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News from Year 6
John Dyer inspired art from Year 6
In year 6 we have been creating a mural of Godrevy lighthouse: a painting from the Cornish artist John Dyer. Firstly, we did some research about John Dyer to give us a better understanding about the painting that we were re-creating. After that, we got given the canvas
Nic Stanlake
25th July 2024
Staff 8 – 6 Students
As is Penpol tradition, the departing Year 6 children had the opportunity to have the last word and take home The Pollard Cup. Unfortunately no one told the teachers. The final score finishing at 8-6 in favour of the more experienced side meant the Pollard cup will remain
Nic Stanlake
25th July 2024
Success for Penpol in the LEAP Cup
On a sunny Monday morning both the boys and girls teams headed to Mounts Bay Academy for the first inaugural LEAP cup. Joined by the members of the Leading Edge Academy partnership, the teams played 3 and 4 games respectively. The girls team unfortunately came up a little
Nic Stanlake
27th February 2023
3D Printing our Wonderful Winter Ornaments
BUILDING WITH BLOCKS IN TINKERCAD This half term our Year 3’s have been learning how to use Tinkercad to create 3D models and objects on their computers. This clever program lets you create anything you like in three dimensions, which can then be sent to a 3D printer
Jacob Woolcock
12th December 2022
Year 6 children gather for evacuation!
On Thursday 24th November, the Year 6’s of Penpol School donned their 1940’s attire and were transported back in time. On arrival, their labels were checked and destinations confirmed. Roll call was taken and they were escorted into the school building to await further instruction. Whilst waiting, they
Bethany Waters
28th November 2022
Exploring Energy and Innovating Ideas
Today our Year 5 and Year 6 LEGO League teams were fortunate enough to have not one but two very special guests around to help mentor and support them with their competition preparation. Our team mentor, Chelsea from RNAS Culdrose, has kindly agreed to visit every Thursday to
Jacob Woolcock
24th November 2022
Remembrance Service 2022
On Sunday 13th November, six Y6 pupils represented Penpol School at the Hayle Remembrance Service. The first part of the service took part in St. Elwyns Church before we paraded down to the war memorial. After listening to the names of all the local people who had fallen,
Jono Peck
13th November 2022
Behind the Scenes of Maths Mania in Scratch
Scratch is a great program that lets us build our own games, animations and tools. Using brightly coloured blocks of code we can control individual objects (called Sprites) as well as being able to combine multiple elements into more complex programs. However my favourite thing about Scratch is
Jacob Woolcock
11th October 2022
Netball Festival at Hayle Academy
On Thursday, twenty Year 6’s went up to Hayle Academy to participate in a Netball Festival against several other local schools. Penpol’s teams both played their hearts out and really enjoyed their afternoon up at the academy. Everyone showed great sportsmanship, respect and integrity throughout, cheering the other
Bethany Waters
7th October 2022
Celebrating the European Day of Languages at Penpol
Wednesday 5th October marked a special day where Penpol celebrated European Day of Languages. To mark the occasion at Penpol, children came to school dressed in the colours of their favourite flag and were excited to share their knowledge of languages from all over the world. From Polish
Jack Emery
5th October 2022
Andrew Clover reminds us that Reading and Writing is Magic!
We’ve had a very exciting day at Penpol today, kicking off our Reading and Writing is Magic Festival with a visit from the famous author, Andrew Clover! Andrew has written lots of books as part of the Rory Branagan Detective series. The children in Key Stage 1 and
Rebecca Best
27th September 2022
Penpol Mini Marathon 2022
The sun shone brightly for our first Penpol Mini-Marathon for 3 years on Wednesday; with it came the flushed red faces, the gallons of water drank and the hundreds of smiling faces.It always is such a lovely afternoon and it was bettered this year to finally be able so
Nic Stanlake
1st July 2022
Year 6 Surf Club
On Tuesday, still weary from their London trip, some Year 6’s headed over to Gwithian for their first Surf Club session of the year. the sun was shining and the waves were perfect for smashing about and popping up. Surfing is a huge industry and for many part
Nic Stanlake
22nd June 2022
Bright Lights and Big City Sights
This last week 44 of our Year 6 pupils boarded the coach and headed off on our big city adventure. An early 7 am departure began the 4 day-long residential trip to our nations capital; for many their first trip for a number of years therefore bringing more
Nic Stanlake
19th June 2022