Category Archives: St Piran

Plant hunt  in St Piran

We will be going on a plant hunt around our school grounds on Monday. Please could all children bring wellies or a change of footwear into school on Monday 13^th March.

St Piran Class Newsletter- 10th March 2017

This week we have been learning about fractions in our Maths. The children have been brilliant at splitting playdough shapes into equal halves. In our English we wrote our own versions of the gingerbread man with our own characters. The children enjoyed our Cornish carousel day with Trevithick class on Monday.

Phonics

This term we will be continuing our Phase 5 in Phonics. This week we have been learning about the alternative pronunciations of ‘u’, ‘i’ and ‘ear’. Next week we will be learning ‘ar’, ‘air’, ‘or’.

Home Learning

Our home learning this week is linked to our fractions learning. The children either need to read the fraction and colour in the shape appropriately or to decorate half of the biscuit template provided. For extra home learning this week practise splitting shapes into equal halves or quarters. The children really loved using playdough to explore this.

Support tips:

• Vocabulary we have used in the classroom this week-whole, equal, half, halves, splitting, parts, and quarters.
• Cutting out shapes and cutting them in half helps children to understanding halving shapes.

Plant hunt

We will be going on a plant hunt around our school grounds on Monday. Please could all children bring wellies or a change of footwear into school on Monday 13^th March.

Dates for your Diary and Reminders

We are a nut free school. We kindly ask that children do not bring in nuts or obvious nut products as part of their snack or lunches.

Friday 17^th March- St Piran to provide cakes for FOPS cake sale. (No nuts please)

Friday 31^st March- Last day of the Spring term.

Tuesday 18^th April- First day of the Summer term.

Friday 26^th May- Inset day

Friday 26^th May- Friday 2^nd June- Half term

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Today we started learning about fractions. We used playdough to make equal halves and quarters.

We had great fun joining in with the Cornish dancing and welcoming St Piran at The Welcome.

This week we have been learning about multiplication and division in our Maths. The children have been brilliant at solving multiplication and division word problems. In our English we made our own comic strips of the story and added speech to them.

Phonics

This term we will be continuing our Phase 5 in Phonics. This week we have been learning about the alternative pronunciations of ‘r’, ‘s’ and ‘z’. Next week we will be learning ‘u’, ‘i’ and ‘ear’.

Home Learning

We have been celebrating World Book Day throughout this week. For home learning I would like the children to draw a picture of their favourite character and write about who they are. As an extra challenge why not have a go at writing your own story or make/bake your own gingerbread man.

Support tips:

• Discuss different characters with your child.
• Encourage your child to sound out words they want to use in their writing.
• Remind your child to check their writing through when they have finished.

Dates for your Diary and Reminders

We are a nut free school. We kindly ask that children do not bring in nuts or obvious nut products as part of their snack or lunches.

Monday 6^th March-  Chartwells St Piran celebration pasty lunch. Steak or cheese and onion pasties available.

Friday 17^th March- St Piran to provide cakes for FOPS cake sale. (No nuts please)

Friday 31^st March- Last day of the Spring term.

Tuesday 18^th April- First day of the Summer term.

Friday 26^th May- Inset day

Friday 26^th May- Friday 2^nd June- Half term

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

We enjoyed ‘hot seating’ the characters in The Gingerbread man. .  .

We made our own arrays using counters . . .

This week we have been learning about multiplication and division in our Maths. The children have been making arrays using counters and using their own pictures to help them solve number sentences. . In our English we have started to learn the story of The Gingerbread man. The children have been brilliant at making their own actions.

Phonics

This term we will be continuing our Phase 5 in Phonics. This week we have been learning about the alternative pronunciations of ‘j’, ‘m’ and ‘n’. Next week we will be learning ‘r’, ‘s’ and ‘z’.

Home Learning

This week in Maths we have been focussing on Multiplication. In Year 1 we learn to count in 2s. 5s and 10s. For home learning this week I would like the children to either count the 2p coins in 2s or complete the word problems. For extra home learning this week why not have a go at making arrays to solve multiplication number sentences or make your own story map for the ‘Gingerbread man’.

Support tips:

• Discuss the numbers that we say when we count in 2s and record these with your child.
• Encourage your child to read the word problem carefully and discuss which calculation they need to use to solve it.
• Make arrays to help solve multiplication number sentences.

Dates for your Diary and Reminders

We are a nut free school. We kindly ask that children do not bring in nuts or obvious nut products as part of their snack or lunches.

Tuesday 28^th February- Reading workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm

Thursday 2^nd March- World Book Day (Children dress as book characters)

Thursday 2^nd March- School Book Sale 2:45pm onwards

Friday 3^rd March- The Welcome- Children to dress in Cornish colours. Perranporth Inner Green 2pm

Friday 17^th March- St Piran to provide cakes for FOPS cake sale. (No nuts please)

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

We enjoyed measuring in cubes and cm last week . . .

This week we have been learning about measuring in our Maths. The children have been measuring using cubes and are beginning to measure and record in cm. In our English we wrote our own rescue stories. We have been very impressed with the children’s imaginative writing.

Phonics

This term we will be continuing our Phase 5 in Phonics. This week we have been learning about the alternative pronunciations of ‘g’, ‘c’ and ‘ey’. After half term we will be learning the alternative pronunciations of ‘j’, ‘m’ and ‘n’.

Home Learning

This week in English we have been learning all about the story ‘Soggy to the Rescue’. This story is about a boy called Jack, his Grandfather and a stolen teddy bear. Set in St Ives, the story tells of how Patrick the teddy bear is stolen by a sea gull.  Soggy, another teddy bear, is harnessed to a kite and with the help of Jack manages to save Soggy.  For homework this week I would like the children to draw a picture of their favourite character from the story. Then I would like the children to write words about the character around them. For example you might choose the seagull and write naughty, unkind, huge, around your picture. As an extra challenge your child might like to have a go at writing why they have chosen the character. For example, I like Soggy because he is brave.

Support tips:

• Talk to your child about the story.
• Discuss their favourite character and adjectives they could use to describe them.
• Encourage your child to sound out the words they want to use in their writing.

For optional extra home learning activities over the half term read regularly, practise addition/subtraction number sentences and word problems, keep a diary of your holiday or write your own rescue story.

Mrs Barbery

Unfortunately we say goodbye to Mrs Barbery at the end of this week. She has been a fantastic support to the children and we will all miss her and wish her good luck in the future.

Dates for your Diary and Reminders

We are a nut free school. We kindly ask that children do not bring in nuts or obvious nut products as part of their snack or lunches.

Monday 13^th-Friday 17^th February- Half term

Wednesday 22^nd February- Parents Meeting day. Non-pupil Inset day with appointments running from 8:30am-5:30pm.

Wednesday 2^nd March- World Book Day

Friday 17^th March- St Piran to provide cakes for FOPS cake sale. (No nuts please)

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk