Summer 2012 Richard Lander School Community News 1 his wealth of expertise. All the students worked incredibly hard giving up a number of lunchtime and after school sessions to ensure that it all came together on the day. An interesting mix of Message from stories was produced ranging Richard Lander Mr P Gilbert from a piece about how taking your shoes off helps School Deputy Headteacher you to concentrate to views Community News on Truro’s most controversial Summer 2012 statue! David Dixon (Year 9) in charge of the technical Dear All team said “I found the Table of Contents experience enjoyable but challenging making the news This issue of Community News is aimed directly is not as easy as it looks!” BBC News and Website at you: our community partners. We are looking Sims Learning Gateway for Hannah Healey (Year 9) who 3 Exciting New RLS Olympics Events at RLS to broaden our circulation and for it to be truly an students and parents, are all was Entertainment presenter 4,5,6,7 instrument of communication between us here at Website also available said “It was a really good Jubilee Celebrations Richard Lander School and you who live and work experience and I learned lots 8 Please go to about how the news is made”. Young Enterprise within our community and who so often work to ichard Lander School has www.richardlander.co.uk to 9 an exciting new website support us. R see what you can find for Three lucky students also Raising Money for Charity at RLS which went live shortly after 10, 11 Within these pages you will gain the flavour of yourself! had the opportunity to see Easter. It was produced by Bugsy Malone what we do and the successes that we enjoy. how the news is made at Creative Edge Design, Truro, 12, 13 Hopefully you will share in our enthusiasm and BBC Radio Cornwall prior to Community Music and the school are very proud their radio interview about 14, 15 excitement about what our young people do. of it. Richard GCSE Photography Beyond this though we should like this publication their experiences of School 16, 17 Lander Report. Congratulations to Here viewers can keep up Languages to be a vehicle by which you, our community all the students who took part. to date with recent news School 18, 19 partners, can talk to us about your work and Thanks also to Mr Conrad Greenpower artcles which are featured enterprises, particularly those aspects that relate Students for his technical know how! 20, 21 at the bottom of the home Ten Tors/HMS Raleigh to education and our school. page and check on term and Make the News 22, 23 The broadcast can be viewed We are intending to put together a community upcoming diary dates. Also GCSE Food from the partnerships link on event during the Autumn term at which we can available are videos and ichard Lander Students 24, 25 our school website or from the Celebration of Achievement photo stories which have from Year 8 and 9 took share the community related achievements that R BBC School Report website. 26, 27 have been made in recent years and to begin to been created by staff and part in the annual BBC International Links students to celebrate for School report project this 28, 29 think about what our future developments might Mrs Jarvis example the Year 11 Leavers term producing a news Sports Report 1 be. Lead teacher for G and T 31, 32 Ball, the Year 6 Open broadcast live on the 15th Sports Report 2 Evening, the Sports Relief March. Students took part in 33, 34 Phil Gilbert visit by Titan the Robot, and a number of training sessions many more events. on finding, reporting and broadcasting news prior to An activity for younger School policies, a wealth of the live event. Students readers: information about curricular had the opportunity to work Can you spot the and extra curricular acivities, with BBC Cameraman Tony Richard Lander School along with access to Smith who also helped dolphin on each double Webmail, Moodle and with the training, sharing page? 2 3 Richard Lander School: An Olympic School A Day in the Life of the Primary Torch n Tuesday 6th March, Richard Lander School Otook part in the Cornish Olympic Torch re- lay involving an Olympic inspired torch designed by pupils from St Breock School in Wadebridge. The torch, which has visited more than 280 primary and secondary school across Cornwall, was brought to Richard Lander by pupils from Penair School and was recieved by Mr Mulcahy and James Healey and Rosie Brown, Head Boy and Head Girl. It then it spent the morning tourng the school before being run to Threemile- stone Primary School, by 8 specially selected students, in time for afternoon assembly. All the students involved in the day agreed that it had been a great