Class 2 made puppets and wrote a play based on the Hindu story of Rama and Sita. They performed it to Class 1.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Rama and Sita
Class 2 made puppets and wrote a play based on the Hindu story of Rama and Sita. They performed it to Class 1.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Cardinham Woods
Class 1 enjoyed a visit to Cardinham Woods where a member of the
Forestry Commission set the children challenges and organised
activities such as making bird feeders and a forest treasure hunt.
Showing our collections from the forest treasure hunt!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Ex pupil Jago wins award!
Ex pupil Jago and writer Sally Lloyd Jones have won a Gold Moonbeam award for their book "The Jesus Storybook Bible"
An awards presentation will be held on Saturday, November 3rd, in conjunction with the 2007 Children's Humanities Festival in Chicago USA.
The Moonbeam Awards are designed to honour the year's best children’s books, authors and illustrators, and to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators.
The book was published in March this year and is already into it's second print run.
See more of Jago's illustrations here.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Cornwall Children and Young People`s Partnership
The Cornwall Children and Young People`s Partnership is a group of organisations responsible for providing services for children and young people in Cornwall. They are writing a document that aims to improve the lives of children and young people in the county, and they would like to know what is important to you and your family.
They would like you to take a few minute to complete a short on-line survey. The links to the on-line surveys, which must be completed by Friday 26th October, are listed below.
www.surveymonkey.com/practitioners
www.surveymonkey.com/parentcarer
www.surveymonkey.com/cyp
They would like you to take a few minute to complete a short on-line survey. The links to the on-line surveys, which must be completed by Friday 26th October, are listed below.
www.surveymonkey.com/practitioners
www.surveymonkey.com/parentcarer
www.surveymonkey.com/cyp
9 - 13 Group
Growing up and gaining independence is particularly difficult when you are in the phase between being a child and an adult.
Mrs Gould, who works with Children's Family Services, frequently visits our school to talk about the School Council and pupil protective behaviours. She also has access to a small amount of funding for promoting activities for this age group. So following such a visit we were talking about the 9 - 13 age group and the lack of `out of school` provision there is in the village to keep them out of mischief.
We talked to the pupils and asked them for their views and it transpired that they would greatly appreciate some activities being arranged for them. They came up with really good ideas such as the school computers being available for homework assignments, sporting and physical activities.
I have been in touch with Mr. Bower at Wadebridge Comprehensive School who has very kindly offered support to this project and will advertise our next meeting , which is at 3.30pm on Wednesday 7th November at school, when we hope all the youngsters between 9 - 13 in the village will come along and discuss how we can get this project started.
The idea is that the youngsters organise the project with a helping hand from adults.
Please help us to publicise this meeting as widely as possible and if anyone is interested in supporting this initiative by offering an activity, that would be terrific.
Mrs Gould, who works with Children's Family Services, frequently visits our school to talk about the School Council and pupil protective behaviours. She also has access to a small amount of funding for promoting activities for this age group. So following such a visit we were talking about the 9 - 13 age group and the lack of `out of school` provision there is in the village to keep them out of mischief.
We talked to the pupils and asked them for their views and it transpired that they would greatly appreciate some activities being arranged for them. They came up with really good ideas such as the school computers being available for homework assignments, sporting and physical activities.
I have been in touch with Mr. Bower at Wadebridge Comprehensive School who has very kindly offered support to this project and will advertise our next meeting , which is at 3.30pm on Wednesday 7th November at school, when we hope all the youngsters between 9 - 13 in the village will come along and discuss how we can get this project started.
The idea is that the youngsters organise the project with a helping hand from adults.
Please help us to publicise this meeting as widely as possible and if anyone is interested in supporting this initiative by offering an activity, that would be terrific.
End of School Dismissal
At the end of the school day staff ensure that all pupils are safely matched with parents/carers. From time to time pupils are unable to be collected immediately and on those occasions these pupils remain in school supervised by staff and are not permitted to leave the premises or play in the field.
It is lovely to see many pupils socialising in the field after school however we would like to stress that supervision is the responsibility of parents. We do suffer from mild vandalism as the schools facilities are used by others outside school hours, benches have been dismantled, skate boarding activities have broken equipment, glass and litter are frequently collected and the hedges have been destroyed to create bike runs. Pupils are taught to care for the environment so it is disappointing to see that younger children are now reinforcing pathways through hedges. Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
It is lovely to see many pupils socialising in the field after school however we would like to stress that supervision is the responsibility of parents. We do suffer from mild vandalism as the schools facilities are used by others outside school hours, benches have been dismantled, skate boarding activities have broken equipment, glass and litter are frequently collected and the hedges have been destroyed to create bike runs. Pupils are taught to care for the environment so it is disappointing to see that younger children are now reinforcing pathways through hedges. Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
A triumphant week!
Congratulations to the football team who with great spirit and determination took part in the Camel Challenge, won their group, won the semi - final and the final even went to extra time when the winning goal was scored by Wadebridge Primary school. A superb team effort - well done. Don`t forget Football Club this Tuesday with Paul Jeffery from 3.00 - 4.00pm.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Eden Bulbs
The whole school joined with Thomas and with the help of the Eden staff planted a variety of bulbs to create Thomas's winning design, a paintbox. We are really looking forward to Spring which should be very colourful .
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Monday, October 08, 2007
Cornish stories
Class 1 enjoyed listening to Trevor who told traditional Cornish stories during book week.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Walk to School Week
Walk to School Week is nearly over!
It would be absolutely fantastic if for just one day, Friday 5th everyone could make a supreme effort and walk at least part of the way to school.
It would be absolutely fantastic if for just one day, Friday 5th everyone could make a supreme effort and walk at least part of the way to school.
Bulb Planting
This Friday two representatives from the Eden project are visiting the school to make plans for planting the bulb garden to Thomas Farmer`s design. Then the pupils will be involved by planting the bulbs on Friday 12th October. If Wellington boots could be brought to school on that day that would be ideal and prevent ruined shoes.
Harvest Breakfast around the world raised £78 for Food Aid. Thank you so much to those people who donated food items and who so generously donated funds. We hope you all enjoyed a very special occasion.
Football Club
We have been trying hard to secure the services of another coach with little success. However, on Tuesday I was talking to Paul Jeffery, who visits our school onve a fortnight and managed to persuade him to do an after school on the days that he is here. So starting on Tuesday 16th October Football Club will begin.
This means that High 5 for Class 3 will move to Monday instead.
As before there will be a fee for football club which will be £1.50 a session and payable to the secretary.
This means that High 5 for Class 3 will move to Monday instead.
As before there will be a fee for football club which will be £1.50 a session and payable to the secretary.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Harvest Breakfast
Everyone enjoyed trying different breakfasts from around the world as part of our Harvest celebration.
No we are not closing!!
Despite the shock many of us had on Wednesday morning hearing on Radio Cornwall and reading in the local paper that our school was one of the thirty four proposed for closure we can assure you that we are not closing. As you can imagine there were a lot of phone calls from anxious people and we were talking directly to the Local Authority!
Dean Ashton, Director of Services for Children, Young People and Families , categorically stated we were not being viewed for closure so please retain confidence in the school and reassure everyone as the last thing we need is prospective parents deciding to enrol their children elsewhere!
Dean Ashton, Director of Services for Children, Young People and Families , categorically stated we were not being viewed for closure so please retain confidence in the school and reassure everyone as the last thing we need is prospective parents deciding to enrol their children elsewhere!
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