ASA TODAYwww.asachelt.orgThe All Saints’ Academy NewspaperIssue 24, Term 3, 2014

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Students sat their Science mock exams on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st of Jan. There were lots of nerves and worries about these exams as many students had found Science really hard last year. How-ever, there was no need to worry. Most students prepared well for the exams and used their revision resources. The results of these mocks were outstanding:

By Mrs CainAssistant PrincipalHead of Science

New York TripThe second Sixth Form trip to ‘The Big Apple’ Page 3

Students get to sample all of the food that has been made dur-ing the session

‘Chefs on tour’ visit ASA

2 A*s, 11As, 23 Bs, 20 Cs and 3Ds. All the GCSE students should be really proud of themselves and use these mocks as a learning experience for the real thing. All students need to begin revising for the real exams by the Easter holidays. Revision guides were given to all GCSE students and they also have other resources avail-able such as the BBC bitesize website and their exercise books. We would advise that they begin to map out revision and create a revision timetable so that all the modules that they are doing are covered. Congratulations to all Science GCSE stu-dents and their teachers – excellent results!

Help us on our mission to Africa 2014Outstanding results for

Science GCSE mock exams

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On January 14th we welcomed Shaun Naen into the catering department, with his Chefs on Tour roadshow. This lively and entertaining demonstration is designed to inspire catering students and give them an opportunity to taste some exciting dishes, as he prepares a range of dishes all within an hour. Gloucestershire College Chef Shaun and his colleague Mark started with a whole chicken, and after portion-

By Mrs SchilderFood Technology Teacher

ing it in front of the students, made crispy noodles, breaded chicken wrap, marinated roasted chicken with roasted potatoes and veg, chicken curry, a chicken stock, an omelette and a crowd-pleasing pepperoni pizza. The students then had the chance to tuck in and sample all of the food. Shaun’s humorous approach to demonstrating had all of the students and staff engaged. Year 8 were selected because they are approaching the time they will choose their options, and so it was a fantastic chance for them to get a flavour of the subject, which is a great start to those interested in a career in the catering industry, or just those wishing to learn a valuable life skill.

Shaun making an omelette

EDITORIAL

Upcoming Events at ASA

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I hope you all had a fantastic Christ-mas and New Year. This edition of ASA TODAY features articles mainly from January so there is a recap of Decem-ber’s events on the right of this column. As ever we have had an-other busy term. We were visited by 22 primaries in January to take part in a School Sports Network event. We also worked with some Year 5 pupils from The Catholic school of St. Gregory’s The Great. Their page features in this edition. The Africa Mission features heavily in this edition as the Academy has been doing lots of fundraising to achieve the goal of £34,000. Please let us know if you have any ideas for fundraising events or if you would like to support this mission in any way. We encourage responses to our articles so if you would like to send in a letter for our letters page please email kskelding@asachelt.org

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ASA Sports Dept @ASASportsDeptYear 10 boys test their footballing skills tonight at home against @bournsidesport #backofthenet

All Saints’ Academy @asacheltBusy day at ASA today! @Chelten-hamSSN have been running an athletics event here. 22 Primary schools, 1 win-ner! #busy

Glos School Games @glosschoolgamesThe actions heating up at @asachelt with the U13s @yourschoolgames Bas-ketball finals! More to follow

Eloise Taylor @HeyEloiseTaylor @ASAAfrica2014 Just got a bag full of books and games for our raffle from @Waterstones Thank you for your contri-bution to our fundraising!Perrie Edwards @dommyyy_The @asachelt invitations to Year 13 Ball have been given out today! If you didn’t get yours, ask your form tutor on Monday!

All Saints’ Academy @asachelt Productive Y13 ball meeting with the committee today. Please remember to spread the word about handing in reply slips! #GatsbyOrganising

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• Charity ‘Fixers’ came in to deliver a workshop on cyber bullying. Stu-dents learned the importance of speaking out if ever run into any dif-ficulty online.

• Trip for students to the Skillszone in Gloucester. Students learnt more about road safety in an interactive artifical town.

• Young Enterpise group put on their first stall at a Christmas Fair.

• The Sixth Form Olympics took place - Westminster winning.

• 39 Christmas Hampers were created and distributed for the YMCA.

• The Christmas Carol service was a hit with the local community filling out the chapel.

• Mr Griffin put on a brilliant rendi-tion of Charles Dickins ‘A Christ-mas Carol’. Students performed to a very high standard and there was a significant turn out to watch.

• Christmas assemblies were very though provoking and students had the chance to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.

• The second New York trip was a big success with students returning with plenty of photos of their experience.

