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
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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!
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 6 and 7. 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
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New – Additional online home learning. – Copy and paste the link in to your browser.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
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.
Use your mind – Laugh & Giggle – Breathe Deep – Stretch it out – Relax
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily! I love your spaceship, it’s so colourful and what a great idea to put your photograph inside the space helmet. I can see, from the learning you have completed, that you really enjoyed this literacy based topic all about space.
Also well done on your spelling test results 10/10 great job!
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has been busy with her maths this week, drawn a great picture of a rocket and made a beeswax candle. She also found a little mole in her garden, he’s very cute!
Faith, from Class 5
Faith has really enjoyed the alien project this week, take a look at her amazing photos of all the craft work and writing she has been doing!
Lily, from Class 6
Well done Lily. You have found so many interesting facts about bees and I love your honey comb pattern.
Hana, from Class 5
Hana has been very busy lately with all her home learning, even though she is missing all her friends. Take a look at her photos and enjoy her pirate story.
Rosie, from Class 6
Rosie and George made some cheese today, after completing their numeracy challenges.
They were very proud of what they made, but didn’t like the taste.
Well done, it looks amazing!
Poppy, from Class 6
What great learning you have completed. I love your pictures, especially your spacesuit….
I was also very impressed with your handwriting . Well done.
Poppy wanted to share this photograph of a beautiful mermaid, which she found swimming in her paddling pool. How lucky was Poppy to find a mermaid in her back garden.
Bella, from Class 5
Bella was inspired by Mrs.Pope’s assembly and has made some amazing frozen flowers! She’s also written a great bee poem and diagram and drawn a couple of brilliant self portraits, one inspired by Gustav Klimt, can you guess which one?
Nicholas, from Class 6
Thank you for sharing your learning from this week Nicholas. I can see that you are really enjoying the space theme. Well done!
Faith, from Class 5
A lovely photo of Faith showing some of her work on Noah’s Ark, she really enjoyed this R.E story. She and her mum thought it very topical at the moment as we are all looking forward to much brighter and happier times.
Bella, from Class 5
Bella has become quite the chef at home again this week, baking cookies that look delicious!
She has also completed some maths sheets and brilliantly illustrated her brothers fantastic story.
Alfie, from Class 5
Alfie has been as busy as usual this week, take a look at his photos to see what he has been up to. I love his alien story and animal game. What a lovely picture of him on the beach too, making the most of the lovely weather.
Nicholas, from Class 6
Thank you Nicholas for sharing your home learning from this week. It looks like you are really enjoying the space writing theme. I love your colourful space suit and what a fab rocket! Well done.
Lily, from Class 6
Wow Lily, you have been very busy with your home learning! It was lovely to see your smiley face again and to see that you are showing such dedication to your home learning challenges. I was really impressed to see you calculating your number problems by using such good resources and what a fantastic sunflower picture you have created. Well done.
Emily, from Class 6
Thank you Emily for sharing your home learning challenges from this week. You have shown such dedication towards your learning. I loved your honeycomb pattern and I was glad to see that you are still using your mathematical skills to solve number problems and also completed the R.E activity. I am so proud of you. Well done!
Tilly, from Class 6
Wow Tilly, you have completed some lovely home learning challenges. Your art work is beautiful and I can see that you have taken great care with your illustrations. I was really impressed with your bee mobile. I would love for you to bring it in to school to show your friends when we return. Great home learning Tilly.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has finished her week by completing some great maths today, and she made some delicious cakes too!
Isaac, from Class 5
Isaac has really enjoyed the pirate craft work, take a look at his photos. A clever idea to stain paper with a tea bag to make it look old and a cleverly disguised egg box as treasure chest, well done Isaac!
Harry, from Class 6
Wow Harry! look at your chilli plant, it looks so healthy and such a lovely colour green. You must be taking great care of it. I look forward to seeing a picture of the first chilli. Well done
Verity, from Class 5
I have been looking forward to reading Verity’s pirate story and here it is, she’s had quite an adventure to find that treasure chest!
Lola, from Class 6
what a lovely picture of a bee Lola! I was also impressed to see that you are using your mathematical knowledge to solve number problems. Well done, great home learning!
