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Conscription! Year 6 are heading to the front!
Penpol School
Choral Speaking at Truro Music Festival
‘Choral Speaking’ is working together as a team in order to ‘act out’ a poem using voices and sometimes actions.
Class 7 have been working on ‘Oh, Oh The Story Man’ for several weeks, ensuring light and shade, good expression and diction as well as a change of pace and tone, at times using individual voices as well as working as a whole class.
We attended the Truro Music Festival on Monday 12th March, where we performed our poem. Two other schools took park, reciting the same poem. Class 7 performed extremely well and won the shield, gaining 87 marks with distinction!
The judges said: “Good discipline today – loud/soft and the sound of the snail moment was lovely! The dragon moment was impactful too!”
Fantastic Fun at Newquay Zoo
On Friday 9th March, Class 4 had a fantastic time at Newquay Zoo. The children have been learning about animals in their science lessons at school and discovering which animals have backbones and which do not. We went to the zoo to learn more about vertebrates and invertebrates, and to learn more about the classification of animals.
When we got to the zoo, we were met by Pippa who gave us a really interesting lesson about classification. The first thing Pippa showed us was a cockroach. She explained that they have holes down their sides which allows them to make a hissing sound.
When the coach roaches get scared, they all get together and make a hissing sound that sounds like a snake. It tricks the predator that wants to eat them! Ada
Some animals do not have backbones, like insects. They are called invertebrates. Insects have 6 legs. Oliver
The next thing Pippa showed us was the skin of a royal python. It was very long and smooth. Flora and Amelie helped Pippa and held the snake skin. Everybody got a chance to touch the skin.
After that, we had to be very quiet because Pippa got out a real snake. His name is spot. Everybody got a chance to touch him if they wanted but we had to do it with the back of our hand.
I like the snake. I’m not scared of him. He’s quite cold. – Ptolemy
I know all about snakes because I’ve got one at home and he’s called Monty. Snakes are cold blooded animals. – Alfie
After a really interesting talk, we got to explore the zoo. Although it was raining and we got quite wet, we all had a fantastic time. Here are some of the photos…
Caio and Flynn count the meerkats
Silly selfies in the tropical house!
What a fantastic day out!