Earthquake Proof Buildings

Marazion class showed great collaboration skills when making, testing and evaluating their earthquake proof buildings today!

We have had a wonderful week of Christmas crafts and loved having the Mums, Dads and Grandparents come along and join in the fun too.

The grownups joined in with enthusiasm at the cutting, painting and gluing activities and have made a whole host of Christmassy items to take home!

Showtime!

What a fantastic couple of performances the EYFS/KS1 children did of 'Whoops-a-Daisy Angel'!  The children really enjoyed doing both the shows, which I think showed in their performances and we know the adults that came and watched enjoyed it too.

The children visited the Christmas Tree festival on Friday - it is one of our favourite times of the year... They loved finding the Brunel tree and seeing all the other decorated trees - some are a real inspiration!

In Science the children sorted different materials into magnetic and non-magnetic - shhh... don't tell Mrs. Williamson that we even tested her coffee!  During our DT lesson the children worked collaboratively at building their Tudor buildings after planning them a week ago.  They are starting to look amazing - Thank you for all the donated boxes! 
 

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!

It has been an incredibly festive week at Brunel. Please keep up with our latest news from this week in The Brunel Bulletin.

Another lovely week in Marazion class - busy and fun!

We watched the EYFS/KS1 performance and can't wait to see the Nursery one next week. We've been busy rehearsing our Christingle service and hope to see all parents and carers at St Stephens Church next Wednesday at 6pm!

On Thursday, we visited the church for the Christmas Tree Festival - always a festive favourite and the children wowed the whole of Fore street by singing Christmas carols beautifully the whole way!

In Science on Friday, we found out about freezing points and carried out another experiment!

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Another lovely week in Daymer class - busy and fun!

We watched the EYFS/KS1 performance and can't wait to see the Nursery one next week. We've been busy rehearsing our Christingle service and hope to see all parents and carers at St Stephens Church next Wednesday at 6pm!

On Thursday, we visited the church for the Christmas Tree Festival - always a festive favourite! Lots of glorious photos of everyone in the files below!

In Science on Friday, we found out about freezing points and carried out another experiment!

Later in the week, we carried out a really fun science experiment, finding out the melting points of different foods!

Great job on the gingerbread houses, by the way!  

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummSeaton ended a wonderful learning-filled week with a coding workshop run by Tech Cornwall. 

They started off by finding out about different companies in Cornwall that use coding and technology on a large scale. They also learned about various job roles and how important AI will be in the future. 

They were then shown how to use coding to control a microbit. They enjoyed making different shapes, patterns and messages. 

To extend their learning further, they then experimented with led lights and had fun seeing all the different colours they could make. They had a great discussion afterwards about all the different types of jobs and inventions that coding is vital for. 

Perhaps we have some future tech wizards in our midst!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The children have been engaging in lots of different activities that are helping to build a Christmassy atmosphere at Nursery; we especially enjoyed getting ready for 'Hunt the Issy' when lots of visitors had a look around.

We even had a visit from 'Brunelf' - Brunel's very own Christmas Elf - who brought us a lovely Christmas book to share. Thank you!

The beautiful decorations displayed around Nursery will be going home at the end of term so the children can use them to decorate their own homes with their Christmas crafts.

We are looking forward to welcoming parents and carers next week to or Christmas craft morning on Tuesday, and Christmas craft afternoon on Wednesday, where everyone can have fun snipping, and gluing together!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

We have been like Christmas elves this week, with show rehearsals, calendar making, card making, more show song rehearsals, Christmas math's (after a very successful dress rehearsal!)...

During English we finished our class story version of Hansel and Gretel, called Woody and Taylor.

We have also been learning in Science about sinking and floating.  We tested various materials after we made our predictions to see if we were right.

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!

Christmas has officially commenced this week at Brunel Primary and Nursery Academy. This has included our own elf 'Brunelf' making his presence know around the school as he has been delivering Christmas books everyday to different classes. Catch up with all the latest news and events in our Brunel Bulletin. 

This week, our classroom has transformed into a world of gingerbread! The class have enjoyed making cards and gingerbread men tree decorations. Our new English topic of Hansel and Gretel is being immersed in well, given our classroom theme and our adored book corner has transformed too which is giving us all much joy!
Thank you to those who supported our Hunt the Issy evening and to those who entered our Gingerbread House decorating competition...winner to be revealed next week!

Test-tubes and VR

Earlier this week, Seaton class took part in a workshop about the ocean by Plymouth Aquarium. 

They started by learning about where energy comes from and the impact this has on fossil fuels and the environment. They learned about global warming and climate change and how this affected the wildlife in Plymouth Sound. 

They then became scientists and investigated the ph levels of different liquids using universal indicator. They predicted whether each liquid was acid or alkali and then watched as they changed colour. We were all most surprised by milk which turned out to be an acid. Ask them what other liquids they tested and what they found out. 

To finish off, they were all given VR headsets so that they could virtually explore the marine wildlife in the Plymouth Sound National Marine Park. They were able to spot crabs, starfish, sea grass, coral and even scuba divers. 
What a wonderful learning experience! 

Crafty and Curious!

This week, Talland have been included in some lovely extra-curricular activities including table cricket and making lanterns for the Saltash Lantern Parade. Thank you to those parents who were able to join us in constructing the lanterns; it is always very exciting (and messy!).

Also, we have moved on in our 'Forces' science unit to learn about levers, pulleys and gears. The children were tasked with investigating pulley systems: they had to explain what they could be used for, and how they help. Some were very successful in being able to easily winch up some of the items on their desks! The children will be putting this knowledge to use in DT, in which we have started a railway project and are building a small electrical locomotive.