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LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 17.12.20<br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL<br />
NEWSLETTER 17.12.20<br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 17.12.20
A word from the Principal...<br />
Welcome back,<br />
I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas break and wish you a Happy New Year; it’s is hard to believe<br />
that we have been back in school for two weeks already.<br />
You may have seen on our Facebook page, that the Real School Guide has judged Ludgvan as the<br />
6th best school in Cornwall. This is a fantastic achievement as there are well over 200 primary<br />
schools in the County and this ranking is testament to the hard work of our staff and Governors;<br />
the support from all of our families and the effort and commitment of our wonderful children.<br />
If you would like to look at the rankings in more detail, they are available here: https://www.<br />
cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/every-primary-school-ranked-cornwalls-3737685?fbclid=IwAR294ckYxhhPNfI2cwCN5H6DwxONOabELiT2KNsarh6FMr9_JbsCs-JxVXY<br />
One of our wonderful children brought in a piece of writing this week that they had done at home.<br />
Mati, who has family links with Australia, has written a wonderful poem about the horrific fires that<br />
are currently sweeping through the country and I thought that this is the perfect platform from<br />
which to share it, so please take time to read her poem, ‘When a Country Became The Sun’, on the<br />
next page.<br />
I think the language that Mati uses is so emotive and she really manages to pass on the feelings on<br />
panic and loss to the reader; an amazing piece of writing.<br />
We will be doing our bit to support the crisis on Monday 27th January (1 day after Australia Day) by<br />
holding a non-uniform/ Australian dress up day and asking for donation. All donations will go to Red<br />
Cross Australia https://www.redcross.org.au/campaigns/disaster-relief-and-recovery-donate<br />
Kind regards,<br />
Adam Anderson<br />
Principal
When a Country Became the Sun<br />
It’s a disaster,<br />
The biggest war ever fought,<br />
Children’s screams dying into flames,<br />
Smoke encases towns,<br />
Cities,<br />
Dreams,<br />
A home,<br />
Destroyed,<br />
Obliterated,<br />
Heat sinks into hearts,<br />
Hearts sink into heads,<br />
Memories are walls,<br />
Indestructible,<br />
Bricks of love,<br />
Cement the days of the past,<br />
Sun-kissed sand and sweet fresh air,<br />
Seem centuries ago,<br />
Death-traps,<br />
No escape,<br />
Mas’s most unforgiveable, unforgettable mistake,<br />
I pray for the children, Mothers, Fathers,<br />
The next generation,<br />
The next Icarus,<br />
The country that became the sun.<br />
by Mati Devine-Gibson
Broad and balanced...<br />
EYFS<br />
This half term we are learning all<br />
about woodland animals. Our focus<br />
this week has been hedgehogs. We<br />
started the week with the lovely story<br />
of ‘Don’t hog the hedge’. The children<br />
worked really hard sequencing the<br />
story and writing a sentence about<br />
Hatti the hedgehog and her friends.<br />
We had lots of discussion about being<br />
a good friend just like Hatti. They then<br />
produced some amazing art work of<br />
hedgehogs, using a variety of different<br />
textured materials. The children have<br />
learnt lots of interesting facts about<br />
hedgehogs and new vocabulary such<br />
as hibernation and nocturnal.<br />
Y6<br />
In History, Year 6 are learning all<br />
about World War One. Last week, they<br />
had a go at playing WW1 top trumps<br />
and even created some of their own<br />
game cards. They really enjoyed discussing<br />
the weapons used during the<br />
war and which were effective or ineffective<br />
for each country.
Broad and balanced...<br />
Y1<br />
Class 1 have had a great start back.<br />
In maths we have been learning all<br />
about shape. We searched the school<br />
and the grounds for 2D and 3 D<br />
shapes.<br />
Our PHSE is all about relationships.<br />
We have enjoyed some guided reading<br />
all about valuing difference and making<br />
new friendships.<br />
Year 2<br />
Year 2 have started the new term with<br />
lots of enthusiasm and are already<br />
enjoying the new Refugee topic. We<br />
have started by looking at World War<br />
2. All of the children have already<br />
learnt a lot and have been asking<br />
some fantastic questions about life<br />
during this period in History. Some<br />
of the children have even brought in<br />
some relatives artefacts to share with<br />
the class. They are now beginning<br />
to write their own information texts<br />
about the war.
