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?
Today, Year 4 celebrated the rise of the Roman Empire in true fashion. Armed with shields, swords and Roman legion attire, the excitement from the students entering school was palpable.
To begin with, the Year group were greeted with Roman army commands: Consiste! (Halt!), Laxate (at ease), silentiurm! (Silence!) and Sin/ Dex (Left/ Right!), which would come in hand later on in the day.
Next, both classes were thrown into the melee and had to use their best codebreaking skills in order to crack a hidden message written by the emperor himself, Julius Caesar. The hidden message revealed one of Caesar’s greates quotes to date:
“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” Julius Caesar
After exploring this quote and thinking deeper into what Caesar’s quote means, creating is exactly what the students did next. After having designed mosaics the day before, the students were tasked with creating a Roman mosaic. This proved lots of fun and the results are already looking promising.
The grand finale, however, had to be experiencing what it was like to march like a Roman. Led by Mr Wise’s booming commands, Classes’ 9 and 10 both marched up and down the hall, to embed their understanding of Roman commands. Next, the students practised forming the defence shape, which is the ‘testudo’, or the tortoise. This proved an effective barrier against incoming missiles aimed by the teachers, as you can witness in the video below.
All in all, the children had an excellent morning immersing themselves in the Roman life and learning first hand how the Roman army worked.
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!
Hi Year 1,
We are missing you very much but know that your adults are doing a super job of looking after you and teaching you.
We hope you’re enjoying the home-learning tasks as much as we are enjoying receiving the photo’s and videos?!
Please do send any photo’s through if you have the time. Remember we love seeing you playing as well as learning!
Miss Whear and Mrs Sukstien
New Link 13.07.2020
www.penpolschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-rainbow-games.pdf
://rnli.org/youth-education/water-safety-from-home (Copy and paste the link in to your browser)
New -PE and Outdoor Learning at Home
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCStjKlMICO-Em7zMJoHR3A (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)
New
New – Digital Ocean – Surfers against Sewage – Copy and paste the link in to your browser
: https://www.sas.org.uk/digital-ocean-school
Harley, from Class 3
Harley has enjoyed – making his information book 🙂 What super facts he’s recorded!
Harrison, from Class 3
Look at all the things that Harrison has been up to. Gardening with grandad.Building confidence in the sea and jumping from the rocks.Picking strawberries 🍓 talking about them needing to be red and letting the green ones grow a little more.
Florence, from Class 4
Florence has written a poem about a shell and also drawn a picture with hidden words in it! I wonder if you can spot them all? Great work Florence!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoyed writing interview question sentences and using real coins to support his maths learning! He also built a bug hotel!
Luke, from Class 4
Luke has had a great week, learning all about the weather and different coins. He has been painting lovely rainbow pictures with his sister too. He also helped his family to sand down and paint their garden furniture – Great work Luke!
Rosie, from Class 4
Rosie has been busy doing mathletics this week and designing a recipe for a garden potion then measuring liquids and making the potion.
Toran, from Class 3
Toran’s garden with ten hidden plant themed words… can you spot them?!
Toran is loving today’s maths 🙂
Harley, from Class 3
Harley wanted to tell us all what happened yesterday, he was very excited to find a baby dove! Lovely writing about it Harley 🙂
Toran, from Class 3
Super code calculations today Toran!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoying taking part in the Cornwall Schools Games!
Keira, from Class 3
Such determination on Keira’s face in these pictures! I’m very impressed!
Keira did 28 jumps in 30 secs
Jumped 22 hands in the long jump
And 2.1/2 hands higher
3 family members, had a go at all 3 events
New – Week commencing – 01.06.2020
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 8 and 9. 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 08.06.2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e5pd2m/live/cxgrbp (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)
New Activity
https://www.theickabog.com/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
Faith, from Class 5
Faith has had an amazing week, not only has she engaged with all her home learning, accomplished a Brownie promise, created Indian bead bracelets but, has also won Rider of the Week at her riding club. How good is that! I’m sure that one day she will be an Olympic champion!
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has enjoyed learning about habitats this week and has chosen the rain forest to write about and make this amazing collage. She’s also tackled some maths from a Sats booklet and has done really well. Well done Verity, keep up the brilliant work, it’s so lovely to see.
