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Year 6 Year 6 - April

Posted 15/05/2025
by Susanne David

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!

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Posted 13/05/2025
by Lynn Cox

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!

Year 3 March/April 2025

Posted 07/05/2025
by Louise Owen

Spring is here!

A Busy and Brilliant Term in Our Classroom!

What a fantastic term it’s been in our class! We’ve been diving into a wide range of exciting topics across all areas of learning.

In science, we’ve been learning all about how to stay healthy. We explored the different food groups and talked about the importance of a balanced diet. We also learned about the importance of sun safety—especially as summer approaches—and discovered what UV light is and how it can affect our skin. We even investigated how shadows are formed, bringing some real curiosity and creativity to our science lessons.

In art, we were inspired by the work of Paul Klee. We looked at how he used colour, shape, and line to create his unique style, and had a go at creating some wonderful Klee-inspired masterpieces of our own!

In French, we’ve been growing our vocabulary by naming shapes. C’est fantastique! The children have enjoyed linking their language learning with their work in maths and art.

It’s been a term full of learning, creativity, and discovery. Well done to everyone for their enthusiasm and hard work!

Year 5

Posted 06/05/2025
by Caroline Hambly

April 2025

Much of April was spent hunting for Easter eggs and eating chocolate in the Easter break. However, on the first Monday back after Easter, Year 5 went on an exciting trip to Cotehele house. They worked alongside an ecology lecturer from the University of Plymouth to collect species and help monitor the biodiversity in their orchard. In the afternoon, the lecturer, James, suggested having a 'quick' look at the biodiversity around the pond area. Well, an hour later, we had to drag Year 5 away from the pond because it was time to catch the coach back to school!
A huge thank you to the University of Plymouth and Cotehele for this amazing, immersive day of Science!

Year 6

Posted 06/05/2025
by Susanne David

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!

Head's Blog Weeks Ending 2nd May 2025

Posted 04/05/2025
by Lynn Cox

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.

Year 4

Posted 28/04/2025
by Michaela Wright

March/April 2025

In History we were studying the Vikings. Our history question was; ‘Who were the Vikings and what impact did they have on Britain?’ The children asked and answered questions about the past and evaluated the reliability of their evidence to discover more about this period in history. They uncovered where the Viking period came in our history timeline and then who the Vikings were, where their homelands where and where and why they came and settled here. They then looked at the impact the Vikings had on Britain by studying how Britain was before the Vikings came to settle, how it was during their raids and this era and then after the Viking era ended.

In Maths we completed lots of work on fractions and once this unit was complete we moved onto decimals. The children also spent lots of time working on their multiplications. We have been using Times Table Rockstars to help increase our recall of times table facts.

In Literacy we were studying the story ‘How to train your dragon’. We read the story as a class over the course of the month whilst completing VIPER activities and using our Fab Four characters to investigate the story in more detail. The children completed lots of SPaG work, particularly focusing on expanded noun phrases, direct speech and fronted adverbials before eventually planning, writing and editing their very own short chapter for the book. We also looked at recounts and the children wrote their own recounts after studying the features of them and exploring recounts written for different purposes.

In March we organised and ran a careers event at the Infant and Nursery base which allowed the children to move around the school and talk to lots of different people about their jobs. The children also completed different activities relating to these peoples jobs. It was a fantastic day which we hope helped inspire children about their potential future careers.

Year 6 Year 6 - March

Posted 28/04/2025
by Susanne David

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!

Year 6 Year 6 - February

Posted 28/04/2025
by Susanne David

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!

Year 5

Posted 07/04/2025
by Caroline Hambly

March 2025

It has been a really busy month in Year 5 and throughout Copper Valley Academy!

At the beginning of March, we had an excellent Careers Day where we learnt about many different careers, from mobile dog groomers to HGV driving, health & safety to dentistry. We ALL learnt so much and the day was really enjoyable. Also this month, it has been World Book Day, so many members of the class came in dressed as book characters and we completed some exciting activities about amazing books! Then, it was Comic Relief. We came in dressed in pyjamas mainly, because, why wouldn't you? And our brave school councillors were 'pied' in efforts to help raise money for the charity.

In the classroom, we have been learning about Earth and Space , which has sparked an interest from many Year Five pupils. We have looked at the size and order of the planets, how they move in our solar system and how the sun creates night and day and the seasons. This has linked nicely with our Geography this term, where we have been learning about the make-up of the Earth, the tectonic plates and how these can cause disasters on our planet.

