WEEKLY BULLETIN 28Th November 2013

RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL

WEEKLY BULLETIN 28th November 2013

Important Dates for your Diary Dear Parents / Carers, NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 27TH - FRIDAY 29TH Congratulations to the Year 7 rugby team who this week became county Y11 DNA Workshops - Eden Project champions. They remain unbeaten through the year and are head and THURSDAY 28TH shoulders above any other team in the county. A team effort – so Y9 Writers Visit with Callum congratulations to all players and to team coach, Mr Williamson! Mitchell THURSDAY 28TH Attendance 6:30 - 9.00 Y12 Presentation Evening May I remind parents of the need for high attendance. The DfE’s THURSDAY 28TH requirement for all schools is that they should aim to exceed 95% Netball v Pool—All years - Away attendance across the cohort. At Richard Lander School, most students FRIDAY 29TH have an attendance of between 96-97% which equates to about one Pearl of Africa Day absence per half term (including medical appointments). Please can Pearl of Africa Evening Concert parents / carers reflect on this average rate of attendance in relation to 6:30—9:00 their own children’s attendance. Expectations for high attendance can FRIDAY 29TH only translate to children if they are consistently applied by parents / Y9/10 Public Services Navy Talk carers. FRIDAY 29TH Y7/8 Kids Literature Quiz - South We appreciate that for some parents / carers, particularly of teenagers, it West heat at Truro College can be difficult to motivate children to get out of bed in the morning. But DECEMBER maintaining a positive and consistent approach (even at 7am!) is the key MONDAY 2ND here. If any parent would like to speak with a member of staff about this, 7:30 pm Truro Cathedral Choir Service please do contact the Student Support team. We are here to support and MONDAY 2ND/TUESDAY 3RD have even been asked previously to visit homes early in the morning to Y7 Focus Group trip to Truro assist parents – with resounding success! Cathedral MONDAY 2ND Please also ensure that holidays are not taken during term time. Guidance Baker Tom Demonstration for Y10 for this and forms for holiday absence, granted only in exceptional Work Skills students circumstance, can be obtained from the school’s website. TUESDAY 3RD/WEDNESDAY 4TH Y10 &11 Wise Up in School Finally, may I congratulate the following students, who earned the most TUESDAY 3RD merits for their Learning Communities last week: Y9&10 BTech Public Services Marine Activity Day WEDNESDAY 4TH Sophie Gibbons: 18 (Pentire) GCSE Child Development Catch Up Ben Crawley: 17 (Godrevy) Day Katie Sobey/Courtney Windsor: 16 (Rame) THURSDAY 5TH Kerris Parsons: 16 (Towan) BBC School Report Training Day THURSDAY 5TH Steve Mulcahy Cousin Jacks Concert at Merchants Headteacher Manor Hotel in Falmouth

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Banana, and Forest Fruit Surprise. Everybody who participated got a certificate and a goody bag full of chocolate and cookery equipment from the Rotary for taking part. Finn won the chance to experience cookery master classes with Rob Duncan and Sanjay Kumar and a cash prize! He said “At the beginning I was calm and at the end I started to worry because when the judges say 10 minutes left the whole room fills with tension and everyone starts to rush around.”

Thank you to all the contestants who took part in the Young Chef and to the rotary club and Miss Ancell for organising it and Sanjay and Rob for judging. the Rotary Club of Boscowan has been Young Chef Competition: organising the competition for three years Vegan Chef Finn wins! with Head of DT Food, Julie Ancell. Mollie Written by Jade Witts and Ashley Louise Foster said “Julie does a brilliant job Devlin; Year 8. inspiring the young chefs to create amazing dishes.”

