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RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL BULLETIN
16th September 2016
Dates for your diary SEPTEMBER MONDAY 19TH Year 7 French Flying Theatre THURSDAY 22ND Year 6 Open Evening FRIDAY 23RD 16:00 ‐ 23:00 ‐ Interna onal Musicians Seminar Concert SATURDAY 24TH/SUNDAY 25TH Greenpower ‐ Richard Lander Racing SW regional heat at Castle Combe, Chippenham W/C MONDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER European Week of Languages TUESDAY 27TH Year 11 ‐ French Specking Assessments WEDNESDAY 28TH/THURSDAY 29TH Year 7 ‐ Art Trips and CAT Tests Le popula on go on the Art trip on Wednesday, right popula on go on the trip on Thursday. Year 7 will sit Cogni ve Ability Tests on the other day. There is no need to revise! FRIDAY 30TH Year 10 Business trip to Truro to collect Data for VCERT coursework.
OCTOBER
THURSDAY 6TH 18:00 ‐ 19:00 Year 7 English and Maths Parent Informa on Evening FRIDAY 7TH Year 11 Cornwall College Assembly TUESDAY 11TH Year 7 ‐ French Hat Day THURSDAY 13TH Dr Bike Day ‐ Bring your bike into school for a free service TUESDAY 18TH Year 10 Art and Photography trip to Eden Project TUESDAY 18TH/WEDNESDAY 19TH Year 9 ‐ Fire Safety Tour WEDNESDAY 19TH/THURSDAY 20TH Year 11 Mindfulness sessions THURSDAY 20TH 18:00 ‐ 19:30 Year 7 Parents ‐ Cheese and Wine Evening FRIDAY 21ST INSET DAY‐ Staff only in school MONDAY 24TH ‐ FRIDAY 28TH HALF TERM BREAK
MONDAY 31ST OCTOBER—FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER Year 9 Maths Assessment ‐ carried out during lessons MONDAY 31ST OCTOBER—FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER Year 11 ‐ Pre Public Exams (Mocks)
NOVEMBER MONDAY 7TH ‐ FRIDAY 11TH Year 8 Maths Assessment ‐ carried out during lessons THURSDAY 10TH Year 10 ‐ English and Maths Parent Informa on Evening THURSDAY 17TH All day ‐ Rotary Young Chef Compe on FRIDAY 18TH Non‐School uniform day in aid of Children in Need Shakespeare Screening ‐ RLS and Penair School choirs singing live during a screening of Romeo and Juliet MONDAY 21ST ‐ FRIDAY 25TH Year 7 Maths Assessment‐ carried out during lessons THURSDAY 24TH Class of 2016—Presenta on Evening
..and an extra warm welcome to all our new Year 7s!
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Congratula ons Class of 2016 ‐ GCSE results break a Richard Lander School record!
A ugust 25th saw beaming students and staff celebra ng the fruits of their labour – great GCSE results! The class of 2016 broke Richard Lander School records with 74.9% students ge ng 5 or more GSCE (A*‐C) including Mathema cs and English. In addi on, over 1/3 of all students walked away with at least 3 A/A* grades and 1/6 got 8 or more A/A*! Aside from this there were many personal triumphs where individuals saw focus, hard work and determina on provide them with what they needed to follow their future dreams. Congratula ons to all of our students and we wish you the very best in your 'life a er
Lander' adventures!
Top results at Richard Lander went to Luke Mader (below le ) who said his results ‘could have been worse’. Achieving ten A* grades and two A grades Luke will be heading off to Exeter Mathema cs School in September. Also achieving ten A* grades and two A grades, Eloise Ireland (below right) said her results were 'really unexpected.' She is going on to Truro College to do the Interna onal Baccalaureate. Both are planning a future in medicine.
Connie Downing Achieved A/A*’s across the board in all of her 11 subjects. Tegan Shipp also did brilliantly with ten A/A* grades and two B grades. Not to be outdone by her friends, Millie Ashurst also achieved an incredible eleven A/A* grades, and one B grade. Other students include Jake Putnam who achieved ten A Grades, one A* and one B grade said he was grateful to all of his teachers and he felt be er now that the wait was over! Liam Kristoffy achieved eight A* grades and 3 A grades is going on to do A Levels in Maths, Physics and Economics. Megan Moore was glad all of her hard work paid off; she achieved five A* and eight A grades. Geraint Webb was ‘over the moon’ with five A* grades, four A grades and two B grades. Maya Groves said ‘overwhelmed is an understatement.’ She had been up since 5.30am to collect her five
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A*s, four A grades and a B grade. She plans to go on to do A Levels in English Language, History, Media and Photography. Olly Walker was really pleased with his three A* grades, 6 A grades and two B grades – but not half as pleased as his mum!
