The weekly newsletter of St Bartholomew’s School.

DIARY DATES Sun 16 Nov PA Gift & Craft Fair,

11.15am-4.00pm

Thurs 20 Nov Y12 Parents’ Evening,

4.30-7.00pm, Curnock block

Fri 21 Nov Y7/9 PA Disco, Hall, 7-9pm

Tues 25 Nov Sixth Form Open Evening

5.30-8.30pm

YEAR 12 PARENTS’ EVENING ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM

The Year 12 Parents’ Evening is on Thursday

20 November 2014 from 4.30pm to 7.00pm

in the Curnock block.

The school has now introduced an intuitive

and easy to use online appointment booking

system for parents’ evenings. This

considerably improves our previous system

which relied on students making bookings

with teachers. This online system is now

being used for all parents’ evenings.

The system enables parents to choose their

own appointments with teachers, for which

parents will receive email confirmation.

Year 12 parents/carers will soon be sent

information about booking appointments

including the log in details, together with a

short guide on how to use the system. Parents

will be able to make bookings from 4.00pm on

Friday 14 November. Visit https://stbartholomews.parentseveningsystem.co.uk

to book your appointments during the booking

period.

If parents/carers with students in Year 12 do

not have access to the internet please contact

the appropriate House office who will add

appointments on your behalf.

CALENDAR NOTICE Wednesday 12 November

KS4/5 Drama Society Performance, all day, is

postponed until further notice.

BartholoNews

11 November 2014 www.stbarts.co.uk Issue No: 739

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Advanced Digital Photography Lighting

Workshop

An enjoyable and creative way to learn about how to light

your digital images

Suitable for older students and adults

Saturday 22 November

10.00am to 1.00pm £30 per person at St Bart’s

Pick up your registration form from Mr Turner in E130

or email pturner@stbarts.co.uk

Economic & Social Research Council’s

Changing World

Photographic Competition

How has the world changed over the last 50 years?

What could it be like in the future?

Open to students aged 14-18 Prize money for winners and school

Entry deadline 9 December 2014

Visit www.esrc.ac.uk/photocomp to enter & for all details

SIXTH FORM OPEN EVENING Tuesday 25 November 2014

5.30pm – 8.30pm

St Bart’s is a successful comprehensive school offering exceptional opportunities.

All St Bart’s Year 11 students, and

prospective students from other schools, are invited to our Open Evening.

Come and find out about our wide range of courses, extra curricular activities

and vibrant Sixth Form life.

A presentation by the Head of Sixth Form is at 5.30pm followed by

a series of subject talks. The programme of talks is published on the Sixth Form page of

the school website. Email: sixthform@stbarts.co.uk

www.stbarts.co.uk

PA DISCO

Years 7/8

Friday 21 November 2014 In the Hall

7.00pm – 9.00pm

£3 on the door Refreshments available for sale

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BBC CHILDREN IN NEED 14 November 2014

You are invited to the

Pudsey Party.

Superheroes, accompanied

by Martha, from the Great

British Bake Off, have been

preparing for a fun packed

day.

Will you be wearing your pyjamas or

dressed as a superhero on Friday

14 November?

With the TV cameras on Newbury, and with

St Bart’s at the heart of the local community,

we hope that you will be joining us to have

some fun and make your donations to this

excellent cause.

The television cameras will be in school all

day on Friday 14 November broadcasting live

at Activity Time and during the evening when

the South West regional update will be from

St Bart’s.

Refreshments, face painting and the

presentation of cheques to camera will all be

part of this wonderful event.

Please contact Mrs Sims to share what you

have been doing to raise money as a

family/work group/collection of friends.

All ideas and information welcome – the BBC

will be interested in them all.

See you Friday 14 November!

Mrs M Sims, Deputy Headteacher

GROWING SUCCESS A group of Year 9 students have started a new

course, ASDAN Bronze this September. This

course encourages them to develop

confidence, team skills, independence and a

sense of community.

