Newsletter 21 11.06.21
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LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 11.06.<strong>21</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL<br />
NEWSLETTER11.06.<strong>21</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 11.06.<strong>21</strong>
A word from the Principal...<br />
Welcome,<br />
We are delighted to be back at school after our break and it’s been lovely hearing about all the wonderful<br />
things you got up to over the half term holiday!<br />
I’d like to start by congratulating three of our Y6 children – Logan, Lloyd and Laurie. Over half term,<br />
they organised and completed their own triathlon and raised over £600 for the FLS! This money will<br />
be spent further improving our outdoor spaces. It’s great to see children already thinking of what<br />
they can do to help others and using this motivation to make a difference. Well done!<br />
As we race towards the end of the school year, we are nearing a time when plans for Sports Day and<br />
our Leavers’ Assembly are in full swing. However, until the next round of guidance is released and we<br />
discover if restrictions are due to relax or be removed, we are unable to plan fully for these events.<br />
In an ideal world, we would like to run these events as usual with full parental attendance, but we<br />
will update you on this as and when we know more.<br />
Due to Lockdown 3, we were unable to hold our usual Parents Consultation Day in the Spring term.<br />
We appreciate that this opportunity to meet your child’s class teacher is invaluable and so we will be<br />
offering optional appointments to meet parents later this term. Shortly after we send home end of<br />
year reports, you will have the opportunity to speak with your child’s teacher in person or remotely<br />
to discuss their progress or transition to the next year group. These appointments are completely<br />
optional, but are available for those of you who want to attend.<br />
Have a lovely weekend and hopefully the sunshine that is forecast makes an appearance!<br />
Kind regards,<br />
Mr Adam Anderson<br />
Principal
Useful information...<br />
Young Musicians<br />
We have been informed that the London Young Musician Season 1 20<strong>21</strong> -2022 is<br />
now open. The competition focuses on supporting the worldwide learning and creation<br />
of classical music. It is open to young musicians under the age of 28 and is<br />
available to all classical music instruments and vocals (classical singing, opera and<br />
musical theatre). The competition will be online this year. Below you can find the<br />
link for more information and the application form.<br />
You can see the announcement here:<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2veGmh433L4&ab_channel=LondonYoungMusicianCompetition<br />
https://www.londonyoungmusician.com/apply<br />
Term Dates <strong>21</strong>-22<br />
Autumn Term 6 Sep - 17 Dec (Half term 25-29 Oct)<br />
Spring Term 4 Jan - 8 Apr (Half term <strong>21</strong>-25 Feb)<br />
Summer Term 18 April - 26 July (Half term 30 May - 3 JunE)<br />
INSET DAYS: 6 & 7 Sep, 4 Jan and 25 & 26 July<br />
Additional Bank Holiday for Platinum Jubilee 6 June<br />
World Music Day<br />
World Music Day is <strong>21</strong>st June. On Friday 25th June, pupils are invited to come to<br />
school dressed as a rockstar to celebrate this. Also, if any pupil plays an instrument<br />
or sings, they are welcome to play to the whole school, either virtually or in the hall<br />
depending on restrictions. Can they please let their teachers know if they are interested.<br />
Let’s celebrate music!<br />
Term Dates<br />
Our term dates for the rest of the academic year are as follows:<br />
Summer Term: 19th April - <strong>21</strong>st July<br />
School Gate<br />
Please be reminded that our school gate will be closed between 0830-0900 and<br />
1500-1530.<br />
This is to create a safe environment for our children to enter school. Thank you for<br />
your support.<br />
Blackbird Pie <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
You can find the latest Blackbird Pie newsletter here: Blackbird pie link: https://<br />
blackbirdreads.turtl.co/story/blackbirdpie-20<strong>21</strong>-may-june/<br />
Lost Property<br />
Please put your child’s name in all items of their school uniform!<br />
Since our return, we have amassed 28 jumpers and cardigans (mostly KS1) with no<br />
names in.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
EYFS<br />
This week we launched our new topic, Superheroes, with a dressing up day.<br />
The children looked brilliant in their outfits and enjoyed sharing who they were<br />
and what their super powers were with the rest of the class. They then had<br />
to solve the mystery of the missing rug and box of dinosaurs. They looked for<br />
clues as well as set up traps to try and catch the ‘baddie’ who had taken them.<br />
At the end of the day they used their super powers to try and make them come<br />
back. Luckily their superpowers worked - the mat and box of dinosaurs magically<br />
reappeared overnight! We look forward to learning more about superheroes<br />
and real life superheroes over the next half term.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y1<br />
It sounds like the children had a wonderful half term with their families especially<br />
as the weather was so nice! Just before half term the children really enjoyed<br />
making a cream tea to share with someone at home. They also worked<br />
extremely hard sketching beautiful pictures of flowers and plants.<br />
The children have had great fun participating and learning about the skills<br />
needed for tennis in our PE sessions.<br />
Our PSHE focus has been all about staying healthy. This week we explored<br />
the hidden sugar content in food and drinks. The children were very surprised<br />
about the amount of sugar in some of our favourite food and drinks!
