Roselander Edition 30 Autumn 2015

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Roselander EDITION 30 - AUTUMN 2015

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Welcome From The Head Welcome to the Autumn Edition of The Roselander.

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t’s the end of what has been a busy and fulfilling Autumn Term, and now is a brilliant time to look back at what has been achieved since the start of the new academic year.

assets to the team.

Our Year 7 students have settled in very well and are having a really positive impact on The Roseland community. We have also been fortunate to welcome a number of new members of staff who are great

As ever, there have been a wide variety of enrichment opportunities available to students throughout the term and many have been participating enthusiastically in lunchtime and after school clubs.

This year the selection has been bigger than ever, with a number of new additions including Coding Club.

Students have also taken part in fantastic school trips, including a day at the Cornwall Careers Show for our Year 10s, a residential visit to the Lake District, and the impending departure of our young skiers and snowboarders to Italy.

It’s been an exciting time for our musicians too: the Samba Band recently received a smart new set of drums thanks to EMI funding, and put them to good use almost straightaway by performing at the St Austell Carnival and Truro City of Lights Parade. The Steel Band has been fortunate enough to receive mentoring from a musician who has played with the likes of Paolo Nutini and Faithless!

There have also been a number of excellent fundraising activities including whole school non-uniform days, the launch of the Penny Challenge, and of course, the return of Pudsey for our fabulous Children in Need video. A huge thank you to everyone who has donated this term!

We have been continuing our work with a number of local primary schools. This has been taking place not only through the Primary Sports Network competitions, but also through a series of visits to the schools by staff members, and with a number of our GCSE students running arts and crafts workshops at the primary schools.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

I hope that you all have a restful and enjoyable Christmas, and look forward to seeing you all in January, all refreshed for the new Spring Term.

Front Cover Image: 2015 Christmas Concert. To be featured in the next Roselander.

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A Special Guest Primary Headteachers’ Visit Film Animation Workshop National Award for Lorna Busiest Open Evening A PSHE Day Special Stamp It Out! Careers Evening Get Involved!

Superb STEM Festival Visit Learn 2 Live

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Healthy Schools Awards 12 Years 10 Work Experience 13 Samba de Roselando 14 Presentation Evening 15-21 Netball 22 Hockey 23 Athletics Festival Fun 24-25 Badminton 26 Year 10 Rugby 7s 27 Children In Need Thanks 28

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A Special Guest

ear 7 have enjoyed a special visit from the awardwinning author, Philip Reeve.

Students gathered in the Hall to listen to Mr Reeve speak about his latest book, Railhead, a science-fiction novel about an intergalactic train with emotions.

With Year 7s working on their own fantasy and sci-fi stories this term, the author also gave the students advice for their own writing. These included taking the opportunity to create a world filled with things that interested them, and sometimes, including things that don’t – for him, bugs.

The visit linked in with a whole-school focus on ‘reading for pleasure’ and we hope parents will encourage this at home too!

Mrs Tonkins, Teaching Team Leader for English, said,

“It was brilliant having Mr Reeve talking to our students. We are very honoured that he chose to come to our school, and I’m sure that everyone will take something away from today.”

Students were given the chance to ask questions during a book signing at the end of the talk. As one enthusiastic young writter asked for his best advice for a budding author, Mr Reeve responded that she must, “Always keep on going,” with her writing.

Before finding success as an author, Mr Reeve also had another career with which many students were no doubt familiar with – as an illustrator for the series of Horrible Histories books.

He recommended using drawing as a visual stimulus for writing, and said he also makes drawings from the feedback he gets when other artists read his books.

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Primary Headteachers’ Visit

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n October, Year 7 students welcomed their former Headteachers into school for the annual Primary Headteachers’ visit.

Aimed at making the transition between primary and secondary education as smooth as possible, the visits allowed Headteachers to chart the progress of their former students.

The day started with a meeting with Mr Wilkinson-McKie, following which visitors were given a tour of the school by their former students.

