Budding Movie Makers Scoop Top Award!

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Budding Movie Makers Scoop Top Award!

Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:36 |

Written by Mr. De Benedictis

A group of e3+ participants from Treorchy Comprehensive have been busy over the last year creating their own movies, one of which scooped a top award at the International Youth Film Festival in Port Talbot this summer.

The young people – Matthew Leon, Bronwyn Ellis, Jazmin Williams, Josephine Eddy, Owen Gillard, Adam Morgan, Ben Gardner, Demi Powell, Marc Cox, Matthew Eveson, Emily Wilton and Hollie Horsell – are no strangers to scooping top awards, as their previous film “The Message” topped the same bill at last year’s festival.

This year’s film, entitled ‘Fierce Headbutt’, is a sci-fi superhero adventure about a boy’s quest to stand up to a vicious gang of school bullies to win back the girl of his dreams. The film which examines the moral conundrum of whether it is better to do a good deed which has unintended bad consequences, or a bad deed which has unintended good consequences, enabled the students to once again walk away from the festival with the prestigious award for the Best UK Short Film.

The group will continue to hone their ever-expanding movie-making skills every Friday after school as part of the e3+ Programme.

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Treorchy Cadets win Silver at first attempt

Competing for the 1^st time in the Cadet Cambrian Patrol Competition, held on the 18^th & 19^th September, the Treorchy Comprehensive School CCF team were awarded a silver medal.

The competition is open to cadets from all over Wales, and is a true test of physical and mental endurance. The cadets work as a team to navigate a route of approximately 22 km, via a series of checkpoints, where they are tested on various aspects of the Cadet syllabus, including 1^st Aid, field craft and map reading.

The Treorchy Comprehensive School team were the highest scoring junior team from a CCF, beating more established CCF’s in private schools. The patrol commander was Cadet Sgt Catherine Lumby, who despite sustaining an injury early into the competition continued to lead her team, knowing that if she dropped out the team would lose points.

The whole team were extremely tired at the prize giving on Sunday afternoon, but can be very proud of their efforts and the Silver medals that they were awarded.

Uncovering Chemical Secrets

On Wednesday the 15^th of September a number of our Chemistry A level class attended a course at the University of Wales, Cardiff. The title of the course was ‘Uncovering chemical secrets’ and the pupils certainly did this! The day consisted of a morning lecture on chemical synthesis, an opportunity to complete a number of exciting experiments in the university laboratory and a tour of the Chemistry department where a number of expensive analytical machines and techniques were explained in detail.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the day and found it extremely useful as it covered a number of topics that they will be examined on in January as part of their A level qualification. It also gave the students a taste of university life, which hopefully they will experience next year when they leave Treorchy Comprehensive and embark on their future careers!

Outstanding Performances by our Dancers

Congratulations to the dancers from Year 9, 10, 11,12 & 13 for giving outstanding and professional performances at the Skills Cymru Conference held at the Millennium Stadium on the 16th & 17th September. All groups were invited to perform to an audience of students, teachers and exhibiters from across Wales and thoroughly enjoyed the day. Each performance was shown on the large screens in the Stadium throughout the day and footage was later shown on the ITV news.