RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL Bulletin 9 May... · RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL ... Student Leadership Badges ... Shannon Wooley, Emma Hunter Year 10: Abigail Lovering, Yasmin Johns, Teudor Tremaine

RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL

WEEKLY BULLETIN

9th May 2013

Important Dates for your Diary FRIDAY 10TH —24TH MAY Year 11 Revision Programme FRIDAY 10TH MAY Primary Cluster School Sports - Tag Rugby at Truro Rugby Club FRIDAY 10TH MAY TRLC Photographs in the Community Lounge MONDAY 13TH MAY—WEDNESDAY 16TH JUNE GCSE Exams Summer Series. Timetables have been given to all students and are available on the school website THURSDAY 16TH MAY Year 5 DT Day for Bosvigo School

THURSDAY 16TH MAY Year 9 Languages G&T Activity Day MONDAY 20TH MAY G&T Artist Workshop with Hannah Woodman WEDNESDAY 22ND MAY Year 6 G&T Science Day FRIDAY 24TH MAY Year 8 STEM Activity Day SATURDAY 25TH MAY—SUNDAY 2ND JUNE HALF TERM TUESDAY 4TH JUNE Year 8 with St Agnes Primary G&T Geography Trip WEDNESDAY 5TH JUNE Years 9/10 Photography Workshop THURSDAY 6TH JUNE Year 8 Parent Evening 16.00-19.00 FRIDAY 7TH - MONDAY 17TH JUNE Year 10 American Exchange - Americans in UK FRIDAY 7TH JUNE Year 10 Catering Assessment Deadline MONDAY 10TH JUNE Primary Cluster School Sports - Cricket

Message from the Headteacher

Dear Parents,

Year 11 Prom

This week, our Year 11 students had their Prom Evening at the Penventon Hotel

and had a truly memorable time. Traditionally, students come to school in an array of fancy dress on Prom day, and this year was no exception with a range of

spectacular, creative and at times comical costumes. They conducted themselves

superbly and had a lot of fun. The school day ended early with a special Leavers Assembly and students returned home to prepare for the evening Prom.

The Prom itself was a very special evening. Our Year 11 are a close-knit year

group and have had a very special journey these past 5 years. They looked terrific

and very grown up in their range of tuxedos and ball gowns. They enjoyed a three course meal before dancing the night away along with the staff.

Well done Year 11 – a terrific evening all round!

It goes without saying that it is now back to the serious revision...

Summer Charity Event

One of our Governors, Sean Pascoe, is organising an ‘It’s a Knockout’ style charity event which will take place on Sunday 1st September at Boscawen park,

Truro. This is a team event and I am hoping we will be able to field both a staff

team and a governors team to compete in it. So if you would like to pit your wits and energies against the school staff, there is a flier on page 10 of this bulletin

with more information. This can also be found on the school website. Do click on the link that follows and we hope you will join us, as well as raise money for a

very worthy cause.

http://www.richardlander.co.uk/whats-going-on/news/article/278/its-a-knockout-

funday

Merits

Finally, may I congratulate the following students, who earned the most merits for their Learning Communities last week.

Carlie Englefield: 20 (Godrevy)

Ethan King: 19 (Pentire)

Gwendolyn Jenkins: 15 (Rame) Francesca Hume: 13 (Towan)

Steve Mulcahy

Headteacher

http://www.richardlander.co.uk/whats-going-on/news/article/278/its-a-knockout-funday

http://www.richardlander.co.uk/whats-going-on/news/article/278/its-a-knockout-funday

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Year 11 Leavers Day 2013 Wednesday saw the arrival of Year 11 Leavers’ Day, when we celebrated the time our lovely year 11’s have had with us and they entertained us with their superb fancy dress! As you can see from the images below the effort made was simply phenome-nal. This is just a small selection, there are many more pictures on the school Facebook page. A final assembly saw a slide show of memories, the entire year group doing the Harlem Shake and musical performances from Tom Redfern, Ben Pridmore and The Village People! The students left at 12:00 to transform themselves for their Leavers Prom….

