Celebrating our Cornish Heritage

Our Cornish history and landscape are at the heart of Truro School Prep’s new Ballerion Award programme. Designed for our Year 5 pupils, the Ballerion Award sits alongside our curriculum and is an environmental award scheme focused on wild places. It encourages awareness and responsibility for the natural environment in a spirit of fun, adventure and exploration.

This week, our children have been making this most of our beautiful and unique location in Cornwall and have been exploring some of the county’s heritage and scenery.

Split over two sessions, this week, half of our Year 5 pupils visited St Edwards Mine near Camborne where they stepped back in time to discover Cornwall’s tin mining legacy. With practical experiments and a fascinating tour of the mine, pupils were able to understand the scale, danger and significance of mining in Cornwall and how it still shapes our landscape today.

Meanwhile, the other half donned their cycling helmets and got on their bikes to tackle the coast-to-coast trail that runs from Portreath to Devoran. The day took pupils through the routes of historic mineral tramways, once used for transporting ore from mines to ports like Portreath and Devoran, offering them a journey through Cornwall’s mining heritage.

It was a fabulous day full of personal challenges and discovery and one that left everyone feeling very lucky to be based in such an incredible county. Next on the agenda is a beach clean, and we look forward to sharing these updates with you soon.