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily, you really have been busy with your home learning, especially your number challenges. I really enjoyed reading your instruction and I could tell, from what you have written, that you have made great sandcastles in the past. Also well done on your spelling test score. Well done Emily!
Alfie, from Class 5
Alfie is doing a great job of keeping up with all of his home learning. I love his picture of a water slide and a race track that he’s made. He’s also kept in touch with his friends by virtual quiz, he didn’t win this time so wish him luck for the next!
Hugo, from Class 6
Thank you Hugo for sharing your home learning this week. I was really impressed with your number learning and I could see such concentration on your face.
Oh my goodness, look at your new addition to the family! I can’t wait to see her on the school gate and have a little cuddle. Enjoy every minute of Margot, I bet you are so excited. She looks adorable.
Lola, from Class 6
Thank you Lola for sharing your home learning. You have shown great dedication towards your number learning. I loved your picture and what a great idea to use vegetables to print with. Well done!
Ava, from Class 6
Oh my goodness Ava, what a cute little kitten. I’m surprised you’ve managed to do any home learning with this little fella around. Well done on completing the maths challenges and also for writing a great set of instructions on how to build a sandcastle. Well done!
Tilly, from Class 6
Thank you Tilly for sharing your home learning with us. I was really impressed with your postcard from Greece, I hope Lola enjoyed reading it. Your summer picnic on the beach also sound lovely, I hope I get an invite? Great home learning, well done
Nicholas, from Class 6
Hi Nicholas, thank you for sharing your home learning with us. I really enjoyed reading your instructions and your postcard from the pyramids. I also thought your bee picture was amazing. You have included so many interesting facts. Well done!
Chloe, from Class 6
Wow Chloe, thank you for sharing all of your home learning with us. I really enjoyed reading your description about sheep and how you think they feel like a teddy bear.(Did you know that sheep are my favourite animal?) Well done, great home learning.
Harry, from Class 6
Well done Harry on using your senses to describe summer. I can see that you have really thought hard about this. Well done!
Bella, from Class 5
Bella, being very artistic, has been trying something new this week, watercolours! She has painted a lovely picture of a Llama for her grandparents which I know they will be thrilled with. She has also been busy with her maths and topic work (and her brother’s!), take a look at her lovely photos.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has been up to some unusual baking this week, making biscuits for her lovely dog Ted, he certainly looks as if he enjoys them!
She has also been busy with her writing, spellings and maths and even a little craft work. take a look at her lovely photos.
Lola, from Class 6
Thank you Lola for sharing this picture of you wearing your medal that you achieved for running 2 miles for the NHS. Class 6 are all very proud of you. Well done!
Lola, from Class 6
Well done Lola, your have written clear step by step instructions on how to build a sandcastle and included great illustrations.
Poppy, from Class 6
Poppy also made this delicious cake with her sister Lily. It looks amazing!
Poppy, from Class6
Thank you for sharing your home learning from this week Poppy, I really loved what you are holding. You have written a great description of what your water park would look like and also written a great set of instructions on how to build a sandcastle. Great home learning. Well done!
Hugo, from Class 6
Thank you for sharing some more of your home learning challenges with us Hugo. It was lovely to see such concentration on your face. I love your pen!
Isaac, from Class 5
Isaac has really enjoyed designing and writing about a water park.
Emily, from Class 6
Well done Emily for completing your home learning challenges. You really are demonstrating great commitment towards your learning.!
Harry, from Class 6
Thank you Harry for sharing these photographs, which shows us the vast amount of jelly fish that were washed ashore in Hayle last week. Take care in the sea everyone.
Oliver, from Class 5
Take a look at Oliver’s lovely photos. He’s been learning a great deal about bees and has been so lucky in the fact that he has met a real bee keeper! Oliver was given some delicious honey and honeycomb to eat which he thoroughly enjoyed. He has written a fact sheet about bees and also doing really well with all his maths and English home learning. Well done, keep up the great effort.
Harry, from Class 6
Well done Harry on winning the rainbow art competition for year 2.
