T R eflection The R eflection achieving more together MayMay 20192019 www.liskeard.cornwall.sch.uk @Liskeard_School The magazine of Liskeard School & Community College Head’s Letter Top Merit Earners for April &May Dear Parents, Carers and Friends of Liskeard School, Year 7 Year 8 Aimee Roobottom 7L 31 Anthony Easton 8L 27 It’s been a while since the last Faith Halifax 7E 28 Thomas Wilson 8L 25 Reflection, partly because most of Sofia Stevens 7I 26 Joseph Shakerley 8L 24 April was taken up by the Easter Emily James 7L 25 Darren Jones 8L 22 holidays! We therefore have a Imogen Rowe 7I 24 Lily-Beth Southcott 8L 22 bumper edition this month full of Lucy Weller 7I 24 Layani Snowden 8L 21 articles highlighting some of the Ruth Pankhurst 7L 24 Minnie Bauer 8L 21 great opportunities our students Alexia Lewis 7I 23 Shadow Taylor 8L 21 have been involved in. This last Abi O’Neill 7E 22 Charlotte Taylour 8A 20 month has seen us on the TV, in the local press and we’ve represented Daniel Hiscock 7L 22 Verity Welsh 8L 20 Cornwall on the national stage. Morgan Champion 7L 21 Bell Rollings 8E 19 Phoebe Tasker 7I 21 Lilly Kaseke 8S 19 A massive thank you to all the staff and students for their continued hard Archie Lambert-Govier 7S 20 Melissa Zalick 8L 19 work. The older students have been sitting GCSE and A Level exams thick Mason Reeve 7E 20 Brannon Kaczmarek 8L 18 and fast over several weeks now and have shown amazing resilience. A Michael West 7L 20 Shannel Cattell 8L 18 special mention has to go to our Year 11s who have been incredibly positive about their exams. I’m sure all their preparation will pay off. We will Year 9 Year 10 look forward to seeing many of them back next year joining our outstanding sixth form college. Josh Gurdin 9E 24 Jasmine Bosworth 10L 21 Mj Coton 9S 24 Aaron Upton 10I 20 The school continues to rise in popularity with over 220 Year 7s joining us next Bethany Whitehead 9K 21 Connor Vine 10S 19 year. The number of students naming Liskeard School as their first choice is Jay Ullman 9K 21 Maddie Miller 10S 18 rising year on year. We look forward to meeting them all on their induction Jobe Roberts 9A 21 Blaine Derrick 10E 17 days later this month. Thank you to our 30 Peer Mentors, currently in Year 8, Josh Dean 9A 19 Matthew Ince 10E 17 who have been busy preparing for their visit. Kevin Xholi 9A 19 Alex Demeter 10S 16 Maddie Chinn 9A 18 Amy Brown 10S 16 With kind regards, Melissa Prendergast 9L 18 Raphi Hutt 10L 16 Jamie Bradbury 9I 17 Harley Billing 10E 15 Moses Lowdell 9K 17 Kula Parkinson 10L 15 Poppy Prizeman 9A 17 Cody James 10K 14 Issy Gray 9L 16 Mya Cavanagh 10A 14 Caleb Brown 9S 15 Shannon Crispin 10L 14 Alex Lingard Jacob Blick 9K 15 Head Teacher Jessica Howells 9L 15 Head’sIn the Spotlight... Letter TalkLiskeard A Clean Sweep for Liskeard Students! Over the next few years we are going to be getting the students to talk more! Liskeard School and Community College challenged all their students in KS3 to Being articulate and able to communicate effectively is really important in enter the County competition on hate crime for National Holocaust Day. Students school and in life. We also want students to have the confidence to speak up could either enter in the short story or picture category. and speak out about issues that are important to them. We want our Student The uptake from students was overwhelming, and a selection of the entries were taken to Truro Cathedral to compete against other Cornish schools. Council to make sure they have their say about how the school can be even In the overall competition, the school swept the board coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd in better. And finally, we want students to understand their inner voice to help both categories. A fabulous achievement! their thinking and to build confidence. The winning students were then invited to the cathedral to receive a prize, presented by PC Geoff Turner-Moore. SHORT STORY WINNERS 1/ Isobel Coleflax 2/ Kimberly Dyer 3/ Quinn Lawrence ART WORK WINNERS 1/ Joseph Shakerley 2/ Isaac Chapman 3/ Imogen Early Over the last few months, some of our teachers have been working together to look at ways we can develop oracy skills in class, from improving students’ vocabulary to looking at ways to structure classroom conversation, debate Isobel Coleflax from 8K, had the following to say about the competition: and discussions. In September, we will be rolling out some strategies across “Last term, I was one of the students that won the County Hate Crime Competition, run by Devon and Cornwall Police. I created a storyboard on the theme ‘Torn the school, especially with our