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Year 4

Posted 27/10/2025
by Michaela Wright

October 2025

We have had another busy month in Year 4. We finished off our Geography topic on Climate Change by completing a piece of work which aimed to answer our question 'What is climate change and what can we do about it?' The children have really enjoyed learning about ways in which we can all do our bit to help reduce the effects of climate change. Many of them have worked with some of our school Eco-council to suggest ways in which we, as a school, can have a positive impact on the environment and the future of our planet.

In Science we completed our work on different habitats that are being affected by climate change and finished off the unit by designing our own conservation areas. The children researched the animals/species they would like to help protect and then thought carefully about all of the features their conservation area would need in order to be successful.

In Literacy we read the book 'I can Save the Earth' and the children completed lots of work on persuasive texts before they wrote their own persuasive text to try and persuade people to help curb climate change. They also completed poetry unit of work which saw them learn about simile and metaphor poems before creating their own.

In Maths we continued our work on times table whilst completing an addition and subtraction unit. In particular we focused on column addition and subtraction methods.

In Art we studied the comic book artist Dav Pilkey and the children created their own comic book strips in the style of him. They practiced lots of cartoon style drawing techniques before editing and refining their own work.

PE this month saw the children completing lots of circuit activities before working as a class to create their own circuit training which they all thoroughly enjoyed taking part in.

Year 5

Posted 22/10/2025
by Caroline Hambly

October 2025

October has been a busy month in Year 5!
We have launched into our WWII topic fully, learning about when WWII happened, why it started and what it would have been like living through WWII. We have especially focused on the life of Anne Frank in our unit on diary recounts. Year 5 have found the experiences of Anne Frank fascinating. They have been really intrigued about her time in the annex and what was happening in Europe at the time which meant the Franks needed to hide. As part of our history learning, we have been discussing whether the information we read about WWII is reliable or unreliable.
In PE, we have just finished our dance unit. Year 5 thought really carefully about how to express certain events through dance and produced some fantastic pieces in lessons. And in music, we have been learning to play notes on a keyboard using the correct five finger position and how to play simple pieces as a group and individually. We are very lucky to be joined by Mr Jane on a Friday to teach us!
In between all of that... Year 5 have found time to consider World Mental Health Day. We made 'Chatterboxes' to help us talk about ways to keep positive mental health. We also have been celebrating Black History Month by reading stories by black authors and learning about some of the incredible campaigners throughout history who stood up for equal rights for ALL people. Finally, we were very lucky to have Alice's mum visit us and talk about her faith and the celebration of Diwali which happened at the end of this month. WOW!

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Posted 18/10/2025
by Lynn Cox

Week ending 17th October 2025

Mufti
Thank you very much for donating so many lovely items for the tombola and supporting this at the Harvest festival. We are going to put the proceeds of the tombola towards buying a gift for each child for Christmas.

Eco Council
You may have noticed this on our Facebook page, but we now have an Eco Council representing both schools. The aim of this council is to encourage everyone to reduce energy use and carbon emissions at a school level. We are also concerned with ensuring that the school environment is tidy and eco- friendly. Look out on here and Facebook for updates.

Harvest Festival
We held our annual Harvest Festival at the Infant and Nursery school on Thursday afternoon. It was a great celebration filled with lovey Harvest songs and beautiful poems, courtesy of the Year 6 pupils.There were lots of family members who were able to join us and we were delighted ablout that. We are grateful for all of the generous donations of food that you sent into the schools. These have now been delivered to the Callington Foodbank and will provide valuable provisions for families in need.

Honey Fair Art Competition

Although Storm Amy prevented the choir from singing at Callington Honey Fair, the children still submitted art for the competition. I am delighted to tell you that we won 3rd prize overall. We received at £50 cheque and we are going to be presented with a goodie hamper on Monday during celebration assembly. We done to everyone who created lovely art work.

ARC October

Posted 17/10/2025
by Jane Cansdale

October

This October has been a busy month. Eddie enjoyed a day out at the Wild Wood where he visited the Saxon Village. Here he found out how they lived. We explored the different types of huts they lived in and tried out the wooden bed. It was not very comfy but the animal skins kept the Saxon's warm. The Saxon's had metal helmets and long tunics, using spears, axes and swords. The Spears were good for hunting, axes for wood and swords for fighting.

We were lucky to have a go at making flat bread and woodwork. The flat bread was delicious.

Wild Wood, also had a very tricky maze...we eventually found our way out. We had time at the end to visit the different animals including the bears. One was asleep in the tree.

Freddie enjoyed a special day at school, when the fire engine arrived for the children to take a look at and listen to fire people explain what they had to do in their job.

We have also been busy in class. Leo is showing one less from 5 as he joins in with the '5 Little Monkey's rhyme' (one of his favourites).

Year 4

Posted 14/10/2025
by Michaela Wright

September 2025

We have had a busy first month in Year 4. They children have settled in and are getting used to the new routines and work load. This month we have been looking into Climate Change. This has run through our Literacy, Geography and Science work. The children have researched and recapped what climate change is and its affect on the planet and more specifically, in Science, different habitats within the various climate zones.
We read the book 'The bear in the stars' in Literacy and the children completed lots of work on word clauses and the structures of stories. They then re-wrote the story in their own words and wrote their own endings. After investigating the different climate zones the children picked an animal from three different zones and completed work on how climate change was affecting those animals and their habitats.

In Maths we have started our daily times table work this month as well as completing our place value unit. We have covered number lines, rounding and roman numerals. The children particularly enjoyed learning our roman numerals song.

In Art, the children have completed lots of work on Climate change, creating art work that represents the planet both with climate change and what the planet would look like if we were able to slow the rate of it down. The children also created multimedia posters to help encourage and persuade people to help curb climate change.

In Music they have investigated what pitch, tempo, dynamics and rhythm mean and listened to lots of different styles of music to better understand the instruments involved. The children also listened to the 'Carnival of the Animals' and made notes about the animals they believed the music was representing, they then sketched these in the sketchbooks whilst re-listening to the music.