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Porthenys Class Assembly - Kindness 10.05.24

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Porthenys Class Assembly - Kindness 10.05.24

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Parents and children watched the Porthenys Class Assembly this week, all about kindness. The children were very brave and stood up in front of parents to talk about different aspects of kindness. They also sung a fabulous song about kindness. Well done Porthenys Class.

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Porthia Class - The Day The Chairs Quit-April/May 2024

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Porthia Class - The Day The Chairs Quit-April/May 2024

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OH NO!! A tragedy has happened in year 2 this term…the chairs have quit! They are not happy with how they have been treated recently and have gone on strike. Year 2 received a very unhappy letter from the chairs outlining their concerns and as a result, they went a whole day without chairs and had to sit on the carpet/move around all day!

Year 2 now have to write a letter back to the chairs to persuade them to stay for good! Do you think they will? Stay tuned…

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Porthia Class have been learning all about mechanisms during their Design and Technology learning. They have tested different types of mechanisms and chose one to use in an Easter Card. The majority of children chose a version of a slider, using a slit or a pin in the paper. They loved experimenting with different moving objects. Great work!

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Porthia class have had the privilege of attending Newlyn Art Gallery for 2 workshops all about Newlyn’s fishing village and harbour. Students from Falmouth University studying illustration, constructed and delivered amazing workshops which highlighted the children’s creativity.

The children have loved making jellyfish, origami boats, collage psds creatures, fishermen and much more - all while overlooking the beautiful sea view!

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Porthia Class - Apostrophes for contraction

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Porthia Class - Apostrophes for contraction

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Year 2 consolidated their knowledge of Apostrophes for Contraction by carrying out 'surgical' procedures of different words. They enjoyed cutting out the letter that needed to be removed and patching the words up using plasters and drawing the apostrophe in the correct place. What fun!

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Porthia class presented a class asssembly all about Truthfulness. The children acted out different scenarios that may occur in school and how they can be resolved. Being honest about situations can help resolve and find solutions for the future. The narrators portrayed this message well to the whole school and parents. The class have used the virtue of truthfulness day to day, which is great!

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In Porthenys class we have been developing our knowledge about the ports and harbours. As we live in such a special place that has a port we also looked further afield to compare the port of Felixstowe. We were amazed at the size of the container ships and how busy it is there. Equally though, children recognised how special Newlyn is and how important it is to people who live here too.

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Porthia Class - Food chains 16th April 2024

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Porthia Class - Food chains 16th April 2024

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Porthia Class explored food chains in Science. They were able to identify the predator and prey and that food chains usually start with a plant. They then used this knowledge to work in pairs and create their own food chains from different plants and animals. Some children challenged themselves even further and made 6-7 step food chains. Well done!

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Homework Showcase - Friday 22nd March 2024

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Homework Showcase - Friday 22nd March 2024

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The children worked hard across the term completing their Challenge Grids. It was wonderful to see such variety in how they chose to present their work. Well done to all and a big thank you to their parents for supporting them.

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Some of our younger children entered the School Games Continuous Cricket Festival recently at Mounts Bay Academy and had the opportunity to fine tune some of their skills they have been learning in a competitive format. The children all played very well and thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were a real credit to the school.

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Just before Easter the school entered a Y3/4 and a Y5/6 team into the School Games Indoor Athletics Competition at Mounts Bay Academy where the children competed in a variety of track and field events. Both teams performed very well, narrowly missing out on medals but represented the school incredibly well.

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Recently a group of Year 5 and Year 6 children travelled to Truro to take part in the school’s first ever dodgeball tournament. Having never played Dodgeball competitively before both teams were on a steep learning curve but improved with each and every game. We are looking forward to  next year’s tournament when we hope to return much stronger.

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Just before Christmas a group of swimmers travelled to Bodmin and represented the school in a Swim Safe competition where they raced against children from other schools in a variety of challenges based around keeping safe in the water. The teams did incredibly well coming away with a Bronze Medal and an award for showing determination, one of the School Games Values.

