Hello Everyone,

We had a great day on Monday. Our outdoor learning day was focussed around British birds.

The children enjoyed learning about the design and purposes of feathers, using the story: ‘Feathers are not just for flying.’ We observed and compared a wide range of different feathers.

We also learnt about the features, characteristics and bird calls of different British birds and found several examples of these in the outside area. We have started to create a weatherproof chart that will remain outside, which contain paintings and descriptions of birds that may be found in the outdoor area. 

We also enjoyed a scavenger hunt, where we tried to find as many clues as we could, to prove that birds visit the outside area.

As you can see from the picture, some of us were exhausted by all of this learning.

Mrs Fitzsimmons 

Happy weekend everyone!

Thank you to those of you who joined us at the church on Friday afternoon for our Trelawny Day service, it was great to see you there.

We have enjoyed lots of different learning experiences in class this week and have tried to get outside as much as possible to enjoy the wonderful weather we have had. Please ensure your child has a refillable water bottle and a hat in school with them each day, thank you. 

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item that is special to you. See if you can find out who gave the item to you and be ready to explain why the item is special to you. Please bring the item in on Thursday morning or if emailing a photo please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Well done to those children who have been reading at home, we do enjoy giving out reading karate bands and certificates during celebration assembly. Keep up the great work! 

Have a lovely weekend

Class 1 Team

Sports Day 

Thank you to all the children and families for a great sports day and family picnic, here are some photos of the day.

What a wonderful ending to the week....sports day and a family picnic. You will see some of our class with their stickers in the main photo. We thoroughly enjoyed having our families as an audience and we enjoyed our first sports day! Thank you for coming to support us, your cheering really encouraged us! 

It has been great to see the progress the children are making with their tricky words, I was so impressed yesterday! Well done to all of those children who have been practicing at home.

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item that begins with the first letter of your name. Please bring the item in on Thursday morning or if emailing a photo please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

We hope to see you at our Trelawny Day service at the church on Friday 28th June at 2:30pm.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Class 1 Team

We have had another wonderful week together in Class 1!

Here's a brief overview of just some of our learning...

In maths this week we have been exploring grouping and sharing. We were grouping for a purpose and dividing a set of objects by placing a certain number in each group. We ended the week with odd and even sharing, we were each given different a different amount of buttons and had to say whether we had an odd or even number, we investigated this by sharing the buttons out. 

In art we started to paper mache a balloon which we hope to turn into a piece of art linked to artist Jane Tomlinson over the coming weeks... watch this space! 

We have also been practicing for sports day, we look forward to welcoming you to our sports day and family picnic next Friday 21st from 9:30-1pm. 

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: A photograph of you at the beach. Please bring the photograph in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Class 1 Team

This week, year 6 children visited Looe Community Academy and took part in a music session to support them with their transition to secondary school. They thoroughly enjoyed the session and are looking forward to the next transition session at the end of the month. Their full day transition is on the 2^nd of July.

During our English lessons this week, the children have been concentrating on their editing and improving skills. We have also had a big focus on presentation.

In our maths learning, purple/yellow group have been focusing on decimals and have become confident adding and subtracting numbers with different decimal places. Red group have been learning about the cost of items and how to work out the cost of individual items when purchased as multibuys. They have learnt about profit and are creating a plan in the hope to raise some funds to support their show at the end of term.   

During PSHE, the children learnt to notice signs that theirs and other people’s screen time is too long. They have discussed strategies to support reducing the time they are using screens and the benefits this could have.

This week we enjoyed learning the rules of cricket and building on skills to help us play the game competitively. We also focused on our throwing technique and looked at improving the distance we can throw a ball.

Points to remember:

PE on Monday.

Residential- 12^th-14^th June – please see recent letter for details.

Year 6 LCA full day transition 2^nd of July. Please note we do not arrange the transport for this. 

Welcome back to Summer term 2!

Thank you to those of you who joined us for our service at the church on Thursday morning.

During maths this week we have focused on sharing equally and unequally. We particularly enjoyed sharing the conkers between two squirrels! We have learnt that when sharing we need to give one to each person/ animal in turn, rather than giving multiples to begin with. 

In English, our story this week was 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'. We have been writing character descriptions, sequencing the story and labelling parts of a lighthouse. 

In art we designed a bird that we are hoping to make out of paper mache in the coming weeks. We started to explore artist Jane Tomlinson and enjoyed looking at and discussing some of her artwork. 

This week we had our first PE session with our Arena coach. We will be working on various athletic skills in readiness for our Sports Day.

The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item/object that you have found at the beach. Please bring the item/photograph in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Please find the curriculum map which outlines our learning for this half term in the uploads below. 

Enjoy your weekend!

Class 1 Team

Wow! What a great end to the half term. We thoroughly enjoyed our outdoor learning day with our growing and Viking theme. Our main highlight was finishing off our D.T project by making our Viking jewellery by pouring the melted metal into the mould that we crafted. We were pleased that this process was a reversible change as some did not go to plan first time. Another highlight was making miniature Viking longhouses using traditional methods.

We also enjoyed making seed balls for our local environment, planting sunflowers for a class competition and learning about what the Vikings might have eaten and planting some of these as seeds to harvest later in the year.

A massive thank you for coming to our Class 4 assembly and sharing our other recent learning with us. 

Points to remember:
Friday 24th May- INSET day. 
PE on Monday 3rd June.
Friday 7th June- INSET day.
Class 4 residential 12th-14th June 2024.

A massive well done to our year 6 children for completing their SATs with such great attitudes. They should all be extremely proud of their efforts; we are beyond proud of them. The whole class had a much-deserved celebration with their SATs party on Friday. We look forward to our outdoor learning day on Wednesday too.