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y2<br />
Class 2 were lucky enough to be able to visit the zoo. The rain held off as we<br />
explored the different animals and the Japanese garden. The lioness had obviously<br />
been missing visitors, as she decided to stroll over to us and demonstrate<br />
her football skills with her extremely tough football. Overall, it was a lovely day<br />
and so nice to be able to get out of the classroom and experience just a little<br />
bit of normality.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y3<br />
Year 3 ended last half term with a Cornish themed day. The children dressed in black,<br />
white and yellow clothes. They watched a reenactment of the St Piran’s day story by<br />
local actors. They made Cornish hevva cake and scones, they created Cornish dragon<br />
eyes from clay, they learnt some Cornish words, had a Cornish pasty and Cornish<br />
cream tea and then played Cornish hurling, Cornish rugby and Cornish tug of war!<br />
The children had a lovely day.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y4<br />
This week, year 4 took part in their residential. Although we couldn’t experience the<br />
beauty of Eden, or the hussle and bustle of London, we did the thing that would have<br />
been a close 3rd choice for every child on this planet - spend more time at school!<br />
We visited BF adventure and experienced canoeing, rock climbing and team building<br />
over a lake. Before ‘the great Wall climb’, there were lots of budding spiderman wannabes<br />
chomping at-the-bit to showcase their agility and guile from 20 metres in the<br />
air. 2 metres into their ascent, it became obvious that there was more training needed<br />
before the Avengers came calling at Ludgvan.<br />
Canoeing was much more successful than anticipated and the children were surprisingly<br />
good with their hand-eye coordination when it came to paddling (so much so<br />
that Mr Uren is wondering why this isn’t applied to their writing in English).<br />
The evening flew by with lots of playground games and even a game of, ‘hide and<br />
seek in the dark’ around school. How some children can fit into tiny spaces to avoid<br />
being caught, yet take up a whole bed when sleeping, is beyond me.<br />
After a belly full of Dominos and a tired, sweaty group of children, we settled down<br />
for bed. Well, I use the term ‘settled’ very loosely. The next day was our beach trip.<br />
The weather decided it didn’t want to follow what the weather people stated, but we<br />
made the most of it, regardless. We played beach games, paddled in the sea, played<br />
rounders, built sandcastles and also did a beach clean.<br />
PARENTS - I can officially say that your children are great at picking up rubbish so<br />
you now have ammunition when it comes to bedroom-tidying days.<br />
Following our beach trip, we played more games at school before bed time.<br />
Our final day was an energy struggle. Rain, again, delayed our park visit but it was a<br />
lovely activity to round off our adventures.<br />
If I could summarise the camp in 5 words/phrases, it would be:<br />
New experiences - over indulging - hunting - bedtime mayhem - SNORING.<br />
Well done year 4 to a successful camp experience. And a massive thank you to Miss<br />
Rome, Miss Hocking, Miss Basset, Mr Goodchild and Miss Kennedy for your help and<br />
support.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y4 conrinued...
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y5<br />
The final week of last half term saw year 5 putting their knowledge together of<br />
our Cornwall topic to create a short documentary about Cornwall. The children<br />
split into groups which each researched a different aspect of Cornwall such as<br />
Fishing, Farming, Mining and Food etc. They worked hard to plan and write<br />
their scripts and then perform and record their pieces. Hopefully we will be<br />
able to share this with families soon once fully complete. That week also saw<br />
the children having a go at making Cornish pasties. For some this was the first<br />
time making pasties or even tasting one!<br />
Everyone has come back ready to learn after half term and have got stuck into<br />
their learning. So far this week we have started our first training session with<br />
the Cornish Pirates for PE, learnt the South African song ‘Shosholsa’ in Music<br />
and are focusing on measuring angle in maths.
Exciting and Engaging...<br />
Y6<br />
In Class 6, we have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the British Monarchy!<br />
Before half term, the whole class chose the Monarch they were most interested<br />
in and wrote amazing and informative biographies. We learnt all about<br />
the features included in biography writing and every child conducted thorough<br />
research to ensure their writing was factual and accurate. They ‘published’<br />
their pieces as double page spreads including photos or illustrations and they<br />
all looked incredible! We have also enjoyed doing some 3D art. We learnt all<br />
about some famous sculptors and planned our own 3D figures of our chosen<br />
Monarch. On Tuesday, the children constructed their figures, using clay tools to<br />
add texture and detail. We have been so impressed by their clay skills and how<br />
recognisable their Monarchs are. Finally, we had some Year 6 representatives<br />
planting vegetables in our class bed. We are now looking forward to watching<br />
them grow. Well done on such a brilliant first week back after half term Year 6!
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