Students at Launceston College were celebrating their excellent GCSE results this morning, with many students collecting a whole suite of the highest grades, as well as students achieving grades well above their own personal target. Grades 7-9 have replaced the A/A* top grades with Grade 9 set aside for the most exceptional attainment. Six students […]
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Sixth Form students at Launceston College achieved excellent results again this year. Head of Sixth Form Jenn Burn said “We are delighted at the success our students have achieved and are once again impressed by the high proportion of our students choosing to move on to the most academically demanding universities in the country. […]
Last week 21 Year 12 and 13 students went to Geneva to visit the largest scientific experiment in the World. They had the chance to go 100 metres underground to visit one of the 4 detector sites on the Large Hadron Collider, the Compact Muon Solenoid. Although they neither discovered any new particles or met […]
In March 2019, Miss Bateman’s Year 10 separate science class sat the Royal Society of Biology Challenge paper, which consisted of two online tests lasting around an hour in total. These were multiple choice questions requiring fact recall and logical thinking skills. The tests really pushed the student’s knowledge and understanding, covering some content beyond […]
On Friday 5 July, the whole of Year 9 were working on a project called Kick Start to Key Stage 4. This marks the official end of key stage 3 and commencement of their GCSE and key stage 4 studies. The week has involved looking at a variety of skills that employers desire, both locally […]
On Tuesday 16 July, Café Sci hosted their annual competition for Year 12 students, and this year Launceston College students were joined by those from our MAT partner Bideford College. Each student gave a 15 minute lecture on a topic of their choice to an audience including distinguished scientists along with many of us who […]
Huge congratulations to Joe Wheeler who ran 300m in a time of 36.01 at the All England Schools Athletics Championships in Birmingham last weekend. This beating his current county record and is also the best time in the UK this year.
Since the autumn, a number of Year 12 students have been spending Friday lunchtimes with Dr Lancaster to prepare for the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge for Lower Sixth (or C3L6). The questions are based on AS chemistry content, but tend to be very abstract. The students prepared by looking at various cryptic chemistry questions where they […]
24 Jan 2020
Three professional cookery students have just returned from a short visit to one of our partner schools in Porto, Read more →
22 Jan 2020
Launceston College U15 girls have reached the for the first time. The comprehensively beat Liskeard and Bude Haven College’s. Read more →
17 Jan 2020
This year, our return to College following the Christmas break fell on the 6th January, which coincided perfectly with Read more →