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HIGH LIFE
School News | Coming Up | Noticeboard
Diary dates
Monday 19 October - Sixth
Form Open Evening at 6.30pm
Thursday 22 October - Pink
Day in aid of Cancer Research
UK
Friday 23 October - Harvest
Service at St. John’s Church at
9am
Monday 26 October - Half
Term begins
Thursday 5 November - Senior
Maths Challenge | Years 12 &
13
Friday 6 November Greenpower Dinner & Awards
Ceremony
Wednesday 11 November -
Remembrance Assembly
Thursday 12 November - Prep
6 Victorian Workshop at
Helston Museum
Thursday 12 November - Year
7 & New Parents’ Evening
Friday 13 November - Sixth
Form Scholarship Exams
Sixth Form Open Evening
A final reminder that next Monday 19 October we are
holding our Sixth Form Open Evening with girls from
Years 10 and 11 invited to come along with their parents to
learn a little more about what Truro High has to offer.
Choosing a Sixth Form and picking the right subjects are two
of the most important educational decisions that a parent has
and we want to do all we can to ensure you are best equipped
to make your choices.
Please join us for drinks and canapés in the Sixth Form
Centre at 6.30pm ahead of subject-specific displays and a
presentation in the Main Hall at 7pm.
Saturday 14 November - Prep
& Senior Open Morning
Monday 16 November - Prep 6
Parents’ Evening
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A fabulous Fashion Night
Out
High Tech High
Fashion
Our Fashion Night Out raised a
phenomenal £1800 towards our
own school laser cutter appeal,
so what exactly is a laser cutter
and how would we use it?
The cutter is a smart piece of
technology that would add
tremendously to our art and
engineering departments. It will
enable us to work with new
materials such as wood, metal
and plastics, designing and
creating a new range of products
from clothing to furniture and
from jewellery to high tech
additions to our Greenpower
cars.
The cutter will also help equip the
girls with the broad skills base
that will be required by the
Government’s new Product
Design GCSE, better preparing
them for the expectations of
Further Education and those
future employers of our potential
engineers, architects and
designers.
The laser cutter, and appropriate
staff training, will cost in the
region of £8,000. Once in school,
it will be available to enhance the
skills of all the girls from Year 7
up.
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71 stunning High School models.
3 top local fashion retailers. 1 fabulous Fashion Night Out.
We dusted off our Louboutins and grabbed our front row
seats to take a look at this season's latest collections for our
fabulous Fashion Night Out as part of Truro Trend Week. Gorgeous outfits from Plum, Bishop Philpott and United
Colors of Benetton walked the runway along with a showcase
review of some of the astonishing couture created by our
talented GCSE and A level pupils. During the interval there was a chance to explore our beauty
bazaar as the foyer was transformed with a host of enticing
treats and treatments from some of the city’s best-known
beauty and style
providers. Style seekers
could also grab a flute of
fizz in our atmospheric
Biology Bar. An enormous thank you
from all of us to all
those people who
helped make our fashion
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From Textiles Room
to Runway
Some of our audience
wondered how our girls got
their designs to the catwalk,
Mrs Wieringa explained:
“We usually start with plain
fabric and the prints are
designed by our pupils,
sometimes hand-printed, but
mostly then scanned so they
can be manipulated digitally
and printed using our amazing
transfer printer which gives a
high quality professional look.
Embroidery is similarly done
by hand or machine,
sometimes with the aid of our
computerised embroidery
machines. The garment patterns have
often been created by our girls
or amended by them from a
garment pattern including upcycle.
So what you saw on the
catwalk really reflects our girls'
skills and I was proud of how
our own work stood up against
the retailers' beautiful
merchandise!”
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show such a fabulous
evening.
We were incredibly
touched by the time
and effort people were
willing to take to make
the event so special.
For example, Linda
White, mother of Year
10 Megan, spent hours
packing 180 organza bags with discount vouchers and samples
of some of the most exciting new perfumes on the market.
We hugely appreciate the effort she took and would like to say
a big thank you to her business, Scentstore, for the generous
donation.
Thanks too to Neal’s Yard,
Spiezia Organics, Sublime Spa,
Aqua Spa, Plum, Bishop
Phillpott, Benetton, L’Occitane
and Tesco who all provided
vouchers or samples for the
goodie bags, raffle and models’
gift bags. They were very popular!
We mustn’t forget all the amazing
staff and mums who toiled behind
the scenes to work wonders with
hair and make-up, the raffle and
the two wine bars. Our thanks to
brilliant DJ Matt Pooley, to Garry Williams and the Truro
High estates team for setting up the hall so brilliantly, to
Chris Beechey-Newman for the lighting and to our wonderful
pianist Rob Norman who provided such wonderful music.
