Class Blog for Tregeagle

Summer 1

We have returned from the Easter break to wind up our enquiry “What is life like in a City?”. It proved a perfect chance for the children to retrieve their learning and apply this knowledge in the final geography lessons. We went on a fieldwork walk around the village following a rote the children had traced on maps beforehand. Along the way, we looked for landmarks and discussed how we could show these on the map using symbols. Back in the classroom, the children sketched their own maps, adding a key to explain the landmarks.

In English, we are at the end of the sentence stacking and next week, the children will start planning their own stories and move on to writing and editing before sharing them with Canute class.

In PE, we continue swimming on Wednesdays and on Thursdays we have started Outdoor Adventurous Activities – OAA which provided a mixture of teambuilding, orienteering and forest school skills. Don’t forget to look at the fantastic learning on your child’s SeeSaw.

Have a lovely weekend
Mrs W

Easter

It is the end of a very busy Spring term and we have been spending the last few days finishing off projects, writing and maths. We can now honestly say that we deserve a break.

We will carry on with our current enquiry the first week back after Easter. This will provide a perfect opportunity for the children to retrieve and link back to knowledge gathered during Spring term. We are hoping the weather will be just a little kinder so we can complete our Geography fieldtrip; creating a map of our local area to compare with the map from Plymouth.

This morning we managed to dodge the showers so the children could complete their easter egg hunt. Remarkably, none of the clues blew away so everyone successfully completed the hunt and claimed their chocolate easter bunny kindly donated by FOPA. Photos attached below.

It was lovely to see you for our Easter Service and we thank Mrs Butlin for providing the expert guidance for the singing performance.

Have a lovely easter break, we look forward to welcoming the children back again on Monday 15th April.

Mrs Wills and Mr Twaite

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Penultimate week of term

It has been a super busy week with lots of fantastic experiences for the children.

Monday
The Year 5 and 6 children went to Fowey Rover Academy for sports. They learnt about football skills and had the chance to interact with children from other primary schools. Tuesday
The whole class went on a geography field trip to Plymouth and the Box. We parked in the historic Barbican area to give the children to chance to see the buildings and landmarks of historical importance to Plymouth’s history and to get a sense of place in terms of the geographical placement of Plymouth as a settlement. From our previous enquiry about the stone age, the children have good knowledge and understanding of settlements and topography, so we used this knowledge as a springboard to examine land use and explore how human features interact with physical features in a city. Inside the Box, we found evidence of the reasons behind the settlement and delved into Plymouth prehistoric climate and populations.
Wednesday
Swimming continues and the children are developing their skills with commitment. Living in a coastal village, the importance of water confidence is essential and it is a real pleasure to watch how the children embrace the learning on offer knowing this will make a positive difference to their summer time on the beach.
Thursday
Half the class went to Looe for Sports and the other half had an experience day at school. The children arrived back from Looe tired but full of enthusiasm from the new experiences they’d had with fencing, segway, street surfing among many. Sounds like a resounding success. Back at school, we continued the class project of building a city using the Burgess model of layout. We split the day with science experiments, investigating chemistry with magic milk and glow lamps, baking a cake and a trip to the park to test the effects of gravity on slides and swings.
Friday
A day in the classroom with quiet focus on learning to end the week.
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs W

Spring 2

To complement our City life enquiry, we joined the National Trust for den building on Tuesday. This gave the children the opportunity to make meaningful links between their learning in Geography and History. We discussed how settlements have evolved over time locally and the importance of choosing these according to natural resources available. We will build on this further next week with our trip to Plymouth and The Box.

Swimming lessons are proving super popular. It has been great to watch how confidence and skills are developing. Many of the children are setting personal targets and work towards achieving these in their lessons; being able to float like a starfish, swim across the pool without flotation devices, improve leg action for greater speed.

Next week is busy. Monday afternoon Year 5-6 are at Fowey River Academy for football skills. Tuesday we are at The Box in Plymouth, Wednesday is swimming and Thursday some of the children are at Looe for a whole Trust Sports day.

Spring

We have completed our Roman enquiry, just putting the final touches to the writing. Some of the children are writing a letter home from the perspective of a Roman soldier, asking for seeds to be sent so they can grow food in Britannica, others are writing a speech as Boudicca, to inspire the Celts to take up arms and protect their land against the Roma invaders. I am looking forward to reading the finished pieces.

Our next enquiry is "What is it like to live in a city?". We will explore the concept of settlements, making links to our Stone Age enquiry and find out how cities are different from villages and towns. The children will study human and physical geography and carry out field work as geographers; mapping our local area and comparing/contrasting this with Plymouth. We will visit Plymouth to look at land use, roads and buildings including a visit to the Box to find ou more about Plymouth's city history.

We had a fantastic day with Shaun Hewitt and the children have produced some brilliant pieces of art, many of which they will enter into the Fowey festival. This week, we are also writing poetry about the beach, so the children can chose whether to enter their art or writing for the competition.

We continue swimming on Wednesday mornings and our second PE lesson is Thursday afternoon.

Hope to see many of you in the church for Mother's Day service on Wednesday at 2pm.

