RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN 17th December 2014 Important Dates for your Diary DECEMBER FRIDAY 19TH Non Uniform Dear Parents, Year 11 Christmas Entertainment Last day of term / Buses leave at 1 pm May I wish all our parents, students and their wider families, a very relaxing and SATURDAY 20TH enjoyable Christmas break. On behalf of the staff team, may I thank you for your support over the autumn term. Lander for Uganda bag packing in Iceland, Redruth Well done to all students who took part in this term’s Cathedral Carol Service or SUNDAY 21ST the school based Carol Concert – their standard of performance (not to mention Lander for Uganda bag packing in mince pies) was of the highest order! Iceland, Truro A few weeks ago, Mount Hawke Academy’s school band came to perform for JANUARY Richard Lander students. It takes a lot of confidence for Year 5 & 6 students to MONDAY 5TH stand up in front of a teenage audience and perform – but perform they did, and First day of Spring Term brilliantly so. The school band has recently released a single on iTunes and it currently stands at Number 5 on the iTunes Children’s Chart – a fabulous TUESDAY 6TH achievement already, and with a little push from the wider community, who knows iGCSE Maths exam where they song can go! Please find a link below to the iTunes single. We would MONDAY 12TH encourage all our families to download the single and to share in the Christmas Business Studies Tenner Relay spirit brought to us by the children of Mount Hawke, written and arranged by Angeline Morrison (of Freestyle Records). Whole school National Business Bright Christmas Star - Single by Mount Hawke Academy School Band Studies event which will see RLS turn a tenner into megabucks Congratulations to our Young Enterprise team which won ‘Best marketing Promotion’ through a variety of fundraising and ‘Best Press Release’ in a recent schools’ Young Enterprise competition. ‘Rocky & activities. All proceeds to Lander Co’ Rocky have created a crafting kit for children to make their own exciting rock for Uganda. creatures. The team includes: Oscar Davies, Erin Trethowan, Tamsin Tripp, Sophie Fuller, Chris Dash, Dom Hunt, Matthew Tavner, Jameal Grey, Callum Rowling and Year 8 Kernow Educational Arts Alisha Khalil, ably supported by Megan Moore, Charlotte Cole, Lauren Hooper, Project Louise Wilde and Molly Gallagher. iGCSE Maths exam—second paper. Do click the link below to view Business Cornwall’s press release about this success. WEDNESDAY 14TH http://www.businesscornwall.co.uk/news-by-location/truro-business-news/rocky- Full Governors Meeting road-to-ye-success-123 THURSDAY 15TH Truro Rotary Young Chef District Congratulations also to Amelia Ireland and Kerris Parsons who have been selected Finals to represent Cornwall Schools U14s Girls’ Football team. Year 8/9 Tomorrows Engineers Year 10 Parents Evening Cornish Schools Showcase— Steve Mulcahy School Choirs Headteacher RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN : 17th MayDecember 2013 2014 2 2 Year 8 Rugby Team County Champions and National Cup Q/Finalists conceding an early try and penalty, and Sam Gapp, saw RLS win T he highly successful Year 8 RLS recovered superbly and were convincingly 47-8! rugby team have enjoyed another soon on the score sheet with a well very successful, and unbeaten, worked Frank Holmes try. Despite Well done to all the boys involved season so far. Last Monday they a strong forwards effort from and good luck in your National Cup welcomed King Edward VI, Newquay, RLS were always very Quarter final on Monday 19th Southampton, to RLS in the fourth threatening with ball in hand and January. round of the U13 National Schools the large pitch really suited our Cup. In a pulsating match, played in style of play. Further tries from Mr J Williamson very testing conditions, RLS put in a Holmes (bringing his total to 4), Boys PE Teacher fine team effort and ran out 17-10 Harry Lampier (2) and Cameron winners with superb tries by Frank Bishop, followed up with some More news from the PE Holmes (2) and Cameron Bishop. excellent goal kicking by Lampier department on the Sports Report They now look forward to (3), Josh Anderson, Kieran Brand pages at the back of the bulletin. travelling to Hampton School, London, in the quarter finals. This is effectively the South West England final and they are one of the last eight schools in the country! On Tuesday the boys continued their winning ways when they met Newquay Tretherras in the Year 8 Cornwall Schools Knockout Cup final at Redruth RFC. After RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN : 17th MayDecember 2013 2014 3 3 Supporting