Rhyddings Circular - December 15

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Fashion Show 2015

where catwalk meets charity

Students showcased some of the latest high street, Asian and prom fashions during a charity fashion show last week.

Organised by Year 9 students as part of their Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award, the event featured outfits from All The Rage Too in Accrington, Winstanley’s Morning Wear in Oswaldtwistle and custom designed prom dresses from Thimbles in Clayton-Le-Moors; all modelled by our students as well as some members of staff – including headteacher

Paul Trickett! The evening also featured vocal and dance performances from some of our extremely talented Performing Arts students.

All proceeds from the event will go to this year’s chosen charity Save The Children, who students and staff have been raising money for all month. Over £230 was raised from ticket sales and student-made refreshments during the interval. So far, including the money from the fashion show, we have raised £1500 this term – and that figure is still rising.

Bringing Xmas cheer to our vulnerable residents (left) Vivienne Cooke from Hyndburn Homes with Year 7 students Deanna Hill, and Charlotte Hopkinson We have joined forces with Hyndburn Homes, in a bid to help the borough’s most lonely, vulnerable and those who may find it difficult to go out and shop over the Christmas period.

Each hamper has been expertly packed and decorated by the school children and includes a selection of goodies including; tinned meat, veg, chocolates and

a Christmas cracker.

The project, now in its fourth year, has been funded by Hyndburn Homes, with food donations from our students, staff and Hyndburn Homes.

The hampers will now be delivered to residents in time for Christmas, hopefully bring some cheer to those who need it at what can be a difficult time.

Year 11 Leavers’ Awards The achievements of Rhyddings’ recent Y11 leavers were celebrated at our annual awards ceremony at the Hope Centre, Oswaldtwistle, last month.

They were presented with their GCSE certificates, as well as awards for the highest achieving and most dedicated students.

Trophies were awarded to Lucy Fox, for her outstanding effort during her five years at school, Sarah Rothwell for outstanding academic achievement in her GCSEs, Mwitumwa Mukelabai for her service to the school, Amy Kershaw for her commitment to extra-curricular activities and to Anthony Gibson for achieving well beyond expectations.

Continent House Discovering Democracy Award

round-up

This term, students have been involved in a wide variety of activities based around our new Continent House system.

All students took part in our first World Exploration Day, where their lessons were focused around globalthemed group activities. House points were awarded to the teams who performed best during their given tasks.

An inter-house football league has also been established, with teams formed from mixed year groups. This has been extremely well supported and the participants have been excellent.

This year’s chosen school charity is Save The Children and students and staff have been raising money through various events and activities. There have been bake sales, teacher spongings, sponsored silences, a FIFA tournament, Fashion Show and Christmas Show. So far the total raised stands at over £1500 – and is still rising!

Rhyddings has just received a brand new award for schools that encourage pupils to take an interest in the democratic process.

We are one of the first 19 schools to be recognised by the British Youth Council for encouraging pupils to have their say in society - both within the school or through social action projects in the local community.

The Discovering Democracy Award, which was created to support the need to develop character as well as a strong grounding in core academic subjects, was launched by the British Youth Council in partnership with the Members of our Junior Leadership and Student Voice teams Cabinet Office and the Department for Education in September. were asked place their votes at ‘polling All awards are judged by a panel of young stations’ around school. They have also people and will celebrate and share the voted on the issues they would most like to success of schools and colleges that go further be debated by their local youth parliament in equipping their students with the skills and representative. Back in September, 15 students knowledge to use their voice in our society. visited also visited the Houses of Parliament in Rhyddings held recent elections to elect London to help gain a better understanding of student parliament candidates, where students how the country is run.

Cameron cooks up a winner

Our catering students recently competed against each other to determine who would go forward to the next round of the Young Chef competition organised by the Rotary club of Church and Oswaldtwistle.

Cameron Walker, Ryan Richardson and Tamzin Riley were asked to prepare a three course

Year 11 defeat the Dragon’s Den for £1 00 0 Media prize

On Monday 16 November, Clive Grunshaw, Rick four of our Year 11 Media Wilson of LCC Trading Studies students visited Standards, Luke Bidwell Accrington & Rossendale of charity Early Break, College to take part in a Tim Grose of LCC Young ‘Dragons’ Den’ style compePeople’s Service and Lisa tition – and came away with Hartley, Head of Safethe full amount of £1000! guarding and Personnel George Berry, Beth Development.

Graham, Damon Smith and Our team with Lanc Despite the extremely s Police Commission Ruby Wilkinson worked on er Clive Grunshaw an intimidating panel, the d Mrs Bancroft ideas for a campaign aimed at students presented raising awareness of and reducing the alcohol confidently and professionally, which very consumption of young people in Hyndburn. much impressed the ‘dragons’.

At the event, the students pitched their As a result, the team was awarded the full ideas to a panel of ‘dragons’ that included amount of £1000 to put towards creating their Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner awareness campaign! th

meal under a time restriction and had to take into consideration: making a healthy meal, food presentation, organisation and planning, neatness and cleanliness of the working area.

Judges from the Rotary club were Zak Khan, Maureen Hartley and Susan Haworth. The judges had a difficult task, as all the meals produced were excellent, but the overall winner was Cameron Walker, whose menu of homemade tomato soup, spaghetti bolognese and strawberry mousse just tipped the scales.

Cameron now goes forward to the District final at the Lancaster and Morecambe College in January to compete against up to 70 other potential competitors from other Rotary clubs. If successful, he could eventually go the national in Leicester, where last year’s winner received a holiday for two in Italy!

Clef Club Donation We would like to thank Helen Barrett and all the former members of the Accrington Clef Club for their extremely generous donation of £1000 to our music department.

Sadly, the club ceased operation earlier this year and has kindly donated their remaining funds to local schools.

The money has gone towards a brand new iMac computer for our music students to use for recording their own tracks.