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During the last decade, the College has developed a curriculum which is both innovative and inclusive, offering all our students a relevant education. We are continuing to improve this ‘offer’ in order to meet students’ aspirations and prepare young people for career/employment opportunities today and during the next period of time.

Bodmin College has formed a new and exciting partnership with The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow to launch a new ‘Hospitality and Catering’ programme for post 16 students. The course will start in September 2012 and has been developed due to the high level of students wishing to work in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Rick Stein’s head Chefs and front of house managers will deliver a teaching and learning programme through an on-site ‘pop-up’ restaurant which will be open to the public for lunchtime meals. The concept of the ‘pop-up’ restaurant has been developed by The Seafood Restaurant’s executive chef David Sharland to give students the opportunity to work alongside top industry professionals in a working environment and gain an understanding of how to deliver an ‘outstanding service’. David Sharland said “We have a history of active involvement with local schools and colleges to support education within the hospitality field, but this partnership goes one step further. This course will be a fantastic introduction to the hospitality and catering industry and will equip students with the skills, training and experience they need to fully prepare them for the working environment.”

Students lucky enough to be selected for the course will benefit from a combination of training and practical, hands-on experience. For outstanding students, there will also be an opportunity to apply for work experience or a permanent position at The Seafood Restaurant Ltd.

The staff and students of Bodmin College are extremely excited that such high level knowledge and expertise will now be passed on to their young people; increasing further the breadth of a curriculum that has already been labelled as Outstanding by Ofsted.

Mr. R. Mitchell, Principal

As we embark upon the term leading into the Christmas break so I reflect upon my first six weeks as Headteacher at Bodmin College and thank many of you for your kind wishes and support; it is very much appreciated.

Having now met with both the 6th Form Council and College Council I must praise the students not only for their commitment, but also for their ideas and desire for continual improvement; I look forward to a close working relationship and must thank the Council for their support and assistance in selecting the new ‘clip on’ ties which will be used from January 2012 for Years 7 - 10. Whilst we will be writing to all parents the key aspect to this is that we have agreed, in the first instance, to purchase the ties in order that additional cost for parents is avoided.

This first half term has been notable with Parent/Student Open Evening Events for both Year 6 and Year 12. Many thanks must go not only to the staff for the considerable time and effort required to make these evenings a success, but also to all of our student volunteers who represented the College with great pride and a huge amount of enthusiasm. With possibly a thousand visitors during these events it is clear that the reputation of the College continues to grow and reflects a very positive atmosphere and a curriculum suited to the needs of a wide range of students. We appreciate the positive feedback and supportive comments received; I hope you enjoyed the evening/s.

We currently have a specific focus on Year 11, 12 and 13 as they move towards Summer Examinations via ‘controlled assessments’ and ‘modular examinations’. As ever we urge that students prepare thoroughly and ensure they ask whenever they face uncertainties or problems. Should you have any concerns we would request that they are addressed at your earliest convenience to avoid concerns and anxiety at a later stage when intervention strategies will have less of a positive effect in terms of assisting students gain the very best grades possible.

Mr. B. Elliott, Head Teacher

Principal’s Message Headteacher’s Message

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Bodmin College celebrated its 13th annual community Dance Platform entitled 'Here We Go!' 15th to 17th November. Over 250 participants were involved, 150 alone from Bodmin College, with guest performances from Altarnun CP School, Berrycoombe CP School, Budehaven Community School, Looe Community School, The Roseland Community School, Penrice Community College, Cornwall College St Austell, Cornwall Youth Dance Company, Kernow Dance Krew, R & B School, Jason Thomas Dance School and professional appearances from Exim Dance Company and Matrix Magic: Dance and illusion.

Bodmin Dancers excelled themselves with performances from A Level, GCSE and BTEC groups as well as extra-curricular groups: The Company, The Apprentice Company and Tempo and introducing Arts Award and Peer led groups: CLOUD 9, CRU, MOTION, MC9, 72O, STRUT, PRE-PULSE, EXPRESSION and SCHOOL of EXPRESSION. Audiences were also treated to a solo by Simeon Chan and a duet by Simon Burleigh and Jakus Hodger.

Dance Platform 2011

Many Arts Award students helped on the nights as ushers and box office assistants and many thanks must go to them and to the teaching staff and refectory staff who gave up their time. Many thanks also to all the choreographers, teachers, caretaking and technical crew who worked painstakingly over the past few weeks and especially to all the dancers who performed their socks off!

