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St Piran Class Newsletter- 25^th November 2016

This week we have finished writing our bossy sandwich instructions in our English. We have been learning about more than and less than in our Maths.  We have also started our rehearsals for the Christmas Nativity and the children are all very excited about the play.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘ay’, ‘ou’ and ‘ie’ phonemes. Next week we will be learning ‘ea’ as in cup of tea, ‘oy’, and ‘ir’. If you have spare time practise segmenting words with these phonemes in with your child.

Home Learning

This week in our maths we have been learning all about place value. For your home learning I would like you to complete the missing number sequences or to order the numbers from smallest to biggest. For additional home learning this week why not practise sequencing two digit numbers from biggest to smallest and smallest to biggest or log on to Mathletics using your log in in your reading record and complete the Place Value activities on there. Don’t forget to practise your lines for our Nativity too.

Support tips:

• Missing number activity-encourage your child to read the sequence out loud so they can see whether the numbers are getting smaller or bigger.
• Use a numberline for extra support if needed.
• Sequencing numbers by size- Read the four numbers first. Cross them out as you put them in order. Check it through when finished.

Nativity

Our performance is on Wednesday the 14^th December at 2pm. We hope to see you there. Please make sure your child’s costume is in school in a named carrier bag by the 9^th December.

Trevithick mud kitchen

Trevithick class are in the process of creating their own exciting mud kitchen. If you have any children’s waterproofs or wellies that are no longer needed please bring them in. Any donations will be gratefully received.

Pebbles

For a Christmas craft this year we will be using pebbles. If you are able to collect any smooth round pebbles about the size of a flat satsuma please bring them in. We would be very grateful.

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 9^th December- Own clothes day. Children to bring in chocolate for Christmas Fayre. (No nuts please)

Saturday 10^th December- FOPS Christmas Fayre

Tuesday 13^th December- Christmas lunch day

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance 2pm

Friday 16^th December- Christmas jumper day. £1 donation for Save the Children.

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

This week we have started our Instructions learning. We practised writing instructions for making a sandwich. In our maths we have been completing number sequences and missing number activities.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘ur’, ‘er’ and ‘igh’ phonemes. Next week we will be learning ‘ay’, ‘ou’, and ‘ie’. If you have spare time practise segmenting words with these phonemes in with your child.

Home Learning

The children’s home learning this week is to write a set of instructions for drawing a dog. For extra home learning this week follow a recipe, or follow the instructions in a board game or write your own set of instructions for a model you have made.

Support tips:

• Talk through the process in the pictures.
• Encourage your child to sound out the words that they want to wri Don’t worry if this means the word is spelt incorrectly.
• If your child finds writing a challenge you could always take it in turns to write down their ideas.
• Encourage your child to read what they have wri
• Use bossy language.
• Don’t forget to have a go at drawing the dog too.

Trevithick mud kitchen

Trevithick class are in the process of creating their own exciting mud kitchen. If you have any children’s waterproofs or wellies that are no longer needed please bring them in. Any donations will be gratefully received.

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.

Saturday 10^th December- FOPS Christmas Fayre

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance 2pm

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

We made our own fire work pictures to use in our Maths. We described the position of the things in our pictures.

This week we have started our new topic called ‘Let’s Celebrate’. In our Maths we have been learning about 2d and 3d shapes. With Mrs Davis this week we tasted a variety of fruit.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have learnt the ‘air’ phoneme. Next week we will be learning ‘ear’ and ‘ure’. In your child’s bookbag you should have received a list of suggested websites to support your child with their Phonics and a sheet with tips on how to support your child with their reading. If you would like any support with Phonics or have any questions please arrange a time to see me.

Home learning

This week in English our learning has focussed on the Charlie and Lola story ‘This is actually my party’. We have created our own freeze frames for parts of the story and written sentences about different parts of the story. For home learning this week I would like the children to write about the best birthday party they have ever been to. I would like all children to write at least one sentence about a birthday party. For extra home learning this week make a list or a mind map of all of the things you might need to throw a party.

Support tips:

• Talk to your child about the best party they have ever been invited to.
• Discuss what made it such a good party.
• Encourage your child to sound out the words they want to use in their writing.
• Encourage phonetic spelling unless it is a tricky word (words that we can’t sound out such as the) or a high frequency word that they recognise (e.g. have).
• Ask your child to read through their writing to check that it makes sense and to check for capital letters and full stops.

Mathletics

Your child now has access to Mathletics. Mathletics is an online Maths programme allowing children to practise all aspects of Mathematics. Children can work towards certificates which are based on the amount they complete and not their level of mathematics. These certificates are awarded in assembly and the programme is hugely popular in our school.  Please find an individual log in and a password in your child’s reading record.  To log in to Mathletics use a search engine to search for Mathletics. On the homescreen in the top right hand corner click ‘sign in’. Use the username and password provided to sign in.  I have shown the children how to log on in class but they may require assistance at home.