Key events in December

February14th - Twelve24 concert in the Cotswold Hall (7.30 - 9pm - must have ticket to attend)23rd - Three of the Africa team will be live on BBC Radio Glos (8.40am)24th - Year 11 History Trip - Doctor’s Show25th - Ski Trip Information Evening (6 - 7pm)26th - Parents Forum (6 - 7pm)28th - Ice Skating Trip (2 - 7.30pm)

March5th - Year 7 & 8 Science Fair (in Cotswold Hall)14th - Staff Netball/Football Tournament - Raising money for Africa (3.30 - 5pm)27th - BBC School Report28th - Mothering Sunday services for the community

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15 students, 2 teachers and a city that never sleeps. 9 months ago we could only dream of going to New York and today we have the memories that will last us a lifetime. From the moment we touched down in JFK airport the excitement hit us, despite being deprived of sleep we couldn’t wait to experience Manhattan! After a quick shower and drop-

Christmas in the Big AppleBy Demi Wheeler Student Reporter

ping off our suitcases we could fi nally witness what we had being waiting so te-diously to see. The buildings higher than any we had seen before, advertisements plastered across the skyline, Christmas lights and decorations in shop windows and people everywhere we looked! We made visits to famous build-ings including the Empire State Building, Federal Bank and the top of the Rock, watched the basketball at Madison Square Gardens, made a visit to a local church that took in all those effected by 9/11, ice-skated in Central Park and we shopped till

we dropped in Macy’s department store, 5th avenue and Times Square! In the evenings we dined together in typi-cal American restaurants including The Hard rock Café and Planet Hollywood before heading back out to see more of the city.5 days of laughs, experienc-ing new things, smiles and at times feeling exhaust-ed, but they are 5 days we will never forget!

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Th e Statue of Liberty de-signed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1886 and was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

New York City contains roughly 660 miles of subway track connecting 468 subway stations—the lowest of which is located 180 miles below street level. In 2011, more than 1.6 billion people rode the subway.

4 Since 2005, New York City has the lowest crime rate of

the 25 largest US cities, and is one of the safest cities in the US overall.

New York City is now the most populous city in the USA with more than 8.2 million people.

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Above: The view from Rockefeller Centre, looking over Mid town towards Central Park. Below: Mary and Emma ice-skating in Central Park.

In the heart of Manhattan: The lights Times Square are a well known destination for visitors

Valentine’s Celebrations with a difference

SPIRITUALITY

The feast of E p i p h a n y

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By Mrs SpenceRoman Catholic Lay Chaplain

The term began with Chaplaincy led as-semblies celebrating the feast of the Epiphany, when the Wise Men came to worship the child Jesus in Bethlehem. Stu-dents brought the figures and added them to the crib scene while listening to the ac-count of the visit from Matthew 2:1-12 While we in the West cel-ebrate Christmas on December 25th, the eastern Churches treat January 6th as the day marking Jesus’ birth. The as-sembly explored various Epiphany tra-ditions in Christian countries through-out the world, where the day is marked by carnivals, processions and fiestas. In many countries where the day is also known as ‘Three Kings Day’, the processions are led by people dressed as the Kings often riding on camels. Many traditions and legends mark the feast of the Epiphany, although countries and cultures may differ in the way they celebrate, each is remember-ing that day long ago when Wise Men from the East, after a very long and ar-duous journey found the child Jesus whom they had been searching for, rec-ognised him as the promised Messiah, worshipped him and gave him their gifts.

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Born for thisOn Saturday 1st of March students from All Saints’ will be taking part in a pro-duction of ‘Born for this’ which is a pow-erful Lenten Musical telling the Easter Story. The production is organized and arranged through the Youth Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Clifton and it is learned and performed all on the one day.On Tuesday 14th January students show-ing an interest in taking part were treated to a sneak preview, when Dave Wheat the Youth Officer came to the Academy.The performance takes place in St Grego-ry’s Church, Cheltenham, on Saturday 1st March at 7.30pm and admission is free.

On Thursday 23rd January, Father Paul Brandon, Parish Priest of Sacred Hearts celebrated Mass in St Benedict’s Chapel at 12.10pm. Students assisted in the Mass, with the readings, bidding prayers, offertory procession and serving. As the Mass took place during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, prayers were included in the bidding prayers and Fr Paul spoke on the theme during his homily. Mr T Carroll provided the music and the students joined in with singing the hymns.

Mass at All Saints’

On returning to school after Christmas I was reminded by some Year 8 girls of the anniversary of Megan White. It has now been 2 years since Megan’s passing. We decided that we would remember her as we did last year. Her closest friends were asked to write a prayer or thought that they on a paper star. These were lami-nated and silver elastic cord put though them. We agreed to meet at 8.30am on the morning of the 14th January by Meg-an’s tree and bench in the prayer garden. Despite having had atrocious wet weather the previous few days, the sun shone and blue sky glistened as we held hands outside and had a private quiet moment as a special version of the Our Father which had been written by two of Megan’s friends was read. The stars were then hung on her tree, to join those from last year. As we walked back into school, we glanced back to see the sun reflecting on the stars giving them a silver hue as they blew in the wind. Thoughts for Meg-an were clearly blowing up to heaven.

Megan’s MemorialBy Mrs ScarfeAssistant PrincipalHead of RE

Our FatherWho is looking after Megan,Isn’t it a beautiful name,Thy time has come,For thy loving to be done,Look after her in heaven,As you did on earth,Give us this day to Remember Megan,And remember those times,Forgive all of those who Have done wrong And help us to be positive At all times Forever And Ever Amen

By Mrs AllenAssistant Head of RE

On Friday the 14th February, Christian band, Twelve24 will be coming down from Manchester to spend Valentine’s Day at ASA! They describe them-selves as, “radio-ready hip-hop, dub-step, R&B and feel-good dance-pop.” Each year group in the Acad-emy will have a one-hour assembly in the Cotswold Hall where you will hear some of their tracks and listen to their thoughts on the real meaning of love.In the evening, you are invited to come back to the Academy from 7pm to at-tend a gig hosted by Twelve24 and some special guest acts from ASA. This was an extremely popular event last year so please remember to col-lect your wristband to gain entry! They will ONLY be available from Cotswold Hall at lunch time on 14/2/14. They are limited to 1 per stu-dent on a first come, first served basis.•200 released from 1.10- 1.25pm for pupils in Durham/ Canterbury •200 released from 1.40- 1.55pm for pupils in Westminster/ YorkIf you can’t wait to hear them, you can access their music here… http://www.twelve24.co.uk/music

