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LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>28.04</strong>.23<br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL<br />
NEWSLETTER<strong>28.04</strong>.23<br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>28.04</strong>.23
A word from the Principal...<br />
Dear Parents and Carers,<br />
We are always trying to improve our provision at Ludgvan and engage with a number of individuals and<br />
organisations throughout the year to provide us with robust scrutiny. This week we welcomed Deb Wring, an<br />
Ofsted Inspector of 20 years to school to provide us with some focused feedback. It was a really valuable day<br />
and her reflections highlight some of the many strengths she witnessed:<br />
- The appointment of two members of staff, one a senior leader, to the roles of mental health and<br />
well-being leads demonstrates the high priority placed on this aspect of personal development.<br />
- The SENDCO displays a strong commitment to her role and to the needs of the pupils in her care.<br />
Through the different monitoring activities, it is clear that teachers are meeting the needs of SEND support<br />
pupils. Termly meetings with teachers are used to discuss their use of the pupil passports and to review pupils’<br />
targets and evidence shows the impact of the monitoring.<br />
- In EYFS, the curriculum focuses on key events in the year, global, national and local. The importance<br />
of nature is evident through curriculum study including the incubating and observing the ducklings hatch and<br />
tending plants bought from a visit to the local garden centre. The visit to the EYFS showed this planned focus<br />
on the natural world as children were seen enjoying the purposeful learning with water, building houses from<br />
natural materials and using Monet’s waterlilies as a stimulus for floral collage work<br />
A huge well done to our Y2 campers who stayed in St Ives last week on residential. This is the first overnight<br />
stay that is not on school grounds of our residential programme and we are really proud of how well they<br />
dealt with what can be a real challenge at such a young age. They also had great fun and now fully prepared<br />
for their next residential in Y3. Coincidentally, this took place just before Easter for our current Y3s and they<br />
were fantastic, enjoying an action packed 3 days based in Coverack. Well done all.<br />
You will have seen on Class Dojo that we are celebrating the King’s Coronation on <strong>Friday</strong> 5th May. We are<br />
hoping for sunshine so that we can enjoy our Street Party lunch and crown competition outside. All children<br />
are encouraged to wear their very smartest clothes so we all look the part!<br />
As Monday is a bank holiday, I hope the weather is kind and you can all make the most of the 2-day weekend.<br />
Kind regards,<br />
Adam Anderson<br />
Principal
What’s Useful information...<br />
been going on...<br />
Term Dates 22/23<br />
17 April – 21 July (HT 29 May-2 Jun)<br />
Bank Holidays<br />
Monday 1 May – Early May Bank Holiday<br />
Monday 8 May - Coronation Bank Holiday<br />
Monday 29 May - Spring Bank Holiday<br />
Strike Days<br />
Tuesday 2 May - affecting Y3, Y5 and Y6 only<br />
All other classes at school<br />
Inset Days<br />
24th July<br />
25th July<br />
Medicine in School<br />
If your child is returning from illness or just a little under the weather, please feel free to<br />
drop some Calpol or similar into the office and complete a consent form so that we can<br />
administer as needed to ensure your child feels well through the school day.<br />
Other dates<br />
<strong>Friday</strong> 5 May - Coronation party lunch<br />
Saturday 24 June - Mazey Day Parade<br />
Wednesday 5th July. 1300Sports Day<br />
Wednesday 19th July. 1330 - Y6 Leaers Assembly
Online Safety Ambassadors...<br />
Ludgvan now have our very own Online Safety and computing ambassadors.<br />
These amazing experts in their fields (showing an interest in computers), have<br />
all offered their time and services to help the children at Ludgvan, as well as<br />
the parents associated with our school, to understand key aspects related to<br />
the digital world beyond our home and school work.<br />
Watch out for helpful websites, apps and information, regarding keeping<br />
children safe online, in our next newsletter.<br />
We intend to keep everyone informed on a monthly basis, and we are<br />
extremely keen to raise the profile of being safe online.<br />
Thank you to: Mason, Connor, Brandon and Joel from year 6 and Hugo, Archie<br />
and Danny from Year 5, for offering their support with this important topic.
Broad and Balanced...<br />
EYFS<br />
EYFS have been immersed in the world of ducks since we returned from the<br />
holidays! We have been learning about the life cycles of plants, animals and<br />
humans. Last term Mr Richards put some duck eggs in an incubator in the<br />
classroom and we watched them with great anticipation. We were very<br />
excited to see that the ducklings had hatched on our return to school after<br />
Easter. We have been busy trying to think of names and the children have<br />
written some excellent suggestions!<br />
Last week, we read a book called ‘The Odd Egg’. Everyone had their own egg to<br />
look after. We created houses, decorated them and some of the children even<br />
created little nests and tried to keep them warm to see if they would incubate.<br />
This week, we have also been learning about the artist Monet. We have<br />
experimented with colours collages. There have been some fantastic creations!
Broad and Balanced...<br />
Year 1<br />
In science the children have been learning all about their bodies. They enjoyed<br />
finding out about their senses, particularly the tasting session and identifying<br />
the smells!<br />
There has been lots of excitement as we have started our new topic ‘How can<br />
we look after our planet?’ We have been learning all about climate change and<br />
global warming. They have produced lovely posters on how to help look after<br />
the planet.<br />
In RE the children are focusing on the creation story and have started to make<br />
a beautiful book. They had to work with a partner to find and collect lots of<br />
natural resources. They then had to make a picture using these objects. There<br />
was lots of discussion about how we should care and look after things that are<br />
special to us.
