Year 5 Trefewha Farm
Making Magic in Year 4!
Month: April 2022
Penpol’s Sponsored Mile for Ukraine
Over the past few weeks, Penpol have been raising money for ShelterBox – a charity that are providing emergency shelter and resources to families who have lost their homes during the current war happening in Ukraine.
Before we embarked on our walks, we had a visitor from ShelterBox – called Danny – come in and tell us all about what they do as a charity, as well as showing us some of the items that are sent all around the world to families in need.
On Thursday 24th March, everybody in school walked one mile each – together, making up the 400+ mile journey that many Ukrainians are travelling to reach refugee camps in Poland.
Everyone arrived at school dressed in blue and yellow clothes (the colours of Ukraine’s flag). Some children even made flags and banners with their buddies to wave around as they walked through Hayle!
Classes teamed up with their Reading Buddies to go on their walk, with each team choosing various routes to complete their mile.
The grand total of all our fantastic fundraising is a flabbergasting… £7372.60!
Year 2 Visit Church for the Easter Story
This morning (Monday 4th April), Year 2 visited St. Elwyn’s Church to learn about the Easter Story before the holidays.
We got ready first thing; wrapped up warm in our coats and waterproof trousers to keep us dry – as it was a bit rainy outside – and we set off!
After a short walk down the road, we arrived at the church.
We were met inside by three lovely people from St. Elwyn’s. They introduced themselves and taught us a song to the tune of ‘London’s Burning’ which told about the Easter Story.
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Once everyone had had a good sing-song, we listened very carefully and learnt about the Easter Story.
We then had some time to look around the church and at the ‘Stations of the Cross’.
Finally, we sat down and had our snack before heading back to school!
Terrific Trevaskis
Class 1 had a lovely day at Trevaskis farm.
We learnt some names of different fruits and vegetables including some of the more unusual ones such as kumquats, moolis and romanesco cauliflower and learnt how and where they grow.
We found some chickens, the white chickens lay the white eggs, the brown chickens laid the brown eggs – Vinnie
We saw some interesting eggs of varying colours and sizes depending on the colour and breed of chicken or whether a larger bird had laid it, such as goose.
We saw vegetables, cabbages, carrots, cucumbers, they grow in the ground. Cassius
We walked past some gooseberry bushes and studied their buds then onto the kitchen garden where they usually grow the herbs, leeks and potatos.
Broccoli and carrots and onions, the need sunshine and water to grow and love – Henry
Next was into the polly tunnel where we saw some asparagus, rhubarb and sugar snap peas growing. We learnt that the strawberries grow up then down and the raspberries grow up in a curly wurly shape.
Strawberries have seeds on the outsides of them, raspberries have seeds on the inside – Maya
Strawberries have 200 seeds on the outside – Ferne
We met some animals including the South Devonside cattle, some British Lop pigs and piglets, some chickens, a very noisy cockerel, a goose, some sheep, some donkeys and some goats.
Pigs roll in mud to keep warm so they don’t get sunburnt, soil has nutrients which is something that the plants eat – Jack
Class 1 would like to say a huge thank you to Bev and everyone at Trevaskis farm for showing us around and making our day fun packed and informative.
