Over £140 was raised for Spinal Research and the Auschwitz trip on Thursday 13th June. The Year 9 and 10 students were amazing at selling the fantastic cakes and refreshments at the Year 7 Parents Evening. Thank you to all the parents and staff that supported this event. The Year 10 students will also be [...]
There is an opportunity for a volunteer to help in Bodmin College Screen Print Studio for 1 or 2 days a week. There would be training by the current technician and in return the art department would be happy for the facilities to be used by the volunteer for their own work. This would be [...]
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 [...]
The Interact Club recently presented children’s charity CHICKS with a cheque for £200. The aim of Interact is to complete at least two community service projects and CHICKs was chosen by the club as their local their project for this year. CHICKS Community Fundraiser Mick Ryan was delighted to receive the cheque, and said, “We [...]
Over 50 students competed at Par on Wednesday 5th June in the Schools Athletics event, with huge success for the year 7, 8 and 9 girls who all qualified for the Cornwall School Games. A big congratulations to the year 9 girls team including Ami, Cala, Lily and Ashley who’s win on the track led them [...]
The PE Department at Bodmin College runs a leadership programme through the core physical education curriculum, the culmination of which is successful and responsible young people taking a leading role in our partner primary schools. This year we have trialled using these leadership activities to practise literacy and numeracy for the primary students of all [...]
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. Pictures are now available on [...]
The Jubilee Challenge is a day walk that starts from Okehampton Camp. It is a branch of Ten Tors designed for young people with special needs. Bodmin College sent 2 Jubilee Challenge teams who camped in difficult conditions with all the Ten Tors Teams at Okehampton Camp, before embarking on 2 different walks. Team 1 [...]
Bodmin College’s Young Enterprise students concluded their trading year by competing at the Cornish innovation awards last week. They not only walked away with the award for ‘Best Trade Stand,’ but the students also made a fantastic impression on Cornwall’s business community. Throughout the year the small group of year 12 students have been inventors, [...]
This is my sixth year doing Ten Tors and for me this was the hardest weather conditions I’ve seen for the event: a mixture of high winds and some very heavy rain made the water crossings very difficult on both sides of the moor. Despite this the 35 mile team crossed the line at 14:15. [...]