Art Week

The children in Lantic class have been busy artists all this week... They have been making observational drawings of flowers, then drawing various farm animals!  They really are getting much better at REALLY looking at objects and pictures before drawing what they can see.

We have of course also been writing a class poem based on '10 Thing in a Wizard's Pocket' about a farmer's pocket - you wouldn't believe what they carry!!  And of course Maths, where we started looking at lines of symmetry...

St Breock Care Home Choir Visit
Our KS2 choir visited St Breock care home on Monday afternoon, where they sang to the residents. The sea shanties they had learned for Songfest 2024 went down a storm. We look forward to forging more links with the local community.


Car Park – Drop off and Collection arrangements
Thank you so much for your co-operation this week. Feedback has been very positive and is helping, in the mornings particularly, for a much calmer and safer start to the day.

A couple of key reminders from what we’ve noticed this week:

• In the mornings, please do not park in the ‘Stop and Drop’ channel.

• To help the flow, please drive on as far as you can in the channel before dropping off. It would be helpful if your child has all their belongings ready to exit the car.

• Please do not drop off your child in any other area of the car park, as this is unsafe and causes congestion for others.

• When walking on the footpath next to the ‘Stop and Drop’ channel, please keep to the school fenced side for your own safety.

• If parking, please supervise your child across the car park.

• Please do not park on the double yellow lines or next to any coned areas.

• Please drive slowly.

Additional Parking - Wadebridge Town FC have kindly offered their car park for parents to use in the mornings and afternoons on a first-come-first-served basis. Please do make use of this facility if you can, especially at the end of the day where you can park, walk down to school and collect your child without worrying about finding a space on the school site.


FOWPA
Non-Uniform Day Donations
A massive thank you to all the parents, carers and children of WPA for the generous amount and quality donations that were collected on Thursday. We cannot thank you enough for your ongoing support and we look forward to making some excellent hampers to raffle off soon. As always, all proceeds go back into the school and benefit the children. If anyone was unable to donate yesterday and still wishes to, there is a box outside the office. Thank you!

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Sports Days
Please check the email sent on Wednesday 12th June about the various Sports Days taking place next week. Without mentioning the car park too much more, please refer to the email for parking arrangements. We are all looking forward to seeing everyone take part throughout the week. Fingers crossed for some drier weather!

Year 6 Residential
Next Monday, many of our Year 6 children will be travelling to Bristol for their residential experience. Please ensure you’ve checked the letter sent out earlier this week with final details. The team will be updating the WPA Facebook page each day; so do take a look. For our Year 6 children not attending, we look forward to three enrichment days of art, sport and a trip.

Transition
As part of transition to secondary, Year 6 were visited by staff and Y7 students from Wadebridge School. This week they also took part in some science lessons taught by secondary staff. We received the following feedback after their visit:

“Thank you for hosting us for our science visit today. I hope your students got an insight into science at secondary and we were able to build some positive relationships. Walking through your school was an absolute joy and the class we visited were bright, keen, kind and attentive. Thank you for having us.”

As mentioned during the coffee mornings, we are wanting to build closer links with Wadebridge School for the benefit of our whole community. I’m looking forward to meeting the new headteacher when he starts in September to plan for closer co-operation between both schools.

Next week, I will share with you our plans for transition for all other classes taking place this half term.

Coffee Mornings
From September, we will be offering regular coffee mornings throughout the year. Some will be themed based on what parents might want to hear about/what the school would like to share; some will just be an opportunity to socialise with other parents and meet staff.

Today, Mr Jonathan Smith, hosted a SEND coffee morning with Ms Wright from Wadebridge School meeting with parents to talk about transition from a SEND perspective.

