RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL BULLETIN 10th March 2017 Dates for your diary school. Year 10 & 11 Alton Towers trip. FRIDAY 24TH Comic Relief - Red Nose Day - APRIL Non Uniform day - £1 donation MONDAY 3RD - MONDAY 17TH MARCH FRIDAY 10TH Easter Break Year 8 ‘World of Work’ workshop TUESDAY 18TH - 28TH SATURDAY 11TH / SUNDAY 12TH Year 8 Progress Reviews during Ten Tors weekend camp tutor time SATURDAY 22ND / SUNDAY 23RD SUNDAY 12TH—SATURDAY 18TH Year 8 Paris trip Ten Tors weekend camp MONDAY 13TH - SATURDAY 18TH MONDAY 24TH Truro Music Festival Samba Band Hub Showcase at Hall Truro Methodist Church for Cornwall MONDAY 13TH/ TUESDAY 14TH 900 - 1300 1300—1530 To celebrate Science Week.. Year 8 G&T Food Workshop with Year 10 & 11 Dance trip to Hall for Rollercoaster Day! Year 7 L Head Chef from Penrose Kitchen Cornwall population Monday, R population 1300—1400 FRIDAY 24TH - FRIDAY 31ST Tuesday. Full Year 11 Tempest photo MARCH TUESDAY 14TH THURSDAY 27TH Year 9 and 10 Toulouse exchange Year 9 - Sherlock Streptococcus Junior Maths Challenge French students in UK WEDNESDAY 15TH 1600 - 1900 SATURDAY 25TH / SUNDAY 26TH Year 8/9 BBC School Report Year 7 Parents Evening Ten Tors weekend camp FRIDAY 17TH MONDAY 27TH Intercommunity Science Fair MAY UKMT Maths Challenge Year 9 Internet Safety police WEDNESDAY 3RD TUESDAY 28TH assembly 1600 - 1900 1600—2200 SATURDAY 18TH GCSE Art Exhibition in the main Carrick Dance - evening 0900 - 1400 hall - Private view for students performance at Penryn School Year 11 Art catch up workshop and their families WEDNESDAY 29TH Year 10 Young Enterprise Trade THURSDAY 4TH Carrick Dance - evening Fair at the Eden Project 900 - 1630 performance at Hall for Cornwall MONDAY 20TH Year 10 Young Enterprise All day Year 11 Student Council Meeting Cornwall Innovation Awards in Rehearsals from 900 TUESDAY 21ST Penzance Matinee performance 1300 - 1430 1200—1700 1600 - 1900 Evening performance 1800 - 2200 Year 9 Rugby 7s competition at Year 8 Parents Evening THURSDAY 30TH Pool Academy THURSDAY 4TH - SUNDAY 7TH Year 11 Pre-Public Exams Results Year 10 Music GCSE DBS Ten Tors Event Day composition skill workshop FRIDAY 31ST MARCH THURSDAY 23RD Last day of term KS3/4 Carrick Dance Training Non-Uniform - £1 - all funds go to Year 7 Rugby 7s competition at the school ARB/ARK Pool Academy SATURDAY 1ST Year 9 Ceramics workshop in RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : May 10th 2013 March 2 2017 2 Students find teaching ‘not as easy as it looks’ on World Book Day Year 7 Best WBD Costume winners: Prizes were awarded for Best animal costume, Best horror costume, Most Creative etc. O n Wednesday 1st March, Richard Lander School celebrated World Book Day with role reversal and creative costumes when all of Year 7 came into school dressed as storybook characters to participate in workshops which were delivered by their Year 9 peers. Students were invited to come up with prequels or sequels to fairy tales, to develop characters inspired by random objects, to take part in a World Book Day quiz or to portray well-known tales in the form of mime or song. After 4 hours of delivering lessons, Year 9 student, Emily said “Our workshop involved Year 7s re- enacting classic fairy tales in the personalities of the characters they had come dressed up as. I found teaching quite exhausting but equally as fun, rewarding and inspiring.” Robin added ‘I’ve enjoyed World Book Day but I’ve learned that teaching is not as easy as it looks!’ Lead teacher, Hannah Taylor, who was dressed as the Cheshire Cat The fantastic team of Year 9 teachers and media students with lead teacher, said ‘Thank you to Year 9 for the Miss H Taylor. They all worked so hard all day! RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th :May 10th 2013 March 3 2017 3 excellent workshops and to all the students for the effort they have made with their fantastic costumes, I am actually smiling from ear to ear, it’s not just my make up! I hope everyone had an amazing day.’ The day finished with a fantastic performance by The Story Republic. Year 7 student, Aisling Cook, recently won the Gold Award in the Cornwall Young Author competition and her winning story; ‘Rescuing Dennis’, was brought to life along with other winning entries by actors Connie Crosby and Keith Sparrow. Aisling was presented with an anthology which includes her own story along with a signed copy of head judge and author, Liz Kessler’s, book. Other Richard Lander School students who made the long list and have also had their work published in the anthology are Tilly Green, Willow Jeffery, Zita Hinshelwood and Jess Brotherton. Well done to you all! A team of Year 9 media leaders took photos all day and made a short film about World Book day which was shown on the day and will be uploaded to the school website soon Photos: 1. The English department in their finery. 