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Porthenys Class 25.03.24 Easter Bonnet Making 

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Porthenys Class 25.03.24 Easter Bonnet Making 

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Celebrating New Life was the theme for our Easter Bonnet making in class today. Parents/carers came to help children with their beautiful creations.

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Some of the learning taking place in English

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Porthenys Class have daily Phonics lessons, which not only help with reading, but are also key to help with writing. Reading is a really important way for us to develop writing skills and vocabulary.
We have recently been studying an information text and you can see children have looked for the shape of the text. This has included looking at what is included in the text layout and information within it. Children have then begun experimenting with their own sentences in their writing to include descriptions of actions. We are using new writing grids/templates to develop handwriting further, here is an example of one of our children’s first try with it and she did really well!

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Porthia Class Week Beginning 04/03/2024 Money

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Porthia Class Week Beginning 04/03/2024 Money

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In Porthia class this half term we have been learning all about Money. At the end of our unit, the classroom was turned into a shop where we had to buy items and work out how much money to give the cashier. When it was our turn to be the cashier, we had the role of finding the correct change to give to the customer. The children worked in pairs and enjoyed shopping for toys and food! What a great way to end the Money Unit!

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10 children from Syllan class joined the St Piran’s school choir this year with over 100 children from schools in the area. They learnt lots of songs, some in Cornish, and attended a special rehearsal. The evening performance was incredibly well attended and the children sounded stunningly beautiful singing harmonies and rounds in St John’s Hall. Miss Allam and Mrs Wood were so impressed and proud! The children even had a go at some traditional dancing which was loads of fun.
Well done Louisa, George, Amaya, Imogen, Fenna, Kira, Paisley, Keevah, Evie and Elodie, you are singing superstars!

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Miraculously in a week of rain, the sun shone on St Piran’s Day!
Children from Syllan Class, as well as the school band from across Key Stage 2, took part in the furry dance this year. The children looked so smart in their white jumpers (thank you FONS!) as we danced through town. In Morrab gardens we heard speeches, sang Trelawney and Cornwall My Home before dancing back to St John’s Hall for a saffron bun. All of the children represented Newlyn school wonderfully, and were a credit both to us and to their families.
Special thank you to the adults who joined us on the parade and helped out, we are so grateful for your time and it was lovely to have our families with us!

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We have had the BEST time exploring our woodland area and learning lots of new skills during our Forest School sessions. We have built shelters, challenged ourselves in the laser maze, learnt how to make a fire and enjoyed toasting marshmallows.

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We LOVED celebrating World Book Day and filled our day with all things book from story yoga to buddy reading. We were so excited to go to out very own Newlyn Book Store for our Book Swap.📚

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This term Lanust Class have been studying “The Circle of Life” where we have been investigating how different plants and animals reproduce. We have started off by dissecting a daffodil to identify the different parts of the flower and their various functions. We have also explored the Life Cycle of a chicken and identified the different stages which the chicken goes through from egg to adult chicken.

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This week we have been exploring plants. We have been thinking about what they need to grow. After reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk we decided to plant beans.

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Our children thoroughly enjoyed discussing their favourite books, sharing stories and of course exchanging books during our book swop, where every child took a book home to enjoy. During the day, children had the opportunity to design a book cover for their favourite book and share these during a show and tell session. The children were able to dress up in anything that made them happy, their costumes were fantastic!

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Syllan class came to school dressed to impress on World Book Day! We loved taking some photos together in our outfits while talking excitedly about different book characters and things that make us happy. Since it was also International Women’s Day we read some beautiful poems by women and spoke about the ideas of equality and fairness. Syllan Class had lots of thoughtful and interesting things to say on these subjects and discussed their own experiences.
The highlight of the day was the Book Swap, all children were able to choose a ‘new’ book to take home. Thank you to Mrs Buckingham for organising this!

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Senara Class have started to learn about the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. This week we enjoyed looking at and talking about the 4 portraits he created using fruits, vegetables and plants relating to the relevant season. The children then created their own collage cutting out pictures of different fruits and vegetables. There was lots of discussion about which fruits and vegetables would be best to represent our eyes, nose, mouth etc. Next week the children will have the opportunity to create portraits using real fruits and vegetables and then photographing their creations.