Alison Dures, Co-ordinator

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The success of students from across the College was celebrated in a tremendous evening of awards in Bodmin College’s new Creative Space in September.

Michaela Breeze MBE, Olympian and world-champion weight-lifter and Bob Mitchell, Principal, presented over 120 different awards to our highest achieving students. Michaela spoke of her incredible journey to achieve Gold in the Commonwealth Games and the tenacity needed to achieve at the highest level in all endeavours.

Olympic Champion Presents Academy Awards

Special Guest, Harold Vanderwolfe, ex-Mayor of Bodmin presented his own trophy, the Vanderwolfe Twins Youth Cup, to Jordan Baker for his generosity in helping others.

Other highlights included the Governor’s Cup awarded to Charlotte Mitchell for her exceptional work on her CACHE course. Matthew Halton was awarded the Year 13 Award for Mathematics, the Sports Academies Student of the Year Cup and The Principal’s Award. This recognised his achievement at Bodmin College over seven years where he became British Shot Putt Champion, achieved the highest A Level grades, mentored students, played rugby for the first XV and played saxophone in the Jazz Orchestra.

All students who received awards were recognised by staff at the College for their effort, achievement and excellence.

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Level 2 and 3 Public Services courses were out enjoying the autumn sunshine visiting Siblyback reservoir on 17th October. Level 3 students were putting into practice their leadership skills, guiding the Level 2 students through a series of problems including the building of rafts, ascending the high ropes course and small problem exercises. The students were very successful in most of the events although an interesting take on raft building (which involved sorting out the buoyancy before the frame) left one group thinking that they had built the raft version of the Titanic. The teamwork was fantastic and was remarked on constantly by the instructors.

This visit was the culmination of a very successful half-term which had included trips to the RNLI station at Fowey, the Shelter Box warehouse at Helston, the Cornwall Rescue Group at St Dennis and Flashpoint in Bodmin. External visitors from both Army and Navy have both delivered an input and there is more to come.

At the time of writing, the Marines will be visiting the College during the second part of the Autumn term and the Level 2 students can look forward to further input from the Fire Service as well as a Police communication day before Christmas. Our Level 3 group will continue with outdoor pursuits including climbing and archery whilst the Year 13 students will use the skills in teamwork and leadership gleaned from Siblyback to organise events in the New Year.

Students studying A Level textiles worked with local business Lola Smith in Wadebridge to produce a child’s quilt for donation to the Children’s Hospice SW.

The students were given two hours to design and produce individual patchwork panels and complete a quilt. The students had the opportunity to use computer aided manufacture equipment and work as a team. A formal presentation to the hospice is planned for the Spring.

Ms Devine

Public Services: Teamwork Skills and Leadership

A Level Textiles students and Children’s Hospice SW

Year 11 students who are interested in joining the Public Services course at either Level 2 or 3 and who haven’t yet expressed an interest (at the Sixth Form open evening) are asked to see Mr Morris in the PE office as there maybe scope for those students to be included in some future events to gain a better idea of what the course entails.

Mr MorrisABOVE: Kye gives James a hand whilst Bradley goes on alone

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A Level Textiles students travelled to London to visit the V&A Museum for a Fashion design workshop. Students used inspiration from the medieval displays including armour and tapestries to influence their garment designs at a specialist design lab facility. Garments shown were modelled using paper on mannequins which were then critiqued by the group. Students also enjoyed a chance to shop in Camden market and experience street food from a range of cultures.

During the last academic year, staff members of the Global Citizenship Development group organised the student Gardening Club together with students across all year groups who experience some degree of Dyslexia, to join forces and give the College garden a ‘makeover’.

A variety of workshops were organised to give the area, including the ‘Peace Garden’ a complete overhaul. A sign for the garden, worked in clay, depicting aspects of horticulture and wildlife inspired by the works of E.A. Seguy and Jennifer Judd-McGee was produced and students made plant holders, bird feeders, mobiles and wind chimes from natural and recycled materials. A series of wind socks and flags bearing flowers and insects now adorn the newly laid patio area complete with hand-made wooden seating and planting troughs.

The project brought together the skills, expertise and enthusiasm of staff and students across the College, the results of which will be enjoyed for months to come.

