Monthly Archives: September 2016

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.