Told you it's been busy!

Head's Blog Weeks ending 4th April 2025

Posted 04/04/2025
by Lynn Cox

Latest Head's Blog

What an absolutely jam-packed last two weeks of term it has been.I am delighted to let you know that we raised £229 for Comic Relief- thank you to all of you who donated generously to this worthy cause.
It was the last matches of the Callington football league and our team had a great evening where they won a match and then lost one. I was very impressed with their sporting behaviour and superb teamwork.
The Reception class visited Ferry Farm at Calstock last week and had an amazing time meeting a whole host of interesting animals.
This week we were visited by Plymouth Argyle, featuring some of their players, including one of the trainers who is an ex pupil of Delaware. Pilgrim Pete also made in an appearance. Pupils from Y3 to Y6 wore Green mulfti and raised £40 for Project 35 which supports families living in poverty in Plymouth.
Miss Owen and Mrs Birkenshaw accompanied some of our Year 3 and Year 4 pupils to Songfest. They represented our schools so well and really enjoyed the experience.
This week we also had Ofsted at the Infant ands Nursery School to check that we are still a good school. Once the report is published we will share the findings with you. I want to publicly thank all of the staff and pupils for showing the school at its absolute best.
Finally, some of our Y4 pupils took part in the Bridge Schools Alternative Sports Day which took place at Looe Primary Academy. Mrs Hannaford accompanied them and the amazing news is that we won the competition! What a perfect end to the spring term! I wish you all a restful Easter holidays with your fantastic children.

Head's Blog Weeks ending 21st March 2025

Posted 21/03/2025
by Lynn Cox

Red Nose Day and more!
Thank you to those of you who came and supported us at the Jumble Sale at the Junior school a couple of Saturday's ago. We raised over £240 which has gone to the Junior base to invest in some equipment for the children to use at break times.
Some of our Y3 and Y4 pupils were busy last week helping to create the new giant for Mayfest which takes place in Callington on Saturday May 10th. Our Phoenix is all set to transform into a huge ostrich this year with some colourful bugs to accompany her!
Today (21st) was a very successful Comic Relief/Red Nose Day. We really appreciated your support with this event which is raising funds for good causes in this country and in Africa. The children really enjoyed coming to school in their pyjamas, dressed as superheroes or teachers!
The school council based at the Infant school did a fantastic job painting red noses on people and giving them superhero tattoos.
The brave school council from Year 5 and Year 6 were 'splatted' with 'pies'.
Once we have counted up the money, I will let you know what your generous contributions have raised.
Please take the time to sign up to the parental consultations which are taking place next week. I will be around on Monday and Tuesday after school if you would also like to talk to me - just pop into the office at the Junior school on the Monday night or the Infant school on the Tuesday night.
I hope that you all have a great weekend with your families.

ARC February

Posted 11/03/2025
by Jane Cansdale

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.

Head's Blog Week ending 7th March 2025

Posted 07/03/2025
by Lynn Cox

A busy week at Copper Valley!

What an incredibly busy week it has been. On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. It was so lovely to see so many children dressed up as characters from books. They enjoyed lots of stories being read to them during the day and loved discussing their favourite books.
Friday was a very special day as we held our first ever Career Fair at the Infant and Nursery school. Our Year 5 and Year 6 joined us for a day finding out about a range of jobs. The children found out, first hand, what it takes to become a vet, a health and safety consultant, a tanker delivery driver, a dog groomer, an engineer, a dog walker and Taekwondo teachers. Evaluations from the children were overwhelmingly positive and the adults leading the sessions were very complimentary of the pupils.
I would like to send a massive thanks to the volunteers we gave up their day to lead the sessions, all the staff for supervising the groups and a special thanks to Mrs Wright who, with Mr Wright, ensured that the appropriate risk assessments were in place for the event. Mrs Wright also contacted the participants and organised the complex timetable.
We hope that this will be an annual event as it was so valuable to see our children inspired by the adults from the workplace.
We ended the day with some Cornish dancing and a beautiful dance solo by Ivy Symons from Year 6.
Our enterprising pupils Bella, Harper, Georgia and Charlie made £55 selling drinks and cakes in aid of Gables animal shelter- thank you for supporting them and well done to you- what a lovely, thoughtful act.
I hope that you all have a lovely weekend.