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 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 fab time enjoying the sunshine this week. He has been playing in his pool, been bodyboarding at the beach and has been doing some great fraction work too! He has also been bug hunting in his garden and creating a super bar chart to show all the different kinds of insects that he has found. Great work, Luke!
Joseph, from Class 4
Joseph has been writing letters to his friends (and Mrs Sukstiene!). Look at that gorgeous handwriting!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been busy learning about fractions, positional language and punctuation recently! Well done Elliott!
Ezra, from Class 4
Ezra has had a super week learning all about mental health awareness. He’s been really busy learning about things that make us feel happy and has decided that being outside and exploring helps him to feel positive. Ezra’s family are having a ‘Feel Good Friday’ party today too, it sounds a lot of fun!
Carys, from Class 4
Carys made a super punctuation poster for our English home learning this week. She chose to tell us all about using a question mark. Well done Carys!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo’s chose the question mark for his punctuation poster this week and enjoyed completing it with his dad!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles loved tricky word bingo yesterday , he’s asked to play again today!
Florence, from Class 4
Florence has been staying active and getting outdoors a lot during the school closures. She has visited the beach, built dens and was even lucky enough to have a treehouse built by her very clever Dad! Florence has also been a great big sister, playing lots with Agatha. It looks like so much fun!
Rosie, from Class 4
Rosie has had a lovely time practising her dancing, going out on her scooter and having a little pamper with a face mask. It looks like fun!
Olivia, from Class 3
Olivia has been loving exploring number bonds, money and tally charts in maths! She’s also made an incredible plants information poster and been practising her days of the week!
Harley, from Class 3
Harley’s been a busy busy these last couple of weeks. Take a look at his super learning!
James, from Class 3
James has enjoyed studying the weather this week. He has drawn some pictures of the weather and has also been doing some maths sums by filling in the missing numbers.
James climbed Trencom Hill and he felt like he was on top of the world!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira has made a pattern with fruit and vegetables printing.
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison used the computer to learn about halves and quarters and created a super weather report from last week-
Harrison walked up to Trencrom and loved climbing and jumping around on the big rocks. Harrison and his brother found little caves and spotted St Michaels amount, Penzance, St Ives, Godrevy lighthouse, Hayle and the estuary.
Isla F from Class 3
Isla F has enjoyed recording the weather, and making a wind vane to see which direction that cold wind was blowing in from, earlier in the week. She’s also baked some tasty vegan banana muffins!
Ebon, from Class 3
Ebon has been busy learning his timetables, making flags on VE day and riding his new bike which he was so happy to get riding when his cast came off!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo is feeling very proud of his weather report this week… and so he should be – it’s fantastic!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has been enjoying lots of walking and running on the beach the last few days and exploring St George’s Walk looking at the fish and flowers. He has really enjoyed keeping a weather record and drawing lots of happy sunshines.
He has been very good with his reading, phonics and maths. Thomas has also been looking after his sunflower which is growing really fast.
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison baked flapjack with me today to send to his great grandad for his birthday and he made a wonderful birthday card, drawing the picture and doing all the writing inside. He also planted 4 types of flowers and 4 types of herbs.
Miles, from Class 3
Miles has completed his weather diary and the challenge I set him to think of adjectives and adverbs to describe the weather! He then used them in a weather poem! Well done Miles! He’s also been adding to his story each day.
Toran, from Class 3
Toran’s been working really hard on his home-learning! Super addition 🙂
Toran exploring rhyming words!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo enjoying dressing up time as Stanley Hulk!
Miles, from Class 3
This morning miles watcher weather videos on you tube and made a weather poster.
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been doing so well practising the DFE online phonics screening past papers! Well done Elliott. He’s also loved exploring money and plants!
Toran, from Class 3
Toran used paint for his pointillism flower and loved exploring money!
Geoffrey, from Class 4
Geoffrey has been learning lots at home this week. He has been exploring the different parts of a plant, practising his handwriting and working on his maths. Super work, Geoffrey – well done!
