Hi everyone,
MENTOR DAY FRIDAY 22nd NOVEMBER
A good week here at
the College although our thoughts and prayers go not only to all those affected
by war but also to the devastation that has hit the Phillipines and the
thousands of people suffering there. The College community has rallied in an
attempt to do all we can to help with collections being sent off via CAFOD, acts
of remembrance and most importantly prayers. We observed a two minutes silence across
the College on Monday – the boys were superb, my thanks to each of them.
We are all excited by
the announcement of our new Bishop in the press last weekend. Bishop elect Mark is in
our prayers as well as our sadness at finally seeing a successor named to
Bishop Christopher, who of course is also in our prayers. From the little I
know to date Bishop Mark has quite a history in education so I am hoping to
invite him to the College at his earliest convenience.
I am sure that you
will be aware of the resignation of our long standing Governor, Mr Steven Hole,
from the Governing body as per last week’s blog. My thanks go to Mr Malcolm
Teague for stepping up from deputy Chair and as you can see below the Governors
have been eager to find an equally talented replacement:
“Dear Parents,
Further to the letter
at the end of last week, I am writing to let you know that my short stint as
Chair of Governors has come to an end. I am delighted to announce that
governors unanimously voted for Graham Johnson to succeed me as Chair of
Governors at a meeting on Monday evening. Many of you will know
Graham in his role as Chair of Governors of Notre Dame or through his
significant involvement in St Peter’s parish, Crownhill. He will write to
you shortly to introduce himself.
With all good wishes
and support for Graham as he leads the Governing Body and College on the next
phase of its journey of continuous improvement.
Malcolm Teague”
For all year 11
pupils – Nov 21st is our post 16 evening – what is life like as a
sixth former at St. Boniface’s. 6pm in the hall – see you there!
PTFA Update
The College's PTFA are hard at work! The work of Jill Blake and her dedicated team is nothing short of amazing!
We have arranged numerous fundraising activities for Project Motiv-8, our Fitness Suite refurbishment project, with great success. We have now raised £3800 for this cause and are close to our target of £4500. Thank you very much for your support of this cause thus far. Our recent Mufti day raised £964 and our College disco raised just over £300 - fantastic totals!
To assist with the future work of the PTFA, we require donations of:
1. Raffle prizes into school for the event nights (big or small!)
2. Playing cards and Uno cards for our College's Card Club
3. Your time at meetings or to assist us at College events
Please also remember that our next quiz evening is at 7:30 pm on Friday 6th December - please check your son's bag for a flyer! To secure your table of 6 people, please send £21 to the College reception (cash or cheques payable to St Boniface's Catholic College PTFA) in a sealed envelope marked PTFA Quiz. If you wish to come but do not have a full team, please send in £3.50 per person and we will find a team for you! This event was a real success in July and we urge you to bring your own food and drinks. All proceeds go to Project Motiv-8.
D. MacCormick
A
note below from Mr Baines regarding the Sims Learning Gateway, SLG, for
parents:
If
you find that SLG repeatedly asks you to enter your password you will need to
change your privacy settings in your browser.
1)
Open Internet Explorer
2)
Select Tools > Internet Options
3)
Select Privacy
4)
Select Sites
5)
In the Address of website add ‘capita-cso.co.uk’ and click Allow
6)
Click OK and restart Internet Explorer and try changing the password again
Gifted and Talented,
G&T
There is a G&T PE and ICT event taking place on
Wednesday 20th hosted by Devonport High School for Girls and the
Plymouth Life Centre. 5 more able boys will be representing St Boniface’s
Catholic College.
Careers
We are
holding a Careers Fair at St Boniface’s Catholic College on Wednesday 20th
November from 6.30pm - 8.30 pm in the
Main Hall.
We would like
to invite all students and parents from Years 9, 10, 11 and Post 16 in order to
explore career pathways, employment opportunities, further education and
discuss opportunities with PLT training providers. Careers South West will also be attending to
provide advice and guidance.
