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“Penpol pupils are curious, creative and courageous learners. Our school community believes in authenticity as the foundations of deep-rooted learning. Through our rich and relevant curriculum, we nurture community-minded, forward-facing international citizens of the future.”

Year 3 visits Footsteps of Discovery

Year 3, have just returned to school after visiting and spending the night at the Footsteps of Discovery centre in Summercourt, Newquay.

Whilst at the centre, the children participated in a range of lifesaving skills. This included fire lighting using various methods, safe cutting and an introduction to basic carving, location and signalling, outdoor cooking and basic water sourcing.

The children also had the opportunity to play team sports, cook marshmallows and learn how to tie a range of knots.

 

 

Class 7’s Ancient Egyptian Day

To finish off this terms  history project, ‘Ancient Egyptians’, Class 7 held an Egyptian dressing up day.

During this day, the children were given the opportunity to reflect on their learning journey and also show off their creative talents by creating  their own scarab beetle and canopic  jars.

It was lovely to see the children arriving at school dressed as pharaohs, Tutankhamun, Cleopatra and Ramses II.

“I enjoyed making the scarab beetle out of clay”.  Harley

” It was great to see all of my friends dressed up as Ancient Egyptians”. Isabella

” It was lovely to see my friends having fun and using the clay to make canopic jars”. Luke

 

Year 3 – Mummification in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

As part of their history topic, year 3 started off learning about Ancient Egypt by turning some oranges into mummies!

Just like real Ancient Egyptian embalmers we started off by taking out all of the gooey insides and then used several paper towels to make sure the insides were nice and dry. Next we filled up our oranges with salt, just like the embalmers dried out bodies with natron. Finally, we wrapped up our mummies in bandages and put them somewhere warm to dry out. We will be checking on them  in a few weeks to see how the mummification process is going!

Year 2 visit Penzance Gym Club

This week, all of the children in year 2 participated in their first gym session at Penzance Gym Club.

All of the children received expert coaching, whilst learning how to balance on the beam, jumping from a vault and also participating in a variety of stretch routines. All of the children had a great experience and can’t wait for their second visit next week.

 

 

 

 

Year 2 Explore North Quay

As part of this terms Geography topic, ‘Coasts and Oceans’, year 2 spent a lovely day at North Quay beach.

After walking to the beach, in the lovely sunshine, the children spent the day sketching the beautiful scenery, recording physical and human features and also creating a selection of sand sculptures.

Take a look at the scenery photographs, can you name any physical or human features?

 

 

 

 

Year 2 Den Building Fun!

Year 2 had a great morning today den building. Both class 5 and 6 worked together to show how sharing ideas and  team work can help you to achieve an amazing outcome! As you can see, from the great photographs, all children had a fabulous time.

 

Welcome Back Year 2!

What an exciting first day it has been in year two for both children and teachers.  All children have had a great first day back and from the smiles on their faces you could tell  that they were all thrilled to be back at school playing and interacting with their friends.

The children were also very delighted with the new play equipment and refurbished fire pit.

Year 2 become Kings and Queens

To coincide with their history topic, Castles, Kings and Queens, year 2 planned and participated in a very Royal Kings and Queens dressing up day. On this day, all of the children from class 5 and 6 arrived at school wearing capes, dresses, crowns and robes. During the afternoon the children sang Tudor songs, performed a Tudor dance and held a special banquet. A great day was had by all.

Class 6 have been learning in the great outdoors

Class 6 have enjoyed learning outdoors.

Class 6 have had a great start to the new term. They are really enjoying taking their learning outside where they have been able to calculate a variety of number problems and then discuss their reasoning.

The children have also been busy collecting and recording facts about polar bears and discovering who built the first castles in the U.K.

Well done Class 6, I am very proud of you all for making a great start to the new term

Mrs Ruffell

 

 

 

Year 2 – Home Learning Challenges – Weeks 11,12 & 13

New – Week commencing – 22.06.2020

Hi Class 6 and Class 5, Mrs Ruffell and Mrs Daniel would like to say a big thank you to all of you who have sent images of your home  learning, which you have completed  over the past two weeks. We have now created a new home learning page, on the Penpol Times, for weeks 11, 12  and 13.  Please keep sending us images of your learning so that we can share it with your friends and families.
We both hope that you are all well and enjoying the learning challenges that we are setting.

Take care – Mrs Ruffell & Mrs Daniel

 

 

New Link -22.06.2020

https://classroom.thenational.academy/activity-clubs/art-club/episodes/the-world-around-us-bee-rest-stops-primary (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New Link 08.06.20

https://www.leachpottery.com/design-a-pot-for-sharing-schools-challenge (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

New Link

https://rnli.org/youth-education/water-safety-from-home  (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)

PE and Outdoor Learning at Home

New -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCStjKlMICO-Em7zMJoHR3A  (Copy & paste link in to your browser)

New – Digital Ocean – Surfers against Sewage – Copy and paste the link in to your browser

: https://www.sas.org.uk/digital-ocean-school

Online safety at home – copy and paste the link in to your browser.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/5-7s/

New – Try these simple relaxation and mindfulness activities together and help your child learn to calm down when they feel stressed or anxious. – Copy and paste the link in to your browser.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/seven-techniques-for-helping-kids-keep-calm

Use your mind – Laugh & Giggle – Breathe Deep – Stretch it out – Relax

Isaac B, from Class 5

The last day of term but I must share with you all these Photos of Isaac B’s amazing bee project. He has worked so hard on this as you can see and must be really proud of his effort as with all his home learning. Well done Isaac, you deserve a medal! – Mrs Daniel

Lola, from Class 6

A letter from Lola

Hi this morning Lola and her brother Caio went to visit their friend James who keeps Bees.

