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Schools Newsletter: Summer 2016 DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS: Board of Education Schools Newsletter: Summer 2016 Inside Issue 51 Hail & Farewell 2 Honours bestowed 2 School News 3-5 +Alan’s Presidential Address 6,8 Ashton Middle School 7 HMQ 90th Celebrations 9-13 Recent courses 14-20 Art Competition 17 From the RE Adviser 21-25 Creation of the Teacher 26 Prayers for Schools 27 Director’s End Notes 28 Circulation This termly Newsletter is sent to church school headteachers, priests with a church school in their parish, senior diocesan clergy, members of the Diocesan Board of Education, members of Diocesan Synod and other interested people. Heads: Please let your RE Co-ordinator have this copy once you have finished. Page 2 Schools Newsletter: Summer 2016 HAIL AND FAREWELL Welcome to Herts Congratulations to ... Lizzy Rackham—Dagnall (Sept 16; from Senior teacher) Charlotte Tudway—Essendon Primary (Sept 16, from St Helen’s Primary, Wheathampstead) Shirley Arnold—St Andrew’s Primary, Stanstead Abbotts (Sept 16; from Deputy) Sarah Bridgman—Tonwell St Mary’s Primary (Sept 16; from St Helen’s Primary, Wheathampstead) Farewell to Herts Rachel Heath—Dagnall (Aug 16; early retirement) Barbara Young—Essendon Primary (Aug 16; to Cambs LA) Rosemary Woodall— St Andrew’s Primary, Stanstead Abbotts (Aug 16; early retirement) Alan Wright—Tonwell St Mary’s Primary (Aug 16; to Norfolk) Welcome to Beds Nancy Sheehan—Dunton & Wrestlingworth Lowers (Apr 16; from Acting) Hope we’ve not missed anyone out! Very many thanks to the deputy years, for most of them as a wise or acting head for your sterling and insightful Vice-Chair, of work! much assistance to the Schools Team behind the scenes ... … and to Deborah Weston who … Geoffrey Williams, who in May was awarded an OBE in the was awarded the Order of Queen’s Birthday Honours for St Albans by the Bishop of services to Religious Education St Albans. This is a means of and inter– and intra-faith honouring lay people in the dialogue. During the past year Diocese who have offered faithful Deborah has led courses on and committed service over a Islam for diocesan church substantial period of time. schools. She works tirelessly for Geoffrey served on the Diocesan RE, both as a teacher and in a Board of Education for very many national capacity. Schools Newsletter: Summer 2016 Page 3 it is a place where everyone a popular place Silsoe is to live, SCHOOL NEWS shows kindness by working and it’s important that we match Silsoe Lower School— together and helping each that pace of growth by being able other to offer children new school site! that we a place at a respect our good, local Pupils expressed their wishes school. and dreams for their new school toys, our friends and at a ceremony to mark work on “I look forward to our new the building reaching its highest returning soon to classrooms point. A topping-out ceremony see the took place in April to celebrate the Joining completed latest landmark in the children, staff school.” construction of Silsoe CofE Lower and school School’s new site. governors at Susan Purdue, the event were headteacher of Built on the former Cranfield a host of Silsoe Lower University campus off Barton invited dignitaries including School, said: “This is a very Road, Silsoe, the school is due Central Bedfordshire Council exciting time for the school. for completion in time for the Chairman Cllr David Bowater, Visiting today, you start to 2016/17 academic year when it Central Bedfordshire’s Assistant visualise how everything is going will be able to offer 240 places, Director (School Improvements) to look and what the new an increase on the 135 available Helen Redding and Deputy facilities will look like. at its current High Street location. Diocesan Director of Education “We are very much a values- Lizzie Jeanes. Sophia, Sophie, Libby, Joshua, based school, and in their Isla, Jacob, Harry and Tayla read Cllr Bowater said: “Last time I inimitable way the children have aloud their classes’ wishes and visited this was just a muddy summed up all of our aspirations dreams for the new building. They building site where work was just and values in their wishes and included hopes that: beginning. It’s amazing how dreams which they expressed it will be a fantastic place for quickly things have progressed today for the new site. over the course of a few months learning with fun activities, and “If we commit all of our plans and and it’s evident what an that everyone will feel safe and aspirations to God he will help us impressive building this will be. welcome too to build an outward-looking, it is a caring, safe, calm place values-based and God-centred where we can have fun “You can see by the number of new homes being built here what school