This week, amongst lots of other things, the children improved their mastery of drawing. They learnt how to draw and use a grid to support them with their detailed drawings. They explored this method and used various drawing media whilst recording their thoughts in their sketch books. Some children decided to use charcoal which they started learning to use last week.  

The children used their recent computing learning of manipulating and presenting media to create a modified image of themselves as a Viking. They took a picture of themselves and then layered other parts of images into the picture. They included (historically accurate) Viking helmets, clothing and some children even added Viking style facial hair! They then used their art learning to try and draw this using many of the drawing techniques they have learnt across the year. The children are looking forward to sharing their final outcomes with you at our class assembly on Tuesday morning.  

Points to remember:

PE on Monday.

Class 4 assembly 9am Tuesday 21^st May.

Class 4 outdoor learning day Wednesday 22^nd May.

INSET day Friday 24^th May.

Residential 12^th-14^th June 2024.

Hello Everyone,

This week, we have particularly enjoyed our science work, where we planned our own investigation relating to plants. The children thought of their own scientific questions to ask, and worked together to plan ways to answer these questions.

In maths this week, year 1 have been learning about position and direction. They particularly enjoyed using apps on the iPads to practice their understanding of vocabulary such as; clockwise, quarter and half turns.

In PSHE, we have been learning a song about families, that we would like to sing to you in our assembly next week. We hope that you like it. 

Next week, it will be our outdoor learning day on Monday. Please can children wear clothes and shoes suitable for whatever the weather may bring.

On Thursday, we have our class assembly at 9:00, where we look forward to showing you our learning from this half term.

Year 2 pupils will also complete their end of key stage SATS tests next week. These tests are now non statutory, but we have chosen to complete them, in order to help us to form judgements about asessments in reading, maths, spelling and writing. We  already have a secure knowledge of the children’s strengths and areas for improvement in these subjects. The tests therefore will simply help us to become more informed about our judgements. To the children, the tests will just be a part of their normal routine. They are already prepared and familiar with the test formats. 

We had another super week at Pre-School and have yet again enjoyed being outside in our playground and garden.

This week we have been reading the story of "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle -


This is the story of how a tiny seed travels from its parent plant and blows across seas, deserts and mountains, braving many hazards along the way, before finally finding a place to settle and grow into a beautiful flower so that the story can start again. A beautiful and uplifting first introduction to the life cycle of a seed.

We have been planting more seed in Pre-School for our garden area, we've planted some peas, carrots, beetroot and some more beans and sunflowers, hopefully with this warm weather we will have some super plants and be able to watch them grow.

We have also been baking some cupcakes using poppy seeds and made some beautiful flowers using cup cake cases and doilies which we have put up on our growing display board to make it look pretty.

On Wednesday we made some little gardens with some of the parents that came in for our Stay and Play afternoon, thank you to all of you that came in , it was lovely to see you and I know the children enjoyed sharing there day with you.

We have one week left until our half term holiday, this year is certainly whizzing by, just a reminder that we finish next Thursday 23rd May and the Friday is an inset day.

We are hoping to start "Our Big Brush Club" the week we return from half term, please may we ask for the remainder of the reply slips as we have to order our resources.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend enjoying the sunshine.
Mrs G, Mrs Rickard, Mrs Rowe and Miss Carr.


Dates for your diary :

24th May - Inset Day, School/Pre-School Closed
27th - 31st May - Half Term Holiday
3rd June - Back to School

Learning Outside the Classroom

Our LOtC day saw the us enjoying the forest school area, the great weather and some of our slimy friends!  We started the day on a scavenger hunting, searching for as many different things as we could and everyone had their own interpretation.  Some groups found big things some groups small.  We then had to categorise them and here we looked at things that had grown and it made us realise the impact we have on our environment when we looked at all the things that would not have naturally grown their.  This gave us the opportunity to remove and tidy our forest school area and also to think about projects we'd like to put in place.

Under Mrs Dan's direction,  our allotment bed had been refreshed and planted with rows of potatoes.  We are also trying some companion planting with various types and beans being planted and we hope that these will be able to grow up the sunflowers and sweet corn that we've planted alongside.

Time will tell just how successful our planting will be.

Mr Knight.

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Hello everyone

Here's an insight into some of our learning in Class 1 this week....

In PE we have been developing our awareness of distance and weight and if we were able to throw in a coordinated way for accuracy. We had three hoops to throw the bean bags into and had to adjust the way we threw the bean bag to enable us to try and reach the hoop that was the furthest away. We then completed a carousel of activities such as hoopla, target practice and throwing bean bags over a distance. 

Our focus in Maths has been around shapes. We have been selecting shapes for a purpose, exploring how shapes will appear once they have been rotated, manipulating shapes and making tangram pictures. 

In English, we have been reading the story 'Superworm'. We have been thinking of adjectives to describe Superworm and Wizard Lizard and then writing our own character descriptions. We have also been practising writing a list when writing what rubbish Superworm finds underground. 

In art we used Lichtenstein’s “Ben Day Dots” as inspiration to create a piece of artwork. We used pop art style dots to show colour without filling a space completely. We are all so proud of our pieces! 

In PSHE we have been looking at using ‘calm me time’ to manage our feelings. We spoke about if we had ever felt angry and discussed different ways we could calm down. One of the ways we spoke about was to listen to calm music. We decided we wanted to do some drawing whilst listening to calm music. 

The theme for Show and Tell is: Free Choice. As it is the last day of the term I thought the children could choose something of their own choice to bring in and tell us about. Please bring into school on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.

Points to note for next week:
Class 1 Assembly on Wednesday 9am - children to come to school wearing their Superhero costume.
INSET Day on Friday

Class 1 Team