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.
Today, Class 9 took their Maths lesson outside and, it has to be said, they have embraced the outdoors despite the change of weather!
The lesson today was a recap of what they have been learning about this term – Place value. The students showed great teamwork and were able to confidently partition 4 digit numbers, as well as round their chosen number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.
In addition, our Topic this term is ‘Romans on the Rampage.’ The class have been busy learning about who exactly the Romans were and what they have done for us. For DT, each of the students were tasked with creating a Roman helmet using paper mache, balloons, cardboard and, of course, the red and gold paint! This was a great success, with all students now learning Latin salutes in anticipation of a Roman Legion army drill in the coming weeks. ‘Dextrum sinistrum!
Finally, the good weather so far was not wasted, with many of our Guided Reading sessions taking place outside in the Gazebo and our first session of Tag Rugby taking place in glorious sunshine.
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
This week the children in Year 5 have been taking part in an international event which is quite simply “out of this world”!.
Astro Pi is a fantastic event run by Code Club and the European Space Agency whereby school children can write a computer program to be run on a modified Raspberry Pi computer on the International Space Station. Yes, IN SPACE!
Each child in Year 5 has worked in a team to design and code their programs, which will display messages, pictures and the current temperatures to the astronauts onboard the ISS. The children then decided on their team names before finally submitting their error-free code into space.
As soon as their program has been run on the Space Station the children will receive a certificate which will show the exact time and location of the International Space Station from when their code was run.
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
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.
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 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 – 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.
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 Sukstiene
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
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!
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
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
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
Luke has had a packed few weeks! He has been growing seeds, exploring his local area complete with finding a rope swing and some stunning views! He has bee making so many amazing creations – like boats, targets, pasties and number blocks pictures. Keep up the super work Luke!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has had another lovely week. He has been learning about plants and even potted his own sunflower.
He has being doing maths puzzles with his dad using numbers and beanbags and created his own picture using his favourite letter families. He has also been enjoying exercising on the beach and throwing the pebbles as far into the sea as he can.
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn has been so busy this week! She has created self portraits, chatted to friends, built lego and practised riding her bike. Great work Merryn!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira has done some posters to help us remember how to draw our letters. She’s had fun drawing these.
Arlo, from Class 3
I’m so impressed with Arlo’s plant fact file! Well done – beautifully written!
Reuben, from Class 4
Reuben has been super busy this past week! He has been exploring money, creating some super tie-dye t-shirts and using M&Ms to create tally charts. Great work Reuben!
Ebbie, from Class 3
Ebbie enjoyed practicing number formation 🙂
Matteo, from Class 4
Matteo has been working on his days of the week, maths, phonics and reading. He also made a blueberry smoothie – it looks very tasty! Well done Matteo!
Keira, from Class 3
Keira loved measuring and mixing the recipe for Homemade giant bubbles!
James, from Class 3
James had lots of fun making a tally chart with Skittles and filling in the missing letters on the Days of the Week. He can also sing the days of the week song to the Adams Family tune!
James loves dinosaurs so he has made lots of pictures of dinosaurs having fun playing football, on the beach and having a picnic!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles prepping to make rockets fly with balloon power this weekend!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles decided what he wanted to buy with the coins in his money jar!
He was a super suffix detective and found a whole page worth! Well done Miles
Arthur, from Class 3
Arthur has really bounced into learning this week… he has researched plants with some bitesize videos, talked about his own house plants and the flowers his family pick and then wrote about what plants need to survive! He’s also expanded on his space project…can’t wait for Arthur to teach class 3 all he knows about space!
Toran, from Class 3
Toran practised his letter formation in flour today….
Jowan, from Class 4
Jowan has been creating his dream garden! It looks beautiful, Jowan – look at all those colours!
Joseph, from Class 4
Joseph has created a brilliant treasure map, I wonder what treasure is buried at the X?! Joseph also has been working hard to master riding his bike – Amazing work!!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison – you really are so kind! I loved your comments on your mindfulness activity!
Also, what a super small world Jack and the Beanstalk!
Great to see you and your brother playing so beautifully and very impressive that you were teaching him to make flapjacks! Well done!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoying his mentos and coke experiment! Good job he’s got quick reactions and moved out of the way!
