This week has mainly been about the Year 6 class who have been sitting their end of Key Stage tests AKA SATs. It was a busy week starting with a hearty breakfast in the dining room at the Junior school of cereals, toast, pancakes , brioche and crumpets! They then sat papers testing their spelling, punctuation and grammar, reading and maths (they had to take three maths papers!)
All of the children were impeccably behaved and were calm throughout.
Big thanks to the adults who helped to make everything go so smoothly- Mrs David, Miss Cunningham, Mrs Fraser, Miss Jenkins and Mrs Pearce.
Take a look at the photograph below which shows how happy the Year 6 were when it was all over!
We were absolutely delighted to share our recent Ofsted report when the final draft was finished at the end of last week. Some of favourite quotes from the report are: "Pupils at Copper Valley Infant and Nursery Academy are vibrant, confident and happy individuals. They flourish in the nurturing and respectful culture of the school." and "There is a clear focus on strengthening pupils' vocabulary and confidence in using language."
Thank you to all members of staff from both academies who supported each other to help to achieve this super report , to the parents who completed the parent survey and to the wonderful children at the Infant and Nursery school. 

Grounds Day - Saturday 17th May

What a successful Grounds Day! Thank you to all of these awesome volunteers who gave up a beautiful sunny Saturday in favour of a hard day of physical labour at WPA! Apologies to those who weren't there for the group photo - your time and energy are greatly appreciated.

Friday 16th May

This has been another fantastic week in Canute. We got out and enjoyed the beautiful weather lots over the last few days. 

We had the pleasure of having Years 3, 4 and 5 join us in the mornings this week and we took the opportunity to learn some of the skills we will need later on in the term for the ‘Bridge School Games’.  Tregeagle were fantastic teachers and we enjoyed learning the new games.  Hopefully we can retain our trophy from last year!
 
On Thursday we ventured up to the school field and took part in some PE games with Mrs Phillips.  We then took advantage of our super location and did some art activities.  Some of us used water colours to paint what we could see, the view, the flowers, our friends.  We also used some salt dough to make some impressions of the natural materials in the field.

Next week is looking to be just as beautiful and we have lots of exciting plans.  
Our last day will be Thursday as Friday is a training day for staff.  Ice lolly Friday will start again next week and this will be on Thursday, our last day.  50p for an ice lolly.

Hopefully you can all enjoy the beautiful weather at the weekend.

Mrs Andrew, Mrs Fernie, Mrs Hicks

On Friday to celebrate the end of SATs, Class 3 had an activity morning with sports at Duloe Recreation Ground and swimming at Duloe Manor.

Thank you so much for supporting the Well Dressing on Friday 16th May. Our Reception children adorned the well with flowers; our Year 3 children presented their Cornish dances; Year 5 presented their stunning mosaic. Thank you to the Cornwall Heritage Trust who are marking 40 years (the cupcakes were delicious!). We were very proud to be part of this unique event again this year. 

A huge well done to our Year 6s who completed their end of KS2 SATs with such determination and maturity last week. We were so proud of each and every one of them. In addition to Year 6 completing their SATs, it was another busy week of learning opportunities at Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy. Take a look at this week's Brunel Bulletin to keep up-to-date with all the latest news from our school. 

What a week we have had in Landaviddy! We have enjoyed Swimming with Mrs Phillips this week, and can’t wait to dive back in! In PE, we have continued working on our Team Building skills and really enjoyed working together to solve challenges. 

Geography this week was all about weather symbols. We learnt what each symbol represents and enjoyed plotting current temperatures and weather on maps. In DT, we had an excellent time with taste testing a variety of vegetables, proteins and dairy items, to discover our favourite combinations. We will then be choosing our best combo for a healthy wrap design. 

In Maths, both Year 2 and 3 have started a new unit on fractions, with Year 2 finding and recognising halves and Year 3 adding fractions. 

In English, everyone has worked so hard on their persuasive letters to King Charles, which we hope to send next week. All of the children should be so proud of their efforts! Well done!

Congratulations to Charlie-Ray and Ida for being chosen as Landaviddy’s People of the Week! And a big well done to all those who achieved their 99 club this week!

We hope you have a lovely weekend, full of sunshine, and look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Mrs Wilkie, Mrs Phillips, Miss Bowden and Miss Colton

We are so proud of all our Nursery children who are getting so good at sharing the resources and activities with their friends.

Some of the younger children are just settling in and the older ones are looking after them so well.

As the older children develop their friendships they can talk through their pretend play scenarios, negotiate with the others when they have to share ideas or toys, and help them extend the narrative of the play story.

SATs Week

This week the year 6 children completed their SATs tests. I am incredibly proud of how maturely they approached the tests and how much effort they put into them. They were fantastic! We celebrated by going to the park and they received their leavers hoodies.

