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Summer 2019 Haf The official newsletter of St. Joseph’s RC High School Taflen wybodaeth swyddogol Ysgol Gyfun Gatholig Joseff Sant InsightSummer 2019 Haf SERVING GOD THROUGH LEARNING TOGETHER YN GWASANAETHU DUW TRWY DDYSGU GYDA’N GILYDD Contents... Headteacher’sneges y pennaeth Message It is my pleasure to introduce and welcome you to the final edition of Insight for this school year. There has been much to celebrate over the course of the year and I am incredibly proud of the achievements of students both academically and across an extensive 22 range of sporting, cultural, physical and extra-curricular activities. It is wonderful to see and read about how our young people are becoming ambitious, enterprising, ethical and confident individuals who will go on to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society. As you can see in the pages that follow, School; Mr Hardee leaves the Mathematics education at St Joseph’s is about more department to take up a similar post at St than the flight towards academic success. Julian’s School and Mrs Lancaster is taking 18 At a time when there is such pressure up a position at the Crown Commercial for students, teachers and schools to Service. We thank all of our departing staff demonstrate their academic achievements for their dedicated service and commitment and progress through exam results, it is to the school. vital that we do not lose sight of the true purpose of education. What you will see Congratulations and read about in our magazine is that our While it is always sad to see people go, mission is to draw together the importance it’s good to know that they will be going to of wellbeing, confidence, happiness spread the good work of the school to other and relationships in education with the places. We are very excited by the new academic rigour that is necessary for us additions to our team from September and 12 to be able to offer all children in our school we will share details of these appointments in the opportunities to flourish. I would like to Our Planet 3 the autumn edition of Insight. thank you for all you do as parents, carers Charity: Fun Run 4 and friends of St Joseph’s; we really couldn’t We have also made a number of internal Charity: Stalls 6 achieve any of what you will read about here appointments and offer congratulations to without your support. the following members of staff. Mr Seghiri, Global Citizenship Update 7 Head of Mathematics, has been seconded SJHS News 8 Farewell to the senior leadership team as Assistant Summer Message 9 Headteacher. Mrs Chamberlain will support As is inevitably the case we are sorry to be Mr Seghiri by taking up the position of Transition 10 saying farewell to a number of colleagues Associate Head of Mathematics; Mr Ryan, this year who leave us for pastures new. Transition Team 2019 12 Head of Sixth Form, has been appointed as Having spent several years in the Religious the school’s Lead Research Champion; Miss Art Gallery 14 Education department, Mr Brown leaves Norton Assistant Head of Year 11; Miss Miles us to take up the post of Head of Religious Art Exhibition 16 Assistant Head of Year 10 and Mr Doughton Education at St Illtyd’s High School; Mr Assistant Head of Year 7. SJHS Careers Award 16 Hendry, Head of Music, is relocating to ICT Stem Event 17 Tunbridge Wells to take up a similar post at We are all looking forward to working Skinners’ School; Miss Herman is relocating together with you again next year and I Engineering Team 18 to take up the position of a Music teacher at would like to thank you for the role that Key Stage 3 Celebration 19 the Wales International School, Abu Dhabi; you play in the school as it is integral to our from the Mathematics department Mr Rego success and crucial to the progress of each Technology Gallery 20 leaves us to take up a similar post at Llandaff individual child. Football Finals 22 Cathedral School; Mrs Pearson will take up PE News 23 the position of a Religious Education teacher Best wishes for a glorious summer and at Archbishop McGrath Catholic High God bless, Mrs J Jarrett. Autumn Term Calendar 24 2 Serving God Through Learning Together “ We are a team because we work together. We are a strong team because we respect, trust and care for each other” Our Community = Our Planet We prefer actions to words! Next steps... Here are some of our actions over the last year: Always looking to the future with Mr Nunn: 1 Ensuring our Platinum Eco School status was renewed! 1 Ensure every student and teacher has a reusable drinks Hurray! bottle everyday. 