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2021/2022

Autumn Term
- First day of term
  6th Sep 2021
- Half Term
  25th Oct 2021 - 29th Oct 2021
- Last day of term
  17th Dec 2021
- Winter holidays
  20th Dec 2021 - 3rd Jan 2022
- Further Information
  Staff Training Days:
  Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th September
  Monday 1st November
Spring Term
- First day of term
  4th Jan 2022
- Half Term
  21st Feb 2022 - 25th Feb 2022
- Last day of term
  8th Apr 2022
Summer Term
- First day of term
  25th Apr 2022
- Half Term
  30th May 2022 - 3rd Jun 2022
- Last day of term
  21st Jul 2022
- Summer holidays
  26th Jul 2022 - 5th Sep 2022
- Further Information
  Staff Training Days:
  Friday 22nd and Monday 25th July

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Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - March 23 Pupils of @HDSPenzance created 4 short films all relating to issues that affect young people's mental wellbeing - Check out this one about Self Image 🤳 For all 4, visit https://t.co/7DBOBygQOJ @HeadStartKernow #MentalHealthAwareness #wellbeingwednesday https://t.co/Kf55dNaxLs

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - March 17 Next week the HDS community will be doing their part to raise funds for the people of Ukraine. We have lots of fundraising activities for everyone to get involved! We look forward to raising some much needed funds to show our support.

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - March 17 Really excited to share out latest Youth in Mind video by pupils at @HDSPenzance with a focus on 4 aspects of modern day life that can affect young peoples mental wellbeing. #Wellbeing #mentalhealth @HeadStartKernow @TFFCornwall @TNLComFund https://t.co/qEyzO2vWr3

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - March 17 It’s the simple things… 😊 thank you @HDSPenzance for a brilliant learning experience today! Oh, I have apron envy! https://t.co/1LclrPX7o0

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - December 17 HDS Christmas Concert 2021 We had a fantastic time at our annual Christmas Concert this year! A full playlist will follow next week, so stay tuned! Well done to all involved, and Happy Christmas everyone! https://t.co/DhqoMwLjYg via @YouTube

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - October 14 https://t.co/nbl12CNACc

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - September 28 As part of the careers package we offer to our Year 7 students at Humphry Davy School, today we held a Year 7 Careers Top Trump Tournament in the library. Great fun was had by all our students certainly are Careers Superstars! https://t.co/vl6VMn37yR

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - September 25 Today, we welcomed Year 6 pupils to HDS for some 'Super Saturday' fun! We've had a brilliant day and we hope you enjoyed it too! Click here to see more photos! https://t.co/loUtgyMwR4 We look forward to seeing you again at our Open Day and Evening on Thursday 7th October. https://t.co/y1M7Acyb4Z

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - July 30 SUMMER SCHOOL 2021! What an AMAZING week we’ve had at HDS! Year 7 2021 students, it was a delight spending time with you! We’ve had a brilliant week and, judging by the smiles on your faces, you did too! Visit our website to see the full photo gallery! https://t.co/XI1dB7qEWZ

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - July 29 What an amazing performance this morning from Alumna Helen Glover and GB team-mate, Polly Swann! Helen, you gave it your all, and your amazing life journey continues to inspire us! Wishing you a safe journey home and some well-deserved time with your family!

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - July 28 We were excited to see Alumna Helen Glover and her GB team-mate, Polly Swann, finish second in the semi-final of the women's pair earlier this morning in Tokyo. We are sending you the best of luck for tomorrow's final! We know you can do it! @TeamGB @Helenglovergb

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - July 27 Good luck for tomorrow @Helenglovergb - wishing you all the best from Humphry Davy School! https://t.co/zbAgynubej

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - June 24 Our summer music concert is off to a fantastic start! With the sun shining and the students in great spirits it is sure to be a brilliant evening for all! Welcome everyone! https://t.co/XioNBYy27f

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - June 10 Massive congratulations to HDS Alumni and Olympic Gold Medallist, @Helenglovergb, on making Team GB for this year’s Tokyo Olympics! You continue to be an inspiration to all our students and we look forward to seeing you compete once more. Exciting times ahead!

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - June 10 We would like to wish Mareme and Isaac the best of luck for their journalistic experience over the G7 summit! They are spending three days at Falmouth University media hub where they are hoping to interview some of the G7 attendees! Good luck! https://t.co/3gd0axY5kC

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - April 23 Happy Friday everyone! With the summer term now underway, what a glorious day for our first Duke of Edinburgh practice expedition since lockdown! Have a great day Year 10! We look forward to seeing the photos of your adventure! https://t.co/2NGbfcXnCx

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - April 21 Looking for the perfect low cost venue for your club/group/activity? Contact us now on 01736 363559 and we’ll be happy to discuss your requirements. Further information can be found on our website: https://t.co/e6I7JyizLW https://t.co/ZBBENDnEvj

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - April 12 Year 6 - Wow! What an amazing day! We hope you all had fun...we know we certainly did. Click the link below to see more photos...your video is on the way... https://t.co/tu6LREomsN https://t.co/AABUrqKVfY