Lola, from Class 6
Well done Lola! you have shown great dedication to your home learning this week. You have used your mathematical mind to complete so many number problems. Great home learning!
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily! it looks like you really enjoyed the pirate topic. I loved reading your letter and what a great picture of your treasure chest and flag. What a great idea to complete a V.E day word search puzzle. Well done!
Alfie, from Class 5
Some lovely photos from Alfie this week, he’s been working hard and having fun. I loved his description of the boat journey. Apparently he adopted two snails and made a house for them!
Anya, from Class 6
Thank you Anya for sharing this lovely picture of you being the teacher. It was great to see you sharing your knowledge and supporting your younger sister with her phonics. Well done!
Faith, from Class 5
Take a look at Faith’s fantastic art work, she has really enjoyed completing all the pirate activities this week. Well done Faith.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has been enjoying doing arty bits. She had great fun making pebble bees and ladybirds for a game ’noughts and crosses’ and even got Grannie involved by making a special games bag!!
She has been planning her Pirate treasure hunt and has started by drawing her boat and map. She has been talking through her story with me that she is planning to write. Well done Verity!
Emilija, from Class 5
Emilija has been doing a fantastic job with all her home learning lately, take a look at her photos, I really love her paper plate pirates
Class 1 and 2 demonstrate their culinary skills by baking the most delicious treats for all their family to enjoy.
With a little help from Mum or Dad, the children weighed, kneaded, mixed, melted, iced, glazed, and decorated to their hearts content.
They made cup cakes, large chocolate cakes, fruit cakes, mug cakes, pies, tarts, biscuits, cheesecakes, swiss rolls, millionaires shortbread, gingerbread men, cheese scones, fruit scones, Finnish cinnamon buns and even made their own pasta and filled it with a variety of tasty fillings.
These indulgent tasty delights were a massive hit with the children’s families but they had to get in there quickly, they didn’t last long.
“I made them cakes for mummy’s birthday, I made patterns with chocolate buttons and smarties. It’s yummy”- Koby
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 Sukstiene
New -PE and Outdoor Learning at Home
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Luke has had a packed few weeks! He has been growing seeds, exploring his local area complete with finding a rope swing and some stunning views! He has bee making so many amazing creations – like boats, targets, pasties and number blocks pictures. Keep up the super work Luke!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has had another lovely week. He has been learning about plants and even potted his own sunflower.
He has being doing maths puzzles with his dad using numbers and beanbags and created his own picture using his favourite letter families. He has also been enjoying exercising on the beach and throwing the pebbles as far into the sea as he can.
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn has been so busy this week! She has created self portraits, chatted to friends, built lego and practised riding her bike. Great work Merryn!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira has done some posters to help us remember how to draw our letters. She’s had fun drawing these.
Arlo, from Class 3
I’m so impressed with Arlo’s plant fact file! Well done – beautifully written!
Reuben, from Class 4
Reuben has been super busy this past week! He has been exploring money, creating some super tie-dye t-shirts and using M&Ms to create tally charts. Great work Reuben!
Ebbie, from Class 3
Ebbie enjoyed practicing number formation 🙂
Matteo, from Class 4
Matteo has been working on his days of the week, maths, phonics and reading. He also made a blueberry smoothie – it looks very tasty! Well done Matteo!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira loved measuring and mixing the recipe for Homemade giant bubbles!
James, from Class 3
James had lots of fun making a tally chart with Skittles and filling in the missing letters on the Days of the Week. He can also sing the days of the week song to the Adams Family tune!
James loves dinosaurs so he has made lots of pictures of dinosaurs having fun playing football, on the beach and having a picnic!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles prepping to make rockets fly with balloon power this weekend!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles decided what he wanted to buy with the coins in his money jar!
He was a super suffix detective and found a whole page worth! Well done Miles
Arthur, from Class 3
Arthur has really bounced into learning this week… he has researched plants with some bitesize videos, talked about his own house plants and the flowers his family pick and then wrote about what plants need to survive! He’s also expanded on his space project…can’t wait for Arthur to teach class 3 all he knows about space!
Toran, from Class 3
Toran practised his letter formation in flour today….
Jowan, from Class 4
Jowan has been creating his dream garden! It looks beautiful, Jowan – look at all those colours!
