Ready for Reading!

We've had another amazing week in Tregantle, full of new experiences, learning and fun! 
Our Year 1 children were super scientists at the beginning of the week when they began learning about animals and their habitats. It was so much fun collecting up all of our toy animals and sorting them into the right habitats. We continued the animal theme in P.E where we learnt a dance to the music 'The Pink Panther.' We all had to work hard to move in time to the music and combine fast and slow movements. The whole team have been blown away with Tregantle's maths skills this week. The Year 1 children have been superb at using a number line effectively including adding missing numbers and our EYFS children have been amazing at adding numbers to 5. We got very creative when we made pictures to go with our class story 'The Gruffalo's Child.' The children used different shades of cold colours to create a background and then added black silhouettes of characters from the story. They all look fabulous on our display board! We ended the week with an exciting trip to Saltash Library. This really helped to develop our love of reading as there were so many fantastic books on offer. They children really enjoyed browsing though the books and especially loved picking a book to take home for the week. There was much excitement when it was time to scan our books in the borrowing machine! Enjoy your books Tregantle Class! 

Terrific Tregantle 

What an exciting start to the spring term we’ve had! It has been absolutely wonderful to welcome the children back into school and see them settle back into routines so quickly. Our EYFS children are getting stuck into their learning about cold weather. They have done a brilliant job learning an extract from the story, ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ and adding their own actions to tell the story. We have all embraced the colder weather and enjoyed investigating the ice that has formed in our garden. The children were brilliant scientists when trying to find ways to melt the ice or try and keep the ice. Our new ‘clothes shop’ role play area has been a massive hit. It has been great to see the children using their maths and phonics skills in here: counting out the correct number of items for each area and making and signs and receipts for the shop floor!
The Year 1 children have been very enthused by their new topic – ‘What was school like in the past?’ They have been finding out about the many differences between how school is now and how it was at different points in history. They have decided that they are very lucky to be going to school now and not a long time ago! The new Year 1 English story is ‘Harry and the Bucket Full of dinosaurs.’ Tregantle Class absolutely loved using our story sack to find out more about the story and use real objects to explore the characters’ feelings. We are all developing our speaking and listening skills with our whole school oracy focus. The children are getting used to standing and speaking ‘loud and proud’ during class discussions. A great start to 2025!

Welcome to Tregantle class 2025! We are all very excited to jump into the new term and get started on some exciting learning! Our EYFS classroom is looking spectacular with a new clothes shop in our role play area and a new story area to become immersed in our EYFS book 'The Gruffalo's Child.' Our overview for learning for Year 1 is attached. We are really looking forward to finding out more about what schools were like in the past. See you all tomorrow! 

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

What a Fantastic autumn term we've had in Tregantle Class! This week has been wonderful as we have been enjoying the celebrations of Christmas together. We have had a super festive time wearing our Christmas jumpers and enjoying our legendary Brunel Christmas lunch. We finished the term with carols around the Christmas tree in an assembly led by Reverend Parkman.
Merry Christmas one and all from Team Tregantle! 

Tree Festival

We’ve had such a super Christmassy week in Tregantle Class! We began the week with our amazing performances of ‘Whoops-a-Daisy Angel.’ It was a joy to see so many Brunel friends and family join us with cheerful singing and encouragement. Visiting the Christmas tree festival at St Nichollas and Faith Church has, as always, been a real highlight of the Brunel Christmas calendar. The children were delighted and amazed to see all of the beautiful trees. They really enjoyed taking part in our treasure hunt where they had to find specific decorations around the church. Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas Costumes

This week has definitely been all about Christmas preparations! We have been spending lots of time singing and rehearsing for our EYFS/KS1 performance of Whoops-a-daisy Angel. The terrific Tregantle children have been absolutely amazing - singing superbly and dancing delightfully! Today we showed our dress rehearsal to the other children in the school and we are very much looking forward to showing the parents and carers next week. Along with our busy rehearsing, we have been getting creative with Christmas crafts in preparation for the world famous Brunel 'Hunt the Izzy' night. We  made sparkling Christmas cards, colourful window decorations and mosaic calendars. As usual our 'Hunt the Izzy' night was so much fun! Families from the whole community joined together to search the school for the hidden Izzy's and enjoy the fun of the Christmas fair!

Another Busy Week

What a lot we've had on this week! 

We started the week with our Remembrance service which took place on the playground. The children were so respectful and displayed the poppy wreath that they had made.
On Tuesday we all wore odd socks to school to show our support for national anti bullying week. We shared stories about respecting our similarities and differences. 
On Wednesday we had a wonderful time joining with some other local schools to take part in 'The Princess and the Pea' singing workshop. Tregantle Class were so enthusiastic at singing the songs - they really did us proud!
On Thursday we became wonderful writers. It is so amazing to see our EYFS children start to put all of their phonics learning together and write simple words by themselves. Our Year 1 children have impressed us all with their writing about our new focus story 'Hansel and Gretel.' After school, lots of children attended the 'escape room' maths games event for national maths week which was so much fun!
We ended the week on Friday by dressing in blue to show that Brunel are against bullying. We learnt about what bullying is and what we should do if it happens to us or our friends. What a fantastic week! 

Peaceful poppies

Tregantle Class have had a wonderful first week back at school. We have been learning about Remembrance day and preparing for our special service on Monday. The children have been making some poppies to display on our school bank - we are all looking forward to seeing them on Monday. It's the time of year when we learn about lots of different celebrations and the year 1 children have made some wonderful Diva Lamps this week. Diva lamps are used during the Hindu festival Diwali to remember the story of Rama and Sita. The Diva Lamps helped to guide them home after their banishment. On Tuesday we learnt all about how to keep safe during bonfire night and made some very colourful pictures using collage techniques.
It was wonderful to welcome parents into school this week to learn more about how we teach phonics. Reception and Year 1 children were absolute super stars during the demonstration lessons - all of the parents were extremely impressed!