Isaac, from Class 5
Isaac L. has written a brilliant alien story AND completed an absolute brilliant topic on Greenland. Take a look for a great read, you will certainly learn something you didn’t know before!
Also, a big clap for Isaac on receiving two Blue Peter badges for his covid poem and global warming poster, well done Isaac!
Lola, from Class 6
Harry, from Class 6
This week I have been doing lots of home learning and my chilli plant is getting big.(Written by Harry)
wow Harry! Well done, your chilli plant looks very healthy.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity is now quite the bee expert! She has made some lovely sand bees which are so cheerful they will make you smile! She has also investigated parts of a flower and has been learning all about pollination. Take a look at her lovely photos.
Ava, from Class 6
Wow Ava, you have been very busy with your home learning. I really enjoyed reading your space story and what a great picture of you in your space suit. It was also lovely to see you helping your younger sister with her phonics. Well done!
Faith from Class 5
Faith has been busy today writing a diary entry based on the Angry Cat story, take a look to see where she has used the conjunctions in her sentences.
Joseph, from Class 5
Take a look at Joseph’s amazing seaside picture. The colours, sand and glue effect make it something special to put on the wall.
Lola, from Class 6
Thank you for sharing your learning this week Lola. It was lovely to see you working so hard on odd and even numbers and also completing the sentences. I really loved your picture of you and Scarlett. A great start to the new term. Well done
Alfie, from Class 5
Take a look at Alfie’s lovely photos, read his brilliant alien story and admire his wonderful bee mobile. They look so happy it will put a smile on your face! He’s also had a great half term, enjoying the weather and he’s hoping to make a few pounds from his bedroom clearance sale.
Hi Year 1,
We are missing you very much but know that your adults are doing a super job of looking after you and teaching you.
We hope you’re enjoying the home-learning tasks as much as we are enjoying receiving the photo’s and videos?!
Please do send any photo’s through if you have the time. Remember we love seeing you playing as well as learning!
Miss Whear and Mrs Sukstien
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 and paste the link in to your browser)
New -PE and Outdoor Learning at Home
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCStjKlMICO-Em7zMJoHR3A (Copy & Paste the link in to your browser)
New
New – Digital Ocean – Surfers against Sewage – Copy and paste the link in to your browser
: https://www.sas.org.uk/digital-ocean-school
Keira, from Class 3
Keira has had a maths focus this week and has ben busy securing number bonds, halves and doubles! Well done Keira!
Molly, from Class 3
What a superb sunflower fact file from Molly!
Isla, from Class 3
Isla F enjoyed writing a sunflower fact file! It’s super!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has been learning to play football with his daddy and practicing throwing the ball into hoops. He has also enjoyed finger painting and loved learning lots of funky facts from the “Go Jetters”, especially the bullet train in Japan!
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn loves seeing her pictures on the school website so here is a little snapshot of what she has been doing this week.
Lots of art and decorating her bedroom. Picnic and bike riding in the park and some lovely fact finding about sunflowers and learning about graphs.
She also choreographed a ballet show for the party she wants to have when the nasty cold virus has gone 😆
Miles, from Class 3
Miles independently made this poster!! Wow!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira has been practising alternative ways of numbers within 10.
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison has been learning halves and quarters with play dough pizza! He also used his rainbow number bonds, from a few weeks ago, to help him solve online maths – great idea! Harrison also enjoyed thinking about the funny things that have happened during the lockdown – they have mainly been about his baby brother Jude 🙂
Ebon, from Class 3
Ebon loved doing a lava lamp experiment, measuring out and watching the bubbles! He also had a lovely afternoon picking strawberries at Trevaskis Farm and a trip to the woods in an amazing den!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoyed the White Rose learning this week and enjoying threading his 2 times table! Great handwriting and dictation practise using a Mr Tumble song!
Isla, from Class 3
Isla has been working super hard on using neat handwriting and securing her set 2 and 3 phonics … she’s doing brilliantly!
Rosie, from Class 4
Rosie has been busy practising her reading and Mathletics. She also made some delicious chocolate orange fudge – Amazing!
Isabella, from Class 4
Isabella has been very creative, making an underwater scene and also learning to weave! Great work, Isabella!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott’s been loving his online learning this week!