2 Recycling huge amounts of plastic, paper and cardboard 2 Stop the sale of plastic bottles in school. every week. 3 Advertise the ‘Pick up 5 a day campaign’ (5 pieces of litter). 3 Saving tonnes of rubbish from landfill. 4 Link to Friends of the Earth campaigns. 4 Cleaning up estate litter from the back gates. 5 Learn about and protect our very special friends: the trees. 5 Promoting the building of bottle bricks for waste that cannot 6 ESD self-assessment scheme. be recycled. 6 Inviting a juice company into school to help move our school away from plastic use and to encourage students to hydrate Thanks St Joseph’s, love from with lovely cooled water for free. 7 School representation at climate change protests. Planet Earth x Serving God Through Learning Together 3 CHARITY FUN RUNS! 690 PUPILS RAN UP TO 5K Over the last three weeks, Years 7, 8 and 9 have been fundraising for their year group charities. With the help of Mr Nunn, Mrs Geeves and the PE department, everyone took part running, walking or cartwheeling on a special route around the school fields. Even the weather didn’t dampen their spirits and all our Key Stage 3 pupils took to the fields - some wearing wigs, silly hats and even masks! Some brave teachers joined in the run and the atmosphere was great. For final year group charity totals this year please see page 6. 4 Serving God Through Learning Together Serving God Through Learning Together 5 CHARITY STALLS2019 Year 7 total 2019 Year 8 total 2019 Year 9 total Year 7’s national charity is the Year 8’s national charity is the British Year 9’s19 national charity is Salvation Army and their local charity Heart Foundation and their local charity Plastic Oceans and their local charity is Maes Ebbw. is the Lucy Ellis Foundation (Sepsis). is Velindre. A special mention goes out to Mrs Hooper A special mention goes out to 8V who Year 9 charity fundraising total stands at and 7O who raised an amazing £563.46, were outstanding and raised a massive a very healthy: a fantastic effort. Well done. £646.57 at their charity run and Leigh-Anna Shailer-Stanway who raised £676.24 Year 7 charity fundraising total stands at £183.80 in sponsorship on her own! a whopping: Spectacular effort. We would llike to say a great big thank you £2345.68 not only to the pupils at St Joseph’s for Year 8 charity fundraising total stands at working hard to raise these funds but also an amazing: to our wider community; thank you parents, £1805.75 carers and staff for all your support. 6 Serving God Through Learning Together Global Citizenship Update: Presentations, runs and stalls! Plus 50 GC nominated leaders helping to make a positive impact on the world with: • Choosing a local and national charity for each year group. • Charity leader presentations given to every form in Key Stage 3. • Organising a charity run for every student in years 7 to 9, all 690 students. • Running and walking with passion and energy! • Organising 3 separate days of charity stalls for the whole school to enjoy. • Raising hundreds of pounds for Maes Ebbw School, Salvation Army, Lucy Ellis Foundation (Sepsis) British Heart Foundation, Velindre, Plastic Oceans. • Extra spontaneous charity work by several very special students. Next steps: • More charity events next year! • More raising awareness across the school, including some exciting guest speakers. • Closer working links between ESD leaders and GC Our charity groups: leaders. • Woodland Trust Charity support. REMEMBER THERE IS NO PLAN-IT B! Serving God Through Learning Together 7 Fundraising for Cancer Research Carla and Lilly, 7V walk the Severn Crossing and back Two pupils in our Year 7 group recently took part in a sponsored walk for Cancer Research UK across the Severn Bridge and back. It was their own idea to do the event and they both arranged everything themselves, giving up their own time in the Easter holidays. We are very proud of these two pupils for their kindness and actions for their chosen charity. They managed to raise an impressive £287. Well done girls an amazing achievement. Jack’s climb... Jack, Year 11, successfully climbed Mount Snowdon in only 2hrs 10mins. He and the team have raised over £750 which they are donating to Newport Mind Charity. Jack said it was an exhausting trip but the reward and personal achievement when they reached the top was fantastic. A great big thank you to all these teachers who stepped up and became charity heroes! They all bravely sat still on the ‘soak a teacher’ stalls! Rhys’s awards Rhys in Year 10 has picked up two impressive awards at a STEM Residential at RAF Wittering. His hard work paid off as he was awarded both the Industrial Cadets Silver Award and the British Science Association CREST Silver Award.
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