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Winter 2016 - www.rhyddings.co.uk - Facebook: rhyddings - Twitter: @rhyddings
Rhyddings receives Royal recognition for Duke of Edinburgh’s Award efforts Rhyddings has been recognised for its commitment to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award after being invited to a special Diamond Anniversary celebration service at Westminster Abbey. Rhyddings were guests of Lancashire County Council in recognition of the school’s work to promote the award with its students. Speakers at the service included Paralympic Gold Medalist and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award holder Hannah Cockroft MBE, impressionist Jon Culshaw and HRH the Earl of Wessex. Rhyddings has delivered the DofE Bronze Award for several years, initially to small groups of Year 10 students to complete alongside their GCSEs. In 2015, we became the only school in Lancashire to extend the offer to every student in Year 9 free of charge. Each student is enrolled onto the programme and must complete a minimum of three months’ worth of volunteering, learning a new skill and doing regular exercise or a sport. Once they have uploaded their evidence online, they must then undertake an overnight expedition in the wilderness to complete the Bronze Award. Students are then encouraged to go for the Silver Award in Year 10. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award was founded
in 1956 by HRH Prince Phillip and is an internationally recognised qualification. It aims to positively impact on the development of young people and is a great addition to any CV, helping them to stand out against other applicants for work, college and university places. The award has many celebrity endorsees who have completed the award themselves including presenter Ben Fogle, opera singer Katherine Jenkins, Olympic champion Kelly Holmes and the first ever The Apprentice winner, Tim Campbell. Mr Trickett said: “It was a great honour for the school to be invited to the anniverary service at Westminster Abbey. “Hearing such inspiring Duke of Edinburgh’s Award stories from people like Hannah Cockroft who have taken the skills and confidence gained from the award and gone on to succeed goes to prove that it’s really worthwhile for our students. “Introducing the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme to all Year 9 students provides them with the chance to not only gain an excellent qualification, but to help make a real difference in to their local community, as well as their own confidence, wellbeing and employability.”
Ehsan Monshur, Demi Davidson, Amaan Yasar, Oscar Allan, Ben Griffin, Muieez Ali, Chloe Novak and Jasmine McIntyre at last year’s launch for Y9
Students look to Liverpool for advertising answers Our Year 10 Media Studies class recently visited Liverpool to gather information and images for their latest coursework assignment. The visit took in the historic Albert Dock, the Museum of Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum where students took photos of the exhibits and made extensive notes. Their current assignment focuses on advertising and promotion. Having looked at the topic theory, as well as doing some analysis of their own, the students have been tasked with creating their own promotional
materials based on what there is for the public to do at the dock. Now back at school, the students will use what they’ve gathered to put together leaflets and posters that will form part of their coursework portfolio. Media Studies teacher Ms Edmondson said: “It’s great for the kids to get out of the classroom and have a look at different sections of history and culture close up. “The experience of being there gives the students a real feel for what the docks area has to offer, which in turn helps them produce relevant, realistic, highquality work.”