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Newsletter Dec 2015 ST BEDE’S NEWSLETTER— December 2015 An Advent Prayer God of hope, who brought love into this world, be the love that dwells between us. God of hope, who brought peace into this world, be the peace that dwells between us. God of hope, who brought joy into this world, be the joy that dwells between us. God of hope, the rock we stand upon, be the centre, the focus of our lives always, and particularly this Advent time. Attendance Matters Whilst there will always be legitimate reasons for unavoidable absence, we are very keen to ensure that all students have the best possible opportunities for learning by maintaining excellent attendance. The impact of missing school can be directly linked to attainment in examinations and as such the Department for Education strongly advises that schools only authorise absence in exceptional circumstances. To be clear, holidays should never be taken during term time and, where possible, appointments should be made for after 3:30pm. Thank you for your continued support to enable your children to fulfil their academic potential. *The Department for Education analysed performance at GCSE across all schools in England in 2014 and identified that children who missed 17 schools days (91% attendance) within an academic year attained on average one grade lower in their GCSEs than children with full attendance. Actual Attend- Whole Days Ab- Learning Hours % Attendance ance sent Lost Excellent 100 % 190 days 0 0 Good 98% 186 days 4 20 Becoming Unsatisfactory 95% 180.5 days 9.5 47.5 *Cause for Concern 90% 171 days 19 95 Serious Cause for Concern 85% 161.5 days 28.5 142.6 ENGLISH Rotary Youth Speaks A team from St Bede’s competed against a team from The Perse School for Boys in the Intermediate Rotary Youth Speaks Competition on 11 th November. After two very engaging presentations by the teams, St Bede’s were narrowly beaten by one point out of a possible total of 115. Charlotte Buttercase, Alice Goodliffe and Chloe Nelson delivered an excellent presentation entitled: ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover!’ The presentation was always engaging, delivered with passion and frequently humorous as it dealt with the negative stereotypes inflicted upon teenagers. Things weren’t quite as close in the Senior Competition as Eunji Hong, Julia Robertshaw and Ruby Page delivered an impassioned presentation in defence of feminism. The competition took place at Sawston Village College on 24 th November. The judges were very complimentary and praised the assured and accomplished delivery, as well as comment- ing on the construction of the speech and its impact on the audience. The team will now compete in the District Final on Saturday 27 th February 2016 in Ipswich. Congratulations to the team! A Christmas Carol On November 15 th , Year 8 students visited the Arts Theatre to witness Clive Francis’ enthralling performance of Charles Dick- ens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. The audience were rapt from the opening line. Delivered with the perfect blend of melodrama and comedy, Francis held the audience in the palm of his hand as he brought the spirit of Christ mas alive. The Year 8 students were spellbound throughout as Dickens’ prose was lifted off the page and brought to life in front of their eyes. ‘Phenomenal’, ‘amazing’ and ‘I wish I could see it again’ were just some of their comments. Francis received a well-deserved standing ovation. Abigail DulgarnYr 8 HUMANITIES Year 9 Students Play Host to YEAR 11 HISTORIANS GET A TASTE OF British Antarctic Survey 19TH CENTURY MEDICINE 70 year 11 students visite the Ol Operating Theatre in Southwark last month. The trip is part of their GCSE studies which focuses on the History of Medicine. Through a workshop provide by the Operating Theatre staff, students discovere what it woul have been like to face an operation in the early 1800s prior to the invention of anaesthetics an antiseptics. The visit also include a Public Health As a part of their work in Geography about Walk aroun Southwark, where a tour guide tol Earth’s southernmost continent, Year 9 heard a them about life in London at the height of the talk from two members of the British Antarctic Industrial Revolution. Survey (BAS). The first part of the talk was given by a climate scientist, who offered students an insight into Antarctica’s vital role in our under- standing of the planet’s climate (past, present, and future). The second guest was a member of BAS’ human resources team, who gave a first- hand account of what it was like to live and work on an Antarctic research station. Students were also able to