We are hoping
to provide a ‘one-stop-shop’ for our students looking for information about
future career opportunities. Please find
listed below the variety of visitors we have invited to the Careers Fair:
PCAD –
Plymouth College of Art and Design CSW
– Careers South West
Plymouth
University Plymouth
Community Care
Peninsula
Medical School GHQ
Marjons HIT
– Hospitality Industry Training
Babcocks Duchy
College
Royal Navy Saltash
College
RAF Skills
Group
Dbs Music Norpo Training
Achievement
Training Plymouth
City College
EDT Engineers A
Plus Accounts
KPMG Vickery
Holman
Pauline Quirk
Academy Access
SW
Army Discovery
College
Fursdon
Knapper Solicitors
It is a very
important time for the students as they are all making decisions about their
future. It is therefore vital that they
have this opportunity to discuss what their options are and hopefully this will
spur them onto a successful career.
Yours
sincerely
Mrs R Hudson
Careers
Coordinator
01752 779051
x 231
01752 753972
rhudson@stbonifaces.com
Knitting
Panda Knitting Club knitted 48 hats which were
posted off to support the Innocent Big Knit. This campaign is designed to
support the elderly in our own communities and nationwide.
Hats of various shapes colours with pompoms, googly
eyes and even two octopus arrived in a steady stream from students parents and
staff alike. Many donations of wool and needles were a great help to
make this project successful. Staff and students enjoyed knitting and
this encouraged new members to join our Panda Knitting Club which has been
running this past year.
A huge thank you to all the students and parents
especially Adam’s mum who sent in bag full of little hats. Many thanks to
my colleagues Mrs Snaith and Mrs Rogers who assisted the students with pompom
making and having fun.
Mrs Parsons – Panda Knitter
Year 7
This week we had lovely remembrance assembly for Armistice Day
from 7K. The music playing as we entered the assembly hall really set the scene
and the words so eloquently spoken by 7K moved everybody and gave us all
a chance to reflect. Thank you to everyone from 7K who were involved.
To ensure the extremely high standards that Year 7 continue to
demonstrate, please can I ask parents to make a note of the following;
·
Students should adhere to the hair and uniform requirements at all
times. I hope that the boys have managed to have suitable haircuts over half
term! Please also ensure that the correct outer wear garments are being used as
the weather starts to turn towards winter. Students should only be wearing
black or navy blue coats, thank you.
·
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.
Just a quick reminder in advance that the Mentoring Day is on Friday
22nd November. For those of you, to whom this is a new concept,
it is a collapsed day at the college where students will be expected to
continue with home learning etc at home for the majority of the day. Parents
(and students) will meet with their son’s mentor at a convenient time, to
discuss the academic progress during the first term and put in place any
intervention to overcome barriers to learning. The meeting times will be
arranged with the mentors and will be approximately 15 minutes in length
(similar to the old-fashioned parents evening). Students will have now received
a letter from their mentor. Please can you contact mentors by email to arrange
appointments.
We all very much look forward to meeting you and discussing your
son’s learning.
Another advanced warning is of the Carol Service for the Community
of St Boniface’s College and the Year 7 students and parents. This is held
annually at St Peter’s Church and this year, will be on Sunday 8th
December. Year 7 students will be singing in the service, therefore attendance
by all students in Year 7 is imperative please. We also welcome you along to
the service and to enjoy some mulled wine and mince pies after in our new
catering facility. More information about the service will be available soon!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend – wrap up warm as winter is
on its way!
Mrs
Beales – Head of Year 7
Massive congratulations to Sam who yesterday
qualified for the West Devon Cross-Country team by finishing 6th in
the Plymouth and West Devon trials at Staddiscombe. Brilliant!
Mr Tucker
Year 7 Inter House
Soccer Challenge.
Congratulations
to 7 Barrett who, having won three out of their four games, are the Year
7 Soccer Champions for this year. Well done to all the Year 7 students who took
part over the 10 matches with such positive enthusiasm and good spirit. The
presentation will be in assembly on Tuesday.
Mr
Edwards
Year 8
Congratulations
to Chris, Dayne , Eddie , John-Joe , Josh and Zak who all recently were successful in moving on
to the next stage of their rugby trials.
Further
congratulations to Ben, Chris and Callum who competed really well in the
Plymouth and West Devon Cross-Country trials at Staddiscombe yesterday. Very
special congratulations must go to Lewis Eason who finished 16th. It
must be pointed out that the boys were running in a combined Year 8/9 race
where the vast majority of runners were Year 9 boys. Lewis, who ran for Devon
last year, ran a remarkable race and could still be offered a place in the West
Devon team (the top 15 runners qualify automatically for the Devon
championships).
Well
done to the basketball team who played their first league matches last night.