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Year 11 Leavers Day 2013 - The Ball ! .. And what a transformation it was! The rain held off as vintage cars and a fire engine pulled up at the Penventon Hotel and the car park filled up the students dressed in their finery. Everyone was immaculately turned out, the girls looked beautiful in their evening dresses and the boys looked really smart in their suits (and kilt!) With parents, students, staff and the photogra-pher from the West Briton snapping away the students spent about half an hour being photographed before heading into the hotel for their meal and disco.

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Year 11 Leavers Day 2013 - The Ball ! Students enjoyed a three course meal of tomato and basil soup or melon, followed by chicken chasseur, vegetable lasagne or steak stilton with all the trimmings, with profiteroles rolls or sherry trifle for dessert. They then danced the night away to music from across the decades with some of the older tunes, such as Macarena and Oops Upside You Head, proving surprisingly pop-ular.! We, as a school, were very proud of them all as we were complimented by the staff and other visitors at the Penventon on their behaviour and conduct. Well done year 11, we look forward to seeing you back in school for your revision sessions!

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On Saturday 4th May the Cousin Jacks joined lads from other schools and toured Cornwall giving impromptu concerts in various towns. This culminated in a community sing-song in the Hall for Cornwall. A superb day!

Student Leadership Badges Any student can apply, be nominated, or be awarded on daily merit for up to 5 of the 7 roles (Lead Learner, Gold Learner, Subject Leader, Community Leader, Interact Leader, Senior Leader, and Student Council) and if successful will be awarded with their responsibility & badge in June, ready to start duties in September.

Mr J Beech DT Teacher/Student Leadership

Congratulations! To the following Young College Students of the Week: Year 11: Tayla Lawrence, Clara Abbott, Kieran Dixon, Shannon Wooley, Emma Hunter

Year 10: Abigail Lovering, Yasmin Johns, Teudor Tremaine

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Plymouth University Maths Conference Before Easter fifteen year 10 students went to Plymouth University for a maths conference. These students were from set two and the visit was intended to show them what mathematics is like at university level and hopefully encourage them to study the subject after they leave RLS.

There were a number of workshops where the students had the chance to see how census data is used, how giant soap bubbles are full of mathematics and trigonometry, and how to balance a body. The latter required one of the students, Siobhan, to lie on a wooden plank on a desk and then the other students found where to play blocks underneath to make sure that, when all but two of the blocks were removed that the

plank would be balanced like a see-saw. The p i c t u r e s h o w s G e o r g i a and a fellow student from C a mb o r ne S c h o o l , under the watchful eye of Plymouth U n i v e r s i t y Lecturer Ted Graham, placing the blocks while a somewhat nervous Siobhan tries to remain completely still. Also pictured is Carlen, who had learnt why Coke cans are shaped the way they are (not just for ease of stacking), trying to balance it on its’ edge. A word of warning, if you try this at home then drink some of the coke first, or else you cannot do it and there will a mess on the kitchen floor. The students all enjoyed the day and thought it was a worthwhile exercise. Mr I Robinson Maths Teacher

Year 8 Gifted and Talented prepare for another super duper Science Detective Day! A specially selected group of year 8 students spent Wednesday 8th May

designing a murder mystery to be solved by visiting members of Richard Lander’s feeder primary schools. The students mapped out their evidence to produce a blood-curdling storyline sure to set those year 6 pulses racing. Richard Lander students will spend the day in character, guiding the Year 6

through the twists and turns of this realistic and highly entertaining forensic science investigation. Year 6 will be arriving at Richard Lander on Wednesday 22nd May. We wish them luck solving this one!

Miss Nowak and Miss Silverthorn

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Congratulations! Adam Dower, Ollie Walker and Ollie Pritchard NATIONAL U13 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS

T hree RLS students from year 8, Adam Dower, Ollie Walker and Ollie Pritchard travelled to Hereford with the West Cornwall Schools U13 Football team to take part in the National Final. Having beaten Birmingham Schools in the semi-final a couple of months ago they had to face the mighty Liverpool (Merseyside

Schools). After a goalless first half, the West Cornwall boys, resplendent in their Cornish gold and black kit, took the lead with fantastic effort from Joel Al len (Penryn College). They were still ahead as the game en t e red f i ve minutes of “Fergie Time” and as M e r s e y s i d e Schools pressed for an equaliser the Cornwall boys had to clear an effort off the line. They then went straight to the other end and scored a second

goal to kill off their opponents and win the game 2-0 to become NATIONAL CHAMPIONS. Well done to all the team from RLS !! Mr I Robinson Maths Teacher

SPORTS REPORT

Learning Community Swimming Gala 2013 R a m e w i n t h e Community Swimming Gala for the first time !

