Month: June 2020

New – Week commencing – 01.06.2020

Hi Class 6 and Class 5, Mrs Ruffell and Mrs Daniel would like to say a big thank you to all of you who have sent images of your home  learning, which you have completed  over the past two weeks. We have now created a new home learning page, on the Penpol Times, for weeks 8 and 9.  Please keep sending us images of your learning so that we can share it with your friends and families.

We both hope that you are all well and enjoying the learning challenges that we are setting.

Take care – Mrs Ruffell & Mrs Daniel

New Link 08.06.2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e5pd2m/live/cxgrbp (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New Link 08.06.20

https://www.leachpottery.com/design-a-pot-for-sharing-schools-challenge (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New Link

https://rnli.org/youth-education/water-safety-from-home  (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New Activity

https://www.theickabog.com/home/.     (Copy & paste the link in to your browser)

PE and Outdoor Learning at Home

New -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCStjKlMICO-Em7zMJoHR3A  (Copy & paste link in to your browser)

New – Digital Ocean – Surfers against Sewage – Copy and paste the link in to your browser

: https://www.sas.org.uk/digital-ocean-school

Online safety at home – copy and paste the link in to your browser.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/5-7s/

New – Try these simple relaxation and mindfulness activities together and help your child learn to calm down when they feel stressed or anxious. – Copy and paste the link in to your browser.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/seven-techniques-for-helping-kids-keep-calm

Use your mind – Laugh & Giggle – Breathe Deep – Stretch it out – Relax

Faith, from Class 5

Faith has had an amazing week, not only has she engaged with all her home learning, accomplished a Brownie promise, created Indian bead bracelets but, has also won Rider of the Week at her riding club. How good is that! I’m sure that one day she will be an Olympic champion!

Verity, from Class 5

Verity has enjoyed learning about habitats this week and has chosen the rain forest to write about and make this amazing collage. She’s also tackled some maths from a Sats booklet and has done really well. Well done Verity, keep up the brilliant work, it’s so lovely to see.

Emily, from Class 6

Wow Emily, you really have been busy with your home learning, especially your number challenges. I really enjoyed reading your instruction and I could tell, from what you have written, that you have made great sandcastles in the past. Also well done on your spelling test score. Well done Emily!

Alfie, from Class 5

Alfie is doing a great job of keeping up with all of his home learning. I love his picture of a water slide and a race track that he’s made. He’s also kept in touch with his friends by virtual quiz, he didn’t win this time so wish him luck for the next!

Hugo, from Class 6

Thank you Hugo for sharing your home learning this week. I was really impressed with your number learning and I could see such concentration on your face.

Oh my goodness, look at your new addition to the family! I can’t wait to see her on the school gate and have a little cuddle. Enjoy every minute of Margot, I bet you are so excited. She looks adorable.

Lola, from Class 6

Thank you Lola for sharing your home learning. You have shown great dedication towards your number learning. I loved your picture and what a great idea to use vegetables to print with. Well done!

Ava, from Class 6

Oh my goodness Ava, what a cute little kitten. I’m surprised you’ve managed to do any home learning with this little fella around. Well done on completing the maths challenges and also for writing a  great set of instructions on how to build a sandcastle. Well done!

Tilly, from Class 6

Thank you Tilly for sharing your home learning with us. I was really impressed with your postcard from Greece, I hope Lola enjoyed reading it. Your summer picnic on the beach also sound lovely, I hope I get an invite?  Great home learning, well done

Nicholas, from Class 6

Hi Nicholas, thank you for sharing your home learning with us. I really enjoyed reading your instructions and your postcard from the pyramids. I also thought your bee picture was amazing. You have included so many interesting facts. Well done!

Chloe, from Class 6

Wow  Chloe, thank you for sharing all of your home learning with us. I really enjoyed reading your description about sheep and how you think they feel like a teddy bear.(Did you know that sheep are my favourite animal?) Well done, great home learning.

Harry, from Class 6

Well done Harry on using your senses to describe summer. I can see that you have really thought hard about this. Well done!

Bella, from Class 5

Bella, being very artistic, has been trying something new this week, watercolours! She has painted a lovely picture of a Llama for her grandparents which I know they will be thrilled with. She has also been busy with her maths and topic work (and her brother’s!), take a look at her lovely photos.

Verity, from Class 5

Verity has been up to some unusual baking this week, making biscuits for her lovely dog Ted, he certainly looks as if he enjoys them!
She has also been busy with her writing, spellings and maths and even a little craft work. take a look at her lovely photos.

Lola, from Class 6

Thank you Lola for sharing this picture of you wearing your medal that you achieved for running 2 miles for the NHS. Class 6 are all very proud of you. Well done!

Lola, from Class 6

Well done Lola, your have written clear step by step instructions on how to build a sandcastle and included great  illustrations.

Poppy, from Class 6

Poppy also made this delicious cake with her sister Lily. It looks amazing!

