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
It was such a glorious sight to see the whole school on the field enjoying the sunshine and celebrating the Queens Jubilee.
Every child had a smile, younger children danced and played with children from the older years and there was a real festival feel.
It has been such a long time since we were all able to be together, but I am sure it is the beginning of many more events to come!
Before we embarked on our walks, we had a visitor from ShelterBox – called Danny – come in and tell us all about what they do as a charity, as well as showing us some of the items that are sent all around the world to families in need.
Everyone arrived at school dressed in blue and yellow clothes (the colours of Ukraine’s flag). Some children even made flags and banners with their buddies to wave around as they walked through Hayle!
Classes teamed up with their Reading Buddies to go on their walk, with each team choosing various routes to complete their mile.
This week, the whole school celebrated European Day of Languages. With a wealth of languages being spoken along the corridors of our school, from Polish to French, Lithuanian to Portuguese, it was especially important to give all languages the recognition they duly deserve.
Students and staff were invited to dress up in the colours of their favourite country and rose to the call in spectacular fashion; by 9am, the whole school was awash with all the colours of the rainbow!
In the morning, KS1 students were invited to sample a French breakfast in the yurt with Mr Emery and six KS2 volunteers. Each class enjoyed singing in French and were then able to order from KS2 students, learning the basics such as ‘Bonjour’, ‘s’il vous plaît’ and ‘merci.’
“Miam miam!” Phrase of the day, which translates as ‘yummy’ in French
KS2 students showed off their already fantastic French skills by competing as a whole class on LanguageNut Live, where each student puts their knowledge of their current French topic to the test in real time against their peers. A huge well done to Reuben and Merryn from Year 3 who came top in their year group on animals and colours in French – Bravo!!
All classes in KS2 also competed in the European Day of Languages shirt competition.
This had all students creating a design to best represent European Day of Languages. If proven successful, they will have it printed on the official European Day of Languages T shirt next year and receive 30 T-shirts for them and their class. I have already received some extremely creative designs so far – keep them coming!
Finally, Mr Emery led each of the assemblies to round off a fun European Day of Languages. From the video of students and staff speaking a multitude of different languages, to singing one of the classic “Tu as un animal” (do you have any pets) song, the assembly encouraged students to be adventurous and have a go at speaking in another language. Whether that’s greeting Diane the dinner lady with a ‘Czesc’ (hello), asking how Mrs Bailie is – ‘como você está’ (how are you?) in Portuguese, or asking for a strawberry ice cream on holiday in France(une glace à la fraise s’il vous plaît). Using a language is fun and the students and staff of Penpol proved that again today.
“Today has been the best day ever!” Louis, Class 12
A huge thank you to everyone who made the day such a great success! Check out the photos from the day, as well as the video of students and staff speaking in different languages.
Class 3 have enjoyed exploring a variety of mediums and skills to create Seaside themed art. So far they have used, paint, water colour paint, sketching pencils and pens as well as collaging.
They particularly enjoyed following a step-by-step teacher tutorial using sketching pencil to create lines and discover how to make the huts appear 3D.
Class 3 then used water colour paints. After exploration, they realised that the more water they added, the lighter the colour became.
The calming music created a lovely atmosphere where the children concentrated beautifully and all felt proud of what they’d achieved.
After reading ‘The Giant Jam Sandwich’ in our ‘Talk Through Stories’ session, Year 1 explored instruction writing whilst making jam sandwiches. They focused on sequencing, using time connectives and imperative verbs.
Apart from watching their teachers get messy whilst they followed the classes vague instructions, their favourite part was of course eating them.
2020 brought around a slightly different kind of sports day. Over 100 of our pupils took part in first ever Rainbow games, both at home and in school.
The day consisted of children competing in for their houses in a range of throwing, jumping and running activities alongside some cross-curricular olympic themed activities such as designing/cooking a healthy meal; researching one of the continents; creating banner and posters to show their support for their house.
A brilliant event with many children engaging in the activities. Over 18000 points were shared between the 4 houses with less than 100 separating first and second.
Results are announced in the below video!
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Here at Penpol School we are delighted to be able to bring a slice of Music in the Marquee to you virtually. Yes, we know it’ll never be the same as being in the marquee together as we celebrate the end of another school year, but we sincerely hope that this mini-event can bring a slice of that fun to you at home.
So it is time to get the wristbands on and the fizzy pop out as we all have a bit of a party in our own homes.
This is Music Without the Marquee!
– Mr Woolcock
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
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!