Sleep Wise Parent/Carer Workshop

Important dates coming up:

Monday 17th – Wednesday 19th June Year 6 Residential to Bristol (Departs 09:15-09:30)

- Year 6 children who are going to arrive between 08:45-09:00 if parents staying to wave off
- If not waving off and/or have younger siblings, please arrive as normal
- Year 6 children not going on residential arrive as normal
- Arrive back on Wednesday 19th June around 18:30


Tuesday 18th June 09:15-10:15 Nursery Sports Day

Tuesday 18th June 14:00-16:15 Year 3/4 Quad Games at Wadebridge School

Wednesday 19th June 09:15-11:15 Year 3/4 Sports Day

Wednesday 19th June Year 6 children not on residential out on trip

Thursday 20th June 09:15-11:15 Year Reception/KS1 Sports Day

Friday 21st June 09:15-11:15 Year 5/6 Sports Day

St Cuby's Summer Fete

Preparations are in full swing for tomorrow's summer fete. The children have been busy today baking a selection of fantastic treats which will be on sale from our school stall tomorrow.

The summer fete promises to be a fantastic day with loads of fun for all the family. Plus, as a bonus, the organisers are kindly donating a considerable proportion of the money raised to our school PTFA.

The children have been creating layered landscapes in a series of art lessons. They have been focusing on the art discipline of textiles. First they created a background ensuring the sky and ground weren't just strips at the top and bottom. Then with much concentration and determination, using a needle and thread to create the next layer. This was through creating stitches (regular or irregular) to add detail. For example blue stiched to create waves in the sea. The final layer was adding fabric or embellishments for extra details. The children were very proud of their finished pieces. 

Amazing Art!

Tregantle Class have really enjoyed getting creative during our art week this week! We started the week with an assembly entitled 'be more like moss.' We learnt about how amazing moss is and looked closely at the textures and patterns it creates. The children then had the chance to make their own little piece of pom-pom moss by threading lots of different types of fabrics and adding them to the huge 'moss sheet.' 
Throughout the rest of the week the Year 1 children have focused on improving their observational drawing skills. They picked a different farm animal each day and used the shapes, lines and spacing that they saw to draw some very accurate animals. 
The EYFS children have been experimenting with the patterns they can make with paint. They have tried marble painting, bubble paining and string painting. All techniques were fully embraced and the classroom art wall is now full of very colourful paintings!  

This has been a very busy and enjoyable week with rehearsals for the Polperro Festival.

Bridge School Games. Next week the children will all have the opportunity to participate in the Bridge School Games. This year there is a Parisian Olympic Theme to the 5 events that they will be trying their hand at. A Bridge Schools Olympic Torch has been relayed from school to school in the run up to the games and the children (and staff) have enjoyed creating a video of the torch being paraded round the school. Please ensure your child has their PE kit in all week.

Polperro Festival Parade. Children and families are invited to attend the opening parade tomorrow to celebrate the first day of the festival. Families are invited to meet outside Polperro Village Hall at MIDDAY in preparation for a 12:30pm start. Please come dressed in colourful clothes/outfits – as bright and cheery as possible.

Polperro Festival School’s Day Tuesday 18th June
We look forward to seeing you on Big Green on Tuesday. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their uniform with their packed lunch, a drink, sun hat and sun cream and a coat if the weather changes. Children participating in the taekwondo demonstration should bring their taekwondo kit and they will change at the festival.

The programme is as follows (timings are approximate):
11.00 – 11:20 – Welcome and singing
11.20 – 11:40 – Taekwondo Demonstration
11.40 – 12:00 – Young Musicians
12.00 – 13:00 – Lunch (12.15 – 13.00 Magician Performance for the children)
13:00 – 13:15 – Solo and Group Singers
13.15 – 13.30 – Penhallow Class performance
13.30 – 13.45 – Landaviddy Class performance
13.45 – 14.05 – Talland Class performance
14.05 – 14.25 – Chaipel Class performance 1
4.25 – 14.45 – Singing finale

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday at Big Green. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hillman

Our 15 children in Year 6 did an excellent job with their SATs. The children were calm and focused and it was an absolute pleasure to see them approach the week in such a mature way. After their final assessment of the week, not only did the children gorge themselves on popcorn and biscuits, but they were also given their leavers hoodies to wear for the rest of the term. Governor, Penny Geech, presented their hoodies.

