RICHARD LANDER SCHOOL BULLETIN 3rd November 2016 Dates for your diary DT with Bosvigo School Marketing Master Class Year 7 Netball B at Redruth School Rotary Young Chef Final THURSDAY 17TH FRIDAY 2ND NOVEMBER All day - Rotary Young Chef INSET Day 31ST OCTOBER - 18TH Competition SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER Year 5 Bosvigo School - Maths visit Ten Tors Day Walk Year 11 Pre Public Exams Jazz Band practice MONDAY 5TH 31ST OCTOBER - 4TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY 18TH Year 11 School Council meeting Year 9 Maths Assessments carried Non-School Uniform Day in aid of Full School Choir practice out during lessons Children in Need WEDNESDAY 7TH THURSDAY 3RD Shakespeare Screening - RLS and DT with Bosvigo School Year 9 Girls—U14 Hockey Penair School choirs singing live THURSDAY 8TH Tournament during a screening of Romeo and Jazz Band practice U14 Rugby Tournament at Mounts Juliet FRIDAY 9TH Bay Academy SATURDAY 19TH Carol Service rehearsal FRIDAY 4TH Ten Tors Day Walk SUNDAY 11TH City of Lights Workshop MONDAY 21ST —FRIDAY 25TH Young Enterprise Trade Fair KS3 Cornwall History Website Year 7 Maths Assessment- carried MONDAY 12TH launch at Truro College out during lessons Christmas Carol Service at Truro SATURDAY 5TH MONDAY 21ST Methodist Chapel Ten Tors day walk Year 7/8/9/10 School Council Year 7 History - Castle MONDAY 7TH —FRIDAY 11TH meeting Competition final Year 8 Maths Assessment—carried WEDNESDAY 23RD WEDNESDAY 14TH out during lessons DT with Bosvigo School Informal Carol Service - School WEDNESDAY 9TH THURSDAY 24TH Canteen Girls Rugby at Liskeard School Class of 2016 - Presentation FRIDAY 16TH DT with Bosvigo School Evening Non School Uniform day for THURSDAY 10TH FRIDAY 25TH Children in Need. Year 10 - English and Maths - Year 9 & 10 GCSE Music Networks Last day of term Parent Information Evening Concert - Hall for Cornwall MONDAY 19TH DECEMBER - FRIDAY 11TH Cornwall College Assembly MONDAY 2ND JANUARY Year 7 Girls Football at Truro MONDAY 28TH CHRISTMAS BREAK School Full School Choir practice Under 12 West Cornwall Rugby TUESDAY 29TH JANUARY Festival at RLS Year 7/8 Science Roadshow TUESDAY 3RD School Orchestra practice—P1 TUESDAY 29TH / WEDNESDAY First day of Spring Term SUNDAY 13TH 30TH THURSDAY 5TH Cornish Schools and Colleges Year 11 - GCSE Drama catchup. Year 11 Parent Information Showjumping competition WEDNESDAY 30TH Evening - How to revise for GCSE TUESDAY 15TH DT with Bosvigo School FRIDAY 6TH Year 7 - Ministry of Science trip to Pixl EDGE Student Launch Hall for Cornwall DECEMBER THURSDAY 12TH WEDNESDAY 16TH THURSDAY 1ST Year 10 Parents Evening Year 9/10/11 Careers Fair in the Year 10 Young Enterprise Sales & Sports Hall RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 3rd May November 2013 2 2016 2 Year 9 Fire Safety Tour with sparklers, BBQ safety and the importance of checking your 2016 smoke alarm. The primary school audiences listened very carefully and went home with some very A fter weeks of rehearsals and important fire safety advice. very hard work 76 Year 9 students took their Fire Safety Tour out to Ms L Charleston Mount Hawke, Mithian, Cusgarne Head of Creative Arts and Chacewater schools last week. The Year 9 drama students performed thirteen short plays Pictures show the year 9 students each with a very important fire getting their message across! safety message. The hour long show was very well received by the primary school audiences as the plays used humour, dance and role play to get their messages across. Each play was introduced by our four narrators George Wiltshire, Tegan Bartlam, Freya Libby and Georgia Ferguson. Some of the topics covered included being safe RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 3rd May November 2013 3 2016 3 The Posho Challenge - 7 spending of funds raised. Last year diet are just two of the many the money was spent on building a things that most of us in the Staff to eat the diet of a toilet block and installing a septic western world completely take for Uganda orphan for all of tank, extending, reroofing and granted. I’m optimistically hoping November painting a dormitory so there was that the impending lack of meat, room for residents to have a bunk vegetables, coffee, alcohol and bed each, painting the exterior of a cake will not make me even more I n a bid to raise funds for our primary school, putting on a talent insufferable to live and work with partner schools in Kamuzinda and competition and a feast for a than I already am.’ Mr A Gell. Bukumansimbi, 7 members of staff whole school.. are experiencing the restricted diet ‘The children in Uganda seemed to of the children who live there for a The school are planning on genuinely love posho, so I am whole month. extending the challenge to hoping to develop a taste for it. students who will be invited to eat Giving up day time coffee and late This means that they will eat only posho, beans and fruit exclusively night chocolate are definitely the posho (maize meal) and beans, for 24 hours one day in the week biggest sacrifices for me!’ Miss S flavoured with sugar or salt, along following the United Nations Wright. with the occasional banana or ‘Universal Children’s Day’ on 20th pineapple (on medical advice). November. The Posho 7 have set up a They will also drink just plain Crowdfunder page and would be water. The 7 are Mr Ryan Bond – On 1st November some of those very grateful for any donations and Cover Supervisor, Mrs J Griffiths – taking part shared their thoughts: words of encouragement! Deputy Headteacher, Mr A Carter – Teaching Assistant, Mr A Gell – ‘Everyone I’ve spoken to about the https://www.justgiving.com/ Maths Teacher, Mrs R Knight – DT plans for the sponsored diet, have crowdfunding/ryan-bond Teacher, Miss L Myners – Cover either told me I’m mad or that Supervisor, Miss S Wright – IT surely a week would have been Photos show: Technician. long enough.. A little self-discipline will need to go a long way’ Mr A 6 out of the 7 Posho Participants. This fundraising is part of the Carter. Mr Carter was invigilating! school’s ‘Lander4Uganda’ fundraising which raises in excess ‘Having taught in Uganda I can Children in Uganda delighted with of £10, 000 each year to support 4 certainly vouch for the fact that their plates of posho and beans. partner schools. In July, students this is very standard fare for Photo taken by Mr Bond in July travel to Kamuzinda and schoolchildren there. Often exactly 2016. Bukumansimbi in Uganda to the same beans and posho for provide labour and oversee the every meal. Choice and variation of RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 3rd May November 2013 4 2016 4 Print Making with John Howard - Combined Truro Schools Collaborative Project E ach year all year 8 students have the chance to get involved in The Combined Truro Schools Collaborative Project. Culminating in a public exhibition at Truro’s Lander Gallery this is an opportunity to work with other schools and established artists. As part of the build up to the exhibition a series of workshops are held where students have the Working in this environment was a and we were so free in what we opportunity to explore new real eye opener for our students as were doing.’ methods of creating art and work Pablo Galbraith explained, ‘I loved with highly skilled professionals. learning new methods to create art To end the day the students had a and never quite knowing what was first look at the prints made from This year’s theme for the exhibition going to happen. I also liked having their etched plates; this involved is ‘Contemporary Cornwall’ and the the opportunity to use machinery I the use of industrial printing first workshop took place in the wouldn’t otherwise get a chance to presses. ‘My favourite part of the workshop of Penryn based artist, use.’ An equally enthusiastic Romy day was seeing my finished work John Howard. John is a highly commented, ‘It was one of the best coming out of the press.’ Jake regarded artist and print maker in things I have done; I loved it… commented. These prints will be his own right and also has a regular Everyone was extremely nice and used to create a final piece to be hand in the training of students at what I loved was that I could revealed at the exhibition next Falmouth School of Art. Under his interpret things in our own way. It March. Elvie summed up their supervision our students had the couldn’t have been better. My mind experience of the day, ‘I really liked opportunity to create and print was buzzing when we walked into being involved in a collaborative their own ‘photo etched’ plate. John’s workshop because he had task with lots of different people… amazing pieces of art everywhere We had great fun, got messy, had lunch with lots of new people and made some art… I liked everything about it. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the activity and I am looking forward to seeing the final piece in the exhibition. It really made my mind work and think – it was so fun.’ The public opening of the exhibition will be in March 2017 and there are more exciting workshops planned for the coming months. Mr A Conrad - Art Teacher RICHARD LANDERRICHARD SCHOOL LANDER WEEKLY SCHOOL BULLETIN BULLETIN : 17th : 3rd May November 2013 5 2016 5 Year 7 Art trips to tools Geevor Mine Falmouth and Geevor The Museum also houses an impressive display of boats and ontinuing the theme of We are fortunate enough to be C there were some fantastic students ‘drawing on our heritage’ able to take all of Year 7 out on a drawings of some of these boats the remaining half of Year 7 trip near the start of term so that that were produced.