Monthly Archives: October 2016

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