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Here is a selection of articles that were published in local newspapers:
CCF RAF CADETS
NORTHERN INDIA
YOUNG ENTERPRISE
VIMTO
WORLDBOOK DAY
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
PRIVATE SCHOOL'S AMONG THE MOST FRIENDLY
CCF RAF Cadets Clean up a War Memorial
RAF Cadets keep their feet firmly on the ground to clean War Memorial
Nottingham RAF cadets abandoned plans to go flying yesterday and kept their feet firmly on the ground to clean up an inner city War Memorial.
The cadets from Trent College Combined Cadet Force volunteered to clean the Lenton War Memorial in readiness for a Remembrance Day service on Sunday 13 November 2005. The Memorial is inscribed with the names of 256 men and women who lost their lives in the First World War, including former Trent College student Captain Albert Ball VC DSO MC.
Captain Ball's painting adorns the Fenn room at the college today. He was born in Lenton Boulevard in 1896 and was educated at the college from 1909 - 1913. He enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters in 1914 before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916.
Captain Ball's courage and bravery made him a legend. He was credited with at least 44 victories and was killed on 7 May 1917 at the age of 20. He rose from obscurity to the top rank of contemporary fighter pilots in only 15 months and was awarded the Military Cross, Distinguished Service Order and two Bars, and was osthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
RAF cadet Vicki Pinchbeck, aged 14, said:
"We have all read and heard about Captain Ball. It's important that we don't forget what those men and women did, many of whom lost their lives.
"I am honoured to be able to clean the memorial. Those men and women are part of history and this our way of saying we haven't forgotten them and we are grateful for what they did."
NORTHERN INDIA AND RAJASTHAN EXPEDITION 2005 HIGH MOUNTAINS AND JUNGLE
14 Sixth Form students and 6 staff set off from Trent College on Sunday July 10th on a four week expedition to Northern India and Rajasthan.The group will be trekking in the Himalayas, climbing Stok Kangri - a peak of over 6,100m, mixing with the local people and learning about their local cultures. They will have the opportunity to visit local Buddhist temples and explore Rajasthan and its many palaces.
An awareness of the environment is intrinsic to the success of any expedition. Training took the form of a 5 day camp to the Lake District to learn the practical mountaineering skills during February half term. This involved techniques of mountaineering, navigation theory and practical, camp-craft and river crossings. They also held class room sessions which allowed the students to study religions and customs of the area and to learn some basic phrases. This training commenced 18 months prior to the expedition. A fitness programme was also implemented during the pre-expedition phase with various levels of success!
Each student will produce a record of the expedition in written, graphical and visual formats, and will present these at a special lecture evening next term.
YOUNG ENTERPRISE
Trent’s Young Enterprise Company is made up of fifteen Year 12 students who have set up a business to learn about the necessary skills to run a successful company. The Valentine’s roses were their first venture and gave many of the Trent pupils and staff much pleasure in both giving and receiving! Jewellery, photo frames and scarves were on sale at the annual Young Enterprise Trade Fair in the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, while hair braiding and nail painting services were very popular. The group made a profit of over £700 during their eight month business venture. The Managing Director, Lucy Hacker, would like to thank PricewaterhouseCoopers for providing advisers on a weekly basis. Lucy said “The whole experience has proved invaluable in my A level Business Studies course.”
VIMTO!!!
A talented Trent College student has won a year’s supply of Vimto as 1st prize in a national poetry competition. Florence Gregson from Breaston penned the poem after seeing the competition advertised on a can and nearly 8 months later had a phone call from Vimto telling her the good news.
On a bright sunny morning,
The mayor came to call,
He made EVERYONE gather,
Inside the town hall.
So we all crammed in,
But the mayor was late,
It was noisy and boiling,
What more can you hate?
The grannies were chattering,
Girls started to giggle,
The babies were screaming
With the occasional wriggle.
The shouting was deafening,
You couldn't hear a word
Then a girl got out some VIMTO...
And not a single thing stirred!
