KS3
Transition Evening for year 9 pupils and parents
Tuesday
25th June at 6pm in the school hall
Our new website is up and running and I would ask that
all parents familiarise themselves with it please.
Passwords to parents for the Sims Learning Gateway, SLG, have
been provided via the recent reporting sytem – this gives parents access to
live data on their son’s progress and attendance as well as providing an easy
route to accessing homework and guidance for its completion.
Thanks to all those who were able to make a super KS3
awards evening last week.
The Carnegie Medal 2013
The Carnegie Medal is a prize awarded to a children’s
author every year. Each year books are short listed for the prize. These
shortlisted books are promoted through school libraries.
Across Devon,
schools can get involved with shadowing the Carnegie Medal. Each school is
assigned a specific book, they then have to prepare a ten minute presentation
on it which they will present to other schools across the region. This year’s
presentations were held at Tavistock College.
St Boniface’s were
assigned the book ‘The Weight of Water’ by Sarah Crossman. Students from 9D
worked really hard and came up with an original presentation on the book. They
did a fantastic job especially as it was quite a girly book. Despite technical
hitches, the students were wonderful and came runners up to Callington’s
imaginative presentation.
All students were
then asked to vote on the book that they thought would win the Carnegie Medal.
Those present voted for ‘The Weight of Water’. The highlight of the day was
when the actual Carnegie Medal winner was announced live from London. The
winner this year was ‘Maggot Moon’ by Sally Gardner.
Thank you to Will,
Scott, Noah, Louis, Joseph, Owen, Charlie and John. Also thanks to Mrs Smith,
Miss Cross and Mrs Hill for helping the students.
Tavistock made us
all feel very welcome a wonderful day was had by all.
“Dear Mr Davies
Having attended the Carnegie Reading Awards event today
at Tavistock College, I just wanted to let you know how proud St Boniface’s
College should be of the boys who represented it today. Your year 9 boys gave a
marvellous presentation on the novel ‘Weight of Water’ and were voted runners
up by all present. I was struck by how polite, smart and mature they were
throughout the day and how lovely it was to hear them conversing with the
visiting author at lunchtime. They were a credit to the College!”
Year 10 Exams 19 - 27 June 2013
Date
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Time
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Examination
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Monday June 24
Week B
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Period 1 and 2
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History
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Wed June 26
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Period 1 and 2
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Maths (Calculator)
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Period 4 and 5
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ICT
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Thurs June 27
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Period 1 and 2
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Art
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Period 4 and 5
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Engineering
Product design
Music
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These
exams will be conducted under the same rules as external exams, with each boy
being issued with an exam desk in the Gym (or Learning for Life Room.) Boys need to make sure that they have all the
correct equipment (in a see through pencil case or plastic bag) including a
calculator, where necessary.
At all other times the students
will have normal lessons.
Careers Information
1.
Tuesday
16th July 2013 we will be hosting a National Careers Service
day. Guidance and advice will be given to Parents who are thinking of
going into further education, higher education or wanting to learn in the work
place. Information will be available about course costs, child care
costs, support with living costs, Parent’s learning Allowance and Tax Credits.
Any parents that are interested please contact Mrs Hudson.
2.
Mrs
Hudson – Careers Coordinator and Mr Allen-CSW (Careers South West) will be available
for support and guidance for the Year 11s on GCSE results day 22nd
August but also from 10.00 – 1.00 on Friday 23rd August.
Mr Allen and Mrs Hudson will be available for the A Level results day on
15th August and again from 10.00 – 1.00 on Friday 16th
August. On the 16th and 23rd August Mrs Hudson and
Mr Allen can be found in the Careers Room located in Reception.
3.
Wednesday
18th September 2013 @ 6.30 pm there will be a DSA (Disabled
Students’ Allowances) meeting for parents of students from Years 11, 12 and
13. Any further information please contact Mrs Hudson.
4.
Wednesday
17th July 2013 Primary school taster day at Plymouth University for
years 8 – 10. Please contact Mrs Hudson.
5.
Inspire
2013. Thursday 17th October 2013 at Plymouth University for Year
10s. A ‘one stop shop’ to meet training providers, employers and guidance
teams. Student names to Mrs Hudson.
6.
Year
10 visits to PCA (Plymouth College of Art), Peninsula Medical School, Babcocks
and TR2 (Theatre) Student names to Mrs Hudson
Contact Details: Mrs Hudson
01752 779051 x 231
01752 753972 (direct line)
Please see link below for the PE clubs for
this term:-
Year
7
Year 7 have been very busy this week, preparing for
the imminent movement into Year 8 on the 1st July.
