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Dates for your diary
16th
April Start of Term 5 (Week A)
20th
April Year 7 Reports home
26th
April Prize Giving
27th
April In-service Day
30th
April GCSE exams start
Holy Week Service
Our pupils led us today in a powerful, movingservice Born for this, depicting the passion and
death of our saviour, Jesus. This was an
adaptation of the service which they performed to huge
acclaim at the Cathedral of St Peter and Paul earlier this
month. Father Tom led us in prayer and reminded us of
the importance of Holy Week and Easter in our liturgical
calendar. Ms Hughes encouraged all pupils to attend
services in their local parish to celebrate Holy Week
fully. Please contact your local parish priest for further
information. May we take this opportunity to wish you
all a very happy and a Holy Easter.
National Science week at St. Bedes
The Science Faculty are still recovering from our busiest
ever Science week, which ended on 17th
March. Our
recent assemblies have been themed around the atom,
which features on this newsletter as our Science
Specialism logo - and all pupils should now know a bit
more about Democritus and his sword. Our lunchtime
lab sessions were well attended with pupils building fiery
bridges and rockets amongst other activities. On
Thursday and Friday we welcomed around 250 year 4
and 6 pupils from our link primary schools. The pupilsspent the day in workshops learning about forces, space
and the future of the universe. Each group put together
a rocket building kit to take back and use with classes in
their own school.
We have held science specialist status for nine years
now and these events help us to develop the curiosity
and fascination of Science which continues to lead to
exceptionally high proportion of St Bedes pupils
continue with science studies post-16 level.
Eco newsThe Eco Club has been busy planting bulbs in
the Eco area. An arrangement of flowers
such as Californian Bluebells, Anemones, Freesias and
Dahlia were planted by year 7 & 8 students last Friday
lunch time. "We are all looking forward to seeing the
flowers start to bloom!"
FLAME- National Youth
Congress
The Flame Congress took place
on Saturday 24th March 2012 at
Wembley Arena. It was a great opportunity for young
people to see how sport and faith meet; how values
such as teamwork, self- discipline, self-sacrifice,
courage and endurance are all deeply rooted in faith.
18 pupils together with Miss Williams and Mrs Seymour
travelled to Wembley Arena to meet 8,500 other young
Catholics from all over Great Britain. This event tied
together the Popes visit to the UK in September 2010
and the London 2012 Olympics. It was an amazing day
that celebrated our faith, taught us more about God
and enabled us to hear some powerful messages from
Olympians and Para-Olympians such as Jason Gardiner,
Debbie Flood and Stef Reid. The testimonies given by
these sports people "taught me about believing in theimpossible and reaching for your goals no matter how
hard the obstacles on the way are."
Some other thoughts we took away from the day were
that "sport can help keep children off the streets and
give them hope and something to live for, something
which touched me because I take things like that for
granted." The day taught us a lot about our faith and
God, "God would not have made us if we were rubbish,
we are all valuable to God and equal to one another."
The day was packed full of speakers, music, drama and
testimonies and we have all takenawaysomethingfrom the day which opened our eyes and made us
think.
Earth Hour - Saturday 31st March, 8.30 - 9.30pm
WWFs Earth Hour is a simple idea thats quickly turned
into a global phenomenon. Hundreds of
millions of people turning off their lights for
one hour, on the same night, all across the
planet. Its about appreciating the brilliant world we all
share and how we need to protect it. Not just for an
hour a year, but every day.We have encouraged our school community to take part,
so why not join in as a family and show you care about
our planet. Further information is available at
http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/
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Community Sport
The St Bede's Community Sports team recently
teamed up with the Gloucestershire FA to donate
sports kit to the Bank Leaze Primary School Uganda
exchange. The exchange saw 2 Bank Leaze members
of staff travel to Uganda recently with a supply of
sports kit to hand out to a local school. The picture
shows the children all kitted
out in their new kit and then
just about to kick off in a
match.