Harrison, from Class 3
Harrison drew and painted the giant and jack last week ready to create his jack and the beanstalk scene tomorrow 🎨
Lowenna, from Class 3
Lowenna has been practising the days of the week and recognising her numbers whilst playing Bingo! She also had great fun planting and creating a fairy garden!
Betty, from Class 3
I love tracing around my hands to make number bond support tools… I’m glad Betty enjoyed it too!
Thomas, from Class 3
Thomas has had a great week. As part of his daily exercise he went on a “Bear Hunt” to find sticks to build a raft, which didn’t sink.
Thomas has also been enjoying learning about the days of the week and doing doing bonds.
Miles, from Class 3
Today was ‘Cornish Day’ at Miles’ house! He didn’t need any help knowing how to draw this flag!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles thought today’s maths was the most fun so far! I loved the video of Miles eating a sweet, then drawing a tally for it! 🙂
Toran, from Class 3
Super unscrambling days of the week and works on Tally’s, bar charts and pictograms. Well done Toran!
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been enjoying using a rainbow to support learning his number bonds as well as learning to spell and order the days of the week. Great to see mum and Elliott making use of the ‘Vipers’ questions when reading ‘The Scrap Rocket’. They are really helpful aren’t they?! It’s also nice to see Hugo and Elliott having such fun together on the beach!
Arlo, from Class 3
Arlo has been busy this week completing maths sheets: dividing in halves and recognising halves, watching the phonics on you tube using the ‘r’ sound, writing a diary of what he has done each day, practising reading and writing red words and reading books through the Owl. Phew… what a busy week Arlo! Well done.
Ebbie, from Class 3
Ebbie wrote some super instructions when she helped Daddy with planting seeds! She has also been practising ‘groups of’ to find multiples of 5. Well done!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles enjoying the RWI lessons this morning and having fun unscrambling days of the week!
Merryn, from Class 4
Merryn has been having lots of fun at home. She has walked to the beach, done lots of baking, re-enacted fairytales with her teddy bears, carried out some amazing science experiments, played with her Lego and learnt her times tables. Wow Merryn!
Toran , from Class 3
Great to see Toran using practical resources to solve the maths problem – I have a number between 20 and 30. It must be in the 5 times table. What must the number be?
Ebbie, from Class 3
Linking to our ‘How does your garden grow?’ topic, Ebbie helping her dad to sow some fruit and vegetable seeds?🧅🥕🥔🍅🍓
Elliott, from Class 3
Elliott has been using the past phonics screening checks to practise reading both real and nonsense words. He’s also been practising ordering and writing the days of the week.
Beau, from Class 4
Beau has been really busy at home! He has been practising his times tables and writing a review of a film he watched. Well done Beau!
Miles, from Class 3
Miles decided to do some ‘worksheet’ style learning today linking to our daily challenges.
He’s also chosen and planned his next experiment – Miles has been enjoying the kitchen science challenges I sent him!
James, from Class 3
James has been learning how to tell the time! He has also been using his time to do lots of reading, phonics and puzzles! Well done James!
He has also been using his time to do lots of reading, phonics and puzzles! Well done
Harrison, from Class 3
This weekend and today we did a mixture of activities….We melted old unwanted crayons and made them into planet earth crayons.
Ebbie, from Class 3
The days of the week were hidden around the house. Ebbie had to find them, read them and put them into order. Then she wanted to write the words herself. We practiced which ways b and d face. She also spotted the ay sound that we have practiced before.
Reuben, Class 4
Reuben has been working really hard at his phonics whilst at home – inside and outside! Well done Reuben!
Joseph, Class 4
Joseph has been busy in his garden this last week. He has been painting, planting and bug spotting – great work Joseph!
Olivia, from Class 3
Olivia wrote a lovely letter to Scarlett which beautiful handwriting and great use of question marks. She’s also being exploring multiplication through ‘groups of’ and repeated addition. Well done Olivia.
Thomas, from Class 3
I have had a nice week at home and have been enjoying, writing, maths and reading. I have started writing the days of the week and months of the year using my phonic cards to learn how to write each letter.