Joseph, from Class 4
Joseph has created a brilliant treasure map, I wonder what treasure is buried at the X?! Joseph also has been working hard to master riding his bike – Amazing work!!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison – you really are so kind! I loved your comments on your mindfulness activity!
Also, what a super small world Jack and the Beanstalk!
Great to see you and your brother playing so beautifully and very impressive that you were teaching him to make flapjacks! Well done!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoying his mentos and coke experiment! Good job he’s got quick reactions and moved out of the way!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison drew and painted the giant and jack last week ready to create his jack and the beanstalk scene tomorrow 🎨
Lowenna, from Class 3
Lowenna has been practising the days of the week and recognising her numbers whilst playing Bingo! She also had great fun planting and creating a fairy garden!
Betty, from Class 3
I love tracing around my hands to make number bond support tools… I’m glad Betty enjoyed it too!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has had a great week. As part of his daily exercise he went on a “Bear Hunt” to find sticks to build a raft, which didn’t sink.
Thomas has also been enjoying learning about the days of the week and doing doing bonds.
Miles, from Class 3
Today was ‘Cornish Day’ at Miles’ house! He didn’t need any help knowing how to draw this flag!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles thought today’s maths was the most fun so far! I loved the video of Miles eating a sweet, then drawing a tally for it! 🙂
Toran, from Class 3
Super unscrambling days of the week and works on Tally’s, bar charts and pictograms. Well done Toran!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been enjoying using a rainbow to support learning his number bonds as well as learning to spell and order the days of the week. Great to see mum and Elliott making use of the ‘Vipers’ questions when reading ‘The Scrap Rocket’. They are really helpful aren’t they?! It’s also nice to see Hugo and Elliott having such fun together on the beach!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo has been busy this week completing maths sheets: dividing in halves and recognising halves, watching the phonics on you tube using the ‘r’ sound, writing a diary of what he has done each day, practising reading and writing red words and reading books through the Owl. Phew… what a busy week Arlo! Well done.
Ebbie, from Class 3
Ebbie wrote some super instructions when she helped Daddy with planting seeds! She has also been practising ‘groups of’ to find multiples of 5. Well done!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoying the RWI lessons this morning and having fun unscrambling days of the week!
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn has been having lots of fun at home. She has walked to the beach, done lots of baking, re-enacted fairytales with her teddy bears, carried out some amazing science experiments, played with her Lego and learnt her times tables. Wow Merryn!
Toran , from Class 3
Great to see Toran using practical resources to solve the maths problem – I have a number between 20 and 30. It must be in the 5 times table. What must the number be?
Ebbie, from Class 3
Linking to our ‘How does your garden grow?’ topic, Ebbie helping her dad to sow some fruit and vegetable seeds?🧅🥕🥔🍅🍓
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been using the past phonics screening checks to practise reading both real and nonsense words. He’s also been practising ordering and writing the days of the week.
Beau, from Class 4
Beau has been really busy at home! He has been practising his times tables and writing a review of a film he watched. Well done Beau!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles decided to do some ‘worksheet’ style learning today linking to our daily challenges.
He’s also chosen and planned his next experiment – Miles has been enjoying the kitchen science challenges I sent him!
James, from Class 3
James has been learning how to tell the time! He has also been using his time to do lots of reading, phonics and puzzles! Well done James!
He has also been using his time to do lots of reading, phonics and puzzles! Well done
Harrison, from Class 3
This weekend and today we did a mixture of activities….We melted old unwanted crayons and made them into planet earth crayons.
Ebbie, from Class 3
The days of the week were hidden around the house. Ebbie had to find them, read them and put them into order. Then she wanted to write the words herself. We practiced which ways b and d face. She also spotted the ay sound that we have practiced before.
Reuben, Class 4
Reuben has been working really hard at his phonics whilst at home – inside and outside! Well done Reuben!
Joseph, Class 4
Joseph has been busy in his garden this last week. He has been painting, planting and bug spotting – great work Joseph!
Olivia, from Class 3
Olivia wrote a lovely letter to Scarlett which beautiful handwriting and great use of question marks. She’s also being exploring multiplication through ‘groups of’ and repeated addition. Well done Olivia.