where we all strive to work hard, achieve our potential within a wonderful environment and, most importantly, learn from and care for each other.” The expansion scheme is part of the Council’s ongoing commitment to provide 6,500 new school places across Central Bedfordshire over a five-year period to 2017. For more information about the New School Places programme, visit http:// www.centralbedfordshire.gov .uk/school/organisation/ programme.aspx. Page 4 Schools Newsletter: Summer 2016 And more congratulations, to ... … St Paul’s Primary, Chipperfield, thought we would represent who won through to the JRock that in the performance. southern final. Headteacher Our JRock is like a club, Caroline Moore tells ... consisting of a mix of curricular A Tale of Temptation and extra-curricular activities. As well as the performance On 22 June we headed for the itself, we deliver our JRock JRock southern final in experience to the children Portsmouth with 77 pupils and an through the Christian values army of staff and parent that we teach at school: volunteers. We managed to come respect, perseverance, second out of twelve finalists, courage, friendship and co- which is the most amazing operation. They get to work achievement – we still can’t quite more closely with staff and believe it! Anybody who has ever children from different classes; been to a Rock Challenge final with all of the different staging various fundraising events such will appreciate the high standards elements that make up our as cake sales, competitions and of performances. performance, the development of teamwork skills is a major focus healthy tuck shops. We also received generous donations of JRock is the junior version of for us. We also promote positive materials from local parents and Rock Challenge, a performing arts inclusion: there are no auditions former parents, and a cheque competition which promotes and all pupils from the relevant from our local village club which healthy lifestyles and that feeling age-groups are positively of a “drug-free high”. The encouraged to participate. allowed us to purchase more resources. A fantastic group of challenge is to stage a short Virtually all pupils choose to join, parents worked on costumes, performance to a soundtrack that including those who would not hair, make-up, props and we have produced ourselves. We ordinarily volunteer to participate won the heat in our region scenery – it literally has in February, earning a taken months and months place in the final. Every of hard work and year the standard increases dedication. Sarah Smith, so we were amazed to be our Year 6 teacher and placed second and leader of JRock, said: “I presented with ten Awards am just so proud of our of Excellence, for fantastic team of children, choreography, soundtrack, parents, staff and former performance skill, pupils; I feel lucky to be entertainment, stage crew, part of such a collaborative stage use, visual community. Seeing the enhancement, costuming pride and excitement in character, inclusion and everyone's faces healthy lifestyle. afterwards made all the hard-work and effort well Our theme, “A Tale of worth it.” Temptation”, was based upon the in the performing arts. Many of fairytale “Hansel and Gretel”. We these children push themselves There certainly has been a chose this as it had a spooky with performances which take fantastic “feel-good factor” and forest section, giving great scope them beyond their comfort zone, buzz around the school since the for scenery. We then thought so developing new skills and event. The children have about how we could introduce building self-esteem. developed so many different skills along the way and, most different characters to add peer This has been a true community pressure and try to lead Hansel event, helping to bond our school importantly, have really enjoyed their experience – a incredibly and Gretel astray, after being community with hours of happy memory to be treasured inspired by films like “Into the commitment and hard work from Woods” and “Maleficent”. Children staff, pupils and parents. The forever. are always faced with having to process started last summer with Photographs courtesy of Nick Scott make difficult choices so we pupils and parents organising Schools Newsletter: Summer 2016 Page 5 Poem for Rock Challenge Lieutenant Ellis Hansel and Gretel are so grown up St Mary’s High School is located on Lt Ellis Way in Cheshunt. They’re ready to go on their way. Have you ever wondered who Lt Ellis was? Let’s see if they make the right choices He was the unfortunate pilot of a US B24 Liberator bomber So that their lives are more than okay. which crashed on 12 August 1944, on Maxwells Farm, just west But temptation is round every corner of what is now the A10.
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