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - April 12 Congratulations Helen! You continue to be such an inspiration to us all! #HDSAlumni https://t.co/vZ5TaQUBxE

Humphry Davy School @hdspenzance - April 12 Another exciting day at HDS! Today we welcome Year 6 students who will be joining us in September 2021! Lots of happy, smiling faces around the school. We're sure you'll have lots of fun! Lots of photos on the way...check out our website later today! https://t.co/tu6LREomsN

Humphry Davy School 17 May 2022 Bubbles, Bubbles, Science and Bubbles! Last Wednesday, the ‘Explorer Dome’ visited HDS to provide an exciting Chemistry Show for Year 7 and 8 students. Students unravelled the mystery of gasses and delighted in the unexpected behaviour of bubbles that float and sink, grow or shrink, burn and even explode! Everyone had a fantastic time, and we look forward to further investigation and experimentation in our science lessons this term.

Humphry Davy School 16 May 2022 The HDS Library is a great place to explore a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction and we continue to encourage all students to get reading! We have been monitoring the amount of words our students have been reading, using our Accelerated Reader programme, and students have been busy quizzing on all their completed books to gain the title of a Word Millionaire! Well done to Poppy on becoming a ‘Word Multi-Millionaire’, having read over two million words, and to Scarlett and Kit who are our two new ‘Word Millionaires’! All have been awarded with a certificate and a prize for their fantastic achievement. You should be very proud! If you have any questions about how to get involved please see Ms Atkins in the library.

Humphry Davy School 13 May 2022 On Monday a group of enthusiastic Year 7 students travelled to the Eden Project for the KYBA (Kernow Youth Book Award) ‘Celebration of Reading’ event. This was an inspirational day of authors speaking about the writing process, their inspiration, as well as their latest books. There was also a literary quiz in which HDS students excelled in the general literature and Harry Potter section! Our students met authors and poets Emily Barr, Karl Nova, Rob Badcock and Claire Owen and experienced a reading from a young student who has also written several books! We were also treated to a couple of exciting performances by one of the UK’s leading poets and hip-hop artists, Karl Nova, that everyone especially enjoyed. There was plenty of time after the show for students to ask questions, get books signed and take photos. The students also took this opportunity to buy themselves several new books and received a generous offer from Rob Badcock who gave them one of his books for free! It was great for the KYBA group to get back to ‘business as usual’. So much fun was had by all in attendance, and it was great to be back at the Youth Book Awards!

Humphry Davy School 12 May 2022 Post 16 Options Workshop At HDS, we recognise that leaving secondary school and taking the ‘next steps’ can be a challenging time for young people. With so many different qualifications and pathways to choose from, receiving a wide range of information and guidance is vital in making informed choices for the future. By engaging with a wide range of professionals and employers, we enable our young people to gain experience and an insight into many different careers. This week, we were excited to welcome three members of our Alumni family back to HDS to deliver a Post 16 options workshop for our Year 10 students. We would like to extend our thanks to Giz Edwards, Imogen Brooks and Sam Rae for giving us an insight into their individual career paths. It was a wonderful experience for our students and it certainly left them all thinking We look forward to welcoming you back soon.

Humphry Davy School 12 May 2022 Congratulations to Year 11 student, Oscar, who is this year's winner of the ‘Humphry Davy Prize’, awarded by Penzance Town Council. The prize is awarded to a student who best captures the ‘spirit’ of Sir Humphry Davy. Oscar was selected from all schools in the Penzance area and we couldn’t be prouder. He has always been an enthusiastic student and we are happy he has been recognised for his efforts in such a way! Oscar was presented with his prize by the Mayor in a ceremony Tuesday night in St Johns Hall. Well done!

Humphry Davy School 6 May 2022 This week our Prefect team, lead by Mr Ball, have been very busy raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. They gave our school community plenty of opportunities to get involved including a car wash, cake sale, guess the sweets and a ticketed staff karaoke lunchtime concert! It’s been a great week with lots of laughter…and an amazing amount of money raised for a very worthy charity.

Humphry Davy School 6 May 2022 This week our students had the opportunity to visit the Skills Show at Wadebridge Show Ground. The show offered hands on opportunities for our students to try out new skills. Various industries were represented which enabled the students to experience sectors of employment that they had possibly not thought about before. Also, this week, representatives from the Digital Penninsular Network have been in school delivering entrepreneurial workshops for students who have expressed an interest in starting up their own businesses. The workshops culminated in a dragons den style presentation, with students looking at a business idea, how to market their product and the financing involved. Great ideas for the future.

Humphry Davy School 28 Apr 2022 Students from Humphry Davy School travelled to the new Hall for Cornwall to watch Blood Brothers; a musical by Liverpudlian playwright Willy Russell. The musical revolves around twin boys (Mickey and Edward) who are separated at birth and brought up in completely different environments in the city. The play, set in the 1960s, offered our students the opportunity to consider social class, inequality, superstition and fate during this time. The music, staging and acting were truly engaging and inspiring; a fantastic opportunity for our students to experience.