This week, we have also been lucky to take part in many workshops at the library for their science week. They learned about robotics, NASA and the Mars Rover and rockets. This ended with them setting off rockets they had built on the playground. 

We have also been creating games on Scratch using our coding skills and creating art work based on cacti using our watercolour and pastel skills. 

Excellent work year 6, you have earned a relaxing weekend!

Miss Burton

Friday 16th May

Some of this week’s learning:

In English this week, the children imitated the story of Mr Gumpy’s Outing. They decided to change it to Miss Hughes’ Adventure. They changed the characters in the story to a wolf, crab and turtle and came up with some amazing verbs. The children then used the story map with Miss Hughes to write a dictated sentence using their phonic knowledge.

In math’s this week we have explored adding different numbers together in a variety if way and thinking about ‘How many more’ have been added to a number!

In phonics children have been reading and writing polysyllabic words containing adjacent consonants and have been working so hard to word some tricky words!

In PE this week the children have continued to explore balls skills, throwing and catching. They have worked with partners to control the ball and ensure their partner is ready before rolling the ball and then progressing to throwing and catching.

The children have also been exploring the life cycle of a butterfly, using their funky fingers to make parts of a flower, making mini beast jars and so much more!

Gentle reminder that next week is the last week before the half term and Friday is an INSET.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend

The Foundation Team

Our 10 children in Year 6 did an excellent job with their SATs this week. The children were calm and focused and it was an absolute pleasure to see them approach the week in such a mature way. After their final assessment of the week the children were presented with their leavers hoodies to wear for the rest of term. Governor, Penny Geech, presented their hoodies. We would also like to thank Penny for generously volunteering her time to help invigilate the SATs assessments all week and keeping Year 6 supplied with biscuits and cake!

Year Group News
Year group newsletters have been emailed home today. Copies can also be found on the class pages of our website.

Year 6 KS2 SATs
Congratulations to our Year 6 children this week. With an earlier start coming into school for breakfast, followed by demanding assessments, they have demonstrated so many of our school values. The year isn’t over of course, and they have many end of primary school learning and enrichment opportunities to take part in.

Year 6 London Residential Meeting – Tuesday 20th May 15:30 (Hall)
A reminder that current Year 6 parents and children are invited to a meeting next Tuesday after school in the Hall. We will be sharing lots of important information and be available to answer questions about our upcoming residential to London.

Staffing Update
We have a couple of staffing updates to share with everyone.
Caroline Lucock and Natasha Blue will be away from school for several weeks as they recover from operations they are having. Tracey Snell, who works for the Trust and will be a familiar face for many, will be supporting Claire Gallie in the office whilst Caroline is away. We have also moved around some of our Teaching Assistants whilst Natasha is away. On behalf of the school community, we wish them both speedy recoveries. At the end of this academic year, we will be saying farewell to two of our wonderful Teaching Assistants, Gill Bryant and Trish Taylor. Having devoted 10 years to WPA, Gill is off to explore new adventures. Trish has been successful in her application to join the SCITT primary teacher training course. Both Gill and Trish will be a huge loss for the school, but equally we are so pleased for them and their futures.

Reception’s Assembly
Well done to our Reception children for their wonderful year group assembly this morning. We had a song, sharing of work with parents and a slideshow of their learning. Thank you to everyone who came along – it was a very special morning.

Year 4 Assembly – Thursday 22nd May
We look forward to seeing family members of Year 4 at their assembly next Thursday. Doors open from 08:30, with a start time of 09:00. To help the morning drop-off routine, any Year 4 families driving are encouraged to park in the staff car park (double parking is fine).

Diamond Cup Final
This week, our boys’ football team made us proud by making it to the final of the Diamond Cup! The match took place at Charlestown FC, and the boys started strong with Harry scoring two goals. Max then sealed the victory with a beautifully executed penalty, resulting in a 3-2 win! The opposing team put up a tough fight, but we showcased great teamwork and resilience throughout the game. Well done everyone on a fantastic end to the tournament. Your positive attitudes and smiles truly made us proud.

House Points
Congratulations to this week’s winning House, Swans. Choughs maintain a narrow lead:

Choughs – 8971
Swans – 8872
Puffins – 8245
Cormorants – 7907

Don’t forget next week is a bit shorter as we break up for May half term on Thursday (normal time).
With very best wishes,
Chris Wathern

TALLAND'S CLASS BLOG 16.5.25

The sun has been out for us this week and it's been absolutely lovely! We've taken our learning outside at every opportunity!

Maths:
Both year groups have been working their way through the second decimal unit. Year 5 have been adding and subtracting decimals, whereas year 4 have been thinking about the place value of the digits in a decimal problem.