Lowenna, from Class 3
Lowenna loved watching ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ as it’s one of her favourites. She did some super writing about what she packed in her bag! What a creative plant monster she made! Lowenna also got a new Kitten 🙂
Arthur, from Class 3
I was lucky enough to bump into Arthur today, who was collecting leaves and other natural resources to create a dragon! Look how beautiful it is! He had loads of fun exploring different shapes, colours and textures.
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has had another lovely week baking cakes with his daddy, playing lots with his trains, doing writing, reading, maths and phonics and watching “We are going on a Bear Hunt”. He decided that if he went on a bear hunt he would take Thomas the Tank Engine and some juice in his bag. Great choices! 😊
Isla, from Class 3
Isla had good fun tasting different ingredients and was brilliant in trying really hard at writing her sentences, using the conjunctions ‘but’ and ‘because.’ She is working so hard on her neat handwriting!
Luke, from Class 4
Luke has had a brilliant time learning lots of new skills. He went to the beach and learnt how to snorkel! He also met up with Jowan to go fishing and caught a pollack. It looks like a lot of fun, well done Luke!
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn has been doing lots of great work this week! She enjoyed doing her ‘do all insects have wings’ experiment, doing education City, telling the time, taste experiments with describing words, fractions, bear hunt challenge and craft work. She has been doing ‘draw with Rob’ and we were really impressed with her attempt at the pug dog!
Jowan, from Class 4
Jowan and his big sister, Mia celebrated World Ocean Day by carrying out a beach clean. Great job guys!
Keira, from Class 3
Thank you Keira for sharing some more of your home learning. You have written a detailed description of an insect and also listed some very good items that you would take on a picnic. Well done!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira loved the Bear Hunt and became an intrepid explorer in her garden! After working on her number bonds to 20, she embarked on a bug hunt and made natural paintbrushes to paint a picture. Keira chose to do the tree in nonsense land from the Mr Silly book. What a fab idea!
Toran, from Class 3
Super use of commas in your list writing Toran and well done for both explaining halves and quarters and finding them!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles really enjoyed the Micheal Rosen video today and enjoyed copying his expressions!
Super list writing Miles – great use of commas!
Miles, from Class 3
Today Miles took part in ocean day activities with his brother Corey – Miles enjoyed this as they got to do an experiment!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been a superstar helping his brother with his learning and has created an amazing plant monster!
Well done Elliott!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison flew his kite and talked about what the weather needs to be like to do this!!! He also enjoyed answering the questions to Monday’s challenge.
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo is busy drawing a picture of a whale for World Ocean Day. Well done!
Toran, from Class 3
Toran had an excellent time creating a bug paradise (hotel) to explore the experiment ‘Do all insects have wings?’. It looks like his prediction was right! Well done!
Miles, from Class 3
Another busy week for Miles! Lovely to see him playing the learning games with his brother. What a great plant monster! Miles has enjoyed looking at number bonds to 20 this week and counting in 2s.
Thomas, from Class 4
Thomas has worked really hard practicing his handwriting and his phonics – isn’t his writing lovely and neat?! He also enjoyed the pairing game and creating a plant monster from flowers.
Carys, from Class 4
Here is Carys carrying out this weeks home learning. She has had great fun! Carys loves anything to do with bugs and insects!
Molly, from Class 3
Molly has been very much enjoying the Red Word Bingo game. She also found some tadpoles in her pond so has put them in a smaller tank to watch.
Molly, from Class 3
Molly has been enjoying playing dress-up and has been creating a story character with great descriptions!
Harley, from Class 3
Harley has been making a project about Cornwall… what super research facts!
Isabella, from Class 4
This week, Year 1 are exploring the question “Do all insects have wings?” Isabella has made a great start on her experiment, making lots of notes of how she can collect her data and what she might need to use. Great work, Isabella!
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn was very busy over the half term break enjoying the sunshine! She spent lots of time at the beach and outdoors, has been working on Times Tables Rockstars and creating lots of gorgeous pictures with her new felt-tip pens. Well done Merryn!