Humphry Davy School 25 Apr 2022 Current Vacancies We currently have a range of opportunities to join our ever growing team of staff: Enrichment and Activities Coordinator Part time Music Teacher Part time Drama Teacher Teaching Assistants Minibus drivers Lead Science Technician For more information about how to apply please visit our website. https://www.humphry-davy.cornwall.sch.uk/2343/staff-vacancies-1 We look forward to hearing from you!

Humphry Davy School 7 Apr 2022 Students and staff were overjoyed to once again take part in the annual Songfest concert at St John’s Hall last week. It has been two years since Songfest was held in Penzance and Humphry Davy School were proud to be given the stage for the first half of their two night concert. Songfest celebrates all things to do with the voice and so HDS Music prepared an evening of choirs, bands and soloists to showcase some of the amazing singers we have here at our school. Highlights from the evening included the solo, duet and trio performances from our fantastic music scholars who stunned the audience with their close harmonies and expressive stage presence. Humphry Davy School put together another fantastic and varied evening of music and we look forward to working with the team at Songfest again next year. A huge ‘well done’ to all our wonderful musicians for getting involved!

Humphry Davy School 5 Apr 2022 During the Spring term our young people are busy preparing for Music For Youth, the annual celebration of youth music across the UK. Each region holds its own local festival and a handful of acts from each festival is chosen to perform at the regional competition. With so much going on this term. Humphry Davy School were unfortunately unable to attend in person due to overlapping events. Of course, we didn’t let that stop us from getting involved, with this year’s entrants taking part via video submission! ‘New Notes Jazz Band’ and ‘Betty Boop’s Jungle Boogie’ spent an afternoon videoing and recording a set of material to put before the panel and a live audience at Falmouth University. Those in attendance were blown away by the professionalism and musicianship on display and we look forward to receiving feedback in the coming weeks.

Humphry Davy School 4 Apr 2022 We would like to wish all our Year 10 students the best of luck this week in their work experience placements. We are so proud and excited that after two years we have been able to work with local employers to run our work experience week again this year! We can’t wait to hear all about it!

Humphry Davy School 1 Apr 2022 The first ever Esports tournament has now concluded here at Humphry Davy School. A tense final was played out by Riley (Year 9) and Dylan (Year 11). The score finished 3-1 to Dylan, who came from behind to claim victory. The game was played in great spirit between both players, which brought to an end a great experience for many of our students. We would like to wish Dylan the best of luck as he represents our school at the national Fifa 22 schools championship. The event is being held in May at West Bromwich Albion Football Club, we will keep you updated with Dylan's progress.

Humphry Davy School 30 Mar 2022 Have you always dreamed of being a doctor? Do you have a keen interest in dentistry? Applying to study these courses at University is likely to be the most competitive process you will ever have to go through. In this session, delivered by experienced staff from Cornwall School of Maths and Science, you will find out about the intensive application process and the steps you can take now to improve your chances of success. If you are in Year 10 or 11 and want to be a doctor or a dentist you really cannot afford to miss this informative event. Visit www.csms.co.uk/outreach-events/ to book your slot today!

Humphry Davy School 29 Mar 2022 This week’s final Hair and Beauty session at Penwith College saw students learning about massage techniques such as ‘effleurage’. This was another great session where our students continued to broaden their understanding of working within the Hair and Beauty industry (even if most enjoyed being the 'client' just as much as learning!) - a truly relaxing end to our series of taster sessions! We have really enjoyed finding out more about Hair and Beauty at Penwith College, and it has given our students much food for thought as they start to consider what they would like to do when they leave school!

Humphry Davy School 28 Mar 2022 Our 12 Music Scholars were in Cardiff last week, spending a day at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where they immersed themselves into the life of a world leading conservatoire; taking part in workshops with the Head of Jazz; and enjoying the opportunity to meet students (including former Humphry Davy students) to get a feel for life as a professional musician! This after stopping off to experience the spectacular arena gig by world famous Cory Wong at the O2 Academy, where apparently the scholars were blown away by the musicianship!

Humphry Davy School 25 Mar 2022 Year 9 art students visited the Tate St Ives and the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture garden this week. This was a fantastic opportunity for our students to spend the day studying professional art displays, and what a spectacular day they had for it too! The students are currently working on a project focused on natural forms, so visiting these two exhibitions was the perfect chance to get inspired. As the sun shone down, our students made their way around the displays taking photographs, making notes and drawing sketches of their favourite pieces. Students were asked to consider user interaction, how the artwork made them feel, as well as exploring the context of the artwork and the emotional connection the artist had with their work. The Tate St Ives is currently closed to the public for building work, so our students had the whole exhibition to themselves…a truly VIP experience! Everyone had a wonderful morning, and on the coach ride home, couldn’t stop talking about what they had seen. This visit has really helped develop our student’s understanding of how artist research can inspire their own creations and we look forward to seeing how their own creative work progresses.

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Humphry Davy School, Coombe Road, Penzance,
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