W ith two of the best local chefs After the young chefs had completed their judging the Young Chef Competition the meals and dished up, they came into the pressure was building as the contestants DT base for an interview on how they tried to finish their dishes to the best of thought they did and how they felt. their abilities. Although the students found it stressful, The contestants were Lottie Shipp, ZaK they had also enjoyed the competition.” Minett, Libby Simmons, Sarah Mitchell Zak said “My dessert was the best out of and Finn Howard. All the students were my three courses.” Lottie said “I wish I from Year 8 or 9. could re-do the whole thing so my mousse didn’t sink.” Libby said she was We spoke to the head Chef Sanjay Kumar happy with her cake and spaghetti and who cooks at Headland Hotel in Newquay that this was the second year that she has and Rob Duncan Executive Chef of taken part. Hooked. Rob, who was returning for a second year of judging said “Some of the The competition was judged on costing, ingredients used are interesting range of skills used, taste and ingredients that usually aren’t used in presentation and neatness. First prize was restaurants.” awarded to Finn Howard (bottom right). Sanjay said “I hope that one day one of Second Place was awarded to Lottie Shipp these young chefs will cook in my (middle right). Third Prize was awarded to kitchen.” Sanjay has been cooking for 16 Sarah Mitchell (top right). What was years. He decided to start cooking at the unusual about Finn’s dishes was that they age of 16. The reason he started cooking were all vegan. Finn became vegan 18 was because he always felt hungry and months ago and said “I have been a with cooking he gets to taste things. vegetarian for most of my life but wanted to go the extra mile for the There are 4 rounds of the Young Chef animals. I entered Young Chef to prove to Competition: a school round and a district people that a Vegan meal does not just round which are both being held at consist of rabbit food!” Finn cooked Richard Lander School. These will be Polenta on a Bean Sprout Salad, Sliced followed by a regional round at Cornwall Seitan – a meat substitute – in Spicy College and the Grand Final will be held in Tomato Sauce with Homemade Pasta and Dumfries in Scotland. Mollie Foster from Asparagus, followed by Caramelised

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vaccinated, immunisation lasts ten years, 'Mega Mince Pie Monday', and a concert Uganda News - November so it would probably be a good idea to get from the Pearl of Africa Youth Choir who it booked in sooner rather than later, just come from Uganda and are touring to be on the safe side Cornish schools this month. They will be at Richard Lander School this Friday at Students Raise £890 for 7:00 pm—do come and see them!

Ugandan Partner Schools by The bag packing event was a huge success Bag Packing at Tesco breaking all previous Richard Lander Bag Report by Zak Minett Packing Records, raising a staggering £890 - a phenomenal start to the year. Thank you to Mrs Griffiths and Miss Fewster, and N ovember has seen all schools of course all the students who donated involved kick starting the fundraising S everal students and teachers from their Sunday to raising money for charity, effort in style. The Halloween Bake Sale at Richard Lander, Falmouth School and resulting in an impressive haul! RLS raised a spooky £71 and the very Truro College have joined forces to raise popular Toffee Apple Tuesday raised money for our partner schools in Uganda. Watch out for the next £46.50 in just 20 minutes, with all our Richard Lander School aims to raise Uganda in school fundraising baked goods selling like, well, hot cakes. A £20,000 this year to develop new huge thanks to all those who contributed! kitchens, hand out learning resources event …. Another massive "thank you" needs to go such as books, and deliver mosquito nets, out to Tesco in Truro for hosting a bag amongst many other things. packing event on Sunday the 24th. I n December we will be continuing the Uganda goers from all schools attended as The students hoped to raise money by bag sugar based fundraising effort with well as many generous members of the packing at Tesco last Sunday, with the day another "Toffee Apple Tuesday" (a little year 7, 8 and 9 Fundraising Club. All being split into two different shifts, from unseasonal, but back by popular demand) packers worked very hard indeed and 9:30 - 12:30, and 12:30 to 4:00 with on Tuesday December 10th and a "Mega raised a whopping £890! The most a students being able to choose the shift Mince Pie Monday" on Monday the 16th. Uganda bag pack has ever raised. Really, they participated in, with some opting to If you're able to get involved by baking or very well done to all packers, in particular do the whole day. The Richard Lander even providing a few shop bought mince Zak Minett and Jacob Moran who stayed team of bag packers, made up mostly of pies, any donations are very welcome. all day and aren't even eligible to go to year 7s, 8s, and 9s, were aided and Just bring all the tasty goods to room 125 Uganda for another two years! supervised by Mrs Griffiths and Miss on the morning of the event. You can find In other, non-fundraising news, one Fewster. some recipe student has already been to the doctor to enquire about vaccinations. The advice This was one of many fundraising events, Thank you = Weebale from them was that the yellow fever carried out by the 'Fundraising Club', with [way-baa-lee] vaccination is in short supply. Once events such as 'Toffee Apple Tuesday',

BTech Public Services - Mummies, Marines and the Royal Navy!

