Friday 14th September 2012

Issue 44

Student of the week:

Daniel Adeyemi 8SG Chloe Boase 8SG , Jordan Herrington 11SDC (Head

Boy) Catrin Walker Booth 11JG ( Head girl )

for fantastic speeches to parents and pupils at year 6 parents evening

School Calendar

WEEK: 17th—21st September 2012 WEEK 1

Wednesday 19th - School closes early

Wednesday 19th—Open Evening 5.30pm—8.30pm

Friday 21st September—INSET Day

WEEK: 24th September 2012 WEEK 2

Thursday 27th September—Parent & Carers Forum

(PTA) 6pm in the base

Saturday 29th September—Primary Saturday

WEEK: 1st October—5th October 2012 WEEK 1 WEEK: 8th October—12th October 2012 WEEK 2

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POST POST POST FANTASTIC RESULTS!FANTASTIC RESULTS!

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GCSE Results 2012GCSE Results 2012

We are delighted to celebrate the best ever GCSE results for

our students this year, with 60% gaining 5A*-C including

English and Maths, and over 80% achieving 5A*-C.

Cecilia Carlisle gained 16 A and A* as well as an AAB in AS

Maths which means an A overall in AS Maths a whole year

early.

We are also delighted with our Year 9 and 10 students who

had outstanding GCSE results. Matthew Walker already has

7 GCSE grades A and A* at the start of year 11 with Ellen

Curnow close behind with 6.

Well done everyone!

Curriculum Enrichment Week 2012Curriculum Enrichment Week 2012

Wow what a week it was with pupils going all over the county, country and

further afield. The variety of activities was fantastic and it shows how great

our staff are to be able to provide such variety. Some of the activities were

clearly character building having to tree surf, wild camp on Dartmoor in our

lovely summer weather and eat some very strange things indeed. They were

also extremely creative and I was lucky enough to see some amazing

animations, art work, skim boards with amazing decals and even rollercoaster

designs. It was also great to hear such fantastic reports from members of

staff on how brilliant pupils had been. We had reports from people in the

wider community and one lady wrote in to say how polite our pupils had been on

the Isles of Scilly. A very big thank you to all the staff for making it happen

and we will be doing it all again next year!

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Work Experience 2012Work Experience 2012

Once again our year 10 pupils went out on work

experience and were great ambassadors for the

school.

Pupils worked in schools, hotels and RNAS

Culdrose as well as local businesses where they

gained confidence and an insight into the work-

place.

We are very appreciative of the employers who

gave up their time to have our pupils and hope that

they enjoyed the week too.

9JLP raised over £350 for the RNLI9JLP raised over £350 for the RNLI

Last term, through various sponsored events,

including a silence and indoor rowing of the

length of the Tamar, 9JLP raised over £350 for

the RNLI and as a reward they were given a

fascinating tour of the St Agnes Inshore

Lifeboat Station and Perranporth Surf Life

Saving Club (in school time as a bonus!).

They were given a rescue demonstration at the

beach with a race to a "victim" between a

swimmer and a jetski, which was narrowly won

by the jetski in the rough conditions!

Med Trip 2012Med Trip 2012

This year’s trip to Chateau du Tertre in France was an action-packed

adventure from start to finish. Activities included - white water

canoeing, raft building, an overnight bush craft adventure, rifle

shooting, archery, rock climbing, fencing, orienteering, high ropes,

the trapeze, assault course, team problem-solving, abseiling,

excursions to St. Malo, Mont Saint Michel (France's St. Michael's

Mount), Bayonne and a trip to a water/theme park.

The evenings at the Chateau were jam packed with entertainments ranging from a French themed foody

night, table tennis, air hockey, basketball, football, rugby, rounders, you name it...they did it.

Students from Year 7-9 all proudly wore their Med Trip 'T' shirts and made many new friends, not only with

each other and the staff, but with other schools.

Probably the highlight for Mr. Webb and Mrs. Wills were the faces on the students when they realised that

their overnight camp was actually on the Chateau's grounds and not in a farm miles away from centre (as

fibbed to them by PGL staff). Basically after a day’s canoeing the students had managed to paddle all the

way back to the Chateau but didn't realise it as the riverside was hidden by the woods surrounding their

accommodation. However, learning how to carve wood, collect firewood (some students took this to the

extreme with dragging back small trees !), shelter building and best of all barrel body-surfing.

