This week has mainly been about the Year 6 class who have been sitting their end of Key Stage tests AKA SATs. It was a busy week starting with a hearty breakfast in the dining room at the Junior school of cereals, toast, pancakes , brioche and crumpets! They then sat papers testing their spelling, punctuation and grammar, reading and maths (they had to take three maths papers!)
All of the children were impeccably behaved and were calm throughout.
Big thanks to the adults who helped to make everything go so smoothly- Mrs David, Miss Cunningham, Mrs Fraser, Miss Jenkins and Mrs Pearce.
Take a look at the photograph below which shows how happy the Year 6 were when it was all over!
We were absolutely delighted to share our recent Ofsted report when the final draft was finished at the end of last week. Some of favourite quotes from the report are: "Pupils at Copper Valley Infant and Nursery Academy are vibrant, confident and happy individuals. They flourish in the nurturing and respectful culture of the school." and "There is a clear focus on strengthening pupils' vocabulary and confidence in using language."
Thank you to all members of staff from both academies who supported each other to help to achieve this super report , to the parents who completed the parent survey and to the wonderful children at the Infant and Nursery school. 

Year 6 SATs - That's a wrap!

Our Year 6 children were incredible this week - they were an absolute credit to their families and took each and every day in their stride!

We began each day with a chilled SATs breakfast, where the children were able to come in and have a calm, pleasant time together before the day began.

They came in smiling, ready and enthusiastic to get the tests done and they absolutely brought their 'A Game'!

This is a class who truly do support each other and their work ethic is something to behold!

They are also a resilient group of young people - something that the Government is saying we maybe need to work on in schools - not with this amazing bunch; they have 'grit' in abundance!

Sitting SATs tests does not show all the many gifts, talents and qualities that our children possess. They measure them on the day in a limited range of subjects and while I know that our children will have risen to those challenges and shown exactly how hard they have worked towards these goals, we know that they will go on to be incredible adults who will all be successful in their own individual and brilliant ways!

A massive thank you to our families - you are raising a phenomenal group of young people and we appreciate the support, kindness and positivity that you give us each and every day!

VE Day - 80 Years on

As a a school, we commemorated the 80th Anniversary of VE Day by dressing in red, white and blue.

Year 6 took part in a UK-wide webinar involving hundreds of schools. The Webinar involved learning about British Values - what they are and how they might link in with VE Day.

All schools were invited to contribute in the chat and out of the hundreds of schools that took part, Copper Valley Junior School got a mention, much to the children's delight!

One of our pupils brought in a written account of his Grandma's memories from VE Day. Her Mum had found some fireworks from somewhere and everyone had managed to find some special food - in spite of the rationing - so they could have a street party with singing, dancing, laughing and bonfires! Celebrations went on until way past 4am!

Leading up to midday, we watched the service at Westminster Abbey and we all joined in with a 2 minute silence as a mark of respect and remembrance.

At lunchtime, we went up onto Foster's Field and shared a VE Day picnic, complete with bunting and plenty of flag-waving!

The children discussed the importance of not only VE Day but of our continuing need to remember in order to avoid any such wars from happening ever again.

We finished the day watching a special VE Day Newsround episode, which included some first-hand accounts of people's memories of VE Day. 

Keyboard Project - Livin' on a Prayer!

Year 6 are lucky to be involved in a music project with Mr Jane from the Cornwall County Music Service.

Each week, they will be developing their musical skills and understanding through a variety of activities and games linked to the Bon Jovi classic, 'Livin' on a Prayer'!

Year 6 clearly have not forgotten some of the skills they previously learned in Year 5 with Mr Jane - we were all very impressed with how quickly they picked things up, listening carefully, repeating patterns and performing short melodies.

Hopefully, at the end of the project, we will be able to invite our families in for a final performance!

