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"Treviglas Academy is a secondary school in Newquay, Cornwall. The age range of the students is 11 to 18. The original buildings were opened in the early 1960s but further development has taken place on a regular basis ever since, such as the library, information technology rooms and science facilities as well as the post-16 learning centre. Treviglas opened a new sports facility, The Dome, in October 2001 and, in February 2004, a new dedicated sixth form and community learning block was opened. The SportsHub, funded by Sport England, opened in 2012. From the playing fields there are views to the sea dropping down toward Porth, with the village of St Columb Minor neighbouring the college. As of January 2019, Treviglas Community College became part of The Roseland Multi Academy Trust and became Treviglas Academy. Treviglas was the first school in the county to receive Business and Enterprise status and was awarded an overall Outstanding by OfSTED for the second consecutive time in their second most recent inspection (2012). As of July 2017 the school has now been dubbed Inadequate by OfSTED in their most recent inspection. The college focuses on core academic subjects and vocational training for students, including Post-16 academies which teach students lifelong learning and work place skills at A-Level. The college has around 900 students. This includes around 120 in the sixth form centre. The college draws students from 13 primary schools, including the town of Newquay and surrounding rural communities. The college’s motto is: "Where students enjoy achieving their best". Curriculum The college teaches the full range of core curricular subjects - including the arts, science, social science, computing and vocational subjects to GCSE and A-Level. The sciences are taught in the four core subjects: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Science. Foreign languages that are taught at Treviglas are French, German and Spanish across all three key stages. Students also benefit from links with partner schools in Europe and Africa. Computing plays a large part in the college curriculum, and students can progress to Technicians Academytechnicians.treviglas.net at Post-16, which delivers industry qualifications together with academic A-Levels. The college has a Future Prospects programme, which develops and supports those who are identified as Gifted and Talented. OfSTED also acknowledged that the college also has outstanding provisions for students who require additional support, including those with disabilities, with the Effective Learning Centre (ELC). Post 16 The college offers the full range of academic subjects for those aged 16-years-old and over, with added courses including Accountancy, Enterprise (which supports students looking to start a business), Media Studies, Public Services, Psychology, Philosophy and Ethics, Health and Social Care, Further Mathematics and Sport. At Post 16, as well as the core sciences, students can also opt for Applied Science as well as being able to undertake Animal Care. Treviglas Post-16 also offers academies for students; the Technicians, Business and Surf Academies. In the 2013 DfE league tables Treviglas featured in the top 100 schools in the county for their Best advanced vocational results, and the top 10 schools or colleges in the county for Key Stage 5. Post 16 Academies: Business – Business students analyse business performance in Accountancy and Economics and experience running a business in Enterprise, Business or Travel and Tourism. Students also receive professional qualifications such as the SAGE Accounting software package. Technicians – Students in the Technicians academy learn ICT to a high professional level. The academy is equipped with a wide range of new hardware including a Cisco lab bundle and numerous PC components and peripherals. Surf - Students study Business, Tourism, Sport and Enterprise. The course combines Surf Analysis, Event Management (including the Cornish Schools Surfing Championships), Beach Lifeguard and Surf Coaching qualifications. New academies currently in development at the college include Nursing, Teaching, Sport and Early Years. Site and facilities The Treviglas site benefits from a wide range of facilities – including science laboratories and established design technology rooms with a wide range of tools and equipment. Treviglas also has facilities to support its vocational subjects, which include hair and beauty therapy rooms and physiotherapy training rooms. The college has a modern catering facility, offering students the opportunity to cook in the same environment as a commercial kitchen. The college benefits from a substantial art block with pottery facilities and kiln as well as a dark room for traditional photography development. The college invests heavily in art and also encourages students to utilise modern media within their artwork. In 2011 Treviglas secured funding for a £2million investment in new sports facility, the SportsHub, offering sports facilities for students and the wider community. This opened in May 2012. Sports Hub The SportsHub features a modern gym, with equipment from Technogym, who supplied the 2012 Olympics, as well as an indoor sports hall which can cater for basketball, netball, badminton, volleyball, tennis and football as well as a range of classes ran by the SportsHub staff and external organisations. The SportsHub also has an outdoor climbing wall. The college’s gym is open to the public, even outside college hours. The college also has a range of multipurpose sports venues, including fields and pitches, cricket facilities and The Dome - an inflated structure with indoor courts – also used by students and community. Arts Royal Shakespeare Company The college has a drama studio used for lessons and performances. The college is also a Hub school for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Learning Partnership as of 2012, and frequently hold performances and workshops with the RSC. As part of Treviglas’ role as Hub school for the RSC they also stage public performances of Shakespeare plays, which have included Macbeth and Midsummer Night’s Dream. Students also perform in Stratford Upon Avon at the RSC, as well as organising trips to the company. Tutor group and house system Prior to becoming an academy in 2018, Treviglas operated a vertical tutor system, meaning each tutor group was made up of students from each of the five year groups. The system had been in place for seven years and had been successful in integrating students of all ages. The result was a sense of community in the college and positive relationships amongst students from all years. However, prior to becoming an academy, the tutor groups have been arranged horizontally, with each form containing students from a singular year. The college also has a House System split into four groups named after beaches local to Newquay: Fistral, Porth, Tolcarne and Towan. Each of the houses has a chosen house charity which are: Aid4Orphans, Shelterbox, Air Ambulance and the RNLI respectively. Students from these house groups organise a range of activities and events throughout the year to raise money for their charities, with the totals raised running well into the thousands. College uniform The main colours of the Treviglas uniform are black and white, with ties matching the colours of the house group the student belongs. Students wear black trousers (girls can also opt to wear skirts) and white shirts. The college jumper is black with the main Treviglas Academy emblem.