Last week 44 year 9 students spend Immersive Learning Week at the Eden Project competing in teams to plan a mission to Mars. On Monday they were tasked with building a geodesic dome large enough to fit the team inside. Once we got to Eden the teams were occupied with deciding which plants to take […]
In January this year, just over 7000 students took part in the RSC’s Chemistry Olympiad Round 1, including 3 students from Launceston College. This followed weeks of preparation where the students gave up one lunch time each week, spending it with Dr Lancaster in order to look over the format of previous papers and to […]
As a final team work effort during the Year residential at Treyarnon the students made a piece of living art – creating the word friendship with their body shapes. There were many things to come out of the four day residential but friendship, and being friendly, stood out above everything.
What a lovely walk on a bright, dry, sunny and warm day! Six miles completed, skirting the edge of Dartmoor and taking in part of the old WW2 Harrowbeer airfield, following Drake’s leat and the old railway line, passing Yelverton cricket club and the golf course before turning down into the village of Clearbrook itself. […]
Great morning spent at the aquarium where we’ve seen penguins, seals, sharks and piranhas to name but a few. We’re currently having lunch on the beach and the weather is still beautiful! Off into Brest this afternoon for some more exploring…
About 20 weary faces trudged the beach at 5.45 to see a half hearted few rays whilst sat on a huge dune on Constantine Bay.
3pm on Wednesday and our cheerful crew are near the end of a day tour of Newquay and Padstow’s finest gift shops. Which town is more Cornish? Padstow wins hands down.
On Monday when we were anchored at Hope Cove, we blew up the dingy and jumped off the boat for a swim! Yesterday we went to start bay and practiced Tacking and Gybeing and man over board. We put up five sails, the Mizzen, Main, Jib, Stay and Top sail and travelled around 5 Knots. […]
A beautiful day awaits after a glorious settling in day. Yesterday: walk, beach, sand dunes challenge, Padstow seagulls, clone town or Cornish town, a quiz, finished off with 30 minutes of beautiful silent reading next to a mug of marshmallowed chocolate. Mmmm.
Following the news that Launceston College have started work on their new third generation (3G) artificial grass pitch (AGP), the college and local clubs are delighted at the new opportunities the pitch will create within grassroots sport for the community. This is being made possible thanks to a £487,117 grant from the Premier League, The […]
15 Aug 2019
Sixth Form students at Launceston College achieved excellent results again this year. Head of Sixth Form Jenn Burn Read more →
23 Jul 2019
Last week 21 Year 12 and 13 students went to Geneva to visit the largest scientific experiment in the Read more →
19 Jul 2019
In March 2019, Miss Bateman’s Year 10 separate science class sat the Royal Society of Biology Challenge paper, which Read more →