They beat Hele’s in their first game before coming up against a very strong
Coombe Dean side. Despite losing this game they never gave up and showed great
spirit. Well done!
Dr
Trimming wanted me to highlight three boys in her tutor group who deserve a
special mention. Harry, Lewis and Matthew all took part in Sunday’s Remembrance
Service on the Hoe. All three are in different cadet set-ups and deserve a
round of applause for doing such a great job!
Thanks
to the team of form-tutors and mentors who do such a great job in supporting
the Year 8 boys. We look forward to meeting you all at next Friday’s Mentoring
day.
B.
Tucker
Mr
Edwards
Year 9
This
week started with a Remembrance Day assembly and a 2 minute silence in which
all the boys dutifully paid their respect to current and past service personnel
gave their lives in the call of duty, as I also mentioned last week many of the
lads also paid their respect through their service cadetships on church parades
in the city.
This
week’s assembly also rewarded a number of students for their positive academic
achievements this term, it was a real pleasure to be able to praise them for their
efforts and I hope to be able to do this more frequently.
What
is always rewarding is how as a school our students rise to an occasion, this
week it was raising funds to help the victims of the Philippines to help
communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan and of course Children in Need.
Thank
you as always for your kind generosity.
YEAR
10 – MR SCOTT
Another
busy week in Year 10…!
A
big thank you to Mr Neethling and 10K for leading us in assembly Monday about
remembrance - during the assembly the boys respectfully fell silent for two minutes,
after which the boys led us in reflection and prayer. A poignant moment
for the year group. Each student in Y10 wrote a remembrance prayer on the
back on a red poppy last week, which was attached to a wreath and laid in front
of the Union Flag – flying on the College flagpole throughout Monday.
We
were very proud of Fletcher, Joshua and Harry for their unending efforts in
raising money for CAFOD to help those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in The
Philippines earlier this month. The boys gave up all of their break and
lunch times to collect donations from the whole school. Well done lads –
you did a great job!
Thomas
and George represented the year group and the College at the Plymouth and West
Devon Cross-Country Championships on Thursday. Mr Tucker was very
positive about their efforts.
Jake
and Bradley represented Year 10 at the BBC Children in Need Pudsey Party on
Friday night at Falmouth’s Maritime Museum. You might have seen them
waving the giant SBCC cheque! The boys were (as always) a credit to the
College and fantastic role-models to the KS3 pupils.
There
are still some places left on next year’s trip to New York City – the deposit
(£100) deadline is November 30. If you would like more information, ask
your son to pick up a flyer.
Congratulations
to Tom and George who competed so well in the Plymouth and West Devon
Cross-Country Championships at Staddiscombe yesterday. As equally important as
their success in the running, I would like to personally thank them for the way
in which they looked after the younger members of the team, unprompted, just
using their initiative. Brilliant!
Mr
Tucker
Year 11
The
focus this week for our year 11 boys was the start of their mock GCSE
examinations. So far the boys have
conducted themselves impeccably and have been congratulated formally by our
examinations officer Mrs Gimblett. It is
always good to see our boys performing well in sport, in or s outside of school
and having a positive contribution in the local and wider community, so it
gives me particular pleasure to congratulate Max for his recent sporting
achievement. Max, has been asked if he
would like to join the water polo squad for the Devonport Royal Swimming Association. He was invited to trial at Exeter for the
regional development squad south west
and was so successful he was invited, on this performance, to join the
squad. He’ll be coached by the GB ladies
coach at the Middlemore Police Headquarters.
Congratulations Max from all the teachers and tutors in year 11.
Don’t
forget to come to school at 6 on Thursday 21st for a look at our
post 16 life. Bring your friends!
Mr
Redfern
Very
well done to James (6th), Ben (10th) and Chris (14th)
who all qualified for the West Devon Cross-Country team yesterday by finishing
in the top fifteen at the Plymouth and West Devon Championships held at
Staddiscombe. Fantastic! Congratulations, too, to Matthew Roberts who finished
well up in the field and kept us entertained all afternoon!
Mr
Tucker
Post 16
This
week has been a very stressful week for many students. GCSE retakes have been
happening and it is now essential for a student to gain a Grade C. Thanks must
go to the English and Mathematics Departments for their help in preparing the
students and to the extra revision sessions that they put on. Perseverance is
essential when so much is resting on the result. Hopefully they have done their
best and the results will show the hard work that they put in.