New – Week commencing – 11.05.2020
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 6 and 7. 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 – Half term activity
New – https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/geography-ks1-how-honey-is-made/z7j76v4 (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/
Fun ways to exercise and keep fit! – Copy and paste the link in to your browser.
https://imoves.com/the-imovement
New – Additional online home learning. – Copy and paste the link in to your browser.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
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
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily! I love your spaceship, it’s so colourful and what a great idea to put your photograph inside the space helmet. I can see, from the learning you have completed, that you really enjoyed this literacy based topic all about space.
Also well done on your spelling test results 10/10 great job!
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has been busy with her maths this week, drawn a great picture of a rocket and made a beeswax candle. She also found a little mole in her garden, he’s very cute!
Faith, from Class 5
Faith has really enjoyed the alien project this week, take a look at her amazing photos of all the craft work and writing she has been doing!
Lily, from Class 6
Well done Lily. You have found so many interesting facts about bees and I love your honey comb pattern.
Hana, from Class 5
Hana has been very busy lately with all her home learning, even though she is missing all her friends. Take a look at her photos and enjoy her pirate story.
Rosie, from Class 6
Rosie and George made some cheese today, after completing their numeracy challenges.
They were very proud of what they made, but didn’t like the taste.
Well done, it looks amazing!
Poppy, from Class 6
What great learning you have completed. I love your pictures, especially your spacesuit….
I was also very impressed with your handwriting . Well done.
Poppy wanted to share this photograph of a beautiful mermaid, which she found swimming in her paddling pool. How lucky was Poppy to find a mermaid in her back garden.
Bella, from Class 5
Bella was inspired by Mrs.Pope’s assembly and has made some amazing frozen flowers! She’s also written a great bee poem and diagram and drawn a couple of brilliant self portraits, one inspired by Gustav Klimt, can you guess which one?
Nicholas, from Class 6
Thank you for sharing your learning from this week Nicholas. I can see that you are really enjoying the space theme. Well done!
Faith, from Class 5
A lovely photo of Faith showing some of her work on Noah’s Ark, she really enjoyed this R.E story. She and her mum thought it very topical at the moment as we are all looking forward to much brighter and happier times.
Bella, from Class 5
Bella has become quite the chef at home again this week, baking cookies that look delicious!
She has also completed some maths sheets and brilliantly illustrated her brothers fantastic story.
Alfie, from Class 5
Alfie has been as busy as usual this week, take a look at his photos to see what he has been up to. I love his alien story and animal game. What a lovely picture of him on the beach too, making the most of the lovely weather.
Nicholas, from Class 6
Thank you Nicholas for sharing your home learning from this week. It looks like you are really enjoying the space writing theme. I love your colourful space suit and what a fab rocket! Well done.
Lily, from Class 6
Wow Lily, you have been very busy with your home learning! It was lovely to see your smiley face again and to see that you are showing such dedication to your home learning challenges. I was really impressed to see you calculating your number problems by using such good resources and what a fantastic sunflower picture you have created. Well done.
Emily, from Class 6
Thank you Emily for sharing your home learning challenges from this week. You have shown such dedication towards your learning. I loved your honeycomb pattern and I was glad to see that you are still using your mathematical skills to solve number problems and also completed the R.E activity. I am so proud of you. Well done!
Tilly, from Class 6
Wow Tilly, you have completed some lovely home learning challenges. Your art work is beautiful and I can see that you have taken great care with your illustrations. I was really impressed with your bee mobile. I would love for you to bring it in to school to show your friends when we return. Great home learning Tilly.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has finished her week by completing some great maths today, and she made some delicious cakes too!
Isaac, from Class 5
Isaac has really enjoyed the pirate craft work, take a look at his photos. A clever idea to stain paper with a tea bag to make it look old and a cleverly disguised egg box as treasure chest, well done Isaac!
Harry, from Class 6
Wow Harry! look at your chilli plant, it looks so healthy and such a lovely colour green. You must be taking great care of it. I look forward to seeing a picture of the first chilli. Well done
Verity, from Class 5
I have been looking forward to reading Verity’s pirate story and here it is, she’s had quite an adventure to find that treasure chest!