DEPARTMENT NEWS

By Miss HannamHead of Geography

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Rainforest creepy crawlies visit ASA

Progress in English

Encouraging news from the Eng-lish Department. Continuing our success from last year, the results from the November exam series means that 61.5% of Y11 have already secured a C at GCSE. Those students can now push on for the higher grades, and we can offer targeted intervention for those who are still working towards their C. More encouraging still is the percentage of students making national standards in terms of progress. As you might know, schools are no longer being measured solely by the number of C-grades they secure. Instead, the focus is now on student progress. 70% of Y11 have made or exceeded national expecta-tions of progress. This is a real achieve-ment, and testament to the hard work put in by the students, and the support offered to them at home as well as in school. All students in Y10 and Y11 have been given revision book-lets. I cannot emphasise enough how important it is that students complete additional work outside the classroom. Encourage your son or daughter to answer at least one question in the booklets each week and bring in their work for their teacher to mark. If the booklet has been lost, replacements can be bought for 50p. My sincere congratulations to all those students who sat exams in November, and I look forward to another success story in the summer.

The 23rd January saw ASA become a temporary home to some very interesting visitors. A deadly venomous scorpion and an equal-ly dangerous tarantula occupied the Cotswold Hall for the day when Zoolab visited ASA. The event organised by the Geography Department enabled Year 8s to see, touch and hold some very unusual rainforest animals. Some students revelled in the opportunity to touch the world’s fastest insect-the Madagascan hissing cockroach, some were not so keen.

As part of their GCSE History course, students study the History of Medicine. On Monday 24th February 2014 the History Department has arranged a thea-tre trip to Birmingham to watch “The Doctors Show”. This 2½ hour show be-gins with a workshop led by a Senior Ex-aminer who will look at exam questions and show students how to improve their performance in the final examination. This is followed by a play which looks at the famous doctors and the various developments during the history of medicine. This is a valuable revision opportunity for Y11 students and we would strongly urge all year 11 his-tory students to attend. Parents can pay online via ParentMail for the trip. For further information please contact Mrs S Gooch sgooch@asachelt.org Revision guides are also avail-able to purchase at a discounted rate and can also be paid for online via ParentMail.

By Mr NicklinAssistant PrincipalHead of English

Year 8 get up close and per-sonal with some rainforest creepy crawlies.

We found out that snakes are not in fact slimy, but feel more like a raw sausage! Many students enjoyed the sen-sation of a stick insect crawling up their arms. As well as learning about the im-portance or conserving the rainforest we learnt some very strange facts about the animals. Including the fact that stick in-sects can both sway to appear like a twig and curl their tail to look like a scorpion, a frog swallows by rolling its eyeballs back into its head to force food down it’s throat, and a cockroach is the fastest in-sect in the world. This was particularly worrying when the cockroach was tempo-rarily lost! Thankfully he had not gone far, only further to the bottom of the box. Looking forward, next half term the Geography Department wel-comes again Dominic Faulkner from Cheltenham college to regale year 8 with his tales of climbing Mount Everest and playing cricket with border officials to get in to Pakistan. Watch this space!

Doctors Show Revision Trip

By Mrs GoochHead of History

This week year 9 welcomed Donna Allen (recruitment manager) from Steiner. Steiner recruits for sev-eral different cruise ships, employ-ing thousands of Beauty Therapist, Hairdressers and Personal Trainers. Some Year 12 and 13 stu-dent were also invited to come along in their study periods. About 15 Sixth Form students attended as they were interested in personal training. Donna gave us an insight into life travelling the world, working on the ships.The contracts last for 9 months but you get to speak to friends and family though the internet. You get to share your cabin with a workmate and make friends really fast.You get to see the world on your days off, including places like Mi-ami, New York and the Caribbean. Steiner pay for your accommoda-tion and food so you can save a lot of money and you don’t pay tax. After your first contract you can choose which ship to work on. The most popular with the year 9 beauty class was the Disney ships. Lots of us now want to do this when we are 18.This is the second visit we have had from Donna and we will be looking forward to her coming back again next year- so don’t worry if you missed out this time.

Cruising around the world

By Miss CoxTeacher in charge of Beauty

On Friday 24th January, our students were lucky enough to have a visit from a practicing psychologist – a cognitive behavioural therapist. Natalie Broad, from Manchester, shared her own expe-riences and how she got to where she is now. The main focus of the talk was on CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and what it involves. Natalie spoke to students about how CBT is used to treat disorders such as depression and anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive compulsive disor-der. This was invaluable for students as they all must study CBT at both AS and A2 level and it gave them a real insight to how it is carried out in the profession.

We also currently have year 8 and 9 students involved in some actual psy-chological research being conducted by another visiting Psychologist here at All Saints’ Academy! Tim Shore is complet-ing this research as part of his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford and he is investigating how teenagers respond to cognitive behav-ioural therapy and how it is helpful in treating anxiety in teenagers. Thank you to all those students taking part! We look forward to Tim giving a talk on his research and his experiences too.

