computing – Penpol Primary School

Our amazing Penpol Friend’s Association are working hard to raise money for some exciting new outdoor play equipment, and the children have been helping by sharing their fantastic ideas!

Pupils have spent time discussing what they would like to see in our playground and have even brought their ideas to life using Lego and Tinkercad. Their creativity has been amazing, with designs including climbing walls, roundabouts, zip lines and even an aeroplane!

The children’s enthusiasm and imagination have provided plenty of inspiration as we look ahead to improving our outdoor play spaces. A big thank you to everyone supporting the P.F.A.’s fundraising efforts – we can’t wait to see these ideas take shape in the future.

Following the success of the marathon, which raised an amazing £3,800, there is still a long way to go to reach our target of £25,000. If you would like to help us get there, please click the link below and support our fundraising efforts.

Penpol’s Big Play Project

Last week some of our Year 6’s launched our very first Code Club, here at Penpol School. With support from Mr Woolcock, the team of Year 6 boys have been sharing their coding knowledge with over SEVENTY children who’ve been enjoying Code Club.

Harry, Connor, Morgan and Zak have taken on the responsibility of running the club over multiple lunchtimes, in order to ensure that everyone who wants to has the opportunity to spend half an hour being creative on the computers. Already they’ve had to turn children away though as the queues to get in have been out the door!

“It’s been great fun teaching the juniors coding, particularly the Year 4’s because they are very new to coding.” – Harry, Y6

In Code Club the children are allowed to use Scratch, MicroBits and sometimes even Xcode to create whatever they can imagine. Whether it be a game, a puzzle, a character or even an interactive quiz, our Juniors are showing that there really is no limit to what they can do on the computers.

“It’s been great fun so far, because it’s teaching the younger ones to code and helping me with my own coding skills.” – Connor, Y6

If you’d like to come along to code club then please check the poster below to see which day your year group are invited to.

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“Penpol pupils are curious, creative and courageous learners. Our school community believes in authenticity as the foundation of deep-rooted learning. Through our rich and relevant curriculum, we nurture community-minded, forward-facing international citizens of the future.”

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Penpol’s Big Play Project

Code Club off to a flying start

Our Penpol School Vision: “Penpol pupils are curious, creative and courageous learners. Our school community believes in authenticity as the foundation of deep-rooted learning.

Through our rich and relevant curriculum, we nurture community-minded, forward-facing international citizens of the future.”

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