O n Friday 3rd May around 130 students from Richard Lander School visited Truro School to take part in our annual swimming gala. Once again students were representing their Learning Communities and as with previous years this proved to be an outstanding event, which really ‘show-

cased’ the swimming talent which we have in the school. Prior to the event team captains selected their teams with students being able to swim one individual race and two relays. The races were, 25 and 50m front crawl, 25m backstroke, 25m breastroke, 25m butterfly aswell as a medley and freestyle relay. This is the sixth year that this event has taken place and once again it was a tightly fought event, both individually and in the team competition. All students who took part performed brilliantly for themselves and their communities, with the rivalry between the teams being a very positive and healthy feature. On the day 13 new records were set. A list of the new record holders and their outstanding performances follows this report along with the results table (Continued on next page)

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Learning Community Swimming Gala Results – Friday 3rd May, 2013

Learning Community Results 2012/13

(continued from page 2) for Learning Community sports so far this year In the community team event Rame dominated a number of age groups and finally ‘swam out’ winners by 15 points. The other 3 communities were only separated by 3 points with Towan narrowly taking 2nd place. Rame’s

victory was a popular result with staff and congratulations to Mr Gibson and his community on this achievement. Can I offer my congratulations to all the students who took part, they once again represented the school brilliantly. Truro School staff commented on what a great swimming gala our school runs and how well our students behave and perform.

Also thanks to Mr J. Webb, Mr T. Webb, Miss Cain, Ms Lenehan, Ms Abbott and our 6 year 10 student leaders who helped with the running of this event, without these people so many students wouldn’t have had such a positive experience. Mr N. Stoddard PE Team Leader

LC Swimming - New Record Holders and Outstanding Performers Year 7 Girls 25m Backstroke – Jo Cowley (Pentire) – 17.40sec 4x25m Medley relay – Pentire – 1.24.93min/sec 4x25m Freestyle relay – Pentire – 1.10.22min/sec Year 8 Girls 25m Back Stroke – Jasmin Biggs (Towan) – 18.02sec 25m Breastroke – Jodie Kotenko (Rame) – 18.36sec 50m Freestyle – Megan Kerrison (Pentire) – 34.34sec Year 8 Boys 25m Butterfly – Joel Johnstone (Rame) – 15.98sec 50m Freestyle – Oscar Davies (Rame) – 31.79sec 4x25m Medley relay – Rame – 1.16.53min/sec 4x25m Freestyle relay – Rame – 1.03.40min/sec Year 9&10 Boys 25m Breastroke – Arron Triggs (Pentire) – 18.32sec 25m Butterfly – Cameron Sykes (Rame) – 15.15sec 4x25m Freestyle relay – Rame – 1.01.85min/sec

Year 7 Year 8 Year 9/10 Total Position

Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls

Godrevy 22 15 26 23 12 30 128 3rd

Pentire 12 29 14 31 27 14 127 4th

Rame 31 20 35 20 23 16 145 1st

Towan 24 24 12 14 26 30 130 2nd

Rugby Netball Football Cross

Country

Hockey Swimming Athletics Totals

So far

Godrevy

22 34 26 20 25 13.5 140.5

Pentire

28.5 32 35.5 23 26 16 161

Rame

22.5 30 32 18.5 25 16 144

Towan

28 33 32.5 18.5 27 14.5 153.5

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£677 raised in the RLS Charity Mile

You may remember that back in April, students from years 7-10 took part in a mile run of the school grounds in aid of two charities who have helped RLS students this year. I would like to thank all the students who ran the mile and in particular all those students who contributed £1. When all the donations had been counted we raised a grand total of £677. Two cheques for £338.50 have now been written and sent to Frenchay Hospital i n B r i s t o l and Penha l igon ’ s Friends. Thank you once again. Mr N. Stoddard PE Team Leader