Psychologists visit All Saints’ Academy

By Miss BrannanHead of Psychology

For updates on what is being stud-ied in the History Department follow History on Twitter.

@ASAHistoryDept

ASA Africa 20146www.asachelt.orgIssue 24, Term 3, 2014

This July, 16 students and 5 member of staff from All Saints’ Academy will be undertaking a two week missionary trip to a local village called Kasulu near Kigo-ma in Western Tanzania. The main aim is to give the students a once in a lifetime opportunity to help to inspire a generation in making a difference through experienc-ing and witnessing ‘rural African poverty’ fi rst hand. The students and staff will be fundraising all the costs, plus funding for the school, the children and the local vil-lage in Tanzania. The trip will work in partner-ship with The Diocese of Gloucester who has long established links with the Tanza-nian church with the main focus being to help complete the building of a new high

school, teach English, provide medical sup-plies, farming tools, and sports and class-room resources. The location is in rural Tanza-nia, where there are limited, if any, basic amenities such as no fl ushing toilets, running water and elec-tricity for only two hours of the day via a generator. This trip will be a chance to forge and embed a link that will bring our two schools together in partnership. This once in a lifetime opportu-nity will not be possible without generous donations from the local community and the enthusiastic team fundraising around the clock.

The Challege before usThe Challege before us

The trip will work in partnership with The Diocese of Gloucester who has long established links with the Tanzanian church who are currently completing the building of Bishop Makaya High School in the village of Kasulu near the Kigoma in Western Tanzania. The 16 students will be helping to complete the renovation of the

high school, teach English, pro-vide medical supplies, farming tools, sports and classroom re-sources. This trip will be a chance to forge and embed a link that will bring our two schools together in partnership. The location is in ru-ral Tanzania, where there are lim-ited, if any, basic amenities.

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Student in Kasulu: Agnes and Anode (below)

Still under construction: Bishop Makaya High Schoo

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By Dean Williams

From Cheltenham to Kasulu, what is this opportunity all about?

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Flights are booked and passports are at the ready! We’re now working hard to ensure that we have

all of the funds we need to make this trip a success If you can support us in any way, please

get in touch.

Best regards, The Africa Team

Above: Located on the coast of East Africa, Tanzania shares its

borders with Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC,

Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi

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interesting facts about14Tanzania

How can YOU help?1. Sponsorship: You can make a fi nancial donation via PayPal at the following address: www.asachelt.org/africa/donate

2. Raffl e Prize: If you would like to donate a raffl e prize, then we would be extremely grateful. So far we have a Nintendo Wii, desktop computer, signed Gloucester rugby ball & golf vouchers

For more info please contact Leo Kelly on:01242 711299

For more information email:lkelly@asachelt.org

Follow us on twitter.com/ASAAfrica2014

Donate via PayPalhttp://www.asachelt.org/africa/donate

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Tanzania’s current president is Jakaya Kikwete (below)

and has been in offi ce since 2005.

Over 120 languages are spoken in Tanzania. Most of these are Bantu

languages, a category of over 535 languages and dialects that are

spoken throughout Africa.

Mount Kilimanjaro is lo-cated in Tanzania. At 19,341

feet above sea level, it is the largest moun-tain in Africa.

Tanzania shares its na-tional anthem with South Africa and Zimbabwe. It’s

titled “Mungu Ibariki Afrika” (God Bless Africa).

Tanzania is the home of the coco-nut crab, which is the largest

crab in the world can be found on Chumbe Island of Zanzibar.

Tanzania’s population is 47.6 million people

according to the UN’s 2012 fi gures

Th e country’s main exports include gold,

sisal, cloves, coff ee, cotton, cashew nuts, minerals and tobacco.

Tanzania has the largest con-centration of wildlife animals

per square kilometer, with more than 4 million wild animals

and representatives of 430 species and

subspecies.

Th e League of Nations gave Britain mandate over

Tanzania in 1919 and in 1961, Tanzania gained its independence.

Th ree of the world’s most

magnifi cent lakes surround Tanza-nia: Lake Nyasa, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

Th e world’s largest complete

crater, the now-extinct Ngorongoro Crater is in Tanzania

Over 100 tribal groups exist in Tanzania and most live

in very remote areas of the country.

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Tanzania’s capital city is called Dodoma; other signifi cant cities

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Tanzania lies just south of the equa-

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are two rainy seasons, generally the heaviest rains fall from mid-March to May and a shorter period of rain, from November to mid-January.

£20,586 raised so far!

Above and below: Team ASA and Team Kasulu

On Friday 31st January BBC West report-er Anisa Indawala came into All Saints’ Academy and interviewed a few of the Africa team. Students Nicole Morrissey, Jon Hopson and Jack Payton were all inter-viewed on their thoughts leading up to the big adventure. Trip leader Mr. Kelly also had his 5 minutes of fame as he was quizzed on how he was going to support the students in Africa. Students had an interesting chat with Anisa, as she has spent time travel-ling and living in climates similar to Af-rica. She gave them a few handy tips on what to take to avoid being bitten by mos-quitos and what colours not to wear! The feature was aired to around 8 million people listening to BBC West on Sunday 2nd February between 8 – 10pm. BBC West covers Gloucesershire, Wiltshire, Cotswolds and Bristol. We hope to have further in-volvement with BBC West as we con-tinue to fundraise and hope to become guests on the show when our students and staff return from their mission.

