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Massive Thank You
I would like to personally thank the following cadets for their continued support in recent weeks in the maintenance of the boats to enable a successful 2010 boating season. Without the support of these cadets the boats would not be ready for use for at least another month due other events that have happened within the unit (Galley/Rec Space etc).
Petty Officer Cadet Matt GILMOUR
Able Cadet Alex RODGER
Ordinary Cadet Ben HARDY
Cadet Ollie RODGER
Cadet Jack GLEESON
New Entry Gabby HOOK
New Entry Cyrus NIVEN
Again many thanks for your continued support, lets hope this years on the water training is a belter!
Yours Aye,
The Original Bird!
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Rec Space Renovation & New Galley
With the success of our recent O2 community grant, work on the rec space has begun. As work started to progress we made the decision to relocate the galley, therefore giving us a larger more usable galley for future cook steward training etc. It is hoped the rec space will be re-opened by the end of February 2011...? :), with the galley being completed shortly after.
We would like to thank The Water Mill restuarant near St Ives for their donation of chairs which will help give the rec space a modern stlye.
Check out the picture gallery under Other Events & Archive (Album 2) for more photos.
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Well Done Lads!!
Many congratulations to Petty Officer Cadet Matt Gilmour on becoming Cornwall District Sea Cadets Lord Lieutenant cadet. In short this is a very prestigious award, in which Matt will be representing the Sea Cadets to the Lord Lieutenant and Royal Family. Grenville has a very strong past record for having cadets become a Lord Lieutenants Cadet.
Able Cadet Kevin Carpenter attended a National Sea Cadet Advancement Board for promotion to Leading Cadet. Able Cadet Carpenter (Soon to be promoted to LC) passed the course with flying colours achieving a credit pass! Well done!!
Petty Officer Cadet Gilmour also attended his RYA Intermediate powerboat course and RYA Basic Navigation & Safety Course held at Port Edgar boat station (SCTC Caledonia). These 2 course awarded him a further 11 points taking his total to 176.
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Halloween Party 2009
Monday 2nd November saw Grenville hold a belated Halloween Party. Everybody seemed to enjoy the eventful program put together by APO N. Bird. Check out the picture gallery under Other Events & Archive (Album 2) for more photos.
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Cadets Go Aboard Royalist & Jerwood - REPORTS
It has been reported that all cadets that attend the offshore fleet, passed with flying colours, doing GRENVILLE and themselves proud!
Many congratulations to all the cadets that took part in the offshore voyages between 26th Sept - 9th Oct. Ordinary Cadet Ben Hardy passed his Offshore Sail 1 awarding him a further 3 points (Total 18), Ordinary Cadet Jordan Lewis passed his Offshore power 1 awarding him 3 points (total 21), Cadets Tyler Eddy and Alex Parks also passed Offshore power 1 awarding 3 points each (Eddy Total 9) (Parks Total 4)
A BIG congratulation to Able Cadet Alex Rodger for his voyage aboard the Jerwood 3-9th oct, Alex gained 3 qualifications in one week (Offshore Power 1 & 2, Offshore Power Seaman) awarding him a massive 13 points (Total 54)
Able Cadet Zoe Scrivens passed her offshore power 2 awarding her 5 points (Total 75)
Leading Cadet Emma James passed her offshore power 1 awarding her 3 points (Total 51)
Able Cadet Jodie Simons passed her offshore power 1 awarding her 3 points (Total 20)
A further trip commencing the 24th October, Saw Leading Cadet Stacey George pass her Offshore Power 1 (Total Points 54), Able Cadet Zoe Scrivens Achieve Offshore (Power) Seaman (Total Points 80) and Cadet Tyler Eddy pass his Offshore Power Level 2 (Total Points 14)
Congratulations to all!
Check out the picture gallery under Other Events & Archive for more photos.
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Cadets Go Aboard Royalist & Jerwood
Five cadets from Penzance will be attending the offshore vessels T.S Royalist and T.S John Jerwood for offshore sailing and power boating experiences respectfully. The cadets will attend joining ship on Saturday 26th September at Gosport, The royalist crew will then voyage around the coast and back to Gosport, whilst the Jerwood will voyage around the coast to Ramsgate, Each Voyage stands a good chance of the cadets going to Europe.
