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
Penpol School 
Ezra, Henry and Matteo were live on air this morning with presenter Emma Gill. Despite being understandably a little nervous beforehand they spoke about the project, hard work and exciting adventure to America with confidence and passion – listen for yourself here!
Today we held a non-uniform day at Penpol as well as a cake sale at break time. Everyone was so generous and we were even helped by Xanthe and Lily in Year 5 who sold bracelets to help us raise some money to get to America.
This week Molly, Isla and Scarlett had the chance to talk to the news desk at Heart Radio to share their Innovation Project idea and talk about what it means to be going to America. This morning their interview was broadcast as the top news item each hour!
Listen here: [AUDIO LINK]
We are a group of nine Year 6 students from Cornwall, UK who are taking part in the FIRST LEGO League for the second and final time with Penpol School. As Year 6’s we’ll soon be leaving Penpol and going our separate ways to Secondary School.
For two years we’ve been working hard during our lunchtimes to build and code a LEGO Robot as well as creating an innovative jellyfish detecting wristband that lets you know if the jellyfish nearby are safe to swim with or not. We were thrilled to learn that all our hard work has paid off and that we’ve received a special invitation to represent Great Britain in an International Competition in Massachusetts, USA!
This website will tell you all about our journey so far, as well as sharing some way that you can help support us as we travel across the Atlantic to share our project in America
This year our Year 3’s and Year 6’s have created their own 3D Winter Ornaments using Tinkercad. The Year 3’s have been using the Scribble tool to create unique and personal designs whilst the Year 6’s have been making theirs using the Codeblocks editors. Rather than me talking about how it all works, let’s hear from some of the students instead…
“I made a snowman with a scarf and top hat. It has accessories too, like some coal buttons and a carrot nose. Alongside the snowman, on the right, it has a present with a Santa hat one top and to the left it has a tower of six snowballs.
I used three spheres, increasing by size, to make the body and a cube a cuboid for the hat. The trickiest part was making the buttons for the snowman, making sure they weren’t too far off or too far inside the snowman’s body. It was also tricky making sure the height was equally spaced between each button.
This is probably going to be on the shelf in my bedroom for quite a while – until my dad tells me it’s time to put the Christmas decorations away. But then I’ll look forward to seeing it again each year.”
Tamara
“I made a cat that was inspired by my cat at home (Dotty). I started off with a head shape and tried to make all of the details on the head like the eyes and when I was satisfied with the head I moved onto the body. For this I used a cube but I stretched it out to make it more rectangular and curved the edges.
I’m very pleased with how my cat came out, I will keep it forever! I think the real Dotty will be very pleased to meet her new friend!”
Ivor
“I used Tinkercad Codeblocks to code my cat, which was really fun but quite tricky too! The hardest part was to get the ears at an angle on the head, because I had to figure out how to get them the same angle on opposite sides.
When I take my cat home, I’ll show it to my mum and dad and then put it in the windowsill. I think I’ll keep it out all the time!”
Georgia
“It didn’t take too much of my time, but it was so fun to do that I wanted to work on my design at home as well. I went to show my family what I was making and they were really interested in how I made it, they just kept saying wow when they saw all my code.
I’m probably going to keep my Creeper figure in my bedroom. I like how I designed it on the computer and it’s now stood right in front of me in real life.”
Brody
“I made my Christmas Tree by drawing it on the computer and then went off it by pressing done. Then I pressed the button which made a copy and then I stacked it on top of the other one. Then I did another version with the detail of my tree and changed the colour. I really like the tree I’ve made, and I’ve put it on my shelf at home where we keep special things.”
Elsie
“I chose my design because I thought it would be a nice thing to have a Christmas decoration to look like myself in my favourite colours. It’s cool to think that this is the only one in the whole world that looks like this. I can’t wait to put it on my own Christmas tree when I get home.”
Clementine
“I wanted to make a decoration that was green and black because they’re my two favourite colours. I chose a present to make sure I could use these two colours. It’s probably one of my favourite designs that I’ve ever made in Tinkercad, and it’s going to be really special on my Christmas tree at home.”
Henry