Final Flurry

It has been a super busy final week trying to complete several projects before the break.
Enquiry
We are almost at the end of our study of the Roman Empire, building on our subject knowledge of this period of European and British history alongside our disciplinary knowledge of what makes a historian a historian. We have learnt how to follow orders in Latin, how the Romans brought rabbits to Britain as these were 'fast Food' for a marching army and how Britain benefitted from Roman's incredible building techniques and knowledge.
Maths
The children continue to find new and better ways to record their understanding of maths using SeeSaw. It is great to see how they all benefit from having these alternative recording methods which allows them to record themselves explaining an concept or taking a photo of how they have used concrete resources or drawn models. They have a greater sense of independence and their confidence in articulating maths concepts grows.
PE
Swimming starts after half term. Please see emails from Mrs Hughes regarding kit list and timings. We will have another PE lesson each week in addition to swimming on Thursdays so please continue to send your child to school wearing their PE kit on these days.
Borrow Box
The children have all been given a digital library card so they can access Borrow Box from Cornwall Library. We spent time Thursday afternoon logging in and navigating the system. It was brilliant to see the children's enthusiasm and delight at realising how Borrow Box give them access to a huge selection of books to read at their leisure and for their pleasure. We will give the children time at school to read for pleasure and I have provided the class with a list of recommended books suitable for their age and stage of reading skills. If you would like more information about these recommended books, please let me know.

Week 10

Writing
We have completed our sentence stacking lessons learning how to apply specific grammar aspects to write sentences so next week we are ready to plan and start writing our non-chronological reports. As we have now spent 3 weeks learning about natural disasters and volcanoes in particular, the children are full to the brim with knowledge and keen to write. We have experimented with the movement of tectonic plates to understand how these cause volcanos and earthquakes – amazing what red icing sugar and a polystyrene cup can do to help this process. I am certain I will learn some interesting aspects about how volcanos are formed, how they erupt and where in the world they are situated.
PE
We continue learning new skills in our boxing sessions and the workout is tough, but despite the challenges the children absolutely love Thursday afternoons. This wekk we have also squeezed in some Dodgeball practice in preparation for next week's tournament at Callywith College. Where we get the opportunity to compete against children from other Bridge trust schools.
Christmas play
We have started initial preparations for our play and the children will shortly have scripts printed and ready to take home to practice. Please support them to practice their lines. I will be in touch next week regarding costumes, we have plenty at school and may only need a few additional pieces.

Have a good weekend,
Mrs W

Week 9

We have launched our new enquiry "What make Earth angry?" in which we will study the formation and eruptions of volcanoes and the force of earthquakes.
GEOGRAPHY:
We have studied how volcanoes are formed, learnt about the layers of the Earth and explored how tectonic plates move. We have also used locational knowledge skills to plot active volcanoes on a world map and discovered how these create the "Ring of Fire". This is proving to be a very popular enquiry with the children. They have good prior knowledge which they can bring to our discussions and they are full of curiosity about how the world works. It is going to be a brilliant run-up to Christmas with some fantastic learning.
ART
We have studied the artist Nick Rowland and will use this to create our own painting of an erupting volcano. We have started this week by sketching, evaluating and trying how to paint without paint using SeeSaw. I have added the results below.
WRITING
Year 5/6 went to Polperro for a poetry workshop with Sally Crabtree earlier in the week. They had a fantastic day with lots of inspirational activities fueling their writing. I am certain they will have some great poems to contribute to the Bridge School Poetry Project.

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs W

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Week 8

A whirlwind of a week.

On Tuesday, Year 5/6 went to Fowey River Academy for netball and tag rugby and the chance to play as part of a team with children from other schools. These events are important preparation for our older KS2 children so they get used to the trip across the river and being part of a much larger school community.

On Wednesday, we had a super geographical field trip to Castle an Dinas. We have been studying the hillfort and it was great to experience its location, imposing views and structure firsthand. The children explored how the fort was constructed and studied the topography of the area for further field work activities back in the classroom.

On Thursday afternoon, we had our first session of Well-Being Boxing. It was brilliant to watch the children’s engagement and participation in this, for the majority, completely new activity. I think it is fair to say they were put through their paces and by the end of the session, they were significantly less chatty! From extensive research, we know how being active benefits mental health and stimulates brain activity and we hope these sessions will support the children to discover and recognize these benefits. By incorporating lots of movement breaks throughout the day, we manage to support the children to better tackle learning activities that require focus and concentration.

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs W

Week 7

It has been a hectic last week trying to complete pieces of writing, iron age round houses and our units of maths alongside a trip to the Royal Cornwall Museum, but we have made it!

The class had a super day at the museum on Tuesday, where they met an archaeologist who introduced them to artefacts from prehistoric Britain, helped them to make their own replica Iron Age pottery and showed them round the Stone Age exhibition. The children have been full of interesting facts and super keen to share their new-found knowledge. Very teacher rewarding to hear them talk about primary sources, replicas and original artefacts! The children have finally completed their round houses and these are ready to go home so please make sure you send in a sturdy box, bag for them after half term. They have also got their pottery from the museum trip to bring home.

On our return to school on Monday 30th October, we have another busy week lined up. On Tuesday 31st October, Y5 and Y6 will travel to Fowey River Academy in the morning to take part in netball and tag rugby activities.

On Wednesday we are all going on a trip to the Cornish Hillfort Castle an Dinas and the Stone Age Hurlers at Minions, combining history with a geography field trip studying the topography of our Cornish landscape. I have sent home details of the trip on Monday 30th October via satchel post for you to return to the school office on Monday 30th October please.

Thursday 2nd November is our first day of a 6-week Well-being Boxing block so please make sure your child comes to school wearing their PE kit. This should be fun and hopefully provide the children with an alternative way of exercise befitting both body and mind.

Have a lovely half term.
I look forward to seeing you all back in school on Monday 30th October,
Mrs W

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