Ezra, from Class 4
Ezra had a fantastic day celebrating VE Day. He had an indoor street party with his family where they made medals, ration books and danced to music from the 1940s. It looks like so much fun! Great work Ezra, I can’t wait to hear all about it!
Isla, from Class 3
Isla F had a fun week doing coin and leaf rubbings, practising her phonics and writing her short story about a mermaid, called Isla.
James, from Class 3
James is enjoying the weekly challenges – this week he raided his piggy bank to find out about money and to do some coin rubbings. He also explored the different parts of a plant and did some sums in the sand on the beach.
Matteo, from Class 4
Matteo has been learning lots about plants and growing this week. He has practised his English and Maths and also built a boat from recycling. Great work, Matteo!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison learning how to use the suffix -ing and learning the value of money by doing some coin rubbings! Well done.
Miles, from Class 3
Miles loved testing out the rockets and writing the experiment up, he said that ‘the big one went the furthest , the little one went round in circles’. He also celebrated VE Day and helped to make mini toad in the holes and bunting!
For their family themed day, they had Chinese day! Miles didn’t think much of Hong-Kong style egg tarts for breakfast but he did like noddles and apple fritters!
Hello again everyone, I hope you are all well and still enjoying your home learning challenges.
Since I last wrote to you, I have had a few days that were lovely and also a few days where I chose to be a bit naughty and I ended up in a little bit of trouble.
Last Monday, when my family were very busy, I began to feel a little bored, so I decided to have a little roam around my house. I suddenly noticed that someone had left the bathroom door open and I saw some white paper hanging from the wall. I went up to the paper and grabbed it in my mouth. I then started to run out of the bathroom door with the paper following behind. Oh what fun I had playing with that paper, I felt so happy, until I heard someone shout ‘Betsy’. I looked up and saw my family staring down at me. They didn’t look very happy.
My family then decided that perhaps it would be better for me to go outside and get some fresh air, before I got myself in to any more trouble. I was so excited when I saw that I was going to my favourite place, the beach.
I had so much fun at the beach running and rolling around in the sand but because I have a long coat, I had to have a bath before I went to bed. When I lay down in my basket, I felt quite excited as I had heard my family saying that tomorrow was going to be a special day and that they were all going to be baking delicious buns for everyone to eat.
When I woke up in the morning everyone was really busy, in the kitchen, baking and there was such a lovely smell coming from the oven. I looked through the oven door and I could see some of my favourite buns being cooked. I wanted to just sit and watch them cook but no luck, ‘Walkies Betsy”.
Although I wanted to sit and watch the buns cooking, it was great to get outside in the fresh air and get some morning exercise.
On the way back from my walk, my owner decided to let me off the lead so that I could walk on my own. Suddenly, I could smell those delicious buns and I just knew that I had to have one ,as my mouth was beginning to water. I started to run home as fast as I could and there, outside of my garden, was a table all decorated with blue, red and white flags and on the top was a tray full of buns with icing on the top. I thought to myself, ‘This must be the special day celebrations that I heard my family talking about”. I just couldn’t wait any longer, I jumped up and started to eat the buns, licking the icing off first. Suddenly I heard someone shout, “Betsy, those buns were for the V.E day celebrations, now we will have to make some more. I know now that I shouldn’t have taken the buns but they were just looking and smelling so delicious, I couldn’t help myself. Next time, I will wait for my owner to give me one. I think I should now try to stay out of mischief for a while.
Hello everyone at Penpol School, I hope you are all o.k and enjoying all of your home learning challenges. I really am missing all of my extra cuddles and also seeing everyones smiley faces.
At this strange time, I am also not allowed to go outside and do all of the fun things that I used to enjoy doing. Some days, I often sit and look out of my window, wishing things could get back to normal and I could go outside to play and visit everyone at Penpol School, where I love to be made a fuss of.
Although I miss going outside and not visiting Penpol School, I have enjoyed being at home with my family, where I have also been learning new challenges and practicing old tricks. When the sun was shining, I was so lucky to go down to the beach and play fetch. This is one of my favourite games, especially when the ball goes in to the sea.