We’re proud to say that the Headteachers were very impressed with how well Year 7s have settled in and how much they feel like fully-fledged members of the school community!

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group of Year 9 students attended a Film Animation workshop led by Falmouth Art Gallery.

The workshop was part of the Combined Truro Schools Art Project, which this year is based on the theme of ‘Storytelling, Myths and Legends.’

Students made an animated film from their own drawings. At the centre of their story was local character, Doc Shields, who awakened the mythical Cornish sea monster, Morgawr.

Mr Winter, HLTA, who accompanied students on the trip, was very pleased with the students’ efforts saying,

“The quality of the illustrations and imagination shown was just fantastic.”

The workshop forms part of the wider programmes of art activities taking place this year, and will culminate in an exhibition featuring students’ work at the Lander Gallery in March.

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National Award for Lorna

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Year 8 student has been crowned ‘Most Inspirational Individual’ in a national competition for young entrepreneurs.

Lorna travelled with her parents to London to collect her award, which was presented to her by the 2014 winner of the BBC’s The Apprentice, Mark Wright.

In June this year, Lorna Semmens was inspired by her love of sewing to found the business ‘Lovely Locks’ as part of Young Enterprise’s ‘Fiver Challenge,’ which tasks students with making a profit from just £5 investment.

Speaking about the moment she found out about winning the award, Lorna said,

Lorna created hair accessories at home using offcuts of school uniform donated by Year 11 leavers. By selling her products at an open evening she managed to generate a profit of £40.50, which she donated to the Little Harbour Hospice, her Gran’s favourite charity.

Judges felt Lorna particularly deserved the title of Most Inspiring Individual in the 9-11 Years category because of the challenges she overcame along the way. This included Lorna presenting a business plan to the Headteacher to extend the current school uniform.

“It was interesting meeting with Mr Wilkinson-McKie to discuss a change to this part of the uniform policy. I knew that if he didn’t agree to it then I probably wouldn’t have been able to do this,” said Lorna.

“I couldn’t believe it - it’s made me think about my future a lot more, what I can do and what I can achieve.”

“I really want to thank the members of staff at the school who helped me, Ms Bowie and Mrs Tame.

They really supported me through the process and believed in me and my ideas.”

Mr Wilkinson-McKie said,

“Lorna’s achievement is fantastic, and much-deserved. She made a strong case for why we should extend the school uniform, and it has been great to see her confidence develop so much over the course of the project.”

Brilliant work, Lorna!

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Busiest Open Evening

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his year’s Open Evening received a fabulous response from the local community.

Prospective students joined in with a whole host of activities, including a forensic murder mystery in the History department, dissections in the Biology lab and cake decorating in Food Technology.

With The Roseland being a specialist music college, visitors were also treated to singing and instrumental performance by students, some of whom busked in the corridors.

Families were given a real insight into school life, being shown around the school and having their questions answered by current staff and students.

In his welcome presentation, Mr Wilkinson-McKie described the transition between primary and secondary school as,

“the most important step in students’ lives so far,” capturing a sentiment shared by new

Year 7 parents.

Young visitors played maths games on the interactive whiteboard, helped by George

Senior students with maps, the passport challenge and feedback forms.

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A PSHE Day Special

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fter the success of the Year 11s PSHE ‘Learn to Live’ event at the end of September, October saw an all-school day dedicated to developing students’ personal, social and health awareness.

Students stepped out of their usual lessons and instead spent the day taking part in a range of activities tailored to each year group.

Here is what they got up to!

Year 7: ‘Thinking of Others’ For our newest students, the day was built around the idea of thinking of others, with a particular focus on homelessness and bullying.

Our Year 7s enjoyed a talk from representatives from the homeless charity St Petroc’s, who spoke about the people they help and the work they do for the community.

Year 9: Enterprise Day The Apprentice may be back on our screens, but it was our Year 9 students who proved they have what it takes to succeed in business!

