Stithians Community Diary Dates Primary School Thursday 7th March—World Book Day Wednesday 13th March—Maths open evening 6pm—7pm Newsletter Royal Cornwall Showground on Wednesday 20th March Red Nose Day Friday 15th March Good Friday Workshop— 29th March 1st March 2013 Week Beginning 4th March 2013 Monday Toad in the hole with Mashed Potato and Gravy Or Quorn Bolognaise with Pasta With Carrots, Garden Peas and Sultana Salad Chocolate and Apricot Brownie or Seasonal Fresh Fruit Tuesday St Piran’s Day Celebration Menu Meat or Vegetable Pasty With Chipped Potatoes, Baked Beans & Sweetcorn, Mixed Salad Cornish fairing & Fruit Slices or Fresh Fruit Salad Certificates and Awards Wednesday Roast Chicken with crispy roast potatoes and gravy Headteacher’s Certificate— Ruan Tremayne, Eliana Bunclark, Sophie Watters, Or Thomas Holcombe, Iona Bennett, Millie Burridge, Arwen Hemming, Beauen Reynolds, Eleanor Lee, Gully Smith Laing, Oliver Hearne, Harry Ward, Tameron Lentil Roast with crispy roast or mashed potatoes Hawke, Nicholas Standley With Seasonal Cabbage, Fresh Swede, Fresh vegetable sticks Leaves on the Tree — Thomas Robbins, Brodie Burley, Poppy Wintrip, Jemima Fruit Flapjack with Custard Seasonal or Fresh Fruit Iles, Keira Downing, Joe Burridge, Gus Van Dinther, Ben Brush, Keeley Lawrence, Thursday Amy Inns, Charlotte Johns, Florence Parker Manley, Eva Burridge, Tom Hamilton, Italian Beef Lasagne with Garlic Herby Bread Wedge Jonathan Trinder or Gunwalloe Pupil of the Week — Florence Iles Mild Vegetable Curry with rice Most Improved Maths—Gulliver Smith Laing With Carrots, Green Beans, Tomato and Cucumber Salsa Marazion Pupil of the Week - Harry Holcombe Most Improved Science— Poppy Wintrip Fruit in Jelly or Seasonal Fresh Fruit Sennen Pupil of the Week - Keeley Lawrence Friday Most Improved English– Zach Chittenden Crispy Battered Fish with Chipped potatoes Godrevy Pupil of the Week - Rachael Griffiths or Most Improved English— Dexter McCullough Porthmeor Pupil of the Week - Millie Jewell Cheese & Onion Quiche ½ Jacket Potato Most Improved English— Harry Bellingham With Baked beans, Garden Peas, Apple and Celery Salad Kynance Most improved English— Codie Mitchell Most improved Maths — Cameron Carter Homemade Bread What’s been happening in the classes this week? Marazion Kynance Marazion All of the children have returned refreshed from their half term break. We have been ThisGunwalloe week in Literacy we have been learning about writing recounts. We watched ‘A Grand Day Out’ featuring working on the ‘Stick Man’ chapter from Street Child (class novel). The children have been Wallace and Grommet and the children recalled and wrote about the main events of the film. Over the course of the week the children planned their own recount of a grand day out, ensuring it had a beginning, middle and an writing interview questions for Mr Spink. In maths we have been revisiting ratio and Swimming end. In Maths this week we have been learning to use pairs to ten to bridge to ten using visual supports, such as proportion and have been trying to use ‘in every’ and ‘for every’ in the correct context. In beadSwimming strings and Gala money number lines. As part of our farming topic we have discussed farm animals and the science we had great fun in tents!! The media room was in darkness and furnished with tents different foods that they produce. In Art the children helped design and collage some farm animals and these so that the children could carry out their shadow investigations. In art we have started our will soon go on display in our farm shop. In Science we have started learning about life cycles and this week we work on Lowry and have been looking at some of his works and discussing his techniques. In have focused specifically on ladybirds. The children have drawn the life cycle of a ladybird, researched and guitar practice this week, Miss Hird has been teaching the children some notes and chords to written facts about ladybirds and we have also been outside on a mini beast hunt! Swimming: Mrs Trinder will accompany the Victorian Street song. In History, we have started fact finding about Victo- be taking Marazion swimming on Monday. Please can you ensure that you have returned your permission slip and children bring their swimming kit to school on Monday morning. rian life Gunwalloe Porthmeor This week in Gunwalloe we have been learning about ‘Farm Safety’ and ‘Horses’. The class have made a book In Porthmeor this week we have carried on with our Legends of Geevor and finished our with information in it that they already knew about horses and information that they found from books, posters, mining diaries in Literacy. We have also practised using connectives and recognising videos and from resources brought in from classmates. In Maths we have been practising different ways of