Summer 2 Newsletter

Head of School Welcome

Welcome to this week's newsletter!
I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you as your new Head of School. I am very excited to join such a great school and work with such a dedicated team.

I have lived and worked in the local area for many years now and was previously Head of School at Whitemoor and I have been a senior leader at Bugle school for the last six months.
Mr Freckelton will be working closely with me as lead teacher and I know you will want to join me in thanking him for all his hard work leading the school so well over the last few months.
I am looking forward to meeting you all in person over the next few days.

Notifying change of circumstances

Please tell us of any changes to you or your child's personal details (i.e name, address, telephone numbers, emergency contact details, medical details, email address or relationship change). Certain changes may be updated directly via the Arbor Parent Portal, however if you have any difficulty please email the school office at: hello@treverbyn.org.uk

Reception - Mrs Kearton

This week Menabilly have been delving deeper into the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We worked together to build our own story map! We had to work out the beginning, middle and end of the story and sort the pictures into the correct order. We were wonderful storytellers!!
We continued in the journey of building and planting our garden area, adding some butterfly loving garden seeds, some more sunflowers and some runner beans!
We have thought further about the concept of Lifecycles and this week explored the metamorphosis of a tadpole to a frog 🐸!
It prompted a discussion about animals who have babies who do not look like the adult.

More adventures to follow next week….!
Have a great weekend.

Stars
Poppy
Maybelle

Year 1 - Miss Bird

This week year 1 have been very busy. We have continued learning the story of 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' and we now know all the talk for writing actions. In maths, we have begun learning about doubles and had fun finding our 'double partners'. We have been observing how our broad beans are growing, some of the seeds are opening up. We have all been working extra hard in phonics and have been really impressing the adults with our knowledge of new sounds!

Stars
Layla- Mai
Elwood

Year 2 - Miss Warn

This week year 2 have been enjoying the sunshine and working really hard. We enjoyed learning about fractions including quarters, thirds and halves. Lots of us even found three quarters!
In literacy, we enjoyed learning more of our Jack and the beanstalk story and writing in the past tense, finding and using adverbs and powerful verbs. We have still been working on our spelling and punctuation to help with our upcoming SATS.
We have continued learning about plants and have dissected plants and reassembled them in science and in RE continued learning about Muslims and what they believe. We learnt about Ramadan and what Muslims do during Ramadan.
You should have received the SATS timetable via email from Miss Warn. Please try to keep up your child's good attendance over the next few weeks especially. Thank you for your support with this already!

Stars
Alfie
Amelia
Esmae B

Year 3 - Mrs George & Miss Metcalfe

At the start of this week, Year 3 learnt about how to run a relay race. They worked on sprint starts and passing the baton, it was very tiring work! On Tuesday, they had their first cornet lesson, which was super fun, learning how to hold the cornet correctly and the different parts of a cornet. In literacy, we have been looking at features of a newspaper report, we collected eyewitness statements from survivors of Pompeii through the use of hot seating. In Maths, we have been consolidating our knowledge of the 2, 4 and 8 times table and noticing patterns between them to problem solve. Well done to those children who read 4 or more times last week. It would be lovely to see more children reading at home.

Stars
Alfie
Cleo

Year 4 - Mrs Freckelton & Mr Bray

Year 4 have been using evidence from the past to learn what life was like in Ancient Egypt. They have been developing their ability to ask a range of questions to find out new information and have used clues to understand how Ancient Egyptians went about daily life.
With a range of artefacts loaned from the Royal Cornwall Museum, they have had the opportunity to hold jewellery, clay pots, statues and ornaments - some of which are almost 4,000 years old!! We had special cloth gloves to wear to ensure the items weren't damaged. We have also painted our Death Masks in the traditional gold and blue colours - just like King Tutankhamun. At the end of the week had had a visit from the local Police to remind us how to be good citizens. Ask your child what the age is for being criminally responsible.

Stars
Kyle
Courtney

Year 5 - Miss Sinclair

A short but busy week in Year 5, we had another glorious sailing and paddle boarding lesson. We are also finding out more about sailing in our class book, Kensuke's Kingdom where our main character is sailing round the world with his family. We have started to look at a famous Anglo-Saxon story, Beowulf. In maths we have been comparing and ordering fractions.

Stars
Harry O
Jayden

Year 6 - Mrs Pearson

This week, Year 6 have been working hard towards their SATS and packing in as much revision before next week! In maths, we have covered Fractions, Algebra and Percentages. We have been completing a SPAG revision quiz each day to remind us of our grammatical terms. We have looked at SATS strategies and tips, for example, READ THE QUESTION CAREFULLY and have had a run through of the structure for next week.

Stars
Evie
Rokas