Newsletter 3 16.10.20

LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 16.10.20
LUDGVAN SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER16.10.20
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 16.10.20

A word from the Principal...
Welcome,
It’s incredible how time flies. It doesn’t seem like yesterday when we were planning for our return
to school in September and yet, next week is the final week before half term. I am so proud of how
all the children and staff have adjusted over the past 6 weeks and it has been a pleasure to see
how quickly the children have returned to their love of learning.
If you have not yet seen your child’s Knowledge Organiser for their topic this term, please go on to
our website and it is available on the Curriculum 20/21 page. This document will explain some of
the key learning for your child and enable you to support them to learn the facts, understand the
vocabulary and discuss your child’s new learning with them.
Unfortunately, we have had a number of incidents this week where careless or irresponsible parking
or waiting have led to children or parents being put in danger. Please do not ignore the yellow
lines; they are there to ensure our entire community is safe. You are able to park at the community
centre and the walk across the community path in less than a minute and its use helps alleviate
the pressure on the road directly outside the school. Thank you for your continued support in this
matter.
Have a lovely weekend.
Kind regards,
Mr Adam Anderson
Principal

What’s General... been going on...
Breakfast Club Booking System
Thank you to those of you who are using breakfast club, it’s great to see that the increased
opening hours are helpful to many of our working parents. However, please ensure you book
in online through the school money portal as due to the popularity of the provision, we need
to use pre-booking to ensure we have adequate staffing. If you are unable to login to your
schoolmoney account, please let me know or contact Mrs Badcock in the office.
Out of hours
We have always been committed to offering a place for children in our community to socialise
and so have always kept our school site open during evenings and weekends. Unfortunately,
we have been coming into school in the mornings to litter strewn across our site. If your
children, of primary school age or older, use our school site outside of school hours, please
remind them to treat it with respect so that we can continue to keep it open.
Parking
Please remember to park/wait/drop-off in a sensible and responsible manner at the start
and end of the day. The community path takes less than a minute to walk and alleviates the
issues of trying to find a space on the main road.
Rock River
You will have seen how fantastic our Rock River is now looking. We would like to extend it
further, so please send in any further painted pebbles and stones. Thank you.
BlackbirdPie magazine goes virtual!
The virtual magazine is filled with great things to do, videos, links and interactive stuff.
There are lovely places to visit, wonderful walks and museums and galleries to visit (with
safety measures in place).
Please follow this link to view the magazine: https://blackbirdreads.turtl.co/story/blackbirdpie-autumn-2020/
Disabled Parking Space?
Unless you are a Blue Badge Holder, please do not park in our disabled parking space under
any circumstances. We appreciate on-site parking is limited, but this space needs to be
available throughout the day. Thank you.
Term Dates 2020-2021
Autumn Term
7th September – 17th December (Half term: 26-30 October)
Spring Term
5th January – 31st March (Half Term: 15-19 February)
Summer term
19th April – 21st July ( Half Term: 31 March – 4 June)
In term Inset Day
7th June

Coronavirus related absences – a quick reference guide
What to do if… Action needed by family Action taken by school Return to school
when…
My child has
coronavirus
symptoms
My child tests
positive for
coronavirus
Someone in my
household has
coronavirus
symptoms
Someone in my
household has
tested positive for
coronavirus
NHS Test and
Trace have
identified my
child as a ‘close
contact’ of
somebody with
coronavirus
We/my child has
travelled and has
to selfisolate as
part of a period of
quarantine
We have received
medical advice
that my child
must resume
shielding
• Do not come to school
• Contact school
• Keep any siblings home
• Self-isolate
• Get your child tested by ordering a test
• Inform school immediately about
the test result
• Do not come to school
• Contact school
• Inform school immediately about
the test result
• Self-isolate for at least 10 days
• Do not come to school
• Contact school
• Self-isolate for 14 days
• Household member to get a test
• Inform school immediately about
the test
• Do not come to school
• Contact school
• Self-isolate for 14 days
• Do not come to school
• Contact school
• Self-isolate for 14 days
• Do not take unauthorised leave in term
time
• Consider quarantine requirements and
FCO advice when booking travel
• Provide information to school as per
attendance policy Returning from a
destination where quarantine is
needed:
• Do not come to school
• Contact school
• Self-isolate for 14 days
• Do not come to school
• Contact the Headteacher
• Shield until you are informed that
restrictions are lifted and shielding is
paused
To get a test visit www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19
Bubble to continue as normal
Letter to be emailed and sent
home to children from the
class bubble. This group
instructed to self isolate for
10 days, school to provide
home learning
Home learning to be provided
if isolating for 14 days. If FSM
(not universal) School to
provide lunch provision
Home learning to be provided
if isolating for 14 days. If FSM
(not universal) School to
provide lunch provision
Home learning to be provided
if isolating for 14 days. If FSM
(not universal) School to
provide lunch provision
Home learning to be provided
if isolating for 14 days. If FSM
(not universal) School to
provide lunch provision
Learning at home to be
supported by school. If FSM
(not universal) School to
provide lunch provision
The test comes back
negative
After 10 days,
providing they are
feeling better
The household
member test is
negative
The child has
completed 14 days of
self-isolation
The child has
completed 14 days of
self-isolation
The quarantine
period of 14 days
has been completed
When you have
received
notification that it is
safe to return to
school