Their latest work has proved to be extremely

productive. The students were set the task of

harvesting and preparing the school vegetable

gardens for the winter. This was a huge task

where they were keen to get stuck in

harvesting marrows, pumpkins, Swiss chard,

courgettes, potatoes and beans. This was

followed by clearing all the remaining

vegetation and weeds, then digging over the

soil.

After harvesting was completed the students

were able to appreciate enjoying the produce

as we used the vegetables to make a vegetable

curry and spicy Swiss chard and potato pies,

which we shared as a picnic in the school

garden.

The students have been a pleasure to work

with on this project as they have been

interested in and asked lots of questions about

the creatures they have found in the garden

and about the plants they have harvested.

Mrs J Hale

NETBALL NEWS The Year 10 and Year 11 netball teams played

friendly fixtures against Trinity last week and

scores and players of the match were as

follows.

Y10 won 17-1 Georgie Sanderson

Y11 won 27-3 Elvia Clark-Morris

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CURNOCK NEWS House Music

Curnock ended the first half of the

autumn term on a complete high

after being overall winners of House Music for

the third year in a row! Congratulations to all

our competitors and in particular our

instrumentalists who won the House

Instrument Cup with their rendition of 'Let me

entertain you'. Our conductor Katherine

Valentine was especially commended by the

judge for her performance. "One of the stars

of the evening."

The choir, conducted by Adam West, sang

'Don't stop me now' and our Year 8

composition 'Summertime Blues' was

performed by Max Walters (drums), Livi Day

(clarinet) and Lois Ryan, Megan Lay, Isabelle

Hole and Clarice Knapp (keyboards and

vocals).

Huge thanks go to our Music Captains, Adam

West, Katherine Valentine and Megan Bone

for their excellent leadership and outstanding

musical talent.

Student Successes

Other success stories from Curnock students

are:

Tilly Minchin 11C2 who was the overall

winner of the Newbury Young Songwriter

Competition with her song 'Cover Up'. She

won a £1,000 to spend at Hogan Music.

Lauren Bell 9C1who went through two sets of

trials before being picked for U15 Scotland

squad. She also plays football for Berkshire

county and Reading Academy. In addition

Lauren has been picked for the U15 England

squad for cricket following her trials and

performance statistics playing for Berkshire

county team.

Zara Ryan 12C2 was recently promoted to

County Team Captain for the Berkshire &

South Buckinghamshire swimming team. In a

recent competition they were 8th out of 38

which is a great achievement.

Josh Waters 13C1 continues to amaze us with

his karate skills. He recently won a bronze

medal at the European Karate Championships

which were held in Cyprus.

Joe Allport 8C2 gained his red belt in

kickboxing, which is just one level below a

black belt. Joe hopes to participate in the

Annual Kickboxing Championship which will

be taking place in Reading.

Jacob Chapman, Stephen Chooi, George

Howell and Joseph Middleton 9C2 all

appeared in the CBBC programme 'Wild

Thing', a programme aiming to get children off

computers and embracing nature.

These are the ones that we know about, but if

there are any other success stories that we are

unaware of please do let us know about them

in the Househeads' Office.

Notices

This half term is even busier so make sure you

keep an ear out for all notices being read.

Most important events will also be shown on

the Curnock noticeboard.

Chess Team

Last year our chess team did very well so we

hope they have been practising hard and

toning up the brain muscles! For those who

prefer a more active competition we are

looking to win House rugby and House

netball!

Curnock Events

It is good to see that generally our Year 7s are

settling in well to life at St Bart's. Hopefully

the half term break will have left them feeling

refreshed; the first half term is always tiring

with so much that is new to take on board.

Things will be feeling much more familiar

now and there's the Year 7 Christmas party to

look forward to on Monday 15 December!

It's been a great start to the year for Curnock -

let's hope we continue in the same fashion.

Mrs Mounsey and Mrs Kempster

FREE MUSIC TRIAL FOR

YEAR 7 Some spaces have become available to learn

the drum kit, timpani and tuned percussion at

St Bart’s through Berkshire Maestros. These

spaces are open to Year 7 students. Students

interested in this opportunity can take part in a

free trial prior to signing up to lessons.

