Celebration cake

Class 2 baking.

Beginning to put the cake together.

Making cakes for our celebration.

Lee Trewhela

Lee Trewhela from the Cornish Guardian came to talk to classes 2 and 3 about writing reports for newspapers. He wrote their names for them using shorthand.

Class 3 art

Class 3 working hard to make books about themselves to send to the children at St Tudy School.

Red Nose Day

All the children enjoyed wearing non-school uniform, eating cakes and watching and performing in "St Mabyn's got Talent". They raised £180 for Comic Relief.

Thomas making everyone laugh.

Erin and Sophie performing their dance.

Poppy and Lily enjoying their cakes.

Surf photographer's trip.

Some children from St Mabyn and from St Tudy had a trip to Polzeath with surf photographer Mike Newman. Un fortunately there were no surfers in the sea but they still managed to take pictures of waves and patterns on the beach. At last they found an obliging surfer called Wailin who posed for them with his board.

Looking for surfers.

At last they found a real surfer!

World Book day

Princesses, fairies and other favourite story book characters.

Enjoying a book together.

World book day

Some of class 1 dressed as their favourite characters from books.

Fund raising afternoon for the RSPCA

Facepainting, nail decoration and hairstyling were some of the ways children raised money for the RSPCA.

Speed stacking competition.

Blotting ink

Class 2 tried writing with quill pens and ink. They found that it smudged and ran so they experimented with blotting it. A powder called pounce was used in the past to blot ink. They experimented with sand, salt, talc and blotting paper. The finest powder or blotting paper worked best,

Post office visit

Some children from class 1 visited the post office to find out all about posting letters. Katie was allowed into the postoffice to sell a stamp to her friends.

Posting riddles to St Tudy.

Class 1 working with Anna

Class 1 made postcards with Anna Murphy to send to St Tudy.

Class 3's disaster projects

William's hurricane.

Lauren's volcano

Megan's volcano.

Milly's earthquake.

Molly's natural disasters project is in the form of a dice, covered in pictures and information.

printing

Class 2 experimented with polystyrene prints as part of their project to create their own books.

Anna Maria Murphy with class 1 children.

Anna Murphy showed the children her notebooks and story boxes before taking them for a walk to create their own story.