VOLUME II - ISSUE III 17th October 2014
WAR HORSE
Becket Keys Church of England School Year 8 students enjoyed taking their English studies to a deeper level this week. Mrs Ahlner organised a repeat of last year’s very successful War Horse experience. On Thursday a ernoon, students either a ended the theatre produc on ! in London or watched the film in ! school. ! ! ! Over 120 students went to ! London to watch the widely ! acclaimed theatre produc on of ! Michael Morpurgo’s famous ! !book. As last year, our students were YEAR 9 OPTIONS complimented on their excellent behaviour and understanding of Mr Sco -Evans writes: sure that they make the right theatre e que e. The theatre It was a pleasure this week to choices. repeated last year’s message: speak to parents and students ! “you can come back whenever about GCSE op ons. As each milestone comes along, you like!” ! our founding students grow in ! Our founding students are now at confidence and maturity. They And we would certainly want to! an exci ng point in their are a great credit to the parents The theatre experience is secondary school careers when who chose Becket Keys. absolutely brilliant. As the War they get to have a say about their ! Horse advert states: “A future studies. But it is not all about Year 9! It powerfully moving and ! was great to see Year 8 enjoying imagina ve drama, filled with In less than a year they will be their trip to War Horse this week s rring music and magnificent embarking on their GCSE courses and we thoroughly enjoyed ar stry.” and will be dropping some mee ng Year 7 parents last week ! subjects and concentra ng at our first parents’ evening of Teachers will now follow up on further on others. !the year. the theatre and film experiences ! Best regards in class. We will support them, of course, ! every step of the way. We know ! ! them well and we will offer ! guidance and support to make ! ! Andy Sco -Evans ! ! Head Teacher
VOLUME II - ISSUE III 17 October 2014 PAGE 1 OTHER NEWS HISTORY CLUB DEBATE Students in history club over the last few weeks have been preparing a presentation debate on Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale. This week, they debated who had made the most !impact and received the most recognition. The debate was very professional and both sides presented strong arguments. Mrs Knowles and Mr Branif declared the debate equal as both sides prepared and debated well. If you wish to join in these fantastic debates, History Club !meets on a Monday after school in C36. Mr Branif said, “I'd just like to add that, with no exaggeration, it was probably one of the best debates I have seen in 12 years of teaching. My A Level students at my previous schools were a poor comparison to what we witnessed yesterday! Four boys in particular - Archie Mowatt, Peter Angeli, Tyler Christian and William Tendler - were superb and not surprisingly are regular attendees of debating club.” ! FRIENDS OF BECKET KEYS AGM The Friends of Becket Keys Annual General Meeting took place on Wednesday evening. The evening began with a presentation from the Mandarin Lead Teacher: Mrs Jing Jing Zhao. Mrs Zhao explained some of the nuances of learning Chinese and even got us speaking a few words and phrases! Mrs Zhao also explained the best ways to support children in learning the language at !home. Next, the formal business of FoBK was underway with Mr Scott-Evans continuing in the role of chair and Mrs Sharp as vice-chair. Parents took the other positions on the management committee. Mr Keith Burrell was elected as secretary; Mrs Penny Richardson was elected as treasurer. Mrs Christine Williams and Mrs Alison Butler were elected as vice secretary and vice !treasurer respectively. Our thanks to these parents willing to take on these responsibilities. FOBK aim to advance the education of the students of Becket Keys Church of England School by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities for education at the school (not usually provided by the school budget). They also aim to foster more extended relationships between !staf, parents and others associated with the school. Three events are already planned for the year ahead: • Parents’ Autumn Ball - Saturday 22nd November - Stock Brook Manor • Students’ Christmas Disco - Thursday 18th December ! • Patronal Festival Picnic - 4th July We would like to hold a quiz night in February/March. If any parents would be willing to help host !this, we would love to hear from you! If you would like to know more about how to get involved please email [email protected]. !
VOLUME II - ISSUE III 17 October 2014 PAGE 2 ! SPORTS !Year 7 Boys’ Rugby vs St John Payne We entered this game on a high after winning on Wednesday. The team started well with some big tackles being made NEWS and some great work in and around the ! !contact area. RUGBY St John Payne were a good side. They had Year 7 Boys’ Rugby vs Chelmer Valley good handling skills in the backs and were more competitive than us in the scrum ! and lineout. After a successful training game on ! Tuesday, the Year 7 rugby team played We did look dangerous when we had the their first league match of the season at ball, but unfortunately whenever we got Chelmer Valley. close to their try line we made errors and ! conceded possession. Within minutes of the kick of Becket Keys ! broke through a tackle and of-loaded to At half time it was 12-0 to St John Payne. Johnny Wyndham to score the first try. In the second half, we stopped them from Louis Stephen, Denzel Okwuasaba, Patrick scoring, which considering they had the Warriner and Jack Hitching all scored tries. lion’s share of territory and possession ! was an incredible feat of defensive team The ‘try of the game’ goes to Tiwa work. Odufuye. Louis Stephen made good ! ground on the right hand side and took We threatened late on and scored a try, the ball into contact. Harry O’Herlihy but this got brought back for a forward picked the ball out the back of the ruck, pass earlier on in the move. Despite losing passed to Louis Ridley who passed to today, our boys actually played a Denzel who broke through a tackle and significantly higher standard of rugby than ofoaded to Tiwa to score under the the previous game. Fantastic play from the posts. ! !team. In the second half they scored a few tries HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY and we came under more pressure with one of their players, in particular, proving difcult to tackle. Louis Stephen was House Cross Country, for all year groups, unfazed and put in three tackles on their and all students is next week. All students strongest player to save leaking more should be aiming to beat their personal tries. The final whistle came at the right bests (PBs). time and we ended up winning the game ! 44-34. Mr Fenn said, “It is not too late! Maybe you could go out for a run at the weekend in ! preparation.” ! ! ! ! !
