BECKET KEYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL ‘Faith in Learning’

VOLUME IV– ISSUE VI 10th July 2015 PAGE 1

Mr Scott-Evans writes:

Our Patronal Festival takes us

back to our original purpose and vision to be a church

school for Brentwood.

Celebrating the lives of the

saints reminds us that we are

all called to be saints today. As

a school we are living out our

Christian values, being thankful

and celebrating what Jesus has

done for us. As we come to the

end of the year, celebrate with

us! Your sons and daughters do

you proud every day and we

are working hard to achieve

everything we can for them and

with them.

Our Patronal Festival was

accompanied by a heat wave

this year! The last two weeks

have been wonderful as we

celebrated with a Eucharist,

charities week, a picnic, sports

day and various other smaller

events. Thank you to everyone

who has come along and

supported us.

The Eucharist was led by Father

Colin Hewitt at St Thomas’

Church in Brentwood. We were also pleased to have

Bishop John Wraw and Father

Paul Hamilton with us.

Father Andrew Grey gave the

sermon. His message of Grace

was a powerful one and

reminded us all that it is not

our acts which can ever make

us good enough for heaven, but

the acts of Jesus that redeem

us.

Various students were involved

with readings, serving, prayers

and offertory. The choir, led by Daisy Benson sang ‘Amazing

Grace’ during the communion

and from the choir stalls they

accompanied all the hymns.

Well over one hundred

students and staff received

communion and the school

community were given a

blessing by Bishop John Wraw

at the end of the service.

The charities week, led by the

hard working Charity

Committee was a great success

with various activities every

lunchtime. There was a penalty

shoot-out competition

(students v staff), a cake sale

and numerous games and

competitions. This crucial part

of our Patronal Festival puts

the needs of others first. My

thanks to Mrs Ahlner and the

committee for organising this.

The picnic was a fantastic time

with the Friends of Becket Keys

putting on a lovely welcoming

event.

We were worried that we

might have sweltered in the

sunshine, but a pleasant cool

breeze kept us going all

afternoon! Coffee and cold

drinks from the Ballantynes

were a very welcome addition

and various other local firms

supported. Some photos on the

following pages will give you a

flavour of the day!

We would like to thank all the

parents and staff who helped

on the day and special thanks to Mrs Williams, Mrs

Richardson, Mrs Barbour and

Mrs Butler for all their hard

work.

Today is Sports Day; we will

have a full report next week,

but for now I would like to

express my gratitude to

Mr Fenn for all his organising of

this important event. It takes a

lot of work and planning and

we have now enjoyed three

excellent sports days under

Mr Fenn’s leadership.

It is definitely the time of year

for saying thank you and I am

so pleased to have such a

fantastic team of staff around

me all pulling together at this

incredibly busy time of year. I

cannot thank them enough for

the work they put in every day,

every lesson. It is such a

pleasure to walk around this

school and see the amazing

work going on.

Mr Scott-Evans

Headteacher

PATRONAL FESTIVAL – SAYING THANK YOU

VOLUME IV– ISSUE VI 10th July 2015

VOLUME IV– ISSUE VI 10th July 2015 PAGE 2

Patronal Festival Picnic in pictures….

Students and staff go head to head in a

tug of war!

Many musical performances were

enjoyed including from the school

choir and solos from Nicole Lastauskas and Connor Strachan

(pictured).

Mrs Richardson at the cake stall,

which also sold strawberries and

cream.

VOLUME IV– ISSUE V 3rd July 2015 PAGE 1

VOLUME IV– ISSUE VI 10th July 2015 PAGE 3

OTHER NEWS ESSEX MFL FESTIVAL

Mrs Martin reports: Last Friday, students from Year 8 and 9 took part in the first Essex MFL Festival,

‘Poetry by Heart’ at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford. Eight other schools took part in this

event including Chelmer Valley High School, St. John Payne School and Shenfield High School. We enjoyed

listening to poems in Mandarin, German, French and of course, Spanish.

The students chose very beautiful

and challenging poems to recite in

Spanish. They were highly

complimented by other teachers

for their pronunciation, intonation

and the level of difficulty of the

poems.

Well done to all of the students

who participated.

BECKET KEYS’ GOT TALENT

This week we have been talking to

Nifemi Makinwa from 7HS about

her role as our student judge at the

talent show last week.

We asked Nifemi how she got the job. Nifemi explains that

she was asked to write a letter of application about why she should be

the student judge on the BKGT panel. She said: “I play the piano, flute,

recorder and ukulele and understand how practice and dedication is so

important to giving your best performance. I’ve just passed my grade 5

piano exam and I am at grade 4 flute. At primary school I performed on

two occasions at the Schools’ Choral Festival, which took place at the

Royal Albert Hall in London. Until recently, I also went to ballet

classes and have always enjoyed dance. I think that all of this

experience has given me a good understanding of how to spot a

polished and well-rehearsed act!

Of her experiences on the night, Nifemi tells us “I was so excited to be

picked as the student judge. On the night I really enjoyed watching my

fellow students perform. I was amazed by the hidden talents of some of

my peers and their performances were a real surprise. It was difficult to judge my friends’ performances and I

tried very hard to imagine that I knew none of the acts and I was just judging their performance on the night.

My favourite performance of the evening was Melissa Moore’s performance of ‘Say Something’ on the clarinet.

I know that it is really hard to get the notes from the clarinet and Melissa played so softly. Lots of students

said that they were quite nervous and for some, this affected their performance a little. My advice to

performers for next year is to be confident in yourself and to keep practising and performing. The more you

do, the easier it will be to overcome your nerves on stage”.