Truro People who are in need of emergency food can bring a Foodbank at Christmas voucher, which they can get from By Amy Hume - Year 11 and Robin Howard doctors, social workers and the - Year 7 Citizens Advice Bureau, to the foodbank in All Saints Church, Highertown, where they are given 3 R ichard Lander School staff and days’ worth of food. We were students joined together to collect shocked to learn that many people food for Truro foodbank to aid who are in need of the food bank hungry people. On the 16th of have jobs which don’t guarantee a December representatives including certain weekly wage and therefore myself took a trip down to Truro struggle when they aren’t paid as foodbank to deliver the food. In much. There are over 50 volunteers total we gave 102.1 kg of food at the foodbank who help distribute, which will feed 8 people with 9 sort and collect food. We were meals each. Roger Peppiatt, surprised to see how generous Chairman of the Truro and District people are at giving food, and how Foodbank, said high the need for food is, as the foodbank has given out 30 tonnes “we are very grateful for the of food in the last year. donation as there are a lot of hungry people in Truro.” The foodbank helps a wide variety of people from Truro, St Agnes, Robin Howard – Year 7 – who Perranporth and the Roseland positive effect such a charity as this delivered the food, said Peninsular. Places that donate to the can have on the community and are foodbank include Sainsbury’s, Tesco, glad to be a part of this worthwhile “it was very interesting to see how local schools and churches and of process. It’s great to see that we can much food generous people had course generous individuals. Without make a big difference in people’s donated and how well organised the the support of the local community, lives. foodbank was. I asked about what the foodbank would struggle to they could do for people with food operate. Donations never go allergies and for pets; people donate unnoticed and are always all sorts of things to food banks, so greatly appreciated. Without they had stock for all diets. I was Truro Foodbank lots of people surprised to find out that it was mostly would go hungry including the young people that benefitted from the high percentage of children who food bank, partly due to the fact that are in need of food. some older people are proud. “ We were fortunate to see the Look at You (with Trombone solo Handel’s ‘And the Glory of the Joey Essex at the Informal from Katie Blackburn) and El Tigre, Lord’ which ‘made Mr Pascoe’s Carol Concert? the RLS String Group performed Christmas’ Jingle Bell Rock, and the Recorder Of course the occasion would not W ell that got your attention– Ensemble performed The Kyng’s have been complete without the didn’t it?! Pavyn and Walking in the Air. There infamous Cousin Jacks, who The Informal Carol Service is a were also inspirational solo/duet delivered their unique and highly ‘slightly’ less reverent occasion recitals from Megan Smith, Freya amusing songs with gusto, than our Cathedral Service of Nine Cooper, Isobel Doughty, Charles livestock, audience participation Lessons and Carols, but crammed Secombe, Abi Piper and Redley and an expensive tie. with musical talent, nevertheless. Flowerdew and a magical moment And Joey Essex? Please see the This year’s concert saw the RLS Jazz when parents and ex-students photos on the next page... Band perform Soul Bossa Nova, As I joined the school choirs to sing RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN : 17th MayDecember 2013 2014 4 4 RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN : 17th MayDecember 2013 2014 5 5 RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN : 17th MayDecember 2013 2014 6 6 the keeper and the ball ricocheted far corner to put us 3 -1 up. With SPORTS REPORT up and over the line to put us in Hayle now rattled, we kept up the front. Humphry Davy now had no pressure. Using the strong wind Year 11 Boys Football - choice but to attack us, which behind us, we put in several balls Cup Matches meant leaving themselves short in over the Hayle back four and this numbers in defence. Towards the paid dividends as Owen used his end of the game, striker Jack pace to complete his hat-trick and Rapsey went through on goal but make it 4 -1 to Lander at half time. narrowly shot wide. He made I n Year 11, in order to not amends shortly afterwards when We knew Hayle would come at us interrupt students’ GCSE studies, another fine solo run saw him side in the second half but we defended football cup matches are played foot the ball past the keeper and brilliantly, and though they scored before Christmas.