Double Victory for Lander Cricketers Tuesday saw Penrice School make the long trip down from St Austell to take on the year 9 cricket team in our second match of the season. Having beaten Newquay Tretherras the week before the team was feeling upbeat yet a little nervous about our guests as we knew little about their pedigree. Penrice won the toss and elected to bat first and soon found themselves a man down as a fine opening spell of bowling from Redley Flowerdew

earned him a wicket, clean bowling the opening batsman for a second ball duck. He continued to bowl well and took 2 more wickets before captain and Cornwall U14's all-rounder, Luc Lombard, decided to get in on the act. Bowling a quick and tidy spell from the other end he soon got the valuable wicket of the other Penrice opening bat with a fine catch off his own bowling. He soon took two more wickets to leave the visitors in trouble at 23 for 6. Giving the other bowlers a chance to shine saw both Jon Tipple and Wilf Dymond take two wickets each, the latter bowling a very tidy spell to finish the innings and set the team a target of 34 to win. RLS openers Flowerdew and Spencer Wilcock set off very nicely, playing some lovely shots along the ground, combined with some good running, and soon had the score approaching 20 when Wilcock played and missed a well pitched delivery and was bowled. Flowerdew soon followed and the task of winning the game was falling to those who do not always get a chance to bat and this soon showed as wickets tumbled before Toby Blanks steadied the ship and won the game as he was joined by captain Lombard. A good team performance against an u n d e r s t r e n g t h o p p o s i t i o n with excellent bowling by Lombard, Flowerdew, Dymond and Tipple with good knocks from Flowerdew and

Wilcock. A note of praise also goes to Tom Donlon-Smith, who again fielded well for the second game this season with some good throws back from the boundary. Well done Tom! As the year 9's disappeared, some off to play for their local adult sides, we heard the year 7's had won as well. There was a good batting performance from Patrick Wilkins but the stand out moment was Byron Winnan, from TIRb, taking a hat-trick, c l e a n b o w l i n g a l l t h r e e batsmen. Well done Byron, no mean feat in a school game and it shows the value of bowling straight!

Mr I Robinson Maths Teacher

Learning Community Dodgeball Tournament This will take place in tutor group teams from 1:15 - 2:00 in the school gym on the following days. Ask your tutors for more information. Pentire: Tues 21st May Godrevy: Weds 22nd May Towan: Thurs 23rd May Rame: Fri 24th May Mr J Bridger PE Teacher

Thank you for all the Sainsbury's vouchers you have collected so far. The total is now 8240 with a week left to collect! Thank you! Mr M Burley

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Richard Lander Notice Board

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Year 10 or Year 11?

Need support with your

English homework?

Not sure what to do or just have something

you’d like to check?

Come along to room 102 after school every

Tuesday for homework support.

Year 11 GCSE English Literature revision sessions

A662 Modern Drama – An Inspector Calls

A663 Prose from Different Cultures – Of Mice and Men

A664 Literary Heritage Prose and Contemporary Poetry

– Animal Farm and Poetry Skills

A680 Information and Ideas

Date Tuesday lunchtime Tuesday afterschool Room

14th May A664 Contemporary Poetry (Unseen Poetry) AO1 A680 Information and Ideas skills:

Section B - Sentence structure

102

21st May A664 Contemporary Poetry (Unseen Poetry) AO2 A680 Information and Ideas skills:

Section B - Paragraphing and whole text

structure

102

Key Stage 4 GSCE Revision, Controlled Assessment and Exam Advice These pages contain advice and information on upcoming events, revision sessions and assessments which will be happening in school, for Y10 & 11 students and their parents.

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Linked Pair GCSE Applications of Maths Revision Classes

When and where?

There are 8 sessions altogether... If you are coming to a lunch-time session, make sure you get permission from your tutor and that they know where you are. If you attend an after school session, make sure your parents know and you will need to arrange transport home.

In the sessions we will revise.....

Don’t dream of success.

Wake up and work hard for it!