We would also like to thank Penny for generously volunteering her time to help invigilate the SATs assessments all week.

Class 3 visited Porthpean Outdoor Adventure Centre where the children were able to participate in a range of activities from rock pooling to giant SUPs and Kayaking. Luckily, the weather was very kind to us, and we were also spoilt by seeing a number of seals while we were on the water. 

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I don’t think we could have had a more exciting and busy week if we tried! 

We opened the week with an introduction to Arts Week. We were joined by The Mossy Project and some children got to make some fantastic art with them. Back in the classroom, we started our own projects, based on the work of Wayne Thiebaud and his ‘3 donuts’ painting. They looked good enough to eat by the end of the week! 

On Tuesday, the big day had arrived for our trip to the Eden Project. We became Rainforest Rangers as we learned how to survive in the Amazon. We passed our training and had the BEST day exploring the whole of Eden! More photos here: https://bridgemat-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/smckillop_brunelprimary_co_uk/EtlChtJmMBdMicTq_N2uAd4B7sEPKXFgWNVIctkbCGE4tA?e=DskV8F

We also completed our Multiplication Checks this week. The children did AMAZINGLY well and all their hard work to learn their times tables certainly paid off! 

Eden Project

 On Tuesday, we enjoyed a trip to The Eden Project where we were able to feel and sense what it would be like in a real rainforest. We enjoyed being explorers in our workshop, 'Puzzling Plants', where the children used a map to navigate their way through the tropical biome, collecting facts and clues about different exciting plants. We also enjoyed exploring the Mediterranean biome and some of the other areas on offer at Eden, including the new park which was greatly enjoyed by all!

This week we have continued to talk about superheroes. The children have painted paper plates to make shields and used different coloured tissue paper to decorate super hero masks.
They have enjoyed play in the construction themed role play area where they have been building with the duplo and large soft shaped bricks and fixing with the tools.

At story time we have continued exploring the range of “Supertato” stories.
In maths, we have been counting, ordering and writing numbers 1-5 and finding sprecial objects up to 5.

In phonics the children enjoyed having a go at rhyming bingo. They explored and tried hard when identifying initial sounds in words and we went on a listening walk in the playground before recording what we heard by drawing pictures.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah
 

We hope you all had a lovely half term break and are as excited as we are for the busy term ahead. Our enquiry question for our work in the wider curriculum this half term is "how has crime and punishment changed in Britain?" An overview of the areas of learning for this half term can be found below along with the homework menu and spelling packs for this half term. 

Minibeasts!

Our topic for this half term is Are Minibeasts like us? We discovered a bee in the garden, sadly the bee had died, but this was still a fantastic learning opportunity for us. We took out our mini magnifying glasses and we had a good look at the bee close up. We were able to see where the bee's sting would be, we discovered that the bee is quite fluffy and furry. We took a look at the stripes and we counted it's legs too!

Our last half term together! 

Wow! we can not believe we are now into our last half term together.  

This half term out topic is  - 'School readiness' You will shorty be receiving a  leaflet that we hand out every year so you know what to expect and what the expectations are.  

From Monday the 17th we will be asking parents / carers to stay outside in the morning. The children will need to carry their bags in and sort themselves out. We of course will be here to help them, but this is what they will be doing next year. 


The children are really enjoying learning their phonics sounds. Some have even started to use Fred talk and sound and blend CVC words together! 
This week we are focusing on 'e' and 'f'. 

Last week we had lovely weather and we made the most of it outside. The children built their very own outdoor library. Explored new musical instruments creating lovely pieces of music. 

We are still enjoying our forest school sessions, please remember to bring footwear for this. 

We are asking please can EVERYONE bring a sun hat in and apply long lasting sun cream before school, we can top up and assist the children but we cannot 'rub' it in. 

This Friday we have Shelia's school of dance coming in for a session. 
 
We can't wait to see you when you are next in!

Miss Whitty and Miss Ronald.