ASA Africa’s Interviewwith the BBC

We are here!

Mr Kelly, Jon Hopson, Nicole Morrissey and Jack Payton all had the opportunity to be interviewed for the BBC radio program

HOUSE ACHIEVEMENT8www.asachelt.orgIssue 24, Term 3, 2014

Joe O’Shea 2CH

Outstanding

Christian

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Tutor comment

I would like to nominate Joe for a variety of reasons. He is polite, always willing to help out, is a god role model to other students and also has a very good sense of hu-mour. Joe has done a fantastic job supporting student interview panels on several occasions and is 2CH’s representative on the student council. He has also just been involved in a workshop that is due to appear on TV, being filmed for the production company ‘Fixers’ who help young people have their voice heard on TV.

HAL Comment

I am delighted that Joe is Canterbury’s Star Student for term 2. He is a mature, helpful and caring member of the Academy who is determined to aim high and achieve excellence but he always has the time to help others around him. He deserves to be awarded Star Student, I am proud to have him in Canterbury House.

Student Comment

My opinion on the school is that it is a welcoming place. It has outstanding facilities and caring considerate staff. I enjoy lessons because they are all different and interest-ing. In every lesson I learn something new and enjoy ex-ploring new things. I am very honoured to be nominated for this award, thank you.

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House Star student of the Term

Canterbury

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Jack Harman4DH

Outstanding

Christian

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Tutor Comment

I am delighted to be able to nominate Jack as student of the term; he is always punctual and polite, as well as ready to have a go at any work put in front of him. He is also mature enough to accept when he is in the wrong, changing his behaviour accordingly without complaint or argument. A deserving nominee all round.

HAL Comment

Jack has made a really good start to Year 10 and his at-tendance is outstanding. Jack is developing into a great role model for other students within his house tutor group as well as the rest of the house. I’ve been particularly impressed with mature approach to learning that Jack demonstrates on a daily basis. Keep up the great work, Jack!

Student Comment

I was a bit surprised to be picked as student of the term because I just turn up and do my work, but it is really nice to be noticed.

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House Star student of the Term

Durham

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John Gie Farnacio4WH

Outstanding

Christian

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John has an outstanding attitude to learning and is al-ways focused and resilient. John’s attendance is 100% and he is consistently punctual and polite. He is a valued member of W4 and a role model to other students.

HAL Comment

I am delighted to have John as Westminster’s Student of the Term. John is always polite, respectful and a positive role model to others. I hope John continues to take such an active role in Westminster House and maintains his outstanding punctuality and attendance.

I’m sure John will now go from strength to strength and build on all of his successes next term and beyond.

Student Comment

Wow, I have never been ‘Student of the Term’ before so this is very much new to me! Westminster is such a great house and Mr Pierce and Miss Jones are nice, helpful and always there when you need them. Thank you for making me the ‘Westminster Student of the Term’ and I promise to keep making you proud, both in and out of school.

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House Star student of the Term

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Tutor Comment

Charlie is an absolute asset to her tutor group, working well with others, and always happy to help. She vol-unteered to help at parents evening and always com-pletes everything asked of her to the best of her ability, gaining excellent feedback for student review day. She is polite, and when asked how she is, will always ask you in return how you are. She is a real pleasure to have in 6YH.

HAL Comment

It is a pleasure to have Charlie in York House. Her at-titude to learning is excellent and she is a role model to others in the House. I am really pleased that she is such a valued member of 6YH and delighted that she fully in-volves herself in House and Academy activities.

Student Comment

“I am honoured to be nominated as student of the term as it is great achievement and i’m happy to be acknowl-edged. I’ve really enjoyed being part of 6YH and working as a team. I loved helping out in Design and Technology during the schools open evening as I was able to speak to potential new students and tell them about the amaz-ing opportunities available here at ASA.”

Outstanding

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Charlie Pockett5YH

House Star student of the Term

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The STG BulletinThe Catholic School of Saint Gregory the GreatIssue 24, Term 3, 2014 9

Job done: The STG Editorial Team, shortly after completing their fi rst newspaper page

We interviewed a Sixth Form stu-dent called Dominika Zyra. She was a previous student at St Gregory’s and she is studying to go to university. We asked her some questions. Here are the questions and answers: How did you feel when you fi rst started here?Scared

By Emily and Eloise

St Gregory’s wins the E-safety Award

Recently, our school (The Catho-lic School Of Saint Gregory The Great) has received a 360 degreesE-safety award. Our school was the FIRST primary school in Gloucestershire to achieve this. Inspectors visited our school and they met our e-safety committee. The e-safety committee are students and teachers in our school, who can provide help and advice on such topics as cyber-bullying, internet safety and knowledge on hacking. At school we use a lot of ICT in school for different subjects like

By Sarah and Shannon

Sixth Former Interview

Minecraft has been around for about 10 years and the creator is Notch who is also called Markus Person. Its aimed at a wide range of ages and the activities in-clude building, mining, forging weapons, multiplayer and much more….The game also includes enemies such as creepers, zombies, zombie-pigmen and silver fi sh. The overall aim of the game is to kill the Ender Dragon. This is achieved by fi nd-ing and killing enough Endermen and getting blaze powder from the Nether.

