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Charity is a core Character Virtue

The College is proud to have raised over £2300 for this year’s Children in Need

Day, through a range of activities across the College.

With Charity forming one of the College’s core Character Virtues, it was

wonderful to see such widespread participation in every Year group. Students

participated in a Mufti day, with a Key Stage 3 cake sale and a ‘guess the

sweets’ activity, raising over £50. on this theme, the Food Technology

Department and Year 10 students whipped up a hugely successful pancake

sale at lunchtime selling over 100 Pudsey spot pancakes, raising over £80 in

total. The Sixth Form Fancy Dress competition, organised by Flossie in Year 13,

successfully raised £213 for Children in Need and Young Minds.

The fun continued into Monday, as students saw the results of their ‘Pie the

Teacher’ votes nominate Mr Clift to receive a cream pie to the face by

Mrs hutchinson. Thank you to Dr Turpin and her Tutor group for raising over

£100 through the student votes – an excellent (if

a little messy) start to the week!

A final thank you goes to the Anti-Bullying

Ambassadors who raised over £60 in their ‘odd Socks’ raffle as part of the

National Anti-Bullying Week #oddSocks campaign, with over 100 socks

‘raffled’ and decorated with positive anti-bullying messages in a great

display of kindness and tolerance. Thank you as well to the limelight Theatre

group who have created a performance that focuses on the

importance of empathy for the Anti-Bullying Week assembly. News 3
Tolerance and Charity

Continuing Sporting Success for Alumni Alyssa

Former student, Alyssa oates, represented great Britain twice this year in
Underwater hockey. In July she was selected for the elite ladies team, who won
a Silver medal at the european Underwater hockey Championships in Spain. In
August she was selected for the Under 24’s ladies team and competed at the
World Age group Underwater hockey Championships in Sheffield finishing in
fourth place overall. Alyssa was also chosen to
be the captain and the flag bearer for Team
gB at the opening ceremony.
As a result of her amazing sporting success, she
was a finalist at this year’s Devon and Cornwall
Sports Awards in the Amateur Sports Personality
category.
Alyssa is back training hard and hopes to be selected for the elite ladies team
and compete at the World Underwater hockey Championships in Australia
next year.
This is her last year at Plymouth Marjon University where she is studying to be a
Pe teacher and is currently on a placement at a Plymouth School. Resilience

ÖTIllÖ World Series Swimrun

In September english teacher, Claire Davidson, travelled to Rheinsberg,germany with her husband, to
compete in the 40km ÖTIllÖ World Series swimrun race.
ÖTIllÖ, Swedish for ‘Island to Island’ requires a team of two competitors to swim and run continuously from
Point A to Point B, with as many as 20 transitions before the finish line. The rules dictate that whatever a
competitor starts with, he/she must finish with, and partners must never be
more than ten metres apart at any time. This means that competitors run in
wetsuits and swim in trainers, and often use a leash to stay together or pull a
tired partner at different stages of the race.
Mrs Davidson and her husband, with a combined team age of 106, managed
13th place in their mixed race.
“It was a gorgeous blue-sky day, the conditions were absolutely perfect,” said
Mrs Davidson after the event. “Rheinsberg is such a fascinating place; land of
1,000 lakes with trails galore to explore. It’s one of my favourite places on
earth. A little-known hidden treasure.”
Mrs Davidson is now planning a big swim challenge from the eddystone
lighthouse for a cancer charity. Charity