School photographs were taken on Monday, with
(mostly) lovely pictures taken! Well done boys for remaining patient whilst
taking part in this process.
We came together as a community on Wednesday evening
for the KS3 Awards Evening. I was extremely proud to give out so many
certificates to the Year 7 students. Honouring their achievements and hard
works was so rewarding, especially when meeting so many proud parents
afterwards. Many thanks also to out tutors for supporting their year group by
attending the evening. We have a very special pastoral team and it was lovely
to see everyone. Special thanks to Mrs Polson (Tutor of 7B) for her wonderful
tasting refreshments with all proceeds going to CAFOD, our year group’s chosen
charity.
We are very much looking forward to celebrating the
student’s achievements in a special celebration assembly this Tuesday (25th
June). Presentations will be made of various pastoral certificates, including
Head of Faculty, Head of Year and Tutor awards. This will be an opportunity to
celebrate the effort and enthusiasm seen by the students throughout the year
during their pastoral times.
A special mention this week goes to Harry in 7V who is raising money for the British Legion by selling raffle tickets around school, well done Harry.
I presented this week’s assembly to Year 7 on the
theme of “Thankfulness”. We all have so much to be thankful for and this linked
nicely into the celebration assembly next week and the recent CAFOD “IF”
Campaign. I’d also like to take this opportunity to say a huge “Thank you” to
our fantastic Year 7 pastoral Team of tutors. I’m sure that I speak for many
parents, in saying what a great team of tutors we have in Year 7 and as the
students move into Year 8, I know that they will be very sorely missed. The
great news for the year 7’s is that they will be moving into an extremely well
established tutor team led by Mr Tucker. Mr Tucker has a wealth of experience
as a Head of Year and your sons will be extremely lucky to be in his year group
and with his great team of tutors.
Well done to the Year students who took part in
Friday’s Sports Day. I was so impressed to see so many of Year 7 getting
involved in the activities.
July 1st – New Academic Year for all
students. Timetables for the Year 7 students will be released later this week.
July 5th – PTFA Quiz Night! 7.30pm.
Please come along and support our event – Mr MacCormick (Head of KS3), is our
resident Quizmaster for the evening! It should be great fun.
A final note to say “Thank You” to the parents for
your continued support throughout the year. This will be my final blog entry
for this year’s Year 7, as I pass the year group onto Mr Tucker. I have enjoyed
seeing the students develop throughout the year and very much look forward to
hearing about their continued success into Year 8.
Year
8
Another busy but rewarding week with many of our lads
achieving success in many forms both in and out of the classroom,
Congratulations this week go to: James, Win, Jack, Keenan and Matthew who entered the ‘Code Skool Challenge’ at
Plymouth University and won Best Team certificates, ITunes vouchers, and memory
sticks. They coded a website and a game about safety on social media using the
universities facilities. They were fantastically behaved and worked incredibly
well with each other and the university student ambassadors, as well as the
professors there.
Wednesday evening saw many more students receiving awards
at the KS3 Awards Evening for their achievement and efforts in the classroom
this year, Special awards went to : David for French, Daniel for English,
William for Maths and Liam for Art and Years Heads Award, but well done
to all those who received certificates you should all be proud of yourselves.
On the sports fields across the city our lads are also
being rewarded for their efforts after long hard football and rugby seasons,
well done to: Jack’s football team – the YMCA – who won the cup and Devonport
Services football team who won the SW challenge cup. The team includes,
Liam, Devan, Piran and Tom.
Year
9
MR SCOTT
This week has been a "winning week" for my Year 9
students! The pastoral team are proud of the effort each and every student puts
in to their work, their community and themselves.
At the KS3 Awards Evening – Year 9 took 10 of the 15 major
awards – a huge well done to you all! Ben won the Head of Year
award for Year 9.
And finally a huge well done to the Year 9 students competing at
Sports Day… they showed true sportsmanship and worked together to achieve.
It is also right to recognise the efforts of my hardworking,
dedicated team of tutors who working unendingly to support the boys in Year 9.
As we approach the start of Year 10 on July 1st, I would like to thank
them for their unending work to make sure our students achieve.
The year 10 examinations are in full flow at the moment and the feedback is that the boys are conducting themselves admirably. Even though the examinations are internal they are set under strict official external examination rules and regulations. The boys will enjoy their summer break that much more after a full week of examinations and it will be well deserved as the vast majority of the boys have had a great year and are progressing well in preparation for their very important external examinations next year.