Poppy, from Class6

Thank you for sharing your home learning from this week Poppy,  I really loved what you are holding. You have written a great description of what your water park would look like and also written a great set of instructions on how to build a sandcastle. Great home learning. Well done!

Hugo, from Class 6

Thank you for sharing some more of your home learning challenges with us Hugo. It was lovely to see such concentration on your face. I love your pen!

Isaac, from Class 5

Isaac has really enjoyed designing and writing about a water park.

Emily, from Class 6

Well done Emily for completing your home learning challenges. You really are demonstrating great commitment towards your learning.!

Harry, from Class 6

Thank you Harry for sharing these  photographs, which shows us  the vast amount of jelly fish that were washed ashore in Hayle last week. Take care in the sea everyone.

Oliver, from Class 5

Take a look at Oliver’s lovely photos. He’s been learning a great deal about bees and has been so lucky in the fact that he has met a real bee keeper! Oliver was given some delicious honey and honeycomb to eat which he thoroughly enjoyed. He has written a fact sheet about bees and also doing really well with all his maths and English home learning. Well done, keep up the great effort.

Harry, from Class 6

Well done Harry on winning the rainbow art competition for year 2.

Isaac, from Class 5

Isaac L. has written a brilliant alien story AND completed an absolute brilliant topic on Greenland. Take a look for a great read, you will certainly learn something you didn’t know before!
Also, a big clap for Isaac on receiving two Blue Peter badges for his covid poem and global warming poster, well done Isaac!

Lola, from Class 6

Harry, from Class 6

This week I have been doing lots of home learning and my chilli plant is getting big.(Written by Harry)

wow Harry! Well done, your chilli plant looks very healthy.

Verity, from Class 5

Verity is now quite the bee expert! She has made some lovely sand bees which are so cheerful they will make you smile! She has also investigated parts of a flower and has been learning all about pollination. Take a look at her lovely photos.

Ava, from Class 6

Wow Ava, you have been very busy with your home learning. I really enjoyed reading your space story and what a great picture of you in your space suit. It was also lovely to see you helping your younger sister with her phonics. Well done!

Faith from Class 5

Faith has been busy today writing a diary entry based on the Angry Cat story, take a look to see where she has used the conjunctions in her sentences.

Joseph, from Class 5

Take a look at Joseph’s  amazing seaside picture. The colours, sand and glue effect make it something special to put on the wall.

Lola, from Class 6

Thank you for sharing your learning this week Lola. It was lovely to see you working so hard on odd and even numbers and also completing the sentences. I really loved your picture of you and Scarlett. A great start to the new term. Well done

Alfie, from Class 5

Take a look at Alfie’s lovely photos, read his brilliant alien story and admire his wonderful bee mobile. They look so happy it will put a smile on your face! He’s also had a great half term, enjoying the weather and he’s hoping to make a few pounds from his bedroom clearance sale.

Hi Year 1,
We are missing you very much but know that your adults are doing a super job of looking after you and teaching you.
We hope you’re enjoying the home-learning tasks as much as we are enjoying receiving the photo’s and videos?!
Please do send any photo’s through if you have the time. Remember we love seeing you playing as well as learning!
Miss Whear and Mrs Sukstien

New Link -08.06.20

https://www.leachpottery.com/design-a-pot-for-sharing-schools-challenge (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New Link

https://rnli.org/youth-education/water-safety-from-home (Copy and paste the link in to your browser)

New -PE and Outdoor Learning at Home

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCStjKlMICO-Em7zMJoHR3A (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New

New – Digital Ocean – Surfers against Sewage – Copy and paste the link in to your browser

: https://www.sas.org.uk/digital-ocean-school

Keira, from Class 3

Keira has had a maths focus this week and has ben busy securing number bonds, halves and doubles! Well done Keira!

Molly, from Class 3

What a superb sunflower fact file from Molly!

Isla, from Class 3

Isla F enjoyed writing a sunflower fact file! It’s super!

Thomas, from Class 3

Thomas has been learning to play football with his daddy and practicing throwing the ball into hoops. He has also enjoyed finger painting and loved learning lots of funky facts from the “Go Jetters”, especially the bullet train in Japan!

Merryn, from Class 4

Merryn loves seeing her pictures on the school website so here is a little snapshot of what she has been doing this week.
Lots of art and decorating her bedroom. Picnic and bike riding in the park and some lovely fact finding about sunflowers and learning about graphs.
She also choreographed a ballet show for the party she wants to have when the nasty cold virus has gone 😆

Miles, from Class 3

Miles independently made this poster!! Wow!

Keira, from Class 3

Keira has been practising alternative ways of numbers within 10.

Harrison, from Class 3

Harrison has been learning halves and quarters with play dough pizza! He also used his rainbow number bonds, from a few weeks ago, to help him solve online maths – great idea! Harrison also enjoyed thinking about the funny things that have happened during the  lockdown – they have mainly been about his baby brother Jude 🙂

Ebon, from Class 3

Ebon loved doing a lava lamp experiment, measuring out and watching the bubbles! He also had a lovely afternoon picking strawberries at Trevaskis Farm and a trip to the woods in an amazing den!

