A packed hall listened to an excellent leader’s debate which really set the election on fire here at Kingsbridge Community College.

Chaired by Mr Randall, the candidates laid out the reasons to vote for them.  Questions followed from the audience ranging from issues on health and education to the economy and immigration. Students will have the opportunity to vote next Thursday using the College’s new VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) – FROG.

Many thanks to all the candidates who did such a good job

Liberal Democrats
Tom Tozer – Candidate  Year 12
Ben Parsons-Jones – Agent Year 8
Tom Wheeler
Henry Tozer

Conservatives
Tom Ashby – Candidate Year 12
Stephanie Frasier-Robert – Agent Year 8
AJ

Labour
Charlotte O’Toole – Candidate Year 9
Tom Myatt – Agent Year 13
Rebecca Johns
Rachel Morgan

Greens
Elin Falla Year 7

Monster Raving Looney Party
Ed Purser

Students at the College will have a chance to vote on May 6th in their own General Election. Five candidates are standing, and campaigning is already well underway with a Leaders' debate planned for Friday 30th April. We look forward to a high turnout and the chance to once again cast our vote electronically using our new VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).

Face to Faith Video Conference

On Thursday the 18th March, our tutor group along with our tutor Mr Bindon and Mr Randall (Head of Religious Education), took part in a video conferencing session with the Guru Harkrishan Public School: situated in the Punjab region of Northern India. Prior to the conference we prepared ourselves by considering the types of questions which might be asked by our Indian counterparts, and then we carefully compiled our own questions so that we could interact using the satellite link.

The key point of the conference was to speak and compare our ideas on what faith is, and what it means to us in living in different cultures. 

The students’ English was very impressive and it gave us such a great opportunity to speak to children of our own age; but with a totally different lifestyle to ours.

The event was a truly memorable global experience.

Onna Lessware 8BDN

Kingsbridge Community College will be engaged with a marathon of dance to celebrate this massive event. Flash dances to be performed around the town by Years 10, 11, 12 and 13 Dance Students.

Year 7 students will have a chance receive top quality street and break-dance tuition presented by Toby Gouricek and his team: the cost of which will be only £1. At lunch time ‘Just Dance’ will be showing on the Wii in the Gym for those who wish to have a go.

There will also be a Street Workshop running after College at 3.30-4.30pm with Toby – anyone is welcome to join in for a small fee of £1.00.

Spontaneous performances

Earlier this year, 7 students spent a week in the delightful location of Totleigh Barton improving their writing and their football on a project called ‘Writing the game: from pitch to page’.  During this week they were fortunate enough to work closely with Sunday Mirror sports journalist Anthony Clavane, playwright Nick Stimson and poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan.
As a follow up to the week, the students were given a commission – to return to College and to write a newspaper.  And write they did.
Monday 19th April saw the launch of their paper - ‘Kingsbridge Kronicles’ - and gave the new writers a chance to celebrate, and show off their writing in front of various people, from parents to press.  

The launch was a huge success and finished with a short video of the new writers in action.

To steal the words of Arvon Foundation’s Development Manager Emma Johnson, who made this all possible, the success of these students is “a great example of how sport and the arts can come together to give young people opportunities they would otherwise miss out on.”
We are hoping that students from Kingsbridge Community College will be fortunate to be involved in a similar project next year.

In the Easter holidays, a small group of year 8, 9 and 10 students visited Home Park to meet Rory Fallon, one of Plymouth Argyle’s strikers.  This was a real treat for the Argyle fans among us and was organised by our ex-professional footballer, Site Manager, Graham Cawthorne.  The purpose of the visit was to interview Rory about his life in football and Christian faith and how he combines the two areas.  As part of the Religious Education GCSE course for Year 11 next year, we are studying a module on religion and sport and wanted the input of a professional footballer on the issues it could cause.