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LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>25.06.21</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL<br />
NEWSLETTER<strong>25.06.21</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>25.06.21</strong>
A word from the Principal...<br />
Welcome,<br />
As always seems the case in the summer term, it has been an extremely busy 2 weeks since our last<br />
newsletter. Our Y5 and Y6 children had a brilliant week away on camp at Pill Farm and the past two<br />
days have seen Y3 enjoy their residential experience with a night in school and trips to the zoo and<br />
farm! Unfortunately, a positive COVID test result meant that our Y1 and Y2 bubbles needed to isolate<br />
for 10 days and would like to thank all of you for being so supportive during this challenging time<br />
and congratulate the children for dealing with their own ‘mini lockdown 4.0’ so brilliantly!<br />
You will be aware that our class photos were unable to be taken as our usual photographer was unable<br />
to come into school due to the current COVID situation. Despite the fact that many alternative<br />
photographers had no capacity to add us to their schedule, I am happy to share that we have found<br />
a solution. One of our parents (Arya in EYFS!) has managed to arrange for the photography students<br />
at Cornwall College to take some outside class photos for us. The photos will now be taken on the<br />
2nd July, following which we will contact you with more information.<br />
Unfortunately, we are unable to run our Sports Day and Leavers’ Assembly in our usual formats. All<br />
of our children will take part in their usual sports day activities and races, but only in their class bubbles.<br />
We will create a compilation of photos and videos to share with you all. Our Leavers’ assembly<br />
will take place in the school hall and be live streamed or recorded, in the same way as last year. We<br />
appreciate that resorting to these measures is a disappointment to all, including us, but ensuring we<br />
can hold these events in some capacity whilst retaining necessary safety measures needs to be our<br />
priority.<br />
Kind regards,<br />
Mr Adam Anderson<br />
Principal
Useful information...<br />
Young Musicians<br />
We have been informed that the London Young Musician Season 1 2021 -20<strong>22</strong> is<br />
now open. The competition focuses on supporting the worldwide learning and creation<br />
of classical music. It is open to young musicians under the age of 28 and is<br />
available to all classical music instruments and vocals (classical singing, opera and<br />
musical theatre). The competition will be online this year. Below you can find the<br />
link for more information and the application form.<br />
You can see the announcement here:<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2veGmh433L4&ab_channel=LondonYoungMu-<br />
Term Dates<br />
Our term dates for the rest of the academic year are as follows:<br />
Summer Term: 19th April - 21st July<br />
Half Term: 31st May - 4th June<br />
Inset Day: 7th June<br />
School Gate<br />
Please be reminded that our school gate will be closed between 0830-0900 and<br />
1500-1530.<br />
This is to create a safe environment for our children to enter school. Thank you for<br />
your support.<br />
Term Dates 21-<strong>22</strong><br />
Autumn Term 6 Sep - 17 Dec (Half term 25-29 Oct)<br />
Spring Term 4 Jan - 8 Apr (Half term 21-25 Feb)<br />
Summer Term 18 April - 26 July (Half term 30 May - 3 June)<br />
INSET DAYS: 6 & 7 Sep, 4 Jan and 25 & 26 July<br />
Additional Bank Holiday for Platinum Jubilee 6 June<br />
Lost Property<br />
Please put your child’s name in all items of their school uniform!<br />
Since our return, we have amassed 28 jumpers and cardigans (mostly KS1) with no<br />
names in.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
EYFS<br />
This week, we have been very busy learning about some real life superheroes<br />
like Mother Teresa, Captain Sir Tom Moore and Audrey Hepburn, as well as policemen,<br />
firemen, nurses, doctors, vets, mountain rescue, lifeguards to name<br />
a few! The children thought about how to describe real life superheroes and<br />
added all of the adjectives they could think of onto a real superhero they drew<br />
around.<br />
To try and be real life superheroes, the children thought about how they could<br />
make their friends happy. Some of their ideas were: playing a game with their<br />
friend; making them a card; giving them a cuddle; making something for them<br />
to play with. The children also picked their favourite real life superhero and<br />
painted a picture of them.<br />
To end the week, they enjoyed dressing like a rock star! We loved seeing them<br />
dressed up and enjoying ‘rocking out’ to some of their favourite songs.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y1<br />
I am incredibly proud of all the children in Class 1, for the way they adjusted to<br />
home learning yet again! It has not been easy but they have worked so hard to<br />
complete all their home learning activities. Well done you are amazing!<br />
They have been learning all about the Olympics and were able to remember<br />
lots of interesting facts. They even had a go at making their own Olympic<br />
torch. The children had fun completing an outdoor scavenger hunt and learning<br />
new yoga positions. It was lovely to see all the pictures of the children completing<br />
these activities.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y2<br />
Class 2 are extremely happy to be back after our 10 day lockdown. Thank you<br />
to all the families who supported their children in completing their learning and<br />
attending a daily zoom call. Even though many of you had to juggle work and<br />
childcare, you did a fantastic job. The children produced some lovely work and<br />
I was so impressed with their maths, writing and reading. I really enjoyed seeing<br />
their drawings and PE efforts as well, which really kept spirits up. We had<br />
a lovely surprise when we returned to school to discover our strawberry plant<br />
had produced fruit and our radishes and beans are growing away nicely!