Mr Ramage, our key stage 4 manager, has finalised the preparations to enable our year 10 boys to go to Pepperwood Paintballing Centre for the mornings of the 1st- 3rd July 2013, inclusive. This is our way of recognising and rewarding, in a positive way, all the hard work the boys have done this year.
Post
16
Appointment of Dan (Head boy), Tim, Bryan, Liam (Deputy
Head boys) as the mainstay of the Sixth form senior leadership team. They
talked to the staff and helped out at awards evening. A very enthusiastic group
of students who want the best for the College and want to personally achieve
but are willing to give back.
University Open Day on Wednesday where all sixth formers
will attend. This is an important day to find out all about University life,
from course content to finance. All is freely available from Plymouth
University - an opportunity not to be missed?
UCAS: the sixth form will now be preparing their UCAS
applications for next year. I would advise that they prepare whether they are
going to University or not as this provides the basis for any reference or
application. The teachers at present are writing their references.
Dropping subjects: It is advisable that no subject is
dropped until August when the results come out.
It has been a hard term but the A level exams have now
ended. I wish all the students every success in their exams and hope that they
succeed. I would like to personally thank them for all their hard work and I
know that many students have personally thanked the teachers with gifts. I am
proud of their achievements and they have all grown up to be responsible adults
and hopefully for them have now completed this journey within the St.
Boniface’s College.
Mr. Tew
150TH
ANNIVERSARY UPDATE
Class
Rings – now available
St
Boniface’s has had over 10000 students cross its door over the last 150 years –
many go on to become doctors, lawyers, MPs, sportsmen and more. There is
a sense of pride amongst Old Bonifacians that is commented upon when old boys
come together. This year, we are proud to be the first UK school to offer
a range of customised rings – for leavers, staff and Old Boys alike. The
rings can be customised – order yours today at www.evalondon.com/stbonifaces
Limited
Edition Ties - £10
The
tie is similar to the current school tie, but features the College badge
embroided in the centre, and has ‘150’ running through the white bar to mark
the anniversary. The ties can be worn by Year 7-11 for their time at the
College to recognise being part of the sesquicentennial. The ties are
limited edition, and are available to Old Boys if required. A limited
edition sixth form tie will also be available from September.
College
Archive - Flickr
We have digitised over 50’000 images from the
College’s history. Be sure to have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonifaceplymouth/sets/
Monday 24 June
2013
08:10 – 08:45 Table Tennis
Breakfast Club
11:35 – Year 10 Student Voice
13:35 – 2:20 Film Club (F136)
13:35 – Geography Club (A9 or
A6)
13:35 – Quiz in the Library
13:35 – Various Clubs in the
Learning for Life Centre
13:35 – Fitness Suite
15:20 – 16:20 Extended Learning
Club – Library
15:30 – Year 10 Baseball
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Tuesday 25 June
2013
Fowlescombe Farm Trip all day –
Year 7T
13:35 – 14:20 Film Club (F136)
13:35 – Card Games in the
Library
13:35 – Various Clubs in the
Learning for Life Centre
18:00 – KS3 Transition Evening
|
Wednesday 26 June
2013
University trip for all lower
sixth form students – all day
13:35 – 14:15 Careers Club in
the Library
13:35 – 14:10 Board Games Club
BWF (Art Room E123)
13:35 – Knitting Club (Miss
Gosling’s room)
13:35 – 2:20 Film Club (F136)
13:35 – Geography Club (A9 or
A6)
13:35 – Various Clubs in the
Learning for Life Centre
15:20 – 16:20 Extended Learning Club – Library
15:20 – 16:20 Gardening Club (LfLC)
15:30 – Athletics
15:30 – Cricket
15:30 – Mountain Biking
|
Thursday 27 June
2013
13:35 – 14:20 Film Club (F136)
13:35 – Various Clubs in the
Learning for Life Centre
13:35 – Geography Club (A9 or
A6)
15:20 – 16:20 Extended Learning
Club – Library
15:30 – 16:30 Stem Club (Mr
Smart’s room)
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Friday 28 June
|
Lord, may I
become more aware of your presence in my life. May I discover
that you do walk with me each day of my life,
accompanying me in darkness
as well as in light, in sadness as well as in
joy. May your Spirit lead me to
trust and come to know that you keep your word
and are always faithful
and loving. I place
myself and my future into your hands.
Amen
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