Lola, from Class 6
what a lovely picture of a bee Lola! I was also impressed to see that you are using your mathematical knowledge to solve number problems. Well done, great home learning!
Lola, from Class 6
Well done Lola! you have shown great dedication to your home learning this week. You have used your mathematical mind to complete so many number problems. Great home learning!
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily! it looks like you really enjoyed the pirate topic. I loved reading your letter and what a great picture of your treasure chest and flag. What a great idea to complete a V.E day word search puzzle. Well done!
Alfie, from Class 5
Some lovely photos from Alfie this week, he’s been working hard and having fun. I loved his description of the boat journey. Apparently he adopted two snails and made a house for them!
Anya, from Class 6
Thank you Anya for sharing this lovely picture of you being the teacher. It was great to see you sharing your knowledge and supporting your younger sister with her phonics. Well done!
Faith, from Class 5
Take a look at Faith’s fantastic art work, she has really enjoyed completing all the pirate activities this week. Well done Faith.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has been enjoying doing arty bits. She had great fun making pebble bees and ladybirds for a game ’noughts and crosses’ and even got Grannie involved by making a special games bag!!
She has been planning her Pirate treasure hunt and has started by drawing her boat and map. She has been talking through her story with me that she is planning to write. Well done Verity!
Emilija, from Class 5
Emilija has been doing a fantastic job with all her home learning lately, take a look at her photos, I really love her paper plate pirates
Nicholas, from Class 6
Week commencing – 11.05.2020
Hi Year 1,
We are missing you very much but know that your adults are doing a super job of looking after you and teaching you.
We hope you’re enjoying the home-learning tasks as much as we are enjoying receiving the photo’s and videos?!
Please do send any photo’s through if you have the time. Remember we love seeing you playing as well as learning!
Miss Whear and Mrs Sukstiene
New -PE and Outdoor Learning at Home
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New – Digital Ocean – Surfers against Sewage – Copy and paste the link in to your browser
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Luke, from Class 4
Luke has had a fab time enjoying the sunshine this week. He has been playing in his pool, been bodyboarding at the beach and has been doing some great fraction work too! He has also been bug hunting in his garden and creating a super bar chart to show all the different kinds of insects that he has found. Great work, Luke!
Joseph, from Class 4
Joseph has been writing letters to his friends (and Mrs Sukstiene!). Look at that gorgeous handwriting!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been busy learning about fractions, positional language and punctuation recently! Well done Elliott!
Ezra, from Class 4
Ezra has had a super week learning all about mental health awareness. He’s been really busy learning about things that make us feel happy and has decided that being outside and exploring helps him to feel positive. Ezra’s family are having a ‘Feel Good Friday’ party today too, it sounds a lot of fun!
Carys, from Class 4
Carys made a super punctuation poster for our English home learning this week. She chose to tell us all about using a question mark. Well done Carys!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo’s chose the question mark for his punctuation poster this week and enjoyed completing it with his dad!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles loved tricky word bingo yesterday , he’s asked to play again today!
Florence, from Class 4
Florence has been staying active and getting outdoors a lot during the school closures. She has visited the beach, built dens and was even lucky enough to have a treehouse built by her very clever Dad! Florence has also been a great big sister, playing lots with Agatha. It looks like so much fun!
Rosie, from Class 4
Rosie has had a lovely time practising her dancing, going out on her scooter and having a little pamper with a face mask. It looks like fun!
Olivia, from Class 3
Olivia has been loving exploring number bonds, money and tally charts in maths! She’s also made an incredible plants information poster and been practising her days of the week!
Harley, from Class 3
Harley’s been a busy busy these last couple of weeks. Take a look at his super learning!
James, from Class 3
James has enjoyed studying the weather this week. He has drawn some pictures of the weather and has also been doing some maths sums by filling in the missing numbers.
James climbed Trencom Hill and he felt like he was on top of the world!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira has made a pattern with fruit and vegetables printing.
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison used the computer to learn about halves and quarters and created a super weather report from last week-
Harrison walked up to Trencrom and loved climbing and jumping around on the big rocks. Harrison and his brother found little caves and spotted St Michaels amount, Penzance, St Ives, Godrevy lighthouse, Hayle and the estuary.
