T R eflection The R eflection achieving more together Issue 27 February 2016 Fundraising Man Engine Porthpean 2015 County Champs Drug Awareness Christmas Shows Lord Teverson Visit Certificate Evening and lots LOTS more... Full reports and news canNews be found’ area via of theour Twitter account and the ‘ school website... www.liskeard.cornwall.sch.uk @Liskeard_School The magazine of Liskeard School & Community College Head’s Letter Project which celebrates the tenth Thank you for your continued Dear All, anniversary of Cornish Mining support. I hope you enjoy another Heritage Status. There is also a fabulous edition of The Reflection! This edition of The Reflection looks wonderful article about our ARC, back on some of the amazing a county facility, that integrates With all best wishes activities, trips and events that students with an autism spectrum Alex Lingard, Head Teacher have taken place over the last or related condition into school. few months. You’ll read an article about Lord Teverson’s visit last term With so much going on there’s a which contributed to us receiving real buzz across the school and in the British Council’s Discovering the sixth form college. At recent Democracy Award (we are one parents’ evenings and parent coffee of only 60 schools nationally mornings parents have fed back ever to receive the award and the how happy they are with what we first in Cornwall). You’ll also read are doing to support their children. about us being crowned County It’s no wonder that the numbers Football Champions for the second of parents and children choosing consecutive year and about our Liskeard as their first choice school involvement in the Mine Engine are set to increase next year. Erratum The last issue (Issue 26) included an article on Menheniot receiving a letter from Buckingham Palace (Page 14). This was an error. It should read that Trewidland School received a letter from Buckingham Palace. Connect With Us! To keep up to date with news, notifications and information make sure you connect with us through our website, Twitter and Facebook! 1| a place where... GCSE Certificate won the Student of the Year Award is important to hold evenings like Evening and Keiran Hamblin was a popular these to recognise all the hard work winner of the Head Teacher’s that students put in to gain their iskeard School & Community Award. qualifications. I know the certificates College held a GCSE that were collected tonight will be LCertificate Evening in Staff, students and parents were carefully looked after by every honour of the class of 2015 last then given the evening to relax student and shown with pride to term. Students and parents filled and mingle to the backdrop of any future employers.” the New Hall for an informal GCSE music performances from evening to honour the students’ the year group with drinks and a achievements and celebrate buffet. Many thanks to everyone their success with awards being that came along and made the presented to the students that evening so special. We wish all went the extra mile. the students the very best for their chosen future and look forward to Six students were awarded for continuing to see the many ex Year the fabulous achievement of ten 11s at Liskeard Sixth Form as they or more A*/As at GCSE, Mungo continue their journey with us. Harrison-Ward won the Academic Excellence Award, Flo Gregory Head Teacher Alex Lingard said “It ...we shape our futures |2 ourteen, Year 10, BTEC BTEC Construction Assessments Construction students Ffrom Liskeard School and Community College recently completed their Brickwork Unit Assessment. The trainee construction workers of the future received their certificates of completion from Deputy Head Teacher, Mr James O’Connell. BTEC Construction teacher Ms Anne Yoxall said “We have had an exceptional uptake on the course this year and workspace was at a premium in the Construction Workshop. The students coped well and produced excellent work, across the board, of a standard that compares with any in the South West.” Lord Teverson Visit the level of the discussions.” sends members of the House of s part of National Lords into schools/academies and Parliament Week, Liskeard The visit follows a year of events in colleges across the country to give ASchool and Community school to promote the importance talks in support of the citizenship College recently hosted a talk from of democracy including voting in curriculum. For further information, a member of the House of Lords, the Youth Parliament Elections and see the Lord Speaker’s web page at to encourage students to become holding our own mock election www.parliament.uk/lordspeaker. more engaged with the political in May. The visit was arranged and parliamentary process. through the Lord Speaker’s “Peers Liskeard School Students Charlie in Schools” programme, which has Durneen and Harry Woodley said Lord Teverson met with 150 been running across the UK since “It was an interesting insight into the students from all year groups for a 2007 and has so far involved House of Lords and it provoked a talk about the work and role of the around 75,000 young people. This lot of thought about current issues.” House of Lords. This was followed by continuing outreach programme a question and answer session with students leading discussions about the bombing of Syria, the refugee crisis, Trident and the lowering of the voting age. The students were fully engaged in the discussions with many staying behind at the end to find out more from Lord Teverson. Headteacher Alex Lingard said, “This was a fantastic opportunity for our students to interact with someone who knows the parliamentary system inside out, as it can sometimes seem far removed from their daily lives. The students were a credit to the school and Lord Teverson was hugely impressed by 3| a place where... Drug Free Schools nder the umbrella of students were told of the dangers Emotional Health and Well- of drug use as well as the legal Ubeing, Liskeard School and consequences of being caught Community College have teamed with drugs. The students were also up with the police and the other introduced to the passive drug dog four secondary schools in South- and informed as to how and why East Cornwall (Looe, Torpoint, the dog is so effective at detecting Callington and Saltash.net) in an drugs. initiative to ensure students are fully educated about the dangers Head Teacher, Alex Lingard, said of using drugs and to ensure all “All the secondary schools in South- students are not exposed to illegal East Cornwall are fully committed to drugs in schools. doing everything we can to ensure students are safe in school and The Police Youth Intervention Team, fully educated about the dangers along with a dog handler and his of drugs. All of us take a hard line dog, visited Liskeard School last on drugs and combined with this term to hold assemblies for every initiative are ensuring schools in the year group. In the assemblies local area are drug free zones.” Year 8 Man Engine Experience iskeard School was recently collapsing, and listened to stories selected as only one of about the amazing life of William La handful of schools in Crago, a boy local to Liskeard who Cornwall to be involved in the began his career in mining at the Man Engine Experience! This tender age of nine. project has been put together by Golden Tree, a community interest The next stage of the project involves company which is passionate fifteen Year 8 students attending about Cornish culture. The project training to become a Mine Captain! itself is a celebration of the tenth These Mine Captains will use their anniversary of Cornish Mining knowledge to teach primary school Heritage Status and will culminate students about Cornish mining in July this year with the largest culture, whilst working together mechanical puppet in Britain to create the Liskeard pageant making a fourteen day, 130 mile wagon, which will be picked up by journey from the Tamar to Geevor, the Man Engine (currently being Olympic torch style, picking up constructed at a secret location!) pageant wagons along the way! when it reaches Liskeard in late July. Watch this space for further The project kicked off in Liskeard updates later in the year! with Year 8 students experiencing life as a Cornish miner first hand. Students attended workshops where they handled replica objects used in Cornish mining since the turn of the century. They learnt traditional songs such as those sung by the bal maidens, investigated the practical problems experienced by miners such as flooding and tunnels ...every day matters |4 The Lion, The Witch of December. the show and were a terrific audience. Mrs Crawshaw and Ms and The Wardrobe Over fifty students were involved Farrow would like to thank everyone in the production, including our involved for making the show such O u t s t a n d i n g ” ; terrific performers and a well- a huge success! “professional”; “slick” and managed back stage crew. On ““fun for all the family”, were Wednesday, the 9th December, the A parent emailed the school stating just some of comments from the cast performed a dress rehearsal “The performance was absolutely audience who watched Liskeard for local primary schools, which brilliant. It was good to see so many School & Community College included St Martin’s, Dobwalls and pupils involved and they were so Drama Department’s production Trewidland. professional. I was completely of The Lion, The Witch and the engrossed!” Wardrobe on the 10th and 11th All the students thoroughly enjoyed 5| a place where..