With the theme of their PSHE Day set as an ‘Enterprise Day,’ students were challenged to work in teams to create a new fantasy food outlet.

As part of the process, they had to put together a mini business plan and finance strategy, brainstorm marketing ideas and, perhaps most importantly of all, create a menu to draw people in.

In the afternoon, all students involved gathered in the Hall to present their ideas on a trade stand, with entries being judged by PSHE Coordinator, Mrs Atkins-Gammons.

Congratulations to the winning team from 9RAV, who designed ‘La Fiesta’ a Mexican inspired food stand, and were presented with a £250,000 ‘cheque.’

Year 10: The Cornwall Careers Show Our Year 10 students spent their PSHE Day, visiting the Cornwall Careers Show at the Royal Cornwall Showground.

The day also saw the launch of our ‘Penny Challenge,’ which sees students and tutors collecting pennies for the charity.

The show, which welcomed students from all over Cornwall, was aimed at encouraging young people to think about the possibilities for their future.

The stories certainly made an impression on students, with one Year 7 saying,

By talking to representatives from industry, education and public services, students were able to receive information about college, apprenticeships and beyond.

“The talk definitely made me understand why projects such as ‘The Penny Challenge’ are so important – a lot of people are much less fortunate than I am.”

So, if you have any pennies lying around, send them in with your sons and daughters – the challenge will last until February, and there’s some good-spirited competition between the Colleges as to who can collect the most!

Year 8: Self-Esteem and Confidence For Year 8 students, ‘Self-Esteem and Confidence’ was the theme of the day.

Students worked in groups to plan, organise and film ‘self esteem’ promotional videos. As part of these, they interviewed other students and staff.

It wasn’t all information and freebies though – the day also featured have-a-go activities including cookery and carpentry, brick-making, and even learning to ride a surfboard!

Year 11: Preparing for the Future With our Year 11 students now well into their GCSE courses it is important to start thinking about their next steps. It was for this reason, we chose the theme of ‘Preparing for the Future’ for their PSHE day.

Very much a practical day, the students developed and practiced vital ‘real world’ employability skills, such as CV writing, interviewing role-play and completing the drafts for their Post-16 Education forms.

Students said they found the day very useful, with one commenting, “It was great to have a teacher go

This was followed up with music sessions with our temporary Teacher of Music, Mr Jones, based around building confidence through music and song.

through all of these things with me and I feel much better prepared than I did before.”

We were very impressed by the effort and originality that went into the videos!

Students may come and speak to their teachers for support with CV writing or application forms at any time.

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Lynsey, Max, Ella, Megan, Jack and Jamie, claim their prize

Toby, Michael, Tom, Kacey and Tia with their plans for The Continental Diner

Back row: Jermaine, Benito and Jack, Front row: Peter, Oliver and Zak, with their plans for Jerry’s Shack

Cerys, Lowen, Elicia, Jade and Imogen with their plans for The Dallas Diner

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Stamp it out!

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tudents recently joined over 50’000 other young people across the country to take part an event that aimed to – quite literally - stamp out bullying.

With the theme of this year’s Anti-Bullying week being ‘Make a Noise’, students and teachers created quite the racket by stamping their feet as loudly as possible for 20 seconds.

The event aims to raise awareness of the issue of bullying and encourage young people to speak up against it, whether this is for themselves or for others.

This is the first year that the school has taken part in such an event and was the suggestion of Year 7 student, Matilda Foster, who promoted the stampathon in assemblies and by designing posters.

“It is just a simple thing we can do to support a really good cause. In the UK, over 50% of people have reported being bullied at some point so it is really important to bring awareness to it,” said Matilda.

Matilda had seen the event advertised in a newspaper and wrote to Mr Wilkinson-McKie to ask if The Roseland could take part in it. He invited her to a Leadership Team meeting, where she presented her ideas in front of staff.

Speaking about the meeting, Matilda said,

“It was a little bit nerve-wracking, but definitely a good thing as it is something I’m really passionate about.”