Sunday 3rd October, Will then see a further 4 cadets and 1 staff attend the Jerwood to voyage from Ramsgate to Ipswich.
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Penzance Cadets Participate In 2009 Rotary Ramble
A total of 32 Members from Penzance Sea Cadets attended and completed the Penzance Rotary Club Ramble 2009. Cadets from the age of 10 years to adults in to their 70's took part in the 7 mile trek around Perranuthnoe in order to raise money for the both the Penzance Sea Cadets and the Penzance Rotary Club. Cadets and adults alike attended in fancy dress. A big congratulations to everybody who took part and a big thank you to all those that supported us. The event raised over £600.00 for the units boat fund. Check out the picture gallery under Other Events & Archive for more photos.
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O2 Its Your Community Award
Penzance Sea Cadets have been succesful applicants of the O2 its your community award scheme, O2 have donated £800 toward the redecoration of the cadets rec space rejuvenation which is due to take place in the coming months. For the full story click Here
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You've Raised Another £750.00
Congartulations to all those who took part in the Tesco Bag Packing on Sunday 30th, and the Newlyn fish festival Monday 31st. You helped to raise a further £750 toward our new boats! We would like to thank Tesco and the Organisers of Newlyn fish festival for their support. A BIG thank you to everybody who donated and purchased items.
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Penzance Cadets Raise £650.00 At Car Boot Sales
Wednesday 19th August saw a number of cadets attend rosudgeon car boot sale, the cadets sold items donated by parents, friends, supporters and the cadets, they also raised money in collection tins. Many thanks to the staff and committee that helped to supervise the cadets. The funds will go toward the purchase of new pulling (rowing) boats. A big thanks to Rosudgeon Sports & Social Club for supporting us in this event.
Sunday 23rd August saw a number of junior cadets attend the Hayle Rugby Club car boot sale, although the weather wasn't favourable the juniors done a fantastic job of selling items and collecting donations. Thanks to Tracy, Debbi & Kay for their help. A big thanks to Hayle Rugby Club for supporting us in this event.
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You Helped Raise £550!!
Congratulations and a big thank to all those cadets and parents that attended the Trewidden Garden open day on Sunday 16th August. The event raised much needed funds. The overall raised total was just over £550.00. Well done to all involved and thanks to the parents and supporters for attending.
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South West Area Regatta
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Many congratulations to all cadets from Cornwall District who took part in the annual South West Regatta, held at Bristol Adventure unit on Saturday 18th July 2009. Two teams from Penzance represented Cornwall in the pulling category. Both teams open girls (12-18yrs) and junior girls (12-15yrs) competed against 8 other districts. The races consisted of 600mtrs and 400mtrs for each team respectfully.
The Teams: Junior Girls: O/C C. Wheeler (Cox), O/C K. Tremethick, O/C J. Simons, O/C Z. Scrivens & CDT K. Young. Open Girls: O/C O. Richardson - Padstow (Cox), POCdt A. Nankervis, L/C S. George, A/C T. Harvey & O/C R. James.
Results: Junior Girls 3rd, Open Girls 4th, Junior Boys 1st, Open Boys 8th.
In a race organised to keep the cadets amused, districts entered staff teams to compete in a 400mtr pulling race, although organised in fun for cadets, the adults in true fashion took the race with all seriousness, the tension was mounting with expectations of cadets high that there respective teams would do well, with that in mind each staff team competed to there maximum. Congratulations to Cornwall staff who won.
See the picture gallery (Boating 2009) for more photos.
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Congratulations
Well done to Leading Cadet Matt Gilmour on passing his RYA day sailing and RYA seamanship skills modules. The pass awards him a further 8 points in his quest to break 200 points, he currently has 159. Well done!
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Boating Weekend 26-28 June
The weekend of the Mazey parade saw 15 cadets attend the boating weekend. Saturdays training begun with a few hiccups (rope-prop...you do the math), but once underway was succesful. Sundays training looked to be going out of the window with the forecast of force 5/6 occasionally 7 we had two choices, either cancel the training or move the training to Newlyn..we decided on the newlyn option, selected cadets prepared the three boat tow and a bumpy ride was endured to reach newlyn harbour. Once at Newlyn the remianing cadets were then transported by minibus to Newlyn for the training to continue. The training commenced until early evening. The long tiring weekend rewarded all cadets with their hard earned qualifications, ranging from competant crew to pulling coxswain. Well done to all that took part.