Trevithick mud kitchen

Trevithick class are in the process of creating their own exciting mud kitchen. If you have any children’s waterproofs or wellies that are no longer needed please bring them in. Any donations will be gratefully received.

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 7^th, Thursday 10^th November- Parents Evenings

Friday 18^th November- Children in need

Saturday 10^th December- FOPS Christmas Fayre

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance pm

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

We made some brilliant wolf masks as part of our Art & Design this term . . .

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This week in our English we have continued to explore Acrostic poetry. In Maths we have been practising our number bonds to 10 in a variety of ways. Thank you to everyone who came to support our Harvest Festival and for your contributions to our donation to the Foodbank.

Home Learning

For home learning over the holiday I have given each child the next 99 club challenge for them to try at home. The children are responding really well to the 99 club and particularly enjoy seeing if they can beat their own score from the previous time. The children are allowed ten minutes to complete the challenge and are encouraged to check their answers before the time runs out.

Support tips:

• Encourage your child to use their fingers to help them or tap and unwrap.
• When adding three numbers, add the two biggest first.
• Remind your child that if they find one number sentence particularly tricky they can leave it out and come back to it later.
• Some of the challenges include multiplication number sentences. At this stage we are encouraging children to think of multiplication as ‘lots of’. So 2 x 5 would be two lots of five. Children are allowed to draw quick pictures or arrays to help them with any of the questions.

For extra home learning this half term practise your number bonds to 10 and or keep a diary of your week.

– Arrays help with multiplication

Let’s Celebrate

After half term we will be starting our new topic. Our new topic is called ‘Let’s Celebrate!’ On the class page on the school website you can find more information about what we will be learning about in each subject. Within the topic we will be exploring celebrations which happen in our own families, communities and beyond. This topic will fit in nicely as we approach the Christmas and the New Year celebrations.

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 21^St October- St Piran to provide cakes for the FOPS bake sale

Friday 21^st October- FOPS Halloween disco

Monday 24^th-Friday 28^th October- Half term

Monday 31^st October- Inset day school closed to pupils

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance pm

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

This week in English we have been exploring Acrostic Poetry. The children wrote excellent poems using the letters in their names. In Maths we have been subtracting and in Science we investigated which materials sink and float.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have revisited ‘oo’, ‘ar’, and ‘or’. Next week we will be revisiting ‘ur’, ‘ow’ and ‘oi’.

Home Learning

For home learning this week I would like the children to create their own Autumn themed acrostic poem. We have been learning about acrostic poetry in our English this week. We have been looking at acrostic poems where the first letters of each line spell out a word.  They might like to use the word Autumn, Harvest, leaf or tractor. For extra home learning this week find a poem you like and bring it in to share with the class or go for a walk and see if you can spot any signs of Autumn. Take photos or draw the things you see and share them with the class.

Support tips:

• Discuss Autumn themed words with your child and write them down in a mind map or list.
• Encourage them to sound out any words they would like to write.
• You might to use the following structure

C is for cuddly

A is for adventurous

T is for tiny

Junk Modelling

On Tuesday the children will be constructing their own houses in DT with Mrs Davis. If you have any spare clean junk modelling materials such as cereal boxes, egg cartons, yoghurt pots, plastic bottles etc. we would be grateful.

Harvest Festival

On Thursday the 20^th October we will be celebrating Harvest by having a Harvest Festival with Trevithick class at St Michael’s Church in Perranporth. (9:45 start) We will be walking the children down and back to the church. We ask the children to bring in a contribution to our donation to the local foodbank. Suitable items include tins of fruits, vegetables, soups, packets of rice, pasta and biscuits. (No nuts please) Thanks in advance for you donations. Looking forward to seeing you at the celebration.

Phonics Workshop

For anyone who would like any more information about how to support your child with their Phonics please arrange a time to come and see me. All parents are welcome to come and watch a Phonics session in action. Please see me to arrange a suitable day.

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.

Thursday 20^th October- Trevithick and St Piran Harvest Festival St Michael’s church 9:45am

Thursday 20^th October- Maths Mastery Workshop

Friday 21^St October- St Piran to provide cakes for the FOPS bake sale

Friday 21^st October- FOPS Halloween disco

Monday 24^th-Friday 28^th October- Half term

Monday 31^st October- Inset day school closed to pupils

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance pm

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

St Piran Class Newsletter- 7th October 2016

This week in English we have been writing labels and captions. The children wrote some excellent labels and captions for fairy tale items. In Maths we have been adding two single digit numbers together and in Art and Design we started to make our wolf masks.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have revisited ‘ai’, ‘ee’, ‘igh’ and ‘oa’. Next week we will be revisiting ‘oo’, ‘ar’ ‘or’ and ‘ur’.

