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
What an amazing half term it has been. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our Extreme Reading Challenge. It has been incredible to see the exciting adventures your reading has taken you.
Infant and Junior winners will be announced this Friday.
Have a lovely Christmas!
Keeeeeeeeeeeep Reading 🙂
Mrs Riches
Classes and 5 and 6 took to the stage on 5th December to retell the traditional nativity story and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
The children from both classes, worked extremely hard to learn the words to many songs and readings and also to know when they had a part to play.
The performance was a complete success with all children demonstrating great confidence and stage presence.
Well done!
– Mrs Ruffell
” I liked it when we sang All around the World” – Lily, Class 6
” I enjoyed being a king and wearing a crown” – Tommy, Class 6
“I enjoyed learning my words and reading them out to everyone” – Rafaella, Class 5
“I enjoyed singing the King’s song” – James, Class 5
Over the last two weeks each class in Key Stage 2 has taken part in the Hour of Code. For those unfamiliar, Hour of Code is a worldwide event which encourages school children to spend an hour having fun by problem solving through writing code.
Each year some amazing activities are created and this year schools around the world got to enjoy spending an hour Dance Party and coding their characters to dance their favourite moves.
But enough of me talking about it, here’s a fab video of the children enjoying choreographing their very own Dance Party!
– Mr Woolcock
This is the second year we’ve taken part in the international Hour of Code – you can read more about the children’s Minecraft adventure last year below:
Christmas is coming! The Junior Christmas concert has some fabulous songs this year. Scroll down to have a listen to them and practise!
Silent Night
Sans Day Carol
Santa’s Coming For Us
Love Shone Down
Winter Wonderland
Rockin Around The Christmas Tree
On Sunday 12th November, six Y6 pupils represented Penpol School in the Hayle Remembrance Service. The first part of the service took part in St. Elwyns Church before we paraded down to the war memorial. After listening to the names of all the local people who had fallen, we heard the last post and stood in silence to remember them. We laid a wreath on behalf of Penpol School.
The service was particularly significant to the Y6 pupils as we have been learning about the impact of WWI and WWII in our Wartime Britain topic. We have also been making our own poppies and wreaths and writing poems based on Flander’s Fields. The local community praised the respect and maturity of our Y6 pupils. It was also nice to see so many other past and present Penpol pupils representing their local clubs at the service who were equally respectful and role-models for our school and community.
Penpol had a special visitor on Tuesday. Karen Pirie, a radio producer for Radio 4 visited Class 8 and made a podcast with the children about the history of Hayle.
“I really enjoyed making the podcast and adding the sound effects.” (Obi age 8)
“I loved recording our voices and thinking about the different ways to speak on a podcast.” (Liliana age 8)
“It was really fun and I want to make my own podcast at home.” (Dylan)
“Karen was really great fun and she had a lovely smile. I liked making the podcast” (Cerys age 7)
“We loved recording ourselves. Karen’s job is exciting.” (Abigail age 7)
“I found it really fascinating to hear all about Karen’s job” (Lily age 7)
Listen to our podcast below:
The Penpol Junior Choir has been busy preparing for this year’s festivities, rehearsing Christmas songs which are to be performed at a number of events throughout December. After working really hard to learn and polish the songs which were performed at the Camborne Music Festival, the choir have got together during a lunch time to record one of their favourite carols, The Sans Day Carol, to help get everyone in the mood. Please listen to the school choir and enjoy, whilst getting into the Christmas Spirit.
Watch out for the amazing Penpol School Junior Choir as they perform throughout December!
On the 15th November 2018, the Penpol Junior Choir participated in this year’s Camborne Music Festival. The children performed two songs, Touch the Sky and I’m Still Singing, with energy and confidence giving a fantastic performance to the adjudicator and the audience. The choir were awarded with 168 marks (out of 200) and were praised for their energy and spirit and their great part singing. The children really enjoyed the experience and we look forward to the next Music festival.
Another fantastic round of photos! It is brilliant to see so many new faces taking part in the Extreme Reading Challenge. Keep sending in your creative ways to read. The competition is heating up, winners will be announced on the 14th of December. Still plenty of time to get your photos in to reading@penpol.cornwall.sch.uk.
Happy Reading!
Mrs Riches
Penpol School have once again been recognised for our pupils outstanding ICT and Computing work and have been shortlisted as a finalist for the Edge Awards 2018.
These awards celebrate the very best technology companies, digital content and entrepreneurs in Cornwall, along with the schools and colleges that help inspire and nurture the digital pioneers of tomorrow.
Penpol School have this year been recognised in the category of “Most Inspirational Educational IT / Digital / Multimedia Project” for our work with the 3D printed winter ornaments we’ve made.
The judges loved the fact that this project included the whole of Key Stage 2 and that it gave so many children the chance to use a technology (namely 3D printing) that they wouldn’t otherwise have had access to. They were blown away with the quality and charm of the decorations that our pupils had created.
We were the only primary school in the whole of Cornwall to make the finals and whilst we didn’t come away as the overall winner, we were treated to a fantastic video and some lovely words from the judges about our school:
You can watch the video below:
