Team Spirit in Full Swing

What an unforgettable day! On Friday, our school field came alive for Brunel Sports Day, filled with cheers, cheers, and even more cheers as pupils competed and supported one another brilliantly. Each child showed incredible sportsmanship-cheering on teammates, offering high-fives, and celebrating every effort. No matter the result, enthusiasm ruled, and the collective energy was nothing short of inspiring. The classic egg and spoon race was met with giggles, squeals, and some surprisingly steady hands! The sack race had everyone hopping in unison, occasionally tumbling, but always picking themselves up with a big smile. The highlight of the afternoon was undoubtedly the obstacle course-complete with coloured water and vibrant hurdles. With the crowd on their feet and a rainbow of splashes marking each runner, the atmosphere was electric. The sprints were a display of raw determination. Children poured their full effort into each dash, faces flushed with focus and energy. Mid-race cheers echoed, urging runners to push on to the finish line. After tallying all the points, Team Tintagel emerged victorious-well done! They earned their win through exceptional dedication and teamwork.

Friday 27th June 

Some of this weeks learning:

This week Mrs Phillips has been assessing the children in reading and maths. The children have been amazing and have tried their best. Mrs Phillips and the other adults have been amazed at how much the children have learnt this year and how well they have retained skills and knowledge. Foundation you are simply amazing!

This week the children have also been exploring patterns and repeated patterns in maths and they have been amazing at making their own patterns.

They have also been observing different types of seashell and drawing them, using their cutting skills to cut and make flying seagulls, creating their own ocean picture then writing about it and so much more.

The children are continuing to progress and achieve so much, and we are looking forward to the last three weeks of their foundation year!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Another busy week in Lantic...

Lantic Update 27.6.25

English: It's been letter writing this week based on our class book 'The Magic Paintbrush'. Our letters have focused on saying thank you for gifts.

Maths: We are spending lots of time practising our times tables at the moment, particularly the 2x and 5x tables - we sing them, we dance them, we chant them, we test them..

Music: Lots and lots of singing this week in Lantic class as we practise for our class assembly (Monday 7^th July 2.30pm) and Music of the Afternoon (Wednesday 16^th July 1.30pm). We are hoping to see you all there.

Science: We're keeping a close eye on our seeds experiment and can report.....

PSHE: This half term's topic is 'Changing Me' so we're considering how we change as we grow up.

Art: This week has been a great time to use our outdoor classroom for a spot of painting, come to our assembly to see the results!

DT: After a lot of careful planning, cutting and gluing, we've finally finished our wild things puppets and they're fantastic.

PE: A very active week as we've been practising for Sports day and then we all had the best time in all our activities and races. 

We have had a busy week exploring under the sea and finishing craft relating to this. The children have been exploring the under the sea tuft tray and making jellyfish.
We have enjoyed some sunny weather this week and have been making the most of this by practicing sports day on the field and exploring the nursery garden.

At story time we have enjoyed under the sea stories and the big children who are going to school soon enjoyed going into reception class to join them for a story before lunch.

The children have enjoyed carrying out different phonics activities including looking for initial sounds in the sand tray, going on a listening walk and blending sounds together to form words.

It was sports day on Wednesday and we were incredibly proud of the children for their great running. They all did a fab job.

We hope you all have a good weekend.

Julie and Sarah.












































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Sports Day fun for Foundation / Year 1! 

On Friday we had our Sports Day at Looe Primary. The children came to school dressed in their house colours Plaidy, Millendreath, Hannafore and Talland. We then took parts in lots of different activities to try and win as many points as we could for our team.

Our first activity was a circuit. We had to do hurdle jumps, throw a bean bag in a hoop, star jumps and then run back for the next person to start. Our next activity was a dress up relay, where we had a hat and we had to run to the next person and give them the hat. We found this very funny and trying to get the hat on and keep it on whilst running was challenging for some! Our last activity was a throwing activity. We had three different hoops and each hoop was worth a different amount of points. We then had to throw the bean bag in one of the hoops. We even made it more challenging at the end by moving the hoops further away.