Thomas, from Class 3
I have had a nice week at home and have been enjoying, writing, maths and reading. I have started writing the days of the week and months of the year using my phonic cards to learn how to write each letter.
I have also been reading Jack and the Beanstalk. Mummy and I have planted our own beans to see if they will grow. I also had great fun making my own Giant’s castle and learning about the 2D shapes that we used to build it.
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 Sukstiene
Alice, from Class 3
Alice’s Grandma will be excited to receive this lovely postcard that Alice wrote!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira loved making ’arrays’ for multiplication with Mega blocks and using part-whole to multiply. Keira explored measuring practically with her first attempt at making pasties – they look delicious!
Her favourite place to watch TV is now hanging upside down and swinging on her Dad’s pull up bar! Keira practised writing her full name in the sand during her daily exercise time!
Alice, from Class 3
Alice joined in with her brother’s home-learning challenge of finding facts on his favourite animal. Super drawing and facts Alice!
Alice’s papa built a pond in the garden that her and brother have been using as a paddling pool while there’s no fish in there. She also planted some plants for our ‘How does Your Garden Grow?’ topic and did some practical measuring during baking…which Alice loves doing!
Henry, from Class 4
Henry has been working hard writing using his adjectives. He and his brother, Arthur, have been printing with lego and creating space pictures. Super work!
Isla, from Class 3
Isla mixed exercise and phonics by reading red and green words in a game of hopscotch. She also enjoyed playing memory games in the sun! Isla then created super stretchy noun phrases using ‘ee’ sounds! Well done for remembering a comma between the adjectives too 🙂 Isla then wrote a lovely letter to Betty and made a raft … I can’t wait to hear whether it floated! Fingers crossed it did!
Violet, from Class 4
Violet has been so busy at home! She has been creative by making a picture frame and painting eggs for Easter. She has been helping her daddy feed the donkeys at his work and baking some delicious flat breads and hummus for lunch! She has also been out in the garden bug hunting! Well done Violet!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has enjoyed making ’stretchy sentences’ to create noun phrases as well as grouping for multiplication. He’s also written and email to his uncle and sorted animals. Well done Elliott!
Toran, from Class 3
Super stretchy sentences Toran adding information with the 5W’s questions (Who? What? Where? When? Why?) Great use of part-whole models for multiplication and lovely to see you writing a letter to Grandad, which super punctuation and handwriting. I’m sure he’ll love receiving this! Well done!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison made a Jet pack with his dad on Tuesday 🚀 He also went for a walk and drew a heart and said thank you to the NHS. He also practiced writing his name in a different way. On his walk he collected lots of leaves and twigs and nature items to make things. He made a H for Harrison.
Toran, from Class 3
Toran enjoying drawing arrays from number sentences.
Miles, from Class 3
Great questions Miles. I would rather eat chocolate for the rest of my life and I’d rather swim that float – I love to swim!
Great to see you enjoying the lego arrays for multiplication so much! They’re fun to make aren’t they?!
Matteo, from Class 4
Matteo has been busy at home. Here he is with a train track he has built! He also decorated eggs to celebrate Easter – Very creative!
Noah, Class 4
Noah has been working hard, practising his hand writing. He wrote all about the film Jurassic Park! He also helped his brother with his home learning and they built a tree using recycling! Super work!
Miles, Class 3
Miles making music with natural objects…to his parents delight! :-)Plus excellent use of the conjunctions ‘because’ and ’so’ Miles. Well done!
Betty, Class 3
Super use of shells to practise grouping for multiplication Betty.
I love that Class 3 are sending each other letters – it’s a great way of keeping in contact with your friends! Lovely use of a question mark as well as the conjunctions ‘and’ / ‘because’. Well done Betty!
Arthur, from Class 3
I loved receiving a letter from Arthur today and enjoyed replying with answers to his questions.
Arthur has great fun making a planet picture – it’s stunning! Well done Arthur – can you name the planets?
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison has made his own pizza from scratch with his dad and baked it in our pizza oven.
