Rotary Young Chef Competition
Congratulations to Amy Lord in year 10 for achieving an excellent result in the Rotary Young Chef competition against 7 other schools.
Amy, along with Mrs McLoed, travelled to Lancaster and Morecambe College to produce a 3 course meal. Amy did very well and received some excellent feedback about her cooking.
Make It Enterprising
On Thursday 26th January 8 Year 9 pupils took part in “The Make It Enterprising Challenge” at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel. They had to design, cost and market a WAFFER (Water And Food, Fuel & Emergency Resources) container which could be used to help survivors after a natural disaster. Twelve schools took part in the competition and Ribblesdale’s entry “Making it Green” won. The students: Phoebe Middleton, Francesca Moore, Evie Grant, Mollie Webb, Abbey Tillotson, Sam Hood, Dylan Mayor and Joseph Hook will now represent school at the North West final in the summer.
Latvian Visitors Help Ribblesdale Pupils Speak Up
Eminent politician and historian amongst the speakers
Friday January 25th Ribblesdale School is delivering a learning day called Speak Up Speak Out when an array of speakers and presentations will be given to year 9 pupils, including a group of year 9 pupils who visited Latvia in September to interview Gulag and Communist / Nazi survivors. The Army have agreed to come in and present on Afghanistan, a local resident from the valley who fled Stalins Communist regime and atrocities will handle a question and answer session about life under the Red Army and the Nazis and I am pleased to say that 6 pupils, 2 staff and a parent are flying in from Jelgava in Latvia to be part of the day and will also give two presentations.
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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.
The Big Quiz!
At the start of this school year, year 7 and 8 pupils were organised into house teams as an attempt to improve their academic progress and competitive spirit. Each week, pupils have been taking part in a weekly quiz in their coaching groups which have been subject based with the aim of boosting the house points system and consolidating their current learning. Read more about The Big Quiz! »
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
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