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Purging Pollution with our Scratch Games
Our Year 5’s have been learning all about conservation, pollution and looking after Planet Earth this term. As part of this exciting project they’ve been designing and coding their own pollution-busting games in Scratch. Starting with character development, each student used a fun drawing tool called Make 8-Bit
Jacob Woolcock
2nd July 2024
The Dragons and the Six Super Stars both come back from Culdrose with Trophies!
Last week our Year 6 and Year 5 Lego Teams (the Six Super Stars and the Dragons respectively) took part in the Cornwall finals of the FIRST Lego League. With thirty other teams taking part each day it was wonderful to see the event getting bigger and better
Jacob Woolcock
20th March 2024
Making Music with Micro:Bits in Year 3
Over the past few weeks Year 3 have been learning to code on our Micro:Bit computers. These tiny devices are a great way to get hands-on with Computing and enable our students to write programs that they can run on real hardware in their hands. To start with
Jacob Woolcock
13th June 2022
Penpol Pupils compete at the National Finals of the FIRST LEGO League
This is the story of what happened when both the Creative Coders and the LEGO Leaders advanced to the England and Wales National Final of the 2022 FIRST LEGO League – one of the largest STEM competitions in the world – where they competed against the 64 best
Jacob Woolcock
22nd March 2022
Incredible Results for Penpol at the LEGO League Cornwall Finals
Yesterday two teams of our Year 5s took part in the Cornwall finals of the FIRST LEGO League Competition. For months these teams have been working hard with coding, building, researching, creating, designing, innovating and presenting ideas. All of that hard work was celebrated yesterday in two
Jacob Woolcock
11th February 2022
Y5 have a Virtual Visit to an Amazon Warehouse
This afternoon our two teams of Year 5’s who are taking part in the FIRST LEGO League competition were treated to a (virtual) VIP tour inside an Amazon Warehouse. As part of their Cargo Connect challenge for the competition, they are researching more about how goods are shipped
Jacob Woolcock
8th October 2021
Y5 Compete at the Regional Finals of the FIRST LEGO League 2021
Over the past few months, something very exciting has been happening in the Mac Suite at Penpol School. Whether it be on a Wednesday afternoon or over lunchtime, two teams of dedicated and committed of year 5 pupils have been hard at work practicing for the FIRST LEGO
Jacob Woolcock
25th June 2021
Exploring Stop Motion in Class 14
In Computing this week Class 14 learnt all about Stop Motion Animation and how to bring objects to life in creative and fun ways. After a short introduction their challenge was simple: “Make your Classroom come to life!”. Sit back, grab some popcorn and enjoy these fantastic short
Jacob Woolcock
9th June 2021
Internet Legends and Beyond with Year 6
As well as learning about being Internet Legends, our Year 6’s have taken their learning a step further by creating their own sixth section to the Be Internet Legends curriculum. After some really in depth discussions each child settled upon what they felt would be an important addition
Jacob Woolcock
9th June 2021
Designing Mars Rovers in Year 5
Last term, as part of our Space topic, the children were inspired by the landing of Perseverance on Mars and so created their own versions of a Mars rover, complete with a motor so that it could move forward and, most impressively a lever system to enable it
Mark Pollard
28th April 2021
Penpol Pupils earn their Be Internet Legends Trophies
Children in Key Stage 2 have recently taken home their very own Internet Legend trophy to celebrate their ongoing learning into online safety and how to become responsible online citizens. It’s safe to say that these trophies have generated quite a buzz amongst our pupils and I’m sure
Jacob Woolcock
20th April 2021
Writing Code that is “Out Of This World”
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
Jacob Woolcock
16th July 2020
World first as Penpol get a Be Internet Legends virtual assembly!
On Friday we were lucky enough to be the first school ever to receive a Be Internet Legends virtual assembly. This involved all of our pupils in Key Stage 2 taking part in an interactive assembly with the team from Google and ParentZone. In the exciting assembly children
Jacob Woolcock
4th May 2020
Exciting Connections at Swift Code Club
Last term we started a brand new club at Penpol, App Design Club. In this club the children in Year 5 and Year 6 are invited to consider an idea or problem and how they might make an app to solve this. Following along with resources made by
Jacob Woolcock
28th February 2020