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CALENDAR 

The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College, Catcote Road, Hartlepool, TS25 4HA 

Tel:  01429 273790  Fax:  01429 273998 

e-mail:  admin@ems.hartlepool.sch.uk  www.ems.hartlepool.sch.uk 

The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College is now on Facebook and Twier.

Please visit www.facebook.com/EnglishMartyrsSchool and 'like' the page to receive informaon

from the news feed or follow @EMS_Hartlepool on Twier.

Saturday 14th February  Thursday 19th March  Beth Shalom Trip 

(to 22nd)  Paris ICT Trip  Y13 Parents Evening 

Monday 16th February  Friday 20th March  St Margaret Clitherow Mass 

(to 20th)  Half Term  (to 21st)  Biology Zoo Trip 

Wednesday 25th February  Y9 Enterprise  w/ c Monday 23rd March   Y12 Maths Mock Exams 

Thursday 19th February Sixth Form MFL Booster Session  Y9 Science Exams 

Friday 20th February  Micro Beer Fesval  (to 24th)  House Sports 

Wednesday 25th February  Year 9 Enterprise  Tuesday 24th March 

Thursday 26th February  Year 9 Opons Evening  (to 25th)  Cambridge Residenal (Y12) 

Monday 2nd March  EMA Meeng  Wednesday 25th March  Staons of the Cross 

(to 3rd)  Year 10 Music Perf. Exam 

Tuesday 3rd March  Talent Show  Thursday 26th March  CP Maths Challenge 

Wednesday 4th March  GCSE Showcase  Friday 27th March  Sixth Form Reconciliaon 

Sixth Form CP GAT Talk 

EES Celebraon 

Thursday 5th March  World Book Day  Ampleforth retreat 

House Public Speaking  Saturday 28th March 

Friday 6th March  House Council  (to 4th April)  Ski Trip 

w/c Monday 9th March  Y11 Science Mock Exams  Monday 30th March 

Thursday 12th March  John Bell Lecture  (to 2nd April)  Y9 Shine - York University 

Friday 13th March  School Council  (to 10th April)  Easter Holiday 

(to 14th)  Y12 Geography Field Trip  w/c 13th April  Y10 Maths Exams 

Wednesday 18th March  Y9 TIMMS Test  Wednesday 15th April  Drama Show 

Sixth Form Music Composion

Y12 Oxbridge (Newcastle)  Friday 17th April  Non Uniform Day 

A2 Music Performance Exam 

Contact Details Please will parents / guardians nofy the school oce immediately if there are any changes to names, addresses, tele-

phone numbers, mobile phone numbers or the named contact persons of students.

It is very important that contact informaon is kept up to date. 

School Uniform / PE Kit All school uniform and PE kit is available from: 

 Altered Images, Hartlepool Enterprise Centre,

Brougham Terrace. 

The store is open from 9.00 am to 4.30 pm

Monday to Friday

and 10.00 am to 2.00 pm on Saturday.

Tel: 01429 265413. 

If you have any items of school uniform or PE kit that your child no longer needs (which are sll in good condion)

we would be grateful if you would send them to school. We will then keep a supply of uniform and PE kit in school

which can be loaned to students in an emergency.

Thank you 

School will nish for the half term holiday on

Friday 13th February at 3.10 pm and will reopen at

8.50 am on Monday 23rd February . 

The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College  

Parents’ Bulletin No 4 February 2015

Well done to our KS3 Badminton Town Champions, whorepresented the town with disncon at the county round of the

Naonal Schools Badminton Tournament. They nished a

respectable third place against some tough compeon .  

John Bell Lecture This year we host the Thirty-h Annual John Bell Lecture. This

Lecture is now an established tradion of the school and is given

as a tribute to the school’s rst Headteacher, the late CanonJohn Bell. The lecture this year is being delivered by local

businessman and former student Daniel Robinson.

Tickets are free and are available from the School Oce. 

Message from the Chair of Governors Following Mr. Lee's decision to rere as Headteacher at the end of the summer term, the Governors of the school have

appointed Mr. Stephen Hammond to be Headteacher from 1st. September 2015. Mr. Hammond, a resident of Hartlepool, is

currently Headteacher of St. Aidan's Catholic Academy in Sunderland. The Governors wish him every success in his new post

and look forward to working with him to ensure the connuing progress of the school. 