↵Ties are according to house colours; Towan ties are red and black, Porth ties are yellow and black, Tolcarne ties are blue and black and Fistral ties are green and black. Students also have modern PE kit, which feature the school's emblem on black clothing. They are very strict. Notable people and alumni *James Morrison - English singer-songwriter and guitarist *Scot Bennett - Football player for Exeter FC *Tom Butler - Professional Surfer *Malcolm Broad - Former Teacher at the college and recipient of the MBE in the 1999 honours list Awards *Inclusive Dyslexia Friendly *Healthy Schools *International School Award (full award) *Investors in careers and workplace learning *Times Education Awards - Enterprise and Community (shortlisted 2013) References External links SportsHub Website *Business Academy Website *Surf Academy Website *Technicians Academy Website *Treviglas on the BBC Education page *Ofsted - report for Treviglas Community College Category:Newquay Category:Secondary schools in Cornwall Category:Educational institutions established in 1960 Category:1960 establishments in England Category:Community schools in Cornwall "
"Haralan Popov () (March 7, 1907–November 14, 1988) was a Protestant minister who spent thirteen years in Bulgarian communist prisons on charges of treason. He later founded Door of Hope International, a Christian relief and development organization. Biography Haralan Popov was born in the small Bulgarian village of Krasno Gradishte. Although initially an atheist, Popov became a Christian as a teenager. In 1929 he was accepted as pastor in the Bulgarian Pentecostal Church. Shortly after attending Bible School in London, he married a Swedish woman, Ruth. He returned to Bulgaria before the outbreak of World War II. In 1948, in the capital city of Sofia, he was arrested on charges of espionage against the state. After eight months in prison, Popov, and other ministers who had been arrested with him, pleaded guilty through a cruel, forced confession. Popov was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He spent the next 13 years and two months in prison. He was released on September 25, 1961 and joined his family in Sweden a year later. After moving to the United States in 1970, Popov founded Evangelism to Communist Lands Inc., now known as Door of Hope International to bring Bibles and relief to people in oppressive countries in 1972. He recorded his testimony and prison experiences in his autobiography Tortured For His Faith: An Epic of Christian Courage and Heroism in Our Day. In October 1988, during Glasnost, and for the first time in 26 years, Popov was permitted by Bulgarian authorities to visit the church he pastored in Bulgaria. He died the next month on November 14, 1988 in Glendale, California of complications related to cancer. References * External links *Door of Hope International official website See also *Richard Wurmbrand – A Romanian defector to the United States under similar circumstances Category:1907 births Category:1988 deaths Category:People from Veliko Tarnovo Province Category:Bulgarian emigrants to the United States "
"Old photo of the Cape Hinchinbrook, Alaska Hinchinbrook Island is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, United States. The island has a land area of 171.98 sq mi (445.438 km²), making it the 37th largest island in the United States. There was a population of five permanent residents as of the 2000 census. Cape Hinchinbrook Light is located on the southwest side of the island. Also on the southwest side is the abandoned village of Nuchek on Port Etches (bay). The Chugach Alaska Corporation now runs the Nuuciq Spirit Camp at this site. During the Cold War, a US Government White Alice radar site was located on the northeast corner of the island. This site is now abandoned, and all that remains is a trail to the former antenna site on a small hill to the southwest and several of the buildings. Nearby Boswell Bay Airport is the landing strip that formerly served this site. A few houses comprise the hamlet of Boswell Bay across the bay to the south. The State of Alaska maintains Boswell Bay Marine State Park nearby on Boswell Bay. In 1792, a battle occurred on Hinchinbrook Island between Yakutat Tlingit and a group of Russians and Kodiak Sugpiaq led by Alexander Baranov. The Tlingit had likely come to the island seeking retribution after the Chugach Sugpiaq had raided them the previous year.Frederica De Laguna, Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972), p. 159. In 1797, Baranov visited Fort Konstantinovsk, built by the Lebedev- Lastochkin Company, on the island he called Nuchek Island. Most of these men joined his Shelikhov-Golikov Company.Khlebnikov, K.T., 1973, Baranov, Chief Manager of the Russian Colonies in America, Kingston: The Limestone Press, In the middle of May, 1920, the 1,502 ton United States Lighthouse Service Tender Armeria became stranded on the rocks near Cape Hinchinbrook. She was attempting to rescue the barge Haydn Brown but ended up a casualty herself. The crew of 36 were rescued by the steamer Admiral Sampson. The vessel, valued at $344,000, became a total loss. Some of the $70,000 cargo of coal, buoys and supplies for area lighthouses was salvaged.The H W McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (1966) Pg 211 References *Hinchinbrook Island: Block 1173, Census Tract 2, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska United States Census Bureau *Amateur Radio Expedition to Hitnchinbrook Island AL3/VE7ACN Category:Islands of Alaska Category:Islands of Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska Category:Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska "