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
Each week whilst school is closed I’ll be bringing you a Friday afternoon assembly showcasing some of the diverse and exciting learning that’s being shared by Key Stage 2 on Showbie. As well as the assembly itself, this page also has a gallery where you can see the learning in more detail should you wish.
Here at Penpol, we have a rich community which stretches far and wide, beyond the school gates. For three years, we have been in contact with Madame Jourdain’s Year 5 classes, at Le Bourg primary school in SW France. We have been exchanging letters, information about our lovely school and area, sending over games and passing on cultural differences between the two countries.
One aspect which is very similar between the two countries right now is that French children are now, like us, working from home for the time being, rather than at school.
Maintaining connections during this rather strange time is a powerful thing – be it with family, friends, teachers, as well as our friends over the pond at Ecole Primaire le Bourg- and it gives us all a sense that we are in this together.
The children from Le Bourg primary school have sent messages, some in French and some in English, detailing what they are getting up to during this period outside of the classroom. I am also very excited to send some of our own messages in French/ English to let them know what we are doing during this time. Please feel free to send them in to your teachers if you have anything you would like to share in French…the more, the merrier! Also, if you feel like you need a refresher on some of the topics your teachers have been doing with you, with the help of Mr Woolcock I have uploaded a French and Spanish section with plenty of games and activities to try out and boost your confidence. You can find the French and Spanish section on the home learning section of the school website.
For now, check out the lovely message sent from their teacher, Madame Jourdain, as well as the letters from the Year 5 children below and see how you get on with some of the translations…
Mardi 7 avril, Tuesday 7th April
Chers correspondants, Dear friends letters, coorespondents
Nous aussi, nous sommes confinés et travaillons à la maison.
We are confined and we work at home.
Voici quelques activités que nous pratiquons en dehors du travail scolaire.
Here are some activities we do outside of school work.
A très bientôt. See you soon.
Les élèves de CM1/CM2 Mme Jourdain
Hi Class 6 and Class 5, Mrs Ruffell and Mrs Daniel would like to share some home learning photographs with you. Please email Mrs Ruffell or Mrs Daniel with any home learning challenges completed, so that we can share them on the school web site.
Take care – Mrs Ruffell & Mrs Daniel
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
Emily, from Class 6 has been learning about punctuation.
Thank you Emily for sharing this weeks learning. You have been learning all about commas and apostrophes and created a fact file about how to look after a dog. I really love all the images you have used. I was so glad to see that you were able able to access the R.E plans, well done. Keep a look out for next weeks home learning challenges.
Verity, from Class 5 has been counting bees.
Thank you for sharing your home learning from this week Verity. I loved reading all of your facts about dogs and bees. Well done!
Lola, from Class 6 has been researching and collecting data
Well done Lola on researching and writing so many interesting facts about Cocker Spaniels. They really are a lovely breed of dog. I was also very interested in your data collection. Well done on creating a Tally chart and then transfering the information, which you recoded, in to a Bar graph. Great home learning!
Alfie, from Class 5 has been researching facts.
Alfie has written a couple of fact sheets all about bumblebees and rats, you can read all about their very interesting toilet habits!
Oliver, from Class 5 has designed a poster.
Oliver has written a fantastic poster all about his dog Ted, he loves going to the beach.
Isaac from Class 5 has been writing poetry.
Wow! Isaac has written a poem and designed a poster to try and gain his blue and green blue letter badges. Fantastic home learning Isaac, your poem is brilliant. Well done!
Faith, from Class 5 has been very creative.
Thank you so much Faith for sharing your great artistic and cheerful artwork with us. Well done!
Anya, from Class 6 has been using her mathematical skills, writing facts and learning about Easter.
Wow, well done Anya! I am glad to see that you have been using your mathematical skills to solve several number problems and also sequencing numbers correctly. You have also drawn a lovely picture of bee and written some interesting facts. I also found it very interesting reading all about guinea pigs, I never knew that they loved being cuddled and ate vegetables.
