Headteacher
Chris Coyle-Chislett
Email the Office
secretary@penpol.cornwall.sch.uk
Telephone Number
01736 753472
Our Address
2 St George’s Road, Hayle,
Cornwall, TR27 4AH
Year 5 are currently preparing to make rockets in class, but one pupil has already got experience in this,creating a fantastic child-sized rocket, made by herself, her dad and her grandad!
I really enjoyed making it, though I wasn’t pleased that ‘We love MCFC’ was written on the side. – Freya
Let’s hope the other rockets can turn out just as well. Watch this space!
During this terms History lessons, Class 6 have been busy learning all about the sinking of the Titanic. Whilst learning about this famous ship, the children have also been able to incorporate DT into their learning by creating their own moving picture that displays the Titanic colliding with the iceberg. Some children also decided to continue their learning at home by creating models, or paintings of the ship, to share at their weekly assembly.
Children from Class 6 enjoyed sharing their homework during their weekly assembly.
Related to our science topic this term of space, both year 5 classes have created experiments using balloon power!
Initially, the plan was to investigate whether a balloon with a larger straw (exhaust) attached to it would travel further than one with a smaller straw, though in the end a completely different result was proven, as Lola will now explain:
The string we used in the first place was wool so it was fragile and had too much friction, but when we used a different kind of string that Mr Wise gave us it worked perfectly well and traveled over a metre each time, as it had less friction.
Thank you Lola! Sometimes we enter science experiments expecting one thing and we then unexpectedly out something else entirely!