Another busy week has passed at Copper Valley. On Thursday we joined the rest of the Nation to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe day. Some of the Juniors joined a webinar to learn about VE Day along with hundreds of other schools across the country. We talked about how thankful we were that we hadn't experienced what war was like and how important and precious peace is. We all enjoyed a picnic lunch in the style of a 'street party'. 
On Friday the Year 1 class enjoyed a trip to Burrator and visited the Discovery Centre there.
The sun shone brightly in Callington on Saturday as they celebrated the annual Mayfest. This year the theme for the giant was flying creatures. We had a fabulous ostrich with an incredibly tall neck We also had some colourful bugs to dance around alongside our big bird. Thank you to Mr and Mrs Symons and Oli for helping to transport the ostrich to and from the school as it was no mean feat! Thank you to Ivy, Imogen, Charlie, Oscar, Sophie, Henry, Freya, Serena, Aria, Ethan and Logan  who took part in the parade and represented the schools brilliantly. Additional thanks go to Miss Thomas, Mrs Wright,  Mrs Cansdale and Mrs Symons for also taking part in the procession.
Recent fundraising efforts by your good selves has resulted in a new football kit for the upper juniors (The one which Mrs Pearce got for us is sized for the lower juniors.) I thought that you might like to see it being modelled by some Y4 pupils - who will soon be upper juniors! 

Comic relief 2025!

Our school councilors were great sports and offered themselves up to be pied in the face to raise money for Comic Relief!

All the children also paid to dress up as their favourite super hero, teacher or in their pyjamas for the day!
 

It has been a busy first two weeks of the summer herm. Both Year 4 and Year 5 have had trips to Cotehele. Year 4 took inspirations from this beautiful setting to create some poetry whilst Year 5 explored the wildlife found in the orchard and the pond. They also received complimentary comments from the general public who were also visiting.
On Thursday we had some fantastic volunteers from "Tavy Task Force". They worked tirelessly in the hottest day of the year so far. The result was a pond (at the Infant and Nursery school) which is now usable by the children Year 1 didn't waste any time trying it out (see the lovely pictures below.) Thank you to Ken Tripp for organising this for us.
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Thursday 8th May is the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. Pupils can come to school dressed in red, white and blue. There will be lots of opportunities to learn about VE Day during the day.
I hope that you all enjoy the bank holiday.

Copper Valley Careers Fair

The Copper Valley Infant site held a careers fair for the whole school. The children learned about a wide variety of careers, having some wonderful experiences and asking lots of thoughtful questions.


Our visitors included a vet who is also a farmer, a  dog groomer, a dog walker, a health and safety manager, marine engineers, an oil tanker driver as well as information about working for the National Trust!

We are so grateful to all of our visitors for giving us their precious time and for showing us some of the many careers out there in our locality.


Hopefully, some of the children will be inspired to pursue some of these careers themselves!

If we can't go to the museum, the museum will come to us!

While Truro museum is undergoing refurbishment, the staff, along with many of their artefacts, have been using the Library Service van to come out to schools. Year 6 were lucky enough to be able to hold real primary source artefacts from both the Roman and Ancient Greek eras.

We had to wear special gloves so that we wouldn't damage the precious artefacts and we learned all about what these items can tell us about the time they originate from. 

One of the favourite objects was something that baffled us. Being placed among the oil lamps, we assumed it was also an oil lamp, however, it turned out to be a baby's bottle made out of pottery!

February

This term, we are paying particular attention to different life cycles and engaging in the theme 'minibeasts'. 

Our literacy is based around the author Eric Carle. We are having great fun with his books, engaging us in our topic in literacy, science, DT and art. 

We are excited to have our caterpillars, which we hope will transform into beautiful butterflies. We have been on a minibeast hunt, and although we did not find any caterpillars outside, we found worms, centipedes, spiders, woodlice and beetles. 

Our Design Technology, this term is also all about minibeasts. We are busy trying new techniques using levers and pivots so that we can then design and make our own minibeast moving picture.

Finally, we are going to be visiting a farm to continue investigating lifecycles. We are hoping to see some lambs and maybe baby chicks.