homophones and the correct place to use them. In Numeracy - we have revised 3D shapes adding 2 numbers together – on fingers, largest number on the shoulder and counting on. We have discussed and their properties. We have looked at nets of shapes and had a go at creating our own. We what hazards can be found on our farm display and made warning signs to identify these. Finally we have have sorted 2D shapes according to different properties and sorted angles by size. In Science started to create a farm shop in the conservatory – this week we have sorted food and labelled the groups for this half term we are looking at flowering plants. This week we have revised the parts of a display. CLIC Sargent Fundraiser plant and their functions. In Art we have begun sketching some plants and flowers using Thursday 7 March from 3-6 at the Village Hall. It's in aid of CLIC Sargent and is a nationwide appeal called The careful observational skills. In Games we are continuing our Netball from last half term Great Mum's Get Together. There will be balloon animals, crafts for the kids, after school snacks, cakes, coffee, working on Teamwork. In music we have started composing " rhythms of the mine" music. In tea, juice, cream tea, raffles, etc. circle time we discussed children’s chores and helping at home and in French learnt to ask Cross Country Finals and give names. On Tuesday the area finals were held at Pool School. The following Stithians pupils represented the Godrevy Redruth Schools: Hannah Hughes, Abbie Downing, Ella Furniss, Emma Crisp, Max Watkins, Rhys Johns, Jamie In English we have been looking at fables and how they have a hidden moral or meaning. We Crisp, Luke Downing, Matthew Watters. There were 9 areas represented at the event meaning 54 runners in each age range. The runners all put in a huge effort and finished their race having given their all. have studied ‘The Frog and the Scorpion’, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’ and ‘The Hare and the World Book Day Tortoise’. We have looked at the characteristics of different animals and used a thesaurus to On Thursday of next week is World Book Day. The children are encouraged to come dressed as a book character look up words to extend our vocabulary. Well done to Lana who described an owl as of their choice. We will hold a parade in assembly to showcase the costumes the children are wearing and each ‘sagacious’ and was able to say that it meant wise! In Maths we have looked at dividing child has received a Book voucher to allow them to use at local bookshops. numbers with remainders and investigated how to find sums that have remainders. We have Chartwells School Meals started looking at fractions of numbers and can use strategies to find quarters, thirds, Following your conversation with Karen Thompson, your Area support manager, I am providing a statement re- fourths, fifths and sixths of numbers. We have completed our final swimming session of the garding Chartwells supply chain—“The traceability and quality of our food is a top priority. All of Chartwells’ nominated suppliers have to adhere to strict food quality and safety standards and they regularly undergo year this week. In our Ancient Egyptian cross curricular topic we have investigated the many independent audits to ensure these standards are upheld. In light of recent events, we have also sought, and gods of Ancient Egypt using the internet and made a oil pastel portrait of our chosen God. received, re-confirmation from the meat suppliers we use for Cornwall Council that they comply with our Abbie has very kindly made us a ‘God’s domino’ game that we have really enjoyed playing. In required traceability, testing and hygiene processes and that no affected products have been supplied. In R.E. we have investigated the role of the church minister and thought of pertinent questions addition, we are undertaking a DNA testing programme across our processed meat products to ensure that the to ask one when they visit the class later this term. integrity of the products we provide is maintained. Sennen Red Nose Day The children have made an excellent start after the half-term holiday. We have been reading On Friday 15th March it is Red Nose Day. If the children would like to take part it will cost them £1.00 to dress and writing poems and investigating compound words in English, while in maths we have up in something Red. Red Noses are on sale now from school for £1 each. Key Stage 2 Visit to County Showground sorted information in block graphs and pictograms and used them to answer questions. We Key Stage 2 will be visiting the Royal Cornwall Showground on Wednesday 20th March to participate in the have started our 'Healthy Humans' topic in science by looking at what our bodies need to be 'Farm & Country: Food & Farming Discovery Day For Schools.