Extensive Facilities, Clubs & Societies
The Modern Foreign Language Faculty, where French, German and Spanish are taught, has a suite of specialist rooms, as do the core Faculties of English, Mathematics and Science. The Humanities Faculty, encompassing geography and history, also has a specialist suite of rooms to teach these subjects across the age range.
The Design Technology Faculty has large, well-designed rooms for each component subject area including food, textiles, graphic design, resistant materials and catering.
The Expressive and Performing Arts Faculty has some impressive facilities. The main hall has a full theatre licence and is used as a public performance venue. The drama studio also has a theatre licence and is equipped to the standard of a professional small scale theatre. It is used by local drama companies and the Cornwall Youth Theatre Company, as well as by our own students. In addition to two large, well-equipped, modern music rooms, there are practice rooms, providing facilities for our team of visiting instrumental specialist teachers. We also have a hi-tech studio containing up-to-date electronic recording equipment, including a wide range of music technology equipment and a six room recording suite using the latest industry standard technology.
The Physical Education Faculty has extensive outdoor facilities: excellent well-drained rugby/soccer pitches, two hockey pitches, two cricket wickets, including an all-weather wicket, and an athletics track. There is a hard play area which provides ample space for netball and tennis and a fully equipped gymnasium. A new sports dome has been erected to provide indoor facilities. The dome contains two tennis courts, eight badminton courts and an indoor football, hockey or netball training facility.
Our Science Faculty was extended by the addition of two new laboratories for chemistry and physics to complement the suite of science facilities already in existence and two further laboratories followed in Autumn 2004. The science faculty seeks positive ways to encourage students’ interest in the subject in all its aspects and, to this end, maintains an impressive menagerie of vertebrates and invertebrates, ranging from garter snakes and lizards to chinchillas and tarantulas. The collection is a focus for an enormous number of students all of whom take real pleasure in developing animal husbandry skills using such an exciting range of exotic animals! We also offer a specialist course in astronomy with accreditation at GCSE and pre-university levels for interested students.
The Business Studies/ICT Faculty is also now housed in a range of excellent specialist rooms with a local area network of computers operating throughout the college, using a fibre-optic infrastructure. Staff make good use of the interactive white board, write-pads and computerised programmes throughout the faculties.
Religious Studies is taught throughout Key Stages 3 and 4, in line with government guidelines. Parents who would like details of the courses followed should contact the teacher in charge of religious studies, who will be happy to provide that information. Parents have the right to request that their children do not attend these lessons and/or religious gatherings.
Post 16 students have their own large common room and modern kitchen. Sixth form students take an active part in college life, helping in tutor groups, providing support to students in practical areas and working regularly as classroom support in local primary schools. Within the sixth form area, there is a well-equipped business studies centre which provides a comfortable working environment for those students following VCE courses. The library and resources centre is managed by Mrs Debbie Good, a chartered librarian and provides continuous access to works of reference and multi-media resources. The library and resource centre is also used by all sixth form students for regular private study. New teaching facilities opened in February 2004 for the exclusive use of Post 16 students. As Cornwall’s first Business and Enterprise Specialist College, our sixth form hosts three exciting courses: The Surf Academy, The Technicians’ Academy and The Skills Academy – all these courses offer exciting opportunities for Post 16 students in the 21st Century.
Clubs and Societies
Young people have boundless physical and creative energy and curiosity and at Treviglas we encourage and harness all abilities, through an extensive range of clubs and societies, whether or not they fit into the formal curriculum. Some enable students to explore aspects of their chosen topic beyond the curriculum and some improve understanding of curriculum subjects. Other clubs, clinics and surgeries aim to help students to overcome any "difficult to learn" features of the curriculum. Musical activities and peripatetic lesson, master classes and homework clubs give students every opportunity to make the best of their time at the college, to gain expertise where they have ability and to develop in areas where their talents are less pronounced.
