From an RE point of view the two day workshop for all Year 8 students with Razwan was brilliant. The students really relished the oppurtunity to be able to understand and be creative whilst learning about another culture. They enjoyed meeting Razwan and the work that they produced with him and since has been excellent.

Experiential learning is extremely important and the workshop gave the students the chance to be hands on and creative, they had the oppurtunity to produce Art work in both RE & Maths, as well as looking at maths and cosmology within Islam.

According to the students the day was...
"Creative" "fun" "Good to get into their culture"

I think these comments sum up the day as a great success and extremely worth while from a student & learning perspective!

We were very pleased to welcome Miguel and Oscar from Valencia yesterday as part of the continuing exchange programme with L'Alcudia de Crespins, Valencia.

Miguel the headteacher and Oscar the English language teacher came to discuss the final arrangements for the Spanish students visit in March, with Mr Tim Melia and Miss Astrid Ruiz of the MFL department.

Miguel and Oscar were given a guided tour of our college by Mr Roger Pope and then met with the students who visited Valencia last October.

Kingsbridge Community College took a group of Year 8 students on a Geography Fieldwork visit to the Eden Project in Cornwall. As a result of the poor weather, the students were lucky enough to find that they had the site almost to themselves.

The trip focused on investigating plant adaptations, with a view to understanding how plants are able to adapt to the different conditions in which they live. The students carried out a self guided tour of the biomes, identifying how different plants survive in their natural climate and environment.

The visit will be followed up in college by asking students to think about how plants might need to adapt to survive in Britain's changing climate, culminating in a project to design and build a plant that can survive the predicted warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers.

In light of the recent extreme weather conditions and a forecast that there could be further disruption over coming days, it is important to ensure that all students are fully informed about the potential impact on the January module exams.

In the event that the College is closed on any day when there are public examinations then these examinations will continue as normal. For students living outside Kingsbridge we would recommend considering making arrangements, where possible, to stay in Kingsbridge for the night before their exams in the event of a poor forecast.

In the event that a student is unable to get to College then the student will be required to re-sit the module in the summer exam session. Clearly this is not ideal, and therefore students should make every effort to pre-empt such a situation. The rules state that a student arriving more than 45 minutes after an exam starts is not permitted to sit that exam.  If for any reason an exam is missed and there is no opportunity for a re-sit later in the year, then it might be possible to apply for special consideration: it is safer to make every effort to be at the exam.

We ask that students check the College website on a regular basis for any updates regarding the weather. They should leave plenty of time to get to College on time for their exams and ensure that they are suitably dressed - exam venues can be cold at this time of the year!

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with either myself or the Exams Office (ext 113/115) with any further questions.


Roger Pope
Principal