Home Learning

This week in our Maths we have been learning all about addition. For Home Learning this week I would like the children to solve the following addition number sentences. For extra home learning this week have a go at making your own addition machine (please see picture to the right) or adding single digit numbers to two digit numbers. E.g. 44 + 9 =

Support tips:

• This week we have been exploring strategies that we can use to help us solve addition calculations. The children have been using their fingers, adding on using a number line, making two groups using objects and counting how many objects there are altogether, and using tap and unwrap (a mental maths strategy which the children should be able to show you).
• Talk to your child about how they would like to solve the number sentences.
• Use household objects to represent the numbers if they would like to make two groups of objects.
• Encourage your child to check that their numerals are formed correctly.

Junk Modelling

On Tuesday the children will be constructing their own houses in DT with Mrs Davis. If you have any spare clean junk modelling materials such as cereal boxes, egg cartons, yoghurt pots, plastic bottles etc. we would be grateful.

Harvest Festival

On Thursday the 20^th October we will be celebrating Harvest by having a Harvest Festival with Trevithick class at St Michael’s Church in Perranporth. (9:45 start) We will be walking the children down and back to the church. We ask the children to bring in a contribution to our donation to the local foodbank. Suitable items include tins of fruits, vegetables, soups, packets of rice, pasta and biscuits. (No nuts please) Thanks in advance for you donations. Looking forward to seeing you at the celebration.

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.

Thursday 13^th October- Individual School photos

Thursday 13^th October- Phonics workshop 3:30pm

Thursday 20^th October- Trevithick and St Piran Harvest Festival St Michael’s church 9:45am

Friday 21^St October- St Piran to provide cakes for the FOPS bake sale

Friday 21^st October- FOPS Halloween disco

Monday 24^th-Friday 28^th October- Half term

Monday 31^st October- Inset day school closed to pupils

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance pm

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

This week in English we wrote our own stories. The children used their imaginations and wrote some excellent stories. In Maths we have been counting in 2s and learning how to multiply by making groups. In gymnastics we explored different ways of travelling along apparatus and in Geography we made our own maps with keys.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have revisited ‘sh’, ‘th’, and ‘ng’. Next week we will be revisiting ‘ai’, ‘ee’ ‘igh’ and ‘oa’.

Home Learning

This week in English we have been writing our own versions of ‘The Three Little Pigs’.  The children have used their imaginations and created some excellent stories. For home learning this week I would like the children to write or draw their favourite fairy tale. For extra home learning why not create your own fairy tale and record it in pictures or words.

Support tips:

• Talk to your child about their favourite fairy tale and what happens in the story. Ask them to explain why it is their favourite.
• Help your child rehearse their sentence out loud before writing it down. They can use the sentence starter ‘My favourite fairy tale is’.
• Please encourage your child to sound out words that they would like to use and to be resourceful like one of our BLP animals ‘Justin Beaver’. Can they be resourceful and find the word they are trying to spell in the book.
• Remind your child to hold their pencil correctly when forming their letters and ask them to check that they have remembered their capital letters and full stops in their writing.

99 Club

We made our first attempts at the 99 Club this week. The 99 club has been developed to help raise standards in Numeracy by encouraging pupils to improve their mental maths and therefore increase the speed and confidence .The children have a certain number of number sentences to complete in 10 minutes.  The 11 club includes number sentences involving addition to 10, the 22 club includes number sentences involving addition to 20 and the 33 club includes both of these and number sentences involving 2x table, 10x and addition number sentences.   In year 1 we will be completing the challenge once a week and all pupils start on the 11 club and work their way up. Please see me if you would like advice on how to practise with your child.

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 4^th October- KS1 parent lunch

Thursday 13^th October- Individual School photos

Thursday 13^th October- Phonics workshop 3:30pm

Thursday 20^th October- Trevithick and St Piran Harvest Festival St Michael’s church 9:45am

Friday 21^St October- St Piran to provide cakes for the FOPS bake sale

Friday 21^st October- FOPS Halloween disco

Monday 24^th-Friday 28^th October- Half term

Monday 31^st October- Inset day school closed to pupils

Wednesday 14^th December- Trevithick and St Piran Nativity performance pm

Many thanks

St Piran Team

rlaity@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk

Yesterday we had a special visitor in St Piran Class. Daya came into our class and taught us about Hinduism and Indian Culture.