Further details from Mr Grant or Mr Maunders

in the music department.

KEY STAGE 4 AWARDS EVENING

The Key Stage 4 Awards evening took place on 23 October and last year’s Year 11 students gathered

together to celebrate their GCSE successes. Simon Grayson, a former St Bart’s student and Elite

Performance Coach for the West Indies Cricket Board from 2010-2013 presented the certificates and

prizes. Book prizes and trophies were awarded to the following students.

KS4 Subject Prizes for 2013 - 2014:

Art Rebecca Dore

AS Computing Richard O’Brien

Business & Communication Systems Kyla Wilkinson

Business BTEC Ethan Prince

Dance Lebo Mahlanya

Drama Jake Mawson

Electronics Thomas Olive

English Megan Gallagher

English Oscar Forsey

English Literature Heather Simpson

English Literature William Seath

FCSE Languages Stamatula Malfas

Film Studies Christopher Pattenden

Food Technology Hannah Wolak

French Zara Ryan

GCSE Business Studies Joseph Fisher

Geography Georgina Bradford

German Alex Light

Graphics Ellie Grady

Health & Social Care BTEC Molly Huszarik

History Emily Pinfold

ICT BTEC Jinny North

Mathematics Chloe Blissett

Mathematics Nathan Curtis

Further Mathematics Joanne Willmer

Music Jocelyn O'Brien

PE - GCSE Yasmin Ryder

Religious Studies Joanna Edworthy

Resistant Materials Alice Minchin

BTEC Applied Science Renata Warner

Core Science Thomas Wright

Additional Science Jessica Emberlin

Biology Rebecca Gill

Chemistry Sophie Ings

Physics Charlie Steward

Spanish Tilly Woodfield

Textile Technology Aaron Hillier

Latin

Maddie Hogan

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Special Prizes for Academic Achievement in GCSE: (Awarded to students attaining eight or

more A or A* grades)

Rebecca Gill Alex Light Zara Ryan

Eleanor Williams Sophie Ings Megan Gallagher

Tilly Woodfield Thomas Olive Richard O’Brien

Hannah Wolak Charlie Steward Charlie Oretti

Frankie Lloyd Maddie Hogan Polly Mitton

Ahmed Mobasshir Nathan Curtis William Seath

Heather Simpson Valentina Albanese Oscar Forsey

Jessica Reddin Sophie Smith Niamh Gannon

Anna Rabinowitz Lebo Mahlanya Jessica Emberlin

Junming Liu Kyla Wilkinson Abbie Dixon

Isla Harrison Joanna Edworthy James Murrell

Conan MacDermott Diana Pires Colette Bell

Holly Choules Jack Douglas Louisa Grove-White

Finlay Roy Riona Sedgwick Katherine Swanson

Dawn Simpson Ellie Grady Edward Peppitt

Jocelyn O'Brien Johnny Bhatt

Major Awards for 2013 - 2014 are presented to the following students:

CCF Prize: James Herbert

Service to Boys’ Sport: Joe Hobbs

Service to Girls’ Sport: Anna Prudden

House Prizes: Curnock: Daniel Green

Davis: Sophie Smith

Evers: Isla Harrison

Patterson: Frankie Lloyd

The John Marshall Public Speaking Prize: Harriet Penna

The Luker Prize: Leanne Wright

The Nicola Rodger Cup: Rebecca Dore

The Richard Griffin Prize: Christian Randall

The Sutton Prize Finch Leonard

The Parents’ Association Prize: Victoria Moxon

The Old Newburians’ Association Prize: Omar Soomro

Special Awards for House Progress are presented to the following students:

Curnock: Elin Landhed

Davis: Jack Douglas

Evers: Joanne Willmer

Patterson: Jamie Roberts

House Championship:

Sports Championship: Evers

Citizenship Championship: Patterson

Academic Championship: Evers

Overall House Champions: Evers