2. The Alice in Wonderland contingent! 3. Year 9 and Year 7 students working together. 4. It was a real treat to have The Story Republic in school to perform Aisling’s story! RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th :May 10th 2013 March 4 2017 4 Year 9 students enjoy creative writing with author Lisa Glass for World Book Day (continued from page 3) T he following day, Thursday 2nd March, the Year 9 students who had worked so hard on World Book Day were lucky enough to attend a thought provoking English writing workshop, run by the well -known author Lisa Glass. Lisa Glass is the author of the Blue trilogy of teen novels, published by Quercus Children's Books. Lisa is also co- administrator and book reviewer at literary website Vulpes Libris. Madeleine and Emily said ‘Everyone entered the classroom and on every desk there were lots of different objects which we were told to use to: create a plot and describe and create a backstory. By the end of the workshop we were all inspired to continue with our stories and with the explanation of how to get our stories published; we are motivated to keep writing in order to see our work in print one day.’ RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th :May 10th 2013 March 5 2017 5 Year 8 Employability Workshop with Richard Lander Alumni teaches students ‘don’t be afraid to fail.’ by Molly and Leah T oday, a large selection of Year 8 students were chosen to take part in a workplace inspired activity. The workshop focused on different skills and mind sets that are essential when in a working environment. We met seven former students from Richard Lander and discussed their journey from education to educating. During the event, we parted to 5-7 smaller groups; there we analysed different scenarios, and how to respond to them. Jess, a ex- student, musician and sound engineer told us that he had finally found his passion for being a company director, and shared an unforgettable memory of his; finding a positive outcome in this scenario, seemed impossible... He was drilling holes in a wall (In order to build in speakers), in the process of doing this he burst a water pipe… which trailed to a wine cellar! As if it were a cartoon, he had stuck his finger in the hole to prevent anymore leaking. Thankfully, it worked, however he had to stay there until his client considering that his costumer is standing tower from straws and found him, after 10 minutes. His fond of him now and is a regular tape in only 2 minutes. This final customer was mortified and was customer. One of his best quotes task tested our team work skills, fuming with rage, Jess stayed calm (in our opinion) is “don’t be afraid patience and quick thinking.. and collected, instructing him to do to fail” as it applies to everything the following: “you can kill me and applauds taking risks. Are you a RLS ex-student? Would later, but right now you need call you consider signing up with the plumber”. The unlikely result of Eventually we reached the Future First to share your ‘life this accident, due to Jess’s highlight of the day when we were after Lander’ journey with our initiative is that he ended up in a instructed to build a tall, free- current students? More on next better than ever situation, page.. RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th :May 10th 2013 March 6 2017 6 NOTICES AND NEWS The 2 elected members for the Mid Lander School received a Cornwall are Workplace Health award. Mr. Calling all ex-students! · Will Nicholls, Elected Bridger received the award on Member of Youth Parliament behalf of the school from Professor · Becci Prout as Deputy Youth Dame Carol Black. Richard Lander Parliament member —RLS YEY! School offers a variety of support for staff in terms of Health and Well done to Becci Prout - Year 10 Wellbeing including staff Yoga, F uture First and 7 RLS alumni and also to Robin Blyth who was an access to the fitness suite, put on an excellent employability excellent candidate too. We look mindfulness sessions, counselling, for Year 9 students today. Thank forward to the launch of the free NHS health checks, staff you! Cornwall Youth Cabinet on the 5th cycling and stress busting Friday April. fitness. Thank you very much to all We are working with Future First the staff who arrange, administrate to create a database of alumni who and organise these events.