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
World Book Day may have been disrupted by the snow a few weeks ago, but that has not stopped Penpol celebrating the event, just a little later than expected.
The Year 6 children have been creating their own books to take down to the Year 1 classes to read to them. They have reworked some traditional tales, created their own illustrations to support their writing, as well as front covers to make their books look attractive. Well done Year 6!
I really enjoyed creating pictures to support our writing – Sammy
As part of our five week Be Internet Legends program, the children have been learning about how to protect their personal information online by being on the look out for phishing attacks and spam in a module called Be Internet Alert. Using the excellent resources from Google, we’ve discussed how to check if a website is safe, how to spot suspicious messages and how to ensure we’re as safe as possible when we use the internet.
“You shouldn’t send stuff that’s important to people you don’t know. If you aren’t sure you could ask your friends and family if they know that person and if they don’t you don’t send them anything. Always be careful!” – Brodie
As well as learning all about this, we’ve played the Reality River game on Interland to really help the children cement their new found knowledge!
“I really liked playing on Reality River because it was cool and I learnt about how to be safer online.” – Mason
“I learnt that if a website has a green padlock symbol then it’s usually safe to put your password in.” – Freddie
“I’ve leant that you have to look closely at details in messages that you are sent to see if it’s a scam or not.” – Fynn
This half term we are looking at staying safe online, using a brand new set of resources from Google called ‘Be Internet Legends‘. This week we’ve been looking at the first aspect, Be Internet Smart, which focuses on knowing what information is safe to share online and who we could be sharing with in order to stay safe. We’ve also talked about being respectful online and remembering that comments and photos you post online tend to stay there for a very long time.
It’s been great to see how much the children have remembered from our online safety lessons last year, showing just how switched on our pupils are already when it comes to e-safety – Mr Woolcock
Remember children, if you see anything online which worries you or makes you feel a bit uneasy, you can always tell an adult!
“You need to be really careful who you share things with, any personal information should only be shared with people that you know in real life.” – Clarissa
As well as learning all about this, we’ve played the Mindful Mountain game on Interland to really help the children cement their new found knowledge!
“I think Interland is really fun and that everyone should play it to help them learn about staying safe online!” – Charlie
“You can be safe by not sharing personal information with the wrong people.” – Caleb
“I think Interland is a good way to learn about sharing because it’s safe and fun at the same time!” – Grace
Dear Parents/Guardian,
As a school, it is very important that our parents/guardians are informed of updates and changes at school in addition to the personal updates you will receive about your child’s progress and wellbeing.
From the week commencing Monday 5th March, the text messages you receive from school will appear differently on your phone.
Our service provider, Teachers2Parents, are excited to introduce an additional new security verification measure to allow parents/guardians to check that the messages you receive are from school.
Much like telephone banking, you will continue to receive messages from a secure number with the school message ID now in the body of the message, accompanied with a link at the beginning of the message to click through to a Teachers2Parents verification page; confirming that the sender of the message is genuine.
This added security measure is another step forward to help reassure parents/guardians of the safety and wellbeing of your child at school.
When you click to verify the message, you will be taken to the following screen:
The changes to the text messaging service will not affect use of the Teachers2Parents App, as this continues to offer built in user verification and end to end encryption of all messages, plus you will still have secure access to term calendar and school noticeboard updates.
To take advantage of the Teachers2Parents app, please search and download ‘Teachers2Parents’ for free on iOS App store and Android smartphone devices.
We hope you agree, as we do, that this added security measure bolsters reassurance that any important communication about your child is safe and you can always be sure that it has been sent by our school.
For more information about Teachers2Parents, please visit. https://eduspot.co.uk/product/teachers2parents/
Kind Regards,
Aidan Doyle
Headteacher
Wow, what a snowy couple of days we’ve had! Hopefully you’ve all been out enjoying some time in the snow and not getting too cold. We sent a text out to parents to see what you’ve all been creating in the snow and we’ve put together a gallery of all your photos here. If you’d like to add your own snowy selfie to this gallery just email it to secretary@penpol.cornwall.sch.uk
Don’t forget, you can click on a photo to view it full size.
[Mar 1st 12.40]: Due to the on-going severe weather forecasts & safety of pupils/staff, My Doyle has decided to close the school on Friday. Take care and see you on Monday.
[Feb 28th 12.40]: Mr Doyle has made the decision that the school will be closed tomorrow. Stay safe in the snow.
[Feb 28th 11.00]: Just a message to let everyone know that Penpol is closing at 1pm today (Feb 28th) as further snow is forecast for the rest of the afternoon.
Please check local news and your texts for updates regarding the situation tomorrow.
Don’t forget your warm hats and gloves if you’re outside later!
The last three years have seen sell out performances at our annual Music In The Marquee concerts from Bradley Johnson, Little Chix and last years Yellow. I’m delighted to say that this summer we will be hosting our fourth concert in the Marquee, featuring a somewhat familiar face…
Each year we ask the children which music they are enjoying and what sort of act they’d like to see play in our marquee at the end of the Summer term. This year the overwhelming majority of children told us they’d like to hear Ed Sheeran, with some of the older children asking in particular if Bradley Johnson could make a comeback. I am delighted to say that when I spoke to Bradley he was thrilled that we wanted him back to perform again.