Foundation / Year 1 made me so proud with their sportsmanship - especially on a very hot afternoon! They even managed to keep their energy for the races at the end of the day, I don't know how they did it! They were determined and responsible, showing two of our values to the rest of the school and the people that came to watch us. I was so impressed with their attitude to sports day. Well done Plaidy, who were the winning team, but well done all of you for taking part.

Thank you.

Foundation / Year 1 Team

It was another hot day today when Class 2 held their long-anticipated Sports Day. It's lovely to see the children supporting each other and cheering for their friends even if they are on different teams.

The parents tug of war was fantastic, not competitive at all.

Fun in the sun and So Much More! 

What a wonderful week we’ve had in preschool!

The sunshine gave us the perfect opportunity to enjoy lots of outdoor play, including water fun and story time in the sun. The children loved relaxing with books outside, which was a great way to nurture our growing love for reading.

Phonics Fun This week in phonics, we explored the sounds f (f-f-f flower) and e (e-e-e egg). The children really enjoyed practising these new sounds through games, songs, and hands-on activities.

Marvellous Maths In maths, we’ve been focusing on counting objects from 1 to 5 and recognising numbers in any order. The children are gaining confidence every day and showing great progress with their number work!

Getting Ready for Reception We’re beginning to think about our exciting move up to Reception in September. In book bags this week, you’ll find a helpful poster outlining some of the key skills we’re working towards to help your child feel confident and ready for the next step.

Sky Arts Week  We were thrilled to take part in Sky Arts Week and had some very special visitors come to talk to us about their jobs:

Steph, a Speech and Language Therapist, showed us some amazing tools that help people communicate.

Chef Will, a Development Chef, shared what goes into creating new dishes—and answered lots of brilliant questions!

Dr. Katie spoke to us about what it takes to become a doctor and what it’s like to help people every day. It was such an inspiring experience for the children—and staff too!

Here’s to another fun-filled week ahead! Come back next week to see what we have been up to. 

Mrs Whitty-Mutton

After being rearranged twice due to the weather, it was almost too hot when Class 1 had their Sports Day! The children all did incredibly well and showed great sportsmanship and patience, especially with the pesky egg and spoon race. The Pre-schoolers race was also a delight to watch.

         Our first 2 weeks of Summer Term 2 have already flown by, with lots of learning of places we can go in an aeroplane.  We have looked at world maps and discussed where some of us may have travelled to on holiday.  We also thought about what we would need to take with us for a sunny holiday and packed our own suitcase.

         The children have really enjoyed our airport role play corner with Pelynt Pre-School Airways flying to various destinations!

         We have also looked at what we need to do at the airport before we get onto an aeroplane, with checking in bags, then showing our passports and tickets.  We have watched some clips of what it is like to travel on an aeroplane and how we would feel.

          Last week the children took part in our whole school sports day, they were all amazing in their races and even if your child wasn't there on the day they have all really enjoyed all the practices we have done on the field.

         Thank you to all the parents that have been in to see us for a parent consultation, it is a lovely way of catching up and talking through your child's progress, achievements, and any concerns you may have.

           We always have an open-door policy where you can speak to any of the team at any time so even if you did not book a consultation, please do come and see us if you have any questions or concerns.

     A reminder that our graduation celebration and end of year Teddy Bears Picnic is on Wednesday 16^th July at 11.30am.  Everyone is invited to come enjoy a picnic with your child.  If you have a child graduating but it's not their normal session, you can still bring them along for 11.30am. 

Letters will be coming out next week to confirm September sessions for parents of children returning in autumn term, and school will be sending out information for parents of those children transitioning and a parent welcome meeting with their teachers. 

Lastly, as we have been experiencing some difficulties uploading the blog to our website, we will transition to doing a weekly update on to our class page on Seesaw from September. A reliable way to ensure all parents are receiving updates about our learning and any other news. 
 