Cooking 🍕 & learning about fire safety 🔥
We went on a bike ride, Harrison is fantastic at riding his bike, using his breaks and we even went on the road in places. Learning all about road safety, what side of the road we should be on, keeping to the side, slowing down at a junction and wearing his helmet etc. Today we have been extending sentences, whilst talking about our dog 🐕 ……
Merryn has been super busy over the past few weeks. She has been baking, painting and writing letters to cheer up patients in hospital who are missing their families. She has been getting creative, making lots of pictures with her sister and has been keeping an eye on the tadpoles in the stream to watch them grow! Great work, Merryn!
Ebbie, from Class 3
Great pen control Ebbie – great to see her practising her handwriting.
Ebbie enjoyed an egg hunt over Easter and had a great time splashing in the sea during her daily exercise.
Ebbie’s Daddy is building a barn and Ebbie likes to take lunch to him and help him dig.
She has also written a letter to her nanny to see how she is – it’s important to keep in contact with your family and friends as everyone is missing each other!
Toran, from Class 3.
Toran explored capacity and recorded in standard units of measure! He has also been exploring which kitchen ingredients fizz when added to bicarbonate of soda – I love seeing the concentration on his face! Well done Toran!
Elliott, from class3
Elliott and his brother out on a scavenger hunt, that Elliott had written, as part of our Fresh Air Friday challenge!
Jack, from Class 3
It’s great to see Jack completing the maths Fresh Air Friday activity of making a bird feeder and the writing task of helping your adult cook and writing a set of instructions for your meal. Super use of time connectives to sequence your instructions! The pizza looks delicious Jack! Well done.
Happy Birthday Jack – looks like you had great fun using hair chalks to turn your hair red!
Ezra from Class 4
Ezra has been super busy at home. He’s been practising his handwriting with his sister and having lots of fun!
Reuben, from Class 4
Reuben made an Easter Maths Maze using his lego! He also, with his sister Lottie, worked hard on making a maze together. Great team work!
Luke, from Class 4
Luke explored capacity by using jugs and containers in his paddling pool! He has also been busy exploring measurement – lovely work Luke!
Rosie, from Class 4
Rosie has been busy looking after the runner beans she is growing! She has also been exploring art – on herself! You look great Rosie!
Geoffrey, from Class 4
Geoffrey has been working hard at home on his phonics and has been practising his numbers and counting by playing card games at home!
Joseph, from Class 4
Joseph has been practising writing his own addition number sentences and has been exploring coins and money! He has also been busy writing down his recipe for banana bread. It sounds tasty!Great work!
Luke, from Class 4
Luke has been practising using conjunctions in his writing!
Lowenna, from Class 3
Lowenna has been exploring Hayle on 2 wheels but cycling during her daily exercise.
After successfully making pasties together in school, Lowenna has been teaching her adults to make them at home – they look delicious!
Great to see Lowenna showing her support for the NHS! Who else has been clapping at 8pm on a Thursday night? I have!
Great use of vegetables to create patterns – super to see Lowenna getting into our ‘How does your Garden Grow?’ Topic!
Darcey, from Class 3
It’s been great to see Darcey engaging with the online RWI phonics lessons and helping her adults to prepare some healthy meals – It’s important to stay healthy!
Arlo, Class 3
Super adjectives to describe your character Arlo! It’s great to see Arlo having fun in the sun during his daily exercise. Arlo had great fun measuring his family using standard untis of measure.
Miss Whear, Class 3
My daily exercise / weekly food shopping has been on my bike.
My thoughtful family surprised me with an egg hunt in my garden for my birthday and socially distanced deliveries from friends and neighbours arrived throughout the day! Don’t worry – my family used the visit as their daily exercise and left before I went out to do the hunt! Thank you Reuben (my nephew in Class 4).
Isla, from Class 3
Isla F made her own addition and subtraction game.
She then played ‘say it, make it, write it’ with pebbles. I loved receiving a video of Isla reading a story to me too!
Betty, from Class 3
Betty has been measuring using standard units of measure when cooking. She has also made super use of adjectives to describe animals and been practising drawing the o’clock time – well done!
Betty has been measuring using standard units of measure when cooking and proving that reading can happen anywhere!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has been continuing his reading and writing at home and sharing stories. I love seeing how you have been using your daily hour of exercise time.
Miles, from Class 3
Every Friday Miles’ family have a themed day and the children make flags from a chosen country and they cook/eat food from there for breakfast, lunch and dinner too! So far they have had Italian Day (pizza) and American Day (burgers and donuts) – What a fun idea! Whilst cooking, Miles explored capacity by spooning water into various sized glasses with a spoon.
