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Half Termly Newsletter
Summer 2022

Forthcoming events:

May

30th to 3rd June Summer half term holiday

June

6th Return to school & after school clubs restart
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th & 17th Swimming lessons Year 6 Oak (11am-Noon)
20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th Swimming lessons Year 5 Cedar (11am-Noon)
23rd Key Stage 2 (Years 3,4,5 & 6) Sports Day (9am-12:30pm)
23rd Key Stage 1 (Years 1 & 2) Sports Day (12:30pm-3pm)
27, 28th , 29th, 30th (11am-Noon) & 5th July (2:30pm-3:30pm) Swimming lessons Year 4 Beech
28th June to 1st July Year 6 Exmouth Camp

July

4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th Swimming lessons Year 4 Sycamore (11am-Noon)
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th & 15th Swimming lessons Year 3 Elm (11am-Noon)
13th Rocksteady Summer Term Concert
18th, 19th, 20th, 21st & 22nd Swimming lessons Year 3 Ash (11am-Noon)
25th End of Summer term (2pm finish for school and Kids Club)

Head of School Welcome

This has been a short half term, yet we have still managed to enjoy lots of learning and celebratory events. School trips to Tintagel, Charlestown and Falmouth plus a theatre visit have provided super enrichment to our curriculum. Career events and workshops across classes are underway, from Nursery to Year 6, and we look forward to developing this further. Finishing the half term with DT Days, this time with a focus on cooking, has had the whole school smelling delicious - and everyone feeling hungry!

We are continuing to work with Go Cornish - still aiming to attain the Bronze Award this term. As part of this, it was wonderful to hear our super excited and enthusiastic Reception pupils perform to the whole school the song they wrote, sharing their thoughts and ideas about living in St. Austell - star performers!

A highlight of this half term is definitely the whole school shared celebration we held outside for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. With our KS2 pupils sharing time, food, music and conversation with our younger children alongside the whole staff team, it's been wonderful see the children enjoy larger shared events together and we look forward to more of these occasions again next half term. Finally, I want to thank you for your continued support and hope everyone enjoys the holiday, including of course the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday celebrations ahead.

Nursery - Acorn Class

This has been a wonderful half term of learning in Nursery! We started off this half term by sharing our brilliant learning with our parents and carers. This was a wonderful opportunity for us to share our Learning Journeys and our creative work together!

We have started to learn about different letter sounds in our Phonics learning in preparation for some of our Nursery children starting School. The children have been doing a fantastic job at recognising the sounds 's' 'a' 't' 'p' 'i' 'n'. We have also begun to practise our letter formation using large scale mark making resources such as chalks outside!

The Nursery children have been super busy helping to create our new 'Dinosaur Adventure Area' outdoors! We did this by choosing and planting different plants into tyres! We discussed how we need to look after the plants and what plants need to help them grow. The children did a brilliant job and it has been wonderful to see our new Dinosaur area in action!

We have really enjoyed learning about amazing animals around the world! We have been looking at maps of the world and discussing where different animals live. The children were eager to make their own animal masks to take part in their own role play!

Well done Nursery! You have had another brilliant half term full of lots of busy learning!