08.05.2024 Year 9 Boys Claim County Football Title There were scenes of celebration on Tuesday evening as Penrice Academy’s Year 9 Boys produced a memorable second-half turnaround to clinch the Football County Cup. Hosted at Sticker Football Club, the boys faced a showdown against a talented Redruth School team. The ability of the Redruth team was clear to see in the first half… Read more »
16.05.2022 Boys’ Athletics Teams Clinch County Title News coming in from the PE Department where both of our Boys’ Athletics teams were victorious against 17 other Cornish schools as they lifted the County Cup last week! As a result of both teams winning, we will be taking them to compete against the other county champions from across the southwest at Millfield School… Read more »
24.09.2021 Sports Report – Week Beginning Monday 20 September An excellent week of Sports Fixtures with Penrice students participating in Rugby, Netball and Hockey matches away at Truro School. There were boys playing Rugby in Year 7, 8 and 9. We also had girls playing Hockey in Years 7 and 8, plus students in Year 9, 10 and 11 playing Netball. The Year 8… Read more »
14.07.2021 Pentewan Win Sports Day 2021 It was a lesson of never giving up for our winners of Sports Day yesterday. Congratulations to team Pentewan who, after being bottom of the scoreboard at lunchtime, had a resurgent afternoon to secure the trophy. SPORTS DAY 2021 – LUNCHTIME STANDINGS 1st: Par Bay 2nd: Carlyon Bay 3rd: Charlestown 4th: Mevagissey 5th: Porthpean 6th:… Read more »
01.07.2021 Paralympian Visits Penrice Academy It was an honour to meet Great Britain Paralympian triathlete David Hill yesterday as he led a PE coaching session with our separate Year 7 & 8 girls’ bubbles as part of the Healthy Lifestyles Champions initiative from Youth Sport Trust David’s visit marked the pinnacle of a seven week after school sports programme for… Read more »
17.06.2019 More Athletics and Swimming Success for our Year 8 Athletes Last Saturday saw young athletes from Penrice represent their schools in the County Championships. Champions from year 8 were Tineasha in 8ZG who won the long jump with a personal best matching jump of 4.29m! Blake in 8EC was also successful and won the 1500m with a time of 4 minutes and 40 seconds and… Read more »
14.06.2019 Penrice Celebrate Outstanding Athletics Achievement! We are proud to announce some fantastic Athletics success here at Penrice Academy. On 4th June our teams took part in the English School Athletics Association (ESAA) Track and Field South West Regional finals at Exeter Arena. Both of our Junior Girls’, Junior Boys’ and Inter Boys’ teams were competing against some of the top… Read more »
17.10.2018 Kieran’s Endeavour Award Meet Kieran – Endeavor Cup winner! Friday 12th October was the St Austell Swimming Club’s AGM and Presentation evening, held at St Austell Cricket Club. This was a well-supported evening with adults and children from Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Masters. Awards and medals for the swimmers were given out by the new Head… Read more »
12.10.2018 Angus – Champion Swimmer Meet Angus, Year 11’s champion swimmer It was an amazing summer for Angus. On Friday 3rd August 2018 he competed in the 50 metre breaststroke at Pond’s Forge, Sheffield in the English National Summer Swimming Championships. Only the fastest 20 swimmers in England in each age group are invited. Only 2 other boys from Cornwall… Read more »
11.10.2018 Frankie’s Synchronised Swimming Last month, Year 10 swimming champion Frankie won gold for her synchronised swimming in Plymouth! Frankie explains: “I have been doing Synchronised swimming since I was 6 years old. I just love the feel of the water as it rushes past you, and the way you can do almost anything in the water as long… Read more »