WEEKLY BULLETIN 27th March 2015

Dear Parents,

Congratulations this week to the Carrick Dance performers and to the Year 8 rugby team.

The Carrick Dance performance at the Hall for Cornwall was a terrific evening. This is an annual celebration of dance from across the primary and secondary age range and involves Richard Lander, Penair, The Roseland, Penryn, Falmouth, Pencalenick Schools and their primary feeder schools. The dance is of the highest standard and the audience were superb in supporting all acts. My thanks to Ms Meek for leading on the school’s performances, with choreographing from Samantha Taylor, Lisa Ann McNally and Taylor-Sian Paciuszko.

The Year 8 boys’ rugby team continued their unbeaten run against other Cornish schools to 2 years and this week won the Cornwall Schools 7s competition which was held at . Well done to all the boys involved and to Mr Williamson who leads our very successful Year 8 team.

This Friday, Jacob Moran and Oli Pritchard had the dubious privilege of becoming Headteacher for the day! In a recent charity auction, they paid to take on this responsibility and planned a range of activities for the day which went very well. I hope they learnt from the experience – I certainly learnt from their example!

Steve Mulcahy Headteacher

Important Dates for your Easter Break MONDAY 20TH Diary APRIL Year 11 Public Services Team Building at Bishops Forum MARCH WEDNESDAY 15TH WEDNESDAY 22ND - FRIDAY 24TH FRIDAY 27TH 4—6 pm GCSE Art Exhibition - in the school Non School Uniform Day for Story Republic Sharing Event at hall, after school. Uganda RLS. Everyone invited to view the THURSDAY 23RD Year 11 Mock Result Day work created during the project Parents Evening for Year 7 Story Republic Private View at the Drama GCSE Practical Exam Parents/Carers Royal Cornwall Museum THURSDAY 16TH SATURDAY 25TH / SUNDAY 26TH SATURDAY 28TH / SUNDAY 29TH Junior Maths team challenge Year 10 Ten Tors Expedition - Year 10 Ten Tors Expedition— Year 10 Geography Field Trip to Camping Weekend Camping Weekend Falmouth SUNDAY 26TH—3RD MAY SATURDAY 28TH Uganda 2015 Parents Evening Year 9 & 10 French Exchange Year 10/11 G&T PE visit to British FRIDAY 17TH Students Here Colleges Sports Finals GCSE Dance Moderation MONDAY 2TH / TUESDAY 28TH Year 10 Business Studies Alton Y11 Leavers Photo GCSE Photography Exam Towers trip MONDAY 20TH - FRIDAY 24TH WEDNESDAY 29TH - FRIDAY 1ST MONDAY 30TH MARCH - SUNDAY Year 9 Exams Week - Provisional MAY 10TH APRIL MONDAY 20TH / TUESDAY 21ST GCSE Art Exam GCSE Art Exhibition in school hall.

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BBC School Report 2015

C ongratulations to all of the students who worked on our annual BBC School Report. As always the students came up with some interesting stories and were very professional in their approach. Well done to our anchors Joe Barber and Evie Poole and all of our school reporters Freya Cooper, Jess Georgelin, Sam Hillary, Ifan Holweger, Meg Llewellyn, Katie Martin, Noah Palfreyman-Gaze, and Chris Price. Thanks also to Miss Wright, Mr Conrad and Mr Gell for all their help. going-on/bbc-school-report- Look out for more reports on 2015.html School Report News day 2016! The reports can be viewed on the and school website www.richardlander.co.uk/whats- Mrs Jarvis www.richardlander.co.uk/whats- going-on/bbc-school-report-2015/ Head of Humanities extra-solar-powered-plane.html

Congratulations Merit Winners! The following students topped the merits tables by winning the most points for their Learning Communities last week. 11/03/2015 Eve Thomas Thomas Hawkes Cameron Wills: 9 (Godrevy) Amber Powell Emma Sandercock: 9 (Pentire) Polly McAlpine: 9 (Rame) Marcus Reed: 11 (Towan)

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Richard Lander Perform this was enough to go through to boys ended up topping the pool the quarter finals where they unbeaten and progressed through Well at Cornwall 7s Rugby defeated Penair in a hard fought to the next round, a ‘super six’ Competitions local derby! Onto the semi-finals format where the best placed and RLS faced favourites Truro teams from the pool stages played School. After a bright start, creating in two pools of three. It was at this T his past half term has seen our several scoring opportunities Truro stage that RLS stepped up a gear rugby teams back in action for the School’s strength eventually came and began playing some exciting Cornwall Schools 7s Tournaments. through and they ran out rugby, firstly beating , then The Year 7 team gave a fantastic comfortable winners, despite RLS’s overcoming account of themselves at their best efforts. comfortably. This led them into the tournament held at Pool School, final against a motivated Penryn with 19 schools taking part. RLS The last team to play in their 7s side. RLS saved their best until last, were unbeaten in their pool, competition were our highly turning on the style to score some qualifying for the quarter finals successful Year 8 rugby team, who excellent team tries, eventually without conceding a single point! were hoping to retain the title they winning 45-5 to retain their county They played some excellent 7s won last year. In the pool stages 7s title and remain unbeaten in rugby to defeat Callington RLS faced Penryn, Bude and Cornwall for the past two years. comfortably in the last 8 in order to Falmouth. After a nervy start the Mr J Williamson reach the semi-finals, where they faced favourites Truro School. RLS took the game to Truro in the first half, scoring a fine try to draw the scores level but unfortunately Truro then proved that bit too strong and ran out winners to book their place in the final. A fine effort by our boys which certainly showed the potential to go one better in future years.

The Year 10s were next up, taking part at Redruth School in their respective 7s competition. Drawn in a tough pool against Penrice, St Ives and Liskeard, RLS won one, lost won and drew one. Fortunately

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Wednesday 25th March Congratulations! ...to Year 10 Oliver Wills – Construction Young College Students of the Week who have been

chosen in March. Thursday 26th March

Year 11 Thursday 5th March Harry Spurrier – Construction Year 11

Joshua Jones – Catering

Joe Green – Construction

Congratulations Harry Dyer!

Last Sunday. Harry Dyer (Year 8 / PLCo) entered Under 13 Cornwall County Badminton Championships and won gold for the boys singles, boys doubles and mixed, a remarkable achievement—Well done Harry!

Over the next few weekends Surfers Against Sewage are organising their BIG SPRING BEACH CLEAN events which have been popular amongst our coastal students, their families and SLS groups. http://www.sas.org.uk/events/ Any students who sends a picture of themselves taking part at these events to [email protected] will receive 5 merits.

Year 11 GCSE Revision Sessions over the Easter Holidays Here is a non-exhaustive list of Year 11 GCSE Catch-up sessions which will take place over the Easter holidays. Individual students may also have been invited to attend other classes.

Business Studies - Wednesday 1st April 10am until 1pm – Mrs Ford Child Development – Wednesday 1st April – Mrs Knight - Room 113. Child Development - Wednesday 1st April 8.30am-4.00pm - Ms Bamborough - Room 217 Computing - Monday 30th March 9.00am-4.00pm – Mr Griffiths – Room 119 Drama Rehearsals - Sunday 12th April 10am – 4pm Food - Tuesday 31st March 8.30am-4.00pm – Ms Bamborough - Room 217 Graphics - Tuesday 31st March – Mrs Knight – Room 113

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