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 Producon Rehearsal Year 9 Mathemacs Enrichment College SATURDAY 3RD / SUNDAY 4TH Day at Redruth School Year 11 Naonal Ci zen Service Ten Tors Camping Weekend to Year 9 ‐ Opons Evening Celebraon Dartmoor Whiteworks FRIDAY 19TH SUNDAY 28TH MONDAY 5TH U15 Indoor Cricket Tournament at School Producon Rehearsal School Producon Dress Rehearsal Truro College MONDAY 29TH TUESDAY 6TH—THURSDAY 8TH SATURDAY 20TH / SUNDAY 21ST Year 10 Music Performance for School Producon—’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 Fesval at FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 31ST Richard Lander School RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 12thMay January2013 2 2018 Message from the Headteacher: Emergency School Closure S hould the school need to close in an emergency situaon (such as snow closure) then we will follow the guidance from the Local Authority available here. Supporng this, our own procedures include the following: Emergency closure occur whilst school is in session: The Headteacher will nofy Governors and the Local Authority that the school will close. The LA will inform local radio staons An email and automated telephone call will be sent to parents to nofy them of the school closure Using student mobile phones or the school administrave phones, we will aempt 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 permied to go home unl 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 nofy Governors and the Local Authority that the school will close. The LA will inform local radio staons 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, requesng 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 aends this school. Should you wish to remove your consent at any me, please do so in wring to the school. Student Name: Year Group: Tutor Group: Parent/Carer Signature: Print name: Date RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL BULLETIN : 12th January 2018 3 Castle Compeon 2017 picking 3 winners from the 36 finalists. Woods (TJHe). Anou’s and Abi’s We had some creave entries with castles were fantascally detailed and students building siege weapons to go historically accurate and Ella Wood’s with their castles and using unique castle was very realisc and well he annual Castle Compeon 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 collecve effort! year’s entries were of an exceponally winners this year were Anou Sabeen 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 compeons 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 sll smiling though and we wouldn’t want life to be too perfect would we! RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 12thMay January2013 4 2018 Richard Lander Racing – girls race, the county team won silver his rounds to take pics of delighted, and her club team won gold! Fantasc surprised teachers.. Applicaons are open.. results, thank you for keeping us informed and well done Maisy! o you want to be part of D Richard Lander School’s Greenpower team? If so, now is your chance to apply… Greenpower applicaon forms are available to collect from the cars area opposite student recepon. All students need to apply through this process. The deadline for applicaons is the 26th January. About the process: Once applicaon 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 exisng team members who retain GRKn ‐ Random Acts of their place (unless they’ve lost Kindness interest or have shown a lack of commitment). The exisng team members use a decision matrix to score the Maths Department applicants on team work; launch RLS Countdown leadership; technical awareness; communicaon and listening skills. This provides a level of objecve 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 Congratulaons Maisy their soluons 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 inving them to talented cross country runner who accept a ‘random act of kindness.’ smashed records at our sports day last Shortly aer, 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 connues to be really support! RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 12thMay January2013 6 2018 Compeon for students.. Young Photographer is back... This year's theme ' A Different Perspecve' We have a great track record as a school and we know there are many imaginave, original photographers out there. Every year we look forward to seeing your entries. You need: 3 photos in high resoluon on 'A Different Perspecve' ‐ Phone photos are fine but make sure it's on highest resoluon sengs 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 wrien permission from the parent, guardian, or carer of the person for those photographs to be submied ‐ A simple handwrien note is fine. It needs to name subject and photographer (you) Judges will consider technical merit; content and composion; imaginaon and style. The winners of our local heat will be submied to our district compeon covering Devon and Cornwall, and the best entries in that compeon will be forwarded to compete naonally. 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. 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