Isla F from Class 3
Isla F has enjoyed recording the weather, and making a wind vane to see which direction that cold wind was blowing in from, earlier in the week. She’s also baked some tasty vegan banana muffins!
Ebon, from Class 3
Ebon has been busy learning his timetables, making flags on VE day and riding his new bike which he was so happy to get riding when his cast came off!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo is feeling very proud of his weather report this week… and so he should be – it’s fantastic!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has been enjoying lots of walking and running on the beach the last few days and exploring St George’s Walk looking at the fish and flowers. He has really enjoyed keeping a weather record and drawing lots of happy sunshines.
He has been very good with his reading, phonics and maths. Thomas has also been looking after his sunflower which is growing really fast.
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison baked flapjack with me today to send to his great grandad for his birthday and he made a wonderful birthday card, drawing the picture and doing all the writing inside. He also planted 4 types of flowers and 4 types of herbs.
Miles, from Class 3
Miles has completed his weather diary and the challenge I set him to think of adjectives and adverbs to describe the weather! He then used them in a weather poem! Well done Miles! He’s also been adding to his story each day.
Toran, from Class 3
Toran’s been working really hard on his home-learning! Super addition 🙂
Toran exploring rhyming words!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo enjoying dressing up time as Stanley Hulk!
Miles, from Class 3
This morning miles watcher weather videos on you tube and made a weather poster.
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been doing so well practising the DFE online phonics screening past papers! Well done Elliott. He’s also loved exploring money and plants!
Toran, from Class 3
Toran used paint for his pointillism flower and loved exploring money!
Geoffrey, from Class 4
Geoffrey has been learning lots at home this week. He has been exploring the different parts of a plant, practising his handwriting and working on his maths. Super work, Geoffrey – well done!
Ezra, from Class 4
Ezra had a fantastic day celebrating VE Day. He had an indoor street party with his family where they made medals, ration books and danced to music from the 1940s. It looks like so much fun! Great work Ezra, I can’t wait to hear all about it!
Isla, from Class 3
Isla F had a fun week doing coin and leaf rubbings, practising her phonics and writing her short story about a mermaid, called Isla.
James, from Class 3
James is enjoying the weekly challenges – this week he raided his piggy bank to find out about money and to do some coin rubbings. He also explored the different parts of a plant and did some sums in the sand on the beach.
Matteo, from Class 4
Matteo has been learning lots about plants and growing this week. He has practised his English and Maths and also built a boat from recycling. Great work, Matteo!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison learning how to use the suffix -ing and learning the value of money by doing some coin rubbings! Well done.
Miles, from Class 3
Miles loved testing out the rockets and writing the experiment up, he said that ‘the big one went the furthest , the little one went round in circles’. He also celebrated VE Day and helped to make mini toad in the holes and bunting!
For their family themed day, they had Chinese day! Miles didn’t think much of Hong-Kong style egg tarts for breakfast but he did like noddles and apple fritters!
Hello again everyone, I hope you are all well and still enjoying your home learning challenges.
Since I last wrote to you, I have had a few days that were lovely and also a few days where I chose to be a bit naughty and I ended up in a little bit of trouble.
Last Monday, when my family were very busy, I began to feel a little bored, so I decided to have a little roam around my house. I suddenly noticed that someone had left the bathroom door open and I saw some white paper hanging from the wall. I went up to the paper and grabbed it in my mouth. I then started to run out of the bathroom door with the paper following behind. Oh what fun I had playing with that paper, I felt so happy, until I heard someone shout ‘Betsy’. I looked up and saw my family staring down at me. They didn’t look very happy.
My family then decided that perhaps it would be better for me to go outside and get some fresh air, before I got myself in to any more trouble. I was so excited when I saw that I was going to my favourite place, the beach.
I had so much fun at the beach running and rolling around in the sand but because I have a long coat, I had to have a bath before I went to bed. When I lay down in my basket, I felt quite excited as I had heard my family saying that tomorrow was going to be a special day and that they were all going to be baking delicious buns for everyone to eat.