So, for the second time, I’d love to introduce you to Bradley Johnson! Bradley is a singer/songwriter from Liverpool who first came to national attention as a finalist on the X Factor back in 2011 when he amazed judges with his version of Ed Sheeran’s The A Team. Since his television debut he’s been working on his own material and has been crafting his skills to become the UK’s finest Ed Sheeran tribute act. He made his first trip down to Cornwall for a sell-out show in our Marquee back in 2015 and can’t wait to come back again later this year. Bradley says: “I loved playing at your school last time, I still remember it as one of my favourite gigs. I can’t wait to be back again this year, with even more tunes for you all to enjoy!”
Bradley will be playing two sets of live music on the night, the first being a hit-filled Ed Sheeran tribute set including tunes both new and old including ‘Shape of You’, ‘Bloodstream’, ‘Thinking Out Loud’ and ‘Perfect’, followed by a later set which will also include other popular pop and rock covers as well as a selection of his own material. As always with Music in the Marquee his two sets will be accompanied by local support acts to round off the whole evenings entertainment.
Just like in previous years the event will raise money for the Penpol Friends Association and will also feature a fully licensed bar, BBQ, soft drinks, and food for everyone to enjoy. I hope you’ll agree that Music in the Marquee 2018 is already shaping up to be a phenomenal night of entertainment.
We are opening this event to the whole community, but want to give our Penpol parents the first chance to get tickets. For this reason we’re offering you a special pre-sale of tickets, starting TODAY! Tickets are priced at £8 for adults and £5 for children. Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Please return this slip and money to the office as soon as you can to secure your tickets. Music in the Marquee has been a sell out for the past three years and tickets will be on a first come first served basis.
Relive last years Music in the Marquee:
Year 6 Students at Penpol have begun to take part in an email exchange with a French primary school during Mr Emery’s French lessons. The students have already sent and received two letters each to a French primary school located 60 km outside of Bordeaux in South-West France.
Year 6 students wrote a quick introduction about themselves in French before Christmas to the French school, Octave Cazauvieilh. They were able to talk about their hobbies, saying what they like and dislike doing on the weekend. Every Tuesday, Year 6 students would hopefully await word from Mr Emery to see if there had been a response from their French pen-pals. After a few weeks, Classes 13 and 14 received their first responses from their pen-pals, which of course was written in French!
In the Spring term, Year 6 then wrote a description about what they look like, with a picture they drew of themselves. They also included extra details about their interests they wanted their French pen-pal to know about. Finally, they created a postcard to show off to their pen-pal the local area, with Godrevy and its lighthouse featuring prominently on most of the postcards.
Their letters were posted by mail this time and the French school were delighted with the response that had been sent from their Penpol pen-pals.
Most recently, Penpol have just received a Guess Who game. The game included a class photo of all the students in the French year 5 class, as well as a description of each one. Using the French descriptions of each student, Penpol’s Year 6 classes rose to the challenge.
It was great to try and work out who your pen-pal was from their descriptions and photo. Juliette- Class 14
Fun was had by all and great progress was made on the current topic, All About Me.
I learnt lots of extra new words to try and find out which pen-pal was mine from the picture. It was lots of fun! Ines- Class 13
Watch this space for the next flurry of emails between the French and Cornish school over the next couple of months.
Think you can spot Anaelle? Read her description below and find her in the picture …
J’ai les cheveux blonds. J’ai un pantalon gris, un T-shirt blanc et des chaussures noires. Anaelle, CM1- Octave Cazauvieilh School
Since Christmas Class 2 have been learning about the different continents and countries all around the world. The class have learnt about their own country, as well as others such as China, Mexico, Hawaii and the Arctic. The children have enjoyed looking at lots of photos and videos to see what different places look like and even have a travel agents in the classroom where they can pretend to book holidays!
The class also got the chance to use Google Earth in our IT lessons with Mr Woolcock to look at some different places and really enjoyed the randomise button which showed them lots of different places all over the world.
I liked looking at the places on the computer. I went to China. China is a big country – Hunter
The class have also been thinking about the different ways people travel around the world and some children have been busy making hot air balloons in the afternoons.
We have to put the paper and glue on first. We wait for it to dry and then paint it. I painted mine purple -Kensa
Here are some pictures of the finished balloons!
Class 2 have also been learning about the different animals that live in different countries and the children particularly enjoyed learning all about the animals that live in the Arctic and Antartica! Some have put their artistic skills to use by drawing some great pictures during free choice.
My picture has reindeer in it – Tilly
As a class, we have also been learning about different celebrations from around the world. Before half term, we celebrated Chinese new year in class and tried some different foods from China using chopsticks. We had great fun trying to use them!
The children have also been busy practising some dances from different countries and we are looking forward to showing off our moves to parents in a few weeks time!