Mr. Wilkinson-McKie said,

“This is a great example of a student leading the way when it comes to an issue they are passionate about and the whole school can benefit from. If you have an event you would like the school to take part in, come and speak to me.”

Careers Evening

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hether the ‘big dream’ is to be a doctor or teacher, a handyman or a businesswoman, we’re always aiming to enable students to think proactively about their future. That’s why this term we held our first ever Years 8-11 Careers Evening, and what a success it was.

The atmosphere was buzzing during the evening, which allowed students to explore different career paths by talking to representatives from industry, education and public services, as well as current university student-ambassadors.

Students were given expert advice on their post-16 options and how best to make the most of the opportunities available to them, from guests including Cornwall College, Combined Universities of Cornwall Outreach Network, and Falmouth University, among others.

A large part of the evening was also aimed at developing students’ interpersonal skills by encouraging them to interact with representatives, and it was clear to see the students’ confidence improving as the evening progressed.

We have had some excellent feedback from both parents and exhibitors, who commented on “the great conversations” they had with students and their families.

Mr Wilkinson-McKie was very pleased with the evening, saying,

“Future careers provisions are an important part of our curriculum here at The Roseland, so we were thrilled with the turnout on the evening and support shown by parents. It was brilliant to see our students responding so enthusiastically.”

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ere at The Roseland Community College, we’re proud to offer a whole range of clubs and extracurricular activities for students to get involved in - everything from sports to science to music or dance!

Our Christmas Cookery Club has proved to be one of the most popular this term, and students have spent their time baking all sorts of delights, including chocolate yule logs and spiced fruit loaves.

New clubs will start at the beginning of next term, so make sure you check our website to see what you could get involved in!

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Superb STEM Festival Visit

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ix Year 8 students recently travelled to Brannel School to attend a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) festival.

Aimed at demonstrating how tablets could be used in STEM subjects, the students took part in six mini-workshops throughout the day. These included solving a murder, building a bridge and recording its construction with stop motion animation, using an app to make a model of the water cycle, and constructing and programming a motion sensitive fan.

All those who attended the trip are keen members of our brand new science club, and we’re now hoping we can repeat the fun with other trips throughout the year.

Learn 2 Live

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ur Year 11s joined college students from all over the county to attend a presentation on road safety.

The Learn2Live project is aimed at improving road safety for young people by asking students to think about how the choices they make, both now as passengers and in the future as drivers, affect their chances of being involved in an accident.

Using real-life stories as examples, the students first watched a video then listened to guest speakers, including parents, who had lost their children in road traffic accidents and the emergency service responders who attended.

Above: Roseland Voices singing Emmylou.

A Year 11 student said,

“The day was really useful and definitely made me think. Hearing about the dangers and the consequences from real people gave the message much more impact.”

Mrs Atkins-Gammons, Learning Leader for Upper School, who attended the day with the students said,

“the presentation was, at times, highly emotional, and we were proud of our students for the great maturity they showed at the event. I am sure the day gave them a strong insight into how they could be safer on the roads.”

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Roseland Leaders with Mr Ayre and his Hearty Lives Award.

Healthy Schools Awards

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e were delighted to officially be granted Healthy School Status at the Healthy Schools Cornwall Awards.

At the event held in November, our Sports Development Officer, Mr Ayre, was also presented with the Hearty Lives Award for his outstanding work in developing our Primary Sports Network.

The awards are given by the Cornwall Healthy Schools Team as part of an initiative to improve academic attainment and achievement by improving the health and wellbeing of students, staff, parents and carers.

The Healthy School Status comes after a year of determined work, part of which, a stringent whole school audit was completed. Covering categories such as PSHE provision, Physical Exercise and Education, Emotional Wellbeing and Healthy Eating, the audit enabled our school to celebrate what we are doing well to support students to make healthy choices in different areas of their lives.

