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Celebrations After GCSE Results at Helston Community College

By Em_Williams at 16:02 on 25/08/11

There were celebrations a plenty at Helston Community College this morning as students picked up their much anticipated GCSE results. According to The Packet, the college says that this year's results were "broadly in line" with expected targets, which were set at a high level as usual. Over 78% of students gained at least five A* to C grades, while over 64% had English and maths among these grades. The college's maths...
More Outstanding A-level Results for Helston Community College

By Em_Williams at 12:13 on 18/08/11

Helston Community College has once again obtained outstanding "A" level results across the board, improving on the high standards reached last year. 13% of students achieved the highest grade, 'A*', which is a significant rise from last year and over 60% of the entries have been graded 'A*', 'A' and 'B', that's 8% above national figures. This has led to the average grade per entry being midway between grade 'B' and...
Not a drop of water in sight as pupils ‘row’ for charity

By Helston People at 09:00 on 11/05/11

TREVISKER Community Primary School pupils have been busy rowing for charity – without going near a drop of water. After hearing about the earthquakes in Japan the youngsters at the St Eval-based school asked if they could do a sponsored event to help raise money for ShelterBox. Head teacher Ros Adams said: "The rowing machines were put into action with Key Stage 2 pupils rowing for a total of an hour each. The children all did...
£10,000 to be spent on cycles

By Helston People at 09:00 on 14/04/11

THE SCHOOL was recently successful in bidding for £10,000 to fund a cycling scheme. The money has bought ten road cycles, including associated safety equipment, for students. The selected students will use them to cycle to school and will benefit from cycle maintenance lessons and skills sessions in conjunction with Cycle Logic at Helston. The plan is to develop a road team to raise the profile of cycling at Cape and to...
Olive the ostrich’s visit could spell TV success for primary school pupils

By Helston People at 09:59 on 08/03/11

Pupils from two schools in Helston could find their flights of fancy recreated on the television screen after being chosen to take part in a unique workshop. The youngsters from Trannack Primary School and Mullion Primary School yesterday were visited by Laura Ellison, who provides the voice of Olive – a young ostrich whose imaginary travels feature on a cartoon channel. During the workshops, the children were encouraged to...

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SNOW: SCHOOLS UPDATE FOR 30/11/10

By chris_wasey

I've been trying to figure out what town has been most affected by the snow - burt can't decide. ...

By Em_Williams at 22:03 on 29/11/10

Updated at 8.20am Breage School and Bright Sparks Pre-School – CLOSED Godolphin Primary School and Little Dolphins – CLOSED Halwin School – CLOSED Mullion Secondary School –Opening at 10.50am Nansloe CP School - CLOSED Parc Eglos Primary School – Opening at 10.30am Porthleven School l- CLOSED (was due to open at 10.00am) Sithney School and Pre-School - CLOSED St...
Helston Music and Performing Arts Academy Opening

By irgmcdonald

This sounds great. The music department at Helston is great. They're the reason I studied music at...

By Em_Williams at 22:01 on 08/09/10

Helston Community College is launching its exciting new Music and Performing Arts Academy and opening its doors to the community for the first time this month. At the launch event families will have the chance to tour the music studios and try out a range of creative activities including street dance, classical, circus skills, voice coaching, jazz, big band, rock, recording and mixing and a range of instruments. The...
Does Helston Have a Best School?

By irgmcdonald

I went to Helston School and had a great time there. Thing have changed since I left though. Good to...

By Em_Williams at 22:28 on 29/08/10

This summer, A-level and GCSE students at Helston School achieved their best ever set of results proving that the town's one and only secondary school is a safe bet when deciding where to educate your children. We're actually quite lucky given that all of Helston's schools are pretty decent. In town we have, as mentioned, one secondary and there are also three primary schools. Prior to writing this article i asked a number of people...
Helston School A-Level Results Up on Last Year - But Are They Getting Easier?!

By sombrero

I suppose once everyone gets an A star we can say they are too easy. Maybe until then we should just...

By Em_Williams at 12:36 on 21/08/10

There are many happy students and parents in Helston this weekend following Thursday's A-level results. Helston School has once again achieved an excellent set of grades with passes up on last year. There's something rather special about A-level results day. I'm not sure why but each year when I see the students nervously waiting to open their envelopes, then finally learning their fate, I'm hit with a wave of nostalgia. I'm...
Parc Eglos Interested in Academy Status

By irgmcdonald

@chris_wasey I guess they would be still inspected by OFSTED. In Falmouth a couple of schools have...

By Em_Williams at 09:09 on 30/06/10

It's been revealed that Helston's Parc Eglos School could become an independent academy. It's one of around 1,600 in England that has registered an interest with the Department of Education. If they were to get the go-ahead it would mean they could break away from council control. Becoming an academy would give the school more freedom to set their own curriculum, decide on their own term times and the length of the school day. It...