28.04.2021 Budding Engineers Submit Entry to the Big Bang Project A team of seven Year 7 students have recently been hard at work on their designs for the Big Bang Project, a competition aimed at inspiring young people in the STEM subjects. Taking place after school in the DT classrooms, the students have been challenged to design filtration devices to cleanse rainwater for people to… Read more »
05.06.2018 Leila Selected for Cornwall Food Foundation Apprenticeship Former student Leila Faulkner has been selected as one of the final five for the apprenticeship at the Cornwall Food Foundation! Leila was selected from 150 candidates down to 15 for the first three months, before receiving her place last month. “The dream of being accepted into the Cornwall Food Foundation kept me going through my… Read more »
20.04.2018 Bloodhound: Race to the Line On Tuesday 17th April 2018, Penrice students were invited to RNAS Culdrose to take part in the Regional Finals of Race to the Line; a project based around the Bloodhound speed record attempts. The project, which has been running for three years, saw a number of schools come together to create and race cars in… Read more »
15.03.2018 Mini Bloodhound Project by Tom and Corben Welcome to the Mini Bloodhound car race at Penrice Academy! Held on Thursday 15th March 2018. Here are some of the cars from the project: We made our cars using foam blocks that we cut out in similar shapes to that of the Bloodhound and we raced all of them to… Read more »
15.03.2018 Interview: MasterChef’s Kate Attlee Kate went to Penrice from 1999 to 2003 and was Head Girl in her last year. She recently starred on BBC MasterChef where she reached the Quarter Finals! The Media Team’s Sam caught up with Kate on Twitter for School Report. Hi Kate, I’m Sam from Year 8! Thanks for talking to me for School… Read more »