Another trick that I have been practicing is ‘Stay’ and ‘Here”. This is a good trick, as I get to sit or stand in the same position and then when I hear the command ‘Here’ I have to run to my owner. They always give me a big cuddle when I run up to them.
Although I am really happy most days, being at home and learning with my family, some times I feel a bit sad and fed up and just don’t want to get out of bed, especially when it is raining.
On these days, I always tell my family how I am feeling so that they can help me and give me things to do that will stop me worrying and make me feel better. Last week, when I felt really sad, my family let me watch some horse racing on the television.
It was so exciting watching all of the horses galloping down the track and then jumping over the fences. After watching the horses, I felt so much happier and couldn’t wait to get started on my next learning challenge followed by playing in the garden and then having plenty of cuddles and playtime with my family.
Well I hope you have all enjoyed reading about what I’ve been up to at home. Perhaps you would like to send some photographs of your pets to Mrs Ruffell, so that she can share them with me and everyone else on the Penpol Times.
Here is a picture of Fred from Class 1 with Sydney, she’s an Hungarian vizsla.
Ebbie, from Class 3
What a beautiful photo of Ebbie playing with her dog on the beach!
Isla, from Class 2
Here is Isla from class 2 with her pet Cat Alfie, they are watching a film together.
Izzy, from Class 2
It looks like Luna has been having a fab time playing with Izzy. I wonder what game they are playing? It looks like Luna is taking Izzy for a ride.
Kensa, from Class 6
Kensa and Bruno have also been visiting the beach to have some fun and exercise. Bruno looks just like Betsy. I wonder if they go to the same dog parlour to have their coats groomed?
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
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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…
The Book Fair arrived at Penpol School on Thursday 5th March (World Book Day) and will be here until Wednesday 12th March!
You are able to use £1 World Book Day vouchers on books that are over £2.99 at the Book Fair.
There are hundreds of books from £2.99. Read all the latest books by your favourite authors and illustrators! Discover a book you’ll love at our Book Fair.
Earn 20% extra free with discounted gift vouchers, available online before the Book Fair at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/giftvouchers
Every book you buy at our Book Fair helps us earn free books for our school!
What better to do on a rainy Wednesday than visit the cinema?! Classes 3 and 4 were very excited to see the Secret Life of Pets 2 – all about a little dog called Max who has to overcome his fears to save the day.
Our day started with an exciting trip on a double decker bus, with the children singing some lovely songs to keep us entertained along the way. We arrived just in time to settle down for the film and there was lots of giggling throughout!
Before the trip home, we had lunch in the upstairs seating area where the children enjoyed socialising and discussing their favourite part of the film over their sandwiches!
We were so proud of the whole year group – there behaviour was fantastic and was even commented on by a teacher of another school who said that the children we so well behaved and that you wouldn’t know there were 60 five year olds in there!
Well done Year 1, another super trip with fantastic behaviour – we can’t wait for the next!
Classes 4 and 3 had a spooktaculartime celebrating our 'Spooky dress up day."
We took part in lots of spooky activities throughout the day. The children came up with some ghastly adjectives to use to write a 'GHOST' acrostic poem.
We also explored estimation in maths, carrying out a ghoulishpumpkin investigation!
Both classes loved getting messy by making some spooky, gloopy soup too!
We finished the day with a 'spooky' disco and yoga, retelling a haunting story through yoga poses.
We all had a magical day!
This year we had our fifth Music in the Marquee concert here at Penpol School, this year featuring the amazing Leanne Kyte as The Ariana Grande Experience. As is fast becoming a tradition, we’ve made a very special short film of the evening to bring back all of those amazing memories!
As always, these events are held to help raise money for the Penpol Friends Association (PFA) and this year I’m thrilled to say that we’ve raised nearly four and a half thousand pounds – all of which will go to supporting Penpol School in the years to come.
Thank you all so much for supporting our school through events like these.
