Year 10 Football Success
Ribblesdale School’s outstanding sporting achievements continued as they progressed through to the quarter-finals of the English Schools under-15 cup with a nail-biting penalty win against the tough St Francis Xavier College away in Liverpool.
Young Enterprise – Presence
21 members of Year 10 have formed a Young Enterprise company called “Presence”. The Managing Director is Luke Wilde and his assistant is Shameema Yusuf. There are 14 other directors with everyone else being an employee. Presence issued shares in the company to raise start-up capital to begin production of our first product – greetings cards. We have a range of cards available for all occasions from new baby to birthday to new home etc. Of course, with Christmas only just behind us, much of our energy has been going into producing and selling Christmas cards. We had a stall at Pickwick Night in Whalley on 1st December where we were very successful and made sales of around £150.
Ribblesdale Sport in the Press
Recently you may have seen that the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times ran a news article on the success of the Sporting Teams at Ribblesdale. A link to the article is below:
Ribblesdale School’s Amazing Sports Teams » Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
Blackburn Rovers Soccer Camp
During the half term holiday from Monday 24th to Friday 28th October Blackburn Rovers Football club are hosting a soccer camp at Ribblesdale School. Prices start from just £8.
For more information please view this documentation or visit the website.
F1 in Schools
Pupils of Ribblesdale school have again this year entered the F1 in schools challenge. As part of this challenge pupils have to raise funds by various means and have lately held cake days which have been very successful. They have also had to make presentations to local and international industries to gain not just financial support but also, expertise to help develop and manufacture the designs that the pupils have created. They are working steadily in their bid to prepare the final F1 car in an effort to win the regional finals being held in February 2011.
Success for the Cheerleaders at Winter Gardens
Ribblesdale High School Cheerleaders have had an outstanding first year and have achieved success beyond all expectation. They have recently taken part in their second national level competition held at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens where 32 members had more difficult dances to learn from their last event at Blackpool Tower.
Complete with a brand new kit, pupils danced in a knock-out competition for their particular age category against dance schools from all over the north of England and 8 pupils reached the semi-finals with 5 going on to be placed in the finals. Lola McEvoy and Chynna Green were semi-finalists in the 12 and over Dance 1 and Sophie Hodkinson reached the semis in the age 11 Dance 2. In only her second ever dance competition, Lola stated “It was a totally AMAZING experience for us. We all did pretty well and most of us got through to the 2nd or 3rd round at least. It’s given us confidence and we can’t wait for the next competition!”
In the older age categories, pupil’s performances were absolutely outstanding throughout the intermediate dances. In the age 15 Dance 2 section, Alix Carey was placed 1st, Emma Duffy 2nd and Gabby Parkinson 4th, and in the age 16 and over Dance 2, Lucy Wilson came 1st and Chloe Hindle was placed 3rd.
Teacher, Dawn Robinson is incredibly proud of all the girls who took part and stated that “It’s really difficult getting up in front of hundreds of people at a large venue like the Winter Gardens and dancing in front of others, many of whom are much more experienced and are used to dancing competitively. For pupils to achieve the success they have so quickly, highlights the positive approach they have to learning the dances and the hard work they have to put in to practising. Not only that, they have had to raise money to enter the competitions and towards coach travel as well. They did this with equal enthusiasm when they took part in a public exhibition outside the United Reform Church in Clitheroe where together with a huge cake sale they raised £400. Pupils would like to thank members of the public for their incredible generosity. The girls will now work towards their 2 next competitions at the beginning of September and then in November where they will be back at Blackpool Tower.”
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