Collecting the plaque, Mrs Atkins-Gammons, who led the project, said,

“Gaining Healthy School Status has been a highlight of this year for me. It recognises all the hard work and effort that the staff at The Roseland Community College put in to ensure that our students are happy, healthy and successful individuals.”

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On an individual level, judges awarded Mr Ayre the Hearty Lives Award for the commitment and innovation he has shown in his role, describing him as, “one of the most motivated PE Coordinators we have worked with this year,” who has helped boost engagement with new schools through his unrivalled enthusiasm.

Having been a key instigator of the Hearty Lives Ultimate Dodgeball Championships, a national initiative to engage individuals who would otherwise not be inspired to take part in Physical Education, Mr Ayre was also praised for the fact that The Roseland Dodgeball cluster was the only one to incorporate all feeder primary schools. Judges also admired his vision of The Roseland as “The Wembley of Dodgeball.”

Speaking after the awards, Mr Ayre said,

“It’s brilliant to be recognised for all the hard work that has gone into this project. Of course, I must say thank you to our Roseland Leaders whose commitment and leadership skills have helped make this achievable, and to all of the primary schools involved.”

Headteacher, Mr Wilkinson-McKie, said,

“It is fantastic that the high importance The Roseland Community College places on ensuring our students are happy and healthy has been recognised. Congratulations to both Mrs Atkins-Gammons and Mr Ayre for all of their hard work.”

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Year 10 Work Experience

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Roseland Community College student says a career in law is still the case for him after a second round of work experience with a Crown Court judge.

Year 11 student, Jevan, initially completed work experience with the court for his Year 10 placement, and staff were so impressed with his performance that they invited him back for another stint this summer.

Describing the week as

“really full on, but really interesting too...”

Jevan acted as a judge’s marshal, sitting alongside His Honour Judge Christopher Harvey Clark Q.C. in the courtroom. Whilst there, he heard cases including a trial for manslaughter, another for administering a noxious substance, and an art forgery case.

“...It was great to get such a real insight into how the court works, and good fun getting to see what goes on behind the scenes.”

He continued,

“I felt really involved all the time - after cases we would sit and discuss what had just happened.

I was also given homework, doing research around key terms and other cases.”

The work experience has left such an impression that Jevan now wants to go on to study law at A-level and university. In a glowing letter of recommendation, Judge Clark described him as young man with both

Jevan and Ana, who also completed work experience, outside Truro Crown Court.

“the confidence and ability to go far.”

Well done, Jevan!

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Samba de Roselando

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t’s been an exciting term for our samba band, Samba de Roselando, who have been making the most of their brand new drums by putting in some memorable performances around Cornwall.

The new drums are emblazoned with The Roseland crest and were purchased with the school’s EMI funding.

One of the highlights came at the St Austell Torchlight Carnival, where the band entertained shoppers in White River Place to rapturous applause.

After the performance, St Austell Event Coordinator, Sheila Vanloo, wrote to us to express her thanks to Samba de Roselando, describing them as,

“a wonderful young band, a fabulous noise, and lovely children who smiled their way through the rain. They were an absolute credit to the school.”

Clearly in high demand, they also joined forces with Fowey River Academy and Redruth School to brighten Truro’s City of Lights procession even further with their rhythm and beats.

Miss Polley, Expressive Arts Development Officer, said, “Our students were just marvellous. They have been rehearsing very hard over the last term and it showed - the crowds loved them!”

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Presentation Evening

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ur former students, their parents and teachers joined together to celebrate the many successes of the Class of 2015 at our annual GCSE Presentation Evening.

A highlight of The Roseland calendar, the evening reunited the students who have now progressed onto post-16 education.

Presenting the certificates and trophies, Rev. Emma Watson praised students for their individual achievements whilst encouraging them to be mindful of the support they had received from those around them.

Students went up on stage to collect their certificates individually, after which the Caerhays Trophy was awarded to Lauren Morse, whose exceptional performance at GCSE level saw her attaining the top grades in the year group.