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Kneehigh Theatre was invited to the Academy last Wednesday to do a workshop for the Arts Award students supported by Kirsty Smith who has dedicated her time helping the students. Anna Marie Murphy who has written plays for Kneehigh for many years took the workshop and was thrilled by the students’ participation. She said “I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop myself, I thought they were a great bunch, and really willing to have a go. Tell your headmistress I was very impressed indeed with it all. I thought it was great she came in to meet me”

The students have been given free tickets to watch the up coming Kneehigh production of “Steptoe and Son”.

Kneehigh Theatre comes to Pool AcademyKneehigh Theatre comes to Pool Academy

Arts AwardArts Award

At the end of last term Miss

Smith took the last group of

Arts Award students to

Rosemellin School to

complete part D of their

portfolios. Jacob Colgan

11MH, Lucy Talbot 11JB,

Charlotte Talbot 11JB,

Kieran Burley 11ASL and

Hannah Mead 10DSW took

their instruments to

Rosemellin school and lead

a music workshop for half of

the session.

Katie Johns 9TS, Taylor

Boyd-Wallis 9TS and Kiera

Smitheram 10SJT led a drama workshop using 'hats and mellow drama' for the other half of

the session. Mr Hart and the year 2 music students thoroughly enjoyed their time with the

Pool students and would like to be involved in more workshops in the future.

ShoeboxesShoeboxes Mrs Smith and her little busy elves are already thinking about the Samaritan's Purse

Shoebox Appeal which will be launched next week. Thank you so much for those who

participated in any way last year.

Every year the students, staff and parents respond so generously . In order to help the

organisation of this Appeal, we need empty shoeboxes to start off the challenge for each

tutor group to fill at least 5 boxes. Last year Key Stage 3 students collected a total of 179

which were sent to Eastern European countries by our local repre-

sentatives based in Camborne.

The Samaritan’s Purse website gives details of suitable

contents for the boxes and a clip of where the boxes go and

whom they benefit .

If you would like to help in any way, please contact Mrs Smith,

Humanities Office.

Trip of a Lifetime to the ParalympicsTrip of a Lifetime to the Paralympics

Four students from Years 9 and 10 visited London last week to watch

the Paralympics Track and Field session in the Olympic Stadium.

Whilst there they had a trip on the London Eye, a visit and tour

around the Houses of Parliament, watched a spectacular evening

show at Piccadilly Circus and of course, the highlight, visited the

Paralympic/Olympic site and watched the Athletics.

All four students have represented the school at County, Regional

and two at National schools level. The medal haul at National

Schools level would be right up there with the best. These are the

Paralympians of

tomorrow, so seeing

Oscar Pistorius (The

Blade runner) and

David Weir (The

Weirwolf) who are

legends in the sport

was very inspiring.

Jordan conquers the London

eye

What’s on in the School Library

Monday Night is Film Night - Free popcorn

Wednesday Night is Games night!

Come and use our new Library!

Spectacular views from the London eye

Evening show at Piccadilly circus

Meeting Mandeville the

Paralympic Mascot

The Olympic Park

Watching the Athletics

CONTACT US : POOL ACADEMY, Church Road, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3PZ.

Tel: (01209) 712220/715011 Fax: (01209) 612070 Attendance Line: (01209) 722333

Portreath Surf Life Saving Club Cornish & National Championships

Some Pool students competed for Portreath Surf Life Saving Club in the Cornish Championships in July and

the National Championships at Portreath in the last week of August.

Jack Colwill (Year 10) , Brynn Prisk, Luke Giles and Lauren Prouse (Year 9) all scored good points to help

Portreath Youths win the Cornish Championships. and the National Championships. from Woolacombe in

Devon and Pen-y-Bont in Wales.

Brynn and Lauren also competed in their last year in the Nippers age group Nationals , along with Harry

Stephens and Callum Chapple (Year 8), Ella Buzza (Year

9) and Carl Buzza (Year 7).

The highlight was Harry's National Gold medal in the

beach sprint, only a few months after taking up the

sport.

Portreath SLSC train on Friday evenings all year, at

the beach in summer and Redruth School pool in the

winter - details on their website.

Picture shows left to right: Ella Buzza, Lauren Prouse,

Carl Buzza, Callum Chapple and Brynn Prisk.