Anya, thank you for sharing the picture of your homemade flapjack, it looks delicious! Also what a great bike ride you did this morning! Well done.
Bobby, from Class 6 has been learning all about bees.
Thank you Bobby for sharing all of your home learning about bees. I was so excited to see that you are already showing an interest in our summer topic. I thought that your picture, of a cartoon bee, called Bob was fantastic and what a great name for a bee. I also loved your bee finger puppet. Well done Bobby, great home learning.
Lily, from Class 6 has been writing stories and sentences.
Thank you so much Lily for sharing your learning with us. I can see that you have been busy learning your 2, 3, 5 and ten times tables and also writing stories and silly sentences, which were all home learning tasks from week one . I was also very impressed when I read your sentences that contained the word of the week ‘Saunter’. Well done Lily! Great home learning.
Emily, from class 6 has been putting her mathematical skills to great use.
Wow! Emily, you have really been using your mathematical knowledge to solve so many number problems. You have been learning about direction, time, mass and comparing numbers. I really enjoyed reading your story and I was so impressed with your handwriting. I also loved the picture of your penguin, which I will save and put on the classroom wall as soon as we return. Well done Emily, great home learning!
Verity, from Class 5 has been busy adapting stories.
Hello Verity!
It was lovely to read your super story today. I loved the way you story boarded it first, just as we do in school. The Princess and the Pea is one of my favourite traditional tales and I loved the way you made it your own by having dogs as the main characters! Do you remember when I read it in school?
Jowan, from Class 6 has been experimenting and keeping fit.
Thank you Jowan for sharing with us your photographs of you keeping fit and how you are keeping your learning going by watching and then recording a variety of scientific experiments. It was also lovely to see you sporting a brand new hair style, which looks great! Well done Jowan.
Ava, from Class 6 has been learning all about bees.
Ava has made a great start on the summer home learning challenges. She has been very busy researching for information about bees and recorded some interesting facts. She has also written a detailed story that was inspired by a picture and created her very own weather chart to record the temperature. Ava also used her mathematical knowledge to measure out a selection of ingredients to make her very own pasty. Well done Ava, great home learning.
Tilly, from class 6 has been recording the weather.
Tilly has been very creative by making her own rain gauge out of an empty plastic bottle. Apart from decorating the bottle, she has also drawn a scale in ml to record the amount of rain that falls. Tilly will also be busy recording the daily temperatures and recording the weather conditions on her weather diary, that goes up until the end of April. I look forward to seeing the final amount of rain fall recorded. Well done Tilly, you have definitely shown an interest in recording the weather!
Oliver, from Class 5 has been busy writing stories.
Hello Oliver! I was so pleased to receive your home learning today and read your story all about the Billy Goats Gruff. I can see that you created a storyboard first and then used this plan to write the story out in the correct order. Well done and thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Harry, from Class 6 has green fingers!
Harry has been busy learning all about seeds and what they need to grow in to healthy plants. He has also been researching for interesting facts about bees and created a poster all about honey. Well done Harry, great home learning. Remember to let us know how your chilli seed grows, perhaps you could keep a diary of its growth and share with us again?
Wow! Thank you Harry for telling us what we would need if we were to have a snake as a pet.
Lola, from Class 6 has been very busy writing, calculating and baking .
Thank you Lola for sharing your home learning photographs with us. You have produced a draft copy of your story, edited your spelling and grammar mistakes and then written the story out again in your very best hand writing. You have also shown that you have given the characters a lot of thought by drawing them in such detail. It was also lovely to see that you have been calculating a variety of number facts and problems and then using measure to bake some delicious buns. I am also very excited to see that you have already started to learn all about bees. Well done Lola, I am very proud of your home learning achievements!
Hugo, from Class 6 gets very creative.
Hugo has sent me some pictures, of his home learning challenges, that he would like to share. Not only has Hugo been busy practicing his letter formation and reading skills, he has also enjoyed creating and completing many D&T activities and by reading and following instructions, made a delicious chocolate cake, which he knows is one of my favourite treats! I just wish I could have tried a slice. Well done Hugo! I am very proud of your learning achievements.
