Newsletter 14- 06.05.22

LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 06.05.22
LUDGVAN SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER06.05.22
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 06.05.22

A word from the Principal...
Welcome,
And here we are in the final term of the year! I have said it every term for the past two years, but
hopefully we are now on our road back to normality and we can all enjoy the run into summer.
Firstly, I would like to welcome Kirsty Snoxall and Leah Darby to our school team. Kirsty will be
working in our reception class and Leah will be in Y5. They have both made a great start and we look
forward to working with them both.
You may notice that the grass is getting slightly longer around the site – this is not Mr Richards being
lazy, it is as a result of our participation in ‘No Mow May’ which allows insects and flowers to have a
strong start to the summer months!
You may have seen on the Ludgvan Parents’ Facebook page information regarding the Platinum
Jubilee Celebration and Big Picnic, taking place on the 5th June on the Community Field. There will
be competitions, food, entertainment, rides and much more so come along and enjoy the fun, I will
share more details of this through Dojo.
Please be aware that, whilst I appreciate it has been almost impossible to holiday over the past two
years, I am unable to authorise family holidays during term time.
If your child would like to learn a musical instrument, please let Mrs Badcock know and she will
assess the levels of interest and arrange the final details. In the past, we have had a wide range of
lessons taking place including piano, drums, guitar, brass and singing.
Kind regards,
Adam Anderson
Principal

Useful information...
Term Dates 22/23
7th Sep – 16th Dec (HT 24-28 Oct)
4th Jan – 31 March (HT 13-17 Feb)
17 April – 21 July (HT 29 May-2 Jun)
Inset Days
5th September
6th September
3rd Jan
24th July
25th July
Scooters
If anyone has any old or unwanted scooters at home, we would be very
grateful for any donations. We have a number in school already that
we use at playtime and lunchtime, but they are incredibly well used!
School Uniform
Please be reminded that when your child has outdoor learning or PE, there are
still school uniform requirements in place. Children should be wearing their
school PE shirt, a school hoodie or jumper and black shorts or tracksuit bottoms.
Term Dates 21-22 and Important Events
Summer Term 25 April - 26 July (Half term 30 May - 3 June)
Inset Days: 25th July and 26th July.
Replacement Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday: 6th June
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Playground Celebration - 7 June
Sports Day - 4th July

Farm School...
This week we have been lucky to start the first of our many planned farm visits. On
Wednesday, Y3 and our Y6 Farm club were welcomed to Trembethow Dairy to learn
about dairy farming and got to see the milking process. We learnt about the cows,
how the cows are cared for throughout the year, how the milk is produced, processed
and where it goes to after the farm. It was great to get up close to cows and learn
first hand. For some children it was the first time they have been able to fully connect
the milk they consume to cows. We’re looking forward to getting out to more farms
over the next term!
Eggciting news! You will be aware of our previous success with hatching ducklings.
Last term we hatched three Cherry Valley ducks. They are now 9 weeks old, and if
you have seen them recently, you will have seen they are already towering over our
Campbell ducks who are all a couple of years old! We are now just a week away from
our date for eggs currently in the incubator. When we candled this week, at least 16
eggs were visibly active, with just 2 eggs we couldn’t quite see inside. Hopefully we
will be able to welcome lots of little ducklings which will spend much more time growing
outside than our previous bunch so you all get to see them grow.

Sports Update...
Football
Well done to our Y3/4 football team who played
in the West Cornwall qualifiers today. The team
performed brilliantly, beating St Hilary, Bodriggy
and Mount Hawke on the way to the final and
qualification for the County Finals next week.
Well done boys!
Quadkids
Some of our KS2 children have represented our
school at a Quadkids athletics event this week.
During the event the children worked as a team
to complete 4 disciplines of sprinting, running,
jumping and throwing. The children worked well
as a team and gave their best.
Well done to Elowyn, Ivy, Harry.C, Kai, Bibi,
Hannah, Sennen, Tommy, Felix, Finley.C, Lexi,
Chloe, Jonny, Riley, Emily and Kyla.
A huge well done to our Year 3 and 4 team who came third overall and to our Year 5
and 6 team who came 4th overall.
Swimming gala
On Wednesday 27th April our Year 5 and 6 swim team went to Penzance Leisure Centre
for the annual swimming gala. The children have not competed in the water for
two years and they were very nervous as they watched others swim. However, they
composed themselves well, supported and encouraged each other and as a result
achieved to the best of their abilities. We came away with many of the team competing
in the final and some children gaining medal positions. Our Year 5 girls came first
overall on points for the gala.
Well done team!
Year 5 - Reenie (Silver in front crawl), Chloe (Gold in breaststroke), Sophie (Bronze in
butterfly), Bella, Adam, Felix, Elijah(Silver in Butterfly), Harry.W and boys came 2nd
in the relay!
Year 6 - Kyla, Gracie, Poppy (Gold in Butterfly), Ena, Darwin, Seth, Rory, Rowan.

