RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL BULLETIN
12th January 2018
…and a Happy New Year
Year 10 Progress Reviews County Cricket Tournament at Dates for your diary MONDAY 22ND Truro College JANUARY Year 9 Uganda Parents Evening City of Lights—Truro THURSDAY 4TH TUESDAY 23RD FEBRUARY First Day of Spring Term Year 9/10 Falmouth University trip THURSDAY 1ST THURSDAY 11TH WEDNESDAY 24TH Year 9, 10 , 11 Intermediate Maths Year 10 ‐ Parents Evening Year 7 Road Safety day Challenge MONDAY 8TH ‐ FRIDAY 19TH THURSDAY 25TH FRIDAY 2ND Year 9 Progress Reviews Year 11 ‐ Parents Evenin g Year 4,5,6 Cross Country Qualifier MONDAY 15TH FRIDAY 26TH at Richard Lander School Year 9 Cornwall Young Chef Year 9, 10, 11 Spanish Students SATURDAY 3RD THURSDAY 18TH Firewalk Theatre trip to Truro School Produc on Rehearsal Year 9 Mathema cs Enrichment College SATURDAY 3RD / SUNDAY 4TH Day at Redruth School Year 11 Na onal Ci zen Service Ten Tors Camping Weekend to Year 9 ‐ Op ons Evening Celebra on Dartmoor Whiteworks FRIDAY 19TH SUNDAY 28TH MONDAY 5TH U15 Indoor Cricket Tournament at School Produc on Rehearsal School Produc on Dress Rehearsal Truro College MONDAY 29TH TUESDAY 6TH—THURSDAY 8TH SATURDAY 20TH / SUNDAY 21ST Year 10 Music Performance for School Produc on—’Smiley Face’ Ten Tors Camping Weekend to Parents and Guardians FRIDAY 9TH Dartmoor Fox and Hounds TUESDAY 30TH Non‐School Uniform MONDAY 22ND JANUARY ‐ 3RD Year 10 Uganda Parents evening Year 5/6 Table Tennis Fes val at FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 31ST Richard Lander School
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Message from the Headteacher: Emergency School Closure
S hould the school need to close in an emergency situa on (such as snow closure) then we will follow the guidance from the Local Authority available here. Suppor ng this, our own procedures include the following:
Emergency closure occur whilst school is in session:
The Headteacher will no fy Governors and the Local Authority that the school will close. The LA will inform local radio sta ons An email and automated telephone call will be sent to parents to no fy them of the school closure Using student mobile phones or the school administra ve phones, we will a empt to make contact with all parents/carers to grant permission to release their children from school. Should we be unable to make contact with parents/carers: Students whose parent/carer has signed the consent form to release their child to go home in the case of an emergency school closure (below) will be released from school Students whose parent/carer has not signed the consent form will not be permi ed to go home un l direct telephone contact has been made between the tutor and parent. (This may delay student departure from school and transport home on service buses) Parents/carers will be informed via email, the school website and radio announcement regarding further closure days.
Emergency closure outside of school hours:
The Headteacher will no fy Governors and the Local Authority that the school will close. The LA will inform local radio sta ons Parents/carers will be informed via email, school website and local radio announcement Parents/carers will be informed via email, school website and radio announcement regarding further closure days.
Note: the school will make contact with parents/carers who have not signed the relevant consent form, reques ng permission to release their child from school in the case of an emergency school closure.
In the eventuality that the school has an emergency closure and cannot contact me by telephone, I hereby give permission for my child, named below, to be released from school to go home.
This form is valid for five years from the date you sign it, or for the period of me your child a ends this school. Should you wish to remove your consent at any me, please do so in wri ng to the school.
