Headteacher’s Welcome Ms Lucy Gambier Executive Headteacher of Penrice Academy Welcome to Penrice Academy Penrice Academy is a happy, safe and welcoming school community with highly effective support, care and guidance to allow all students to flourish and excel. Alongside the support we provide we are relentless in our expectations and ambitions for each and every one of our students, because our students are incredible and deserve the very best life has to offer. At Penrice we continued to learn and thrive through the global pandemic, ensuring that our students enjoyed a fantastic range of educational experiences and were highly successful at securing well deserved places in further education. Our priority is to give students the best possible chance of success and happiness when they move onto their next stages in education and beyond. Our enriched curriculum allows students to learn broadly and widely, both inside and outside the classroom throughout their 5-year journey with us. We offer a plethora of enrichment opportunities through our Penrice Plus curriculum, including over 40 choices from coding to crochet. Our students look forward to a huge number of trips, visits and experiences planned every year including the annual Curriculum Enhancement week, where we see students kayaking down the Ardeche, climbing the Eiffel tower, descending Poldark mine and learning to surf on Fistral beach, amongst so many other things. We hope this website gives you an idea of what Penrice has to offer. Lucy Gambier, Headteacher Penrice Academy Mini-Documentary Video Chapters 00:00 – Introduction 00:17 – Core Values 01:41 – Developing Character 02:36 – Classroom Atmosphere 04:01 – Extra-Curricular 07:17 – Student-Teacher-Parent Triangles 08:16 – Teaching Moral Virtues 11:10 – GCSE Results 12:42 – Cornwall Education Learning Trust (MAT Preview) Where next? Prospectus Read more Results Read more Enrichment Opportunities Read more Latest News Edie in Year 9 Wins National Young Writers’ Competition Penrice Grateful for Cost of Living Support Local Children’s Author Visits Penrice St. Austell Rotary Club Donate £500 to Penrice Academy’s Young Carer Provision CELT Schools Sing Together at Inaugural Bonanza Penrice Identified as Cornwall’s Top-Performing State School for a Second Successive Year Students Thank Local Vets for Saving Dora Students Shine at Extraordinary Open Event Penrice Strikes Gold with Music Enrichment Award New Head Students Announced CategoriesCategories Select Category Academy Academy Council Blog Academy Trust Art BBC School Report Bella the Dog Beyond Penrice Business Studies Careers Character Charity Work CLASS Computer Science Curriculum Enrichment Week Dance Drama Duke of Edinburgh English Events Extra Curricular Former Students French Geography History ICT Languages Learning Support Mable Maths Media Music News Outdoor Education Performing Arts Physics Primary Workshops Principal’s Blog Safeguarding School Trips Science Senior Prefect Team Spanish Sport and PE Sports News Staff Star Students Subjects Technology The Core Transition Uncategorized University Year 10 Year 11 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year Groups Upcoming Events Penrice Winter Concert 2023 December 14 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm END OF AUTUMN TERM (Last day before Christmas Holidays) December 15 SPRING TERM BEGINS 8th January 2024 SPRING HALF TERM 12th February 2024 - 16th February 2024 Penrice Academy School Production 2024 – Oliver Jr 5th March 2024 - 7th March 2024 View All Events