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Congratulations!!
Many congratulations to Leading Cadet Matt Gilmour who attended a weeks long national Petty Officer Cadet advancement board at SCTC Caledonia. The course assessed "Gillys" leadership, drill and cerimonial, instructional methods and other topics including the sea cadet organisation. Gilly credit passed the course giving him an additional 3 points taking his total 151 points throughout his sea cadet career so far. We are awaiting confirmation, but its believed Gilly has also been awarded a sea cadet adult instructional methods grade 3.
In the same week at SCTC Raliegh O/C Squirrel Scrivens attending a national Cook/Steward class 2 course. In true fashion squirrel passed the course with an excellent 95% score! The qualification gains squirrel an additional 6 points taking her points score to 70!
CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH!
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Expedition Training Weekend
The Weekend 29th - 31st May saw 18 cadets attend the Penzance Unit Expedition Training Weekend, held at Kuggar, Lizard, Cornwall. A total of 10 basic campcraft and 5 proficiency campcraft were awarded. The weekend saw some of the UK's best weather so far in 2009. A long and tiring weekend was had by all. See the picture gallery for more photos.
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Unit Review - RESULTS IN!
The Unit Review will take place on Thursday 28th May. This is the most important night of 2009 for Training Ship Grenville. Every cadet must attend this evening (with the exception of those on course), Absentees must be accounted for so a letter from your parents must be produced. This is a ceremonial event and formal dress inspection, therefore every cadet in uniform must parade in an immaculate condition (Cap Clean, White Front Cleaned and Pressed, Jacket/Trousers Pressed, Badges correctly sewn on, boots polished to a high standard). Every little detail will be inspected. Do yourself and your unit proud!
Parents and Supporters: Please come along on this evening and support your child and training ship Grenville....The more support we have the better.
We will also require help in the last week of MAY, parents if you can help check out the 'Whats On' at the bottom of this page and pass on your details to a member of staff.
Result: Penzance has been awarded a proficiency pennant for 2009 year. A good performance by everybody involved! We missed the Burgee by.........1%
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Sink...Or...Swim!!
Wednesday 15th April saw 14 cadets (inc juniors) attend Helston Leisure Centre to carry out the 40mtr swim in clothes, followed by 3 minutes of treading water and climb out of the deep end un-aided. We are glad to announce the pool life guard wasn't used and all cadets passed the test. The remainder of the evening was used to complete junior cadet blue syllabus sections (basically fun and games in the water). A good but tiring evening was had by all. Many thanks to Nicole for organising the event, PO S. Oliver for providing cover and Mrs T. James providing cover and transport.
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Dive...Dive...Dive
April 4th - 10th saw 6 cadets from Training Ship Grenville attend a National Sea Cadet Ocean Diver course held at TS Liverpool (West Derby Sea Cadets, Liverpool). 4 of the 6 gained the full award, whilst two others only have a couple of sections left to complete due to illness. Congratulations to all involved...hopefully you will progress further in this nationally recognised scheme
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South West Area Cadet Multi Training
The Weekend 20-22 March saw 15 Grenville cadets attend the South West Area Cadet Multi Training Weekend, held at HMS Raleigh, Cornwall. Six cadets took part in 3rd class Cook/Steward training, four cadets in 3rd class Seamanship, three cadets in 3rd Class Marine Engineering and two cadets in 3rd class First Aid. 13 cadets gained a pass and 2 cadets gained partial passes in their chosen subjects. Congratulations to all cadets that took part, we hope to see you advance to 2nd class in your subjects. Well Done!
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New Unit Patron
Thursday 19th March saw the official welcoming of our new unit Patron, Colonel Edward Bolitho. Colonel Bolitho has taken over the role of unit patron from Lord St Leven. Colonel Bolitho is welcomed whole heartedly to Grenville. In his first words as unit patron, Colonel Bolitho said he was proud to be part of one of the best sea cadet units in the country. The evening commenced with a informal inspection of guard and divisions. We wish him all the best in his new appointment.
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Mayday...Mayday...Mayday
Congratulations to Petty Officer (SCC) Rob James, Petty Officer (SCC) Matt Bird, Petty Officer Cadet Amy Nankervis, Leading Cadet Matt Gilmour and Ordinary Cadet Alex Rodger who all completed and passed a RYA 1 day VHF short range operators course on Saturday 14th March 2009. You are all in safe hands now!