Broad and Balanced...
EYFS
Rainbow class has been busy learning all about themselves, their families and
their bodies. They have enjoyed talking about who lives in their house, what
their house looks like and the people in their family; they then used their
amazing drawing skills to draw them. The children have been learning about
their bodies and have made split pin people. They enjoyed listening to the story
‘Bumps in the Night’ and making their own skeletons using straws. In maths,
the children have been learning all about the number 3; including counting
to 3, identifying 3 sided shapes, how to make 3p and finding 3 on a clock. In
phonics, the children have learnt so many sounds! The newest sounds they’ve
learnt are: d, t and i. Even though the weather has been wet and very autumnal
this week, that hasn’t stopped the children getting outside and having lots
of fun! Well done for a brilliant first half term Rainbow class; we couldn’t be
more proud of how you have settled into your new school!

Broad and Balanced...
Y1
We have had lots of fun in Class 1 learning all about Medieval houses and Tudor
houses. The children enjoyed trying to make Medieval round houses from clay,
soil and straw. (Not that easy !!). They learnt lots of interesting facts about
Tudor houses and then worked with a partner to make their own Tudor house.
This week we took part in a Virtual PE Competition, our challenge for Year 1
was a super slalom run. The children were very competitive. In science we
explored the different textures of materials and the children used simple adjectives
to describe them.
I have been very impressed with the amazing work the children have produced
after listening to the story of The Princess and the Castle. They made castles,
boats, painted sea pictures and used lovely descriptive words in their writing.

Broad and Balanced...
Y2
Class 2 have had a busy week. Firstly we have been learning a lot about materials.
We designed our own dream houses and then we chose suitable materials
we would need to build them. Some of the houses had circus tents (Holden),
discos (Archie), a frozen lake (Elowyn) and a whole manner of pools and
football pitches and so on. Then we received an email from Humpty Dumpty
asking us to help him choose a material for a landing pad that would stop him
breaking each time he fell. We used eggs and designed a fair test to discover
the best material. Plastic bubble wrap was the winning material to protect him,
with straw coming in a close second! Following this, we finished our own Tudor
houses and they are now on display in our Great Fire of London topic corner.

Broad and Balanced...
Y3
Year 3 have continued to work hard over the last few weeks. We have finished
our African sunset pictures and look amazing! We have drawn some lovely
portraits this week. They have also been learning about Mount Kilimanjaro and
comparing this to Ben Nevis. In computing the children have been learning
how to email each other and the appropriate language around this. This week
the children carried out an investigation in Science to find out if males have a
larger skull than females. In Class 3,we found out that the males head is
larger!

Broad and Balanced...
Y4
This week, year 4 were having a great time exploring the digestive system
and the journey of our energy source from consumption, to getting rid of the
waste. There was lots of technical vocabulary that we learnt and the experiment
of creating our own stool was messy but informative.
Continuing our Roman themed topic, we have been busy refining our artistic
skills relating to drawing, shading, textures, symmetry and proportion in order
to design our own image of Julius Caesar. As you can see from the examples,
we have a very talented group of budding Da Vinci’s within our midst. Furthermore,
Felix had spent many hours preparing for a Roman rebellion by creating
his own shield and sword at home with a relative. The design was worthy of
Nero himself.

Broad and Balanced...
Y5
The children in Class 5 have really enjoyed being back at school; the first half
term has flown by so quickly, as they’ve been having so much fun. In PE, the
children have been learning new skills in basketball such as bowl pass; bounce
pass; dribbling through cones; defending and shooting under pressure. They
loved putting these skills into practice during a game. The children have continued
to be extremely creative in class and at home. In Art lessons, they have
been accurately drawing a leopard that gives the illusion of movement; I was
so impressed at the outcomes. At home, lots of children have been drawing
pictures and making 3D versions of endangered animals which are excellent.
Our class topic is ‘How do humans affect the lives of animals?’, we have been
researching a number of reasons behind this question as well as locating areas
in South America that have a number of critically endangered animals. In
addition to this the children have been locating countries, capital cities, rivers,
mountains and oceans on a map of South America. The maps were extremely
accurate and beautifully presented.

Broad and Balanced...
Year 6
Year 6 have had another amazing week! They have been working hard on their
drawing skills in Art over the last few weeks and have been building up through
drawing features, faces and simple figures. Soon, we will try adding these together
to create a detailed drawing. The drawings created so far have been so
impressive, using so much focus and detail. This week, Year 6 also attended
a surf day down at Gwithian beach. The conditions were blustery, to say the
least, but all of them were so resilient and eager to make the most of the day.
So many of them were standing up and catching some great waves, all leaving
the beach with a huge smile. Well done Year 6!

SCOTT’S SATURDAY MORNING
FOOTBALL CLUB!
Starting Saturday 17 th October at St. Uny School
£5 each, boys and girls, and all abilities welcome!
Ages: 4 – 6 yrs
Ages :7 – 9 yrs
Ages: 10 plus
Time: 9 – 10am
Time: 10 – 11am
Time: 11 – 12pm
Sessions are outside, weather permitting, so please
bring a warm coat, hat, gloves and a drink.
Each session is limited to 15 spaces so booking is
essential. To book a place, ring or text
Scott Goodchild with your child’s name and age to
07763171524.