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 »
17.05.2018 Sports Report: 17/05/2018 Last week was all about athletics. After a few weeks of training our students went off to Carne Brea track for the Track and Field Cup competition, with both our boys’ and girls’ teams eager to show what Penrice athletes have to offer! Athletics is a great sport to get into and Penrice is oozing… Read more »
10.05.2018 Sports Report: 10/05/18 Plenty to talk about from last week – especially towards the end! Athletics training, Girls’ Rugby Festival, a cricket match and a netball tournament. As PE staff we always try to encourage good sportsmanship within sport; this week showed some of the great sportswomen and sportsmen we have at Penrice and the sport reputation our… Read more »
30.04.2018 Sports Report: 30/04/2018 Last week was a busy and very exciting one! Our summer clubs are running, with Girls’ Rugby added to the mix on a Thursday. Already there is a great turn out to our range of clubs, which is excellent news, but there’s always space for those thinking about joining. Monday – 23/4/2018 It was a… Read more »
20.04.2018 Sports Report: 20/04/2018 The Sports Report is back and it could not come at a better time! We are heading into one of the busiest and best terms in the PE department so there is much to tell. It was a busy start after the Easter break. All Years are now on new topics in their lessons covering… Read more »
20.04.2018 Sports Report: Girls’ Football 20/04/2018 Although it is only the first week back from the Easter half term, the PE department have had a busy start – kicking off with two exciting Girls’ Football matches resulting in some fantastic news for Penrice Sport! We had two matches last night. Our U14 girls played against Liskeard on home turf and… Read more »
15.03.2018 Sport: What is VAR? Archie and Kewin look at people’s opinions on the use of VAR in Football. What is VAR? How does it work? Video Assistant Referee (VAR) operates on a three-step process of incident, review/advice, decision, and across the four jurisdictions of football deemed ‘game changing.’ VAR is only to be used “to correct clear errors and… Read more »
22.01.2018 Chelsea and Aaliyah in the National Cup On Thursday 18th January, our Year 9 football stars Chelsea and Aaliyah travelled to Hampshire with Cornwall schools U14’s and came away with some fantastic results. Report by Chelsea “Last week I went with Aaliyah to Hampshire to play in the Quarter Finals of the National Cup! It was a really tough game. We went… Read more »
28.11.2017 U14 County Netball 2017 Report from Team PE On Saturday 18th November, our girls did the Academy and themselves proud when they finished 4th in the County! There were 2 pools and the girls finished runners up to Penryn (only coming 2nd to them and winning all of our other games). This meant that they had to play… Read more »