16tth December 2011

Issue 20

School Calendar

WEEK: 19th December—23rd December

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

WEEK: 2nd January—6th January

Thursday 5th - Spring Term starts

WEEK: 26th December—30th December

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

WEEK: 9th January—13th January

Tuesday 10th - GCSE Exams start

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Student of the Week

Charis Trevethan of 10JG - Charis was extremely calm and

helpful in a first aid emergency this week.

On Monday and Wednesday Pool students performed the musical

We Will Rock You to sell-out audiences. See Page 3 for more details.

POOL ROCKS!

Mrs Hill wishes everybody a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Year 10 Hair and Beauty Students rewarded for great work

Year 10 Hair and Beauty Students have worked so hard this term and their lecturers are

extremely pleased with their hard work, positive attitude and the progress that they have

made. The photos show their end of term assessment where they had do all the treatments

they have learnt on a family member. As they have worked so hard they are being treated

to nail art by Cornwall College. Well done girls and keep it up next term.

Recycled Christmas Tree Competition a huge success for

staff and students

Congratulations to Mr Smith’s

(pictured) tutor group for

winning the Recycled

Christmas Decoration

competition. Alicia Bochnacka

from 8TS was the designer of

the winning decoration

pictured here.

Also pictured is the winning

staff entry from Miss Peach

which is a lit tree made

entirely from bottle tops.

We Will Rock You a fantastic hit!

This week saw the culmination of months and months of hard work from over 50 students from

Years 7 to 11. The school’s musical production, ‘ We will Rock You’ enraptured audiences throughout

the week. Two evening shows and many morning and afternoon matinees left the cast and produc-

tion team totally exhausted, however the energy and professionalism with which all shows were per-

formed left audiences buzzing.

This was truly one of the best productions ever from a multi-talented student and staff team. Special

thanks must go to school staff - Kirsty Smith (Director), Chris Evans (Musical Director, Jamie Best

(Back stage manager), Ruan Ellis and Nigel Collins (Technical Directors) for all of the many hours

after school and at weekends enabling the show to go ahead.

The singing, dancing, acting and instrument playing from the students demonstrated the high stand-

ards within expressive arts at Pool Academy. Congratulations to everyone involved.

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

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

Website: www.pool.cornwall.sch.uk email: enquiries@pool.cornwall.sch.uk

Black Belt Success for Tanisha

Congratulations to

Tanisha May 8JLP, for

being awarded her Black

Belt in Karate on

Sunday 11th December.

Rugby success for

Alana

Alana White has

represented County

under 15s in the South

West Rugby Trials.

Cornwall County Squad

beat 7 other counties to

become regional cham-

pions. Alana has now

been put forward for

regional selection.

Spring Term starts Thursday

5th January 2012

Trip to Team Bath

As a finale for the netball teams after all their league matches this year, the PE Department

organised a trip to watch one of the top netball teams in the country, ‘Team Bath’ who

played a mixed All Star team.

This was a preview to the start

of National League matches.

The girls were stunned, not on-

ly by the standard of play by

all the players, male and

female but, with the

outstanding facilities.

An extra bonus was winning a

two hour coaching session with

one of the Team Bath

players……

Yr 10 finishes 3rd in the league

Congratulation to the Yr10 Netball team

following their play-off game against

Penair School on Tuesday evening.

They were slow to start, which resulted

in them being behind at the end of the

first quarter. They held their own during

the next quarters, playing some good

netball. Although they lost the match

they finished 3rd overall in the league.