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y3<br />
This week Year 3 have had a fun residential trip full of adventures! The children started<br />
their camp full of excitement on day 1 with a trip to Newquay Zoo. The children<br />
learnt lots about the animals and enjoyed playing in the parks. They then returned to<br />
school with a campfire dinner, complete with marshmallows and melted mars bars!<br />
They played games in their PJ’s and went on a torch lit walk before watching a film<br />
and finally going to sleep, very late, after a ‘midnight feast’ of course! On day 2 the<br />
children went to Trevaskis Farm, where they learnt about some fruit and vegetables,<br />
we made good farmers! To end the camp we went to the beach for a picnic lunch and<br />
a splash in the sea. It was a fantastic camp and the children were so enthusiastic and<br />
well behaved. Well done Year 3, enjoy your sleep tonight!!
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y4<br />
Year 4 have been busy with sports day practice, creating slide shows for a presentation<br />
and also working on the difficult concept of time.<br />
Our presentations have been based on delivering information to an audience, whilst<br />
building our skill-set with adding animations, transitions and sharing our work collaboratively.<br />
We kept our slides to a minimum amount of information so that we could<br />
use it as prompts for our discussion, and ensuring we engaged the audience with<br />
eye-contact.<br />
Our time unit has been a challenging one. But we are getting more confident at telling<br />
the time to the nearest minute for ‘past’ and ‘to’ the hour. We have related time to<br />
number bonds to 60. If children are able to add 2 numbers that equal 60, then telling<br />
the time will be a breeze.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y5 + Y6 Camp<br />
Last week year 5 and 6 headed to camp at Pill Farm. The week was action<br />
packed with canoeing, archery, bushcraft, spear throwing, trebuchet building<br />
and a Viking themed orienteering day. The children and staff had great fun. We<br />
were all so impressed with how well the children got involved in every aspect of<br />
the camp and were great ambassadors for Ludgvan School.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y5 + Y6 Camp Continued...
Eco Committee...<br />
This week our year 5 eco-committee have been busy preparing to meet one of our<br />
first targets of reducing waste in school by collecting paper from each class to be<br />
turned into bedding for our school animals, which can then be composted after use.<br />
Each class will have a separate paper bin that will be collected weekly by members of<br />
the committee.<br />
For more information:<br />
This is the link to the Eco committee’s padlet account:<br />
https://en-gb.padlet.com/trichards49/zswcv5i3kauvcwnh
Information Classification: CONTROLLED<br />
PASSIONATE ABOUT<br />
A word from the Principal...<br />
THE TEENAGE BRAIN<br />
For Parents/ Carers of young people aged 12 to 17 years<br />
Delivered over 3 sessions (1.5 hours per session)<br />
Delivered online with Microsoft teams<br />
On Thursdays 12 th , 19 th & 26 th August<br />
at 10-11.30 am<br />
Sessions Include:<br />
• Promoting Understanding of the Teen<br />
Brain<br />
• How to build better relationships with<br />
our young people<br />
• To develop strategies to support<br />
behaviour management<br />
• To give support and information to<br />
parents and carers<br />
To book a place please complete the Early Help<br />
'Request for Help' booking form on the link below:<br />
www.cornwall.gov.uk/earlyhelphub<br />
Click on ’Request for Help’ then on the request for<br />
help form. Complete, save<br />
and email to earlyhelphub@cornwall.gov.uk
Information Classification: CONTROLLED<br />
A word from the Principal...<br />
Being Passionate About<br />
Parenting with an Introduction<br />
and awareness to ADHD<br />
A 6 hour workshop for Parents / Carers of young people aged 5 to 11<br />
years (primary up to year 6).<br />
Sessions Include:<br />
Top tips and strategies to support and<br />
understand behaviour<br />
Current information about the traits of<br />
ADHD<br />
Encouraging speaking and listening, turn<br />
taking and positive communication<br />
The benefits of routine and praise<br />
To provide support and useful resources<br />
to parents and carers and much more!<br />
FREE<br />
Delivered over 3<br />
sessions (1.5 hours<br />
per session)<br />
Delivered online<br />
with Microsoft<br />
teams<br />
On Tuesdays 3 rd ,<br />
10 th & 17 th August<br />
at 6:00-7:30 pm<br />
To book a place please complete the Early Help 'Request for Help'<br />
booking form on the link below:<br />
www.cornwall.gov.uk/earlyhelphub<br />
Click on ’Request for Help’ then on the request for help form. Complete,<br />
save<br />
and email to earlyhelphub@cornwall.gov.uk
Information Classification: CONTROLLED<br />
A word from the Principal...<br />
Being Passionate About<br />
Parenting with an Introduction<br />
and awareness of the Spectrum<br />
Free<br />
A 6.5 hour workshop for Parents / Carers of young people aged 5 to 11<br />
years (primary up to year 6) without a diagnosis.<br />
Sessions Include:<br />
Top tips and strategies to support and<br />
understand behaviour<br />
Current information about the Spectrum<br />
Social scripts to simplify situations that<br />
may be a challenge to understand<br />
The benefits of routine and praise<br />
To provide support and useful resources<br />
to parents and carers and much more!<br />
FREE<br />
Delivered over 4<br />
sessions (1.5<br />
hours per session)<br />
Delivered online<br />
with Microsoft<br />
teams<br />
On 4 th , 11 th , 18 th<br />
& 25 th August<br />
at 10-11.30 am<br />
To book a place please complete the Early Help 'Request for Help'<br />
booking form on the link below:<br />
www.cornwall.gov.uk/earlyhelphub<br />
Click on ’Request for Help’ then on the request for help form.<br />
Complete, save<br />
and email to earlyhelphub@cornwall.gov.uk
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