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Penhaligon Newsletter

11th September 2015

Dear Parents and Carers,

Firstly thank you to you and the children for making me feel most welcome at Perranporth Community School. Also thank you for those who attended the ‘meet the teacher’ evening. I just want to reiterate that we have an open door policy and please feel free to drop in to see me if you ever have any questions.

This first full week back has been jam packed with learning; we have established rules for the classroom, we have been working particularly hard on our place value of 2 and 3 digit numbers and we have produced some excellent brain teasing and thought provoking riddles. Riddles will be our focus for home learning this week.

On Thursday we had our first PE session and as well as a lot of learning taking place we have had a lot of fun. A quick note regarding PE kits: They need to stay in school and need to be labelled. PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Spellings have been given out today and we will have our first test next Friday. Please practise them in your spelling book or home-learning book.

Next week we will vote our school parliament members so if you would like to stand for Perranporth Parliament please prepare a two minute speech for why you will be a fantastic member.

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing your child next week.

Matt Howes

Dear Parents and Carers,

Once again we would like to say how proud we are of the class.  Their support for each other this week has been wonderful in desperately sad circumstances. Their behaviour, thoughtful words and beautiful singing at our Special Assembly yesterday was also a credit to them.  Just a reminder that is a community balloon release for Esmee at 2.30 on Saturday in Bolenna Park if you would like to come.

This week we have also had a visit from our local Fire Safety officer who taught the children how to ‘Stop, Drop, Roll’ if a spark lands on them and also encouraged them to check smoke alarms at home and try to think of an escape route for their family to use if there was ever a fire.  They have all been given a booklet from the Fire Service with safety-based activities in it.

In maths, the children have been investigating pentominoes – shapes made from 5 squares joined together – it is a tricky investigation which they all worked very hard on.  There are lots of activities based on pentominoes if you Google it, e.g. http://www.scholastic.com/blueballiett/games/pentominoes_game.htm .

In literacy we have been looking at a story called Caterpillar Shoes – can your child remember all the characters in the story and which shoes they got?

Swimming will continue next week so please ensure that your child has their kit on Monday and Friday.  We do swimming as our PE sessions this half term, so unless there is a medical reason not to join in, all children should take part.  Living where we do, we feel it is vital that the children learn to be confident in the water and become good swimmers.

If you have any questions, as always, please drop in to see us or email us on sburns@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk or esmitheram@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk.

Thank you.

Mrs Burns and Mrs Smitheram.

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Dear Parents and Carers,

This week we have been thinking about the months of the year, what each month is identified with and what order they come in.  The children made charts with their friends’ birth months on and used the information to produce bar charts.  Their bar chart drawing has improved hugely, well done!

On Tuesday, Year 2 had their triathlon.  We are very proud of the children’s hard work and good sportsmanship.

On Wednesday, we were lucky enough to have a visit from a professional Samba teacher who led us through some of the steps so that we could dance a Samba procession around the hall.  Everyone joined in and had lots of fun.

Next Wednesday, we will be visiting the beach again as part of our Outdoor Learning programme.  We will need volunteer helpers again, so if you would like to join us, please let either of we know. A letter with permission slip will follow.

As always, if you have any questions, please do drop in to see either of us or email on sburns@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk or esmitheram@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk .

Thank you.

Mrs Burns and Mrs Smitheram

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Dear Parents and Carers,

This week we had a fantastic trip to the beach.  Thank you to all the parents who were able to come with us.  Thanks also go to Perranporth Gardens Charities who kindly lent us their beach wheelchairs.  We all had a really good time making beach art and we have used the trip as inspiration for acrostic poems about Chapel Rock later in the week.

In computing this week, we have learnt how to make a block chart using the information we collected on last week’s bug hunt.

In our topic work, we have begun to build our carnival float and have painted some beautiful parrots, as well as continuing to create our carnival masks. We have also learnt more about Brazil.

We will continue to swim on Monday and Friday so please ensure that your child has their swimming kit in school on those days.

If you have any questions, please drop in to see either of us or email us on sburns@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk or esmitheram@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk .

Thank you.

Mrs Burns and Mrs Smitheram.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you for all the cardboard boxes which have been sent in.  We will begin constructing our carnival floats shortly!

In our topic work, we have begun to look at Brazil and have written a list of things we would like to find out about the country.  We were really impressed with the children’s questions, e.g. Does the rain make it cold at the equator? And Who was the first person to go into the Amazonian rainforest? We will begin our research on these questions and more next week.

On Wednesday, we spent the whole morning outside – firstly using the environment as inspiration for our poems with similes, and then working in the Environmental Area creating miniature adventure courses for woodlice!  The children all worked very hard.

We will continue to swim on Mondays and Fridays, so please ensure your child has swimsuit and towel with them on those days.

This Wednesday, we will have our first trip to the beach.  Your child has a letter with a tear off slip which needs to be returned as soon as possible – we would really like some parent volunteers to accompany us, so if you would like to join us, please let either of us know, thank you.

As always, if you have any questions, please drop in to see us or email us on sburns@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk or esmitheram@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk .

Thank you.

Mrs Burns and Mrs Smitheram.