From 2016, a school’s success is to be measured by A ainment 8 and Progress 8. These measures are designed to encourage schools to offer a broad and balanced curriculum at KS4. A ainment 8 is a student’s average achievement across eight subjects which must include English and Mathema cs and at least 3 other English Baccalaureate subjects (Sciences, Compu ng, Languages and Humani es). For a student, you add up their points for their eight subjects and divide by 10 to get their A ainment 8 score. A school's A ainment 8 score is the average of all students' scores. We are delighted that our A ainment 8 score for 2016 was equivalent to a
B‐ grade and that our Progress 8 score was well above the na onal average. If you are interested in learning more about these new measures please visit the AQA website or ask a teacher! h p://www.aqa.org.uk/about‐us/what‐we‐do/policy/gcse‐and‐a‐level‐changes/a ainment‐8
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RLS Writer in Residence, Wyl Menmuir, makes long list for Man Booker 2016 award with novel wri en in his campervan Friday 16th September 14:24 BST By Jack Clatworthy and Ma hew Lamb
A uthor of the thrilling book ‘The Many’ Wyl Menmiur couldn’t believe he had been nominated for such a pres gious award shortly a er comple ng an online course in crea ve wri ng and finishing his first novel. The Cornish coast became the inspira on for the mystery, horror and suspense novel wri en by a literacy consultant and freelance editor Wyl Menmuir.
Despite all the rocke ng sales and growing recogni on we are proud to say Wyl is s ll the Richard Lander School Writer in Residence and con nues to spark our passion for wri ng and help us with our own short stories. We interviewed Wyl about working with our students and what it’s like to be an author. He told us: “It’s a real privilege to work with the amazing students here at Richard Lander with their crazy and brilliant ideas that could go on to be novels and even win awards. However, my main goal is to just help students enjoy their wri ng in general.” Wyl, who moved to Cornwall 3 years ago, writes from his van which he has tenderly named Skye. We had a look around Skye and look forward to going on our own cliff top wri ng experience with Wyl in the school minibus.
As a result of being long listed for the Man Booker award, Wyl was able to a end an exclusive event in Hyde Park alongside authors and judges. He described the event as an amazing experience saying that it felt truly special mee ng other people who share his passion. We believe having an author, par cularly one like Wyl who has been nominated for awards, is a truly wonderful opportunity and enhances our learning and crea ve wri ng ability. We wish Wyl the best of luck for his next book.
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Ba lefields Trip 2016 Wri en by Meg Llewellyn and Freya Cooper ‐ Year 9
O n Monday morning we got up
very early and arrived at school at
about 4:45am. We then drove to the
Euro Tunnel, where we le England
and made our way to France. Less
than an hour and a half’s journey on
the French side of the channel found
us in Messines, Belgium at the Peace
Village Hostel where we would be
staying. A er unpacking and dinner
we were introduced to our guide,
Simon, who taught everyone the
meaning and how to perform the
Haka. We then went out for the
evening, visi ng the nearest
cemetery, learning about the iron
harvest and then performing the
Haka at the memorial to the New
Zealand soldiers who had fought and
died in that area. Before we went
back to the hostel we took part in a
role play about the Christmas truce
and football game of 1914.
On day two we got up to a delicious
breakfast and headed straight out
for a busy day. By lunch me we had
visited both a French and German
cemetery and the St Eloou crater.
A er lunch we travelled to
Poperinge to visit Talbot House, a
building where soldiers could go to
have fun and get away from the war.
Whilst there we played the piano
and had a cup of tea as they would
have. Before leaving the town we
visited the ‘death cells’ where those
soldiers sentenced to death were
held before their punishment was
carried out in the courtyard. Simon
and some of our students acted out
one of the court mar al cases; it was
no surprise that he was found guilty
and sentenced to death.
A er an amazing evening meal we
headed out again to take part in the
Last Post ceremony at the Menin
Gate in Ypres. Three of us were lucky
enough to take part in the event
laying a wreath from Richard Lander
School. It was a really great
experience, we all took a lot from it
and we all slept well that night.
A er a buffet breakfast at the hostel
and final prepara ons for the day
ahead, we set off to visit the
Somme. We travelled across the
border into France, where we met
up with a tour guide, who gave us a
tour of the sites that made up the
Somme. First we went to a crater
that was made, during the ba le of
the Somme, by underground
explosives. The soldiers would mine
a tunnel underground from their
trench to underneath the enemies’
trenches (making sure they made no
sound to give the enemies a clue
that they had intruders underneath).
