Year 3

Penpol School make their own 3D Winter Ornaments on our 3D Printer!

4th February 201917th December 2018 by Jacob Woolcock

This year, for the for the third time, we gave every child in Key Stage 2 the opportunity to design and refine their own 3D models on the computer, which we then printed out using our state-of-the-art Makerbot 3D printer.

This year the children had greater design freedom than ever before thanks to the fantastic new ‘Scribble’ tool on Tinkercad which lets the children draw their very own designs on screen, alongside their library of 3D shapes which the pupils have used previously. This tool was hugely popular and has resulted in us creating some really personal and unique decorations.

We’ve made a short video below to show the process of making our decorations, followed by a very large gallery underneath of every single decoration we printed this year!

This year we printed two hundred and twenty different decorations, which took a very very long time! You can see all of these decorations in the gallery below – see if you can spot yours…

This year there have been so many lovely designs and each one is completely unique. They’re all brilliant, but are there any that you particularly like?

Gallery of Decorations

(click a decoration to view it bigger)

Exploring 3D designs for this year’s Winter Ornaments

Jacob Woolcock 9th October 2018

What’s that noise coming from the Mac Suite?

Jacob Woolcock 20th November 2017

“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr Seuss

11th December 201811th December 2018 by Jess Riches

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

Enjoying every second of the Hour of Code

11th December 20184th December 2018 by Jacob Woolcock

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:

Penpol are Finalists at the 2018 Edge Awards

Hour Of Code 2017: A Hero’s Journey

Class 8 produce the first ever Penpol Podcast!

26th November 201823rd November 2018 by Penpol School

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:

Penpol Podcast: History of Hayle

Preparing For Christmas With The Choir

20th November 201819th November 2018 by Colin Jones

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!

Reading Reaches New Heights

19th November 2018 by Jess Riches

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

Extreme Reading Challenge

1st November 20181st November 2018 by Jess Riches

What a fantastic start to our Extreme Reading Challenge! You have certainly been very busy over the holidays. It is fantastic to see you all enjoying reading and coming up with creative ideas, from reading upside down to reading on top of roof tops. I cannot wait to see what you come up with next.

Reading at the top of Scafell Pike. At 3210ft (978m), the highest point in England.

Keep the pictures coming in! Don’t forget to email them to reading@penpol.cornwall.sch.uk

Mrs Riches

Lizard Claim KS2 Sports Day Title

19th July 2018 by Nic Stanlake

After a hotly contested series of events it was the yellow ribbon on lizard that was dropped across the handles of the House Trophy award the the highest scoring team on sports day.

The day kicked off with Year 3 and 4 trying their hands at a mixture of events testing their team work, welly-wanging throw, space-hopper bounce, hula-hooping hop and many other skills, before the traditional running races. The day then paused for lunch before it was the turn of the year 5 and 6 children.

The best part of the day for me, is always seeing the children giving their all for their house either by participation or encouraging others. Every single point gained by an individual contributes massively to their teams total- Mr Stanlake

The trophy was presented to Meghan and Finn, who represented Lizard as their house captains by Mr Chislett.

I am so happy we have won but also very proud to be the captain of my house- Meghan, Class 13

Music in the Marquee 2018: The After-Movie!

11th February 202018th July 2018 by Penpol School

For the last in our series of three posts about this years Music in the Marquee, I’m delighted to share with you our official video of the event! You may have seen Miss Clarey with her camera out all evening, getting lots of videos of everything that goes on at Music in the Marquee.

She’s taken all those clips and has made this incredible video to show you what the night was all about. If you were there then try to see if you can spot yourself!

As always, the whole purpose of the night is to try and raise as much money for the PFA as possible. I’m delighted to say that this year, our concert has raised £3903!!!

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This year was the fourth Music in the Marquee and featured Ben Thorpe and DJ Flo Selecta as well as our headline act, Bradley Johnson. Bradley actually flew in from Corfu especially to play at Penpol and then flew back out to Greece the very next day! We’re delighted that he came all this way to see us.

Check out the two posts below to see all the wonderful photos of the evening.

Music in the Marquee 2018: Photo Gallery

On Saturday night we hosted our fourth Music in the Marquee concert featuring DJ Flo Selecta, Ben Thorpe and of course, Bradley Johnson. My friend Matt Bromage was here with his camera and has kindly shared these amazing photos with us. Don’t forget you can click on each

Jacob Woolcock 17th July 2018

Music in the Marquee 2018: Meeting Bradley

On Saturday night we welcomed back Bradley Johnson to Penpol School to play our annual Music in the Marquee fundraising concert. We also welcomed a very talented friend of Mr Woolcock, Matt Bromage, who was on hand with his camera to get some photos of the evening. Check

Jacob Woolcock 16th July 2018

Music in the Marquee 2018: Photo Gallery

11th February 202017th July 2018 by Jacob Woolcock

Don’t forget you can click on each picture to see it bigger and check back on the Penpol Times tomorrow to see our official video of the evening, made by Miss Clarey!