T R eflection The R eflection achieving more together Issue 30 April 2017 GCSE Certificate Evening Anne Frank Exhibition Holocaust Memorial World Book Day Olympic Diver Bugsy Malone Heartswell Morocco LZ7 and LOTS more... Full reports and news can be found via and Facebook account and the our Twitter website... ‘News’ area of the school www.liskeard.cornwall.sch.uk @Liskeard_School The magazine of Liskeard School & Community College contains some remarkable With all best wishes Head’s Letter achievements by individuals and Alex Lingard, Head Teacher. Dear All, groups of students. Congratulations to them all and for their on-going This latest edition of The Reflection determination, commitment and has a bit of an engineering theme resilience. as it contains several articles about the amazing opportunities some of our students have experienced with local engineering firms and manufacturers. These have enabled students to apply the theory learnt in the classroom to the workplace and gain a better understanding of future career opportunities available to them. With a rise of students taking on apprenticeships when they leave school, it is great to see some excellent collaboration with local and national employers. As always the magazine also GCSE Certificate Evening 2016 iskeard School and Head Teacher Alex Lingard said “It was a real delight to catch up with the Community College Class of 2016 at the GCSE Celebration Evening. Thank you to Chartwells who Lwere very proud to put on a delicious buffet and to Ms Penberthy & Ms Brown for organising the welcome back The Class event.” of 2016 for an informal evening in the New Hall. Ex- There was time after the formal events for students and staff to catch up as students were accompanied well as a special and very seasonal Mannequin Challenge which can be seen by parents and teachers to on the school website. collect their GCSE certificates and had a chance to catch up, enjoy refreshments, entertainment and an awards ceremony. Most students are still at Liskeard having extended their studies at the Sixth Form but those that left were able to catch up with old friends and teachers. Rae-Darcia Holmes was the winner of the prestigious Head Teacher’s Award and there were awards for Josh Conway for Performing Arts, Sam Humagain and Amy Bunt for PE, Harry Rees received the Achievement and Resilience Award, Luke Moynan was awarded the Academic Excellence Award and Jordan Kenny won the Vocational Skills Award. 1| a place where... Anne Frank: A Tam Fowles from Hope in the Heart History for Today said, “It has been a pleasure to work with the students at Liskeard School Exhibition at and Community College and to see Liskeard School them progress as they’ve learned iskeard School and Anne Frank’s story and seen the Community College were relevance of the issues it raised in Lprivileged to work with Tam today’s society. The programme Fowles from Hope in the Heart, aims to inspire empathy and a not-for-profit social enterprise raise awareness of how prejudice based in Cornwall, to be the first and discrimination can grow to school in Cornwall to host the uncontrollable proportions. Liskeard international exhibition Anne students have grasped the concepts Frank: A History for Today. and shown a passionate concern Liskeard was selected as one of for people who are marginalised only two schools in the South or oppressed.” West to pilot the Anne Frank School’s project that has been This exhibition follows on from running across the country for the recent workshops and hate crime last 25 years. competition with PC Turner-Moore. The work of Liskeard students The exhibition was a 33 panelled who entered the competition were display that tells the story of displayed in Truro Cathedral for Anne Frank and the history of the the Holocaust Memorial Day. Holocaust. Simon Pollard, Head of History described it as “a really The exhibition is now permanently good exhibition that was extremely based in Plymouth and is available well presented by our student to schools and groups across the leaders.” South West. Contact tam1@zebra. coop. Sixteen student leaders were trained to lead peers through the exhibition. Students from Year 8 and 9 and A-level historians came to visit the exhibition during the week. They were skilfully led through the exhibition by the trained student leaders. A Year 9 student said, “It was really interesting and I learned a lot.” Primary students from Darite and Trewidland visited the exhibition during the week and the student leaders brilliantly adapted the presentation for the new audience and were a credit to the school all week. The Year 8 classes who visited the exhibition had follow up workshops that discussed issues of prejudice and discrimination today in a context that is relevant to students’ own experiences. The students were willing to share their own experiences to contribute to the valuable discussions. ...we shape our futures |2 World Book Day 2017 taff and students at Liskeard costumes on display were so good, School and Community with everyone entering into the SCollege celebrated World spirit, it was decided Team Liskeard Book Day this year in spectacular would share the win! style. Staff and students in Year 7 were encouraged to dress as Literacy and reading is important their favourite literary character to Liskeard School and the World to mark the occasion and to Book Day celebrations were celebrate the power of books and just one part of developing a the wonderful world of reading. reading culture across the school and promoting literacy as not just The effort by all concerned was important for exams, but as a vital superb with costumes ranging component of life. from Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Deputy Head Teacher James Wonderland, The Hunger Games O’Connell said, “It’s great to do and classic characters from Charles something different for a day and Dickens. There was even a special to see staff and students really appearance by Head Teacher entering into the spirit. We’re Alex Lingard as Roald Dahl’s The really exciting to be working on Big Friendly Giant! a number of new literacy and reading projects at the moment Prizes were due to be awarded and promoting reading is one of for the best costumes and the our key focuses within the school.” best department effort but as the 3| a place where... Hate Crime/National Holocaust Competition ocal PC Turner Moore arranged a Hate Crime category in the competition. Laura Hiscock won first prize workshop last term for students in Years 7 to in the art and photography category. Elspeth Payne won L9 at Liskeard School & Community College. the poetry category and Will Stuart was the winner of the The workshop explained what hate crime is, its short essay. effect on people’s lives, what constitutes a Hate Crime offence and how to report it. The students Liskeard School was proud to win the overall school prize heard from two guest speakers who had been a for the art and photography entries and are now looking victim of Hate Crime. forward to taking part in the Holocaust Memorial Day Service and seeing the work on display. The workshop also explored the stories of refugees. This helped to develop an understanding Assistant Head Teacher Dawn Penberthy said ‘Students of the experience they may have had that has led approached the workshop and competition with maturity them to become a refugee. Representatives from and sensitivity. It was great to see students peer teaching each tutor group led Personal, Social Health and their tutor groups in PSHE.’ Education (PSHE) sessions to share what they had learnt with their tutor group. Following the workshop students had the opportunity to enter a Holocaust Memorial Day competition with the theme ‘How Can Life Go On’. Liskeard School sent a range of entries to be judged, the work entered was displayed in Truro Cathedral on the 27th January as part of the Holocaust Memorial Day Sensory Walk. The school was delighted to welcome PC Turner Moore back to announce the winners for each Holocaust Memorial Day ine students from Liskeard School were presented with a roof School & Community slate to sign before it goes onto the NCollege from Year 8, 9 new roof alongside others including and 10 attended a Holocaust the Duchess of Cambridge! Memorial Day event at Truro Cathedral. The day included an exhibition allowing attendees to explore the path of the genocide, learn the personal experiences of survivors, understand how genocide is still happening today and what can be done about it. Students also wrote a message to hang on the Tree of Hope. The event also featured work from Liskeard School students who won the overall school prize for the art and photography category. Students, one of which attended the event, had entered a ‘Life goes on’ competition run by the police about hate crime. PC Geoff Turner-Moore had previously come into the school to present the certificates and awards to the winners. Liskeard ...every day matters |4 A-level Engineering Visit to Plymouth University -level Engineering students students were required to test products that had been brought from Liskeard Sixth normalised steel by stretching the in from industry to be tested. AForm recently visited the steel until it fractured and recording These included a broken bus axle, materials laboratory at Plymouth the results. As a load was placed aeroplane turbine blades and an University to use their tensile on the steel bar, the elongation of axle that had been sheared by a testing machine and furnace the steel was recorded.