new Year 7s. from Home’. ‘Torn from Home’ was the theme for National Holocaust Day which During Time to Talk Week in March and National Mental Health Week in was celebrated on the 29th January 2019. As a winner of the competition I was May, we asked tutor groups to make sure they had discussions about mental given the opportunity to visit Truro Cathedral in April. Whilst I was there I received health. a ‘Winner of the Hate Schools Competition 2019’ certificate and a voucher for We’ve also been running some debating and public speaking competitions Waterstones. All 6 of us engraved a slate which will be eventually placed on the and have seen some amazing success in competitions such as: ARTiculation, cathedral roof, which will mark the event. The overall experience was something to English Speaking Union debates and the mock magistrates’ experience. This remember, and a really enjoyable day.” week, we also launch our Broadcasting Club, supported by Liskeard Radio https://www.trurocathedral.org.uk/news/liskeard-school-and-community-college- and founder member, Dean Moore. win-arts-project 3| a place where... |4 Student of the Month Student of the Month Nominees Winner Nadia Szeffel For always being bright and cheerful and always volunteering to help. She has put in brilliant work and effort in the Mencap ‘Round the World Lily Roberts and Molly Burchell - for working consistently Faith Wright – for her hard in every history lesson and producing amazing amazing effort with her Challenge’ and in all of the homework. Nominated by Ms Birkbeck coursework. Nominated by ProjectAbility sport days. She is a role Ms Jeff model in PE lessons: hard working, resilient and is always kind and helpful to others. She is an asset to any group. Nominated by Ms Wetherill Nominees Georgie Butler – for always Maddy Kolberg for always Chloe Penhaligan - for taking responsibility to just getting on with her work her quiet, determined improve her work. She has and for her contributions to perseverance and for her shown amazing resilience the lessons. She works hard, consistently excellent class in actively seeking work smiles often and is a very work and home work. She from me when she has talented artist. Nominated is also a great support to been absent due to by Ms Schooling. others. Nominated by Ms extra-curricular activities. Leon Nominated by Ms Pheby Luisa Gould, for being an Freya Elliott - for always Dana Hammond - for her exceptional student and role being hardworking and work in media studies. model. She is a hardworking conscientious in lessons and She is tremendously hard student, who never falters in her quietly getting on with the working and would actually consistently positive approach to work. Her recent speaking give some of my AS level her studies and who always strives test in French blew my mind. students a run for their to improve the quality of her work. She gave a GCSE quality money when it comes to Luisa was part of the amazing conversation, she had not team who won the local heat of only used the resources her understanding of media the Magistrates’ Mock Court Trial I had given them; she texts. She’s exceptional! competition this year. She has tweaked it with some very Nominated by Ms Archer. also been successfully selected nice phrases! Nominated by Akira Griffin – for her Chloe Graber – for Shadow Taylor – for her as a Peer Mentor and the next Ms Lofthouse. outstanding achievement in her exceptional effort. on-going resilience and cohort of Year 7s will be no doubt her Childcare qualification. Nominated by Ms Jeff kindness. Nominated by Ms benefit from her thoughtfulness, Nominated by Ms Jeff Holroyd patience and caring support. Nominated by Ms Brown. 5| a place where... ...there are no end of possibilities |6 magistrate, I had to watch over the court case and Young Magistrates Travel to then discuss the details of the case to decide on a verdict. The whole trip was a fun experience from the actual trial to staying together in the youth hostel and Wales for Regional Finals taking the long journey up to Wales. Melissa Zalick, Year 8 It was a very good idea to have this competition, This year, myself and a because it helps prepare young people from ages group of girls entered a 12-13 to build confidence talking to people we don’t County Magistrates’ Court know, because we will need those type of skills in competition – with no the future. It was obviously nerve-wracking being previous experience. We got in the Court and the dock itself, but as soon as I got through two rounds of the into it I felt more comfortable talking in front of all three, surprisingly, against those people.