The course and assesment was held at Penzance Sailing Club
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RYA Powerboat Instructor
The week 1st - 6th March saw Petty Officer (SCC) Matt Bird attend an RYA (Royal Yachting Association) power boat instructor course. Despite being unwilling to attend, P.O (SCC) Bird arrived at HMS Raleigh, Cornwall late Sunday evening. The course commenced Monday morning with high speed powerboat driving, as the week progressed his boat handling skills were assessed and both therory and practical lesson had to be delivered in the correct manner. Friday came and his course had completed on a high....P.O (SCC) Bird is now a qualififed RYA Power boat instructor.
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Congratulations
The weekend 27 Feb - 1st March saw 13 cadets compete at the South West Area Drill and Ceremonial Competition 2009. Penzance paraded 13 cadets and 2 pipers at the competition. The squad done extremely well and performed an outstanding display (video to follow shortly), but despite the amazing efforts the squad came 2nd. It was a very close competition and the winning squad only won by a few points.
However the squad claimed back the trophy for best dressed squad 2009 and O/C J. Hall was also announced joint Best Dressed Cadet. Petty Officer Cadet Nankervis won a silver medal for coming second in the squad commanders section.
Well done to all who took part including the pipers.
See the picture gallery for more photos.
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Power Boating - HMS Raleigh
Congratulations to O/C Scrivens and Cdt Johns who attend the national power boating course, held at HMS Raleigh over the week 15-20th feb. Both cadets reported a fun and exciting week. The cadets learnt new skills in all aspects of power boating
Qualifications awarded:
Johns RYA Level 1
Scrivens RYA Level 2 with planing/displacement endorsements
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New Boat For Penzance Sea Cadets
The Unit Management Committee (UMC) has funded the purchase of a 4m Orkney Dory, Engine and Trailer. The second hand vessel purchased from a private seller in Weymouth will aid to the units proposed boat training plans for 2009. The boat is fitted with a 40hp 2 stroke engine and its primary use will be to provide safety boat cover for other activities. Its secondary purpose will be to provide training to cadets who wish to become powerboat qualified. The boat requires a small amount of work in order to meet strict guidelines but will be available for use from March 31st. The dory will accompany our 2 ASC's (Admiltary Sailing Craft / Sea Cadet Dingy) and 5m Cheverton Champ workboat and numerous tenders.
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District Drill 2009
The weekend 13-15th Feb saw 13 cadets from Training Ship Grenville attend the Cornwall District Sea Cadets Drill and Ceremonial competition. The competition held at HMS Raleigh, Plymouth, saw Penzance Win ALL trophies for their section. The cadets won the squad trophy for the 15th year in a row. The cadets now go forward to the VERY TOUGH area competition where they will compete against some of the very best units in the country.
Piping: Two cadets from Grenville fought off tough competition and were crowned individual piping winners. The cadets have been selected to represent Cornwall District at the South West Area Drill and Ceremonial competition the weekend 27-1 Feb/Mar 2009. The best dressed piper went to a Padstow cadet...who won by 1 point! Congratulations to all involved!
See the picture gallery for more photos.
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Courses 2009/10
For those interested the course programme for 2009/10 has just been published. From March 2009 most course fees will be £60 per week (offshore courses £240) up to half price funding is available for ALL national courses. Cadets are urged to book early to avoid disappointment (half term courses fill quickly). With the use of Westminster we can now see if places are available rather than you waiting for a confirmation letter...in short you'll know if your booked on the course the day you apply.
Boatwork Course Programme
Onshore Training Programme
Offshore Programme
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Cadets Brave February Snow Showers
6 Cadets from Training Ship Grenville braved heavy snow showers and attend HMS CALEDONIA, Fife, Scotland to partake in a week long full bore shooting course. The current report (2/2/09) from the Sea Cadet Training Centre superintendant is "The cadets are having fun wearing green (camo's) and are enjoying playing in the snow". The cadets will endure a week long course of weapons training, handling, maintenance and shooting. The cadets will be getting familiar will L98's (The cadet version of the well known SA80).
See the picture gallery for more photos.
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Personalised Clothing
Personalised items of clothing are available to all Members of TS Grenville. Simply download the attached form, fill it in and return it with payment!!
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