Becket Keys Church of England School
3rd November 2017
A BLESSI
The newslet ter
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE JUSTIN WELBY BUILDING IN THIS ISSUE
occupy this new building will be Mr Scott-Evans writes…
preparing to enter a difficult and
“By wisdom a house is built, and complex world that is full of
challenges. That can be both through understanding it is
established.” daunting and exciting. Do your
best to prepare yourselves fully in
Proverbs 24 v 3 Opening of Justin Welby Building your time here as you will need all
Lovely celebration with Bishop Stephen
the resources you can muster. This week we officially opened the and many friends and guests.
Never forget that education is hard Justin Welby Building. The Right Page 2
work but it can be fun. Enjoy your
Reverend Stephen Cottrell Lord
Year 11 Trip to Berlin
sixth form years. You only have Bishop of Chelmsford came to lead
them once in your life so make Fascinating and life-changing trip for the the service. Bishop Stephen prayed
them good both for yourselves and Year 11 History students.
for the school and our students and
for others.” staff. He went to bless each and Page 3 -4
every classroom and spent time Terry came to visit our school last Christmas Card Competition
talking with students and staff. year and was pleased to hear of our Details on how to enter, deadline for
th further development. entries is Monday 6 November. Canon Paul Hamilton joined Bishop
Stephen in the service and brought Page 6 A number of special guests joined
with him some words from Terry
us including Alex Burghart, MP for Operation Shoebox
Waite CBE: Brentwood and Ongar, Cllr Will We will be supporting this worthy cause
Russell, Mayor of Brentwood and again this year. Can we break the record “I am so sorry that other
of boxes sent? Cllr Ray Gooding, Cabinet Member
engagements prevent me from
for Education. being with you today but I would Page 6
like to send you my very best Contd. on Page 2 Sports News
wishes for the future. Sporting opportunities and upcoming
Those young people who will fixtures. Page 7
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……Contd from Page 1 construction expertise. The outcome is an incredible The Justin Welby Building is building for which we will named after the current remain truly grateful for many Archbishop of Canterbury and the years to come. chapel was named the Bishop John Wraw Chapel in the loving For further details of the memory of our good friend and service, please see attached school governor. Bishop John’s Order of Service. My final wife Gillian was at the service and thanks go to Mrs Sharp who unveiled a plaque in the chapel. helped us bring together the different elements of this There were readings and prayers service. Her eye for detail and led by students: Rejoice Lawal, symbolism was perfect for such Billy Brown, Bethany Hancox, an occasion. Lucy Gunn and Brady Doyle. Wonderful musical contributions Of course, the work is never from Archie Mowatt on Piano, complete. We now turn our The Becket Keys Stage Band, The attention to our beautiful new Becket Keys Gospel Choir and our playground and start to think Chamber Choir. It was a really about how we need to populate beautiful service. this new space with seating, shade, shelter and activities. I will Flower presentations were made be writing about this again soon! to Fran Stewart (RET) and Nina Chapman (Finance and Thanks for everyone’s support Operations Manager) for all their and prayers. work in supporting the new Mr Scott-Evans building including many many Head Teacher meetings to ensure the work was completed to the highest standard. A special presentation
was also made to Richard Elms a member of RET's senior management team (and now the CEO of the Mellor Education Trust) who has been so fundamental to the school in securing additional funds for capital projects. Richard was given a glass plaque to record our thanks for his incredible work since the school’s very first
inception stage. We also recorded our thanks to Many thanks to Mr Ian Davidson Logan Construction and Innes for the photographs. Associates for their design and ©www.iandavidsonphotography.com
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Year 11 – Trip to Berlin
eagerly headed off to the and execution trench, and Underground station (U-Bahn) for learned about Germany’s harsh a short ride to the Alexanderplatz treatment of “undesirables” shopping mall for some much during the rule of the Third Reich. needed nourishment - aka McDonalds for the students and Later in the day, we visited the Currywurst for the staff. magnificent Olympiastadion, the current home of Hertha Berlin Bellies now full, our trip began in football club. Students learned earnest with the Berlin Wall how when the Nazis came to Memorial, situated at the historic power in Germany (1933), they site on Bernauer Strasse. The decided to use the Olympic memorial contains the last piece Games in 1936 for propaganda of the Berlin Wall and is thus able purposes emphasising the might On a dark and chilly late October to convey an impression of how of the Third Reich. Staff and morning at 3.30am (!) Mr the border fortifications students alike were in awe at the Goldstein, Miss Sandiford, Mr developed until the end of the sheer size and history of the Thorpe and I were joined by thirty 1980s. After a number of stadium as we shown where black nine excited Year 11 history individual and group athlete Jesse Owens won his 4 students to set off for what would photographs, Paula took us for a Gold medals negating Hitler’s prove to be an unforgettable trip walking tour on route back to the Aryan ideologies. to Berlin and Krakow. As hotel for dinner. Some of the someone who has visited Berlin city’s most famous landmarks on many occasions, I was eager to including the stunning Reichstag get back to the city that building and arguably Germany’s comprises so much of their GCSE most famous monument, the module and this trip certainly did Brandenburg Gate, were seen not disappoint! from close proximity as we learned about their history in the context of Hitler’s rise to power.