Broad and balanced...<br />
Y3<br />
Class 3’s first week back has been an immersive and creative experience related<br />
to ‘The Stone Age’<br />
We have learnt about the ways that hominids and homo sapiens communicated/<br />
told stories with cave paintings, built different dwellings within each of the<br />
3 periods of the stone age, hunted the food they ate and the development of<br />
farming within the Neolithic period.<br />
We had lots of fun creating our own cave paintings, prehistoric animal tooth<br />
necklaces and made our very own stone age fruit stew. Many children also participated<br />
in making their very own stone age box environment for homework<br />
which were all fabulous.<br />
This activity has been a great introduction to our Spring term topic “Refugees -<br />
how does the life of a refugee compare to mine?” As we have already discussed<br />
the difficulties that stone age people faced by being nomadic and having to<br />
move from place to place as well as comparing and contrasting life within different<br />
periods of time.
Broad and balanced...<br />
Y5<br />
Class 5 have already made an excellent start to the Spring Term by visiting the<br />
Material Recycling Facility in Bodmin and Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre in<br />
St Dennis to finish off their last term topic- Plastic Pollution. It was a very educational<br />
trip for all of us as we learnt what happened to our rubbish and where<br />
it all ended up. The children could not get over how incredible hard our local<br />
recycling employees work; that sometimes they have to work harder because<br />
we cannot be bothered to sort our own rubbish! It was a real eye opener. At<br />
Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre the children got the opportunity to see how<br />
any waste that could not be recycled is now being burnt to use for electricity.<br />
This now means that we are no longer using landfills in Cornwall for our rubbish;<br />
protecting the land we live on.<br />
The staff and children wanted say thank you to all the staff from both the Material<br />
Recycling Facility in Bodmin and Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre who<br />
supported us on our fantastic trip. But we all wanted to send a special thank<br />
you to Thurston Treloar (Logan Treloar’s Dad) and his staff as they rescued us<br />
when our bus broke down, just as we left to return to school. His team very<br />
kindly took us back to safety at the Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre in St<br />
Dennis where they played games with the children; gave them refreshments<br />
and even offered us all a bed for the night if we could not get home.<br />
After all of the adventure of last terms topic Class5 have now started our new<br />
topic ‘Refugees’. The children have already learnt about some very concerning<br />
situations that many different citizens encounter around the globe. In English<br />
the children have role played many different scenarios that children or adults<br />
find themselves in that make them flee their country such as becoming child<br />
brides, child soldiers, natural disasters that destroy or threaten their home and<br />
many other situations. They have started to write letters home to their families<br />
as they pretend to be refugees that have escaped
Broad and balanced...<br />
Glee Club<br />
Glee club had their first session with Cheryl this week, learning songs from<br />
Ocean World. They have 17 songs to learn by April and will then be taking part<br />
in a performance at the Minack Theatre!<br />
School Sport<br />
Well done to our indoor athletics teams who represented the school brilliantly<br />
this week. Our 2 football teams didn’t lose any of their 7 matches and both<br />
won their groups, and our athletics teams were great, with our Y2 team finishing<br />
2nd! Well done all.