By Toby, Blazej and Marley

Game Review: MinecraftTag Rugby Coaching at STG

Year 5 had tag rugby sessions with the Gloucester rugby coaches. They taught us how to play tag rugby and how to pass the ball. We also played games, to help us with our skills. One game we played was called ‘King and Queen of the Hill’ where we had to collect as many tags as possible from other players. Whoever were the fi rst two people fi nished within the amount of time with the most tags were king and queen of the hill. After the games we played a few matches to test how well we had improved. Over the two months with the Gloucester rugby coach-es, we enjoyed learning how to play rug-by and receiving certifi cates at the end. We are also looking forward to taking part in a tag rugby festival in February.

By Nathan and Samuel

What do you fi nd best about this school?We have lots of personal space What subjects do you study?Psychology, Sociology and BusinessWho is your favourite teacher?Mr KellyWhat is your favourite subject?BusinessWhat extra curricular things do you do?I am part of the Social Committee and Year 13 Ball Committee.

Maths, English and PHSCE. Talking to the inspectors and e-safety committee, we have realised that it is very impor-tant to be careful when using computers and the internet at home and in school.

You can play either survival mode or creative mode depending on whether you want to create greater buildings with everything with you. The game is good because it’s never ending.

Above and Below: The tag rugby game in full fl ow at STG

Editorial TeamEdited by:Eu4

Designed by:Maria and Nicole

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Go Karting Social

Above: Rebekah, Nick, Jake, Amy and some of their computer course attendees

Coming from America, one of the most common questions I get asked is about American Football. Yes, I like American Football. No, I don’t prefer it over Brit-ish Football (soccer); they are both great sports to watch and play. But there is no doubt that in the States, it is American Football which is the more dominant.Recently, America tuned into the Super-bowl. This is a play-off match between the winners of the two main leagues. This year, the Broncos played the Sea-hawks and were huge favourites for the win. Their star quarterback is a player called Peyton Manning, and every-one expected him to dominate the play.What actually happened is that the Seat-tle Seahawks completely outplayed the Broncos, with a massive victory mar-gin. As seems to happen every year, a record audience tuned in worldwide to

By Chelsea CravenStudent Reporter

On the 10th of December Christian Bessell, Oliver Millard, Sam Carpen-ter, Robin Gavin, Joe Taylor, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Burger and Jake Sheppard headed towards JDR Karting. Before reach-ing the track, Mr. Burger almost got T-Boned by another car which seemed to be the topic of conversation for the rest of the journey. So upon arrival we were greet-ed by a Darleck at the front desk where Sam had the urge to have a selfi e with it. Once we had signed in we were shown the safety DVD which looked to be at least 15 years old. When the DVD was fi nally fi nished we proceeded to get changed into our race suits. Once we were suited and booted we were assigned a kart to use. One by one we rolled out of the pits and the session began. It lasted for 25 minutes and there was so much action from the start. First of all was that Jake somehow ended up in the pits on the fi rst lap, his excuse was that he did not know the track. But after that strange and con-fusing fi rst lap, everyone seemed to get

By Christian BessellStudent Reporter

Football or Soccer?

watch the show. Were you one of them?If you were, you would have seen a spectacular half time show, with Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers providing the entertainment. There were some questions about wheth-er they were live or lip-syncing, but in either case, it was great to watch.Not only is American Football huge on the TV, but also in High School. American Football has always been a big deal. It’s what unites us as a school and gives us our identity. The year be-fore I left for England I went with my school to the University of Utah Sta-dium to the State Championships to watch our School’s team face a local ri-val, which was ranked fi rst in the State and we were victorious. I will never forget how all the students of the school seemed to come together to celebrate. I was sad not to be in America for the Superbowl, but I know that there will be many more to come in the fu-ture for me – if you are watching, maybe you’ll spot me in the crowd!

the hang of it. Noticeably from the start Mr. Kelly and Christian Bessell seemed like the ones to be setting the pace whilst on the other hand Jake was bringing up the rear. During the time, Christian had gained a healthy lead over the others and by the end he was two laps ahead of sec-ond place Mr. Kelly. In this session Chris-tian put in a lap of 22.720 which put him 2nd on the overall leader board whilst on the other hand Jake put in a time of 24.637. However in the second session the tables turned. Jake who was slowest in the fi rst session had now set a fantas-tic time of 22.785 which everyone was so surprised about which meant that he was now the second fastest in the group.. During the second session there was still plenty of action. First of all there was a 3 kart pile up on a cor-ner which Mr. Kelly took full advantage off and stormed into the lead only to smash into the barriers whereby he was fl ung out of his seat and was slowed to a cruel a lap later, thankfully he recov-ered but he was still no match for Chris-tian as he set a blistering time of 22.421 which was the new fastest lap. Overall it was a fantastic day and we are all look-ing forward to the next karting event.

Several Sixth Form students have been recognized for their contribution to the community and receiving a local award. The Embracing Technology Award has been presented to Robert Gavin, Ai-mee Bolton, Amy Turner, Jake Earley, Kimberley Rayner, Lilly Green, Nick

Davis and Rebekah Boyer for their ef-forts in teaching basic computer and ICT skills to people over the age of 60. Every Wednesday evening, the sixth formers run sessions in the All Saints’ Academy library, where CBH residents were welcome to attend. These sessions

focused on developing essential comput-er skills. As a self-organised project, the students had to plan the course, book ap-propriate facilities in ASA and communi-cating directly with Kelly Patterson Com-munity Development Offi cer for CBH.

