Headteachers Blog for
week beginning 23rd June 2014
One
month left and so much to do!
Every
year appears to be the same and I always look back and wonder where that time
went. My mother tells me that as you get older the time goes more quickly – I am
starting to notice but what does this mean for me? Maybe we will have one of
those long hot summers as I remember from my childhood…
Breaking News - Mr Frank Ashcroft has been appointed as the new Headteacher of St. Boniface's College.
Thursday
saw us also welcome about 100 Year 4 and 5 boys into the College for a Retreat
Day. The pupils were a real credit to their primary schools and families and
certainly appeared to enjoy the day. Thanks also to the primary teachers for
putting up with the disruptions to normal school life when such events occur.
We
have been heavily involved in the CAFOD Run for Women scheme this year and
welcomed Simon Giarchi, an old boy, back in on Thursday. Year 7 and 8 pupils
were sponsored and ran a prearranged course to raise money for this very worthy
cause – well done to all.
PTFA Summer Draw
Tickets
are now being sold for the 2014
St Boniface’s Summer Draw.
The prize is a fantastic
3
nights Self Catering Holiday for up to 5 people,
Staying
at”Manor Cottage”, Polperro, Cornwall.
(COURTESY
OF LEGEND HOLIDAYS AND WORTH OVER £300)
Numbered squares between 1 and 200 are being
sold on a first come first served basis.
The
squares cost just £5 each. These can be bought directly
from the PTFA at forthcoming school events or via this website.
Simply complete
the attached form & choose your numbers. Then return the form with money to
school and we will book your squares.
Squares are selling fast and someone is going
to have a holiday for as little as £5, so please hurry to be in with a chance
to win this great prize and support your PTFA in our final leg of fund raising
for Motiv 8
THE LUCKY NUMBER WILL BE DRAWN, AND THE WINNER
CONTACTED, BEFORE THE END OF TERM. GOOD LUCK!!
Final Reminder
The
150th Celebration Dinner takes place at Plymouth Albion on June 27th,
closing date for tickets is June 20th so please contact Mrs Hudson
at the College if you are interested. 01752 779051.
Year 10 parents
please remember the Year 10 Parent /Teachers evening on Tuesday 24th.
I
also look forward to welcoming pupils and parents to the Key Stage 3
Celebration Evening on Wednesday in the College Hall from 6pm
Next week we are having an international visitor, Headteacher, in
with us from Nepal – it really is amazing to see how fortunate we are in
education compared to other parts of the world. We are also welcoming a group
of students from St Peter’s Primary school in for a spell to see what “Big
school is like”! I was fortunate enough this week to visit one of our primary
partner schools within CAST in Bodmin, St Marys. Watching Year 1 boys and girls
cue up outside their class ready to go on a nature trail – were we ever like
that! I wanted to pick them all up congratulate them all, dare I use the word “cute”.
Have a great week all and thanks for reading.
We were very fortunate this week to be given a presentation by PC
Kirkup on the way that we speak to each other and homophobia and racism. Thank
you to PC Kirkup for giving us such an inspirational speech.
On Thursday the Year 7 students took part in Cafod’s run for
women, I believe a great amount of money was raised, do well done lads. I will
hopefully be able to report a figure next week.
Thursday was a very busy day in school indeed. Not only the Cafod
run for women, we had 96 year 4 and 5 students from various primary schools,
visit St Boniface’s for a Spiritual Retreat Day, based on the Feast of St.
Peter and St. Paul. Although an extremely hectic day, all students had a great
time and it was lovely to have some Year 10 ambassadors helping for the day.
Many thanks particularly to Miss Heduvan and Mrs Printy and to all others
involved.
We are have some exciting events coming up, the Key Stage 3 Awards
Evening and Sports Day just to name a few! I really look forward to this time
of the year, reflecting on the achievements of the past academic year.
I am sadly still a little concerned with the amount of Year 7
students who are starting to try and bend the rules on uniform. It is expected
that all students have the correct uniform and look smart at all
times. I know there are occasions where some of the older boys may be seen
not sticking to this rule, but I know that their Head of Year is just as strict
and on to them, as much as I am! My year group is something I am so proud of
and hope, that with your parental support, we can nip this in the bud before it
gets out of hand. One of the main issues I have, is appropriate footwear.
Students should have leather school shoes and not black trainers. Thank
you for your continued support.
·
Mobile phones should not be on during the school day. They
should be switched off and in bags so that learning is not disturbed.
·
Home learning should be completed for all subjects in a timely
manner. Please can parents insist on checking planners and guiding the
students with organisation.
·
Please can parents ensure their son has a reading book in his bag every
day to support our reading scheme. This is to further help and improve
literacy standards whereby all students will undertake 30 minutes of silent
reading each day.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend in the sunshine!
Miss Beales
Year 8
It
has been another busy week in the College with interviews being held for our
new Head Teacher so by the time you read this we could have a new Head Teacher
in position, but I hope like me you will appreciate the good work Mr Davies has
done over the last 12months for the college.
It
has been so nice to see the sun I think it makes everybody feel better, and it
is nice to be able to hold outside events such as the year 7 & 8 run for
women and raising money for Cafod.
Keeping our fingers crossed for the continuation of the dry spell, July
4th sees our annual sports day being held on the school premises
with events for all from mountain biking to softball and of course the athletic
event, and of course our 150th Anniversary Celebration Day on July
14th.
Thank
you to all the parents who attended the hugely successful Transition Evening on
Tuesday, and thank you for all the positive e-mails of thanks received, I hope
the event went some way to answering any concerns students and parents may have
had about their sons GCSE option choices. If you have any further questions
please e-mail the relevant Head of Department direct.
Have
a good week
Mrs
Mcloughlin
Last week was very busy for me – I was working in my
Governor role to contribute to the Head Teacher recruitment process. Apologise
for the delay in this blog entry for Year 10.
TG – House – Form Tutor – House Colour – House Mascot –
Head of House
10B – Barrett House – Mr Tucker (Maths) – Red – Barrett
Bulldogs – Mr Tucker (PE)
10E – Errington House – Mr James – Purple – Errington Eagles
– Mrs McLoughlin
10G – Grimshaw House – Mr Ousey – Yellow – Grimshaw
Grizzlies – Mr Scott
10K – Keily House – Mr Neethling – Blue – Keily Kings – Miss
Beales
10V – Vaughan House – Mr Chambers – Green – Vaughan Vipers –
Mr Redfern
We’re encouraging all students to wear their house colours, paint their faces, wear coloured wigs etc to show house spirit!
Mr
Tew has taken a group of our post 16 students up to the Edmund Rice International
Student Conference in Manchester. Our involvement with this wider community
will help the students gain a greater appreciation of what can be accomplished
by working together and what an important part they play in the ER Network. I
hope the weather in Manchester has been as good as here!
School Prayer
God, our Father,
Creator of all good things
in the world and within our school community:
We thank you for the gift of this day,
for our families and friends
and for this safe place to learn and grow.
We ask You to bless all who teach and learn.
Through Your Holy Spirit,
guide us as we grow in faith and love
and give us the courage
to be more like Your Son.
We ask this, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Creator of all good things
in the world and within our school community:
We thank you for the gift of this day,
for our families and friends
and for this safe place to learn and grow.
We ask You to bless all who teach and learn.
Through Your Holy Spirit,
guide us as we grow in faith and love
and give us the courage
to be more like Your Son.
We ask this, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
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