Mrs Kibble

BELOW: Kieran and Kyle in the College garden

V&A Textiles Trip

The College Garden Project

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On the last week of Summer term, 45 Year 10 students (now Year 11) set out on the long yet interesting journey to Dover through France, Switzerland and finally into Italy.

Throughout the week we all enjoyed great weather, amazing scenery and the fine Italian food. We visited the world famous city of Venice, where there are many monuments to Italy’s rich and cultured past.

On the second day, we all set off to go sightseeing in Shakespeare’s romantic Verona that is not only famous for the setting of Romeo and Juliet but also for it’s well preserved Roman Arena. Both cities are full of small cobbled streets and visual delights.

So after spending time looking at Italy’s historic architecture we decided to have some fun and cool off by spending a whole day at Aqualandia. The water park had rides for everyone from the mild Crazy Rivers to the dare devil Scary Falls and Space Maker (the highest water slide in Europe), which was fine if you didn’t mind plummeting to the pool below at 64mph in nothing but a small rubber dingy. All went swimmingly apart from a few sun burnt shoulders. Our trip had ended; all we had to do was a final shopping trip and say our goodbyes before boarding the bus again for the overnight journey back to Cornwall. We would all once again like to thank the teachers and coach drivers for being so patient with us.

Victoria Old

ABOVE RIGHT: Chris, Sophie and Joe meet the locals in Verona

On 11th October, Year 7 Food Technology students put their skills to the test by baking and creating buns for ‘Children in Need’. After selling the buns to fellow students and staff they managed to raise £40 towards the £100+ which the Technology Faculty hope to raise for Children in Need.

Many thanks to all of the students who showed their spots to raise a lot.

To be continued... Miss Barrow

LEFT: Children in Need fundraising is tasty

Italy Trip 2011

Baking and Creating for Children in Need

ABOVE: Jenni, Joe and Corey in St Mark’s Square

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Nine talented media students spent an afternoon learning about broadcast radio journalism at Cornwall’s Atlantic FM studio with presenters Tim Ley and Matt Tidball in June. The pupils were invited to the base of this popular station in order to learn broadcasting and presenting skills that they would have to put to the test on 26th June at the County School Games when they worked with Atlantic FM to provide media coverage of the event.

During the two hour training session, Hal, Lee, Lewis, Jordan, Chloe, Ryan, James and Luke learned technical skills, presenting techniques and were briefed on the importance of media law and pitching to the correct target audience. Pupils also worked

ABOVE RIGHT: Students in the Atlantic FM studioABOVE: Hall and Lewis interview 2012 Olympic hopefuls John Pink and Richard PeacockRIGHT: Lee and Lewis interview Olympic Silver medallist Michaela Breeze

Media Visit Atlantic FM

independently as a team to work out how best to cover the massive sporting involving the majority of schools in the Duchy.

Speaking after the training, Lee said; “It was brilliant spending the afternoon learning at a real station from professionals who actually make a living out of broadcasting. In addition, I will be able to include what I learnt today for my Media Coursework planning.” Hal added; “It was a great experience because I want to work in media after university and today gave me a real insight into what to expect.”

Trained and ready for action, pupils tackled the challenges of covering the massive Olympic inspired sporting event with professionalism and enthusiasm. Highlights of the day included, Hal, Ryan, Lee and

Lewis’ interviews, which took place live on the main stage, with Olympic weightlifting silver medallist Michaela Breeze and sailing 2012 Olympic hopefuls John Pink and Richard Peacock.

Speaking after the event, Tim Ley said; “I am seriously impressed by the Bodmin College pupils’ approach to work and professional attitudes. I would love to work with them again in the future.”

Miss Stott

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The College is delighted to announce the exciting news that it has been selected to become a member of the Royal Society (RS) Associate Schools and Colleges scheme. This prestigious award follows a period of cooperation between the College and the RS that began with us gaining a partnership grant in 2010. This initial grant was to develop a partnership with the Marine Biology Association (MBA) so that students could receive expert advice from the MBA’s scientists (particularly Dr Mike Kent) to help them research topics of their choosing. The RS funded the purchase of an inverted microscope and all of the students working with the MBA successfully passed their Level 3 (A level) Extended Projects.

The RS then evaluated the project between the College and the MBA and described the

Bodmin College Joins The Royal Society

work as excellent. Thanks to this success the College has now received this accolade. The College joins an elite group of schools nationwide who are currently members of this scheme. Teachers at Bodmin College will now be able to give their views on educational developments to the RS and engage with future projects and activities including developing teaching resources, responding to policy consultations and conducting research. The RS is a fellowship of the World’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.

