Newsletter 8 - 14.01.22
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LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>14.01.22</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL<br />
NEWSLETTER<strong>14.01.22</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>14.01.22</strong>
A word from the Principal...<br />
Welcome,<br />
Happy New Year and welcome back to the spring term!<br />
It has been great seeing everyone returning to school - what a calm and purposeful start it’s already<br />
been! It has been lovely to hear so many children eager to tell me about their Christmas and it<br />
sounds like they have had a wonderful time.<br />
We all remain optimistic here that the term (and rest of the year ahead) return to increasing familiarity.<br />
It was great to have welcomed so many of you along to see our Christmas performances in<br />
December and we hope that more and more of those things we’ve loved and missed return. That<br />
said, we ask that you all remain vigilant with regards to covid especially around testing and symptoms.<br />
We sincerely hope that it’s not needed but we continue to have a remote learning plan ready<br />
to implement. In school, we are ensuring that the building is clean and well-ventilated and that we<br />
exercise good hygiene habits including binning dirty tissues and washing hands. It feels like we’re<br />
getting there… let’s keep going with fingers crossed!<br />
You may have noticed that a new minibus has appeared in our car park this week! By the end of the<br />
month, two more will join us and we will once again be able to take our learning into our community<br />
as well as going swimming and attending sports fixtures without having to rely on borrowed minibuses,<br />
hired coaches and volunteer drivers.<br />
Kind regards,<br />
Mr Adam Anderson<br />
Principal
Useful information...<br />
Term Dates 21-22 and Important Events<br />
Spring Term 4 Jan - 8 Apr (Half term 21-25 Feb)<br />
Summer Term 25 April - 26 July (Half term 30 May - 3 June)<br />
Inset Days: 4th January, 25th July, 26th July.<br />
Replacement Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday: 6th June<br />
World Book Day - 3 March<br />
Pupil Progress Day* - 6 April<br />
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Playground Celebration - 7 June<br />
*Pupil Progress Day school is the chance for you and your child to meet<br />
with their teacher and discuss their learning. Appointments are longer<br />
than during during Parents’ Evenings to allow a really in depth discussion.<br />
School will not run as usual so your child will only come to<br />
school for their appointment. Appointments will be between 0800-1800.
Our Eco Committee...<br />
Since returning from Christmas, the Eco Warriors have been busy working to achieve<br />
their Eco-Schools target of reducing general waste and increasing recycling in school.<br />
We have now sorted all of the bins in every classroom so that they each have a general<br />
waste bin, a mixed recycling bin and a paper bin - the paper is then shredded to<br />
be used for our animal bedding. We have also reassigned our multiple compartment<br />
bin outside to include a mixed recycling and a food waste bin for break time and<br />
lunchtime. All classes have been working hard to improve their recycling - we have<br />
been checking regularly how each class is using their bins and we have noticed a big<br />
improvement. Lots of children are regularly checking which bins to put things into to<br />
make sure they are getting it right.<br />
To keep up to date with the work of the Eco-Warriors committee, visit https://padlet.<br />
com/trichards49/zswcv5i3kauvcwnh
Learning Outdoors...<br />
EYFS and KS1 have been busy this week enjoying the wet and windy winter weather.<br />
Their outdoor sessions have been based around the winter adventures of Percy the<br />
Park Keeper. The children have enjoyed using the hammers and nails building creations<br />
for Percy’s animal friends, den building using logs, nature exploration, playing in<br />
the long grass and most importantly, having lots of fun sliding in the mud!<br />
KS2 have been busy learning about navigation through an introduction to orienteering.<br />
They have been practicing reading and using OS style maps to follow an<br />
orienteering course set up around the school, which you may have see as we have
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
EYFS<br />
This week we had a very special visitor to the classroom - the gingerbread<br />
man! He arrived unannounced on Monday morning and left us some clues as<br />
to who he was. We then had to find all of the clues and piece together the evidence<br />
to discover who it was that had left a floury mess in the classroom.<br />
On Tuesday, we checked the CCTV from the classroom and it confirmed that it<br />
was the gingerbread man who had been making a mess in the classroom! He<br />
left us a floury trail of his footprints which led us to a copy of the story of ‘The<br />
Gingerbread Man’. We read the story and then had fun trying to make traps to<br />
catch him and his gingerbread friends.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y1<br />
Our topic in Year 1 for this term is ‘How far can I travel?’ The children will be<br />
learning about the 7 Continents and this week we focused on Antarctica. They<br />
have really enjoyed finding out all about Antarctica. They discovered that Antarctica<br />
is actually a dessert and that nobody lives there. They produced some<br />
beautiful paintings of penguins and ice collages.<br />
The children were very excited to explore and complete different challenges in<br />
ICT this week using the Beebots. In PE they had great fun learning all about<br />
hockey!