All eyes were on the bottle
As she untwisted the lid,
Every single soul envied
That fortunate kid.
WORLD BOOK DAY
World Book Day is nearly upon us and Trent College have come up with novel ideas to get their students taking an interest in the magical world of books. They will be celebrating the event all day with activities to encourage all age groups within the school to take part. There will be a sale in the Warner Library where World Book Day coupons can be redeemed, an illustration competition in which the Lower School students have been recreating their favourite book covers for a number of weeks during their art classes.
A caption competition for the Lower School will be judged by the Year 7 book club, where the students are encouraged to think about what the particular book is thinking and saying.
Throughout the day there will also be a book adaptation of the Lord of the Rings shown in the library run by pupils of the book club, to show a different way of how a book has been interpreted. The staff will be interrogated by Year 9 pupils about their own individual reading habits, who will then present their findings in a display in the entrance foyer.
And it doesn’t stop there, in the evening a pub style quiz will be held for the boarders of the school to get into teams and answer a variety of questions about the world of books. Librarian at Trent College, Annike Dase says.
This year there really will be no escape from books on World Book Day, we’ve thought of so many ways to encourage reading and believe that by the end of the day every single student will have celebrated World Book Day in one form or another.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
32 boys from Years 9 and 10 spent 2 weeks during the Easter Holidays in Trinidad and Tobago playing 12 cricket matches. The tour was very successful with excellent weather – the highlight was meeting Brian Lara, who invited the boys and staff to his home. Next summer, 30 girls will tour Canada, playing hockey.
We hope, through touring, to build teams for future Trent First XIs. Our aim is to create squads of a professional standard who will hopefully achieve success at a National level. Touring has proved to be an invaluable ingredient for the success of our sports teams and we hope to continue to strengthen our sides. We offer Scholarships to students on joining Trent, who show potential or hold proven prowess in one or more of our major games of rugby football, netball, cricket, hockey and tennis.
PRIVATE SCHOOL'S AMONG THE MOST FRIENDLY
Nottingham Evening Post
A Private school has been rated as one of the friendliest in Britain.
Former pupils at Trent College in Long Eaton chatted online at the Friends Reunited website more often than those from thousands of others.
The school was placed sixth in the survey, which covered 22,000 secondary schools across Britain.
The figures were collected over the four years that Friends Reunited has been operating.
About 1,980 former Trent College pupils are signed up to the website. About 89% sent emails to one another, an average figure of 3.39 e-mails per correspondent.
The calculations led to the college being awarded a friendliness rating of 62.1%.
Headmaster Jonathan Lee said it was down to the close relationships that developed between pupils, teachers and parents.
"I was surprised to hear about this because I don't use the site and I don't know much about it," he admitted.
"But I think we are a friendly school - I write a personal Christmas card to every school leaver telling them to keep in touch.
"It's important because the satisfaction of being a teacher comes from seeing how your pupils get on when they leave."
He added: "The culture here means that relationships between staff and pupils are excellent. Often they form friendships which can last long after leaving school."
Mr Lee also believes the creation of the Trent Association in July - a group dedicated to encouraging communication between anyone involved with the school - has helped bump up the college's friendliness rating.
Althea Tomlin, director of the association, said: "I think we've certainly helped.
"We've entered into contact with people of all ages from all over the world, in places like Australia, Canada and Burma.
"We felt we had to do something because we have a lot of parents of former pupils who are still interested in coming back to the school for events and to see some of the teachers."
Luba Moakes, the mother of last year's head girl, Louise, said: "I have always found it to be an extremely friendly school.
"Although it's quite large, they seem to take an interest in every one of the pupils.
"I'm looking forward to being able to keep up with Louise's year group as they go on."
Steve Pankhurst, co-founder of Friends Reunited, said: "We took two things into account in conducting this study - the average number of e-mails sent per person combined with the number of people who actually sent messages.
"I think for Trent College to get into the top 200 friendliest schools shows that teachers, pupils and parents must create an environment where everybody is having fun and enjoying their time there."
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