B Tech Public Services students are having an eventful time. Here, they are seen taking part in the Mummy Challenge. The challenge involved teamwork, using skills such as communication, listening and leadership.

This Friday the Royal Navy are coming in to school to talk to students and next week they can look forward to Marine Day.

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The Humanities students were based in Wadham College for the day, starting the morning with a series of mini-lectures, including one around the philosophy and possibilities of time travel. After a break for lunch we were given a tour of the college by a current Law student. Each of the colleges is like a tiny campus: each one has its own library, traditional dining hall and chapel, and often has a college choir, among other societies and groups you can join. My favourite part of the day was the final workshop, where we separated from the teachers and spent an hour talking to two current first years about their experience of the university. It was really interesting to hear their opinions, what subjects they were studying and the different stages of the application process.

We walked back to Hertford College for the de-briefing, and a quick talk about other opportunities to explore the the Youth Hostel we would be staying in University as a student. Then we were A Day in the Life of an for the night. Refreshed and excited, we back on the train, and by the time we got Oxford University Student went for a walk through Oxford as it back to Cornwall we all decided that our Report by Natasha Loydell - Year 11 began to get dark; the streetlights and perceptions of Oxford had changed shop windows illuminating the beautiful dramatically; it’s not just for ‘posh’ architecture. people, or those who can afford it. If you L ast Thursday I got on a train with work hard, the Oxbridge dream seems seven other Year 11 students and two On Friday we arrived at Hertford College that little bit less impossible. teachers, Miss Rickatson and Mrs Stokes, for around nine o’clock and were greeted and waved Cornwall goodbye for a day or along with other schools with an two. Our destination? Oxford University. introduction talk. The students were then split into two groups depending on which The eight of us had been offered the ‘pathway’ we had selected for the day – opportunity to visit the city and it’s Humanities and Arts or Sciences – and university for a taster day, which not only headed off to our designated college. meant a visit to a world-renowned city, Niamh, Jordan and I were in the but lots of train journeys. Thankfully we Humanities group, with Jasmine, Harry, all arrived into the final station without Ben, Kelan and Fiona opting for Science. losing anyone or anything and walked to

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proud of our shooters but if you saw the Newquay Tretherras, in the Cornwall Play Sports Report last quarter, well they were phenomenal! Off Final at Redruth School on Wednesday The centre court players were getting the night. After a tense opening few minutes Netball vs Helston School - ball down to the shooters quickly and where Newquay dominated the territory easily, making every shot count! The final and possession, a loose pass was pounced Thursday 21st November score was 11-23! We had won on by Owen Watts who sped the length of convincingly! After the game, we did 3 the pitch to score, with Sam Gapp adding Report by Danielle Collins - Year 8 - cheers and then left to get on the coach the conversion. A further fantastic finish (pictured playing in Centre position with big, smiley faces! by Owen and conversion by Sam below right) stretched the Lander lead before Newquay came back in the closing minutes of the half. The Lander defence O n Thursday the 21st of November, was superb but eventually Newquay the year 7, 8 and 9 netball teams played squeezed over in the corner to make the against Helston. The match was away, so score 14-7 at half time. After half time, we travelled by coach to Helston School. Lander settled their nerves from the first When we arrived, we started warming up half and began playing some excellent and having a team talk by our captains. flowing rugby with Sam Gapp particularly We all knew this game was going to be catching the eye with some great running tough as Helston are well known for their from full back. Frank Holmes broke the netball. The game was split up into deadlock after the break, showing quarters and each quarter was ten excellent pace and footwork to score a minutes long. fine try. Lander dominated large parts of the second half and were superb in The game commenced, the first quarter defence and at the ruck to turn over always seems to go fast, and they got the possession when Newquay had the ball. first two goals. Lander started to doubt Two further tries by Harry Lampier and themselves but we knew that we just Cameron Richards, and both converted by needed to play like we do in training. Sam, meant the score finished 33-7 and After the first quarter it was 4-3 to us! We Lander were crowned worthy winners of a couldn’t get too excited as it was early pulsating final, in which Newquay days and very close. Miss Meek went over Year 7 Rugby Team Takes certainly played their part! a few things we needed to improve on and some things we needed to keep an County Champions Title County Champions in their first term at eye on. In a couple of minutes we were Richard Lander certainly bodes well for back on court and working hard to keep the future and we look forward to seeing our lead. We did some good dodges past F ollowing on from winning the West the players and team develop over the their players and barely got pulled up for Cornwall U12 Rugby Festival last month, next five years. anything! By the end of the second our Year 7 team went head to head with Mr J. Williamson—Head of Boys PE quarter we were 5 goals in the lead with the winners of the East Cornwall festival, the score being 6-11. Unfortunately, one of our centre court players was injured, so we did a little switch of positions and were ready for quarter number 3!