Miles, from Class 3

Miles enjoyed the White Rose learning this week and enjoying threading his 2 times table! Great handwriting and dictation practise using a Mr Tumble song!

Isla, from Class 3

Isla has been working super hard on using neat handwriting and securing her set 2 and 3 phonics … she’s doing brilliantly!

Rosie, from Class 4

Rosie has been busy practising her reading and Mathletics. She also made some delicious chocolate orange fudge – Amazing!

Isabella, from Class 4

Isabella has been very creative, making an underwater scene and also learning to weave! Great work, Isabella!

Elliott, from Class 3

Elliott’s been loving his online learning this week!

Lowenna, from Class 3

Lowenna loved watching ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ as it’s one of her favourites. She did some super writing about what she packed in her bag! What a creative plant monster she made!  Lowenna also got a new Kitten 🙂

Arthur, from Class 3

I was lucky enough to bump into Arthur today, who was collecting leaves and other natural resources to create a dragon! Look how beautiful it is! He had loads of fun exploring different shapes, colours and textures.

Thomas, from Class 3

Thomas has had another lovely week baking cakes with his daddy, playing lots with his trains,  doing writing, reading, maths and phonics  and watching “We are going on a Bear Hunt”. He decided that if he went on a bear hunt he would take Thomas the Tank Engine and some juice in his bag. Great choices! 😊

Isla, from Class 3

Isla had good fun tasting different ingredients and was brilliant in trying really hard at writing her sentences, using the conjunctions ‘but’ and ‘because.’ She is working so hard on her neat handwriting!

Luke, from Class 4

Luke has had a brilliant time learning lots of new skills. He went to the beach and learnt how to snorkel! He also met up with Jowan to go fishing and caught a pollack. It looks like a lot of fun, well done Luke!

Merryn, from Class 4

Merryn has been doing lots of great work this week! She enjoyed doing her ‘do all insects have wings’ experiment, doing education City, telling the time, taste experiments with describing words, fractions, bear hunt challenge and craft work. She has been doing ‘draw with Rob’ and we were really impressed with her attempt at the pug dog!

Jowan, from Class 4

Jowan and his big sister, Mia celebrated World Ocean Day by carrying out a beach clean. Great job guys!

Keira, from Class 3

Thank you Keira for sharing some more of your home learning. You have written a detailed description of an insect and also listed some very good  items that you would take on a picnic. Well done!

Keira, from Class 3

Keira loved the Bear Hunt and became an intrepid explorer in her garden! After working on her number bonds to 20, she embarked on a bug hunt and made natural paintbrushes to paint a picture. Keira chose to do the tree in nonsense land from the Mr Silly book. What a fab idea!

Toran, from Class 3

Super use of commas  in your list writing Toran and well done for both explaining halves and quarters and finding them!

Miles, from Class 3

Miles really enjoyed the Micheal Rosen video today and enjoyed copying his expressions!
Super list writing Miles – great use of commas!

Miles, from Class 3

Today Miles took part in ocean day activities with his brother Corey – Miles enjoyed this as they got to do an experiment!

Elliott, from Class 3

Elliott has been a superstar helping his brother with his learning and has created an amazing plant monster!
Well done Elliott!

Harrison, from Class 3

Harrison flew his kite and talked about what the weather needs to be like to do this!!! He also enjoyed answering the questions to Monday’s challenge.

Arlo, from Class 3

Arlo is busy drawing a picture of a whale for World Ocean Day. Well done!

Toran, from Class 3

Toran had an excellent time creating a bug paradise (hotel) to explore the experiment ‘Do all insects have wings?’. It looks like his prediction was right! Well done!

Miles, from Class 3

Another busy week for Miles!  Lovely to see him playing the learning games with his brother. What a great plant monster! Miles has enjoyed looking at number bonds to 20 this week and counting in 2s.

Thomas, from Class 4

Thomas has worked really hard practicing his handwriting and his phonics – isn’t his writing lovely and neat?! He also enjoyed the pairing game and creating a plant monster from flowers.

Carys, from Class 4

Here is Carys carrying out this weeks home learning.  She has had great fun! Carys loves anything to do with bugs and insects!

Molly, from Class 3

Molly has been very much enjoying the Red Word Bingo game. She also found some tadpoles in her pond so has put them in a smaller tank to watch.

Molly, from Class 3

Molly has been enjoying playing dress-up and has been creating a story character with great descriptions!

Harley, from Class 3

Harley has been making a project about Cornwall… what super research facts!

Isabella, from Class 4

This week, Year 1 are exploring the question “Do all insects have wings?” Isabella has made a great start on her experiment, making lots of notes of how she can collect her data and what she might need to use. Great work, Isabella!

Merryn, from Class 4

Merryn was very busy over the half term break enjoying the sunshine! She spent lots of time at the beach and outdoors, has been working on Times Tables Rockstars and creating lots of gorgeous pictures with her new felt-tip pens. Well done Merryn!