Broad and Balanced...<br />
Year 2<br />
Year 2 have had an incredibly busy and exciting couple of weeks. Last week,<br />
they experienced their first overnight trip. Day 1 involved a morning of surfing<br />
with Global Boarders. The children put their newly learnt skills into place on the<br />
sand to begin with before moving into the sea and showcasing their talents.<br />
There were beaming smiles and lots of laughter from everyone.<br />
After warming up and enjoying their picnic lunch, we arrived at the hostel<br />
where the children quickly settled in and found their new roommates for the<br />
evening. We then had a brisk walk around St Ives and the children settled<br />
down for the evening with their dinner, a film, snacks and hot chocolate.<br />
In the morning, we ventured to Base Camp where the children thoroughly<br />
enjoyed the clip and climb and soft play on offer. We have some very speedy,<br />
confident climbers amongst us! It’s safe to say that their first residential was<br />
a great success and one which we hope they will always remember (now that<br />
they’ve caught up on their sleep!)<br />
We had an exciting start to this week with a trip to Tregullas Farm. Despite the<br />
very cold weather at the Lizard, the children threw themselves into the planned<br />
activities and showed great skill and enthusiasm for pond dipping and feeding<br />
the baby lambs. They discovered many living things such as dragonfly nymphs,<br />
tadpoles and newts.
Broad and Balanced...<br />
Year 3<br />
Year 3 ended the spring term with an amazing residential trip to Coverack. The<br />
children embraced the soggy start exploring Penrose Walk and Coverack. On<br />
day two we visited the Eden project and learnt where our food comes from. On<br />
our final day we visited Roskilly’s Farm and discovered how ice cream is made.<br />
Of course we had to sample the ice cream before we came home!<br />
The summer term has started well and the children have already visited Truro<br />
museum to launch their new Egyptian topic. At the museum the children learnt<br />
how to be Egyptian embalmers and they explored some Egyptian artefacts.<br />
Since returning from our trip we have learnt more about the discovery of<br />
Tutankamun’s tomb. They children used Beebot’s to travel through the<br />
floorplan of the tomb and have started to make their own Tutankamun’s death<br />
masks. They have also had great fun learning about the River Nile and they<br />
have made their own board games to share facts about how it was used in ancient<br />
times and how it is used today.<br />
Well done Year 3, a great start to the summer term.
Broad and Balanced...<br />
Year 4<br />
Class 4 has been very busy over the last two weeks with all of their learning.<br />
They have been writing setting descriptions in English which have included parenthesis,<br />
metaphors, commas for clarity and many other key writing skills.<br />
In maths, we have been understanding the relationship between fractions and<br />
decimals. The children have had lots of fun in science this week, they have<br />
been learning about electrical circuits and conductors. They completed an<br />
experiment looking at different types of circuits and circuit symbols, then<br />
moved on to testing which materials were good conductors and good<br />
insulators.<br />
We have just started collage in art and we are focusing on the local artist Glynn<br />
Macey’s artwork of outdoor settings. The children completed their first plan and<br />
design for their collage, thinking about what materials they used to create<br />
different effects.
Broad and Balanced...<br />
Year 5<br />
Year 5 have been learning about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons in History,<br />
finding answers to the question ‘How did the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings<br />
struggle for the power of Britain?’. They have really impressed us with their<br />
enthusiastic learning and their interest in the battles and monarchs of the time.<br />
The children are now working collaboratively in groups to create presentations<br />
to show what legacies the Vikings left behind.<br />
In PE, we have been mastering our dribbling skills in basketball, and forehand<br />
and backhand swings in tennis. We look forward to applying these new skills in<br />
a game in the coming weeks.
Broad and Balanced...<br />
Year 6<br />
This week, Year 6 have been learning about verb tenses in the perfect and<br />
progressive form. This is a tricky concept to learn but all children gave it a very<br />
good try and related some fantastically humourous sentences related to these.<br />
We have also investigated our science unit about light. After re-visiting some<br />
key knowledge from previous years, we explored what light is made from and<br />
how it helps us to see objects through light reflection. We then made<br />
observations for light refraction when objects are submerged into water, as well<br />
as the light spectrum separating when travelling through glass prisms.<br />
This was a thoroughly enjoyable and experimentation-based unit, which the<br />
children enjoyed and learnt lots about.
Sports Day...
Sports Day...
Sports Day...
Sports Day...<br />
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO<br />
SUPER THINGS<br />
FOR THE children AT ludgvan school<br />
support THE fls!<br />
1.<br />
SUPPORT<br />
-COME ALONG TO OUR EVENTS<br />
-PLAY THE SCHOOL LOTTERY<br />
-USE AMAZON SMILE AND EASYFUNDRAISING FOR<br />
YOUR EVERY DAY PURCHASES<br />
VOLUNTEER<br />
COULD YOU HELP AT AN EVENT? PROMOTE IT,<br />
HELP SET UP, RUN A STALL, DONATE A PRIZE?<br />
THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO GET INVOLVED - ANY AMOUNT<br />
OF TIME YOU CAN GIVE MAKES A DIFFERENCE<br />
2.<br />
3.<br />
join the fls<br />
WITH MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED, WE CAN<br />
DO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS<br />
FOR THE SCHOOL!<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE THE<br />
LUDGVAN PARENTS FACEBOOK PAGE OR EMAIL<br />
LUDGVANFLS@GMAIL.COM
Sports Day...<br />
To start supporting, visit:<br />
YourSchoolLottery.co.uk/play<br />
and search for: Ludgvan<br />
Supporters must be 16 years of age or older.
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