M Mekins (Chair of Governors) 

EMS In Touch In future we would like to send progress reviews and other

school informaon by email . This would greatly reduce

postage and prinng costs.

If you would prefer to receive informaon this way would

you please send an email to the school as follows. 

Address:  admin@ems.hartlepool.sch.uk 

Subject:  EMS in touch 

In the message put;  the name(s) of your child(ren) 

+  date(s) of birth and tutor group(s).

Please also include; 

your name and relaonship to the child.  

The Headteacher and Sta

of The English Martyrs School

and Sixth Form College, Hartlepool 

request the pleasure of your company  

at the Annual 

JOHN BELL LECTURE 

to be delivered by  

Daniel Robinson on Thursday 12th March 2015 at 7.00 pm  

St Anne’s Hall, Catcote Road, Hartlepool 

Congratulaons to our three students who performed

brilliantly against other Catholic schools in the Catenian

Public Speaking Compeon. Lois Joynt was runner up inthe Junior secon, Eve Coates was third in the Intermediates

and Connie Sullivan was runner up in the Seniors. Connie now

goes on to represent the north east in the naonal nal whichwill be held in Manchester in September. 

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The English Martyrs Associaon The next EMA meeng will be held on 

Monday 2nd March 2015.

All parents / friends of the school are most welcome to

aend. All support is greatly appreciated. 

Going the extra mile for charity 

A member of our sta is running this year’s London

Marathon to raise money for CLIC Sargent which is the House

charity of Blessed John Ingram. In 2011, Steve Hope’s young

cousin Becky Bell was diagnosed with cancer. Aged only 7

the cancer was too strong for her and she lost her ght in

January 2012. That same year he decided to take up running

and aimed to complete the Great North Run in her memory.

CLIC Sargent is a charity dedicated to supporng children

with cancer. They looked aer Becky and her family right through her treatment,

helping them to understand what was happening and what to expect. Aer a couple

more GNR’s and raising a lot of money for CLIC he has decided to jump up to the next level and take on a Marathon. His

target is to raise over £2,000 for this race. CLIC Sargent is an outstanding service that needs funding to help other children

like Becky so if you can, please donate to this unbelievable cause. Thank You. 

www.justgiving.com/steviehopeor you can text  SHCS91 and £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10 to 70070  (e.g. SHCS91 5) 

The English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College is hosng a Micro Beer and Wine Fesval onFriday 20

thFebruary, 7.00 pm - 11.30pm. Aer last year’s success this will be the second me the

school has hosted such an event. The event takes place to raise money to take a group of students to

the Scosh Isles of Mull and Iona for a week o f outdoor acvies and spiritual reecon.

Tickets are £7 and include a fesval glass, programme and entertainment.

Check out the school website for more details. 

Ampleforth Lent Retreat A fantasc chance to step back from the craziness of everyday life; this year’s theme is

Superheroes! Open to all at the cost of only £45. March 27th

 – 29th

. See Naomi,

Mr Dunn, Miss Malcolmson or Mr Linden for more details or a form. 

Chaplaincy Trips and Opportunies Students have been oered places on a number of

trips recently and there are sll a few spaces on most. 

The Source is a monthly youth event held in

Newcastle on the rst Wednesday of every month. It’s

open to all students Year 9+, no cost involved but students MUST sign up in the Chapel. Flame – A trip to Wembley Arena on

Saturday March 7th

 where we will meet 10,000 other young Catholics for the largest Catholic Youth event in the UK. Open to

all Year 10+, a fantasc day cosng only £30. YMT Summer Fesval - Forms for this three day fesval experience

(aka God Camp) held at The Youth Village will go out shortly; there is already a sign-up sheet in the Chapel. If students

would like any more informaon they should see Naomi in the Chapel. 

Would parents please avoid dropping their children o in any of the sta car parks at any me during the

school day.  It is in the best interests of all students’ safety if the number of vehicles entering the site is kept

to a minimum.