Day two began with a short coach ride to the visit the sombre Sachsenhausen concentration camp at Oranienburg. On returning to the city centre in Sachsenhausen was a training the afternoon, students were centre for the feared SS and was given some time to eat and shop intended to set a standard for at the very glamorous Potsdamer After a delayed flight due to fog other concentration camps, both Platz mall before another walking in Berlin, we arrived at the in its design and the treatment of tour of the city taking in the Meininger hotel at midday where prisoners. Students explored the iconic Jewish memorial, Hitler’s we were met by Paula, our guide various locations inside the camp, Bunker and the Topography of for both Berlin and Krakow. We like the command headquarters Terror museum to learn about
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how the Third Reich’s effective through the iconic main gate to use of the Gestapo and the SS. the Auschwitz concentration camp and read the mocking sign Day three and students were up “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work will and out early for a nine hour make you free”) you get a real journey to Krakow. Upon arrival sense of the horror that over a and after discarding their million people experienced. It was luggage, students were taken to upsetting to see the mass of hair, the main square to soak up the shoes and other personal items atmosphere and view some of the but perhaps the most stunning architecture. Testament traumatising moment was when to this is the fact that during the we were taken into the only Second World War, the Nazis remaining gas chamber. The decided they rather liked Krakow, chamber is cramped, industrial, so made it their home in a the walls dark and ceiling low and country whose population they on the walls deep scratches show wished to exterminate. While the where people tried desperately to rest of Poland was bombed, the escape. More horror awaited in old city was preserved. the next room - waist-high, open-mouthed ovens for burning the dead. Less than 10% of the 1.1 million who entered the camp walked out alive!
The last full day was spent visiting the Jewish district of Krakow. Students were given the opportunity to listen to an Auschwitz survivor whose deeply moving, personal story of the horrors she experienced was truly unbelievable. After a group After 5 eventful days the journey The fourth day was for many the photograph with our speaker we back to England was a welcome most memorable experience of were off again for a walking tour relief. We took back some the trip. One of the main reasons I of the wartime ghetto of incredible memories that will live decided to organise this trip was Podgorze and Oskar Schindler’s with us forever and I and the rest to visit Auschwitz. While I knew it Factory, then back to the main of the staff agreed what a would be difficult for some of the square via the University District, privilege it was to be associated students, it was important to visit Wawel Hill and Kazimierz (the with such sensitive and mature a place that had such a significant former Jewish quarter). Overall, young people and for that I’d like to impact on history. Some of what I another very busy day and finish by saying a big “thank you” to witnessed was truly students and staff alike took the all involved! opportunity to rest for an hour heartbreaking and I could see on Mr D Braniff before dinner and a trip to the the faces of the students how Head Of History much of an impact it had on them main shopping mall in Krakow for too. From the moment you walk some much needed retail relaxation. Page 4 of 8
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“The city of Berlin was a truly amazing place to visit. The vibrant new city was well integrated into its historic past and built with historical conservation in mind. This helped us all to understand the scale of everything that had happened in Germany following the exile of Kaiser Wilhelm.
I was taken aback by the imposing nature of the Reichstag building Each year, an army of volunteers distribute the iconic paper poppies and the monolithic architecture of throughout the nation, collecting donations in return to help support the Olympic stadium - something the vital work the British Legion do for the Armed Forces community. you cannot truly appreciate with a People wear the paper poppy on their chest as a symbol of textbook.” Remembrance: to remember the fallen Service men and women killed in conflict. Peter Angeli GCSE History Student A number of Remembrance events, such as Remembrance Sunday, are held during the Poppy Appeal to commemorate the fallen. Becket Keys have been invited to participate in the service at the Brentwood War Memorial on 10th November and Mrs. Sharp and six of our students will be representing the school.
You will be able to purchase a poppy at school next week.
