Young Enterprise at Richard Huish College is Buzzing…
Richard Huish College in Taunton has a long tradition of success in encouraging young enterprise and for the seventh year running a group of their students have won through to the County Finals of the Young Enterprise Innovation Awards.
At Wells Trade Fair on February 9th Buzz-Word, this year’s young enterprise company, wowed the judges with their ideas to write children’s books about Bees. Characters such as Bee Friendly and Bee Happy help to promote a more positive image of bees to young children. They are now working hard towards the County Final on May 18th.
To promote their books, Buzz-word have organised a FLOWER POWER DAY at Hestercombe Gardens on Saturday March 27th between 1pm and 4pm. People are encouraged to come along and scatter Wildflower Seeds on a designated area within the gardens. They can also enjoy an afternoon of informed entertainment, stalls and games centred on Bees.
If you would like to buy a copy of the latest book it is on sale from the Richard Huish Box Office on 01823 320810, priced at £2.50.
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Huish Student dances to the sound of success!
Richard Huish College student Felicity Kerr has been offered places at two of the world’s finest centres for training in choreography and contemporary dance. After gruelling auditions she received offers from both Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Laban.
For the last thirteen years Felicity has been a pupil of Miss Lesley Gray and recently Miss Verity Snell at the Mountway School of Dancing where she passed her grade 8 ballet with distinction in December. In addition for five years Felicity has been part of Taunton Youth Dance Company (TYDC) which is directed by Jo Wilmott and Nikki Penfold.
Felicity said “I feel very privileged to have the choice of two wonderful places to study. I am so grateful for the thorough ballet technique tuition I received at the Mountway School and the choreographic encouragement and contemporary performance opportunities I have had with TYDC at the Tacchi Morris”.
Catherine Lee, Huish Dance Course Manager said: “Felicity thoroughly deserves her places at Northern Contemporary Dance School and The Laban Centre. She is a student who has seized every opportunity given to her. Her input into Youth Dance in the region is incredibly valued and I know she will be a student to look out for in the future.”
Felicity was home tutored before coming to Richard Huish College. She is currently studying Music, Biology and Philosophy as well as Dance of course! She has been predicted A grades in every subject.
Huish Hockey on a winning streak
Ladies hockey at Richard Huish College continues to go from strength to strength. The College runs 3 ladies teams with players having 2 training session a week and the College running a comprehensive fixture programme. The teams have enjoyed much success this season.
7 of the ladies first squad were selected to represent the South West Colleges in a fixture against the Welsh Colleges. These players were Gemma Bashford, Emma May, Kess Wakley, Abby Walker, Lauren McGurk, Joely Hartley, Rosie Davey. From these, Rosie, Kess and Abby were selected to represent the South West and Wales at the British Colleges trials up at Cannock. After a gruelling day of assessment Rosie Davey went on to be selected to be part of the British Colleges squad which will go on tour later this year.
Huish Student dances to the sound of success!
Richard Huish College student Felicity Kerr has been offered places at two of the world’s finest centres for training in choreography and contemporary dance. After gruelling auditions she received offers from both Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Laban.
For the last thirteen years Felicity has been a pupil of Miss Lesley Gray and recently Miss Verity Snell at the Mountway School of Dancing where she passed her grade 8 ballet with distinction in December. In addition for five years Felicity has been part of Taunton Youth Dance Company (TYDC) which is directed by Jo Wilmott and Nikki Penfold.
Felicity said “I feel very privileged to have the choice of two wonderful places to study. I am so grateful for the thorough ballet technique tuition I received at the Mountway School and the choreographic encouragement and contemporary performance opportunities I have had with TYDC at the Tacchi Morris”.
Catherine Lee, Huish Dance Course Manager said: “Felicity thoroughly deserves her places at Northern Contemporary Dance School and The Laban Centre. She is a student who has seized every opportunity given to her. Her input into Youth Dance in the region is incredibly valued and I know she will be a student to look out for in the future.”
Felicity was home tutored before coming to Richard Huish College. She is currently studying Music, Biology and Philosophy as well as Dance of course! She has been predicted A grades in every subject.
The Age of Aquarius at the Night Tripper Club
Richard Huish Performance Enrichment presents ‘The Age of Aquarius At The Night Tripper Club’.
11th and 12th March at 7.30pm
Main Hall, Richard Huish College
It promises to be an evening of music, dance, drama and nostalgia based around the events of 1968. There will be bar facilities throughout the evening.
