, core strength and focus were great! In football, Talland have continued to think about spatial awareness, dribbling and passing with the side of their foot.

Geography:
We explored features of a Brazilian Rainforest - quite different to features found in the United Kingdom!

RE:
Talland thought about how Christians live their lives, who sets a good example for them and what Christians do to make their God proud.

Computing:
We got to tinker on a program called Scratch, where children wrote scripts for their sprites (characters) to follow. They changed their sprites, changed the background and made their characters rotate.

That's all from us in Talland. We hope you have a brilliant weekend!

Signing off from Mr. Langley and Mr. Bishop.

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Week beginning 22nd September 2025

St Cleer Primary Academy | Reception/Year 1

We've had a truly wonderful week enjoying the sunshine, which has brought a lovely energy to all our activities. The children particularly loved their PE session yesterday, where we practiced our dribbling skills - it was fantastic to see everyone so enthusiastic and giving it their best effort. Reception continue to thoroughly enjoy their weekly sessions with Coach James.

In Maths, we have been focusing on ordering numbers from smallest to largest and practicing how to compare them using mathematical language such as "more than," "less than," and "equal to." Reception have also been learning to represent numbers up to three using objects, pictures, and their fingers, helping them build strong foundations in early number sense. We've also begun exploring the concept of sharing equally - an important first step towards understanding division - using practical resources and play-based activities.

In English, we have been working on sequencing the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children have enjoyed retelling the tale in their own words, using pictures and prompts to help them put the events in the correct order. This has been a great way to develop their understanding of story structure, and it has sparked lots of interesting conversations about characters, setting, and plot.

Reception have also been busy developing their fine motor skills through activities such as cutting and sticking, threading, and mark-making. These tasks support their hand strength, coordination, and early writing skills. In addition, the children have had lots of fun dressing up as different characters and engaging in imaginative role play. It's been lovely to see them using their creativity and storytelling skills to bring their favourite characters and scenarios to life.

Overall, it's been a joyful, active, and creative week full of learning through play!

Looe Primary Academy | Foundation

Friday 26th September

Some of this weeks wonderful exploration has included:

Learning phonemes g/o/c/k. The children have learnt these sounds and then have worked really hard to used these sounds and previously learnt ones to orally blend.

For instance K-i-t kit. They are amazing the adults with how well they are all doing.

Please use the weekly phonics sheets sent home to allow your children to share their reading knowledge with you!

The children decorated our season tree in class this week by learning about deciduous trees and exploring the colour changes in the tress on our school grounds. The children then worked in teams to collect fallen leaves and use autumnal colours to complete leaf rubbings. Mrs. Phillips then cut them out and placed them on our season tree- it looks amazing!

We have started formal mats this week and the children have been exploring matching, sets , and sorting. For one of our activities we went outside, collected some natural materials and sorted them into groups that the children suggested. You may have seen this when walking into class.

In English this week have continued to explore the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. The children have been individually using their oracy skills to retell the story and sequence the story in their books.

In our Forest school time with Kelly this week , we explored the forest area and loved the rope swing , the trees to climb, the woodland to explore and so much more!

The children have also, used their funky fingers to cut out items in a house and make their houses, explored the Harvest table, used shaving foam to mark make, and sooooo much more!

Next week we move away from our sub theme of All About Me and we start to explore Superheroes/ People Who Help us! Eventually this will include a walk down to Looe Town to explore people that help us so please ensure your consents are complete on arbor! We are so excited!

What a great week!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

changing seasons

Looe Primary Academy | Nursery

This week we have been looking at autumn and how the changing seasons affect our environment. We have been experimenting with autumnal colours in our artwork, here we are using our fingers to paint the falling trees on our pictures.

We took a stroll around the school grounds to hunt for signs of autumn, we noticed falling leaves and how their texture was different to those still growing, we expanded our vocabulary with adjectives for the variety of colours, shapes, sounds and textures around us.

We have been experimenting with mixing colours to make new ones. Here is a fantastic deep orange made from mixing yellow and red paint.

Polperro Primary Academy | Killigarth Nursery

Hello,
We have had a busy week here at nursery. We have been finishing off our learning where the children have been talking about themselves, describing different features and talking about who lives with them. We have also been talking about different people that help us including firefighters, police and the ambulance service.
The children have been busy drawing and creating pictures of their family and who lives in their house in order to make a mobile. They have made paper cup houses and played in the firefighter themed tuft tray. We have enjoyed using play dough to make different faces.

At story time we have enjoyed reading "We are all different" and " Charlie the firefighter".

During phonics, the children have been listening to sounds and then trying to remember them in a game of "What do you hear?". They have been making different voice sounds with their mouths and playing instruments to match different sounds heard.

In maths, we have been exploring shape by making arrangements with them, completing inset puzzles and building with shaped blocks.

Have a lovely weekend

Julie and Sarah