Thank you for giving us your account, Nifemi amd for your work as a judge on the night. Hopefully, you will inspire other students to get involved next year, whether it is back stage, as a judge or on the stage! Nifemi’s

next goal is to get a part in the school play next year. Thank you again to everyone who came and supported

our students.

Above: Louise White and Caitlin Ruth singing ‘Jar of Hearts’

Top: Sophie-Morgan Haywood singing

‘Hallelujah’ Right: Melissa Moore

playing ‘Say Something’ on the clarinet

Far right: Katherine Ellery singing

‘Over the Rainbow’

CHARITIES’ WEEK

Thank you to everyone who got

involved in the events for

Charities’ Week. The donations

have been counted and just over

£600 was raised for our school charities. Watch this space for

the total donations for the year!

Mrs Martin with Divine Okwuosa, who

recited a poem on her own,

Emma Sanders & Rebecca Daly, who read

together, Daisy Benson, Elisabeth Hayes

& Bethany Hancox who also read

together.

VOLUME IV– ISSUE VI 10th July 2015 PAGE 4

SPORTS NEWS

DISTRICT TENNIS

On Monday 22nd June,

Brentwood School hosted

a Year 7 and 8 district

tennis tournament. All the

local schools entered

teams and our students got

paired up to play doubles

games against pairs

from other schools.

All students were a

credit to the school

and several pairs

performed to a high

level and had good

success.

As the PE department

look to push tennis

more next year, we

will look to enter more competitions and arrange

friendlies against other schools. It was great to see

our students take part in this event and compete against the other schools. Well done to: Toby

Kelly, James Crisford, Lucas Hayter, William

McDermott, Louis Stephen, Ben Nichols, Joel

Reeves, Ben Fryett, Reuben Torgbor, Nicco

Lovelock, Remi Brien, Joe Stuckey, Will Stroud and

Megan Johnson.

CRICKET FINAL

Written by Jack Giddings (Year 7)

This year’s cricket final was held at Galleywood Cricket

Club between Becket Keys and Great Baddow. William

Davey was the captain and he won the toss and chose

to bat first. The opening pair were Jacob MacDonnell

and Jasper Stuckey; they both started the innings in a

positive way with Jacob and Jasper both hitting 4’s, but

the partnership was broken with Jasper being bowled

out. Next in was the captain William Davey, who went

to hit a wide ball, but unluckily top edged it and was

caught. After William was Adam Sedgwick, who went

on an amazing streak hitting 25 and retiring. The next

batsman, Dominic Spicer, had a tough act to follow but

he also did very well in bat, hitting 16 and 1 boundary.

He was also caught from fantastic shot that was sure

to go for a boundary but for an exceptional piece of

fielding.

Following on from Dominic

was Patrick Warriner who

was also bowled after getting

a quick single. After Patrick

was Billy Thompson who was

defending balls on the stumps

very well until a bit of

confusion between the pair

and he was run out.

Danny Brown was caught

after he hit a shot up into the

air and was caught. The innings went

on until Johnny Wyndham had an

amazing moment and hit his first

ever 4. Towards the end of the

innings Max Warren came in and

was also run out. After this the retired

Adam Sedgwick came in and had a

miracle moment hitting 2 sixes on the trot. That

concluded the innings; ending on 110 for 8!

Great Baddow started their innings well with their run

rate high, but in the middle of the innings it was broken

up with wickets from Adam Sedgwick and Dominic

Spicer. Great Baddow still kept on hitting runs and they

went on to win the match with 4 overs to spare. They

fielded exceptionally and batted well; they were worthy

champions. Our man of the match was Adam

Sedgwick. Thank you to Mr Fenn, Mr Wray, Miss

Honey and all the parents who took us and supported

us throughout the game.

SPORTS DAY

Today we have had a great day at Sports Day. At

Becket Keys we encourage all students to

participate in at least one event and if they are

unable to do so due to injury, students help

officiate events. It was great to see Years 7, 8 and 9

working together to gain points for their houses.

Thank you to the site team for helping to set up

and to all the staff who have assisted with

officiating the events. It was also great to see

parents coming along and supporting this event.

Results will be published in next week’s newsletter

along with a much more detailed report!

VOLUME IV– ISSUE VI 10th July 2015 PAGE 5

NOTICES

VACANCIES

LOST PROPERTY

We have a number of watches and pairs of glasses in

lost property. If you son/daughter has mislaid either,

please ask them to check at Reception.

CYCLING TO SCHOOL

Students cycling to school must:

- Wear a helmet

- Lock their bike in the shed

- Walk in the school grounds

-

Students cycling to school must not:

- Be a nuisance on the paths

- Cycle recklessly on the roads

- Cycle in the school grounds

If necessary, we will speak to parents/carers about

banning students from cycling.

WE WILL SOON BE

RECRUITING AGAIN!

Keep an eye on our website for details:

www.becketkeys.org/vacancies.php

We are always looking to ‘over staff’ with teachers in

any subject. Please send CVs to our school whether

we have an advert placed or not.

CONTACT DETAILS

Becket Keys CofE School

Sawyers Hall Lane

Brentwood

Essex

CM15 9DA

01277 286600

office@becketkeys.org

www.becketkeys.org

Dates for your Diary

14th July Governors’ Speeches &

Awards evening

21st July Last day of term – full day

finishing at 3.20pm

7th September First day back - 8.30am

start

You can keep up to date with a daily tweet

from Becket Keys by following us on Twitter

@Becket Keys