Monthly Archives: September 2016

This Week

This week in our English we have continued with learning to retell the story of ‘The three little pigs’. We went into the storytelling area and made our own freeze frames of key parts of the story. In our Maths we have been practising counting forwards and backwards in ones starting from any number up to 20. We have also been learning how to read and write numbers as words. In our PE we have started our Gymnastics and we shared our ‘All about me bags with Mrs Davis.

Phonics

This week in Phonics we have revisited ‘j’, ‘v’, ‘x’ and ‘w’. Next week we will be revisiting ‘y’, ‘z’ ‘qu’ and ‘ch’.

Wow Moments

In St Piran Class we continue to celebrate wow moments. These can be put on the whiteboard in the morning and they will be shared later that day and put into the children’s Learning Adventure Books.

Home Learning

This week in English we have been exploring the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and in Science we have begun our learning on Materials. For home learning this week I would like the children to design their dream house. Their houses can be as creative as they like. Perhaps they would like a slide from their bedroom to the garden or a swimming pool in the roof. The children need to draw their dream house and then label it. For extra home learning this week why not make a model of your dream house from junk modelling or lego, or write sentences describing your dream house.

Support tips:

• Talk about what kind of things the children would like on their imaginative design.
• Please encourage your child to write at least one label on their own. If your child finds writing particularly challenging perhaps take it in turns to write the labels or ask for their help with the sounding out of words as you write. In the classroom if the children ask how to spell a word we encourage them to sound it out rather than writing it for them as much as possible.
• Remind your child to hold their pencil correctly when forming their letters.

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.

Year 1 children now leave through the Fire Exit in between Year 1 and Year 2.

Thursday 29^th September- BLP workshop 3:30pm

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

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

Please find below information from the ‘Meet the teacher’ sessions.

The inspire curriculum

Perranporth School are using the Inspire curriculum to meet the targets set in the New Curriculum.
The Inspire Curriculum is a topic based approach to learning which means that the majority of lessons taught will fit into the topic. At the moment our topic is ‘The Big Build’. In English we have been learning the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’, in Science we have been learning about materials, in art and design we are designing Native American wolf masks . . .
Each topic lasts a half term our next topic is called ‘Let’s Celebrate’ and will allow children to explore different celebrations.
Our learning for each topic will be presented in our Learning Adventure books similar to the EYFS learning journey.

Reading

It is important that children are reading at home for at least 10 minutes daily, little and often is the best approach.
Reading books will be changed at least once a week in School but if your child has finished their book or they are particularly not enjoying it please feel free to change it before in the morning.
When you have read with your child please leave a comment in their reading record so that their progress can be monitored and any issues or concerns can be addressed.
Please encourage your child to sound out a word when they don’t know a word. Then if the word is not phonetically decodable talk about words it sounds a bit like, or words that would fit into the sentence to make sense.

Phonics

Phonics is about children knowing how letters link to sounds.
Children use Phonics in their reading and their writing.
Children learn the sounds (phonemes) and how to write them down (graphemes.
Children learn which sound is represented by which letter and that a sound can be represented by more than one letter.
In our Phonics lessons we learn to sound out the sounds how to blend sounds, how to read and write sounds.
Phonics sessions are fast and pacy.
Please encourage your child to sound out when they are writing and reading.
There is a Phonics Workshop taking place on Thursday the 13th October at 3:30pm

Spellings

After Christmas your child will bring home weekly spellings in their Spellings Book.
If you wish to practise spelling with your child please use the high frequency words and tricky words from our Phonics sessions.

Home-learning

Daily reading.
Every Friday I will set either a numeracy or a literacy based home-learning activity.
The activity will always be linked to our learning that week. E.g. Addition in maths.
The home-learning is explained to the children but they will need support to complete it.
I will provide suggestions of how to support your child with their homework.
The activity itself should not take longer than 20 minutes to complete.
Home-learning is due in by Wednesday.

Targets

Your child is set targets for writing, reading and maths.
Targets will be short term and achievable.

Staff

Mrs Green
Miss Hendra
Mrs Harding
Mrs Thipthorp
On Tuesday afternoons I am out of the classroom on my scheduled non-teaching time. Mrs Davis will be teaching the children.

Intervention

Please don’t be worried if your child says they are having intervention.
We are providing intervention for children based on their learning and groups change frequently.

Uniform and PE kits

Please make sure that all of your child’s uniform is named.
As the weather begins to change children are allowed to wear dark tracksuit bottoms or leggings for PE.
Please make sure your child has either plimsolls or trainers for PE.
I will send PE kits home to be washed every half term.

BLP

To find out a bit more about Building Learning Power please come along to the parent workshop on Wednesday 28th September at 3:30pm

We made freeze frames for the story.