look at - and try on - some equip- ment used by scientists in Antarctica to cope with average winter temperatures below -20⁰C! Rainforest Roadshow Colin the snake, Wendy the tarantula, Katy the rat and a number of other equatorial animals joined Year 8 as part of their geogra- phy invesgaon into ecosystems and the tropical rainforest biome. “On 23 rd October a company called Zoolab came to our school. They told us about the tropical rainforest and they brought some animals to show us. I learnt many new interesng things about these animals.” Tyler Campbell “When Zoolab came to visit I found out that the largest tropical rainfor- ests are in South America, Africa and South East Asia. The frog (an am- phibian) and the snake (a reple) were cool and the frog could sck to the wall like Spiderman.” Emma Lewis “The frog we saw could sck to walls and was immensely good at jump- ing.” Liani Olusanya “I really enjoyed the Zoolab visit. I liked all the difference animals and it was really cool to learn lots of things about them.” Esther Morris “I found out a lot about the rainforest and the animals in it… I learnt that snakes camouflage in the trees to catch prey and that tarantulas have hairs that irritate. I thought the visit was good because we got to learn about animals that are not from England. Also, we got to see and feel some of the animals that they brought in to give us an experience of them.” Hannah Stygall R.E. CAFOD at St Bede’s This term we have launched a CAFOD Ambassadors’ Club which is engaging students in exploring issues of global jusce and faith, while having a lot of fun. These popular sessions are based in the Chaplaincy, fortnightly on Fridays, and this half-term we have been exploring issues of food jusce. We have played food games, exploring hunger and excess. We have done some guerrilla fundraising, distribung packets of sweets and prayers to random strangers (someone in school we didn’t know), and collecng donaons to CAFOD’s Harvest Appeal. As the United Naons announced a suite of new sustainable devel- opment goals, we created ffany-style lanterns to cele- brate, creang a bit of a Brighten-up Fesval feel in the Chaplaincy. In the me Creating lanterns in the Chaplaincy before Christmas, we will explore issues of climate change, including Pope Francis’ leer to us all about God’s creaon, consumpon, and how our lifestyles may create a beer relaonship between people and the planet, as the United Naons meet in Paris to agree how the world can protect our environment for the poorest naons. Stephen Matthews, Community Participation Coordinator - East Anglia R.E. NEWS AND EVENTS At the end of September Year 8 were visited by James Pearson, youth worker at New Life Church based in Cambridge. He spoke to students about the gifts of the Holy Spirit as practised by Charismatic Christians to help them in their un- derstanding of the unit of study "Life in the Spirit". Students were particularly interested in the charismata of "speaking in tongues", and James was a powerful witness to the workings of the Holy Spirit in the world today. We are very grate- ful that he was able to come in and speak to our students. In October Fr. Richard Flynn of the Dominican reli- gious order from their priory in Cambridge brought six novices to St. Bede's to support Year 9 in their under- standing of the unit of study "Faith in Action". Students had studied the lay vocation and the sacrament of Holy Orders, and now they were learning about the Reli- gious Life. Whilst all our students have met priests and vicars, not many had met friars, and now was their chance. The novice friars explained to students how they discerned the call to explore the life of a Religious and to try out the vows of poverty, chastity and obedi- ence. Many students found it hard to take in the lack of possessions, but they did appreciate the self-sacrifice they were seeking to practise as taught by Jesus. The Dominicans have become involved in the spiritual life of the school in other ways too. One of the novices, Br. Wilf, who has had school experience, has begun a lunchtime club every other Friday to give students the opportunity to discuss theological issues over craft activities. And Fr. Richard Flynn also celebrated an Advent Mass for Year 9 at St. Philip Howard Church, supported by the novices who sang Latin hymns during Holy Communion, and the Year 9 chaplaincy reps who led us in the readings and wrote the prayers. The Dominicans were supported by Alwyn and Pravinda in Year 8 who acted as altar servers. St. Philip Howard Church is their parish church and they were able to help Fr. Richard around the sacristy.
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