Goonhavern Primary School Matters

Newsletter: May 2011 Headteacher: Mr C Hayes

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Nurture the seed and together we will grow…… St East Flora Dance 2011 Tretherras Primary School’s st On Saturday 21 May some children from class 5 attended Swimathon 2011 the annual flora dance in St.Newlyn East. There were a Ten children from Years 5 and 6 took part today in a very few other schools there; Cubert School ,Newquay exciting swimathon. They were, Louis Emanuel, Oliver Tranance Learning Academy, School and Walker, Rowan Payne, Rory Tellam, Eoghan Cromie, St Columb Minor School.On our route we passed the Hollie Smeaden, Beth Hoskings, Beanie Minchin, Jessica Pheasant Inn, The church (where a wedding was being Commons and Molly Plant. held) and a lot of houses. After the whole dance had Ten primary schools took part. The swimmers each raced finished we got back to St Newlyn East School and in an individual race and they all took part in the relay. All enjoyed the fete. At the presentations Cubert School were our children were fantastic! awarded first prize and we were awarded second prize which isn’t a bad result at all. We would like to thank Mrs Our overall positions were as follows; More, Mrs Hore, Miss Dunn and Mrs Grieve for helping us.

Louis Emanuel- Backstroke 3rd nd By Rebecca Walker in year 5 Oliver Walker- Backfloat 2 Beanie Minchin- Backfloat 3rd Molly Plant- Front Crawl 3rd Bodelva at Eden th nd On Thursday 19 May year 5 went to play their guitars in a The Boys Relay team came 2 ; musical event about Bodelva the gentle giant at the Eden

Project. Louis Emanuel Rory Tellam Oliver Walker Several Cornish schools attended the big event. We met Eoghan Cromie all the other schools in a room and a man was in there Rowan Payne teaching us a song. Then we went to practise the guitar. It lasted till lunch time and we had a break. Next we went nd Goonhavern came 2 overall - many congratulations to all back to the room to have one last run through. our swimmers! Thank you very much to Mrs MacFarlane, Kirsty Smeaden and Andrea Commons for taking us to the Then we marched down the hill singing a song called Swimathon. Bodelva the gentle giant whilst following a huge model of

Attendance the giant Bodelva. Next we got our guitars and went back to our places and played in the performance, it all went so Our target is to reach 95.2% whole school attendance for smoothly and we kept going on and on. There were lots of the 2010-2011 academic year. Our attendance figures for nd people in the audience! Sadly it was our last song and the Spring 2 half term were; then we strolled up the slope to get our bags and pack away. We climbed up the hill and went back to school on Reception 96.7% the coach. Year 1 95.8% By Jessica Commons and Sarah Thornton in year 5

Year 2 95.3% School car park Year 3 97.8% Several parents have asked us to remind everyone to be considerate when parking because leaving vehicles Year 4 97.4% unattended in the middle of car park is causing congestion. Thank you. Year 5 96.0% Congratulations….. Year 6 96.0% To Mr and Mrs Prickett on the birth of their son Kai Finley th Prickett. Kai was born on the 9 May weighing 8lbs 13oz. I’m sure you will join with us in extending our best wishes Well done to everyone for achieving our target of 95.2% to Mr Prickett and his family.

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Newsletter: May 2011

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Nurture the seed and togetherClass we will R grow …… GOOD LUCK AND BEST WISHES…… This term Class R are learning about the sea. We started To Miss Fairclough who is celebrating her marriage on the term with a visit from the Blue Reef Aquarium who rd Friday 3 June and will return to school after half term as brought with them lobsters, crabs and starfish. We have Mrs Fairclough. We would all like to congratulate her on been fishermen and explorers and found abandoned this happy occasion. treasure! We have been thinking about story telling and story starters, we have also been making a non-fiction SCHOOL LUNCHES book about sea creatures. Class R have produced some beautiful 3D and 2D art work.

Can we kindly remind you that if you want your child to Class R have also been working with Mr Bone on a music have a school lunch we would prefer if you could pay on project, we have been playing a range of instruments. Mondays. Thank you.

We are having a special Wimbledon themed school dinner on Monday 20th June. There will be jacket potatoes with a choice of fillings served with a summer salad and strawberries and Ice Cream or Strawberry cheesecake for dessert. The price for this meal is the same as usual, £2.10 and should be paid on Monday 20th June.

Class 1 SPONSORED FUN RUN & MINI-FETE This term our learning has been based around activities all Friday 17th June 2011 from 2pm onwards about the sea. Here are some of the things we have been (Please note-This event is planned for Friday not doing:- We made a beach cafe and have been selling and Saturday). serving food and using money to add, takeaway and give change. We created an underwater area where we all FROGS will be organising a sponsored fun run and mini- made sea creatures out of different materials. We have fete on Friday 17th June 2011. Starting at 2pm, the planted runner beans and have been keeping a diary of children will be running circuits of the school grounds. what has been happening to them. Fancy Dress optional, with a prize for the best outfit. All children will be awarded a certificate for taking part. If all We have also been writing our own 'Seashell Song' poem the children complete the circuits, the distance run will be equivalent to Goonhavern to Bristol or more than 5 with actions, and with the help from Miss Jones, this was marathon races! Please come along to cheer them on and then turned into a book and presented to me as a stay to enjoy the mini-fete afterwards – including wonderful gift for little baby Kai! And I must say a barbecue, raffle, cake stall, games and classic / vintage huge THANKYOU to everyone for all the cards and lovely vehicle display. Please let a member of staff or FROGS presents, he has been incredibly spoilt! know if you have a classic/ vintage vehicle you would like to display on the day. These vehicles must be brought into the school car park before 1.30pm on the day. Class 2 In our class we’ve been working on a ‘Sweets’ topic. We Please note there will be NO OTHER PARKING in the have worked with Class 3. We made a timeline about school car park on that afternoon. The New Inn have kindly given us permission to use their car park from sweets. Did you know that jelly babies were invented in 1.45pm until 5.00pm 1864? We have made ‘rocky road’ sweets, play dough sweets and boxes for our role play corner, giant sweets CORNISH THEMED BUNTING. and painted huge liquorice all-sorts. The liquorice all-sorts tasted scrumptious but the ‘rocky road’ sweets tasted even more scrumptious! Over the next few days the children will be given their blank flag to bring home and decorate one side with a By Class 2 and typed by Jack and Ozzy Cornish theme - perhaps taking inspiration from Cornish people, food, landmarks, sport, history, buildings, folklore, wildlife or another aspect of life in Cornwall. Designs can be sewn or glued. Please ensure you return your decorated flag to your child’s class teacher by th Thursday 9 June

