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NOVEMBER 6TH 2015 Issue 1
Our Aim
In accordance with our Mission Statement the School’s aim
Faith and Worship
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To help us to grow spiritually as followers of Christ and as members of a C community: to make prayer, worship and liturgy central to school life.
School and Community
Celebrating 60 Years of Celebrating 60 Years of Outstan Outstanding Learning 1955 - 2015
To encourage and develop relationships between home, parish, school and the wider com in order to prepare our pupils to become responsible, I love comingcaring to workcitizens. here each day.
Often it doesn’t feel like work. We are a Catholic co privilege to see our youngDecember people flourishing, to sp Advent Liturgy 15th Year 11 Mocks November 9th - 17th ways and watch them grow in confidence. They School closes for Christmas December 18th is 12.00 pma To develop ansessions effective system of communications and relationships which based Year 10 Mindfulness weekly every lesson great adventures and stories unfold bor School reopens January 4th 2016 8.45 am begin November 9th tolerance, care and understanding towards all member Gospel values of mutual respect, and creativity. equally inspiring staff are dedica november charityOur appeal Headteacher’s Parent Surgery school community. person in their care. They may get outstanding November 9th 5.00pm Co-ordinated by Mrs. Dwyer-Moores, Teacher of RE, were brings so muchgoods morefor to refugees the education of coming our studen Presentation Evening (school closes at 2.00 pm) will be collecting over the Individual Support and 19th Development November 7.00 pm weeks. Details have been given to pupils in forms. differently so that every child can realise their gifts a Year 11 Retreats November 24th they11are. Doing this means that we are bringing to Year prom School Remembrance ethos of to the school. The prom willencourage take place ontheir July development 1st at the Etihad as indi To celebrate the unique nature of each person and
Communications and Relationships IMPORTANT DATES & FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Service Careers Focus Week Curriculum 6th Form Open Morning Year 9 reports to parents & guardians To introduce Barcelona Trip
November 27th November 23 - 27th November 28th 10.00am
Stadium. Pupils have been given letters with details and standards expected toand ensure participation. There is great spirit energy in this school. You c
curricular activities, in the array of research projec 6th form open morning (november 28th) In response to huge demand and success we are There the creativity that flows through our learning.
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Thursday saw us host a conference of local teachers and business leaders looking at careers in the creative and digital industries. There were six speakers from different companies presenting on the opportunities in gaming, communications, fashion, design, animation, marketing and PR. Pupils were at the heart of the conference working as greeters and servers as well as benefiting from hearing about the industries. We focused particularly on how schools can work more closely with business and parents to plan the curriculum and ensure pupils are prepared for work. the conference was the brainchild of Miss Furey in partnership with the Comino Trust and the Ideas Foundation.
CREATIVITY CONFERENCE
REMEMBRANCE Next week sees us mark Remembrance Day with a week of special assemblies led by Year 8. Pupils have also been leading the collection of money through the sale of poppies and commemorative wristbands.
Huge congratulations to the Year 11 Girls Hockey team who took top honours this week in the local competition. Sadly it was the last match of the season for the girls.
year 11 girls hockey Year 8 pupils begin their music project on World War 1 running in conjunction with the BBC Philharmonic, who will perform a new piece composed by Professor Davismoon on the evening of the 1st of July 2016. It is hoped that the pupil’s compositions will be played during lunchtime on the same day. Professor Davismoon, Director of Music and Dance at Salford University will lead this project in school. This exciting project will run over five forty-five minute sessions on Friday mornings.
We were pleased to have our long time collaborators Liz Forrester and Alison Watson of Class of Your Own in school looking at the work of the Design Engineer Construct course and the Year 7 architecture club. They were blown away by the pupils’ work.
SALFORD AND THE SOMME MUSIC PROJECT
DESIGN ENGINEER CONSTRUCT!
Sixth form work experience Students studying BTEC Health and Social Care begin their work experience next week with some pupils undertaking work at local care homes.
year 7 & 9 cat tests Well done to all Year 7 and Year 9 pupils on completing their CAT tests this week. The staff who co-ordinated the tests were very complimentary about the behaviour and attitude of both groups of pupils.
Tom Higgins from Laing O’Rourke spoke with Year 10 pupils about the opportunities available in the construction industry and fielded questions about the routes into employment.
LAING O’ROURKE VISIT
PUPIL LEADERSHIP We have an extensive and talented pupil leadership team which is made up of the Head Boy and Head Girl and the Deputies. As of this week the team meets weekly with Mr. Davis, HT, to discuss issues and agree actions for change and improvement. This week we looked at ways of raising awareness of mental health and promoting pupils’ leadership across the school. November will be a focus month on mental health and associated issues.
Congratulations to the pupils who undertook their speaking tests this week. Staff were very impressed at the quality of speaking and the depth of ideas on display with one teacher commenting that she would have awarded 12 out of 10 in many cases. Some Year 11s have volunteered to perform their speeches at assembly.
year 11 english speaking tests
T HI S WEE K IN PI C T URE S
LAING O’ROURKE VISIT; CREATIVITY CONFERENCE; DESIGN ENGINEER CONSTRUCT!
From top down: our team of ‘meeters and greeters’ on the door of the creativity conference on Thursday; Alison Watson with pupils looking at DEC and architecture; Tom Higgins of Laing O’Rourke with Year 10 pupils looking at plans and designs and talking construction industry careers.
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I just wanted to say how impressed I was with the session yesterday, it was one of the best network sessions I have ever attended. I was truly inspired by everyone, it was so refreshing to see the ‘creatives’ being celebrated!!! - participant in our Creative and Digital Industry Network Conference
PARIS TRIP
In the last edition of the newsletter we reported on the half-term visit to Paris led by the Modern Languages department. Here a two pictures to give a flavour of the trip. The next jaunt is to Barcelona on December 12th.