Codeblocks at Christmas
Penpol Celebrates Languages Day 2023!
On Wednesday 4th October, Penpol School celebrated European Day of Languages for its 6th time. We are so fortunate to have so many languages being spoken as either a first or second language by our students. For this reason, European Day of Languages is a prime opportunity to
Jack Emery
15th October 2023
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
Making Music With Recorders
The children in Year Two (Classes 5 and 6), have started learning to play the recorder in music lessons on Wednesday with Mr Jones. The recorders arrived last week to fabulously excited children in Year 2 who have been waiting eagerly. The recorder sessions are provided as part
Colin Jones
31st January 2018
Year 3: Ready To Rock
Children in Year Three (classes 7 and 8), have started a terms worth of sessions, learning how to play guitar. With guitars on loan from Cornwall Music Education Hub (CMEH),the children are able to take the instruments home to practise becoming ‘Guitar Legends’. “It is great learning to
Colin Jones
31st January 2018
Class 4 light up Christmas with French and German songs
This half-term, Class 4 have been learning about how Christmas is celebrated around the world. For their concert in St Elwyn’s church, Class 4 learnt a French song with Mr Emery about the animals in the stable. The students were able to name each of the animals from
Jack Emery
20th December 2017
Music in the Marquee 2017
Music in the Marquee has fast become one of the most popular nights of the year at Penpol, with this year proving no exception. Following in the footsteps of Bradley Johnson (2015) and Little Chix (2016), for our 2017 event we were delighted to welcome Yellow, one of
Jacob Woolcock
21st July 2017
Class 9 are Making Music with GarageBand
Recently we’ve been looking at how we can use the computers to make music by using a program called GarageBand. The children have only had one lesson on this fantastic program so far, but already they’re starting to make some great songs. Class 9 had an exceptionally productive lesson in
Jacob Woolcock
20th June 2017
Announcing Music in the Marquee 2017
The last two years have seen sell out performances at our annual Music In The Marquee concerts from the brilliant Bradley Johnson and the fantastic Little Chix. I’m delighted to say that this July we’re going bigger and better than ever before, with an incredible four-piece band. For
Jacob Woolcock
5th May 2017
The Mosquitoes Rock Reception
The Mosquitoes rocked the reception classes this week with their much anticipated concert. Taking timeout from their busy tour schedule, Paul, Neil, Geoff, Billy and front man Graeme (Sabina from Class 1’s dad) brought the classroom down with their fabulous mix of South American rock with a hint
Amanda Aspden
21st November 2016