I have also been reading Jack and the Beanstalk. Mummy and I have planted our own beans to see if they will grow. I also had great fun making my own Giant’s castle and learning about the 2D shapes that we used to build it.
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 3 and 4. 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
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
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.
Use your mind – Laugh & Giggle – Breathe Deep – Stretch it out – Relax
New – As the weather is now getting warmer, many of you have started to plant seeds and watching them grow. Below is a link to a lovely song called ‘One Seed’. Perhaps you could learn the words and record yourself singing it.
A big hello from Shelly.
Mrs Ruffell’s tortoise, Shelly, would like to say a big hello to everyone in Class 6 and Class 5
Chloe, from Class 6
Thank you for sharing your home learning with us Chloe. I was really pleased to see that you have completed the Easter R.E challenge and also the comprehension ‘A day at the Zoo’. Well done Chloe!
Bella, from Class 5
Bella has been really busy doing mathematical calculations and look at her amazing Aztec collage!..Well done Bella
Oakley, from Class 6
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Oakley, happy birthday to you! (Saturday 8th may) have a great day from everyone in Class 6
Wow! what a fab cake you are making and well done on all of your home learning challenges.
Nicholas, from Class 6
Wow!Look at that amazing bee picture, it looks so realistic. I also love the way you have created your treasure map and included so much detail. Well done Nicholas.
Poppy, from Class 6
Thank you Poppy for sharing all of your home learning from this week. It looks like you are really enjoying writing all about pirates. You have designed a great treasure map and written a detailed description of what you would find inside. That’s if you were lucky enough to find it!
Joseph, from Class 5
Joseph has made a brilliant rainbow mask to put a smile on all our faces!
Bella, from Class 5
Bella has been having fun in the kitchen this week, take a look at her delicious chocolate banana cake! She has also made a mosaic inspired by her brother’s topic on the Aztecs, and keeping her maths brain going with some tricky fractions.
Ava, from Class 6
(Written by Ava) Today I wrote my letter in a bottle from the pirate and completed the RE and some worksheets love Ava. Well done Ava, What a great letter from the pirate.
Alfie, from Class 5
Alfie has been very busy again, take a look at a few of the things he’s been up to. I’m looking forward to reading more pirate stories!
Finley, from Class 5
Take a look at what Finley has been up to. What a fantastic model of a bee! His story will also make you want to practise your pirate voice impersonations!
Kensa, from Class 6
Wow! well done Kensa. What a great way to learn you’re spellings.
Oscar, from Class 6
(Written by Oscar) Today we made our treasure maps, we stained the paper with coffee and rolled them up into messages in a bottle. We also started to make a film with dad about our rascally adventures as pirates.
We like this challenge a lot.
Oscar, it was so lovely to see a photograph of you wearing your Penpol School uniform, I had almost forgotten how smart it looked. Your photograph put a big smile on my face!
Harry, from Class 6
Wow! Harry look at how big your chilli plant has grown, no wonder it needed a bigger pot. Now that it has more room, the roots will be able to grow even better. Keep me updated on how it grows.
Tilly, from Class 6
(Written by Tilly) Today I have had great fun making a message in a bottle from a pirate. After I had written the letter I dyed the paper with a teabag to make it look old and then tore around the outside to give it rough edges. I then rolled it up and put it in a bottle. We took some photos too. (Well done Tilly)
Hana, from Class 5
Hana has been very busy of late. Take a look at all the great activities she has been up to so far, I love her mini beast game!
Violet, from Class 5
Violet would like to share a movie that she wrote and directed herself. She started to plan her movie with a story board
The second video is a green screen video diary about her thoughts at this strange time.
Lastly she wanted to give you a review of her reading book so far!
Emily, what a great poem about five little bees. well done!
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily, thank you for sharing your home learning from last week. I can see that you are still enjoying calculating number problems and what a lovely picture you have drawn. Well done!
Lola, from Class 6
Wow Lola how artistic are you? and what a great idea. I think we will definitely try this activity out when we are back in school. I hope you didn’t get hand prints all over the house?
Isaac L, from Class 5
Isaac L has had a very productive week. Take a look at his amazing beehive he has made and read his story about dream balloons!
Lola, from Class 6
Thank you Lola for sharing your home learning from this week. I can really see that you have been using your mathematical mind to solve the number problems. Well done!
