Issue 61

Student of the week:

Connor Monteith—

for his outstanding work in Maths and for working incredibly hard.

Friday 15th February 2013 Pool Post

WEEK: 18th—22nd February 2013 WEEK 2

HALF TERM

WEEK: 25th Feb—1st March 2013 WEEK 1

WEEK: 4th—8th March 2013 WEEK 2

Wednesday 6th March—Year 8 Options Evening

6.30pm—8.30pm

Friday 8th March—PSHE Day

WEEK: 11th-15th March 2013 WEEK 1

Friday 15th March—U15’s Netball Tournament at

Penair

Mock Interview Day

Mock Interview Day

Year 11 came to school dressed to impress for this year’s Mock Interview Day. We were delighted

to welcome to Pool Academy over 30 of our local business partners to put our year 11 students

through an interview process to prepare them for the competitive world beyond the school. It was a

great morning and the year 11 did us proud! The comments from the interviewees were amazing.

They just didn’t expect the mature, well dressed young people that turned up for the interviews. I

had at least four people tell me that if that person had turned up for a position in their company they

would have been offered a job. I even heard rumours that one year 11 was offered a position. The

feedback evaluation forms from our business partners were unanimously positive. Every member of

staff that participated in the main hall for the event felt extremely proud of our students. I would like

to congratulate you all for the way you prepared and took part in the interviews. I have never seen

you all look so smart!

Mr Challis

Safer Internet Day

Students took part in the annual "Safer

Internet Day" recently. The day is designed

to help students across the world stop and

think about keeping safe online. There were

a range of activities happening- some

students made some great role plays that

were filmed on iPads to be displayed on the

big screen in the library. At lunch and break

time the ICT rooms were packed as the ICT

staff unfiltered social networking sites. Staff and student mentors then spent the time talking with

students about how they use websites and how checking their privacy settings keeps them safe.

Passport to the World

Tuesday 12th February saw Pool Academy canteen host its first ‘Passport to the World’, in which Icelandic food was served to pupils at lunchtime. The Icelandic menu created by pupils Emily Bowles, Eden Oxborough and Matthew Patrick consisted of fish stew, vegetarian sausage stew and sweet rice pudding. The winning pupils were treated to a free Icelandic meal as a reward for their efforts.

The turn-out for the Icelandic menu was a great success, with comments from pupils such as “delicious,” “it is really good” and one pupil even said “it tastes better than I thought!” A huge thank you goes out to the Geography Department, Mr Creeper and Mrs Boase for organising the event. A further thank you also to Stuart the chef and all the canteen staff for preparing the tasty feast!

The next ‘Passport to the World’ themed menu will be China, date to follow after half term!

Community Fun Day

We are looking for businesses to advertise in our programme of events. If you are interested please call Sharon Hosking on 01209 712220 for details of advert sizes and prices. We are expecting 2000 people on the day so what a great way of advertising your business.

Stationary Shop

Mr Pamplin-Barnard is running a stationary shop every break time in MA3!

He is selling pens, pencils, rulers, rubbers and sharpeners so if you need any new stationary,

head to MA3!

Mystery Auctioneers

Three of our Year 10 students have auctioned a signed England football shirt on Ebay and

have raised £94 for the ‘Wish Upon A Star’ charity that supports terminally ill children.

Maths Master Class

Year 9 Students from all over Cornwall completed a Maths Master Class

at Truro College on Saturday 9th February. The event was run by train-

ee Maths teachers, including Mr Barker. Alicja Bochnacka, Fiona Pascoe,

James Morrissey and Gabriel Newman attended this wonderful

opportunity, learning about the ‘The History of Mathematics’. The photo

included was taken in the ‘Future Zone’ when the students were working

with Mr Barker.

The Carharrack Players proudly present

PINOCCHIO

Written by Doreen Moger

Directed by Ann Trebell

At The Mills Hall, Carharrack

£5.00 per ticket. Call 01209 215109.

Show starts at 7:30pm

Saturday Matinee starts at 2:30pm.

Monday 18th—Saturday 23rd February 2013

WHAT’S ON AFTER HALF TERM

Monday 25th Feb – Badminton Club – Sports Hall – after school – 2.55 – 4pm

Cross Country Club – School field – after school – 2.55 – 4pm

Tuesday 26th Feb – Hockey Club –all years - Muga - after school – 2.55 – 4pm

Girls Tag/Contact Rugby Training – Redruth RFU – 3pm – 5pm

Street Dance Club – Dance Studio – 2.55 – 4pm

BTEC PE Intervention class – MU2/ICT2 – after school – 2.55 – 4pm

Wednesday 27th Feb – Keystage 4 Hockey practice – MUGA - 3pm – 4pm

Table Tennis Club – School Gym – 2.55 – 5pm

BTEC PE Intervention class – MU2/ICT2 – after school – 2.55 – 4pm

Thursday 28th Feb – Fixtures:

Twilight Inset

Friday 1st March - Yr10 GCSE Dance Club – MU2/Dance Studio – 3pm – 5pm

Karate Championships

eorgie Clark 8KB, has triumphed in her latest karate championship held in Birmingham at the

weekend. Georgie competed in three separate competitions, fighting off opponents who were

older than her. Georgie’s dedication to her sport earned her two gold medals and a silver. The

success of the weekend means that Georgie has now qualified to represent England this Octo-

ber in Spain. Pool Academy would like to send their congratulations to Georgie. You should be

very proud!

Pool Academy would also like to congratulate Jake Rees in year 7 and Kyle Silgram in year

11 who also competed in the karate championships held in Birmingham at the weekend.

Results

- The YR10/11 Girls Hockey Team lost 2 – 0 at home to Mullion last week.

- Boy’s League football had mixed results away to Falmouth:

- Yr7 drew 1-1, Yr8 lost 1-3, Yr9 won 7-1, Yr11 lost 0-7 and lastly the Yr10 team won 5-4 in the first round

of the Cup and will go on to play Penryn in the next round.

- Well done to all the girls who took part in the Yr8 Swimming Gala on Thursday, we had one record broken:

Molly Jackson – Backstroke .20.34

Final Tutor Positions:

1st - KS, 2nd - JMS, 3rd - SG, 4th - BL & APJ, 6th - SC, 7th - JW.

Congratulations to the Yr10 Girls Indoor Cricket Team, who won all their matches at last week’s and qualify for the County

Final in March.

Well Done to the following pupils who have been selected for PE Student of the month:

Friendship – Molly Jackson, Equality – Chloe Harris, Courage – Matt Stone, Excellence – Alice Wakefield,

Respect – Lewis Burley, Determination – Emily Richards, Inspiration – Martha Carlisle