VOLUME II- ISSUE III 17 October 2014 PAGE 3 players when defending. The final score was 0-0 and was an excellent first game MORE !for the girls – well done! SPORTS ! BASKETBALL !Year 8 Girls’ Basketball V Shenfield This week, the Year 8 girls had their first basketball game of the year away at Shenfield. They have been training hard NETBALL with Mr London on Tuesdays and were excited to put their new skills and tactics to ! the test. The first quarter was very Year 7 B & C Netball competitive, finishing 10-8 to Shenfield, ! with Sydney Macaulay scoring some great The ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams travelled to William De lay ups to keep us in the game. The girls Ferrers School this week for a competitive adopted a half-court defence strategy tournament along with 20 other teams. The which initially worked well, however, as the tournament was split into two mini game continued our stamina started to lack tournaments, with one way, five minute and it became harder to get back in time to games. efectively protect the key. Scarlett and ! Divine worked really hard when defending For some of the girls, this was their first and out of the whole team, these girls experience of playing another school and it showed great determination and desire in took a few games to get used to the speed, defence to win the ball back. Lauren and and competitiveness of the games. The ‘B’ Olivia made some efective runs to create team had several defeats to start with, but spaces in attack which opened up the did beat Chelmer Valley 1-0 with Emmi Deal Shenfield defence at times. However, the scoring a long range shot to put us ahead. second half was dominated by Shenfield ! and the final score was 42 – 22. Unfortunately the ‘C’ team did not win any ! games, but they did draw two, one 0-0 and the other 1-1 against Great Baddow, where HOCKEY Grace Brown scored. This was an excellent U14 Hockey V Great Baddow experience for the girls, and they ! understand that they need to focus on ‘man Last Friday a mix of Year 8s and 9s played to man’ marking and decision making in our first 11-aside hockey match this during training. year. It was an even game, with both teams ! having opportunities to score and having to defend. Our best chance came from an attacking play down the right wing where the ball was crossed into the ‘D’. Alice Keely managed to get a touch on the ball but it passed the left post by an inch too !wide! ! Elisabeth Hayes played confidently in goal, making an important save and the team worked hard to create space and mark
VOLUME II- ISSUE III 17 October 2014 PAGE 4 LOST PROPERTY UNIFORM The following items are in ! the ofce: two pairs of MATTERS glasses, house keys, locker ! keys, school shoes, ! trainers, three watches, six Please make sure that all water bottles, two asthma ! uniform is named. inhalers, a leather jacket ! and several pencil cases. ! We do our best to help ! students get their named All! the above are un- uniform back, but if there is named. We also have a no name it is impossible to number of items of school help! Names written in pen uniform which are also (biro) need to be checked unnamed. If you have lost regularly as the pen does something, please contact not last! the ofce and claim an ! unnamed item. NEARLY NEW ! Students should check with ! PE teachers for items left in We have a small stock of the changing rooms as the school uniform for sale PE staf usually lock items from the school ofce. If in their store cupboard. you have uniform that is in ‘as new’ condition please ! use this service to allow !another family to benefit! EARRINGS The school uniform policy states that only girls may wear earrings and that they can only be small, plain gold or silver studs. One per ear in the lobe only. Please do not allow your daughter to wear a gem in !her earrings. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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SHOE BOX APPEAL NO VACANCIES Our rapidly growing outstanding school is Students will be receiving information about always looking to recruit talented staf. the shoe box appeal next week. Mrs Trebess Please send us your CV if you are interested (assistant head teacher) will be presenting the in working here: details during the year group collective !worship sessions. [email protected] Please support this fantastic appeal if you !can. For more details about this click on the !following links: !Introduction to the appeal !How to prepare a shoe box Dates for your Diary What diference can it make? 22nd Oct All Saints Tide Eucharists ! 27th-31st All Saints Holiday ALL SAINTS EUCHARIST 3rd Nov Staf Training Day ! (no students) Our first Eucharists of the year will take place next week on Wednesday. Father Mark James from St 4th Nov Back to school Paul’s Bentley will be joining us to lead these 11th Nov Residential Trips Meetings services. The P Half Eucharist will be at 8:30am. !The T Half Eucharist will be at 11am. 6pm Y7 Bushcraft As a Eucharistic community these services are 6:45pm Y8 Madrid extremely important to us. We anticipate staf and 7:30pm Y9 Bude students will gain a lot from these experiences. ! 22nd Nov FoBK Autumn Ball ! 16th Dec 7pm Brass Band Christmas Carol Concert 11th Dec Christmas Lunch 18th Dec FoBK Student Christmas Disco CONTACT DETAILS You can keep up to date with a daily tweet ! from Becket Keys by following us on Becket Keys C.E. School Twitter: @BecketKeys. Sawyers Hall Lane Brentwood Essex !CM15 9DA T: 01277 286600
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