Exciting and Engaging...
EYFS
This half term we are learning about living things and trying to answer our big
question - how do living things survive? We have been busy planting seeds
and looking after them. We must have been doing a great job because some of
our seeds have started to grow already! Then we wrote instructions to tell other
people how to plant seeds so they can grow their own. We have also been
drawing and painting plants and flowers as well as writing sentences about
what they look like.

Exciting and Engaging...
Y1
Our new topic for Year 1 is ‘Our Amazing World!’
In science we are learning all about growing and last week the children listened
to the story of The Tiny Seed and they were excited to plant their own sunflower
seeds.
This week we have been focusing on the story of the Little Red Hen. The children
wrote some wonderful sorry letters to the Little Red Hen, and they really
enjoyed making their own bread rolls!

Exciting and Engaging...
Y2
Class 2 have had a brilliant first couple of weeks back after Easter. Recently,
they finished a series of work on 3D Art. Year 2 went out into the school
grounds to collect natural tools for their artwork. They then created some fantastic
3D collages with a focus on colour and pattern. To finish their 3D work,
in groups, they created paper models to replicate a famous sculpture. They
had great fun working with paper and painting their creations. Last week, they
started work on Fractions. We have been so impressed by Year 2’s work on
halves and quarters so far, taking on a halving shapes challenge as one of their
classroom activities. They have also started a new topic all about Space. Year 2
have loved learning about the history of space travel, the first man and woman
in space, and even the first dog in space! They also read our class book The
Man on the Moon and wrote some amazing sentences about Bob’s job cleaning
the Moon. Well done Year 2!

Exciting and Engaging...
Y3
Year 3 have had a very adventurous start to the summer term and have already been
on several trips! The children have visited Mousehole School, where they took part in
a choral singing session, as a practise for an event they will be taking part in at the
Minack Theatre in June. They have also visited St Michael’s Mount to follow the trail of
the Cornish legend, Jack and the Giant, and to learn about the castle and it’s history.
They even found the giant’s heart!
Finally, they have visited Trembethow Dairy to learn more about dairy farming. Here,
they met Paul the farmer and explored the dairy, before getting up close to the cows
as they walked in for milking.
The children have represented our school really well throughout all trips and have
learnt so much in a real life context. All within out local community!
Well done Year 3.

Exciting and Engaging...
Y4
Year 4 have had a very busy two weeks since returning from Easter! Our English sessions
have been focusing on poetry. We have all been performing and writing a range
of poetry including Kennings and Clerihews. The creativity amongst the class has
been fantastic!
We have begun our new Farming topic by exploring how farming in the UK has
changed over the past 100 years, from machinery, farming practices and how farms
have changed physically to meet the changes and diversify. We’ve been busy looking
how the changes we can make to our school and environment for the future and have
planted a large number of different trees around our school site.

Exciting and Engaging...
Y5
Class 5 started their athletics unit in P.E last week. We investigated the most effective
way to start a sprint race, trialling different starting positions and challenging each
other to short races! In PSHE, we have begun to learn about budgeting. We had lots
of shocked children as they learnt about taxes, interest, pension and national insurance!
This week, we started to learn about income and expenditure and we have
challenged the children to create their own income and expenditure sheets

Exciting and Engaging...
Y6
Year 6 have been busy revising for their big week, next week, and have not
managed to take part in our usually creative curriculum activities. We have focused
on measuring angles in maths, working out the missing angles of shapes
and also refined our skills at dividing mixed number fractions.
Our reading comprehension has seen us edge closer to finishing the amazing
story of Wonder and we have also explored VIPERS questions relating to fictional
and non-fiction texts

Ludgvan School
Staff profiles...
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PRODUCTION OF
June 21 – Opening Night, 6pm
June 22 – Second Performance, 6pm
June 23– Final Performance, 6pm

A word from the Principal...
Free to attend. A fun and friendly activity for children
with additional needs or disability and their siblings
or friends, aged 6-17
Wednesday 1 June
10am-12pm
Bodmin Leisure Centre
Lostwithiel Road
Bodmin, PL31 1DE
Wednesday 1 June
2-4pm
Cornwall College (Astro)
Trevenson Rd, Pool
TR15 3RD
Booking is essential. For more
information and to book your free
place(s) contact Katie on 01736
759500 or email
katie@disabilitycornwall.org.uk.
Find us on Facebook by searching
“Have a Go Days Cornwall”.

A word from the Principal...