Today, Year 4 celebrated the rise of the Roman Empire in true fashion. Armed with shields, swords and Roman legion attire, the excitement from the students entering school was palpable. To begin with, the Year group were greeted with Roman army commands: Consiste! (Halt!), Laxate (at ease),
Today, Class 9 took their Maths lesson outside and, it has to be said, they have embraced the outdoors despite the change of weather! The lesson today was a recap of what they have been learning about this term – Place value. The students showed great teamwork and
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
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
On behalf of the PFA we’d like to extend a massive thank you to all of the parents, carers and friends of Penpol School for their help raising a MASSIVE £1061 at this years Mini Marathon. This is our best ever result at the marathon and you can
This afternoon we had a very special assembly from Jenny and Daniel who came to visit us from Google. They came down to Cornwall to visit a couple of schools and Penpol were one of the lucky ones chosen. The assembly itself was linked to our recent
Having the confidence to order food and drink in French is fundamental to anyone wishing to visit France. This week, Year 4 completed their final lesson on the topic of food and needed to use everything they had learnt to order and serve food at a french café.
For our forth and final trip to Interland the children at Penpol School have been learning about how important it is to be kind and considerate online. This week, whilst learning how to Be Internet Kind we’ve been discussing a wide variety of topics including how positivity always
Over the last couple of weeks our swim teams have been competing in the Penwith Swimming Gala’s at both Year 3 & 4 and Year 5 & 6. As always, it was a pleasure to travel with these children to represent the school alongside 18 others from the
With the final term at Penpol School almost upon us, it’s the perfect time to reflect and evaluate on the year so far. All students here at Penpol have one hour a week of French, as well as the opportunity of attending after school language club on Thursdays.
This half term we are looking at staying safe online, using a brand new set of resources from Google called ‘Be Internet Legends‘. This week we’ve been looking at the first aspect, Be Internet Smart, which focuses on knowing what information is safe to share online and who
The last three years have seen sell out performances at our annual Music In The Marquee concerts from Bradley Johnson, Little Chix and last years Yellow. I’m delighted to say that this summer we will be hosting our fourth concert in the Marquee, featuring a somewhat familiar face…
One of the reasons we visit the BETT Show in London each January is to try and find exciting and innovative ideas to bring back into the classroom at Penpol. This year we’ve returned with a dozen brand new Sphero SPRK+ Robots for the children to get to
