14.09.2020 Great attendance for our first week back! We have welcomed our students back to school this week and have been delighted with fabulous attendance figures throughout the year groups – a fantastic 98%! Our students have impressed us all with how quickly they have adapted to the new situation and got back into learning in the classroom. We are excited and looking… Read more »
26.06.2020 Parents of our new Year 7 starters in September 2020 – fill in your forms now please! Can we remind the parents of the incoming Year 7 to complete the Year 7 Starters Data Capture and Consents Form. Click here to go to our Transitions 2020 page and get the link to the form
24.04.2020 Parents – Don’t forget free National Online Safety Weekly Guides available National Online Safety have published a guide this week for parents about children using Netflix. Click on the image to find out more. If you haven’t used/registered on the NOS site before, click here to find out how.
13.12.2019 Raising funds for Macmillan with amazing bakes! Penrice Academy has a history of successful fundraising initiatives for global, national and local charities and this year kicked off with a baking spectacular to support Macmillan, organised by Year 9 student William Hoare. The hall was filled with customers eager to buy the cakes and biscuits on sale and spend time socialising with friends… Read more »
26.11.2019 Parents – Learn about the Dangers for your Child from the Online World Penrice Academy is committed to protecting our pupils online. The online world is posing an ever-increasing risk to children. It is important that schools, parents and carers work together to take an active role in teaching children about online dangers and how to act safely when using the internet. We are delighted to announce that… Read more »
23.08.2019 Fabulous GCSE Results again this year Our students have achieved amazing results in their GCSE’s this year. 75% of our students achieved Grade 4+ in English and Maths 197 achieved top grades of Grade 8 and Grade 9 70% are making better than expected progress – our Progress 8 score is +0.5, a significant improvement on last year 37 Students have… 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 »
04.06.2019 Inspiring our students – Olympians visit Penrice Two Former Olympic athletes visited our students at the end of last term. Olympian Silver Medallist and World Championship Gold Medallist rower, Annie Vernon from North Cornwall (Polzeath) and Vernon Samuels, Triple Jumper Olympian from Bristol shared their success stories and the challenges they had to overcome.
07.03.2019 Our Young Carers by Sophia What are Young Carers? A Young Carer is a child or teenager who regularly helps someone in their family, or a friend, who is ill, disabled or misuses drugs or alcohol. What are the effects on Young Carers? 1 in 3 Young Carers spend between 11-20 hours each week caring for family members… Read more »
07.03.2019 Brexit and You BBC Young Reporters AJ, Corben and Eleanor ask a big question – what is Brexit and how will it affect you? The definition of Brexit is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. On the 23rd of June 2016 the UK voted whether to leave the European Union. David Cameron (former PM) decided… Read more »