Many congratulations to our cricket team who won the Gold medal for Lydford Primary School recently. This was at a small schools cricket tournament held at Hatherleigh Cricket Club. What a fabulous achievement. Well done, everyone!
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As part of Class 2's history project on the industrial revolution, the children enjoyed a visit to Coldharbour Textile Mill and working Wool Museum in Uffculme, East Devon. It really brought their learning to life; they experienced the cottage industry of wool weaving through to the intensely noisy and busy factory environment of the steam powered weaving looms.
The Industrial Reveloution, Georgia O'Keeffe, poety and more.
All children are expected to complete the following each week:
Homework projects / spelling / times tables: Activities and projects will be set half termly. Homework tasks consolidate learning taking place in school. Studies have shown that home learning can be extremely important in a child’s cognitive development. The children will get more out of the homework projects if they apply themselves correctly and these are designed to encourage creativity. Children who rush their projects and do not spend an appropriate time on them will not gain the benefits of our homework policy. Project homework tasks are for EVERY child to engage in. Choose one task to complete this half term and another to complete next half term. Please bring all homework into school on or before Monday 18th October so that it can be displayed and celebrated on Thursday 21st from 9-9.15 in the school hall, to which you are all welcome. Thank you for the ongoing support with your child’s home learning, Mrs Dickinson. A busy week for our youngest learners. Exploring the ice outside, phonics learning, counting, small world play and lots more! As part of our learning in RE this week we walked through the village to St Petrock's to find out about the features of a church. We looked at the tower, the stained glass windows, the bells, the pews and the alter. The children's behaviour was exemplary and they asked lots of very thoughtful questions.
Class One had another busy week of learning. We met two more historical witnesses; Mrs Jewell, who attended school in the 1980s and Mr Cooke who was a pupil in the 1950s. As before, the pupils asked their questions and listened to the answers with interest. We have learnt so much from these lessons! This week wad the start of advent. The children have enjoyed our new class text 'How Winston Delivered Christmas' and have loved having a go at the activity that goes with each day of advent. We have learned about advent too, in RE where we have been looking in detail at the Christmas story.
We have been learning all about the history of our school. This week we were visited by the first of our invited historical witnesses. Mrs Pengelly was the administrator at Lydford from 1989 and was able to answer many of our questions and tell us all about life at school 30 years ago. Forest School this Friday was pretty chilly! We wrapped up warmly and had a lovely time creating a balancing course and playing in the mud kitchen.
This week we have been celebrating European Day of Languages. This is a special day for linguists to celebrate the variety of different languages spoken across Europe. The children learnt about why it is important to learn other languages with Mrs Dickinson, and then made posters. Mrs Jordan teaches French across Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust and was very impressed with the colourful and well-presented posters. Wren’s poster highlighted that you don’t need to be fluent to communicate in another language. Jessica’s poster included lots of benefits of language learning and including the fact that 75% of the world’s population speak no English at all. Millie stated that learning languages are good for your brain and fun to learn. Emily commented on her poster that learning another language helps you understand your own language. Theo wrote that the joy of learning another language is that you also learn about different cultures. This week in our French lesson we learnt that Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg also have French as an official language. It would be wonderful if children could do some research at home to identify other countries across the world that have French as an official language. We also learnt how to have an introductory conversation in French and how to spot France on a map. Mrs Jordan looks forward to teaching Class 2 every Thursday afternoon. Photo by Thomas Buchholz on Unsplash All children are expected to complete the following each week:
Homework projects will be set half termly to help consolidate learning taking place in school. Project homework tasks are for EVERY child to engage in and encourage creativity in learning. Choose one task to complete over the next few weeks. The projects will be shared in the last week of term. Please bring all homework into school on Monday 18th October so that we can display it on Thursday 21st from 9-9.15. You are invited to join us for this celebration of the children’s learning. Thank you for the ongoing support with your child’s home learning. Mrs Luxford Photo by Erol Ahmed on Unsplash All children are expected to complete the following each week:
Homework projects / spelling / times tables: Activities and projects will be set half termly. Homework tasks consolidate learning taking place in school. Studies have shown that home learning can be extremely important in a child’s cognitive development. The children will get more out of the homework projects if they apply themselves correctly and these are designed to encourage creativity. Children who rush their projects and do not spend an appropriate time on them will not gain the benefits of our homework policy. Project homework tasks are for EVERY child to engage in. Choose one task to complete this half term and another to complete next half term. Please bring all homework into school on or before Monday 18th October so that it can be displayed and celebrated on Thursday 21st from 9-9.15 in the school hall, to which you are all welcome. Thank you for the ongoing support with your child’s home learning, Mrs Dickinson. Romans in Britain - William Morris - Weslandia - Practical science skills - And much more!
Photo by Wim van 't Einde on Unsplash Nursery Rhymes - Weather - School maps - Number and place value - SCARF - And much more!
Lydford Primary Forest School is an inspirational location that offers ALL our pupils regular weekly opportunities to be inspired; to achieve; to develop increased self-esteem. Pupil’s positive mental health and well-being is promoted through hands on learning experiences in the natural environment. Forest School is a specialised approach that sits within and compliments our school ethos and vision. |
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