Sixth Formers Claim the Embracing Technology Award

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Currently Year 9 Art GCSE students are exploring the theme ‘Food’. They are ex-perimenting with a variety of techniques and materials in response to observing the work of past and contemporary Art-ists such as photo realist painter Sarah Graham and Pop Art icon Andy Warhol.

The Big Report: B Team FootballBy Matt Makowiecki, Ergys Berisha and Joe O’Shea

Coaching Staff: Matt Makowiecki, Ergys Berisha and Joe O’Shea

All Saints Academy entered the tourna-ment with high expectations. Lead by Manger Ergys Berisha, Assistant Manag-er Joe O’Shea, Head Coach, Fitness and Dietician Matt Makowiecki and team driver Mr. Fergusson. Sadly we were without chief scout Lewis Hitchman. Players: (Capt.) Chase Danby, Taylor Latham, Ricky Jones, Abdul Basit, Con-nall Jaynes, Liam Parkin, Luke Driscoll, Jay Boulden, Jayme Clarke, Connor Rol-lasson and Jordan Grainger. In the fi rst game they were to face Pates. The game started at a fast pace with All Saints’ the stronger of the two. Eventual-ly the pressure paid off with Ricky Jones making a darting run down the left wing causing havoc to the Pates’ defence, he then cut inside slotting away with ease to give All Saints’ the lead. All Saints’ were playing fl uent, confi dent football and added to their lead with a cool calm fi nish from Abdul Basit. All Saints’ early lead led to the chance to bring changes in Con-nor Rollason and Jordan Grainger coming on to preserve the lead. Shortly after his arrival the dangerous presence of Jordan Grainger stood over a free-kick won on the edge of the box. Grainger originally drafted as a sub keeper really seemed to have a striker’s edge. Pates then coun-tered in numbers, the break resulted in a poor mishap in defence fi nishing in a horrifi c own goal from Connor Rolla-son, a real head in hands moment. Still the Coaching staff remained positive, thoroughly enjoying the moment. Sadly

Pates equalised late on to steal a draw, All Saints’ throwing away a valuable win, could this prove costly?In the second game, All Saints’ Academy went on to face Chosen Hill. Straight from the whistle All Saints’ attacked with Ricky Jones once again at the end of the move putting them 1 up. Chosen failed to reply and All Saints’ continued to attack leading to a free-kick won just outside the box. Jayme Clarke stepped up to deliver a powerful strike straight into the bottom corner putting All Saints’ two to the good. All Saints’ were playing with confi dence and Jay Boulden attempted a highly am-bitious long range effort to lob the keeper, an acrobatic save of high quality was made to deny the No.10. The ball played into Abdul Basit, a faultless touch before some neat footwork to calmly dink the ball into the roof of the Chosen goal just like Nicolas Anelka in his prime. Abdul’s iconic fl amboyant celebration said it all even forcing a congratulant smirk on Mr. Fergusson’s face. A good 3-0 win.After a confi dence boosting win, the ASA lads were looking for another big win but standing in their way was a handy Prince Henry’s team. They were without Grainger Danger who was loaned out to Tewkesbury Y who were short on players, he later struggled with his bib, a Balotelli moment, but could this prove to be a big loss? Henry’s outclassed All Saints in the opening taking the lead. Despite Connall Jaynes best efforts a low drilled cross proved too much clipping his boot and gliding past the frustrated keeper Taylor Latham. Nevertheless Connall’s head re-mained high making some hard big tack-les with fellow defender Liam Parkin. If All Saints’ weren’t struggling enough an injury to Captain fantastic Chase Danby

was a further blow. Henry’s continued to knock on the ASA door resulting in anoth-er goal, 3-0 Henry’s. A few changes were made an with the absence of Grainger fl air was lacking. All Saints’ continued to fi ght leading to another goal from the in-form right boot of Ricky Jones. The game ended 3-1 to Prince Henry’s.In the fourth game ASA were to play Tewkesbury X. Once again All Saints were without Grainger and this time Rollason as well playing for opponents Tewkesbury X. The loss proved no bother as All Saints’ seemed to capture some of their earlier form. ASA’s constant attack led to a chance for Jayme Clarke, a poor touch led seemingly to the chance being lost but during the tackle the ball was turned into the Tewkesbury net, a goal claimed by Clarke just with a little help from the defender. Ricky Jones contin-ued to lead a lethal Academy attack con-tinuing his goal-spree by adding another. Further chances came with Luke Driscoll setting up Jay Boulden who wasted the chance losing possession. A strong show from the defence headed by Parkin and Jaynes was keeping Tewkesbury at bay. Parkin continued a good performance with a tidy attack down the left fl ank. The ball eventually cleared to the guardian in midfi eld Chase Danby. A speculative ef-fort followed hit fi rst time rocketing to the top corner. A mesmerizing fi nish to the grafter in midfi eld. Danby’s goal re-sulted to a comical celebration. The game ended 3-0 ASA with the Head Coach Makowiecki taking over the photography duties. The All Saints’ team’s fi nal game was against Tewkesbury Y. An important game if the boys were to have any hope of win-ning the tournament. The game proved to

