14.01.2025 24-Hour Charity Challenge Raises Over £4,000 Our Year 11 students showcased their dedication, teamwork, and boundless energy during their impressive 24-Hour Charity Challenge shortly before Christmas, raising more than £4,000 for local and national charities. The event saw over 125 students participate in a variety of endurance activities, including dancing, rowing, cycling, and more, all to support three worthy causes. This… Read more »
23.11.2023 Local Children’s Author Visits Penrice Thank you to local children’s author Tina Barrott who visited Penrice on Monday to inspire a group of Penrice students. In an hour-long workshop, Tina talked students through both the creative writing and illustrating processes of producing children’s books, as well as her pathway to becoming a published author. Mrs Hague [pictured left], Reading Champion… Read more »
04.10.2023 Students Shine at Extraordinary Open Event It was a pleasure to open our doors to prospective families on Tuesday night for our 2023 Open Evening, showcasing what makes Penrice extraordinary. The school was full of hustle and bustle throughout the event with so much going on! There was a murder mystery to solve in English, a chance to set a teacher… Read more »
04.09.2023 New Friendships Made at Year 7 Summer Academy The 2023 Penrice Summer Academy finished on Thursday last week with a celebration of three fun-packed days! Our new Year 7 students enjoyed learning new survival skills, solved mysteries using CSI Science and found out how to save lives during volcanic eruptions. They also made hedgehog bread, enjoyed archery and programmed robots to sing and… Read more »
15.06.2023 Year 6 Families Enjoy Mandarin Taster Lesson A big thank you to all Year 6 families who attended a Mandarin Taster Lesson this week. The Taster Lessons were available across three afternoons, Monday to Wednesday. Each lesson included learning the 4 different Mandarin tones (level, rising, fall/rise, falling), learning how to count to 10, how to write numbers in Mandarin and, finally,… Read more »
03.05.2023 Ten Tors 2023 Review Congratulations to our amazing Ten Tors challengers and Ten Tors staff who represented Penrice over the weekend on Dartmoor! Ms Penrose shares more in her review below.
28.04.2023 Year 11s Present 24-Hour Challenge Fundraising Cheque to Children’s Hospice South West Sally Bridger, a St Austell representative from Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), visited our Year 11s yesterday to personally thank them for their efforts in the recent 24-Hour Charity Challenge. In a short presentation, Sally talked the students through the work of Children’s Hospice South West and explained exactly how the £2,080 can be used… Read more »
24.03.2023 Penrice Honoured to Host Regional AMSP Maths Feast Penrice Academy was lucky enough to be selected to host the region’s Maths Feast yesterday (Thursday 23 March). Run by the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP), the Maths Feast is a fun educational challenge for Year 10 students which tests problem-solving and teamwork skills. Teams of four students test their maths skills with an all-you-can-eat… Read more »
23.02.2023 Children’s Author Ben Davis Visits Penrice Academy Penrice Academy welcomed a special guest on Wednesday 22nd February when renowned children’s/teen’s author Ben Davis visited the school. Mr Davis spent the whole day at Penrice, hosting two assemblies and two creative writing workshops. The assemblies had the attending Year 7 and Year 8 students full of intrigue with the reading of extracts from… Read more »
08.02.2023 Penrice Prepares for Matilda Jr. School Production *** UPDATE: 9th March 2023 – WHILST ALL DATES WERE SOLD OUT, WE ARE OCCASIONALLY RECEIVING SOME TICKET CANCELLATIONS. PLEASE KEEP CHECKING PARENTPAY IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR LAST-MINUTE TICKETS *** Penrice Academy is thrilled to present our 2023 School Production of Matilda Jr, the award-winning musical based on the original Roald Dahl classic. This… Read more »