The Pre-School Team. 

Friday 20th June

We have had another lovely week in Foundation with lots of wonderful exploring and learning.

Some of this weeks learning:

This week the children have been continuing to write dictated or independent sentences about pictures from Julia Donaldson books. This has really helped Mrs Phillips to see how far they have come with their phonics and writing. The children are progressing so well and the adults in class have been astounded by some of the writing.

In maths this week we have been exploring sharing and grouping. As we have been learning to chant and sing our times tables for some time now , this really helped with this unit of learning. Janet was blown away with how well the children were grouping items in two’s yesterday!

In outdoor learning this week we completed a summer treasure hunt, we found, red flowers, big sticks, bugs, blades of grass, but no frogs!!!

We have also been making jelly fish, completing beach phonics activities, sharing carrots and frogs in a maths activity, writing tricky words outside, making playdough beach pictures and so much more!

Today was sports day and what a lovely day it was…wow was it hot! The children had a great first sports day and really enjoyed taking part in all the activities.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Sky Arts' Week

We've had great fun looking into the future and focusing on our dream professions - everything from professional footballers to counsellors.
We enjoyed the guest speakers and well-done Year 3/4a for creating some great questions for them to answer!
On completion of our artwork, we peer assessed, commenting on the features, design, choice of colours, 3D detail and how we may be able to improve our artwork if we were to do it again.

Hello everyone!

It’s been a very sporty week in Penhallow this week. We managed a swimming session on Wednesday, The Bridge School Games on Thursday, and a sports day practice on Friday.

For The Bridge School Games, we competed in 5 different events, and recorded our scores, which will be compared with other bridge schools. We competed in events such as throwing, catching, balancing and collecting tennis balls. All events were tennis themed and we had great fun.

We have also been busy this week, writing a recount, based our experiences at The Polperro Festival. We were so proud of the children. First of all, for exemplary behaviour whilst watching the other performances, but most of all for performing so well in front of an audience. Some children stood in for others at the last minute, and we all worked as a team to do the best we could. Well done Penhallow! We hope you enjoyed it.

Have a lovely weekend!

From The Penhallow Team

Another week has gone by already! 

On Tuesday, we performed at the Polperro festival. The children were fantastic and did so well during our performance. Well done! You are all SUPERSTARS!

This week has been the Bridge School Games, so we have been very active exploring different Wimbledon inspired activities. We have also been practising for Sports Day, which we can’t wait for!

In English, we have been enjoying performance poetry and loved performing Michael Rosen’s ‘The Rhythm of Life’. We collaborated to write our own versions too, influenced by nature, the sea, even school! We will finish writing these next week and creating a short performance for our peers. 

Congratulations to Amelia and Lowen J for being chosen as Landaviddy’s People of the Week.

Please ensure you bring in your PE and swimming kits next week. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

What a lovely week we have had. Polperro Festival was a huge success, on Tuesday, and our performance was amazing! We had so much positive feedback from the general public, it made all the hard work in the run-up to the day worth while. Thank you to Hamish and Harry for stepping in at the last minute to cover roles and to Joel who had full control of the microphone as a very convincing Henry Tudor!

It has been Bridge School Games week and we have been busy taking part for our school. It was fun to try out all of the challenges and try to improve our scores to be the best we can be. Fingers crossed!

We enjoyed a trip to The Box for our Evolution, Adaptation and Inheritance workshop on Friday. The workshop organiser was blown away at how much we knew and we in turn learnt a lot about how mammoths and beetles have adapted and then gave use food for thought in how beetles may need to adapt in light of Climate Change.

Next week, Chaipel will be practising for our Sports Day on Wednesday (10am - 12pm) where we will be competing in our classes for our House Teams.

We have a Mufti Day 

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday.