The night also saw piano, guitar and vocal performances from current students, and a Vote of Thanks from students.

“We are incredibly proud of our students’ achievements, and it is only right that we recognise them in this way. It was a privilege to see them blossom into such wonderful young adults throughout their time at The Roseland Community College. Our former students will always be part of the school community and we do hope they will all come back and keep us updated,” said Mr Wilkinson-McKie.

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Netball

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he first Primary Sports Network festival of the new academic year was ‘netball’ – and what a start it was!

It was a great turnout with teams from each of our nine partner primary schools – St Mawes, Gerrans, Veryan, Tregony, Gorran, Grampound-with-Creed, Grampound Road, Probus and Ladock – attending the day.

Our Roseland Leaders took charge brilliantly, drawing on the skills they have been developing in their core PE and BTEC lessons, including an understanding of becoming a High 5 Netball Umpire.

The effort put in by all teams was fantastic, but special mention must go to the St Mawes team, whose members put in a sterling performance by winning each of their games, and to the runners-up, Ladock.

Roseland Sports Development Officer Mr Ayre was very pleased with how the day went, commenting,

“it was great to see everyone getting involved, we’re excited for the rest of the year!”

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Hockey

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ain may have cancelled play at our Hockey Festival once this term, but there was to be no deterring students when the opportunity finally came to put those sticks into practice.

For our latest Primary Sports Network event, we were joined by students from six of our partner primary schools for a competition that showed great spirit.

Gorran School were the winners on the day, and will now progress on to the Level 3 event.

Sports Development Officer, Mr Ayre, who is leading the programme said,

“It was great to see some really competitive matches throughout the afternoon.”

“I must say a big thank you to our Roseland Leaders; Sarah, Merryn, Liv, Tean, Jago, Ashley and Alex, who led the games exceptionally well.”

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Athletics Festival Fun

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ust before the October half term break, we held an Athletics Festival, the latest in our series of Primary Sports Network events.

Assisted by our Roseland Leaders, primary students participated in events including hurdles, long jump and shot put.

It was a great turn out, with teams from each of our nine partner primary schools – St Mawes, Gerrans, Veryan, Tregony, Gorran, Grampound-with-Creed, Grampound Road, Probus and Ladock – attending the day.

Well done to everyone who took part, and congratulations to our Year 3/4 winners, Gorran, and to Ladock, who were the runners up in this category.

Ladock also won in the Year 5/6 category, where the runners up were Gorran.

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Primary students take part in our Athletics festival

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Badminton

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n the biggest Sports Network festival of the year so far, we welcomed students from Years 3 and 4 for the morning, whilst those from Years 5 and 6 joined us for the afternoon.

We were impressed with the efforts put in by all of the students, and congratulations to our Years 3 & 4 winners Probus, and our Years 5 & 6 winners Grampound-with-Creed.

Again, the Roseland Leaders’ help was invaluable in assisting us to hold an event such as this.

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Year 10 Rugby 7s

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hilst England did not fare well in the Rugby World Cup this year, our Year 10 boys’ team have proved that no one is going to be stopping them any time soon.

Putting in a strong performance against other schools from across mid-Cornwall, the boys came runners-up in the Mid Cornwall Rugby 7s. In doing so, they have qualified for the highly competitive Cornwall School Games, which kick off in July 2016.

The team took on Newquay Tretherras School, Fowey River Academy and Penair School in the tournament.

It was a close call, with the team beating Tretherras and Penair, but narrowly missing out on a clean sweep to Fowey, who beat them by one try.

Nonetheless, the boys showed that teamwork pays off, qualifying due to the number of tries they had scored in the competition as a whole.

The boys will now have to wait until February to play in their next 7s competition, but are determined to work harder than ever. They are proud to have got through to the Cornwall School Games and are hoping to go all the way.

Watch this space!

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The Roseland Community College would like to say a big thank you to all students, parents, carers and staff who donated to our Children in Need appeal this year.

With your help we raised over ÂŁ1000!

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