What’s been going on...<br />
Other news...<br />
Parking in the Community<br />
Please be considerate when parking in our local community at the start and end of the<br />
day. We appreciate it gets very busy, which is why we have staggered ends of the day<br />
for KS1 and KS2 and have built the community path. There have been several incidents<br />
this year of driveways and garages being blocked and residents being verbally<br />
abused. This is not acceptable behaviour and not what we want to model for our children.<br />
Please use the Community Centre Car Park at busy times and make the short<br />
walk to the school. Thank you for your support.<br />
New Poly Tunnel<br />
Thank you to the FLS for funding our new Poly<br />
tunnel and to Oliver for erecting it. Gardening<br />
club will begin utilising it immediately, with the<br />
longer term plan for classes to begin growing<br />
their own produce.<br />
Arrival at School<br />
Please be reminded that your children need to be in school in time for the register at<br />
8:55am. This allows lessons to start at 9am and all classess to have a settled start to<br />
their learning.<br />
Tradespeople<br />
Are you a plumber/electrician/handman/gardener/mechanic? If so, please contact us<br />
if you would like to join our pool of tradespeople that we call on when we have works<br />
that need to be done around the school.<br />
Seesaw<br />
If you haven’t already, you will be receving a letter home explaining how you can<br />
create an account for ‘Seesaw’. This is an online portfolio that our children will use to<br />
record and evidence lots of their work. The great<br />
thing is that every piece of work the upload,<br />
you will be able to view. Your children will be<br />
able to upload photos, videos and documents<br />
so that they have a long lasting record of their<br />
outcomes and you can keep up to date with<br />
what your children are learning in class.<br />
Marazion Messy Church – Sunday 26th January 4-6pm in Marazion Community<br />
Centre. We’ll be hearing the bible story of Sheep and Goats – a story about helping<br />
others. We’ll then be staying with that theme while we make things, sing, pray and<br />
eat together. Messy Church is for families who want a different sort of church. Find<br />
us on Facebook and at www.mountsbayub.com
What’s Congratulations... been going on...<br />
Stars of the week<br />
EYFS: Jowan, Indie-Blue, Alex and Koben<br />
Y1: Curtis, Lowen, Miaya and Archie<br />
Y2: Isabella, Tommy, Megan and Summer<br />
Y3: Connor, Evie, Holly, Ilani and Jowen<br />
Y4: Rylan, Gracie, Esme and Jacob<br />
Y5: Isabel, Jamie, Logan and Laurie<br />
Y6: Matthew, Archie, Alaya and Agatha<br />
Times Table Rockstarz<br />
Musician of the Week<br />
Thank you to Benjy for demonstrating his wonderful piano skills and<br />
playing us into our Friday assembly this week.
Important Dates<br />
What’s been going on...<br />
Term Date Event<br />
Spring<br />
Term<br />
Monday 6 th January<br />
Monday 20 th Jan @ 2:30pm<br />
Tuesday 21 st Jan @ 2:30pm<br />
Tuesday 4 th February @ 2pm<br />
Monday 10 th February @ 2:30pm<br />
17 th – 21 st February<br />
4 th March<br />
9 th March<br />
Return to school<br />
London trip information<br />
meeting<br />
Eden trip information<br />
meeting<br />
School Parliament<br />
Jumble Sale<br />
Carnyorth trip<br />
information meeting<br />
Half Term<br />
Parent Consultation Day<br />
Inset Day<br />
18 th March EYFS High Tea<br />
Thursday 26 th March @ 9:30am<br />
Friday 27 th March<br />
Tuesday 14 th April<br />
Easter Service at<br />
Ludgvan Church<br />
Break up for Easter<br />
Return to School<br />
Summer<br />
Term<br />
Friday 8 th May (not Monday 4 th )<br />
Bank Holiday<br />
1 st June<br />
Inset Day<br />
25 th – 29 th May<br />
Half Term<br />
30 th June<br />
Sports Day<br />
13 th July KS1 Summer Show<br />
14 th July<br />
Y3 and Y4 Summer<br />
Show<br />
15 th July<br />
Y5 and Y6 Summer<br />
Show<br />
Thursday 23rd July<br />
Break up for Summer
What’s Congratulations... been going on...<br />
Y6 responsibilities, Stars of the week, Dojo winners and Pen License awards.<br />
Over the last 2 weeks, we have celebrated various<br />
successes, including name our Head Boy and Girl,<br />
Team Captains and Librarians.<br />
Congratulations to:<br />
Head Girl: Jenna Morrall<br />
Head Boy: Gabrield Tswei<br />
Red team captains – Harry and Darcie<br />
Green team captains – Kacey and Oliver N<br />
Yellow Team captains – Evie and Max<br />
Blue team captains -Tristan and Nina<br />
Lirarians – Oliver M and Isabella