Medicines / Tablets Please remember that students must not carry any tablets / medicines in school. If students need tobring tablets to school they should hand them in to Mr Craddy for safekeeping. Thank you 

FREE SCHOOL MEALS Children whose parents are in receipt of one of the following are entled to receive free school meals (FSM):  

Income Support (IS) 

Income Based Job Seekers Allowance (IBJSA) 

An income related employment and support allowance 

Support under part VI of the Immigraon and Asylum Act 1999  

Child Tax credit (provided they are not entled to Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income which from 6th April 2013

does not exceed £16190 as assessed by HMRC  

If you are in any doubt whether your son / daughter is eligible for Free School Meals (and the associated Pupil Premium payment)

contact Hartlepool Civic Centre on 266522. You will need to supply your

Naonal Insurance number before they car ry out a simple test v ia their Eligibility Checking Service.  

Remember * School can provide packed lunches or a hot meal as part of the Free School Meals service 

* In the 2014 / 2015 nancial year schools will receive £935 per secondary pupil who ha s ever been eligible for free school

meals. This could help your child in a wide range of ways.  

Online e-payments for school meals and other school purchases You may be aware the school is introducing online payment to help reduce administraon and cash handling in school and

also to allow pupils to reduce the amount of cash they carry to school. For school meals, each pupil has an account. If they

are to purchase from the cafeteria you will be required to top up this account with money. There are now three ways to pay

money into this account: 

ipayimpact web site www.ipayimpact.co.uk 

Cheques made payable to Hartlepool Borough Council. Please put pupil name and year group on reverse of cheque. 

Cash payments using the revaluaon unit(s) located in the school 

In order to use the ipayimpact web site you will need to email the school requesng your login details.

Student Safety 

Please ensure that you remind your children that they must only cross Catcote Road via the pedestrian

crossings. We have had a number of reports of students running across the road in front of cars. This is

very dangerous and could lead to an accident. 

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NEW 6th

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Year 9 Opons Evening This will take place on Thursday 26th February at

6.00 pm. This will give you the opportunity to

speak with subject teachers and senior sta about

the range of subjects on oer. It will also give you

valuable informaon about the Opons process. 

Students need to come in school uniform. 

Please make sure you arrive early to allow me

for parking your car. 

University Applicaons and Finance 

Year 13 students can apply online now for student nance if you

are starng a full-me course at university in academic year 2015

to 2016.

You can apply for a Tuion Fee Loan to help pay your fees, and loans and grants to help with your living costs. 

You do not need a conrmed place at university or college to apply. Just use your preferred choice and if it changes you can

update your applicaon later. To apply for a mean tested bursary parents will need to supply nancial informaon. 

You must apply before 31 May to get your funding by the start of term in autumn 2015. If your applicaon is late, your

money might be too. 

Further details about entlement can be found online at www.gov.uk/studeninancesteps. 

If your son / daughter has applied to university and met the UCAS deadline of 15 January 2015

then they should receive decisions from all of their choices by 31 March 2015. They then have

unl 6 May 2015 to decide which is their rst (FIRM) choice university and which is their second (INSURANCE) choice. The

rm choice should be the place where your son / daughter wants to go. The insurance choice should be somewhere withlower oer condions but somewhere they would be happy to study if they did not meet the condions of their rm oer. It

is important to remember that you only aend your insurance choice course if you do not meet the condions of your rm

choice, but you do meet the condions of your insurance. Students cannot choose between their rm and insurance when

they get their results. Students have been advised to speak to a member of the sixth form team before replying to their

oers.

Pre Apprenceship Workshops – Thursday 19th

 February On Thursday 19

th February 32 aspiring apprences took part in Apprenceship Workshops where the

y networked with

employers and worked with them to develop their employability skills to prepare them for compeve recruitment

processes. The day was hosted by HCFE. An employer’s market was incorporated into the day so that the students had an

opportunity to speak to individual employers about their specic apprenceship opportunies on oer and their applicaon

processes. 

Year 10 Nuclear STEM Event - Wednesday the 11th

 and Thursday 12th

 February 2015 Twenty Y10 students took part in a two day event which focused upon the nuclear industry. It was a

 jammed packed two days where students worked in teams with some of the most presgious

employers in our area to learn about their industry in detail, the careers pathways and the dierent

opportunies available in this sector. The students worked to develop the employability skills

required to succeed in compeve recruitment processes. Students also had the

opportunity to look at the Naonal Apprenceship Website and on day two

visited Hartlepool Power Staon and had a tour of the site. 

