The Year 10 students will also be running a raffle in the next four weeks during tutor time to raise money for Spinal Research. The tickets are £1 a strip and include two tickets for a tour around St. Austell Brewery worth £34, a Cornwall monopoly board donated by Ginsters and £15 vouchers from Barnecutts. The raffle will be drawn in the last week of term and the winner will receive all of the prizes!!

For further details, please contact Jayne Smith, Head of Art on 01208 72114

With utility bills of well over £100,000 a year the College is looking seriously at becoming more sustainable. Whilst the bigwigs look into the capital projects such as low energy lighting and solar panels, the students have been asked to consider what else we can do!  As part of this week we will run a competition to find the best ideas to make us more sustainable as well as asking students to help us by pointing out to staff when it would be prudent to turn off unused electrical equipment.  We hope that this will carry through to the rest of their lives and enable all of us to be more sustainable.  Western Power Distribution has been most kind in sponsoring the Trophies and in contributing £200 towards the implementation of the best idea! It is hoped that we will be able a significant difference to our sustainability and our effect on the planet.

The club members raised the money through sweet sales, cake bakes and selling hot chocolate. They have also recently sold CHICKS merchandise such as kites and wrist bands, as well as organizing a “Name the Teddy” contest and collecting loose change as part of CHICKs’ “Change for May” incentive. All proceeds from these activities will go straight to the charity to further support their important work.

The Interact Club are also organising for another £200 cheque to be sent to their International charity, “Send a Friend to School”.

Mr Morris, PE Department

Year 11 Bodmin College Leavers Day was 24th May 2013.

A brilliant day was had by all and there was a leaving buffet followed by the Leavers Assembly which was well attended by family and friends.  In the evening, students attended their Leavers Prom which was held at St Mellion.

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Team 1 completed 11km and are pictured here completing the challenge, with Joe, the youngest team member, spending his first ever night under canvas and completing the distance in a state of the art ‘Hippocampe’ wheelchair hired for the occasion. This team really had to work together to propel Joe up steep gradients and through rivers! They were helped by a member of the Officers Training Corps, Alana Becker, and Bodmin College staff Mrs Wright and Miss Hancock.

Team 2 completed 14km and finished 4th out of 24 teams. They are pictured here at the windy, wet high point of their walk and were accompanied by Mrs Ellis, Miss Passmore and Chaz Shepphard, a volunteer from Bournemouth College who we met at the event.

This is the first time that Greenfield students have taken part in Ten Tors, and they were each awarded a bronze medal. If they complete it again next year they will get Silver, and a third time will earn them a Gold. The Jubilee Challenge is a great way for students of all abilities to challenge themselves physically and mentally and experience all that Dartmoor can throw at them!

Throughout the year the small group of year 12 students have been inventors, designers, finance directors and all round business people as they became Young Enterprises latest group of entrepreneurs.

Presenting their latest business venture, ‘Be Lucky Wristwear,’ the students pitched to Cornwall’s business men and women at the Atlantic Hotel, Newquay. In addition, the group exhibited their new range of bracelets on a trade fair stand alongside other young enterprise groups from around Cornwall.

The students have also had success during the year selling their products at fashion shows, local trade fairs and on Red Nose Day, donating 50p from each sale to the charity.

The night concluded with award presentations, where the company won ‘Best Trade Stand.’ A fantastic achievement after an eventful trading year.

This was the first ever 55 mile team that I have run and they came soooo close! Excellent times in the first half of Saturday put them at the front of the pack but route planning errors by me and bad luck on their part meant that they had to make two big detours on their way to Combstone. They did stop at Sandy Hole Pass to help smaller groups over the swollen river Dart and overall they lost over two hours getting to their next check point. Mike (second from the left) pulled out with both his Achilles tendons seized. The group continued but were forced to camp much further back on their route. They started brightly on day two but Elliot’s (third from the left) worsening condition meant that finishing was unlikely……and they were pulled off on the seventh Tor. They learnt a lot this year and are stronger and more determined for the experience. I have already started planning for next years’ teams!

Mr Morris