Lisa van der Lem is also a superstar for making 300 beautiful
meringue kisses.
Our beauty bazaar proved a big success thanks to the
wonderful stalls from VolupteLife, Plum, Bishop Phillpott,
Spiezia, Neal’s Yard and Aqua Spa.
To all involved in putting on the show we say a huge thank
you. To those who came to watch – we hope you enjoyed your
evening and it would have been nothing without you.
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Tickets on sale for
glittering
engineering awards
Racing car driver Luciano
Bacheta, tipped by many as
Formula 1’s next big thing, is
the latest guest to confirm his
attendance at Truro High
School’s Greenpower Racing
Awards dinner next month.
The glittering ceremony will
take place at the Alverton
Hotel, Truro on Friday 6
November with several high
profile guests presenting
awards including James
Robinson from Rebellion Le
Mans/Proust, Annette Jenkin
from FIA, and representatives
from 2014/15 sponsors Ellis
Clowes Motorsport Executive
Olivia Curl and Security Broker
Thomas King.
Tickets for the dinner cost £40
for adults (includes a
complimentary glass of wine)
and £35 for children with
doors opening at 7.00pm.
The evening will end with a
silent auction and the
opportunity to win some
fantastic raffle prizes. Please
contact jdean@trurohigh.co.uk
to book your tickets by no later
than Friday 6 November.
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Green power season ends
on a high
The season has ended well for our Greenpower racing team
who have returned in high spirits from the Rockingham
International Speedway Finals.
Two of the school’s cars qualified for the event with “The 11th
Hour” finishing 15th out of 39 starters and reaching as high as
10th at various points in the race. Truro High’s other qualifier,
“The Phoenix Flyer” also ran well with Head of Science, Mr
Dean, delighted with the way the girls organised themselves
and their cars.
Thanking the team’s sponsors, Ellis Clowes and Parnalls
Solicitors, for their support over the season, he said: “If you
had seen the girls at Rockingham you too would have been
proud. We had to do very little. They organised themselves,
supported each other and prepared the cars and made any
alterations they felt necessary. They took the cars to scrutiny
and passed with flying colours.”
It has been an astonishing season for the girls who hope to
build on their achievements to gain even greater success next
year. The dream of getting four cars into the international
final is, according to Mr Dean, well within their grasp.
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Business
Bites
Talented Teachers
By day he is our mild mannered
Head of Upper School but by
night who would have guessed
that Paul Crump has a much
noisier alter ego?
Mr Crump is guitarist and singer
with popular local band The
Roosters who play around 100
gigs a year across mid and west
Cornwall.
He joined the band back in 2006
when he was self-employed and
looking to earn a little extra
money. Little did he imagine how
successful they would become!
Predominantly self-taught, Mr
Crump started playing the guitar
in his 30s and plays finger style,
like Mark Knopfler. He designed
his main guitar himself before
having it custom built by
Jonathan Law, luthier at Feline
Guitars, Croydon, as a nod to one
of his earliest influences, Deep
Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore. It has
a black mahogany body, ebony
fingerboard, purple mirror
scratch plate and purple tuning
pegs.
He has a diverse range from
country to ragtime, blues and
rock and says The Roosters
market themselves with the line:
‘Rock, pop and blues for pubs,
clubs and do’s!’
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We are delighted to
announce the launch of
a brand new careers
initiative designed to
offer our girls the chance
to meet, and learn from,
some of the region’s best
business brains.
Over the coming weeks and months we will be introducing
speakers from a host of popular careers to pass on their
experience and provide first-hand advice to our pupils. The
meetings will be held over tea, coffee and mini croissants in
the dining hall at 8.30am hence the name “Business Bites”.
The first one takes place next Tuesday 20 October with
Sharon Bamford lined up as the first speaker.
Now living in Cornwall with her husband, Sharon was the
Founding Chief Executive of the UK India Business Council
- a Government sponsored body charged with representing
business needs to enhance bilateral trade and investment
between the UK and India.
An inspiring entrepreneur, Sharon has founded and managed
five start-up businesses including a group of Montessori
schools and an international drilling company. In 1998, she set
up the charity, Challenges Worldwide, which places young
people in gap year projects and assignments throughout South
East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. As Director of The
Edinburgh Technopole, at the University of Edinburgh, she
was responsible for leading, managing and marketing the £100
million science park development while as Chief Executive at
The Scottish Institute for Enterprise she led a partnership of
20 Higher Education Institutes in Scotland, committed to
developing enterprise and entrepreneurship amongst staff and
students.
Sharon now devotes much of her time to mentoring young
entrepreneurs and hopes to inspire our girls with her speech
on Tuesday morning. The talk is open to all girls in the senior
school and if you would like to attend, please email
slillicrap@trurohigh.co.uk by Monday morning.