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG

WOWZERS... What a busy week we've had and I've absolutely loved it - I hope Talland has too. They did such an amazing job at Polperro Festival. I thought their performance, both acting and singing were an absolute triumph! Chaos and fun - just the way us Tallander's like it! We've also had the Bridge School Games, where children competed against themselves in numerous Wimbledon based challenges and each individual tried to earn more points for Polperro. It was wonderful to see them cheering each other on. Team spirit was at an all time high! We've also been swimming and practicing for sports day - the relay team is now ready! 

On top of all of this...
Maths:
Year 5 have been looking at statistics, where we have delved into reading and interpreting line graphs.
Year 4 have been translating shapes during their position and movement unit.

English:
We have begun to look at Comoran vs Jack the Giant Killer for our narrative based writing. This also links nicely for our trip to St. Michael's mount. This is where this myth originated! We've realised that there are items we need to look out for whilst we're there - including the Giant's heart.

History:
We have begun looking at the life of Ibraham Kingdom Brunel and his amazing accomplishments. Talland all realised that he was the one who designed the The Royal Albert Bridge, which was a cool fact.

RE:
We went on a journey in RE and thought about our life and what journey we have all been on so far! That led to discussions of where might our journey through life take us. It was really interesting hearing the children's different stories.

CONGRATULATIONS to Isabelle for being noticed for her hard work this week and well done to Tabbi, Arnie and Thomas for earning their next badge in 99 club.

That's all from us. We hope you have an amazing weekend and can't wait to see you on Monday.

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton.

At Nursery we are one big happy family but, as in any family, we sometimes have disagreements which need to be sorted out.

A lot of our learning is based around Personal, Social and Emotional development; we have to learn to share, take turns and get along with everyone else.

Here are just a few pictures showing how well we all get on with each other, sharing the resources and helping our friends have fun in their learning too.

As the adults in Nursery, we love to watch how friendships blossom and grow.

Celebrating Year 6 Success at Dreadlock Escape Rooms

Last week, our fantastic Year 6 pupils at Blisland Primary Academy marked the end of their SATs with an exciting trip to the Dreadlock Escape Rooms in Bodmin. After weeks of hard work, determination, and resilience, it was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate their achievements in a fun and memorable way. The group took on the challenge of the ‘Detention’ escape room, where they worked together to solve puzzles, crack codes, and complete tricky challenges to break free.

Teamwork, quick thinking, and perseverance were key, and the children rose to the occasion brilliantly. Mr Smith and Mrs Pengelly were on hand to offer some guidance (and perhaps the occasional clue!) but it was the children’s cooperation and problem-solving skills that led them to success. The escape room experience was not only an exciting reward but also a great way to build confidence, strengthen friendships, and encourage creative thinking outside the classroom.

The children thoroughly enjoyed every moment, and it was clear they relished the chance to take on a new type of challenge.

A huge thank you must go to our wonderful PTFA, who kindly supported this trip financially. Without their generosity, this memorable celebration would not have been possible. Well done Year 6 – we are so proud of you!

Tregantle Class Weekly Round-Up

What a fantastic week it’s been in Tregantle Class! Our learners have burst into action with fun and focused activities across the curriculum. This year’s Bridge Games, our inter-trust competition, took a sporty twist— with a Wimbledon theme! The children have been absolutely buzzing, diving into tennis themed challenges: from racket coordination drills to mini court games. The enthusiasm has been contagious, and the whole class is rooting hard for Brunel to take home the trophy. We’ve seen impressive teamwork, cheering, and true sportsmanship in action! We got hands-on with our number work this week through a dentist inspired maths session. The children counted all 20 teeth in their paper-mouth models, sorting them, adding them up, and even spotting imaginary “cavities” as subtraction problems. They practiced their skills with precision— ready for the dentist and mastering maths at the same time! With this gorgeous weather blessing us, lessons have spilled beyond the classroom walls. We’ve used the sun-drenched playground for emergent writing, group puzzles, and even some outdoor reading. The fresh air and bright sunshine have made our week truly delightful. A huge well done to everyone in Tregantle Class for your enthusiasm, effort, and smiles this week!