Miles has been practising spelling the days of the week, using capital letters and his neatest handwriting. He focused on ascenders and descenders (tall letters on the line and long letters below the line).
Miles showed his super writing by retelling the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’. Great use of the conjunction ‘and’ as well as commas in a list. also wrote some questions to post to his friend James.
Miles enjoying fresh air Friday and playing maths Lego games
Ebon, from Class 3
Ebon has been making the most of the sunshine to start our new topic ‘How does your garden grow?’ by planting his own seeds. He also wrote the recipe and helped the adults with measuring and cooking. It was lovely looking at the way you have been using your daily exercise time Ebon.
Poor Ebon fell and broke his wrist. Our thoughts are with him and I hear he’s been incredibly brave!
Ebon’s milk lid boat
Harrison, from Class 3
Today Harrison has been very creative and made some fairy houses out of plant pots.
Harrison has been practising using capital letters and question marks by writing questions for their family and friends.
Harrison watched toy story, he then answered questions on the film and rang his nanny describing the film and seeing if she could guess what he had been watching. Harrison also went on a nature walk and wrote about what he had seen using commas in a list.
Harrison explored number bonds to and within 20 using dominoes!
Harley, from Class 3
Harley has been practising using capital letters and question marks by writing questions for his family and friends. Harley chose to measure practically when baking a crumble – it looks like he enjoyed it!
Harley loved the kitchen science investigation where he explored mixing bicarbonate of soda with kitchen ingredients. Luckily he did this outside as there was quite an explosion. I was lucky enough to see the video.
Class 3, would also like to wish Harley a very happy birthday and we all hope he had a great day!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been making the most of the sunshine to start our new topic ‘How does your garden grow?’ by planting his own seeds, designing a garden and writing a list of what he would like in it. He has also been exploring and describing materials.
Class 3, would also like to wish Elliott a very happy birthday and we all hope he had a great day!
Here at Penpol, we have a rich community which stretches far and wide, beyond the school gates. For three years, we have been in contact with Madame Jourdain’s Year 5 classes, at Le Bourg primary school in SW France. We have been exchanging letters, information about our lovely school and area, sending over games and passing on cultural differences between the two countries.
One aspect which is very similar between the two countries right now is that French children are now, like us, working from home for the time being, rather than at school.
Maintaining connections during this rather strange time is a powerful thing – be it with family, friends, teachers, as well as our friends over the pond at Ecole Primaire le Bourg- and it gives us all a sense that we are in this together.
The children from Le Bourg primary school have sent messages, some in French and some in English, detailing what they are getting up to during this period outside of the classroom. I am also very excited to send some of our own messages in French/ English to let them know what we are doing during this time. Please feel free to send them in to your teachers if you have anything you would like to share in French…the more, the merrier! Also, if you feel like you need a refresher on some of the topics your teachers have been doing with you, with the help of Mr Woolcock I have uploaded a French and Spanish section with plenty of games and activities to try out and boost your confidence. You can find the French and Spanish section on the home learning section of the school website.
For now, check out the lovely message sent from their teacher, Madame Jourdain, as well as the letters from the Year 5 children below and see how you get on with some of the translations…
Hi Class 6 and Class 5, Mrs Ruffell and Mrs Daniel would like to share some home learning photographs with you. Please email Mrs Ruffell or Mrs Daniel with any home learning challenges completed, so that we can share them on the school web site.
Take care – Mrs Ruffell & Mrs Daniel
Online safety at home – copy and paste the link in to your browser.
Fun ways to exercise and keep fit! – Copy and paste the link in to your browser.
https://imoves.com/the-imovement
Emily, from Class 6 has been learning about punctuation.
Thank you Emily for sharing this weeks learning. You have been learning all about commas and apostrophes and created a fact file about how to look after a dog. I really love all the images you have used. I was so glad to see that you were able able to access the R.E plans, well done. Keep a look out for next weeks home learning challenges.
Verity, from Class 5 has been counting bees.
Thank you for sharing your home learning from this week Verity. I loved reading all of your facts about dogs and bees. Well done!
