Can you swim
Penpol Celebrates Languages Day 2023!
Penpol launch a brand new Community Choir!
We are very excited to let you know about a new event that will be taking place at Penpol School over the next 4 weeks. We would like to introduce the Penpol Community Choir, which will be held in our school hall between 4.15pm – 5pm on Thursday 14th, 21st & 28th June and Thursday 5th July.
The choir will be open to members of the Hayle community who would like to join us. We hope it will be a great opportunity for parents, carers, grannies & grandads and any local residents to come together and enjoy some great singing. No expertise is required, just the capacity to have some fun!
We ask that all children are accompanied by an adult – this could be a family member or friend. We would also be grateful if you could spread the word to other members of the community who would like to join us. The Community Choir is open to all – the more the merrier!
There will be a voluntary contribution of 50p per week, per family group and any funds raised will go towards other school community events.
We are really looking forward to starting the choir and to seeing many of you for the first session on Thursday 14th June.
Reception Visit The Seal Sanctuary
This week, the children in Classes 1 and 2 were very excited to visit the Seal Sanctuary in Gweek as part of our learning about ‘Under the Sea’. We travelled to Gweek on the school minibuses – our very first time on the minibuses at Penpol!
We visited all the different animals at the Sanctuary from seals to penguins to otters and sea lions as well. We learnt all about how the seal sanctuary has rescued 74 seals this year and how they don’t drink but get all the fluid they need from the fish. We also learnt that they can hold their breath underwater for 45 minutes at a time!
We loved visiting the Humbolt penguins and learnt they live in pairs and can live for up to 25 years! We liked seeing them swimming under the water.
We enjoyed having a picnic lunch and even had time to play on the pirate ship play area afterwards!
After lunch we walked down the nature trail to visit the otters at their home in Otter Creek. We loved looking out for all the animals on the nature trail and got to listen to lots of interesting facts about the animals on the way. We saw a bug hotel and talked about the insects that might live there.
We all had a lovely day at the Sanctuary and are eagerly looking forward to our next school trip!