be a real battle in midfi eld but the experi-ence of Luke Driscoll proved too much as his controlling display opened gaps in the Tewkesbury defence. All Saints’ made the breakthrough with Ricky Jones once again scoring making it fi ve for the tour-nament. The following proved tense with some poor tackles leading to well taken Tewkesbury goal. The game remained a real end to end clash but All Saints’ start-ed to grab control. Driscoll was heaping the pressure on, playing some dangerous balls in. Eventually the breakthrough was made when who else but Abdul Basit put ASA in front after a fl uent attack from Jayme Clarke. The game continued to

boil with some errors made in defence but still Tewkesbury failed to add. The game ended 2-1 to ASA a well-deserved win.Overall ASA fi nished runners up. A good effort by the lads.On the way back in the minibus a few awards were announced:Top scorer Ricky Jones (5), Best attitude Jordan ‘Danger’ Grainger, Best goal to Abdul Basit’s classy fi nish against Cho-sen Hill, Most assists Luke Driscoll (4) Toughest tackler Connall Jaynes, Best own-goal Connor Rollasson and fi -nally player of the tournament resulted in a tie with Ricky Jones and Abdul Basit.

By Mrs BaylissHead of Art & Design

Art: Good enough to eat

Andy Warhol inspired paint study by Reziquel Dalagdog

Sweet watercolour painting by Pimmada Apiraktham.

Rock watercolour painting by Macy Paterson.

ASA SPORTSU16 Boys Table Tennis success

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On Thursday 16th January, the Year 10 girls basketball team went to Pates to take part in the Under 16’s District Bas-ketball Tournament. The schools that took part were All Saints’, Pates and Balcarras. The tournament started with ASA playing against Pates, we got off to an excellent start with all of us deter-mined to get the first basket. The girls made some phenomenal passes between themselves, trying to avoid Pates getting possession. Although Pates scored a few points, ASA didn’t let that bother them. Alex Borowicz made an accurate pass to Hannah Whelan who managed to score the first basket for All Saints’. Our de-fense held strong as we tried to defend

Persevering 10s battle to the end

Terrell Mitchell, Ellis Duffus, Joe Rich-ards and Dan Kanigowski all represent-ed the Academy at Table Tennis during January at Gloucester Academy. Terrell had the added pressure of being seeded number one for the tournament but did not let the team down with 3 wins out of 3 games. Joe Richards also had added pressure after choosing to adopt Mr Rol-lason’s paddle - ‘The Destroyer’ which was carved in China over the summer and had not yet lost a game. The pres-sure quickly got to Joe and in his second match lost 14-12, ‘The Destroyer’ was defeated. Joe did make amends however and won his final match to put us in good stead for the victory, which now rested on Dan’s shoulders. Dan did not disap-point and narrowly won his last game to give an overall score of 9-7. Ellis also played his part despite not winning a single game, his presence did not go un noticed though and was very much part of the winning team. Well done boys!

At the start of this term the U14 girls football team took part in a football tournament at Tewkesbury School. The All Saints’ team were in a tough group, which meant facing Cotswold School and Pittville; both teams that finished in the top half of the district league along with ASA. In the group stage the girls

By Mr RollasonPE Teacher

Sporting Achievements outside of ASA? Then let us know, we always like to keep tab on talented individuals

By Bethany WiltshireStudent Reporter

Year 10 Girls’ Basketball

The Year 10 Girls’ Basketball Team

as many balls from Pates’ as we could but they managed to break through and sneak a few more points. An excellent shot was made by Lontum Mangong but it wasn’t enough. The end result was 51-4 to Pates. Our second game was against Balcarras. ASA didn’t let the previous game get in the way. Jess Harper man-aged to get the ball and get it away from Balcarras’ hoop. She then passed the ball to Hannah Whelan who managed to get the first basket again for All Saints’. Bethany Halford tried to stay and kept our defence strong as we were all trying to get a second basket. Balcarras felt the pressure as Rhiannon Watts managed to get points on the scoreboard and kept the possession on our side of the court. Even though Balcarras managed to get a few more baskets, we continued to try as a team. Having a better game than the previous, we managed to close the gap in the score, Balcarras won 40-4.

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By Miss DaleyPE Technician

Fantastic Team spirit from ASA U14’swere required to play each team twice. All Saints’ first game against Cotswold finished 0-0 after some fantas-tic defensive play by the solid duo Chloe Betteridge and Natea Harper. The second game against Cotswold saw ASA’s tal-ented striker Shana Kelly take on numer-ous defenders to score the only goal of the match, resulting in a 1-0 win. On the back of the win the girls then faced Pit-tville in what was a well contested match. Pittville moved the ball nicely around the pitch, which was well anticipated from the ASA midfielders, including Cameron

Morrissey who intercepted the ball and made a great run down the right wing. Some brilliant passing from All Saints’ saw the ball worked well into the box with an ASA shot striking the arm of the Pittville defender. The referee was in no doubt to award the penalty which saw year 7 Shana Kelly coolly step up to take the penalty. Shana struck the ball well, sending a powerful shot straight down the middle of the goal, giving ASA the goal advantage and the win. The repeat fixture then ended 0-0. ASA’s final group stage match was against Balcarras, which saw

All Saints’ cruise to a 3-0 win, with goals from Macy Paterson and Shana Kelly (2). All Saints’ had already won the group without playing Balcarras for the repeat fixture, however an administration error from the tournament hosts saw Pittville already playing the final against winners of Pool 2, Barnwood Park. The girls were greatly disappointed but showed fantastic team spirit throughout the tournament and were a real credit to All Saints’. The team must now prepare for the School Games District Tournament later this month.