Lola, from Class 6 has been researching and collecting data
Well done Lola on researching and writing so many interesting facts about Cocker Spaniels. They really are a lovely breed of dog. I was also very interested in your data collection. Well done on creating a Tally chart and then transfering the information, which you recoded, in to a Bar graph. Great home learning!
Alfie, from Class 5 has been researching facts.
Alfie has written a couple of fact sheets all about bumblebees and rats, you can read all about their very interesting toilet habits!
Oliver, from Class 5 has designed a poster.
Oliver has written a fantastic poster all about his dog Ted, he loves going to the beach.
Isaac from Class 5 has been writing poetry.
Wow! Isaac has written a poem and designed a poster to try and gain his blue and green blue letter badges. Fantastic home learning Isaac, your poem is brilliant. Well done!
Faith, from Class 5 has been very creative.
Thank you so much Faith for sharing your great artistic and cheerful artwork with us. Well done!
Anya, from Class 6 has been using her mathematical skills, writing facts and learning about Easter.
Wow, well done Anya! I am glad to see that you have been using your mathematical skills to solve several number problems and also sequencing numbers correctly. You have also drawn a lovely picture of bee and written some interesting facts. I also found it very interesting reading all about guinea pigs, I never knew that they loved being cuddled and ate vegetables.
Anya, thank you for sharing the picture of your homemade flapjack, it looks delicious! Also what a great bike ride you did this morning! Well done.
Bobby, from Class 6 has been learning all about bees.
Thank you Bobby for sharing all of your home learning about bees. I was so excited to see that you are already showing an interest in our summer topic. I thought that your picture, of a cartoon bee, called Bob was fantastic and what a great name for a bee. I also loved your bee finger puppet. Well done Bobby, great home learning.
Lily, from Class 6 has been writing stories and sentences.
Thank you so much Lily for sharing your learning with us. I can see that you have been busy learning your 2, 3, 5 and ten times tables and also writing stories and silly sentences, which were all home learning tasks from week one . I was also very impressed when I read your sentences that contained the word of the week ‘Saunter’. Well done Lily! Great home learning.
Emily, from class 6 has been putting her mathematical skills to great use.
Wow! Emily, you have really been using your mathematical knowledge to solve so many number problems. You have been learning about direction, time, mass and comparing numbers. I really enjoyed reading your story and I was so impressed with your handwriting. I also loved the picture of your penguin, which I will save and put on the classroom wall as soon as we return. Well done Emily, great home learning!
Verity, from Class 5 has been busy adapting stories.
Hello Verity!
It was lovely to read your super story today. I loved the way you story boarded it first, just as we do in school. The Princess and the Pea is one of my favourite traditional tales and I loved the way you made it your own by having dogs as the main characters! Do you remember when I read it in school?
Jowan, from Class 6 has been experimenting and keeping fit.
Thank you Jowan for sharing with us your photographs of you keeping fit and how you are keeping your learning going by watching and then recording a variety of scientific experiments. It was also lovely to see you sporting a brand new hair style, which looks great! Well done Jowan.
Ava, from Class 6 has been learning all about bees.
Ava has made a great start on the summer home learning challenges. She has been very busy researching for information about bees and recorded some interesting facts. She has also written a detailed story that was inspired by a picture and created her very own weather chart to record the temperature. Ava also used her mathematical knowledge to measure out a selection of ingredients to make her very own pasty. Well done Ava, great home learning.
Tilly, from class 6 has been recording the weather.
Tilly has been very creative by making her own rain gauge out of an empty plastic bottle. Apart from decorating the bottle, she has also drawn a scale in ml to record the amount of rain that falls. Tilly will also be busy recording the daily temperatures and recording the weather conditions on her weather diary, that goes up until the end of April. I look forward to seeing the final amount of rain fall recorded. Well done Tilly, you have definitely shown an interest in recording the weather!
Oliver, from Class 5 has been busy writing stories.
Hello Oliver! I was so pleased to receive your home learning today and read your story all about the Billy Goats Gruff. I can see that you created a storyboard first and then used this plan to write the story out in the correct order. Well done and thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Harry, from Class 6 has green fingers!
