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E-safety is an important part of our Computing Curriculum at school . Please use the link below to complete the quiz! There will be a prize for the class that completes the most! Make sure you add your full name at the beginning!
https://www.e-safetysupport.com/onlinetraining?course=UkxGuLr4kAkb&school=353
Trevithick Class Newsletter – November 2016
Welcome back! I hope you have had a lovely half term and are ready for the busy term ahead.
SEAL:
SEAL stands for Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (see attached newsletter). Our theme for this half term is ‘Getting on and Falling Out’.
The Topics for this term
| Week 1 | Diwali – Let’s Light up the Sky |
| Week 2 | Diwali – Let’s Light up the Sky |
| Week 3 | Diwali – Let’s Light up the Sky |
| Week 4 | The Animal Boogie |
| Week 5 | The Animal Boogie |
| Week 6 | It’s Christmas! |
| Week 7 | It’s Christmas! |
This half term we are starting our learning with some activities focussed on Diwali and celebrations. We will be making Diwa lamps, rangoli patterns, tasting Indian foods and looking at how other cultures celebrate special festivals.
We will be also be using the story ‘The Animal Boogie’, playing animal snap and pairs, learning animal songs, role playing the story and looking at the patterns on the animals e.g. leopard. You could look at other animal patterns with your children e.g. tiger, zebra etc. We will also be thinking about how we can describe the animals using adjectives e.g. the slithery snake, the huge, brown bear etc. Have a go at thinking of some awesome adjectives to describe an animal!
We will also be learning about celebrations including Diwali and Christmas. We will be sharing ‘The Christmas Story’ and discussing why Christians celebrate this festival. Both these topics lend themselves to fantastic art – have a go a designing a Rangoli pattern with your child or creating a Christmas scene using junk materials. If you would like more information about our topics or ideas for supporting your child at home please speak to me or your child’s key worker.
Reading and Homework:
All the children have a book to share with you and it is important that they do a little bit of reading every night. I have noticed that some parents are forgetting to record when their child has been reading. Please make a comment in your child’s reading record as this helps me assess their progress. Please continue to read and learn the key words and support your child with their phonics. I will be going through the key words sheet with your child this half term! Our sounds are – ck e, h, r, m, d and g. This half term we are focussing on the days of the week and months of the year. Practise these with your child and encourage them to know when their birthday is. We are also thinking about celebrations – if you have been to any celebrations, for example, weddings, christenings, birthdays, or cultural festivals and would like to share these experiences please send photos or come and talk to the children about these events. Please see the Early Years Talk Homework sheet for ways to support your child’s speech, language and communication development.
P.E:
P.E is on a Friday morning. It is essential that your child has a P.E kit (black shorts and white t-shirt) and they should wear sensible footwear. Please ensure that your child’s name is written clearly in all uniform.
Round Up:
All offers of support for reading practise with the children in Trevithick Class would be gratefully received – please let me know if you are able to give up some of your time. THANK YOU to the parents who are already volunteering. Don’t forget to check Tapestry and upload any “WOW” moments. A quick reminder that children should not be bringing toys into school, the classroom can get very busy and toys go missing which leads to unnecessary distress for the children.
Important Dates:
Monday 9th and Thursday 12th November- Parent’s Evening (please see me to make an appointment)
Wednesday 14th December 2016- Trevithick & St Piran Nativity at 2pm.
Friday 16th December – Last day of term.
Finally, it is getting cold please ensure your child has a coat in school.
Nadia Lampier, Samuel Barnes, Helen Sutton & Lizzie White
Rangoli Pattern
Trevithick Class Newsletter – June 2016
Trevithick Class Newsletter – June 2016
Welcome back! I hope you had a lovely break .We have a busy half term ahead!
SEAL:
SEAL stands for Social and emotional aspects of Learning. Our theme for this half term is ‘Changes’’. Please see the attached sheet on ways of supporting your child in this area.
Reading and Homework:
All the children have a book to share with you and it is important that they do a little bit of reading every night. It is important that they bring their book-bag to school everyday. Please make a comment in your child’s reading record as this helps me assess their progress. Thank you! Continue to read and learn the key words.
| Week 1 | Minibeasts |
| Week 2 | British Values |
| Week 3 | Minibeasts |
| Week 4 | The Seaside and where we live |
| Week 5 | Ourselves (Sex and Relationships week) This isn’t as scary as it sounds in YR. Please come and see me for more information. |
| Week 6 | Ourselves |
| Week 7 | Elmer the Elephant |
| Week 8 | Preparing for Y1 |
| Area of Learning | Home learning activities |
| PSED | See attached sheet for how you can help. Our theme is ‘Changes’. |
| CLL (literacy)
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The letters and sounds we are learning this half term are sh, th, qu, oi, er. Practise writing words that contain these sounds, recognising them in their reading books and in the environment.