First we put on the Bee Suits so the Bees didn’t sting us and get into our faces. Then James lit some material to make smoke. So the Bees think there is a fire coming so they gather as much honey as they can and get ready to leave home, this makes them slower. We then looked inside the Bee Hive all the Bees flew out . We found some honey comb. Then we looked for the queen bee. She likes to hide in the dark. We knew she was the queen because she was quite big and fat compared to the other bees. Her job is to lay eggs and have babies. We saw  the baby bees ,which are grubs and some eggs. The worker bees were busy looking after them. All the other bees look after the babies and they are all female. Some of the bees go out to collect nectar and pollen. We saw the yellow pollen on the bees legs. James was stood in the way of the bees entrance and he had thousands on his leg! When we put the hive back together and walked away the bees stopped flying around us.
From Lola

Verity, from Class 6

Verity has had a very productive week, working hard with her maths and English but also having a great time making a puppet show of her favourite book, Monkey Puzzle. All her family became involved in what looks like an amazing performance, I would like to have been in the audience! Take a look at her lovely photos.

Harry, from Class 6

Hi Mrs Ruffell,
This morning, Harry thought of an animal for every letter of the alphabet. He had to Google an animal for  U – V – X and Y as they were very tricky. Harry also enjoyed I drawing the animals and watched ‘Art for kids ‘, to get ideas on how to draw them. Well done Harry.

 

Jessica, from Class 5

Take a look of these lovely photos of Jessica and her sisters enjoying themselves making play dough!

Emilija, from Class 5

Emilija has been extremely busy over the last couple weeks, as you can see from her photos. Well done Emilija, keep up the great effort with all your home learning, you are doing a brilliant job!

Bella, from Class 5

Bella has ben busy with some art work, story boarding and some instruction writing for Rapunzel, complete with illustration!

Tilly, from Class 6

Here are some photos of my puppets, theatre that I made out of a cereal box and my poster for my show. I enjoyed doing this as I couldn’t do my dancing show in May, which we’d been doing lots of practicing for. (Written by Tilly)

Wow! well done Tilly. I wish I could have been there to see it.

Harry, from Class 6

Thank you Harry for sharing your alphabetical home learning. I love the way you have ordered all of those items in alphabetical order. Well done!

Lily, from Class 6

Lily enjoyed making 3D shapes out of play dough this week to help her learn their names and properties! They were actually very tricky to make! She also looked for seals at Gwithian using binoculars but only managed to spot one as the others weren’t there.

Lola, from Class 6

Lola has really been focussing on bees this term and recently she visited the Heligan Gardens, where she was able to discover and  learn more interesting facts about this amazing flying insect. Lola has also been busy learning about shapes and recording their properties. Great home learning Lola!

Poppy, from Class 6

Thank you Poppy for sharing your home learning with us. You have created some lovely puppets and also designed some lovely moths, which you have also named. Wow! what a fab duck! I love its design. Well done.

 

Harry, from Class 6

Harry has really worked hard on this weeks home learning challenges. He has created his puppets, built a theatre , written his own story and presented his puppet show. Read Harry’s very own story below.

This is my puppet show with pictures …

Once upon a time there was a boy called Harry.
He had two meerkats who he loved very much.
One day a wolf came along, he wanted to eat the meerkats.
Then Harry came and chased the wolf away. He never came back and they lived happily ever after

Harry, from Class 6

Harry has made a great start on his puppet show. He has drawn and cut out his shadow puppets and attached them to sticks. He has also written out his storyboard and made a start on his theatre. Well done Harry, I look forward to seeing the finished production. Great home learning !

Lola, from Class 6

Lola has been very busy designing a duck for the competition, which I think looks amazing. Also well done on learning this weeks spellings and taking a test. Great results!

Emily, from Class 6

Emily has been working so hard this week on solving a variety of number problems. You really have shown great commitment towards your home learning this week. Well done Emily!

Poppy, from Class 6

Thank you Poppy for sharing your home learning. You have used great adjectives to describe the sea and also included a lot of detail in your postcard from New-York. I hope you had a great time? 🙂

Isaac, from Class 5 

Isaac has made a fantastic Jungle habitat, it must have taken him quite some time but as you can see it is well worth the effort! He has also written a football story in which the players receive super powers and an Ocean story which cleverly relays some interesting facts as well. Well done Isaac, you are doing a brilliant job with all your home learning.

 

Bella, from Class 5

Bella has been very busy with her maths and has done a great job on completing the worksheets. She has also designed and written about a fantastic water park which she enjoyed sharing with her dad and brother.

Lola, from Class 6

Lily, from Class 6

Wow, I love your wild flower ice sculpture Lily. I also enjoyed reading your instructions on how to build the perfect sandcastle and reading the postcard that you sent to your nanny from Menorca. I hope you had a great time on your holiday and the sun was shining?  🙂

Emily, from Class 6

Thank you Emily for sharing your home learning with us. You are demonstrating great commitment towards your home learning. I am really impressed with all of your learning. Well done!