Violet, from Class 5 has been planning and writing.
Violet has been very busy planning and writing stories of her own. In her writing she has ensured that she has used her best handwriting and included well structured sentences. Well done Violet, some super home learning! keep it up.
Well done! Some super work about bees Violet. Keep it going.
Poppy, from class 6 has been busy Home Learning.
Poppy has been very busy learning her two and tens times tables and then, after comparing measures, made some very tasty buns. she also created a storyboard for her own story, ‘The Three Fairies’, which she then wrote out in her best handwriting. Well done Poppy! Great home learning.
Well done Poppy, you have researched and written out some great bee facts. Great home learning again!
Each week whilst school is closed I’ll be bringing you a Friday afternoon assembly showcasing some of the diverse and exciting learning that’s being shared by Key Stage 2 on Showbie. As well as the assembly itself, this page also has a gallery where you can see the learning in more detail should you wish.
1- Do 20 star jumps as quickly as possible!
2- To make it easier, do them in two sets of 10!
3- To make it harder: Try and do 20, every hour, of the school day!
Give it a go and bring your photos for me to see!
On Thursday 5th March 2020, Penpol School celebrated World Book Day. The children participated in a carousel around the school and they needed to guess the book based on the clues hidden in each classroom.
Here are the answers revealed…
The Book Fair arrived at Penpol School on Thursday 5th March (World Book Day) and will be here until Wednesday 12th March!
You are able to use £1 World Book Day vouchers on books that are over £2.99 at the Book Fair.
There are hundreds of books from £2.99. Read all the latest books by your favourite authors and illustrators! Discover a book you’ll love at our Book Fair.
Earn 20% extra free with discounted gift vouchers, available online before the Book Fair at www.bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/giftvouchers
Every book you buy at our Book Fair helps us earn free books for our school!
Love reading? Love our Book Fair!
Try walking around for 10 minutes a day whilst bouncing a ball on a racquet or on your hand.
No ball? Use a ball of socks (preferably clean)
To make it easier: let the ball bounce once in-between.
To make it harder: Hop!
Give it a go and bring your photos for me to see!
Last term we started a brand new club at Penpol, App Design Club. In this club the children in Year 5 and Year 6 are invited to consider an idea or problem and how they might make an app to solve this. Following along with resources made by Apple, the children then learn how to write code using the Swift programming language as well as learn how to plan and design their own app.
In the first half term we had a live link-up with Mr Jenkins who teaches at Booth Wood Primary School in the Midlands. This connection allowed children from both clubs to have the chance to share their initial app ideas and to ask for feedback. This Focus Group session proved valuable as the children were able to adapt and refine their ideas as a result of this feedback.
Following this they then did market research and looked at similar apps to see what they could offer which would be a bit different.
When they had got a clear idea of their app it was time to move onto Phase 2 – the design.
Initially each child created a ‘wire-frame’ idea by sketching on the iPads. This showed roughly what the individual screens of their app would look like and how they would be connected to each other.
After this we were lucky enough to have a Skype conversation with Sabe who teaches in a city called Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He led the club through a fun and exciting lesson on creating App Prototypes using the Keynote app. The children followed intently and by the end of the session they’d created a simple app to browse animal facts.
We’re now taking the ideas learnt from Sabe and using them to create working prototypes of our own apps. This process is going to take a little while as we are trying to pay close attention to how the app functions and how it looks.
Hopefully later in the year we’ll be able to share an update with everyone where the children can share their app designs with the world!
– Mr Woolcock
Sharing ideas in a Focus Group session with Booth Wood Primary school in order to develop and expand their ideas.
Club members following along with their App Designs carefully following the instructions from Sabe in the UAE.
On Tuesday morning our year 6 children visited Hayle Academy; here they not only had the chance to explore languages from around the world but the opportunity to dive deeper into how languages are constructed before having a ghostwrited at creating their own language.
The second session consisted of constructing and writing letters to their favourite authors. These will then be posted off with the hope of getting a reply. So watch this space!
