Year 2’s Marine Discovery
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Purging Pollution with our Scratch Games
Our Year 5’s have been learning all about conservation, pollution and looking after Planet Earth this term. As part of this exciting project they’ve been designing and coding their own pollution-busting games in Scratch. Starting with character development, each student used a fun drawing tool called Make 8-Bit
Jacob Woolcock
2nd July 2024
The Dragons and the Six Super Stars both come back from Culdrose with Trophies!
Last week our Year 6 and Year 5 Lego Teams (the Six Super Stars and the Dragons respectively) took part in the Cornwall finals of the FIRST Lego League. With thirty other teams taking part each day it was wonderful to see the event getting bigger and better
Jacob Woolcock
20th March 2024
Year 6s bring their classrooms to life using Stop Motion
This week the Year 6’s have been exploring film making by looking at Stop Motion Animation. Using the iPads and a huge amount of their own imagination, they have come up with some incredible short films which they have filmed and directed themselves. This is a showreel of
Jacob Woolcock
10th May 2019
Penpol Pupils extend Be Internet Legends with their own ideas
This half term we’ve been revisiting our learning on E-Safety and reminding ourselves how to stay safe online using the five sections of the Google Be Internet Legends scheme. We’ve dived into each of these five areas, had some fascinating and honest conversations and we’ve managed to ensure
Jacob Woolcock
22nd April 2019
What Makes a Super Strong Password?
For our third week of E-Safety lessons this year we’ve been looking at what makes a strong and secure password. Each class in Key Stage 2 has had discussions about what passwords are, why they are important and how they can protect our digital stuff. It’s very important
Jacob Woolcock
16th March 2019
How can we Recognise Fake News?
‘Fake news’ is a huge topic at the moment and believable but untrue content online has become more and more commonplace. Luckily, this week in our E-Safety lessons we are learning all about being Internet Alert, which means recognising what is real and what is fake, as well
Penpol School
8th March 2019
What is our Online Persona?
We are spending this half term focusing on the internet and how we can keep ourselves safe whilst online. Over the next six weeks we’ll be looking at online safety from a variety of different aspects, starting with looking at the information we choose to share online. We’re
Jacob Woolcock
1st March 2019
Penpol School attend the BETT Show 2019
A couple of weeks ago myself, Mr Chislett and Paul all went up to London to visit the BETT show. This massive educational technology show involves thousands of companies, hundreds of workshops and some fascinating presentations from industry and educational leaders. This year we were also lucky enough
Jacob Woolcock
15th February 2019
Etch-A-Scratch with Year 4
This term the Year 4 pupils are learning all about robots and their uses in the world. They’ve been taking this learning into Computing as well and this week we’ve written programs to help us draw our very own robotic creations. Using Scratch 3.0 the children have worked
Jacob Woolcock
29th January 2019
Electrifying!
Have you ever wondered where electricity comes from? Class 9 have been investigating the different ways in which electricity is produced. After investigating and finding information, the children wrote short scripts outlining what they have found. Using iPads, the children have narrated a video from the BBC website
Colin Jones
22nd January 2019
Penpol School make their own 3D Winter Ornaments on our 3D Printer!
This year, for the for the third time, we gave every child in Key Stage 2 the opportunity to design and refine their own 3D models on the computer, which we then printed out using our state-of-the-art Makerbot 3D printer. This year the children had greater design freedom
Jacob Woolcock
17th December 2018
Enjoying every second of the Hour of Code
Over the last two weeks each class in Key Stage 2 has taken part in the Hour of Code. For those unfamiliar, Hour of Code is a worldwide event which encourages school children to spend an hour having fun by problem solving through writing code. Each year some
Jacob Woolcock
4th December 2018
Penpol are Finalists at the 2018 Edge Awards
Penpol School have once again been recognised for our pupils outstanding ICT and Computing work and have been shortlisted as a finalist for the Edge Awards 2018. These awards celebrate the very best technology companies, digital content and entrepreneurs in Cornwall, along with the schools and colleges that
Jacob Woolcock
16th November 2018
Class 14 write programs with their names
This week we’ve started using the fantastic Scratch 3.0 software to build some pretty interesting programs. Starting with a basic idea of animating our names, we developed ideas and explored options to take our projects in different directions. Within an hour we’d got 28 completely different projects including
Jacob Woolcock
9th November 2018