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Newsletter: May 2011 Headteacher: Mr C Hayes

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Nurture the seed and together we will grow…… Class 3 Class 5 Class 3 have been very busy so far this term. Our new topic is sweets and for part of this topic we are working Year 5 have begun a topic about 'Chocolate' this term and with Class 2. First of all we watched Charlie and the are looking forward to doing more after the half term Chocolate Factory to give us lots of ideas. So far we have break! On Thursday 19th May we travelled to the Eden made big models of sweets and designed our own sweets project and took part in a performance of 'Bodelva the out of playdough. giant'. This was part of our work this year on guitars with the Wider Opportunities scheme. We took part with about We have also been looking at the life and books of Roald 600 children from across Cornwall who also played Dahl and found out some interesting facts about him. Did guitars, stringed instruments and ukeleles. The you know that he loved chocolate but not chocolate cake performance went very well and Mrs More, Mrs Hore, Mr or ice cream!!! We are now busy writing letters to Roald Hayes and our parents were very proud of us! Dahl's publishing company asking them any questions that have been unanswered in our research.

Miss Prescott has joined us this term and has been Class 6 teaching us some really exciting lessons. This term Year 6’s topic is ‘THE SEA’…

We are doing a JOINT TOPIC with Class R and Class 4.

We have turned the classroom into a SEA-THEMED AREA, with a school of HAMMERHEADS stuck to the ceiling to make it look as if we are under the sea and PORTHOLES on the windows.

For Homework we had to make a 3-D MODEL FISH or Class 4 SEA CREATURE. It was really FUN! BRYHER made a JELLYFISH with hooks and plastic This month we have started our topic ‘The Sea’. After a bottles which looked great. ROWAN made an amazing slight interruption for SATs, we have continued our story SHARK out of chicken wire and papier mache while ADAM telling project, focusing on the Cornish story of Lutey and also made a SHARK with sharp teeth. the Mermaid. The children are currently innovating the story and taking Lutey on a new adventure! WILLIAM made a JELLYFISH with plastic bags from the beach- it was stunning! All of these creatures are going to Our Geography work has focused on erosion. We have live in the LINK CORRIDOR UNDERWATER AREA which looked at the effects the sea can have on the coast and we are constructing. this will be followed by a visit to beach. We have also used ‘cress islands’ to allow children to explore We have also got a new TRAINEE TEACHER in Year 6 the effects of erosion and deforestation first hand. named Miss Morton who will be teaching our class with Mr.Borrott. We were very fortunate to have a visit from the Blue Reef Aquarium, supporting our science work on habitats. The Class 6 are hoping to go to the beach and have fun and children found out about the animals that can be found on we are REALLY EXCITED about CAMP! local beaches and found out lots of interesting facts. Did you know that a starfish has five eyes, one on the end of each arm? By Adam Delbridge-Smith and William Grande We have seen some amazing and creative homework from everyone. The sea creatures look fantastic and are going up on display around the school. Keep up the hard work!

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NOTICEBOARD MAY 2011 - Dates for next half term

MONDAY 6TH JUNE – BACK TO SCHOOL

MONDAY 6TH JUNE – AFTER SCHOOL CLUB RESTARTS. IAN AND MARIANNE INSKIP PLANTING MARIGOLDS WITH THE CHILDREN AT

LUNCHTIME FOR THE GOONHAVERN SHOW

FRIDAY 10TH JUNE – INSET DAY (SCHOOL CLOSED)

TH TUESDAY 14 JUNE – CLASS 2 TRIP TO BLUE REEF AQUARIUM

WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE – FIELD SPORTS KS2 ONLY – AM

FRIDAY 17TH JUNE – FUN RUN AND FETE

TUESDAY 28TH JUNE – FULL GOVERNING BODY MEETING, 6PM

WEDNESDAY 29TH JUNE – TRANSITION DAY – CHILDREN MEET THEIR NEW TEACHERS AND YEAR 6 CHILDREN VISIT TRETHERRAS AND

TREVIGLAS

TUESDAY 5TH JULY – SPORTS DAY

WEDNESDAY 6TH JULY – FALL BACK DAY FOR SPORTS DAY

THURSDAY 7TH JULY – SECOND FALL BACK DAY FOR SPORTS DAY

SATURDAY 9TH JULY – GOONHAVERN SHOW

FRIDAY 15TH JULY – REPORTS OUT TO PARENTS, AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS FINISH

WEDNESDAY 20TH JULY – SCHOOL PRODUCTION, 7PM

THURSDAY 21ST JULY – SCHOOL PRODUCTION, 7PM

TUESDAY 26TH JULY – BREAK UP FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS, END OF TERM SERVICE, 2PM

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