Breakfast reinvented!

A new and exciting breakfast snack created by pupils from Llanrumney High School is being sold in all schools in Cardiff.
The Breakfast Tortilla comes in three flavors and was designed by Yr 9
pupils Daniel and Marcus. The young entrepreneurs designed the healthy
breakfast snack as part of Cardiff Councils Live ‘n’ Cooking” competition.
“It is brilliant seeing our idea being sold in the school canteen and
amazing to think that  every school in Cardiff is also selling them…Wish
we were getting a share of the profit, next time we will go and see the
Dragons Den team!” Commented Marcus and Daniel.

Year 7 Enterprise Day

On Thursday 13th November, pupils in Year 7 took part in an enterprise challenge. They had to design and manufacture a belt out of recyclable materials. Each member had to be allocated a role within their group. At the end a member of each group had to model the belt on stage. It was an exciting day. All pupils had the opportunity to develop their essential skills, such as working with others, problem solving, creavtive design, measuring and cutting, to name a few!
Great fun was had by all.

 

Year 7 CAKE SALE

On Thursday 24th November, pupils in Year 7 raised a total of £52 over a 15 minute period by selling some delicious home made cakes. A huge thanks to Zara, Hannah, Joseph, Joseph, Chesney, Whitney, Mazwi and Mrs Davies for working hard, making and selling the cakes.

Well Done

MASTERCHEF

 Congratulations Chloe

After winning the Llanrumney Master Chef completion (Blog 19th October) Chloe took part in the next stage of the Future Chef cooking competition at Barry College.

Chloe and came a highly commended third place, the judges were impressedwith not only the high quality of cooking but the mature and professional manner with which Chloe conducted herself.

With just ninety minutes to cook a two course meal for two people, Chloe’slemon chicken, fresh tomato sauce with chunky chips and apple crumble fordessert received high praised from both the judges and the other three chefs who where all boys aged 16.

Well done Chloe you should be very proud of yourself for such an amazing achievement.

SNAG Update

Good bye Coca cola

At the last SNAG (School Nutritional Action Group) we met with Cardiff Councils Nutritional Advisor who told us about the Welsh Governments plans to ban sugary fizzy drinks in school vending machines. In 2013 all sugary fizzy drink will be banned from all schools in Wales. To get ready for the ban Llanrumney High School will stop selling full sugar Coca Cola, the drink will be replaced with alternative healthy smoothie drink. Over the course of the year more sugary drinks will be replaced with healthy alternatives.    

Llanrumney Master Chef – The RESULTS

 Congratulations to all those that took part in Master Chef, the
competition was tough with all nine pupils creating dishes of excellent
quality.
The judging team which included the Head Teacher had the daunting task of
selecting a winner. It was a close contest with Chloe from Year 8 claiming
the Master Chef title with her superb lemon chicken, homemade chips and homemade tomato sauce.
Chloe will go on to represent Llanrumney High School in the next round of the competition which will take place in November.
Best of luck!

Readalong

The readalong programme is an intervention aimed at helping to improve the literacy skills of children in Year 7. It takes place every Wed, Thurs and Fri during registration time. A group of Year 9 peer tutors assist the children during the programme.

Peer Mentoring

The Peer Mentoring programme at Key Stage 3 ensures that all children are supported to help them deal with a range of difficulties that they may be experiencing in their lives. The Peer Mentors are a group of Year 9 students that have been trained in order to provide a worthwhile mentoring service.

Llanrumney Master Chef
A chance to show off your cooking skills.

All pupils are invited to take part in a cooking competition, the winning
cook will represent Llanrumney High School in a national cooking
competition called Future Chefs 2012.

The rules of the competition are; Design and cook a hot main meal for two
people, you have a budget of £4 and one hour to cook your dish.
For more information and an application form please see Mr Bright in room
1.3.2. The Llanrumney heat of the competition will take place in school on
Monday 17th October.

Good luck and happy cooking.

Litter Picking

Last week quite a small group of people were chosen to do litter picking on ‘the tidy up wales week’. The group of people chosen were given litter pickers, gloves and carrier bags to carry around with them whilst we went around the local area tidying up as much litter as possible; this was quite interesting as we got to see how much litter people actually dropping.

Crows Paws

 

Crows Paws

 

Crows paw is a performing arts group which includes dancing, singing and acting which takes part after school at quarter past 4 till 6.

This group is run by Miss Pawsey our music teacher and Kris Our Dance teacher.

Pupils from other schools come to join in as well; we usually take parts from productions such as ‘wizard of Oz’ and ‘Annie’ and perform ourselves through either dance singing or acting. 

This group is very fun and exciting, suitable for pupils aged approximately 8-16 years of age.

Business School Challenge

At the start of 2011 5 Llanrumney High School pupils participated in a course at Cardiff Business School. The course consisted of 3 short modules which in turn, produced a level 2 Leadership and Management Certificate (GCSE). All of the pupils passed and as a result went back to the university to attend an event planning day for their graduation.
The Llanrumney pupils fought off competition from schools and 6th forms such as Cardiff High and St David's. The LHS pupils idea for the graduation event was declared the best by a panel of judges.

Well Done to the young business entrepreneurs - Jake, Nasser, Gareth, John and Rebecca!

Year 7 ANTI BULLYING DAY

Today the year 7's and the year 9 buddies took part in an Anti-Bullying workshop with Mr Bell and some of the other teachers.

The year 7s watched a power point then they were split into 11 groups of 5 or 6. Each group had support from at least 2 year 9 pupils. The year pupils undertook activities to identify what bullying is and how it can affect people. 
Then using this information they made a poster...with the help of the Year 9's! Once we made the posters we had to present them the whole year and the teachers. And everyone enjoyed themselves!

More to follow......

By

Courtney and Olivia Year 9

The Fishing Trip

On Monday 18th July 2011, Jake, Peter, Jay, Alex, Jonathan, Joshua, Kieran and Joseph went to Pentwyn Lake on a fishing trip with Mr Bell, Brad and Dylan. It was a idea thought up by the children as an alternative competition with a prize for the most fish caught. Jake and Joseph caught the most fish on the day. Peter caught a perch and some others caught eels!

We look forward to going again in the autumn term!

We would like to thank the teachers who took us on the trip.

High School Street Production July 14th 2011

On Thursday 14th July, we had our school production, called High School Street. It was based on the film High School Musical and had part of the script to go along with it. We started planning our production in February and started practising for the show in March. Come June/July we practised nearly everyday and night to get the production as perfect as possible. It was hard at times when there were people missing rehearsals and not learning their lines but we got there in the end and the production was great!
It was a good expeirence and we hope to appear in other school productions.

By Casey and Katie.

IET Faraday Day

Paige, Sophie, Sofia, Jodie, Anton and Thomas went to Cardiff Univirsity to take part in a program called IET Faraday. When they were there they had to create a remote device which we had to operate without touching. They had 130 Faradays and they had to try and manage there money so the could buy parts for there product. They also had to make a video presentation which was made by the brilliant Paige ( the video production manager ).

Written by Paige and Sophie.

Coleg Glan Hafren Visit July 2011

On Tueday 12th July 2011, 52 pupil's from our school were invited to a Taster Day at Coleg Glan Hafren's Trowbridge Campus. On the day we experienced lessons in Automotive Engineering, Music Technology, Beauty, Childcare, Sport and Digital Photography. We learnt lots of new skills during the day. We would like to thank the College for inviting us.