Landulph School Newsletter

Together in Adventure and Discovery 6th November 2020

I hope that you all managed to have a good half term break and took the opportunity for some enjoyable family time and found plenty of fun things to do. The weather wasn’t ideal, but I’m sure that you all enjoyed the rest and break from routine.

Now we have entered a second period of national lockdown, it continues to be really important that we all have a responsibility to be mindful of the Government’s wider COVID-19 advice in helping to prevent transmission of this terrible virus.

Learning this week…

Class 1 have been immersing themselves in their new winter topic. They have been busy learning a winter poem, creating penguins for our display and singing

‘on a cold and frosty morning’.

Class 2 shared their new class book about dragons in assembly this week, which they are really enjoying. Many creative activities have already come out of it.

Class 3 have been learning about the Viking tale

‘Beowulf’. They have been writing descriptions, job adverts and monologues all from the book

by Michael Morpurgo. In Maths, they have been focusing on their timestables and are all en-

joying using TT Rockstars!

Home Learning

This half term the focus for Home Learning will be three essential things:

1. Listen to your child read as often as possible.

For the younger children, we would expect this to be every day and as their ability progresses

in the older year groups, you will find they need less support from you and will love to pick up

a book for pleasure. We would still recommend hearing them read and sharing books with

them three times a week and hope you will see this as a relaxing, positive time where you

focus purely on this one task.

2. Give your child daily practice time on Times Tables Rockstars.

This will significantly improve your child’s mental recall and fluency, which translates directly

into their understanding during maths lessons.

3. Spend time supporting your child in learning their spellings or phonics.

Within school, we practise these three vital skills daily, but the advantages for those children

who are supported at home are vast. They are three fundamental skills that only take a small

amount of time within the day. Thank you for your support with this.

A message from Mrs Ball

Diary Dates

w/c 9th November

Parents Meetings—telephone appointments

20th November

INSET Day

24th November

Tempest Photos

18th December

Last day of Autumn Term

21st Dec – 4th Jan

Christmas Holiday

5th January

Back to School

15th –19th February

Half Term

22nd February

INSET Day

23rd February

Back to school

1st April

Last Day of Spring Term

2nd - 16th April

Easter Holiday

19th April

Back to school

3rd May

Bank Holiday

31st May - 4th June

Half Term

7th June

INSET Day

23rd July

Last Day of Summer Term

Poppy Appeal

Poppies and a range of other items will be on sale in each

class bubble until Wednesday. If your child would like to

buy any of these items, please send the money into school

with them (no change can be given).

Here is the menu for the coming week…

>Week Beginning 9th November – pre-booked

phone appointment with your child’s class

teacher

> Class 1 & 2 P.E. – Monday & Thursday

(come to school in PE Kit)

> Class 3 P.E. – Thurs-day (come to school in

PE Kit)

Please remember we are asking all adults dropping off and col-lecting children from school to wear a face covering (unless medi-

cally exempt). Thank you for your support with this.

Half-term challenge

Thank you for entries for our half term challenge! They are amazing creations from Isabelle & Isaac, Erica & Reuben.

Wraparound Care Available

Breakfast club is organised by Mrs Plumb, and this opens for all pupils from 7:45 am on all days that children are in school.

Breakfast club costs £3.50 per child, and breakfast is included

Afterschool (Little Owls) club is organised by Mrs Johnson.

Afterschool club opens from 3:15pm – 5:30pm with the costs as below. All sessions include a snack.

3:15pm – 4:15pm – £4

4:15pm – 5:30pm – £4

3:15 pm – 5:30pm – £7

To book in, please email bookings@landulphcloud.net the week before the care is required. In emergencies we are always able to help – just contact Miss Potterton in the office.

Class 1 - Isaac

Class 2 - Lennon

Class 3 - Mylee

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Thank you for your support

This year we will be doing our annual Scholastic Book Fair a little differently... Our new book fair is up and running online! Go to https://schools.scholastic.co.uk/landulph/digital-book-club Browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards. Please place your order online by 7th December 2020

Thank you for your support

Harry had his first match for Plymouth School Boys! From the off he tor-mented the Gloucester full back, and eventually popped up with our winner, a spectacular right footed drive which flew over the keeper to seal the three points in the boys first appearance in their city colours, a proud moment for

all. Full write up available at:

https://www.facebook.com/PlymouthSchoolsFA

Coen has created some won-derful artwork and it has

been displayed on Plymouth’s Random Art Corner.

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