This term we will be learning about the ‘Seaside’ and our local environment. Support your child by talking about where you live, writing and sending a postcard, investigate what holidays were like in the past – have you got any old holiday pictures we could share? Continue to practise the key words and use them to write simple sentences. |
| Maths | Use the sheet to continue to form all numerals correctly. Work out addition and subtraction sums remembering to put the bigger number first! Practise ‘tap and unwrap’ strategy to solve number problems beyond 10. Collect seaside objects e.g. things found on the beach – count and sort them into sets. Count ‘beachy’ things e.g. the number of wind breaks, buckets, shells etc – make a tally chart of all the things you see at the beach. |
| EAD –Expressive Art and Design | In music we are learning a song about holidays and listening to sounds we hear at the seaside. What sounds can you hear at home, on the beach and in town? Use objects to create a beach scene – discuss how the objects feel, smell etc. Paint or draw pictures of what you enjoy doing on your holidays. Discuss any holidays abroad and what you did, look at holiday brochures and cut and stick pictures of where you would like to go. |
P.E:
P.E continues to be on a Friday morning. It is essential that your child has a P.E kit (black shorts and white t-shirt) and they should wear sensible footwear. Please ensure that your child’s name is written clearly in all uniform. Trainers or plimsolls will be needed this term.
Round Up:
All offers of support for reading practise with the children in
Trevithick Class would be gratefully received – please let me know if you are able to give up some of your time.
Wow!!
Please continue to record significant experiences (that make you say ‘wow’) that your child has at home, for example, if they get dressed by themselves or write sums for a sibling. Please return it to school. I can then celebrate these achievements with the children. They also support the judgments I make about the children when completing the foundation stage profile.
Important Dates:
Week beginning 20th June – National Sports Week
Foundation Stage Sports Day – Wednesday 6th July at 9.30am
Week beginning Monday 11th July – Target Transition Meetings
Summer Fayre –15th July
Teddy Bear’s Picnic – Monday 18th July (please bring in a plate of food to share)
Foundation Stage Graduation – Wednesday 20th July at 2.15pm
End of term – Friday 22nd July
Nadia Lampier, Kerri Green, Samuel Barnes, Lizzie Whie, Helen Thipthorp.
Digital Leaders @ Perranporth
Digital Leaders @ Perranporth School
- DLs as Staff Trainers
- DLs as Digital Journalists
- DLs as Technical Support
- DLs having fun and learning new skills and tools
Digital Leaders will have the following responsibilities:
Website/Blogs/Online
- Maintain their own blog – sharing good teaching and learning.
- Editing/adding to some areas of the website – celebrations and home learning
- Write blog posts for your class and comment on other blogs across the school
- Helping staff to upload pictures/videos to their class blogs
ICT Clubs
- If you attend code club you can share ideas for next steps and lead a session.
Other
- At times, and with your class teacher’s permission, support teachers across the school when they teach ICT and use new hardware or software
- Organise ICT competitions e.g.
- Be a point of contact for any Esafety concerns, log these and report them to Miss Roberson or Mrs Kelly.
- Keep a detailed log of any technical issues in your classrooms and record these in the ICT log for Miss Roberson/Mr Pascoe.
- Possibly attend events and other schools to share ICT learning
- Attend after-school training for staff and parents – with your parents’ permission of course!
- Trial new software as required
Miss R will:
- Make sure you have enough training and accounts with a suitable level of responsibility to manage the tasks above
- Provide you with software to trial so that you can use it as part of the ICT club
EYFS Parent Questionnaire
At Perranporth School we highly value your comments and views. As we are always looking for ways to further improve our provision in Early Years education, we would be very grateful if any parents/carers of Reception Class children would take five minutes to complete our Parent Questionnaire by clicking the link below.
EYFS Questionnaire
Safer Internet Day Competition 2016
KS2 Competition Time
Create an infomercial.
How can we create a better internet together?
How to be a stand up social citizen.
About making the right decisions.
Knowing what to do and how to respond to negative comments.
Create your own slogan.
Include the slogan “Before you say what’s on your mind, ask yourself is it kind?”
Upload finished videos to the learning platform under your class blog.
There are prizes to be won! The winners will be announced after half term.