Mr Elliott said “I have been very impressed by how much the College collaborate and work with outside agencies. To see it recognised in this way is very exciting and a great testament to the science department. The RS will further enable the development of exciting

opportunities for staff and students alike. We very much look forward to a prosperous partnership which will keep us, as an Academy with Science Specialism, at the forefront of developments and at the ‘cutting edge’ of educational partnerships”.

Martin Dixon who oversees Science College developments at Bodmin was keen to point out that not only is work with the MBA continuing, but also the College is further expanding opportunities for its students. “In the next few weeks we are taking students to RNAS Culdrose to design a helicopter lifting system, we have a debating conference to attend in Somerset and a group of students are judging the RS Young People’s Book Prize. I am very proud that we have received this award and I am sure that all staff and students will share in that feeling”.

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The College was approached by the Head of Beacon Infant and Nursery School to see if we could help develop equipment for their outside percussion playing area.

Mr Morgan, Head of Technology at the College, asked his then Year 9 students in Product Design to produce designs for an idea. One overall idea, combining different aspects from the students, was developed and built in the school workshops.

The students painted it and named it “Tubering”. The equipment included tubular bells and a mallet.

Students at the Beacon love the equipment.

Mr Morgan

On the 5th and 6th of July 2011, five of our 6th Form’s highest achieving academic pupils had the opportunity to visit The University of Cambridge with Miss Seddon and Dr Dixon. The pupils attended lectures on the application process, student

‘Tubering’ at The Beacon School

Visit to Cambridge Universityfinance and the various courses that the University offers, including Natural Sciences, Medicine and Archaeology and Anthropology.

They also visited many of the Colleges which make up the University, such as King’s, St Johns, Trinity (where the

photo is taken), Sidney Sussex, Pembroke and Peterhouse.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the visit and we hope to repeat the trip next year.

Mrs Cloke

BELOW: Kellianne, Danielle, Lauren, Tessa and Hannah

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On Tuesday 12th October, six Year 10 students took part in a Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) challenge day at the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Helston.

The students worked as part of an Engineering Recovery Team, to design, build and test a system required to rescue a Merlin helicopter that has made a forced landing, in desert conditions. The students worked as structural, mechanical and electrical engineers in order to produce a stable design with an effective pulley and gearing system in order to lower the model helicopter successfully. This put their problem solving, team working, time management and engineering skills to the ultimate test. The team had a fantastic day and won the ‘Overall weight of system’ category for their final manufactured product.

Well done to Cassie, Joel, Charlotte, Holly, Laura and Nick.

Miss Essex

This year our Year 13 Applied Art students have been working on a Craft unit based on either Vintage Plumage or Tribal Punk. As well as drawings and painting of birds and feathers, they have used a range of craft skills; clay, metal, glass, textile to create a sculptural head piece or fascinator. In addition to this, the art students have planned the hair and makeup and have worked with the Bodmin Hair and Beauty students on their ideas.

After an initial trial run to plan the hair and makeup, the models, hair stylists and artists worked together for one morning on amazing creations which would not look amiss at Royal Ascot!

The results were then photographed in the studio next door by Ms Pinhey and directed by the students. A fabulous project with amazing outcomes.

Mrs Smith, Head of Art

RIGHT: Mikeala models a fascinating fascinator

Lockheed Martin Merlin Helicopter Engineering Challenge 2011

Vintage Plumage and Tribal Punk for Year 13 Applied Art Students

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The weather was on our side on Wednesday 21st September. After a week of strong winds and violent rain thanks to the tail end of Hurricane Katie, a window of sunshine opened on the day the year 10 French class went to Rock for lunch on the beach and to celebrate the good work completed as they had spent several months translating

Cornish Sea Tour for Staff and Students

the website of a local Cornish company – Cornish Sea Tours.

New Headteacher Mr Elliott presented Matthew Wheadon (the company owner) with a plaque recognising the partnership between his company and Bodmin College. The Cornish Guardian’s photographer was there to mark the event.

After an event-filled photo session, the students were able to experience the “awe inspiring coastal scenery” and the exhilating speed of the SeaXplorer (9m Rib). We all put on the beautifully fitting bright blue sea waterproofs and waddled down the pontoon to the adventure on the ocean. We did look familiar: big round things moving with difficulty, bright sunshine, colourful outfits… Teletubbies!

