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Conscription! Year 6 are heading to the front!
Month: June 2022
Being Kind
The reception classes were lucky to be invited into assembly to see an amazing speaker called Bereford Lee with the local Tri Service Safety Officer Adrian Hart.
Beresford has formed a group called Rice and Peas which is a community project in Cornwall which promotes acceptance, inclusion and cultural diversity throughout the county.
The children were captivated as Beresford talked about the importance of being kind to each other regardless of where you come from, your nationality or the colour of your skin.
It doesn’t matter who has different coloured skin, you should be kind to people of different skin – Jasper
Beresford explained that sometimes some people have been unkind because of the colour of their skin, we know this is wrong.
He also told the children that we need to be friendly to all and show respect for one another which fitted in beautifully with our Penpol School Values of Friendship and Respect.
It’s fine if you have black or white skin you have to be kind to everyone – Frida
Adrian was on hand to tell the children all about the law and what could happen if people are unkind to each other.
Beresford explained how being unkind to each other can not only hurt the other people, but can hurt yourself too therefore you have to be kind to everyone, including yourself.
He spoke about kindness, you have to help people get up and not push them over. It doesn’t matter about other peoples skin you still have to be nice – Maia
It doesn’t matter if you’ve got black or white skin or any colour even rainbow, you have to be kind to everyone – Freya
The children really loved listening to both speakers and commented on how they were all going to be kind to everyone when they left the assembly.
Thank you so much for the interesting and inspiring assembly. Please come and visit us again very soon.
Year 3 visits Footsteps of Discovery
Year 3, have just returned to school after visiting and spending the night at the Footsteps of Discovery centre in Summercourt, Newquay.
Whilst at the centre, the children participated in a range of lifesaving skills. This included fire lighting using various methods, safe cutting and an introduction to basic carving, location and signalling, outdoor cooking and basic water sourcing.
The children also had the opportunity to play team sports, cook marshmallows and learn how to tie a range of knots.
Class 9’s Lost Words
This week, Year 4 immersed themselves in The Lost Words, a book of poems and illustrations inspired by the rich wonders of British wildlife. Each lost word is saved through speaking or singing a spell to conjure back these creatures into our hearts.
Inspired this book of spells, pupils wrote their own poems to express their adoration for the humble plants and animals of their local environment.
Dandelions, daisies, mushrooms and moss; robins, magpies, seagulls and sunflowers; herons, holly, willow and oak.
Children created beautiful watercolour paintings of their lost words, upon which they wrote their acrostic poems.
Pupils demonstrated some spell-bounding performances around the school grounds, conjuring creatures and plants with their wonderful poems and songs.
“Enter the wild with care, my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow”
The Lost Words Blessing
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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 we explored the concept of Input and Output by using buttons, sensors and the LED displays on the Micro:Bits. It was interesting to see the range of programs that could be created with just two buttons.
Once the children felt confident with this aspect of the device then took things a step further by using some LED light strips which connected to the pins at the bottom of the Micro:Bits.
Suddenly the Mac Suite was transformed into a disco! We had colour changing, flashing and rainbow coloured lights everywhere.
When we finished having a mini party we used the opportunity to learn about using loops and repeat blocks to create colour changing light patterns.
And that brings us on to today, where the children have been using the Micro:Bits in an entirely different way.
By using three crocodile clips and some nifty external speaker modules, our Year 3s have been creating music! From individual notes to complete melodies, the Mac Suite was the place to be on Monday morning if you wanted some music.
(I must stress the word ‘music’ is used loosely here – it sounded less like Taylor Swift and more like an old fairground where the rides were breaking down and the normally happy music had started to sadly fade away into a sea of 8-bit beeps and bloops…)
As part of this activity the children embarked on some challenge based learning, where they were required to problem solve and troubleshoot both the code and the physical connection between the devices to get their music working. This proved to be a lot of fun and certainly got their brains thinking!
We love using Computing in hands-on ways at Penpol – why should we be confined to a screen when we can have colour changing lights and music coming out of our Micro:Bits?!
I dare say Year 3 would certainly agree.
Here are some more photos from our 'Musical Micro:Bits' lesson:
