Normal lessons for years nine and 10 were abandoned on Thursday 8th July to make way for Industry Day. This was to give the teenagers a taste of life in industry.

Mrs Andrews, the organizer of the day says;
"Industry day gives students an opportunity to meet people from industry and learn about different jobs."

Mrs Andrews with one of the day's experts

Overall there were around 80 students taking part in the school.

The first activity we went to visit was the textiles department. They had a brief to design and make a T-Shirt for a company called "Phunky Fish" and model it at the end of the day.

They also had a logo that they must incorporate into the design.

One of the student's T-shirt designs to be seen on a beach near you soon!

There were a few experts helping the students that were doing this t-shirt project, including Jasmine Saint from a company called "Fryer Workwear." She told us that she felt Industry Day is a very good idea as it helps students get into the frame of mind of an industry worker.

Youngsters work on their fashion design

The people in the next room that we went to were preparing Italian food, including sweet tomato and jalapeno tapenade, Kalamata olive and anchovy tapenade and a sun dried tomato and jalapeno pepper tapenade.

A fantastic range of Italian goodies produced by Roseland School students

There was an Italian chef named Sydney Bond and his wife Alison Bond who had moved Italian culture into the kitchen with the use of spices, native food and Italian music. At the end of the cooking session they laid all of the food on a buffet table.

Cooking up a treat in the kitchen

One of the assistants Mrs Rudge said "It's been a colourful day in the kitchen."

We then visited the Resistant Materials room where the group were making a promotional radio perhaps to be used as a give away freebee on events like in the BBC Radio Cornwall tent at the Royal Cornwall Show.

Radio design by Roseland students

They were making the casing for the circuitry which is provided in a kit.

Mr Seyler the school DT teacher said "Everyone is having so much fun, the room is just thriving with life and people enjoying themselves."

The next project we looked at was the packaging project. There brief was to design and manufacture a range of promotional gift packaging for a trendy retail fashion or sportswear outlet.

Busy working on a hot new invention

Alternately they had the choice to choose a major tourist attraction as your client.
They had to use natural materials. One group made an item for The Eden Project to carry sweets from the shop. The project was giving a hands on approach to the industry whilst having fun and learning at the same time.

David Malin from Dairy Crest explained to us how the process works:

"First there is a trial and error stage to get the right shape for your packaging and then you move on to the final product."

The final group was the art group, the youngsters went out of school for two days.

The art took part in a workshop with internationally acclaimed artist, Anthony Frost and poet, Phil Bowen.

The workshops focussed on colour, practising artists producing large scale mixed media paintings which will greatly enhance their coursework.

The art department has secured funding from the Truro Decorative and Fine Art Society and The Arts Council to support these workshops.
Overall it was a great, exciting day for the students in year 10 at the Roseland Community School.

Final comments:

Mrs Andrews (textiles teacher and organiser)
"The day has been a great success with the students rising to the design challenge set by our visitors (industrial partners.)

"A big thank must go to them for their effort, enthusiasm and interest. We all we all enjoyed an excellent buffet put on by the food students and their partners, I am sure that everyone has gained a lot from the day and have enjoyed taking part "

Applying the finishing touches

Mrs Sue Margretts (Cooking teacher) was equally impressed:

"Today was a most successful venture, the students were well motivated and full of enthusiasm. Their task was to create a buffet for 20 people. They learnt a lot about how to present foot and that not all food from Italy was pizza, I was really proud of their effort "

Massive thanks to our young web journalists Sam, Darren, Owen and David for their excellent write up!