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Issues at the heart of
modern life
For the fourth consecutive year, an internationally renowned
academic, philosopher and author chose Truro High School as
his venue of choice to stage a South West Religious Studies
conference.
Castle and cream teas
It’s been another fabulous
weekend for our boarders who
took advantage of the late
summer sun to climb St Michael’s
Mount.
The tide was out when the girls
arrived enabling them to walk
across the famous granite
causeway before exploring the
mount and the castle itself. After
that there was time for a
traditional Cornish cream tea and
hot chocolate in the National
Trust tea room before returning
to the mainland in a rather
splashy open boat!
The trip completed a busy
weekend in the boarding house
which began with a ‘knit and
natter’ in Dalvenie on Friday
night. Innocent smoothies will
soon be besieged with woolly
hats!
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Keynote speaker Dr Peter
Vardy presented to more than
250 pupils and teachers from
across Cornwall and beyond to
discuss topics right at the
heart of modern life.
The prestigious event was an
intensive one-day course for
GCSE Religious Studies pupils
designed to extend, enthuse
and get them looking ahead to
A Level.
“Religious philosophy is sometimes regarded as something of
a ‘luxury’ subject post-16,” said Dr Vardy. “However, leading
universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, view it as
excellent preparation for flagship courses such as Politics,
Philosophy and Economics (PPE) and Law as well as
traditional arts and humanities’ subjects such as English,
History or Geography.”
He also added that 20% of current PPE students at Oxford
took A Level RP.
Topics up for debate covered a wide range of interesting and
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contentious subjects such as medical ethics, war, the
environment, poverty, equality, justice, marriage and
relationships.
Head of RP, Mr Mothersole, said: “It was fantastic to have so
many visiting schools on campus for the day. The day was
capped off with a lively, interactive debate in which pupils
took the floor to discuss the moral and legal implications of
genetic modification with some thought-provoking points
made.”
Rainy day cover
The winter weather holds no
fear for us any more following
the delivery of a box of brand
new Truro High umbrellas.
The big golf brollies will be in
action from next week on
school trips and rainy-day
tours of the school grounds.
Staff, parents and pupils are
welcome to purchase an
umbrella at a cost of £15 which
can be added to the school
bill. If you would like to get
your hands on one of them
please contact the marketing
department who will be
delighted to help.
Spare roof box
anyone?
If you have a car roof box that
you no longer need, our
Greenpower Racing Team
would be delighted to take it
off your hands. The roof boxes
are used to form the bodywork
of our electric racing cars and
our girls will be looking to
carry out their transformation
over the winter months.
If you have an unwanted roof
box then please contact Head
of Science Mr Jon Dean at
jdean@trurohigh.co.uk.
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Truro High School currently offers Religious Philosophy &
Ethics through to A Level with an additional adult education
class for staff, pupils and parents who wish to learn about the
core issues which shape the world we live in.
Delectable Indian delights
pay off for Shelterbox
We are still savouring the memories of our mouth-watering
Indian Banquet which has raised nearly £1600 for the work
Shelterbox is doing with Syrian refugees.
Organised by Naz Dalal, mother of our Head Girl Zahra, and
Anila Shyam, the event drew massive crowds last weekend for
a fabulous lunch of samosas, dhal, curry, rice and naan.
Supporters came from far and wide with many lingering quite
some time over seconds – the food was really delicious!
Thank you to all those from
Truro High who helped on the
day and our gratitude too to
those who gave up part of their
weekend to come, eat and
support the charity.
Naz and Anila deserve medals
for producing such an
enormous amount of food – it
took three hours just to sauté
the onions – and we are
delighted that all their hard
work paid off.
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Gardening in
the community
Book ahead for a date
with Benedict
Cumberbatch!
The date in question is
November 20 when the delightful
Mr Cumberbatch will be leaping
into action for a special screening
of 'Frankenstein' by the National
Theatre in our very own Piran
Theatre.
Best known as Sherlock, he takes
the role of the Creature in the
much lauded production.
Organised by our English
Department, the screening will
start at 4pm and will last
approximately two hours. Pupils
aged 15 and over are invited to
attend, as are parents and family
members.
Did you know? Pansies are one of
the oldest cultivated flowers in
history and they're edible.
Prep Gardening Club pulled on
their wellies and brought
their trowels to Boscawen
Park this week to help
the gardeners plant
pansies in the central
diamond flowerbed.
In the
pink
Truro High will be
turning all shades of
pink next Thursday as part of the
“wear it pink” breast cancer awareness campaign.
Girls in both Prep and Senior schools are invited to wear
their own pink clothes on the day in return for a one pound
donation to the charity.
The campaign is organised by Breast Cancer Now and has
been running since 2002 with £27 million raised so far
towards valuable research.