Dancing in the ailes very much encouraged!
Tickets are available from the College Box Office on 01823 320810 priced at £6 for adults and £3 for concessions.
Huish Students go for gold at the Physics Olympiad
At the recent Physics Olympiad, 2 upper sixth Huish students qualified to take the 2nd round paper, sat nationally by over 1000 of the top physics students in the country. This consisted of a 3 hour paper of highly challenging questions, set to test the students’ problem-solving skills in areas well beyond the A level syllabus.
Sarah Thomas just missed out on a Gold Award, with a Silver that still puts her in the top 160 students nationwide. Jon Sykes gained an upper Bronze, placing him in the top third of the entrants. Congratulations go to them both!
Reunion and Prize Giving Evening 2010
All 2009 leavers are invited to attend the annual Reunion and Prize Giving Evening on Wednesday, 31st March 2010 in the College Hall. A letter of invitation to all former students has been sent including to prize winners. For further information please contact the college on 01823 320902.
College students get behind-the-scenes’ access to Business Opportunities
Eighteen Students aged from Richard Huish College descended on London on Monday, 30 November and got the chance to boost their employability skilling by gaining exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ access to one of Britain’s most influential organisations.
BPP Business College opened their doors to the group of Huish students. In the morning they were introduced to a different aspect of Higher education through a College tour. They also took part in a realistic work activity, getting the unique opportunity to experience the teaching environment in a commercial business university.
The inspiring visit was part of a day-long event, ‘A Capital Experience’, organised by aspiration-raising business-education programme Career Academies UK, involving a total of 1,200 students from across the UK and over 50 top London-based employers.
Then in the afternoon, the students gathered at the National Theatre to participate in a range of business-related activities, led by motivational speaker Dave McQueen. During the inspirational session, serial entrepreneur Shaa Wasmund and Accenture Partner Tim Robinson also shared their own career journeys with the teenagers. Status – the current UK Street Dance Champions for 2009 – made a welcome guest appearance.
Lesley Jarrett, Career Academy Co-Ordinator commented, “Our students really appreciated getting the chance to find out what it is like to study and work in the Capital and also share their experiences with other Career Academy students. We hope that ‘A Capital Experience’ will unleash an ambitious, excited generation of future employees.”
Student comments included:
“It was a really good experience that I will remember for a long time”
“ Great experience, good fun and I’m getting more motivated”
Martyn Drain, Acting Chief Executive of Career Academies UK, said: “At a time when youth unemployment is at worryingly high levels and young people are leaving school without the skills they need to succeed, ‘A Capital Experience’ is more relevant than ever. The day is designed to provide these teenagers with inspiring, work-related learning experiences and open their eyes to what is available if they aim high. Our hope is that that after visiting the opportunities that are available to them to develop their business skills, they will realise that a successful future career is not just a dream and is fact well within their grasp.”
‘A Capital Experience’ is the biggest national one-day event in the Career Academy calendar and kicks off the two-year programme for young people taking part. Richard Huish has been running the programme since September.
The Career Academy programme was set up in 2002 by Sir Win Bischoff, current Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group plc and provides a qualification equivalent to three ‘A’ levels, involving one-to-one business mentoring and a six-week paid internship.
Nationally, 95% of Career Academy graduates go on to higher education, or an equivalent level of work-related training, compared with a predicted 40% based on their GCSE performance at the start of the programme.
Huish Students excel in Cambridge Union Debating Competition
16 teams from all over the West Country gat
hered at Richard Huish College on the 9th November for the first round of the Cambridge Union debating competition. Huish teams were victorious in their rounds and will go on to the next round. The winning teams included Alec Macgregor and Rob Thompson, and Luke Parchment and Matt Dowds. The other two Huish teams (both runners-up in their rooms) were Jaxom Champion and Mary Bateman, and Katharine Cook and Mike Knight. (Katharine and Mike were actually runners-up to Luke and Matt!)
Debating in all the rooms was robust and lively as sixth form students engaged fully with major questions of our age. They all discussed “This House would ban the consumption of meat” and second motions varied but included “This House would make students bear the full cost of their university education” and “This House would raise the driving age to 21 for males only”.
Karen Revans, the Huish Debating Coach said “I am delighted that our students did so well and we now look forward to the next round. Debating will help them to develop the skills required to take them to leadership positions in the professions and politics.”
The next round will take place in February.