They weren’t going to give up yet, scoring a couple of really good shots in the first few minutes. Our defenders were doing really well to try and stop every goal and make sure they were marking their players tightly. It was still anyone’s game as there wasn’t much in the score! The score at the end of the third quarter was 11-17. Our shooters were doing really well and trying for rebounds. The last quarter was upon us! Finally the last quarter, we were all fighting it to the end! We were already 5 RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN : 17th28th May November 2013 2013 6 6

‘Eco Awareness’ merits Annual Service of Nine lessons at Truro Cathedral and Christmas Chocolates Monday 2nd December at 7:30 pm up for grabs! A fantastic festive occasion and a chance to hear our school choirs. There will be performances by: Between now & the Festive Taverner (4 part Choir), Palestrina (Auditioned Girls Choir), Holiday there will loads of ‘Eco Changing Voices (Auditioned Boys Choir) Awareness’ merits & ‘Christmas Tallis (all Year 7+8!) Chocolates’ awarded to specific tutor group members who are School Nurse seen to be reducing/picking up Paris Trip 2014 litter in their Community Each Autumn Term the School corridors, outside their Tutor All pupils should now have received Nurse will meet with groups of rooms, in the Dining Hall & a consent form and a group year 7 students in order to raise passport form. Please can you generally around the school. awareness of health issues that the make sure your child has the School Nurse can support young correct passport form as there is a The CCTV cameras and ‘Secret- people with, to highlight the school different form for children born Student-&-Staff-Spotters’ will be nurse weekly drop- in service and outside the UK. ‘out & about’ from tomorrow. to offer each Y7 student a health Which Community Corridor will check. Please can these forms be returned get the most...& be the most to the Languages Office by Monday 2nd December with two passport spick & span!!!?? If you would like to discuss a Y7 health check please contact the photos.

School Nurse Team on Mr Beech & the Student Leaders. Thank you 01872354330. Mrs S Willcox

Competition Time! The Languages Department Presents Word of the Week!

Well done to Lydia Smith who translated last week’s word as cold. 6 RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL WEEKLY BULLETIN: 28th November 2013 7 7

RLS Literacy and Grammar Guide

Today’s topic is a request. If there is a grammar glitch that annoys you then please let us know at [email protected] with ‘RLS Literacy’ in the subject header.

Practice or practise? These words are frequently confused by people. They sound the same but have a different purpose: practice is a noun and practise is a verb. In American spelling there is no difference. They use practice as both noun and verb.

Musicians attend rehearsals to practise their music. (Here it is the action of repeating the playing of music to improve.)

I’m going to music practice. (Here it is the name of the activity.)

Practice makes perfect! If you still find this tricky then here is some advice from http://www.grammar -monster.com/easily_confused/practice_practise.htm

A LITTLE TRICK TO SPOT PRACTICE

Try using the word preparation (or lessons) instead of practice. If the sentence still makes sense, then practice is almost certainly correct. (This trick works because practice is a noun, just like the words preparation and lessons.)

A LITTLE TRICK TO SPOT PRACTISE

Try using the verb to prepare (in its various forms, e.g., preparing, prepared, prepares) instead of practise. If the sentence still makes sense, then practise is almost certainly correct. However, if you find yourself trying to use preparation, then you should be using practice, because both are nouns. (This trick works because to practise is a verb, just like to prepare. )

NO CONFUSION

There should be no confusion with practising or practised. These are always verbs.

Also, you can find these tips on the school website at http://www.richardlander.co.uk/curriculum/rls-guide-to- literacy.html

Mrs N. Bone Head of English

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