experience. schools in the UK to launch illustrate the values that we the Get set programme with have been learning about Olympic Spirit at General Electric and LO- for so long - it is good that the Heart of Rich- COG. Since then the school their attributes have been has adopted the Olympic recognised by others as ard Lander School and Paralympic values and well as us here in school.” has held Olympic centred Taig Stevens who ran the atching the three Olym- activities and competitions. torch through Falmouth stat- pic torch bearers from W ed “When I finished I wanted Richard Lander School as the Since then its “Design My to do it all again”. Dale Triggs torch travelled through Corn- Break” team reached the who ran in Newquay said the wall was just the latest Olym- London Final of the Olympics experience was “phenom- pic highlight for the school. The based contest and a team of enal”, while Georgia Doyle- students Taig Stevens (Y7) young scientists won the recent Ley stated, “By the end of Dale Triggs(Y11) and Geor- “Anti Doping” national final at the day my cheeks were hurt- gia Doyle- Lay (Y8) had been the Science Museum, London. ing from smiling so much.” nominated by a variety of indi- “The honour of seeing three viduals including staff, along- Richard Lander School stu- side many other students. dents being so valued within the community as to be nominated Since April 2009 Rich- and then selected to bear the ard Lander School has im- Olympic torch is mersed itself in the Olympic tremendous,” stated Philip and Paralympic Spirit when Gilbert, deputy Headteacher. it became one of just four These young people clearly 4 5 an beat the other 5 teams in “All the pupils really enjoyed it the final and over 400 schools and it was lovely to see them from across the country. all having a go at things they don’t usually get to do! The At the final, each team pre- sport leaders were a credit to sented its testing kit, to a pan- you all; they worked so hard el of judges including: Profes- and were extremely helpful sor David Cowan, Head of the and well mannered. Please Drug Control Centre at King’s pass on our thanks to them College London and Director x Student, Charlotte to Sarah Guymer and her of the London 2012 anti-dop- EGreen who recently came team. We look forward to see- ing laboratory; Kate Walsh 8th in the World BMX Cham- ing you all again next year!” the captain of the Great Brit- pionship also came back Iona Stoddard Treyew ain Olympic hockey team and to Richard Lander to over- School. David Kenworthy, Chair of UK see the Cycling Challenge Anti-Doping. Kits had been and to present the trophy designed to detect five to the winning boy and girl. mock banned substances. The day was won overall by The school will now receive Jamaica, represented by St £1000 worth of science Agnes School, with Belgium equipment and the winning (Chacewater) and Spain team members will be giv- Primary Olympic Sports Day (Mithian) coming 2nd and 3rd. en an exclusive tour of the The level of sportsmanship GSK laboratories in Harlow to show which country they ing. Colin, Rosie and Jim from between all the competing where all the testing for the upils from across nine represented, complete with Truro Lawn Bowling Club primaries was outstanding. London 2012 Games will be PRichard Lander feeder face paint, flags and banners. also very kindly provided the carried out. This high secu- schools came together at Lawn Bowling - Thank you! “The Olympic Day was fan- rity facility is not usually open Richard Lander School on The day began with an tastic. The children all looked to the public and the stu- Wednesday 30th May for opening ceremony in true Ex Student Vicki Cook, and amazing and everyone dents from Richard Lander a special Olympic themed Olympic style and included Women’s England Hockey gave a determined perfor- will be the only students Sports Day. Over 400 pu- a fantastic performance by Performance Squad member, mance. A big thank you to the permitted to visit this impor- pils took part from Chace- Threemilestone Choir, organ- came in to encourage and mo- tant London 2012 venue. water School, Threemile- ised by Clare Mutton, and tivate the primary students. Richard Lander Sports Lead- stone School, Cusgarne a display from the talented ers for their hard work and or- Nicola Steen, Science School, Blackwater School, gymnasts of Mithian School. ganisation throughout the day teacher said: “We’re delight- Shortlanesend School, - it was a day to remember!” ed to have won the national Mithian School, Mount Over 60 Richard Lander Tim Barnard, Olympic final and it’s testament to the Hawke Academy, St Agnes Y10 Sports Leaders were Cusgarne School.