Newsletter 8 - 15.01.20

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Broad and balanced... Y3 Class 3’s first week back has been an immersive and creative experience related to ‘The Stone Age’ We have learnt about the ways that hominids and homo sapiens communicated/ told stories with cave paintings, built different dwellings within each of the 3 periods of the stone age, hunted the food they ate and the development of farming within the Neolithic period. We had lots of fun creating our own cave paintings, prehistoric animal tooth necklaces and made our very own stone age fruit stew. Many children also participated in making their very own stone age box environment for homework which were all fabulous. This activity has been a great introduction to our Spring term topic “Refugees - how does the life of a refugee compare to mine?” As we have already discussed the difficulties that stone age people faced by being nomadic and having to move from place to place as well as comparing and contrasting life within different periods of time.
Broad and balanced... Y5 Class 5 have already made an excellent start to the Spring Term by visiting the Material Recycling Facility in Bodmin and Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre in St Dennis to finish off their last term topic- Plastic Pollution. It was a very educational trip for all of us as we learnt what happened to our rubbish and where it all ended up. The children could not get over how incredible hard our local recycling employees work; that sometimes they have to work harder because we cannot be bothered to sort our own rubbish! It was a real eye opener. At Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre the children got the opportunity to see how any waste that could not be recycled is now being burnt to use for electricity. This now means that we are no longer using landfills in Cornwall for our rubbish; protecting the land we live on. The staff and children wanted say thank you to all the staff from both the Material Recycling Facility in Bodmin and Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre who supported us on our fantastic trip. But we all wanted to send a special thank you to Thurston Treloar (Logan Treloar’s Dad) and his staff as they rescued us when our bus broke down, just as we left to return to school. His team very kindly took us back to safety at the Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre in St Dennis where they played games with the children; gave them refreshments and even offered us all a bed for the night if we could not get home. After all of the adventure of last terms topic Class5 have now started our new topic ‘Refugees’. The children have already learnt about some very concerning situations that many different citizens encounter around the globe. In English the children have role played many different scenarios that children or adults find themselves in that make them flee their country such as becoming child brides, child soldiers, natural disasters that destroy or threaten their home and many other situations. They have started to write letters home to their families as they pretend to be refugees that have escaped
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