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Lanust Class have been digging, planting and mulching again. This time, they were doing so as part of a project to improve the play area at Gwavas and enrich the site for both the local community and wildlife.
All the children worked really well - it was hard work, not to mention muddy!

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Porthenys Class have been learning why Easter matters to Christians. We have been remembering the events of Holy Week, so we can learn about and understand the events and traditions that Christians may carry out during Holy Week.
In the clips below, children retell the events of Holy Week to share the Easter story. I think they have done a very good job!

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We talked about the events of Holy Week and thought about ceremonies and traditions Christians may carry out. We linked new life with the Easter Egg tradition on Easter Sunday.

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Jesus was taken to the tomb.

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We have been exploring electricity. We can now identify the components in a circuit, make a simple circuit and test it and explain how to stay safe. We are looking forward to applying this knowledge to our project, in which we will create burglar alarms to stop our Ancient Egyptian treasures being stolen from their tombs!

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Syllan Class Spring Term 1 Forest School 

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Syllan Class have enjoyed Forest School this term. We have created art from charcoal and found objects, sharpened sticks, built dens and set fires. We have learnt important skills such as using knives safely, starting and maintaining small fires with a flint and steel and constructing lean-to shelters. To celebrate all of our learning we had a lovely end of term fire and shared marshmallows. A huge thank you from Syllan to Mr Hickman for running this provision!

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Lanust Class: National Story Telling Week 2/2/2024

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Lanust Class: National Story Telling Week 2/2/2024

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Lanust Class

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The story writing process.

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We have been looking at counting, cardinality and ordinality with numbers 1-10. Our Senara Superstars have mastered our Maths this week.
We have also supercharged or Subitising “Don’t count, see the amount!”

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Flanders Fields

We took time to reflect on Flanders Fields and what a precious place it is. Children then painted with water colours their own field of poppies and thought about words to describe Flanders Fields and what it meant to themselves or other people. Here are some of their thoughts...Peace, Calm, Respectful, Remember, Love everyone.

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During storytelling week, the children were lucky enough to receive a workshop from the Institute of Imagination. The children learnt how to use a range of animation techniques such as: disappearing, shrinking, growing, flying and dancing. The children quickly picked up the techniques and have put together some exciting animations.
Check out the one above by Bella, Rosa, Ava and Benas.

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Year Six have been having fun enjoying the skipping ropes. They’ve been practising partner skipping and turning around in a large skipping rope. We all had great fun!

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To kick off their learning about Crime and Punishment the children got to experience what it was like for Georgian and Victorian criminals. As we were led through the Dark Walk, we learnt about notorious Cornish criminals such as Selina Wadge who was sentenced to death by hanging because she murdered her two year old son (Henry) by dropping him in a well. We also learnt about the Lightfoot Brothers who were convicted of murdering Neville Norway during a highway robbery. At the end of the guided tour, the children got to experience their very own long drop; there were a few screams!

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Lanust Class are thoroughly enjoying their class novel, Street Child. It is set in the Victorian era and is based on the true story of a child that inspired Dr. Barnardo to set his ‘ragged schools’.
The children have written a diary entry as Jim Jarvis, the main character, describing the day that he spent the family’s last shilling.
We decided to tea stain the work, to give it the appearance of being old. Unfortunately, we did this on the originals, before photocopying, so please excuse any smudges.
Some of the children recorded themselves, reading their work - we hope you enjoy listening to them.
Coming soon: the children will write detailed character descriptions of characters that they have yet to be introduced to.

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We are currently learning about Wassily Kandinsky.

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Here we have been drawing to music. Each of the instruments we listened to were represented by a line or shape.

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We have been drawing to music, experiencing what it is like to draw lines to different types of music…Here is a sample of our first try at this.

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Children could choose their own materials to create their own image inspired by Kandinsky.

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Concentric Circles