LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 19.06.20
LUDGVAN SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER19.06.20
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 19.06.20
A word from the Principal...
Welcome,
I’d like to start this week’s newsletter with some lovely news; Miss Wright is due to have a baby
later this year! We are all really excited for her and wish her and her husband, Luke, the very best.
We will miss her next year, but are very fortunate to have Miss Law taking on the role of SENCO in
her absence.
Our partial opening has gone incredibly well, with numbers increasing from around 40 in the first
week, to over 60 this week. We are approaching capacity in many of our learning bubbles now
though, so please contact me soon if your child is in an eligible year group and you would like them
to return.
You should have received a letter this week explaining which class your child will be in next year
and who their class teacher will be. We have made all of our decisions based on the needs of the
children, with the intention of retaining as much consistency for the younger children as possible.
Thank you for all of the positive feedback we have already received about this.
You will hopefully be aware that next week is the Virtual School Games. This is an opportunity for
our children to take part in daily sporting challenges and submit their scores online to represent
Ludgvan. Please keep an eye out for updates via our Facebook and your child’s Seesaw account.
Stay safe,
Mr Adam Anderson
Principal
Home Learning...
We have had lots of fun in Early years this week, learning all about rock pools.
We started the week with the lovely story of Sharing a Shell. The children
chose a page from the book and added speech bubbles, they also wrote some
fantastic letters and used descriptive words to describe shells. They made puppets
and had a go at retelling the story.
We learnt all about how rock pools are created and what kind of animals live
in them. Some children even managed to go to the rock pools! We had a go
at making our very own rock pools, the children really enjoyed this. They designed
and built a new home for the characters in the story to share and we
made some great sea creatures.
This week in our zoom session we had fun playing bingo. It was lovely to see
all the children so engaged. In maths we have been comparing numbers and
finding out how numbers are made up of other numbers.
Home learning...
This week year 1 have been staying in touch by writing postcards to each other.
There have been some lovely messages received from children learning at
home, these have been shared on the class blog for children in school to read.
The children in school will be writing and sharing their postcards on the class
blog soon. Children also had a chance to see each other at our Joke Telling
Zoom meeting. Mr Anderson and I were very impressed with all of the jokes
and the confidence of the children telling them. We have all been working
hard on finding halves and quarters and Mrs Patrick and I have enjoyed seeing
the creative ways children have been finding to practise these skills. Well
done class 1, to both the children learning at home and the children attending
school, you are all amazing!
Home learning...
Year 2 have continued to look at significant people and after looking at Grace
Darling last week, they have moved on to the RNLI this week. The children
have been learning about the organisation, locating lifeboat stations around
Cornwall and even making their own lifeboats! They have been creating beach
safety posters and writing stories and poems about the sea. They have done
a great job again this week and are so enthusiastic about their learning. Well
done Year 2!
Home learning...
Class 3 are entering the final stages of our geography topic this term ‘Rainforests’. This
week, we have created various forms of posters to advertise the rainforests around the
world whilst using some of the computing skills learnt this year as well as the features
that contribute to making posters visually attractive to an audience.
We have also viewed an emotive advert about palm oil and deforestation before exploring
our own cupboards to find out how many products we have, that contain this
ingredient. Some children researched information about sustainable farming of palm oil
and realised this was a much more, environmentally friendly way to produce an ingredient
that is is so many of our daily foods and showering products.
Home Learning...
This week we have continued with our topic of ‘Water’, beginning to learn about
rivers, how they are formed and the characteristics of a river at different stages.
We’ve also started to explore a Pie Corbett text called ‘King of the Fishes’
and have begun to innovate the story, starting with designing a new main character.
There have been some amazing creations! The children have also shared
some of their learning outside of the tasks set, including cooking and exploring
rivers! Well done Class 4, keep up the fantastic work!
Home learning...
This week Class 5 enjoyed speaking to each other on zoom. At first everyone was a
little quiet but it did not take long for the children to relax with each other, they behaved
extremely well and waited for their turn to talk while listening to others. We
had a great conversation about how their time at home had been and all of the activities
they have been getting up to. Mr Anderson and Mr Richards also joined the meeting
which was great, the children loved seeing them both. After a while, we listened
to children play the guitars; show off gymnastic moves; change screen backgrounds;
say hello to a dog; see a surviving bugee that a child is saving; ask questions; laugh
together then finally a general chat. Next week the children will meet again on zoom
for a quiz.
As part of their learning this week the children were given a special task to take part
in the J K Rowling- The Ickabog Illustration Competition. The entries that have been
sent off so far for Chapter 1 King Fred the Fearless and Chapter and Chapter 6 The
Peacock and the Water Fountain are amazing. In maths this week the children have
been learning about the names of 3D shapes and their properties. The outcome of
their learning was excellent with children making tables and drawing the 3D shapes
to help them work out the answers. Last week, the children wrote an information text
as part of their learning with some shared in the newsletter, This week, while marking
I came across a space model that last week I thought was part of a science lesson
taught by Mrs Wheeler. However, when looking again I then realised that it was part
of a child’s information text writing. They enjoyed writing an information text about
space so much that they went off and made a 3D space model. This showed independence
and engagement in an activity where the child led their own learning even
deeper.
Class 5 continued...
Home learning...
Home learning...
Year 6 have had another brilliant week! We have seen some more fantastic
illustrations for the Ickabog competition, with very detailed drawings that include
the information we have read in the story. Our class, at home and at
school, have continued to read The Explorer together and wrote our own postcards
home as if we were stuck in the Amazon. As well as this, we have had
a go at becoming journalists and created very professional newspaper reports
detailing the plane crash. In Geography, Year 6 have also taken to some map
drawing and have mapped out their local area ensuring they are detailed and
accurate for others to follow. We enjoyed another brilliant quiz on Zoom and
were so impressed by the new ‘quiz masters’ this week. To round off the week,
some of our class have even designed a new outdoor area for the students at
Hogwarts using a budget of £1500, they have designed some very extravagant
areas and stuck to their budgets well. Well done on another brilliant week Year
6!
A word from the Principal...
Harrison C.
is awarded this certificate for achieving
1 st
HIGHEST NUMBER OF MINUTES
PLAYED
in the last 30 days
out of everyone in
Year 1, Year 2
18-06-2020
Numbots..
Alfie H.
1 st
Biggest Increase in Correct answers
over the last 7 days
Year 3, Year 4
18 / Jun / 2020
A word from the Principal...
Alex C.
1 st
Biggest Increase in Correct answers
over the last 7 days
Year 5, Year 6
18 / Jun / 2020
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