Wednesday after school from 3.30 – 4.15 pm Room 224

Thursday lunchtime from 1.35 – 2.20pm Room 223

Topic 3:30 - 4:15

pm Topic 1:35 - 2:20pm

Inequalities and graphs Wed 15 May Similarity & congruence Thu 16 May

Financial and business applications

Wed 22 May Problems involving prob-ability and risk

Thu 23 May

Applications 1 exam Tue 11 June Applications 2 exam Fri 14 June


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GCSE Mathematics Foundation

Level Revision Classes When & where?

Come along to either session. Every week would be great.

If it’s a lunch-time session, make sure you get permission from your

tutor and that they know where you are.

If it’s an after school session, make sure your parents know and you will

need to arrange transport home.

In the sessions up to the exam students will revise:


Tuesday after school 3.30 – 4.15 Room 224

Wednesday lunch-time/tutor time 1.35 – 2.20 Room 223

Date TOPIC

Tue 14 May Wed 15 May Solving equations

Tue 21 May Wed 22 May Perimeter, area and volume

Tue 11 June Fri 14 June GCSE Exams

Unit 2 GCSE Practical Exploration Drama Exam

This is a six hour practical exam and is worth 30% of the final mark. Due to the practical nature of the exam it is vital you attend the full six hours. It is an exam requirement for the students to wear easily identifiable clothes on the day so you are allowed to bring in a non-uniform top or t shirt. This MUST be the same top for both sessions. The dates are as follows:

10A Tues 21st May pds 3-5 Session 1 (ASc) 10A Fri 24th pds 3-5 Session 2 (ASc) 10B Tue 21st pds 1-3 Session 1 (LCh) 10 B Fri 24th pds 1-3 Session 2 (LCh) 10C Mon 20th pds 1&2 Session 1(ASc) Ms L Charleston

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Disclaimer: Whilst all efforts have been taken by Richard Lander School to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information provided by our community partners on our Community Noticeboard page(s), Richard Lander School accepts no responsibility for any errors, omissions, or misleading statements on this page and is not liable for any action you may take as a result of relying on such information or

advice or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result.

Community Notice Board

Menus Meal of the day, breakfast, break, and ‘Grab & Go’ menus are all available at: richardlander.co.uk/parents/canteen. Any student entitled to a free school meal will be able to have anything they like up to the value of £2.20 per day as long as it constitutes a balanced meal.

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Living with Parents

A one day workshop

At 1-3 Normandy Way, Walker-Lines Industrial Estate,

Bodmin, PL1 3ET

10am – 3pm Friday 7th June 2013

For parents/carers and their 13-17 year olds

The aim of the day is to improve communication between parents/

carers and their teenagers and help reduce conflict in the home

Some comments from parents/carers and young people who have attended previously: It was good spending time with my daughter. I have found we have more in common that I thought

I liked being a team with my Mum

I need to try and negotiate more and shout less!

It was great getting through the day without an argument!

I liked spending time with my Mum and doing things together

The day couldn’t have been better

I want to listen more in future (parent!)

It’s free!

It’s fun!

There’ll be prizes!

There’ll be lunch!

Call the office on 01208 75388 or email

[email protected] for more

information and for bookings.

Message from Mr Vaughan: Any student who attends this session will be afforded an authorised absence

from school.

mailto:[email protected]

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FREE EMERGENCY LIFE SUPPORT SKILLS COURSE

At: Falmouth School on the 29th

May 10.30 till 12.30

Heartstart is an initiative developed by the British Heart Foundation to teach members of the public and children in school what to do in an emergency, vital lifesaving skills;

SIMPLE SKILLS THAT SAVE LIVES. Emergency life support skills are a set of simple techniques that can keep a person alive until professional help arrives. The two hour course includes: General care of a casualty and getting help

Dealing with an unconscious casualty who is breathing

Dealing with a suspected heart attack casualty

Performing CPR and rescue breathing

Dealing with choking

Dealing with serious bleeding

These courses are free and only take 2 hours. Anyone over 10 years of age can attend the complete course. You will receive a certificate of attendance on completion of the course. Places are limited. So be quick! Book your place by contacting: Jackie Pellow at Falmouth School 01326 372386 Ext 280 or 07528983242 Or Bex Kessell at Cornwall YOS 01872 326782

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