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has really enjoyed listening to the poetry this week and inspired her to write one of her own, fantastic!
Harry, from Class 6
Thank you Harry for sharing the photographs of you keeping fit. I was so impressed to see you skipping. Well done!
Oliver, from Class 5
Oliver has been hard at work, writing a story, working out fractions, baking and even bringing to life his Star War pictures! Take a look at his lovely photos.
Violet, from Class 5
Violet has been up to lots of interesting things this week, from writing poetry, interviewing a friend, to writing in code! Take a look at her lovely photos.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has found an ingenious way to paint a bee, take a look!
Hugo, from Class 6
Wow! Hugo, you have completed so much home learning. I was really impressed to see that you have remembered to learn your weekly spellings and also participated with the online R.E learning. You are also becoming such a good cook! Well done Hugo, you are demonstrating great dedication to your home learning challenges. Well done!
Jessica from Class 5
As you can see, Jessica has been extremely busy at home engaging with all the home learning.
Brilliant to see, well done and keep it up!
Faith, from Class 5
Faith has been working on some amazing nature projects, take a look at her impressive ice sculpture and clay Goldfinch! She is currently working on a papier mache beehive, looking forward to seeing that as well.
Poppy, from Class 6
Wow! I loved reading all of the information (Data) that you have collected on bees. I have seen so many bees recently. I think there are more bees around this year. Well done Poppy!
Nicholas, from Class 6
Thank you Nicholas for sharing your home learning with us. I can see that you have been using your mathematical knowledge to solve a variety of number problems. I was so pleased to see that you have remembered to edit your number formation, where needed. Also great home learning on suffixes. Well done!
Lola, from Class 6
Wow Lola! You have really been thinking about the grammar rules, which we need to apply to our writing.Well done!
Alfie, from class 5
Alfie would like to share what he has been up to. As you can see he’s doing a brilliant job! You have to be impressed with his rock Bumblebee, Mrs. Daniel is hoping for one!!
Emily, from Class 6
What a fab cake Emily. I can see the concentration on your face, whilst creating the bees. I bet it tasted great too!
Tilly, from Class 6
Thank you Tilly for sharing the learning, which you have completed this week. You have created a detailed fact sheet all about rabbits and drawn a beautiful picture! I also enjoyed looking at your picture of a bee, which you have labelled correctly. Wow! what a great bee bookmark, I look forward to seeing it when we are all back at school.
Verity, from Class 5
Verity has been doing well with education city this week and decided to complete the story from last week (see attached).
She has enjoyed the bee topic. Unfortunately she found a dead bee but gave her opportunity to compare it to her picture!
Emily, from Class 6
Wow Emily, you have completed so much home learning this week. Again you have been using your mathematical skills to solve several number challenges and completed the English activities on Educational City. I was pleased to see you learnt your spellings and took the weekly test. What a great score!
Oakley from Class 6.
Thank you Oakley for sharing your home learning with us. I can see that you have been busy recapping your letter formation and researching for information about bees. I enjoyed reading your bee fact file and I am glad to see that you are participating with the online activities set. Well done Oakley, super home learning!
Faith, from Class 5
Faith is very keen and able horse rider, so no surprise she chose a horse as her pet! Take a look at these lovely photos.
Joseph, from Class 5
Take a look at Joseph’s amazing Hama bead craft work! A lot of patience but I think you will agree well worth the effort.
Kensa,from Class 6
Kensa has been practicing her spellings by writing out words that contain the sound ‘tion’. She has also written an interesting fact file about her dog who is called Bruno. Great home learning Kensa!
Poppy, from Class 6
Thank you Poppy for sharing some of your learning from this week. I can see that you have been really busy learning about bees and completed the learning objectives set on Educational city. Great learning and I am glad to see you achieved 100% on your certificates. Well done!
Emilija, From Class 5
Thank you Emilija for sending us all these lovely photos of you and your home learning. Well done, you are doing a great job!
Alfie, from Class 5
Here is a great football story about Alfie’s toys when they come alive at night, it’s exciting to see who finally wins!
Lily, from Class 6
Lily has been learning all about bees and created a poster to show their life cycle. Well done Lily.