When I woke up in the morning everyone was really busy, in the kitchen, baking and there was such a lovely smell coming from the oven. I looked through the oven door and I could see some of my favourite buns being cooked. I wanted to just sit and watch them cook but no luck, ‘Walkies Betsy”.
Although I wanted to sit and watch the buns cooking, it was great to get outside in the fresh air and get some morning exercise.
On the way back from my walk, my owner decided to let me off the lead so that I could walk on my own. Suddenly, I could smell those delicious buns and I just knew that I had to have one ,as my mouth was beginning to water. I started to run home as fast as I could and there, outside of my garden, was a table all decorated with blue, red and white flags and on the top was a tray full of buns with icing on the top. I thought to myself, ‘This must be the special day celebrations that I heard my family talking about”. I just couldn’t wait any longer, I jumped up and started to eat the buns, licking the icing off first. Suddenly I heard someone shout, “Betsy, those buns were for the V.E day celebrations, now we will have to make some more. I know now that I shouldn’t have taken the buns but they were just looking and smelling so delicious, I couldn’t help myself. Next time, I will wait for my owner to give me one. I think I should now try to stay out of mischief for a while.
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Hello everyone at Penpol School, I hope you are all o.k and enjoying all of your home learning challenges. I really am missing all of my extra cuddles and also seeing everyones smiley faces.
At this strange time, I am also not allowed to go outside and do all of the fun things that I used to enjoy doing. Some days, I often sit and look out of my window, wishing things could get back to normal and I could go outside to play and visit everyone at Penpol School, where I love to be made a fuss of.
Although I miss going outside and not visiting Penpol School, I have enjoyed being at home with my family, where I have also been learning new challenges and practicing old tricks. When the sun was shining, I was so lucky to go down to the beach and play fetch. This is one of my favourite games, especially when the ball goes in to the sea.
Another trick that I have been practicing is ‘Stay’ and ‘Here”. This is a good trick, as I get to sit or stand in the same position and then when I hear the command ‘Here’ I have to run to my owner. They always give me a big cuddle when I run up to them.
Although I am really happy most days, being at home and learning with my family, some times I feel a bit sad and fed up and just don’t want to get out of bed, especially when it is raining.
On these days, I always tell my family how I am feeling so that they can help me and give me things to do that will stop me worrying and make me feel better. Last week, when I felt really sad, my family let me watch some horse racing on the television.
It was so exciting watching all of the horses galloping down the track and then jumping over the fences. After watching the horses, I felt so much happier and couldn’t wait to get started on my next learning challenge followed by playing in the garden and then having plenty of cuddles and playtime with my family.
Well I hope you have all enjoyed reading about what I’ve been up to at home. Perhaps you would like to send some photographs of your pets to Mrs Ruffell, so that she can share them with me and everyone else on the Penpol Times.
Take care
Love Betsy xxxx
Fred, from Class 1
Here is a picture of Fred from Class 1 with Sydney, she’s an Hungarian vizsla.
Ebbie, from Class 3
What a beautiful photo of Ebbie playing with her dog on the beach!
Isla, from Class 2
Here is Isla from class 2 with her pet Cat Alfie, they are watching a film together.
Izzy, from Class 2
It looks like Luna has been having a fab time playing with Izzy. I wonder what game they are playing? It looks like Luna is taking Izzy for a ride.
Kensa, from Class 6
Kensa and Bruno have also been visiting the beach to have some fun and exercise. Bruno looks just like Betsy. I wonder if they go to the same dog parlour to have their coats groomed?
Class 1 and 2 demonstrate their culinary skills by baking the most delicious treats for all their family to enjoy.
With a little help from Mum or Dad, the children weighed, kneaded, mixed, melted, iced, glazed, and decorated to their hearts content.
They made cup cakes, large chocolate cakes, fruit cakes, mug cakes, pies, tarts, biscuits, cheesecakes, swiss rolls, millionaires shortbread, gingerbread men, cheese scones, fruit scones, Finnish cinnamon buns and even made their own pasta and filled it with a variety of tasty fillings.
These indulgent tasty delights were a massive hit with the children’s families but they had to get in there quickly, they didn’t last long.
“I made them cakes for mummy’s birthday, I made patterns with chocolate buttons and smarties. It’s yummy”- Koby