Admission is £1 and the
proceeds will go to Shelterbox.
Tickets are available from
Reception. Coming up in Lent
term will be the National
Theatre’s alternative version of
the show starring Jonny Lee
Miller as the Creature, as well as
wonderful productions of
'Othello' and 'Hamlet'.
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Half term antics with
Naturally Learning
Not sure what you are getting up to this half term? Our
friends at Naturally Learning are offering a holiday club for
girls and boys aged 4-11 with some exciting activities planned
to make Michaelmas Half Term fly by.
With a fun-packed programme ranging from dance workshops
and a Great Truro Bake Off to harvest celebrations and a full
day at Forest School, your little ones will spend days filled
with action and adventures.
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Director of National
Youth Choir chooses
Truro High to host a
prestigious music
workshop
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Spaces are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.
Please contact truro@naturallylearning.co.uk to book your
child’s place.
Truro High School Music
Department is honoured to be
hosting Cornwall Music
Education Hub’s 16+ Vocal
Composition and Performance
Workshop this weekend.
The masterclass will be run by
Ben Parry, Composer and
Director of the National Youth
Choir of Great Britain and Greg
Hallam director of NYCGB boys
choir. The Fellowship Octet will
be present during the weekend
to perform a selection of the
compositions.
The weekend offers the
invaluable opportunity for singers
to develop their own work on
vocal compositions, receive
feedback and advice from
renowned composer Ben Parry
and hear their work performed
by some of the country’s finest
young singers. They will also
discover what the human voice is
capable of.
Programme
Monday | Let’s Dance | Create a new dance routine with 4
Funx Sake dance group | 10am -2pm
Tuesday | Great Truro Bake Off | Make your own signature
dish with our very own Mary Berry (Tash) and Paul
Hollywood (Ryan)
Wednesday | Let’s get Physical | Yoga, parachute fun, ball
games and team games, and making healthy snacks
Thursday | Pumpkin Festival | Cooking, carving, and creating.
Celebrating Autumn
Friday | Forest School | Fire lighting with Tom. Toasted
marshmallows and hot chocolate to keep out the Autumn
chill
Prices
8am-6pm - £20
9am-4pm - £15
10am-2pm - £10
8am-1pm/1pm-6pm - £10
All meals are included and there is a 10% sibling
discount.
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Sports Results
Week commencing 5 October
Monday 5 October
Sixth Form v Truro School B side THS won 18-11.
Tuesday 6 October
Clothes Show Live
Boarding Offer
For those girls heading off to the
Clothes Show Live in December,
we have a special offer from our
boarding team that may make the
early start a little easier to handle.
They are offering flexi-boarding
spaces for up to five girls to stay
behind after school on Friday 4
December and have supper in
the boarding house before being
allocated a quiet room for the
night. The following morning they
will be woken in time to board
the coach with a specially packed
breakfast and lunch. On returning
late that night, they can fall back
into bed before having breakfast
with the boarders and then
heading home.
The cost for two nights’
accommodation and meals is
£42. If you would like to reserve a
place, please contact our
Registrar Miss Catie Shaw by
emailing
registrar@trurohigh.co.uk .
U16 Hockey v Truro School THS lost
Wednesday 7 October
PSP Netball v Richard Lander.
Year 7 won
Year 8 won
Year 9 Lost
Year 10 lost
Year 11 lost 20-21
Prep 5/6 High 5 Netball at Penryn
THS v Flushing: THS won 5-0
THS v PAW won 11-2
Thursday 8 October
ESCC Cross Country Competition at Tavistock
Year 7 & 8 team competed against schools from
Cornwall & Devon. Out of a field of 60 runners
Lucy Day (Year 7) finished 12th, Katie Day Daisy Chapman Evelyn Roberts Fiona
McCallum & Orlagh Giblett
Week commencing 12 October
Wednesday 14 October
U19 Netball Tournament.We lost to Truro College 1,
Truro College 2 and Helston but won against Bude.
This meant we finished 7th in the County.
Year 8 Hockey Festival we finished 1st winning all their
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matches and our Prep 5 & 6 team finished 3rd. Great result for
our Prep team.
Prep Hi 5 Netball won 7-1 v Kennall Vale.
Thursday 15 October
PSP Netball v Camborne:
Year 7 won 17-5
Year 8 won 40-0
Year 9 won 16-6
Year 10 drew 17-17
Fixtures next week
Wednesday 21 October
PSP Netball v Pool Home 4.00 p.m. start.
Prep 5 & 6 Hockey v Polwhele Home 2.30 p.m. start.
Hi 5 Netball at Penryn 4.00 p.m. start.
Thursday 22 October
U16 Hockey Tournament 10.00 am. start. Home match.
Clubs
Monday no Badminton Club due to Sixth Form Open Evening.
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