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PreSchool   Week ending Friday 9th May 2025


Posted 09/05/2025
by Joanna Rickard


This week we have been enjoying our book ‘Kitchen Disco, a funny rhyming book where the fruit comes to life and parties in the kitchen after dark! 

We had our own kitchen disco dancefloor and have enjoyed lots of disco music and dancing.  

The children have been identifying healthy and unhealthy foods and with a couple of new songs we have been singing, do not be surprised if you hear the lyrics ‘vegetables and fruits, are really very yummy, so put them in your tummy’ being sung by the children.   

The children sorted pictures of foods into the correct groups, and we talked about how we eat lots of the healthy foods, and a little of the unhealthy.  

We had a pineapple to look at and create through paint, the children used sponges and their fingers to paint with, then painted their hands green to make the pineapple top. 

Outside we are all excited to have our sandpit filled with sand again, it has been very popular! 

Next week we will start to plant some seeds of some fruits and vegetables for the children to look after and watch them grow in our garden area.  

 

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend. 

The Pre-School Team 

 


Head's Blog   Cricket Day


Posted 07/05/2025
by David Hannah



 


Head's Blog  


Posted 07/05/2025
by Zoe Thompson

Lansallos Class

Lansallos Class have made the most of the glorious weather by taking their learning outside whenever possible.

In maths, the children have been exploring direction, degrees, and how to classify angles. Year 6 pupils have also been learning how to calculate missing angles in a variety of shapes.

In PE, the class have been building on the skills developed during the recent cricket enrichment day, showing great teamwork and enthusiasm for the sport.

In English, alongside a SPaG focus on clauses, the children have been editing and improving the poems they wrote from the perspective of an animal.

 


Head's Blog  


Posted 07/05/2025
by Zoe Thompson

Talland Class


 


PreSchool   Week Ending Friday 2nd May 2025


Posted 02/05/2025
by Joanna Rickard


We have all enjoyed a gloriously sunny week in pre-school.

Our book this week has been ‘Oliver’s Fruit Salad’ a wonderful story that encouraged the children to talk about and name the different fruits, also it inspired some of them to try some different fruits.  Alongside our usual fruit selection at snack time, we also enjoyed some blueberries, grapes, kiwi and tomatoes. 

While enjoying the story, we talked about the brightly coloured illustrations and how the style looked a little blurry but we could still identify what the fruit was. We used this style in our art this week to make some oil pastel apples, smudging them to make them blurry.  They look amazing and very delicious!

The sunny weather has meant we have had lots of outside time, with water play, and garden exploring being enjoyed by everyone.  Please do ensure your child has a sun hat, water bottle and sun cream applied in the morning.  We will happily help to reapply after lunchtime with the sun cream you have provided for your child.  Please put their name on their own sun-cream bottle.  

We hope everyone has a lovely bank holiday weekend and we will see you on Tuesday 6th May.

The Pre-School Team

 

 

 


PreSchool   Week Ending Friday 25th April 2025


Posted 25/04/2025
by Joanna Rickard

The first week of summer term has seen us all settle back into pre-school after our easter break.  It's been lovely to catch up with the children and hear them sharing what fun they have had with family and friends.

This first half of summer term is a fairly short one, but we plan to pack lots of fun leaning and activities in around our enquiry question 'What do we like to eat?'  

We will be exploring different types of foods, through taste, touch, smell, and visually how they look in relation to shape and colour.

During our Grand Conversations we will discuss and share our ideas of where our food comes from, and what we all like and dislike. 

We will also be using this opportunity to start planting some fruit and vegetable seeds to nurture and watch them grow over the next few months.

A reminder that if you have a questions or concerns regarding your child that we are always available to talk to, just ask to pop in for a chat and we can arrange a convenient time.
Alternatively, you can send an email to, preschool@pelyntprimary.co.uk 

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend,
The Pre-School Team. 





 


PreSchool   Week Ending Friday 4th April 2025


Posted 05/04/2025
by Joanna Rickard

We have enjoyed some early easter celebrations and activities in pre-school this week for our final week of Spring Term 2. 

The children have continued to use their senses to explore our springtime changes this week. We also have enjoyed some easter baking, card making, egg painting and the excitement of our easter picture hunt to win a chocolate egg!  

This half term has been wonderfully nostalgic for all the team as we have thoroughly enjoyed our enquiry question ‘What is a fairy tale?Which has seen many of the traditional tales enjoyed with the children, alongside many other non-traditional but just as lovely tales in between.  

This theme has also followed through into our role play areas with a fairy tale castle and then The Gingerbread Mans bakery, inspiring some fantastic imaginative play and language opportunities for the children.  

When we return for Summer Term 1, we will have a new enquiry question ‘What do we like to eat?’ We will also use this as our opportunity to also investigate what we can grow to eat too.  

We hope that all our families have a wonderful easter and enjoy some celebrations together.  Hopefully the sun continues to shine too! 

We return to Pre-School on Tuesday 22nd April. 

The Pre-School Team. 


 


Head's Blog   Alternative Sports Day


Posted 04/04/2025
by David Hannah



Children from Duloe and Pelynt took part in an alternative sports day at Looe Academy this week. The children got to try a range of sports including: fencing, archery and segway riding. The children competed alongside 13 other schools and children from Pelynt did particularly well in winning the most ‘sporting’ team of the day by encouraging others and helping children from different schools

 


Head's Blog   Religious Education


Posted 04/04/2025
by David Hannah



In Lansallos Class these last two weeks, we have finished off our PSHE unit thinking about how to make healthy choices. We created a recipe for a 'Healthy Me' and ended the unit with a debate on whether social media has a positive impact on our lives. 