Enrichment Week 10th
13th
July 2012
Much of the arrangements for the Enrichment Week
are now in place. As ever, when we offer such a varied
programme of activities and trips, there is a cost
involved. This year, recognising that many families
may be feeling the effects of the credit crunch, we are
heavily subsidising the cost, to hold it at 16.
Enrichment week is a time when the formal
curriculum is suspended and year 7, 8 and 9 pupils
participate in a variety of experiences, developing
knowledge and skills to support children in future
learning. Full details will be given later in the year. If
there are hardship issues in any family, please contact
Mrs White, in confidence.
E-SAFETY TIP
Be aware that most mobile phones now on sale in shops
give access to the internet. If you do not allow your child
a computer in their bedroom it may be worth
considering asking for mobile phones to be leftdownstairs at night time.
LAST BRAINTEASER ANSWER
If you said first you are wrong. You arrive second. If you
overtake the second person and take his place, you
arrive second.
WISE WORDS!
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his
opportunities; an optimist is one who makes
opportunities of his difficulties. Reginald B Mansell
BRAINTEASER
It was Easter in Easter village and all the Easter bunnies are
joyful. The annual Easter egg hunt was just finished. The
Easter egg hunt is where four Easter bunnies search for any
of the four coloured eggs and then cross the finish line. Can
you figure out which Easter bunny found which egg and
what place they finished?
Easter bunnies- Mr Hops, Jumper, Long Ears and Littlenose
Easter Eggs- blue, red, green, and yellow. Clues:
1. Long Ears did not finish in 2nd place, Jumper did notfinish in 1
st, Long Ears found the red Easter egg, The bunny
that finished in 2nd did not find the green egg, Mr Hops did
not find the blue egg, Littlenose did not finish in 2nd
, The
bunny that found the blue egg did not finish 1st or 2nd
and
Hops finished in 4th.
Wembley Tour and Olympic Site Visit
On Wednesday, 44 Year 9/10 pupils with staff had a
fantastic experience visiting the Olympic village in
advance of the athletes.
SPORT RESULTS
Boys Football
Year 7 vs Brunel Won 1-0
Year 8 vs Downend Won 2-1
Year 9 vs Abbeywood Won 3-2
Year 10 vs Bristol Met. Won 3-0
Senior Basketball
Well done to the Senior Boys Basketball who came runners
up in the Bristol Schools Championship. The team battled
excellently through a tough semi-final against St
Bernadette's, winning by just 2
points. The team had to play their
final straight after that game and
were unlucky to lose it in the last
quarter of the play. The team just
ran out of energy and ended uplosing 44 - 36.
Sports Festival
On Tuesday, 78 pupils travelled to
Coombe Dingle to participate in the
Bristol Sports Festival. The college
chose to represent South Africa this
year due to the work that Sister Martha
does in the country.
The pupils wore green to represent the country and many
pupils brought flags to wave which were made for the
occasion by the Art department.
St Bedes won the Olympic School Spirit Award for hard work
and enthusiasm.
All had great fun and participated in different activities that
are not available in college including Flag Football, Street
Dance, Cheerleading, Extreme Golf, Futsal, DJ Skills, Ultimate
Frisbee, BMX, Mini Tennis, Team Building, Martial Arts,
Lacrosse, Korfball and Handball.
7 a Side
Starting all the way back in November, the 7 a side
tournament has been in full swing. With over 200participants, playing in 19 different teams of two ages
groups, it has been the most popular and successful
competition yet. After 82 fixtures being played over 3
lunchtimes a week, we would like to congratulation the
winning teams Valencia in the Year 10/11 league and Fulham
in the Year 8/9 league.
Fulham Valencia
Sports Ties
Congratulations to the following girls who achieved sports
ties for outstanding contribution to college sport - Sarah
Bonehill, Bethan Hughes, Yasmin Jarvis and Anicia Skeates.