The coast looked amazing; Matthew being a zoologist explained the life and habits of the marine life and communicated his passion of the ocean, explaining how to distinguish different waves. Their various frequencies allow us to know how far away they originated, and which ones are powerful and good to surf on, and why… we all learned a lot.

Future plans include trips to look at dolphins and also studying the distribution of nesting sea birds. Exciting times!

Ms Esteve-Dixon

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The Sixth Form Council are elected by the Sixth Form to act as the student voice. They hold regular meetings as a council, and meet once a month with the Principal, Headteacher and Deputy Head of Sixth Form to raise a variety of issues. The Council organise a range of social events throughout the year and co-ordinate fundraising activities on behalf of the Sixth Form. They are also in charge of maintaining the various vending machines within the Common Room and are the driving force behind the production of the Year Book. They have a very important role to play both in the Sixth Form and the school as a whole.

On Wednesday the 5th of October the Sixth Form Council President, Jamie Howard (Year 13) was invited to attend one of the Army Presentation Team’s presentations in the Public Rooms, Bodmin.

The Presentation entitled ‘The Army of Today’ was an “intriguing view into the Army’s side of things these days.” It covered various issues that the army faces and what they are doing to become more efficient, especially given the current economical climate.

Jamie says: “It was a really great evening, totally different from how I thought it would be, and really did open my eyes to how great the army are being at the moment. I’m planning to get their Youth Presentation Team into the Sixth Form at some point, and they called me an “influential figure within the community” so if you would like to know anything I reckon there are a few interesting answers I could give you so don’t hesitate to contact me.”

Congratulations to Gareth Smith who recently won the Bodmin Triathlon, winning his Junior Category and the overall title. His time was so fast (1hr 24min 1sec) that he also beat the senior times and was only six minutes off the course record. He then went on to win the Fowey Triathlon and came 5th in the Wadebridge Triathlon.

Congratulations also to Luke Pritchard who took part in the Charles Stanley Truro Half Marathon on the 18th September, he came 137th and his time was a very respectable 1hr 40min 25sec.

BELOW: Gareth in action

Sixth Form Student Council

Sixth Form President invited to Army evening

Sporting Achievements

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DORSET YEAR 9 GEOGRAPHY RESIDENTIAL TRIP

In July this year, 43 Year 9 geography students went on a four day residential trip to Dorset. The trip is a combination of Geographical GCSE Studies and activities based around staying at an outdoor centre near Corfe Castle. This year the students visited Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove, fossil hunting at Lyme Regis, Old Harry

ABOVE & LEFT: DorsetBELOW: Perranporth

News from the Geography Department

stack and the town of Swanage. Activities included rock climbing, high ropes, raft building, canoeing, camp craft, archery and a Dorset's Got Talent competition which saw some amazing performances at an outdoor theatre. Mr Prettejohn, Head of Geography, said 'The weather was fantastic, the students were hard working and a credit to the College and the learning experiences along this beautiful World Heritage coastline were second to none'. Roll on the Year 9 Geography trip 2012!

PERRANPORTH YEAR 9 GEOGRAPHY TRIP

Year 9 Geography students headed off to study the fragile sand dune ecosystems at Perranporth Beach in September. Students had to walk a considerable distance as they investigated the range of landforms found at Perranporth including stacks, stumps, wave cut platforms, glacial deposits

and the formation of headlands from igneous extrusions. Back in the classroom students were able to use a GPS route map integrated with Google Earth in order to label and annotate their maps with sketches and photos taken on the trip. The quantity of ice cream consumed at the end of the trip was also

a good indication of the calories consumed on the trip. Miss McKay who organised the trip said 'A great day out was had by students and staff which involved students carrying out some excellent research on the coastal unit of their GCSE in Geography'.

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Talented A Level Media student, Laura Christie, landed the work experience placement of a lifetime with top international film magazine Empire after seriously impressing deputy editor Ian Freer during a BFI festival lecture on film journalism whilst on the Bodmin College Media Department London Trip.