Then, when the me was right, they
would lay explosives in this tunnel
and detonate it.
Having looked around the crater,
learning about the techniques both
sides used, we drove to The Franco‐
Bri sh Memorial, in Thiepval,
passing another crater and many
memorial sites on the way. The 45
metres high memorial is the largest
Bri sh War memorial in the world
and has 72,205 names of missing
soldiers engraved in the stone pillars
that hold the huge structure up. The
burial sites that lie behind the
building belong to missing New
Zealander soldiers, as well as many
Bri sh vic ms of war. The structure
was beau ful and so well kept that
we could have stayed there for
hours but we had more to look at!
Newfoundland Park was our next
place. This was where we could
actually see the trenches from 100
years ago. They were so intact that
the barbed wire poles s ll stuck out
of the ground. The Newfoundland
Park was created around the old
trenches by the Newfoundlanders.
They also put a memorial to the
Newfoundland soldiers lost or killed
during the First World War. On top
of this memorial, there is a metal
Caribou facing out towards the
German trenches (some say
‘protec ng’ the soldiers). This park
was maybe one of the most moving
places to visit as the original
trenches made it all seem real again,
as if we were there 100 years ago, at
the me of the war.
Next we travelled to the Wellington
Quarries where we went down into
the tunnels of the quarry made in
the First World War and then used
again (as a camp where people took
refuge) in World War Two. It has
now been made into a type of
museum, where you walk along the
boards, listening to an audio
recording. This was very interes ng
as we got to see where the soldiers,
both from Britain and New Zealand,
would have lived, worked and
eventually where they would have
been sent out to the front. As we
walked round, we came across the
steps that lead out to the trenches.
It was hard to imagine what the men
would have been feeling as the
waited to fight. The fear and terror
that they would have been
experiencing is unbearable to think
about. I’m sure many knew what
their fate may be.
Finally, we went into a town called
Lille, where we were able to do
some shopping and look for presents
to take home. Although quite a
modern town, you could see the old
buildings had been there through
the war and how they must have
played a huge role during the First
and Second World War. A er our
evening meal back at our hostel, we
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watched a presenta on about Harry
Patch, the last tommy, and the lives
of him and his fellow soldiers, who
fought in both World Wars and lived
to tell the tale.
On our final day, we packed our
bags and le to visit Passchendaele
Memorial Museum, Zonnebeke. This
was a museum full of artefacts
found out in the trenches and even
in fields. A er that we took a trip to
Tyne Cot, a World War One
memorial ground and cemetery for
the dead soldiers that fought. This
was amazing as we had seen
cemeteries but never this big! Some
of us looked in the log book that had
all the names of the men buried in
that cemetery and found people
with the same surnames, however,
whether or not we are related to
them, we may never know. Finally,
before we began our very long
journey home, we went to a field
and wood on the way to Ypres. Here
we stood in the area where Geoffrey
Boothby (the young man, whose life
we had been following through the
le ers exchanged between himself
and his girlfriend, Edith.) had died.
He was in charge of a group of
miners. When called out to inspect a
suspected German trench above a
tunnel they had been digging, he,
along with others, were killed, when
the Germans set off an explosion
above them. It turns out that it had
been a trap. The Germans were
aware of the men digging below
them and so laid a trail of explosives
to meet the Bri sh tunnel. They
knew Geoffrey and others would
come and so, when they arrived,
detonated the explosives, trapping
Geoffrey. Unable to save their fellow
leader, the men sent home word to
his mother and eventually his
suitcase, which was packed ready to
go home that day, to his house in
Birmingham. We visited the
memorial site where he was
remembered and paid our respects.
The journey home started
remembering Boothby and his
fellow soldiers.
Overall, this trip was a really good
insight into what World War One
really was like; how hard it was and
how many lives were lost: fathers,
husbands, sons and brothers were,
and s ll are, missed greatly.
As the note on the wreath we laid said: “We will remember them”.
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CONGRATUALTIONS!
H uge congratula ons to ex‐student Melissa Reid who won a Bronze Medal last week at her debut in the Paralympic Games in Rio! She competed in the Triathlon PT5 Category for the visually impaired. Mr Webb some mes trains with Melissa and we have been lucky enough to have Melissa come into school in the past to talk to students about her triathlon journey. This incredible achievement is the result of her determina on and hard work.
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