Harry has been busy learning all about seeds and what they need to grow in to healthy plants. He has also been researching for interesting facts about bees and created a poster all about honey. Well done Harry, great home learning. Remember to let us know how your chilli seed grows, perhaps you could keep a diary of its growth and share with us again?
Wow! Thank you Harry for telling us what we would need if we were to have a snake as a pet.
Lola, from Class 6 has been very busy writing, calculating and baking .
Thank you Lola for sharing your home learning photographs with us. You have produced a draft copy of your story, edited your spelling and grammar mistakes and then written the story out again in your very best hand writing. You have also shown that you have given the characters a lot of thought by drawing them in such detail. It was also lovely to see that you have been calculating a variety of number facts and problems and then using measure to bake some delicious buns. I am also very excited to see that you have already started to learn all about bees. Well done Lola, I am very proud of your home learning achievements!
Hugo, from Class 6 gets very creative.
Hugo has sent me some pictures, of his home learning challenges, that he would like to share. Not only has Hugo been busy practicing his letter formation and reading skills, he has also enjoyed creating and completing many D&T activities and by reading and following instructions, made a delicious chocolate cake, which he knows is one of my favourite treats! I just wish I could have tried a slice. Well done Hugo! I am very proud of your learning achievements.
Violet, from Class 5 has been planning and writing.
Violet has been very busy planning and writing stories of her own. In her writing she has ensured that she has used her best handwriting and included well structured sentences. Well done Violet, some super home learning! keep it up.
Well done! Some super work about bees Violet. Keep it going.
Poppy, from class 6 has been busy Home Learning.
Poppy has been very busy learning her two and tens times tables and then, after comparing measures, made some very tasty buns. she also created a storyboard for her own story, ‘The Three Fairies’, which she then wrote out in her best handwriting. Well done Poppy! Great home learning.
Well done Poppy, you have researched and written out some great bee facts. Great home learning again!
In a very dramatic turn of events, Year 4 pupils arrived into the Mac Suite this morning to discover that a situation had arisen overnight. An intrepid LEGO astronaut had got himself into a spot of bother on the surface of the moon.
He’d unpacked his suitcase and was enjoying a warm drink in the Moon Base when he realised he’d left his Moon Rover back on Earth. Oh dear!
To make matters even worse, ahead in the distance he could see two massive pieces of Moon Treasure that were too far away to reach on foot.
Thankfully, Classes 9 and 10 were on hand to help. When faced with a challenge, these classes can always built a robot to help out! So over the morning, both classes built, tested, refined and polished their Moon Rovers to help Astronaut Alan reach the treasure. We had a variety of designs, a huge array of different programming styles and a lot of trips back and forth testing their creations.
But at the end of the morning, I’m delighted to say that Astronaut Alan reached the Moon Treasure and safely returned to his base – safe in the knowledge that the treasure was actually just two foam cubes with patterns on.
As part of their English and art lessons, Class 6 have been listening to the story ‘The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon’, written by Richard Adams. The children enjoyed listening to how the character, Emma, made her own dragon out of an egg box and then acknowledging the importance of writing a clear set of instructions for others to follow. The children had a great time planning and then selecting a variety of materials to make an Egg Box Dragon of their own.
Class 1 had an amazing time at the standing stones stables.
James and Buddy the horses were very gentle and patient with the children. Firstly they enjoyed being brushed and groomed by the children. We learnt all about how to care for them and how to keep them healthy and happy.
I saw a horse inside the stable that was as big as this room. Daisy wanted to find the fairy king and the fairy village in the woods. We built a village for the fairy king out of sticks – George
Next the horses were transformed into magical unicorns with bows, glitter, coloured ribbons and even a unicorn horn.
I liked it when I rided on the horse. He was called James he was brown – Sorrel
So I was eating lunch and I eated it then I rided on a horse. I went on the horses back and he skipped. I collected sticks in the woods – Daisy
Then for the most exciting part, the pony rides. All the children in the class were brave enough to have a ride and loved this wonderful experience.
There was even time for a lovely walk in the woods for a spot of exploring, investigating and den building.
I rided a horse, it was fun. It feeled like I had a fun day – Poppy
Class one would like to thank Natalie, Debbie, Amy and Sarah for their time, patience and care. They really gave the children the most wonderful experience and a trip to remember.
