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Penhaligon News

25^th April 2014

 Welcome back!  We hope you all had a lovely Easter break and made the most of the beautiful weather.

This week we have begun to follow our new Inspire Curriculum.  Our topic this half term is called Blown Away and we have attached a summary of what we will be covering.  We think it is a fabulous curriculum and the children certainly seem to be enjoying it so far.

We have started studying the weather and we are recording the weather in Perranporth – maybe your child could watch a weather forecast and see what information is included.

In literacy we have been writing weather poems.  They have thought of some great adjectives to describe different types of weather.

In numeracy we have started to look at column addition and we will be practising this further over the coming weeks.

PE will be outside as often as possible as we are practising for Sports Day, so please make sure your child has a full kit including trainers or plimsolls.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to pop and see either of us.

Thank you.

Mrs Burns and Mrs Willetts.

4^th April 2014

Dear Parents and Carers,

 We have had a very busy week this week, moving into our new room.  We now have access to our own outdoor area which is lovely and we are keeping our fingers crossed for plenty of good weather next term so that we can use it as much as possible!

We are not setting any homework for over the holidays, but the children should continue to read every day if possible.  Try to record each time they read and encourage them to complete the tasks in their reading records.  They could also keep a diary of all or part of their holidays, they could think about how Samuel Pepys wrote his diary.

For numeracy, they could practise their 2, 5 and 10 times tables and their number bonds to 5, 10 and 20 or 100.

But most of all, have a lovely break and a very HAPPY EASTER!

Mrs Burns and Mrs Willetts

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Dear Parents and Carers

It was great to see so many of you at our assembly. Thank you! We hope you enjoyed it. The children did very well to remember all their lines. We will have another class assembly next term. 

We continue to learn more about the Great Fire of London. This week, we learnt about Samuel Pepys and his diary. He wrote about the Great Fire as it happened. We found out that he buried some of his belongings in his garden in an effort to save them from the fire. He even buried his cheese! A good website to view which you can access at home is:

www.fireoflondon.org.uk

In Literacy we imagined what the fire must have been like and we used our senses to write about it. We are trying very hard to improve and up-level our descriptive writing by using amazing adjectives and a range of connectives to join our ideas.

In Number this week we have been writing word problems to match multiplication and division number sentences:

4 x 6 = 24

The baker needs to put his buns into packets. He has 4 packets and fills each packet with 6 buns. How many buns has he baked?

20 ÷ 5 = 4

There are 20 children and they are put into teams of 5. How many teams will there be?

Please continue to read regularly with your child at home and remember to record this in the reading diary. In addition to their school book, it would really help us to know which books they read for personal enjoyment at home so please record those in the diary. Also, please remember to encourage your child to complete the reading activities.

It is really great to see Penhaligon class having a high percentage of attendance during this half term so well done! Remember that extra playtime is rewarded each week to the class who has the highest rate of attendance.

Please remember to visit the class blog on the school website: http://perranporth.j2webby.com/?cat=11

On the blog you will find the weekly spelling lists as well as photographs and fun information about what your child gets up to in class.

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Dear Parents and Carers

 This week we have been thinking about similes and using them to describe different objects.  We have also tried to make complex sentences to describe them.  Can your child explain what a complex sentence is?

 In numeracy, we practised telling the time.  Some of us are working on analogue clocks, looking at quarters and 5 minute intervals and some of us are trying to use digital clocks too.  It would be really helpful if you could encourage your child to look at clocks during the day and try to tell the time.

 We finished our mini-project on Ireland and the children worked really hard on their Big Write about Ireland.  Well done to all of them for trying so hard.

 One more ‘Well done’:  This week when we checked our reading records,  almost all of the children had read 5 times or more – they earned extra play for all their efforts!  Keep it up!

 Finally,  just to let you know that today is Logan’s last day with us.  He will be moving to a school nearer his house.  We will all miss him but we know he will be very happy there.

 Thank you,

Mrs Burns and Mrs Willetts

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