Year 10 Catering Exam This took place on the morning of Tuesday 27

th 

January. Twenty students all prepared and presented

four dishes suitable for an aernoon tea. Previous

lessons focused on the independent research of

aernoon tea menus, trialling recipes and creang

suitable dishes for the students’ menus. Students

worked with enthusiasm, determinaon and

movaon throughout the morning to produce

challenging dishes with high skill levels. These

included chocolate éclairs, sausage rolls made with

homemade aky pastry, fruit tartlets with crèmepasserie, macaroons, millionaires shortbread and

meringue cupcakes to name but a few. This forms the

praccal element of their coursework which will now

be evaluated and presented as a porolio for

assessment as part of their GCSE Catering course.  

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Year 12 Business & Enterprise Students are currently well underway with compleng the

nishing touches to their Valennes ‘In a Jar’ products. The

Y12 students have been working so hard, ordering stock,

assembling the products and working on the promoon of

their product. They competed against other Young Enterprise

groups across the region on Sunday 8th

 February at The Metro

Centre in Gateshead, where they will sold their goods and

competed for ‘Best Trade Stand’. Students have already had

the opportunity to sell some of their jars at Asda, Hartlepool.

Students are also taking orders

from sta and parents so if you

do have that special someone in

your life and you have not yet

got them a gi please speak to

one of the Young Enterprise

team members who would be

happy to provide you with more

informaon.

The ‘Valennes in a jar’ products

are being sold for £6.95.

Please see Connie Sullivan,

Anna Cook, Harry Sturrock,

Kieran Tait, Keiran Robertson,

Will Poer, Alex Cane,

Michael Hay, Adam Thompson

or Daniel Trathan for further

info.

St Anne Line House Mass St Anne Line House

celebrated Mass with

Father Adrian and the

theme ‘Courage.’ 

Each year group chose a

superhero and linked them

to their own real life heroes. 

Local parishioners came into

school to join the students

in their celebraon.

Students from the House

performed to an excellent

standard of music and

singing. Many students also

contributed to the readings

and prayers.

It was a great celebraon. 

The School Library 

Christmas Concert 

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Dance Workshop On Tuesday 20th

January Year 5 students

from Sacred Heart

school joined us for a

Dance Workshop

organised by our Year

13 Performing Arts

students. 

All the Sacred Heart

students loved the day

and didn’t want to

leave!

Congratulaons to the U14 school Netball team who qualied at the weekend to compete in the schools naonal nals tobe held at Ellesmere Port in March. 

They played some outstanding netball at Sports Central in Newcastle, compeng against the North East region’s top teams

enabling them to gain a spot to contest against the top school teams in the country. In every game they played, they

demonstrated enthusiasm, commitment and a ghng spirit to reach the nals. 

Well done girls and good luck!!!! 

Wonder and Awe Art Exhibion In January we realised our goal and vision of

presenng a sculptural piece of artwork for our

annual Catholic Partnership art exhibion at

the Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral. The

opening was a fantasc evening with an

excellent turnout by parents, students and

sta of the respecve schools. 

It was excing to see all the hard work and

eort of our students, teachers, and wider

community come together to produce our

emove sculptural poppy that commemorated

the 100 year anniversary of the First World

War.

The weather conspired against us once again

and we had to accept our freezing ngers and

toes but it was more than worth it when we

saw the nished outcome. 

I have included some images of the seng and

nal exhibion for you to see the wonderful

work that all of our partnership schools and

our own wonderful students produced. 

The exhibion will close soon (Friday 13th

 

February) so if you can, please try and

get to see it. It is free to enter and well

worth the visit. 

Year 11 Art Exams Please take this last opportunity to

try your best and work with

diligence in producing your nal

work for your coursework and your

exam. We have 11 weeks le to

complete all expected work and the

actual GCSE exams begin in 4 week’s

me. You have worked since the

beginning of Year 10 and now it is

your me to push for the best grade

possible. We are very proud of you

for what you have achieved so far

and are here to help you in the next

2 months. These are the dates of

the Art exams so please write them

down and work to meet all

deadlines.. Good luck.. 

