Digital Leaders

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Digital Leaders

Calling all ICT Enthusiasts!

Do you enjoy ICT?

Do you have ICT skills you could pass on?

Why not get rewarded and become a Digital Leader?

The school is looking for enthusiastic young people who like technology and would like to share what they know with others.

The Digital Leaders Programme is aimed at pupils who want to make a difference to the school and who would be willing to help those not so technologically minded. In some cases this may even be your teachers!!

A Digital Leader will use their ICT knowledge to help train and teach staff, pupils & parents.

You will help improve a teacher’s resources, such as PowerPoint presentations, advise pupils and parents on e-safety or even contribute to the school website or VLE (Moodle).

A Digital Leader will be part of a Learning Community that contributes to ICT innovation and curriculum development @ our school.

This award will make you stand out as an ICT specialist.

You will be awarded a Digital Leaders certificate which you can add to your Progress File.

It is great for your development and will add an extra dimension to your CV.

The following roles are available:

VLE Champion

Digital Journalist

Teacher Trainer

Pupil Teacher

Social Media/E-Safety Consultant

The Award is open to all Year groups.

Pupils must apply to be a Digital Leader electronically in the form of a PowerPoint or interactive presentation .

The e-application must demonstrate your ICT skills.

You could include graphics and/or videos you’ve created and demonstrate your range of ICT skills.

You must state what skills you have and why you think you would be a great Digital Leader for the school.

e-applications must be emailed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

NO LATER THAN 3^rd January 2012.

MAKE SURE YOUR FULL NAME AND FORM IS ON THE E-APPLICATION.

GOOD LUCK!

Rhondda Leader 'In Touch'

September 24th 2010

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.