Student Name:
Year Group:
Tutor Group:
Parent/Carer Signature:
Print name:
Date
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Castle Compe on 2017 picking 3 winners from the 36 finalists. Woods (TJHe). Anou’s and Abi’s We had some crea ve entries with castles were fantas cally detailed and
students building siege weapons to go historically accurate and Ella Wood’s with their castles and using unique castle was very realis c and well he annual Castle Compe on took T materials such as rubbish that had researched. Thank you to year 7 for so place on Friday 8th December. This washed up onto a local beach. The much collec ve effort! year’s entries were of an excep onally winners this year were Anou Sabe en high standard and once again the (RDMe), Abi Stuart (TRWe) and Ella The History Department History department had a difficult job
Probably Richard Lander School’s most successful rugby team ever pictured at their last match. Our current Under 16 team have cleaned up in compe ons since they joined us in Year 7. Sadly this last match wasn’t a win as they were beaten 10‐ 7 in the semi‐final of the County Cup. They are s ll smiling though and we wouldn’t want life to be too perfect would we!
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Richard Lander Racing – girls race, the county team won silver his rounds to take pics of delighted, and her club team won gold! Fantas c surprised teachers.. Applica ons are open.. results, thank you for keeping us informed and well done Maisy!
D o you want to be part of Richard Lander School’s Greenpower team? If so, now is your chance to apply…
Greenpower applica on forms are available to collect from the cars area opposite student recep on. All students need to apply through this process. The deadline for applica ons is the 26th January.
About the process: Once applica on has been received, students may be shortlisted before being invited to a workshop where they will be given a task to complete. The decision is primarily made by the exis ng team members who retain GRKn ‐ Random Acts of their place (unless they’ve lost Kindness interest or have shown a lack of commitment).
The exis ng team members use a decision matrix to score the Maths Department applicants on team work; launch RLS Countdown leadership; technical awareness; communica on and listening skills. This provides a level of objec ve T utor me Countdown is proving to decision making to make the be a big hit! Richard Lander’s very process as fair as possible in the own version of Carol Vorderman, Mr face of huge levels of interest from Shackley, with assistance from the the students. school media team, create ‘numbers game’ videos which are posted on Moodle. Tutees are invited to submit Congratula ons Maisy their solu ons in return for merits. All Luke! the merits which are earned by students count towards the T utors were delighted to receive an email at 2pm today from Mrs Knight M aisy Luke from Year 8 is a and tutor group GRKn invi ng them to talented cross country runner who accept a ‘random act of kindness.’ smashed records at our sports day last Shortly a er, students arrived in their term. Last weekend Maisy and the classrooms bearing cups of hot county team competed at the chocolate topped with squirty cream southwest championships at Aldon and marshmallow! I followed Ryan on Hill Yeovil. Maisy won the Under13 RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL BULLETIN : 12th January 2018 5
Lander for Uganda 2018 popular with students. The team total is Fundraising Update currently on £13,547.73!! Our superstar T he Lander for Uganda team are fundraisers of December working really hard to hit their are Amelie and Blaise mammoth £20,000 target. The School who took their L4U cra Christmas Sleepover was really stall to Perranporth successful and raised over £2500, Café Christmas Fair and raised Uganda and the L4U Uniform stall are a staggering £379.32! both open at all parent’s evenings and Thank you for all your Treat Friday con nues to be really support!
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Compe on for students.. Young Photographer is back... This year's theme ' A Different Perspec ve'
We have a great track record as a school and we know there are many imagina ve, original photographers out there. Every year we look forward to seeing your entries.
You need: 3 photos in high resolu on on 'A Different Perspec ve' ‐ Phone photos are fine but make sure it's on highest resolu on se ngs and don't apply Instagram filters please or make sure you have also saved the original.
Photographs which include people under 18 years old must be accompanied by wri en permission from the parent, guardian, or carer of the person for those photographs to be submi ed ‐ A simple handwri en note is fine. It needs to name subject and photographer (you)
Judges will consider technical merit; content and composi on; imagina on and style. The winners of our local heat will be submi ed to our district compe on covering Devon and Cornwall, and the best entries in that compe on will be forwarded to compete na onally. There are prizes at all levels :)
Send photos to [email protected] by 18th January 2018. (I will print them for you.)
Fill out entry form and get your parents to sign it by 18th January 2018. Form available from Miss Wright (DT Base.)
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