Date  Subject  Room  Teacher 

Tuesday 3rd

  March  GCSE Ceramics  AR4  Mr Gribben 

Wednesday 4th

  March  GCSE Ceramics  AR4  Mr Gribben 

Tuesday 10th March  GCSE Art and Design  AR1  Mrs Hasan 

Wednesday 11th March  GCSE Art and Design  AR1  Mrs Hasan 

Thursday 12th March  GCSE Art and Design  AR8  Mr Gribben/ Miss Bown 

Friday 13th March  GCSE Art and Design  AR8  Mr Gribben/ Miss Bown 

Monday 16th March  GCSE Texles  AR2  Mrs Stoker 

Tuesday 17th March  GCSE Texles  AR2  Mrs Stoker 

Wednesday 18th

 March  GCSE Photography  AR5  Mr Campbell 

Thursday 19th

  March  GCSE Photography  AR5  Mr Campbell 

Monday 23rd

 March  GCSE Photography  AR5  Mr Carless 

Tuesday 24th

 March  GCSE Photography  AR5  Mr Carless 

Wednesday 25th

 March  GCSE Photography  AR5  Mr Campbell 

Thursday 26th

 March  GCSE Photography  AR5  Mr Campbell 

Tuesday 13th

/Wednesday 14th

 April  BTEC Art  AR8  Mrs Hasan 

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Cross Country Following massive success in the Town Event held in November, a number of

students went on to represent Hartlepool in the Cleveland County round at

Stewarts Park, Middlesbrough on 19th

 January. The students represented

themselves, the school and the town with great disncon. 

Individual success came to Sam Tyers who nished in 14th

 place and

Niamh McMorris who nished 15th

. Both of these students earned a place to

represent Cleveland in the next County round. James Dunn and Grace Lambert

nished 1 place outside of qualicaon for the County team. 

Year 7 & 8 boys and girls teams qualied to the Tees Valley round of the

Sportshall Athlecscompeon. 

Year 7 boys - 

4th in the county  

Year 8 boys - 

2nd in the county  

Year 7 girls - 

2nd in the county  

Year 8 girls - 

1st in the county  

An amazing achievement for

the school to not only be

represenng Hartlepool in all 4

of the categories, along with

High Tunstall, but to achieve

excellent results in the Tees

Valley county.

Trampoline Success It has been a busy 2 months for EMS trampolinists with 3 main compeons taking place.

Hartlepool Schools Compeon 22 students successfully took part in the compeon held at EMS with many students compeng for the very rst me. The

whole team completed their rounes to a high level and produced some excellent results. Highlights include KS4 Team

Champions, KS3 Team Runners Up, Olivia Bennison: KS4 1st

 place, Lewis Rogers: KS3 1st place, Elizabeth Cooper: KS4 Elite

2nd

 Place, Erin Dobing: KS4 2nd Place, Aimee Thompson: KS4 3rd

 Place and Alice Mowbray: KS3 4th

 Place. Congratulaons to

all who took part.

Tees Valley Compeon 7 students qualied to represent Hartlepool at the Tees Valley

Championship on the 29th

 January. All students performed superbly

on the day and came home with a variety of medals including KS4

Novice Girls Champions. Olivia Bennison was crowned KS4 Novice 

Individual Champion with Erin Dobing taking 2nd

 place and Olivia

Atkinson in 3rd

. Lewis Rogders had a superb warm up for Northern

Ireland becoming KS3 Elite Champion and lastly Elizabeth Cooperfought o some extremely tough compeon to gain 2

nd place in the

KS4 Elite Girls. Congratulaons to you all.

BSGA Zonal School Compeon Northern Ireland 

Aer qualifying for the Zonal Finals of a Naonal Compeon back in

November Lewis Rodgers travelled to Northern Ireland on the 31st 

January to compete in the KS3 Intermediate Boys secon. The

compeon as expected was extremely tough but Lewis put himself in

a fantasc posion aer a strong rst set roune and followed it up

with a complex voluntary roune to be placed 3rd

 overall. This is an

outstanding achievement and Lewis now becomes the rst student

from the school to have ever qualied for the Naonal Finals which

will be held in Birmingham in March.

Good luck for the nals Lewis.