Next
week is an important week for the future. The Year 11 into 12 Open Evening is
on Thursday where we look forward to next years intake and tell them about what
it is like to be a Sixth Former at St Boniface. It is also a time where we
start to reflect and realise that time is running out and before we know examinations
will be looming.
Your
son will have a series of mock examinations in January by subject and
preparations should now be starting. The technique of Examinations is crucial
with the changes that the Government is making. The application of subject
knowledge and the changing of grade boundaries are making examinations more
vital. The changing to linear examinations in the near future and the removal
of January resits is making June more important and also more stressful.
Last
week we have had a number of occasions where the Sixth Form community has
rallied around and supported each other. Without this special support things
would be a lot harder.
On
a lighter note Friday was Children in Need day, many sixth formers in fancy
dress as Super Heroes, a charity football match in the afternoon between year
12 and yr13 has just taken place!
The
Sixth form facilities are starting to change. The Common room has been
repainted, the SSS started to be prepped for painting. WiFi has been surveyed
and should be installed soon. The next level of change is now been designed.
The next painting session will be on 22 November. A huge thank you to all those
involved in our last painting spree!! Van Gough beware.
The
reintroduction of Parents Evenings comes into effect on Tuesday 26th November
from 3.40 till 6.30. Appointments can be made now with your subject teacher.
Love to see you there!
Mr.
Tew
PE
Extra-curricular Clubs Timetable
MONDAY
|
TUESDAY
|
WEDNEDAY
|
THURSDAY
|
FRIDAY
|
|
BEFORE SCHOOL
0730 -
0815
|
Breakfast
Club
Fitness,
Basketball and Badminton (all years)
|
||||
LUNCH TIME
1345 -
1415
|
Fitness
Suite and Basketball (all years)
|
Fitness
Suite and Basketball (all years)
|
Fitness
Suite and Basketball (all years)
|
Fitness
Suite and Basketball (all years)
|
Fitness
Suite and Basketball (all years)
|
AFTER SCHOOL
1530 -
1630
|
Rugby
(Years 8 and 9)
Basketball
Year 7
|
Rugby
Year 7
Circuit
Training (all years)
|
Table
Tennis (Years 7 and 8)
Rugby
(Years 10 and 11)
|
Date
|
Subject
|
Start time
|
Length of exam
|
|
Wed 13th
|
Maths Paper 1
Non calculator
|
08.50am
|
1 hour 45 mins
|
Period 1 and 2
|
History Paper 1
|
11.35am
|
2 hours
|
Period 3 and 4
|
|
Thurs 14th
|
Geography Paper 1
|
08.50am
|
1 h 30mins
|
Period 1 and 2
|
PE (GCSE only)
|
11.35am
|
1 h 30mins
|
Period 3 and 4
|
|
Fri 15th
|
French Listening
and Reading exams
|
08.50am
|
2 hours Higher
1 hour 15mins
Foundation
|
Period 1 and 2 in
Sixth form study
|
Product Design
Engineering
|
11.35am
|
2 hours
1 hour
|
Period 3 and 4 in
Sixth form study.
|
|
Mon 18th
|
English
|
08.50am
|
2 hours 15 mins
|
Period 1 and 2
|
Geography Paper 2
|
11.35am
|
1 hour
|
Period 3 and 4
|
|
Tues 19th
|
Religious Studies
|
08.50am
|
1 hour 30 mins
|
Period 1 and 2
|
Science
|
11.35am
|
11D 1 hour 30
11 LOP 1 hour
11 T 45 mins
|
Period 3 and 4
|
|
Wed 20th
|
Maths Paper 2
Calculator
|
08.50am
|
1 hour 45 mins
|
Period 1 and 2
|
History Paper 2
|
08.50am
|
1 hour 30 mins
|
Period 3 and 4
|
|
Thurs 21st
|
ICT
|
08.50am
|
11DLOP
1 hour 30 mins
|
Period 1 and 2
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Friday 22nd
is mentoring day for all students – no exams
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Mon 25th
|
Art
|
08.50am
|
All day
|
Mrs Wills’ room
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Tues 26th
|
Art
|
08.50am
|
All day
|
Mrs Wills’ room
|
O God of truth and justice,
we hold before you those men and women
who have died in active service:
in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
As we honour their courage and cherish their
memory,
may we put our faith in your future;
for you are the source of life and hope,
now and for ever. Amen.
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