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y2<br />
Class 2 have had a busy couple of weeks back after Christmas. They have<br />
been amazing us with their mathematical skills this week by becoming Column<br />
Method experts. The children have really enjoyed the challenge of this new<br />
learning and all of them have picked it up very quickly, even crossing tens. In<br />
Art, they also tried something new - digital art! The children were not sure at<br />
first but really enjoyed the different way of being creative. Each pair had a go<br />
at recreating a picture using an online app. It was so impressive how quickly<br />
they picked up using the program and the detail that they added to their virtual<br />
pieces of art.<br />
Year 2 have also been busy starting their new topic. They have begun to learn<br />
about the Victorians and Queen Victoria. This week, they made their own rules<br />
and laws, declaring these to the class as kings and queens. Finally, Year 2 have<br />
learnt about a healthy, balanced diet in Science. They had a go at categorising<br />
foods from Miss Law’s cupboard into the different food groups. Well done Year<br />
2, you have been working so hard!
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y3<br />
Year 3 had a great start to their new topic about the Stone age with a visit to Truro<br />
museum this week. Whilst at the museum the children explored a variety of artefacts<br />
from the Stone age to the Iron age. This included rocks, bowls, spears and bow and<br />
arrows. The children sketched the items and learnt lots of new facts. They then made<br />
some of their own Stone age bowls using clay. Back in the classroom, the children<br />
have used their new knowledge to create Diamante poems about the Stone age.<br />
A fantastic start to our new topic Year 3, well done.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y4<br />
Class 4 have had lots of fun this week. We have been exploring liquids and solids and<br />
deciding how to classify these. We thought we had it sussed until we squirted shaving<br />
foam. It was definitely wet but it didn’t take the shape of the container and it didn’t<br />
end up with a flat surface.<br />
We have also been learning map skills and how to accurately read a compass. To put<br />
these skills into practice, we asked Mr Richards to set up an orienteering course. Class<br />
4 were so good at completing this, that Mr Richards had threatened to drop us off in<br />
the middle of nowhere armed with just a map and a compass! Let’s hope the weather<br />
is slightly warmer by then! Well done class 4 on yet another lovely week of learning.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y5<br />
Class 5 have started to design their moving toys in DT, using their knowledge of cam<br />
mechanisms to make them move. They also had a great time tinkering and using algorithms<br />
to input sequences of instructions into Microbit devices (pocket sized, codeable<br />
computers).<br />
To launch our Conwall topic, we went to Geevor Tin Mine, to learn about the history<br />
of tin mining and the incredible jobs the miners did. The children worked hard at<br />
hand-drilling the rocks, panning, identifying tin, and even ventured through a mine!<br />
We were really proud of the children’s manners towards the adults working with us,<br />
and some of the thoughtful questions they asked an ex-miner.<br />
This week, we learned that our creative class has won the Penzance Christmas Window<br />
Display Competition! Well done Class 5!
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y6<br />
Last week, year 6 began spring term with 2 days of science activities relating<br />
to the circulatory system. We located, listened to and explored parts of our<br />
heart, its function and, quite literally, delved inside sections of a lambs heart.<br />
It was fascinating to see, at first-hand, the Chambers (atrium and ventricular<br />
chambers) as well as the valves that work to allow oxygenated blood through<br />
each part.<br />
One group explored exercise and which exercises work our hearts the most.<br />
Each child discussed fair testing, variables and factors that we were not able to<br />
control.<br />
Great work Year 6!
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