Mr Woolcock
22nd April 2019
What Makes a Super Strong Password?
For our third week of E-Safety lessons this year we’ve been looking at what makes a strong and secure password. Each class in Key Stage 2 has had discussions about what passwords are, why they are important and how they can protect our digital stuff. It’s very important
Mr Woolcock
16th March 2019
How can we Recognise Fake News?
‘Fake news’ is a huge topic at the moment and believable but untrue content online has become more and more commonplace. Luckily, this week in our E-Safety lessons we are learning all about being Internet Alert, which means recognising what is real and what is fake, as well
Admin
8th March 2019
What is our Online Persona?
We are spending this half term focusing on the internet and how we can keep ourselves safe whilst online. Over the next six weeks we’ll be looking at online safety from a variety of different aspects, starting with looking at the information we choose to share online. We’re
Mr Woolcock
1st March 2019
Penpol School attend the BETT Show 2019
A couple of weeks ago myself, Mr Chislett and Paul all went up to London to visit the BETT show. This massive educational technology show involves thousands of companies, hundreds of workshops and some fascinating presentations from industry and educational leaders. This year we were also lucky enough
Mr Woolcock
15th February 2019
Etch-A-Scratch with Year 4
This term the Year 4 pupils are learning all about robots and their uses in the world. They’ve been taking this learning into Computing as well and this week we’ve written programs to help us draw our very own robotic creations. Using Scratch 3.0 the children have worked
Mr Woolcock
29th January 2019
Electrifying!
Have you ever wondered where electricity comes from? Class 9 have been investigating the different ways in which electricity is produced. After investigating and finding information, the children wrote short scripts outlining what they have found. Using iPads, the children have narrated a video from the BBC website
Mr Jones
22nd January 2019
Penpol School make their own 3D Winter Ornaments on our 3D Printer!
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
Mr Woolcock
17th December 2018
Enjoying every second of the Hour of Code
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
Mr Woolcock
4th December 2018
Penpol are Finalists at the 2018 Edge Awards
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
Mr Woolcock
16th November 2018
Class 14 write programs with their names
This week we’ve started using the fantastic Scratch 3.0 software to build some pretty interesting programs. Starting with a basic idea of animating our names, we developed ideas and explored options to take our projects in different directions. Within an hour we’d got 28 completely different projects including
Mr Woolcock
9th November 2018
Exploring 3D designs for this year’s Winter Ornaments
This half term we’re starting a big 3D printing project in Computing. Each class has been learning all about 3D design and how to create different models and designs using the 3D design software Tinkercad. Each class have gone through some quick-fire challenges with limited time and blocks
Mr Woolcock
9th October 2018
Class 13 create their own E-Safety animation!
Over the last few weeks Class 13 have been building upon their knowledge learnt from their Online Safety lessons and have taken it upon themselves to share what they have learnt from the Be Internet Legends program with others. In order to accomplish this they have worked in
Admin
17th July 2018
Thomas is an official Internet Legend!
A few weeks ago Thomas came to see me with some fantastic drawings that he’d done after the Google Be Internet Legends assembly. He spent hours drawing and colouring his creations and put in so much effort that I thought it’d be nice to send a copy to
Mr Woolcock
4th July 2018