Empire magazine is the best selling film magazine in the UK with massive estimated circulation figures of 194,016

New Adventures are delighted to announce that 22 year old JAMES COUSINS is the winner of the very first New Adventures Choreographer Award (NACA). Bowled over by the standard of all the applications, the judges have also decided to create a runner-up prize which has been awarded to 19 year old TOM JACKSON GREAVES. Nearly 100 aspiring choreographers applied for the award that was created by colleagues and friends in celebration of Matthew Bourne’s 50th birthday last year.

TOM JACKSON GREAVES will also receive mentoring from Matthew and New Adventures as well as a small budget to help him create a solo work, which will also be shown at the Winner’s Showcase performance. Tom, born in Cornwall, began his dance training at the Laban Centre for Advanced Training before joining the degree program at London Contemporary Dance School where he worked with artists such as Kerry Nicholls, Kate Price, Laurent Cavana and Lee Smikle. He also performed extensively for choreographer James Cousins, performing his work The Still Point at Buckingham Palace, Robin Howard Dance Theatre and in Burgos, Spain, for which Tom won ‘Best Performance’ award at London Contemporary Dance Competition. Since leaving LCDS Tom has performed in Beowulf, the opera choreographed by James Wilton, Drew McOnie’s Place Prize Semi Finalist piece Slaughter (where he performed the principal role of ‘Serafin’). Cameron McMillans’ duet And Then, You Were Gone and most recently as Monty in New Adventures’ Cinderella.

Press Release taken from New Adventures website

On Friday 14th October the Level 2 and Level 3 NVQ Beauty students and their lecturers Emma Dodge, Adele Tyrell and Ellen Hooper, took part in a Breast Cancer Awareness evening at Hengar Manor, St Tudy. The evening was a great success and the students were a credit to the College. The students carried out hand and arm massages and a nail paint of their choice.

readers per monthly edition. Unsurprisingly, magazines like Empire have hundreds of applicants each year for work placements so being offered a place on the spot is an immense achievement that will without question have a positive impact on Laura's University chances and future career prospects.

Head of Media Ms Stott said: “We are so proud of Laura and wish her the best of luck during her week with Empire; I am sure she will do exceptionally well as she is an excellent writer with a passion for film.”

Breast Cancer Fund Raiser

Sixth Form News Laura said; ‘It took a while for the excitement to kick in because I was in shock at being offered a place without having to wait for months. Now however I cannot wait to get up to London and start learning the ropes.”

Former Pupil Tom Greaves mentored by Matthew BournePRESS RELEASE

WINNER ANNOUNCED FOR FIRSTNEW ADVENTURESCHOREOGRAPHER AWARD

Last term’s expedition finished on a high with both the Silver Year 11 students and the Gold Year 12 students successfully completing their qualifying expeditions. The Silver Award students completed three days hiking and camping on Bodmin Moor in mixed weather. The following week we headed to Wales for the Gold Award students to undertake their qualifying expedition in the Brecon Beacons. We arrived in glorious sunshine and set up camp the first night where the students all met their Assessor.

Tuesday morning dawned cloudy and clear and the groups all packed their rucksacks ready to start on their planned routes. Shortly after starting the rain began and unfortunately continued for the next four days. Both the walking groups completed the four days of trekking which was

On Monday 10th October, 33 gifted and talented dancers from across the College took part in a Flash Mob on Lemon Quay in Truro.

The Company and The Apprentice Company were asked to help promote

Duke of Edinburgh Award News

The Company surprise Truro with a bit of dancing

outstanding in the prevailing weather conditions... well done to you all!

AUTUMN TERM NEWS

We have started new groups at each of the Bronze, Silver and Gold levels this term and are presently perfecting our basic map reading skills ready for the first walks in the next few weeks. We have an amazing number of students undertaking the Awards this year, with around 40 enrolling for Bronze, 16 for Silver and 34 for Gold. Some of the new Gold students have already been on their first camp when the group completed an overnight instruction camp at Nine Ashes Scout site in October. Here the students learnt about the tents, stoves food and general campcraft. It was a fun evening with many of them getting up at 4am the following day to go on the Thorpe Park trip.

Mrs Ellis, DofE Co-ordinator

World Mental Health Day by performing in the flash mob; which is where a group of people assemble suddenly and perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time and then disperse back into the crowd as through nothing has occurred.

There were three performances spread across the day and with a total of 60 dancers, Bodmin College contributed to over half the performers and truly taking Truro by a flash.

Miss Hitchens

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Printed by Phoenix Print, Normandy Way, Bodmin The Company at the Dance Platform