Apologies for the absence of last weeks blog due to technical issues!  This is a roundup of our last 2 weeks of summer term 1 in pre-school.

We have completed our learning around our enquiry question ‘What do we like to eat?’

Lots of different fruits and vegetables have been tried throughout our snack time with the most popular ones being cucumber, grapes, peppers, watermelon and pineapple. The children were all keen to try everything!

We have had lots of discussions around what our favourite foods are, but also what we do not like and why.  Sometimes it can be the texture of a food, surprisingly many of the children did not like a tomato because they said it was too squishy on the inside.

We have looked at where our food comes from, and what foods we can grow in our gardens.  We have even planted some carrot seeds and a raspberry plant. We will keep watering and crossing our fingers that they grow!

This week we have been using food items to investigate ‘heavy’ and ‘light’, we then took this into our play and explore time with weighing pasta and rice on weighing scales. 

Outside time has been glorious with the beautiful weather we have had.  The children have enjoyed lots of water play, the sand pit, and the mud kitchen in our garden area. A lovely way for us adults to observe their social and language skills as they use their imaginations and interests to lead their play.

When we return after half term, we will have a new enquiry question ‘Where can we go on an aeroplane?’ We will explore holiday destinations, looking at world maps, what we may need to pack for a holiday depending on the climate, what we will see and hear in different countries.    
A fun topic to build on the children’s understanding of the world.

We return to pre-school on Monday 2^nd June, but a reminder that the Friday 6^th is another Inset Day. 
A newsletter was handed out this week but it will be attached below for anyone who has not received one.

Finally, if you wish to book a parent consultation to talk about how your child is doing in pre-school then please sign up on the appointment sheet in our entrance area. 

We hope all our children and families have a wonderful half term break.

The Pre-School Team.

Learn. Grow. Discover

Our new hall display has been installed this week by local company ‘Print 2 Media’ The display consists of a map of Cornwall, the United Kingdom and the World, as well as our school values and a nod to our local farming community. It also includes a quote from David Attenborough, ‘The future of humanity and indeed all life on Earth, depends on us.’ We hope the artwork will help the child reflect on the beauty of the world and how important it is to protect it.

Lantic Class

As part of our Geography fieldwork about our local area, Lantic class took part in a short walk around Pelynt to carry out a survey of the local area. They looked at the local landmarks in Pelynt, and when back in the classroom they will use this to create a simple map of our local area.

Talland Class have been studying the Anglo Saxons, who they were and where they came from.  To mark the end of our topic we attempted to recreate the Anglo-Saxon building technique of wattle and daub.  We started by ' weaving' with a selection of sticks and then covered them in dried grass and sticky mud.  The children showed excellent skills of teamwork and delegation.

Lansallos Class

The football team enjoyed a rare home win against Four Lanes End last week. In the first half every time we went ahead, they managed to peg us back.  Eventually we came out winners 6-3.  Excellent performance all round, especially from the substitutes and a great stickers performance from George. 

Last week, the whole school attended the village war memorial to celebrate the 80^th anniversary of Victory in Europe and also reflect on the pain and suffering caused by war, both historically and in the world today. The children demonstrated impeccable behaviour during the service led by Reverend Richard and represented the school magnificently. 

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.

Talland Class

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 6^th May.

The Pre-School Team

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. 

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!

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.

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.  

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.