Ridgeway School: News Archive 2005

Ridgeway School News Archive: 2005

Last years news articles featured on the school website...

Humanities Reward Trip To London: The trip is an annual event, designed to encourage students to perform well in each of the Humanities subjects: RS; Geography and History.

Modern Foreign Languages Trip To Spain: We had a fantastic time!

Ridgeway Teacher Beats 14 hour Triathlon I was socked in the eye by another heel and felt a good shiner develop ...

Colebrook Carnival Art and sound on parade with the Samba band from Ridgeway...

Looking Into The Habit Of A Lifetime Following The success of last years visit, once again the R.S. and History Departments took Year 7 on a trip to Buckfast Abbey... [Read article in full]

Ridgeway gains Specialist Status in Science and Mathematics Many people deserve my gratitude and thanks for this success including school students, staff, and governors.... [Read article in full]

Book Week: Visit By Acclaimed Authors The Year 9 students who met Tim Bowler on the first day were fascinated by all he had to say... [Read article in full]

Life Is A Cabaret For Ridgeway School Performers Students from Ridgeway School 's Music and Drama departments provided a feast of entertainment for an enthusiastic audience in their variety production, ‘Cabaret'... [Read article in full]

Tibetan Teachers Visit Ridgeway School were the proud hosts for two teachers from Northern India this term. Ms Yarphel Ghani and Mr Kelsang Dawa are Tibetans living in exile whose schools provide education for Tibetan refugees... [Read article in full]

Ten Tors Thursday 12 May 17:05:04 Update: The website has moved to the Event bunker on the north edge of Dartmoor... [Read article in full]

British Cycling Talent Spotting Scheme Thanks to a brilliant response from our Year 8 students we tested over 120 students on Thursday 19th May as part of the ongoing British Cycling Talent Spotting Scheme... [Read article in full]

South African Teachers Visit Ridgeway On Thursday 17 March 2005 Mr Phetole Mampeule and Mr Nkosana Mnisi from South Africa came to school. Phetole is the head teacher of Bolobedu Primary School in the Limpopo Province, where children’s work lines the walls... [Read article in full]

National Science Week National Science week this year ran from March 11 – 20. At Ridgeway this was marked by a variety of hugely successful events which began with our partner primary schools sending eight students each to compete to build structure out of straws and marshmallows... [Read article in full]

Westcountry Theatre Company Sets Up Stage At Ridgeway School Once again, I was given the opportunity to invite the West Country Theatre Company to Ridgeway to perform William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to Year 9 and 'Much Ado About Nothing' to Year 8. There was a significant difference to the visit this year: it spanned two days instead of one. [Read article in full]

Fundraising Staff and Students have all made tremendous efforts to raise money for various good causes in and out of school [Read article in full] Comic Relief, The Tsunami Appeal, Cystic Fibrosis and the London Marathon all feature...

Ridgeway Students Lunch With Plymouth Argyle Players Eight students of French at Ridgeway School were lucky enough to be invited to lunch with the Plymouth Argyle football team, and to chat to their two French players, Romain Larrieu and Matthias Doumbe. [Read article in full] The students rose to the challenge and asked the players a variety of questions in French, finding out a great deal about their background both in their native France and here in Plymouth.