English:
We've had fun with poetry. Children have written poems about specific shapes, colours and animals using writing techniques such as personification and similes to create imagery. 

Geography:
We have been conducting an experiment all week: We have placed a thermometer in the garden, a rain gauge on the playing field and we have been looking through a cloud coverage device which determines how many oktas of clouds are in the sky (overcast, scattered, broken or a clear sky). Talland are checking if their predictions for cloud coverage (oktas), rain (in mm) and temperature (degrees Celsius) are correct.

Computing:
We have taken a quiz and played with the Micro:Bits this week, which are cool devices for creating codes on. 

Science: 
Talland learnt about friction and conducted some small experiments to determine what might give an abject more friction or less friction. The use of jelly and oil was a fun and messy way to find out. 

PE:
We have been lucky enough to get two swims in this week. It's been great seeing the children flourish in the water. I was so proud to see some children build the confidence to swim with their faces in the water and get into the correct body positions to kick their legs. It was also brilliant teaching some of the children how to tumble turn. Some off them were able to tumble turn and push off the wall in a stream line position; that is quite the skill!

CONGRATULATIONS to Lily, Callum and Chillali for earning their next badge in 99 club - excellent effort! I also wanted to say a massive well done and thank you to all of Talland class for supporting the year 6's in their SATs this week. They were so respectful and made me really proud!

That's all from us this week so we wish you a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Signing off from Mr. Langley, Mr. Bishop and Miss. Colton. 

Year 6 SATs - That's a wrap!

Our Year 6 children were incredible this week - they were an absolute credit to their families and took each and every day in their stride!

We began each day with a chilled SATs breakfast, where the children were able to come in and have a calm, pleasant time together before the day began.

They came in smiling, ready and enthusiastic to get the tests done and they absolutely brought their 'A Game'!

This is a class who truly do support each other and their work ethic is something to behold!

They are also a resilient group of young people - something that the Government is saying we maybe need to work on in schools - not with this amazing bunch; they have 'grit' in abundance!

Sitting SATs tests does not show all the many gifts, talents and qualities that our children possess. They measure them on the day in a limited range of subjects and while I know that our children will have risen to those challenges and shown exactly how hard they have worked towards these goals, we know that they will go on to be incredible adults who will all be successful in their own individual and brilliant ways!

A massive thank you to our families - you are raising a phenomenal group of young people and we appreciate the support, kindness and positivity that you give us each and every day!

It's been another busy week with glorious weather and lots of outdoor learning for the children. Thank-you for sending children in with sun-cream applied and in bags so that they can re-apply it. We also ask that hats are also worn - it is amazing to be able to get out in the sun but we all want the children to be safe. This week was a big one for Year 6. They sat their end of KS2 SATs this week with tests in reading, grammar, spelling, punctuation and maths! Regardless of their results, each and every one of them gave 100% and their attitude during the week was fantastic. They all did amazingly and should be proud of themselves. Next week is the final week of this half term - it's flown! The staff have an INSET day on Friday so the last day for the children will be Thursday. Even though it is the last week of half term, we are still launching our new toddler group "Mini-miners". This will run in the hall each Tuesday from 9.45 until 11 and is a chance for children aged 0-4 to come along with their adults and enjoy some arts and crafts, soft play and much more. It is open to all and is free of charge. If you know someone who may enjoy this group, please let them know. We're really looking forward to seeing everyone next Tuesday.

Chaipel Y6s have made it through their SATS week and still have smiles on their faces! The bacon sandwiches for breakfast helped to start each day off well and they all embraced the tests, giving it 100%. We celebrated in style by a well-deserved ice-cream at Noah's dad's cafe and a trip to Talland beach. Thank you, Year 5s, for your patience and consideration this week - you really supported your classmates.

ENGLISH
We have edited and improved our Tudor narratives and written up our best copies. Some of the plots are full of twists and turns and I can't wait to read each and every one.

MATHS
Y5s have been investigating decimals and are beginning to add and subtract. Their place value knowledge is improving by the week and next week, we will be multiplying and dividing by 10/100/1000.

WIDER CURRICULUM
We have been exploring push and pull factors for migration in Geography this week. We will move onto comparing air/noise pollution in different areas as part of our fieldwork, in the coming weeks. In Science, we have been looking into natural selection as part of our Evolution enquiry and in RE, we have been thinking about what Jesus' kingdom might be like, picking apart the hymn, Lord of the Dance.

Congratulations to Joel and Phoebe for being our People of the Week, demonstrating our school values and being role models to the rest of the school.

That's all from me so have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday for the start of a 4-day last week of half term.

Miss Randle, Mrs Clary, Miss Hodge and Miss Colton.