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Monthly Archives: May 2015
St Piran class newsletter Friday 8th May 2015
This week
This week in Maths we have been learning about shapes. The children have beeng investigating the properties of 3d shapes and experimenting making their own 3d shapes. In English we wrote our own sensory trail leaflets ready for our sensory trail which we will be taking Trevithick class on soon.
Homework
For homework this week I would like the children to complete the shape worksheet. Some children need to count the sides of a shape and draw a line to the correct number of sides. Other children need to complete the shape table by filling in properties belonging to regular 2d shapes. Children may need help remembering the specific properties belonging to each shape and it may help them to be able to see the shape. If you search for regular 2d shapes on a search engine and then select images you will be able to find images of 2d shapes to help your child. As an extra challenge children could go on a shape hunt to find 2d and 3d shapes at home and record the shapes they find.
Phonics
Next week in phonics we will be learning about the alternative spellings for ‘igh’ and ‘oa’. I have tried to allocate spellings which show the different spellings of these phonemes. It is important that children are practising their spellings at home as well as at school.
Many thanks
Rachel Kitaruth and the St Piran team
rkitaruth@perranporth.cornwall.sch.uk.
Important dates
Thursday 21st May- KS1 sports day 2pm.
Monday 25th May- 29th May – Half term
Monday 1st June- Inset day – school closed
Friday 5th June- Wear it wild day supporting WWF
Tuesday 14th July- St Piran class assembly and open afternoon. Parents and family members are invited into the classroom to have a look at the children’s work.
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Celebration and Stars, 08.05.15
Trevithick
Adam for following class rules and instructions and sitting on the carpet beautifully!
St Piran
Noah for a fantastic special write!
Jadine for great home-learning!!!
Penhaligon
Lewis for great writing!
Sam Marsh for super reading!!
Boscawen
Lia for being a fabulous reader!
Sasha for super time telling!
Wilf for giving 100 percent in all learning!!
Trengrouse
Madi for a fantastic piece of autobiographical writing for homework.
Amber and Maija for a fabulous effort in our Optional SATs and working collaboratively to narrate our upcoming assembly.
Trelawney
Meg, Connor and Charlotte for a really good work ethic in our SATs – year 6 will be lucky to have you next year!!!
Davy
Keaton for working really hard in maths!!!!
Aidan for always challenging himself to improve on his next steps!!
Good luck to EVERYONE in Davy class for their SATs next week – we are sure you will all do fabulously well!!!
Other Celebrations
Wilf for playing brilliantly in rugby – your great medal and certificate are amazing! Wow – you are also Perranporth’s under 8 rugby player. Fantastic!!
Oke, Xara and Arti for fabulous rugby medals and Arti also won the most promising under 6 rugby player!
Lucas – for most improved rugby player!
Jasmine – for her Paradise Park certificate showing her paleontology knowledge!!!
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Penhaligon Newsletter 8th May 2015
Penhaligon Newsletter
8th May 2015
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week we have been finding out about seed dispersal. The children looked around the school grounds and sketched different plants and their seeds, e.g. dandelions.
We have continued reading The Wind in the Willows. The children have been thinking about how different characters might be feeling at different parts of the story and have been very insightful in their ideas.
In Maths, we have been looking at the properties of different 2d and 3d shapes. Can your child show you a cuboid, a cube or a sphere? Can they show you the faces, edges and vertices? We have also practised telling the time.
In our topic work, we have been looking at the weather and can name four different types of cloud.
Please remember Sports Day is on Thursday 21st May at 2pm on the school field.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to 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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This week in photos Friday 8th May 2015
Our home learning superstars. . .
Our Rugby stars . . .
We learnt about 2d and 3d shapes this week. We made prints using 3d shapes. Can you tell which shapes we used? We also made our own 3d shapes using K’nex. . .
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Trengrouse Home-Learning; Friday 8th May 2015
| Hi there. Here is the homework for the following week. I will keep spares in class and if you are unsure of anything please let me know. Homework club will also be available to children on Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtimes. |
| English/TopicThe children have a sheet attached of the slides for our Amazing Amazon assembly next Tuesday…
They should practise their parts in the assembly and explain the assembly using the slides as a guide. |
| Next week’s debate topic is ‘children should be allowed to vote in elections’ |
| MathsDue to our SATS tests, the children’s maths lessons are again focussed on shape and angles next week. The websites below provide excellent opportunities to investigate this through games. The children can also investigate shapes they see everyday in their homes and outside.
· Mathletics is a great tool for this (and other maths learning) – children need their log-on for this site. · http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/angles/play/ · http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/angles.html · http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/shapes/read/1/ · http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shape.htm · http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/coordinates.html#Symmetry
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| Spellings |
| Choose at least 5 spellings from either list and practise spelling them. Then, create up-levelled sentences for each of the chosen five, using a variety of punctuation and sentence types. |
| Year 4 (ph) | Extra Challenge |
| agoraphobia arachnophobia cacophony claustrophobia hydrophobia paragraph photosensitive photosynthesis physical physicist | observant, observance, (observation), expectant (expectation), hesitant, hesitancy (hesitation), tolerant, tolerance (toleration), substance (substantial) |
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Boscawen Class Update from Miss Pedlar
Dear Parents,
I am writing to keep you up to date with the timetable and my expectations for Boscawen class. All children need to have their PE kit in school on a Tuesday and Wednesday this will begin from the 18th of May. I would like all children to read every night for 10 minutes at home. Homework every week is to practice their spellings in their neatest handwriting, as I am rewarding children with pen licences and writer of the week, also they need to practice their time’s tables. I will be testing spellings and a chosen time’s table every Friday morning. I will send home, at a later date, a new homework grid for the new topic after half term. We will be carrying out optional SATs tests the week before half term, the week of the 18th of May. If you have any concerns please do pop in to the classroom and see me, or just pop in and say hello it would be great to meet you.
Kind Regards,
Miss Pedlar
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6th May 2015
Dear Parents / Carers
As I’m sure you’re all aware, next week is SAT week. It is important that your child has an early night before each test and arrives at school on time each day. On the days which have a SAT test, all children are invited to have breakfast at school together from 8.30am in order to assist with this. There will be no charge for breakfast, however due to the size of the cohort in year 6, it will not be possible to provide your child with a full English breakfast each morning, but there will be fruit juice, toast with a range of spreads and fresh fruit each day.
The timetable for SAT week is below:
| Day | Levels 3-5 test(s) | Level 6 test(s) |
| Monday 11 May | English reading | English reading |
| Tuesday 12 May | English grammar, punctuation and spelling test | English grammar, punctuation and spelling test |
| Wednesday 13 May | Mental mathematics test; mathematics Paper 1 | No level 6 tests timetabled |
| Thursday 14 May | Mathematics Paper 2 | Mathematics Paper 1; mathematics Paper 2 |
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me
Regards,
John McGowan
Davy Class teacher
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