4 days

A short but busy week for some. I hope you all had a truly great break.

Our English this week has been fantastic. Children have learnt all about Tanka poetry which is a 2 line extension of a Haiku poem which has 3 lines. The pattern of syllables is much similar too. The outcome of this whole entire natural disasters topic is a poetry book that will be sold in a few weeks time. We’re really excited about publishing it so will get in touch with you in due course! It’ll take me a little while to compile it. Plus, as some children have been away for the whole poetry unit, they haven’t written any at all.

In Maths, children have learned all about how to calculate the area of rectangles. Knowing that it can be done in two ways has helped: either add up the squares or multiply the length by the width. With their new found knowledge, they were tasked with designing a luxury house floor plan for victims of a volcano. They had great fun whilst doing this and helped to engage them in the topic.

We had 7 children participate in the Penwith Athletics Championships at Carn Brea on Thursday. We had some awesome results alongside a 29 squad of KS2 athletes including GOLD in the relay (Alaina, Ava, Gabe & Rory), a SILVER by Alaina & Gabe in their sprint finals and a BRONZE by Lola who ran incredibly in the 600m run. Other amazing athletes from our class were Oliver B and Logan. A massive well done to them all. Some will go on to represent the whole of Penwith at the Cornwall championships on the 5^th July at Par running track.

The children has an awfully messy but fun time when applying Modroc to their group volcanoes. It was a great session and the photos are currently on our class webpage under ‘Summer Photos’. Soon we will paint and glue/varnish these structures before exploding them later in the term.

In Science, the children learned about melting and did an investigation based on temperature by using thermometers. They had to measure in various locations before recording the results in a table and line graph – a great cross curricular link to maths.

A short blog due to a short week. A massive well done to Molly who has become our star pupils for an all-round effort – well done!

It’s sports day on Monday so we hope to see lots of you there.

Have a fab weekend,

Mr Larter