NEW ! Year 7 and 8 Maths Challenge Club “My trip to Auschwitz, whilst harrowing, I felt was essential in STARTS MONDAY 13TH NOVEMBER helping me realise the extent of the Are you in Year 7 or 8 and enjoy mathematics? Do you want to damage caused during the challenge yourself to improve by completing a variety of mathematical holocaust by allowing me to see it problems? with my own eyes, comparative to reading it in a text book. It also If this is for you, starting on Monday 13th November in J26 at lunchtime emphasised to me the importance there will be a maths challenge club where you will have an of remembering such events as to opportunity to try puzzles and challenges set by organisations such as prevent a genocide of such Cambridge University, UKMT and GCHQ. magnitude occurring again.” This is a fantastic opportunity to further your mathematics skills and Alfie Spencer show how good you are, and see if you can do better than Mr Tyson! GCSE History Student
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Operation Chistmas Child Shoebox Appeal Christmas Card Competition photograph, card or letter in there if you like. Remember that the entries for the Becket Keys Christmas 5. Please bring your shoeboxes to Card Competition are due in on Reception on the morning Monday 6th November. Wednesday 9TH November. Entry should be A5 portrait Find out more: or landscape. https://www.samaritans- Colour or black & white purse.org.uk/what-we- Use pencils, pen or paint. do/operation-christmas-child No text to be included please.
No computer images HELP US BREAK OUR PREVIOUS No glitter or stickers.
RECORD! Gift Suggestions Designs that reflect our Cuddly toy or doll, skipping rope Christian ethos are particularly How to pack a shoebox: or small puzzle.Pens, pencils, encouraged. crayons, ink pad sets, writing 1. Get an empty medium sized pads or colouring books, solar shoebox, wrapping the lid and calculators or picture books. box separately in colourful Toothbrush and toothpaste, bars wrapping paper. Attach the of wrapped soap, comb or appropriate boy/girl label and the hairbrush, flannel. age category 2-4, 5-9 or 10-14 to Hat, cap, gloves or scarf, the top of the shoebox. sunglasses, hair accessories, 2. Fill with a selection of gifts, fun jewellery set, wind up torch, toys, hygiene items and school wrapped sweets (best-before-
supplies along with a ‘wow’ item date must be at least March of the following year). such as a cuddly toy or deflated football and pump. Please DO NOT include - used or damaged items, war related 3. Make your shipping donation, items such as toy guns, play online is best, you can then soldiers or knives; chocolate or discover the destination of your other food items; liquids or
box if you add the barcode lotions of any type including supplied to the shoebox. Please bubbles; medicines; hand-made If you would like the chance to donate £3 for each shoebox you or knitted stuffed toys; anything complete the World Challenge send to cover the transportation of a political, racial or religious next year then you are in luck! A costs. Alternatively put cash or nature; sharp objects; glass place has become available. cheque in an envelope on top of containers, mirrors or fragile Please contact Miss Gill as soon items; playing cards of the 4-suit the contents of your box. as you can if you wish to take variety; clothing other than as up this opportunity! 4. Pray for the child who will listed above.
receive your box. You can put a
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Sports News
Year 7 & 8 If you are keen on playing netball for the school, please make sure you are attending the training Upcoming Fixtures Netball sessions. We will select the team from these people. We will have th Monday 13 Nov: more games coming up so this is an opportunity to play in a match. Year 8 See you at training! Girls’ Basketball v Moulsham (h) Miss S. Ellis Year 11 Head of Year 7 Netball v Boswells (a)
th Tuesday 14 Nov: On Thursday 2nd November the Badminton Year 7 and Year 8 netball teams Year 7 travelled to Ormiston Rivers There will be another girls’ Football v Ormiston (h) Academy. Both teams played badminton trial for Years 7-11 at Year 11 th incredibly well, showing great lunchtime on Monday 6 Netball v SJP (h) sportsmanship and teamwork November. If your daughter Year 8 skills. I felt proud of the girls that missed out today then please Basketball v GBHS (h) came to play and thought that encourage her to come along on Year 7 they represented the values of Monday. Becket Keys have a Girls Basketball Tournament (at Becket Keys beautifully. The skills tournament on Tuesday against St Martins) other schools and we are looking being demonstrated were of a th high level which we will continue to put forward a strong team. Wednesday 15 Nov:
to work on at the weekly training sessions. This is an opportunity to compete Years 7-12 for your school in a NATIONAL Boys’ Swimming Gala This was this first time the Year 7 competition! Contact the PE (at Brentwood School) netball team had played against department for more another school and the team information. th looked strong. I am excited to see Thursday 16 Nov: how this team is going to progress over the coming games. Year 7 Girls’ Basketball v Boswells (h) YEAR 8 Year 9 11 - 2 win Football v Shenfield (h) (player of the match- Sarah Esho) th Friday 17 Nov YEAR 7 11 – 0 win (player of the match – Lucy Year 8 Football Tournament O’Hare) (at Plume)
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