We have also had an RE focus where we have been learning about a Christian view of God. We analysed religious texts to find examples of how Christians view God and discussed what it means that Christians see God as loving and holy. We learnt about how churches and cathedrals are designed in the glory of God and thought about how to encourage a new congregation. The children reflected on various religions and unpicked why people choose to live the way they do regarding their faith. We also discussed those who don't follow a specific religion and reflected on our own beliefs. The children created a piece of artwork each, depicting how they see a Christian view of God; they wrote a reflection to go alongside it as seen below. 


 


Head's Blog   Religious Education


Posted 04/04/2025
by David Hannah



Following on from our RE learning last week about ‘Why does Easter matter to Christians?’, Lantic Class have been designing and making a moving Easter card in their DT lessons. We began by looking at moving books and the mechanisms they used, including, flaps, levers and sliders. We explored different mechanisms by making them ourselves – we made a lever, a slider, a wheel and a pivot. We then designed and made our own moving Easter card to give to a member of our family; we used a lever and pivot mechanism. We hope you like them!


 


Head's Blog   Cross Country Final


Posted 03/04/2025
by David Hannah



Congratulation to Elsa who qualified to take part in this year’s cross country final. She went to Newquay on Tuesday to race against finalists from across Cornwall. She ran a brilliant race coming 38th in the Year 6 girl’s race.


 


Head's Blog   Easter Egg Hunt


Posted 03/04/2025
by David Hannah


Thank you to FOP's for organising and running our Easter egg hunt. The children had a lovely afternoon working out answers to all the questions.  

 


Head's Blog   Talland Class


Posted 03/04/2025
by David Hannah



Talland Class have enjoyed quiet a lot of outside learning during the last few weeks. We have been investigating the pond during forest school and making dens.

As part of our PE lessons we have been practicing throwing and catching focusing on distance, accuracy and catching.

As part of geography, we investigated what are the differences between a hamlet, town and city, whilst also listing all the cities we have visited.







 


Head's Blog   Spring in Pre-School


Posted 03/04/2025
by David Hannah



Children in pre-school have been discovering all the wonderful changes that Springtime brings.  They have used their five senses to discover what they could see, hear, taste, smell, and touch.

With some visits to forest school, we have been keeping an eye on the pond and were rewarded with seeing hundreds of tadpoles. We have also spotted lots of spring flowers and listened to the birdsong from our garden area.

Our final week seen some fun Easter activities, with water colour painted eggs, an Easter picture hunt to win a chocolate egg, some easter baking and card making has also been enjoyed

 


Head's Blog   #PelyntLightning


Posted 30/03/2025
by Zoe Thompson


The East Cornwall Harriers cross-country series of races has come to an end for another season. All the children photographed opposite have represented the school over this season and have done an excellent job. Well done Pelynt Lightning!

 


Head's Blog   Football Success


Posted 30/03/2025
by Zoe Thompson

Pelynt went 1-nil in the early minutes of the game at home against St Germans. They quickly levelled the score and went on to win 5-3. A change in line-up saw and change in goalkeeper and a display that the opposing coach described increasing 'getting better throughout the game'. Well done Pelynt. 


 


Head's Blog   World Book Day


Posted 30/03/2025
by Zoe Thompson


It was wonderful to see all the children dressed up as their favourite characters on World Book Day. All the classes had a great day focusing on ‘reading for pleasure’ and delving into the magical world of reading. 

 


Head's Blog   Picture Perfect


Posted 30/03/2025
by Zoe Thompson

This week, Lansallos Class have been enjoying their painting focus in their art lessons. They have been learning about tints, shades and skin tones. After experimenting with watercolours, poster paints and acrylic paints, they then chose which paint they preferred. They used this paint to paint a portrait of an individual who inspires them.


 


Head's Blog   Hands on Maths


Posted 30/03/2025
by Zoe Thompson

Talland class have been investigating mass and capacity, trying to work out the mass of the Pepsi in a can. This was made a little trickier as some cans were stuck together, others had a sneaky weight added on top!


 


PreSchool   Week Ending Friday 28th March 2025


Posted 29/03/2025
by Joanna Rickard


This week we have had a focus on Springtime, with lots of learning about what our senses can see, hear, taste, smell and touch at this time of year. 

The children were able to tell us that the weather feels warmer, there are spring flowers in the garden, that they know Easter is very soon, and they will enjoy hot cross buns and chocolate eggs delivered by a special bunny! Also, that they could smell the cut grass and touch cute baby lambs. 

We took a walk around forest school looking out for some changes and spotted hundreds of baby tadpoles in the pond.  We then talked about how these tadpoles will turn into frogs.  

The children always enjoy a run and roll around on the school field, and this has been enjoyed this week too.  It’s lovely that some of the older school children always come and say hello and want to talk to the pre-school children.  

Some special cards have been made this week, and we hope that they have made it home to give to their special person on Sunday.  We wish all our pre-school mums a very happy Mother’s Day – we hope you all have a lovely day.  

We can’t quite believe that next week is our final week before Easter break, it really has snuck up so fast! The week will see us enjoy some Easter themed activities, and each child will take part in an easter picture hunt around pre-school to then receive a chocolate easter egg kindly donated by FOPS.  

Next Friday there will be a short easter service at the church at 1pm followed by an early finish for pre-school and school.  All children to be collected by 1.15pm - Thank you. 

We hope everyone enjoys their weekend. 

The Pre-School Team.  

 

 


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